Uploaded July 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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EDIT: Use El Infierno Room #3 instead - it's faster to reach and behaves just like Room #8.

Any% route that uses the new El Infierno No. 8 discovery.
Route changes occur 15:25 - 28:44.
This route is by no means optimized; feedback is welcome.
Pardon the mediocre execution. This is a route experiment, not a run!
Note that fighting Jaguar in Skeleton costume was a mistake!

New tech:
El Infierno No. 8 is an exploit that uses El Infierno room #8 to acquire special abilities. When you exit room #8, the game checks the current objective to determine which special abilities the player is given.
By entering Sierra Morena early (to set the current objective) and then exiting El Infierno room #8, we are given Dashing Derp Derp and Goat Climb without entering Temple of War. Goat Climb allows us to finish the game without Double Jump, so Tule Tree is also skipped.

Money theory:
Skipping Temple of War loses approximately $500.
No Stamina Delay Boost Lvl. 2 gains $3500.
Entering El Infierno costs $5000.
Thus we are about $2000 in debt compared to the previous Any% route, which can be overcome by 4 treasure chests:
* Forest underpass [17:46]
* Desert pollo tunnel [23:48]
* Sierra green block drop [29:35]
* Sierra chupa mountain [30:08]

Route summary:
1. Play through Temple of Rain using existing Any% route.
2. Olmec travel back to Temple of Rain. Enter dead world and Pause + Quit.
3. Game loads at Forest Olmec. Olmec travel to Santa Luchita. Set Santa Luchita as SDG warp region, acquire Frog Slam, and then Pause + Quit.
4. Game loads at Santa Luchita Olmec. Olmec travel to Forest. Defeat X'tabay and acquire Dimension Swap. While in living world, Pause + Quit.
5. Game loads at Combo Chicken's Gym. Enter Desert, break green entrance blocks, and Pause + Quit.
6. Game loads at Santa Luchita next to Desert. Enter Desert and play through until after spike maze.
7. Enter next room in living world. Pay the guy $5000 to open the El Infierno door. Acquire Pollo Power. While in pollo form (important!), activate the following save altar and then Pause + Quit.
8. Game loads at Santa Luchita next to Desert. SDG - Continue.
9. Game loads at last activated save altar in Desert. Enter El Infierno. Olmec travel to Santa Luchita. Enter and exit Sierra Morena, and then Olmec travel back to El Infierno.
10. Enter and exit El Infierno room #8. Pause + Quit.
11. Game loads at Santa Luchita Olmec. Enter Sierra and play through the remainder of the game.