Rayman 2 - Jesus Disco Skip Hybrid Time Comparison Robins Rayman Stuff 2026-09-28 | Rayman 2 - Jesus Disco Skip Hybrid Time Comparison
Rayman 2 - Menhir Hills 2 Cage Ricochet Strat Robins Rayman Stuff 2024-01-14 | I've thought it should be possible to hit this cage from below for a long time but today I actually found something. And by sheer chance, there's an extremely easy setup for it! You hold down during the little intro cutscene until you gain control, this will give you a good angle. Now use the strafe mode to keep this angle and lure the shell.I don't know if this saves any time (and if it does it's probably not much) but I'm just happy to have found something new! ^^
Rayman 2 - Bayou 1 Camera Manip Timesave/Comparison Robins Rayman Stuff 2024-01-14 | It ain't much, but it's honest work.
Rayman Revolution - Chenille Skip Robins Rayman Stuff 2023-07-07 | Should be useful for all categories except any%.
Rayman 2 - Bayou 1 Early Barrel Safe Strat Robins Rayman Stuff 2023-07-06 | Since the early barrel strat is apparently inconsistent due to RNG, here's a safe strat which still saves ~1.5 seconds. Once the bridge in the background hits the water, move forward, jump and hover. If the strat fails you lose ~0.2 seconds.
Rayman 2 - Echoing Caves 2 Small Barrel Optimization Robins Rayman Stuff 2023-07-04 | By hitting the cage with the barrel you can save roughly 1.4 seconds - the movement is a bit finnicky though.
Rayman 2 - Echoing Caves 2 Door Skip Robins Rayman Stuff 2023-06-27 | In the category of "Risky timesaves that save ridiculously little time".Not shown in this video, but you can also skip this door by going into the Echoing Caves, then upon returning to this map press hover as soon as possible, then hold right, so you'll fly Out of Bounds.
Rayman 2 - Full Kapoueh Skip (EEC Damage Boost) + Comparison Robins Rayman Stuff 2023-06-25 | Here's a full view of the entire skip in action, including a comparison with both Torcnein's gold and an EEC recording of my own.The skip as performed was definitely not perfect, I didn't land on top of the plum and lost about a second by hovering, but this definitely gives a good indication of the potential timesave.
Rayman 2 - EEC Damage Boost! (30 seconds skip!) Robins Rayman Stuff 2023-06-25 | So this has been in the back of my head for a while but today I finally managed to actually execute this: a damage boost that brings you all the way from the start of this annoying section to the end of it, skipping no lums and potentially saving over 30 seconds!The barrel throwing pirate can be activated if it's both on screen AND rayman is close enough to it. I first manipulate the pirate by doing two full jumps, then jumping forward so he throws the barrel in front of Rayman. Then, you quickly have to jump into the barrel to boost yourself over to the other side.This is so far the first and only time I've accomplished this!
Rayman 2 - Tomb 1 Barrel Skip, Damage Boost Explained Robins Rayman Stuff 2023-06-18 | Here's a little explanation of the Tomb of the Ancients third barrel skip, showing when you get a big and a small damage boost.
Rayman 2 - Fairy Glade 3 Void Strat Time Comparison Robins Rayman Stuff 2023-06-17 | Could be used for any% RTA or 100% IL/RTA... but should you?
Rayman 2: Precipice 3 Early Teensie Timesave Comparison Robins Rayman Stuff 2023-06-14 | It can still be executed better I think but it already saved roughly 2 seconds (the maximum time you can save is ~4.8 seconds, which is how long the teensies first animation takes).
Rayman 2: Bayou 1 Early barrel Timesave Comparison Robins Rayman Stuff 2023-06-07 | New strat I found today, by pausing you can remove the cutscene bars which somehow makes the barrel start its animation earlier. To walk onto the barrel, luckily you can just hold forward on d-pad.The timesave seems to be about 2.75 seconds, the first measurement is based on the bomb spawning (which is position based) and the second one on the moment I ledge grab.
D-Jump (Cancelled Ubi Title) in-game footage from E3 1998 Special Robins Rayman Stuff 2023-05-23 | Source: youtube.com/watch?v=fZX3-K7hCbM(Especial E3 Canal C: 1998)This is I believe the first in-game footage on YouTube of the canceled Ubi Soft title D-Jump (also dubbed Project Egypt at some other point).Not much else is known about this game, there is a very incomplete teaser: youtube.com/watch?v=EBeytyrY00UAnd this video with pretty much all known concept art and a few in-game screenshots: youtube.com/watch?v=el62tIMk4fo
Rayman 2 - Tomb of the Ancients autoscroller small timesave Robins Rayman Stuff 2023-01-15 | By jumping/hovering onto the second barrel you can save a whopping 44 frames!
Rayman 2 - CoCos Bayou 2 GLM Timesave Robins Rayman Stuff 2022-10-16 | A while ago @cocor2200 found a GLM in Bayou 2 to skip quite a big section without missing any yellow lums.He now has developed a setup and tutorial for this trick, you can find it here:youtube.com/watch?v=Yg0qWH-bwCAIn this video I compare his attempt against the community SOB Bayou 2 segment performed by @torcnein: youtube.com/watch?v=s5h2akbur_E
Rayman 2 - Woods of Light, Beubeux cutscene skip Comparison Robins Rayman Stuff 2022-10-01 | Small comparison to show the difference between jumping over the cutscene trigger and getting the cutscene and skipping it.
Rayman 2 - Failed attempt at skipping lums in Bayou 1 Robins Rayman Stuff 2022-07-30 | Unfortunately it seems impossible to skip these yellow lums... but hey, maybe someone finds something one day! :D
Rayman Revolution - Jano Skip 2 (voidless void) Robins Rayman Stuff 2022-07-12 | So the "void" Jano skip also works on Rayman Revolution, except 1. there's no "void" screen (because revo doesn't have a pause menu background) and 2. you can't get jano back once you despawned him this way, not even game overing will bring him back.
Rayman 2 - Fairy Glade Cage Clip from different perspectives Robins Rayman Stuff 2022-06-20 | Little comparison that shows the out of bound movement to get the lum in the cage more consistenly.
Rayman 2 - Walk of Life Roll Boost Comparison Robins Rayman Stuff 2022-06-12 | Little comparison between a few roll boost strategies I attempted. Seems like the optimal thing to do is roll a bit before lum 42, which can save almost a second over not roll boosting.
Rayman 2 - Fairy Glade 1 Airswim Boost + Refill Robins Rayman Stuff 2022-06-12 | There's a waterplane you can use to refill your air in fg1, and it coincidentally also can serve as a sort of guide to align yourself with the floor in the other room, allowing you to get a boost (you can boost while swimming by going upwards through a floor)
Rayman 2 - Tiny Marshes 2 Timesaver Robins Rayman Stuff 2022-06-12 | If you don't bounce on the rock you can hold strafe again earlier, resulting in a whopping 17 frames of timesave :)
Rayman 2 - Rock and Lava teensie strat comparison Robins Rayman Stuff 2022-06-11 | Just tried out a few different strats on how to get the teensie.
Rayman 2 - Wall Climbing Timing Comparison Robins Rayman Stuff 2022-06-11 | Seems like not holding any direction is the slowest, and holding strafe doesn't seem to affect it.
Rayman 2 - Menhir Hills 2 Tree Lum Strat Comparison Robins Rayman Stuff 2022-06-11 | Seems like getting the lum behind the tree first is definitely the fastest thing to do - it's also way less annoying than having to get the lum while on the shell.
Rayman 2 - Little thing for the Axel Cutscene Robins Rayman Stuff 2022-06-08 | You can hold think while this cutscene starts to gain control and save about 2 seconds :)
Rayman 2 - Iron Mountains 2 Shell Routes Comparison Robins Rayman Stuff 2022-06-04 | Turns out: they all take pretty much exactly the same time, somehow.
Rayman 2 - Iron Mountains 3 Ship Route Comparison Robins Rayman Stuff 2022-06-03 | Note: I put the game at 2x speed since this was already a massive waste of time, so might as well halve the time wasted ;)Seems like the currently used route is the fastest anyway - although I've just done every route once, so I didn't try to fully optimise each route - that would be insanity I think.
Rayman 2 - Accidental Menhir Hills 2 OOB Wrong Grab Robins Rayman Stuff 2022-06-03 | While messing around this happened, it might be useful if there's a setup for it... 👀
Rayman 2 - Rock and Lava 1, Alternative Cage Rebound Strat Robins Rayman Stuff 2022-06-01 | This seems like a pretty consistent way of destroying this cage - no real setup to this, just walk roughly towards the point between the green lum and the cage, then jump and fire back. Using d-pad here seems to give the best results.
Rayman 2 - Top of the World Risky Strat comparison Robins Rayman Stuff 2022-06-01 | Comparing the current route vs the risky route of taking the box lum while setting up the cycle manip - for RTA this seems pretty insane :P
Rayman 2 - Top of the World Seat Ejection strats Robins Rayman Stuff 2022-06-01 | Seems like you can manipulate the distance you get after launching from the chair by holding jump and/or turning the chair. Saves a few frames (or even a second compared to bad RNG), so why not :)
Rayman 2 - Top of the World Early Cycle with free lum Robins Rayman Stuff 2022-06-01 | This is really tight, but it makes the extra lum basically free. Gotta be careful with the barrel pirate, if you jump the gap too early he might catch you on the way to the platform while carrying the keg.
Rayman 2 - Jano Skip 5 vs 6 comparison Robins Rayman Stuff 2022-05-30 | Seems Jano Skip 6 is a bit (a few seconds) faster than Jano Skip 5, but it's much more awkward to perform due to the constant danger of getting eaten. It took me quite a few tries to get this recording, while Jano Skip 5 barely took any attempts to record. I've also included a clip of the All Masks WR by aullos where he performs Jano Skip 5.
Rayman 2 - Fairy Glade 1 Branch Jump for Glitchless% Robins Rayman Stuff 2022-05-29 | Cool trick for the glitchless category - good luck getting this consistent :P
Rayman 2 - Pirate Shot Leading visualized Robins Rayman Stuff 2022-05-29 | Here I show with the gray line how pirates R2 lead their shots - it depends on Rayman's movement speed and distance from the pirate.
Rayman 2 - Fairy Glade 3 Pacifist Strat Robins Rayman Stuff 2022-05-28 | So when I first tried this strat, it seemed to barely save anything, so I dismissed it as being too risky. I kinda wanted to see how optimally this could be done though, and it turns out it does save over 4 seconds if done perfectly. Still seems really risky though.
Rayman 2 - Fairy Glade 1 Hairless Time Comparison Robins Rayman Stuff 2022-05-25 | So a first try execution of this strat loses about 8.5 seconds (maybe 9, it's a bit hard to compare with the cage) over a first try regular airswim, when collecting the same lums. Quite a lot of time, but if you're having a bad airswim day, this might be useful.
Rayman 2 - Hairless Fairy Glade 1 airswim (its back!) Robins Rayman Stuff 2022-05-24 | So "hairless" was a strat on 30 fps similar to this, but on 60fps it was thought to be pretty much impossible to get an airswim out of it. Seems like it's actually possible!
Rayman 2 - Whale Bay 3 cage ricochet setup Robins Rayman Stuff 2022-05-22 | You can setup the angle using the ledge grab, then strafe right and shoot to get a consistent shot
Rayman 2 - Fairy Glade 1 Airswim Route Comparison Robins Rayman Stuff 2022-05-18 | So the lum costs 4.5-5 seconds to get.
Rayman 2 Whale Bay 3 Cage Ricochet Timesave Robins Rayman Stuff 2022-05-15 | Neat ricochet for the cage that saves about ~4.5 seconds at best it seems.
Rayman 2 - Stone and Fire 2 (extra temple) Purple Lum Ricochet Robins Rayman Stuff 2022-05-15 | Swag loom
Rayman 2 - Crows Nest RNG Audio Cue Robins Rayman Stuff 2022-05-15 | There's a subtle audio cue you can use to determine if you've gotten good RNG or bad RNG on the orb location without having to turn around and look - could be useful to do very quick deathwarps until you get good RNG.
Rayman 2 - Precipice Skip Time Comparison Robins Rayman Stuff 2022-05-10 | Just to document how much it saves.
Rayman 2 - Beneath R&L 1, All Cages Swag Strat Robins Rayman Stuff 2022-05-08 | This saves a second and you miss 3 lums. But that doesn't matter, because you'll look cool if you get it first try, right?
Rayman 2 - Infinite Barrel Glitch by Self-Inflicted Torch Hurting (SITH) Robins Rayman Stuff 2022-05-04 | Apparently you can perform IBG this way.
Rayman 2 - Possible Echoing Caves 2 All Cages Strat? Robins Rayman Stuff 2022-05-04 | Doing this allows you to respawn back at the beginning and then do IBG, to quickly get to the end - no idea if that's worth it tbh
Rayman 2 - Fast Water and Ice 2 Slide Skip Robins Rayman Stuff 2022-04-26 | So this method is based on what Payman and Aullos do, you hit the corner at a specific angle to slow down and gain air control. I put two attempts in the video and then layered them together.
