Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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So Akiteru has been doing some strategy research on Mad Clown for NTSC since he was doing 9.01 attempts and wanted to see if he could find something faster. One of his ideas was the strategy you see in the video only it started with 2 left jabs instead. When starting with 2 left jabs, Clown would unfortunately still have 1hp when you use the P2 you see in the video. Later on he tried using an RJ at the start since right jabs take away a tiny bit more health compared to the left. In theory, this would work but the problem is that he wouldn't go dizzy by the end. I thought that wouldn't happen because the RJ is the starting punch and is not being thrown anywhere else in the phase to waste time (Right jabs are slower than left jabs) until Akiteru mentioned it might just be Clown's animation instead making him not go dizzy.

Seemed like a fail... only Akiteru tried this on PAL instead of NTSC and... it not only dizzies Clown on the PAL version, but it saved 0.13's.

Say yay! Another new strategy was discovered and coincidentally it has the same odds as the NTSC 9.01 strategy. The only difference is that it's 5 frame perfect inputs instead of 7. (It can technically be 4 but I decided not to buffer punch #5 to reduce rng).

Took a while but I finally got it, and on my birthday of all days! Turned 22 this year and this was a nice gift to have!