Clinkers Cavern (Banjo-Tooie) - DK64 Soundfont LookAtTheWindow 2026-09-20 | Clinkers Cavern (Banjo-Tooie) - DK64 Soundfont
DK64 Native Wireframe Mode LookAtTheWindow 2025-08-17 | A more serious version of youtube.com/watch?v=l-HpPBU2V0E , all technical explanations of how to get wireframe mode is in that video.This video just covers some mild gameplay in wireframe as it does reveal some aspects, mainly that there's a 50% chance of getting a bit of a headache due to no framebuffer clearing in some maps.Unfortunately, if it wasn't for needing LLE, this would be a really fun hard mode.CHAPTERS0:00 - Training Barrels2:46 - Trying to get a moonkick4:01 - Exploration of Training Grounds4:55 - (Headache warning) Opening & Entering Japes
The DK Rap but its in DK64s native wireframe mode LookAtTheWindow 2025-08-17 | A fun way I thought to demo DK64's hidden native wireframe mode, which is riffing off all of the "DK Rap but" videos.Anyway, technical time.DK64 has 4 rendering modes. Why? Who knows. Indexes 1, 2 and 3 point to the F3DEX2 microcode functions and data files. Index 0 points to l3dex2 instead. If we modify the table so that index 3 (the one that the game uses) points to l3dex2, you get this, but with an asterisk.Emulators use HLE for their graphics (for the most part), as such, the graphics are rendered through a process external to the game which is easier on the computer (and more heavily tested), but doesn't actually reflect what happens in game. As such, you have to turn the graphics mode to LLE. There's some emulators where changing to LLE might not work (including PJ64). As such, you have to do the weird following process:- Load up DK64 in LLE, change the rendering mode addresses- Turn off LLE- Hard reset the console (don't select another game, just reset the console)- Change the rendering addresses againIt's a bit weird, but it's there.The address changes are as follows:- 0x807F057E: Set to 0x3240- 0x807F0596: Set to 0x0C60
Zoom Jumping LookAtTheWindow 2025-05-19 | Evolution of zoom sliding ( youtu.be/F246bfVwGk8 ), RandomSauce found that speed can be conserved by dismounting after jumping off a climbable object. By continually jumping, you preserve that 300 speed cap and can move at a consistent 300 speed.Unfortunately you seem to need to do the dismount at the top to get the speed to conserve. It seems that jumping from a tb fall doesn't yield this. Still more work to do but this is exciting stuff.
Zoom Slide LookAtTheWindow 2025-05-19 | Found by pure accident by RandomSauce: twitch.tv/randomsauce/clip/DeafAbnegateMangetoutDoggo-gtLxY-NAgMUbkv-lReplicated and dissected by myself, with a change comment from Adeleine that pushed me in the right direction.Whilst you're in rocketbarrel, your speed cap is set to 300, which is a little over 2x the normal speed of a grounded walking kong. Entering a tag barrel without pressing A upon entering the tag barrel will allow you to maintain that speed out of the tag barrel. If you then buffer a Z press to get a frame 1 crouch out of the tag barrel, you can get a kickslide with Tiny with a huge momentary speed boost.At the moment, extending this speed boost further seems unlikely, but we are looking into ways.TLDR:- Rocketbarrel into a tag barrel, make sure you're not holding A upon entering the tag barrel- Tag to Tiny- Buffer Z to get a frame 1 crouch- Kickslide- Zoom
[TAS] Aztec Beetle Race (Without Skip) in 1:06.58 LookAtTheWindow 2025-05-12 | Wanted a slightly more up-to-date version of this to compare against for Skip vs. No Skip in a 101 RTA context. Saved about 2s from the last one I made many years back
Taggin Wagon LookAtTheWindow 2025-04-02 | Performing a tag creates a pretty decent lag spike due to the model and bone reshuffle. This normally only occurs with tag barrels, but if we utilize tag anywhere, it can be utilized in other spots.Unfortunately, raw tagging is usually not effective due to the game's lag suppression code. Since these spikes can only occur once every 2 frames, the game successfully suppresses the lag spikes, despite how major they are. However, if we pause, and then tag on the frame before the lag spike from the unpause, we get two consecutive frames of a lag spike, resulting in a lag boost that is sufficient to clip through most walls.The pause is a sure-fire way to get it in every situation, but isn't always required. For example, chunk loading generates a huge lag spike so would also work.In some maps, lag spikes from non-tagging sources are not required. This is because the game has a boolean value for whether to apply lag suppression or not. In some maps, the lag suppression is disabled, meaning that just the game having a 10-frame lag spike will cause a significant lag boost. These maps are:- Japes Minecart- Factory Car Race- Nintendo Logo- Forest Minecart- DK Rap- Castle Minecart- All intro story maps- BloopersUnfortunately all of these maps have a TA ban in standard TA Hacks, meaning that using a taggin' wagon isn't possible.The pausing here means that this doesn't "obsolete" phase tricks for any Tag Anywhere TAS, but would make them less prevalent as you could clip through walls of all angles (not just the range that the phase state requires) and lag sources other than pausing would make this faster than phasewalking (probably).
Unused Actor Behavior - Donkey Kong 64 LookAtTheWindow 2025-02-14 | Actor 168 is completely unused in-game, and attempting to spawn it will crash the game. This is not because of any code within the actor itself, but because the actor lacks a definition in the definition table. Changing the definition of the B. Locker entry to actor 168, and spawning the actor using the practice ROM in the Fairy room yields this behavior. The actor has no associated model in the vanilla game (the B Locker look is just as a result of this swap)Whilst it's not confirmed that this actor is not 100% confirmed to have been located in BFI, it's almost certain that it would have been due to it's code.The aesthetics of the enemy would most likely be the 'Jack in the Box' enemy or the 'Boxing Glove in a Box' enemy from the Kiosk demo. I decided against changing the model away from B Locker to remove any potential confusion about the status of this actor in the vanilla game.Here's a general summary of it's behavior:- With none of the following set, it can't be interacted with- Upon opening the Rareware door, it becomes active- Harming it brings up cutscene 2 in the map- Upon it being harmed, it acts passively towards the player- Pressing A after it's become passive near the actor will bring up cutscene 3 in the map- Setting global flag 0x24 and going near the actor brings up cutscene 4 in the map- If you set global flag 0x23, you do not have to harm it to pacify itThis also brings a whole lot of context to the cutscenes that Isotarge discovered in this room a long while ago. You can find his initial discovery here: youtube.com/watch?v=lPH1kS34h5E
Donkey Kong 64 - Version Difference: Destroy Held Object Trigger LookAtTheWindow 2024-11-15 | A new trigger introduced for the PAL, JP and Lodgenet Versions of DK64, where upon making contact with the trigger, any held object is instantly destroyed. It is used in the following maps:- Jungle Japes (Near the shellhive area - Shown in video)- Museum (Near the entrance [JP/Lodgenet Only])
DK64 Randomizer: Beta Lanky Phase restored LookAtTheWindow 2024-11-02 | Following my previous video on the K Rool Balloon ( youtube.com/watch?v=gHAhMnuwM2s ), I've had the itch to try and recreate the assumed Beta version of Lanky Phase. Thankfully, this can be achieved by overwriting 2 in-game function calls, and 1 table entry.It's going to be added to DK64 Randomizer as a hard mode option, and gosh darn can it get pretty hard. This one took me a few attempts to get a video where I wasn't constantly getting wrecked by the first peel.dk64randomizer.comdev.dk64randomizer.com
Unused K. Rool Balloon (Donkey Kong 64) - US Final LookAtTheWindow 2024-09-02 | The hardcore facts:Popping the balloon sets the control state (actor offset 0x154) of character spawner id 1 to 0x27. I'm using the DK64 Practice ROM to add a watch on-screen for the control state and then spawn a balloon. You normally can't pull out the gun during K Rool, however I disable the map property bit which is responsible for blocking this to pull out my gun and shoot the balloon.Almost certain fact:Due to it's internal name in ROM, the fact that it's hardcoded to display a lanky balloon sprite, it's safe to assume that it was intended for Lanky phase and that the intended target is therefore K. RoolTheory:This balloon is not present in Kiosk, nor is the code for it present in Kiosk. However, somewhere between Kiosk and US Final, the generic control states increased by 4. If you add 4 to 0x27, that yields 0x2B which is the control state which initiates the instrument sequence. Therefore, it's very possible that before instrument pads were coded in, that you'd instead pop a balloon to get K Rool's attention instead of playing the instrument. This would rely on the create collision function using a hardcoded 0x27 rather than any form of enum and the control state increase happening after this code was written
Flame-throwing Zinger - Unused Enemy (Donkey Kong 64) LookAtTheWindow 2024-07-11 | The code for this is in the final US version of Donkey Kong 64. However, unlike other unused objects like the pushable crate, this code is not attached to an actor type. As such, the actor doesn't exist in the final version of the game.However, from context clues, the code for this very closely matches the code for the charging zinger, including animation indexes that's called. Therefore, we can assume that this would be intended for a zinger.EDIT: Checked Kiosk. It's used there, and is attached to a zinger model. 100% confirmation that this was intended to be a zinger.To activate in your game, you would need to set 0x8074C37C to 0x806B4958.
So DK64 Randomizer Season 3 started off interesting... LookAtTheWindow 2024-05-02 | The Season 3 preset of DK64 Randomizer launched last night and we held a celebratory inaugural race. Certainly an interesting seed was made and it was a fun enough ride for me to compile a mini highlights reel.Generate a seed: dk64randomizer.comTwitch Highlight: twitch.tv/videos/2135519925
Treasure Room clip from lack of floor LookAtTheWindow 2024-04-23 | There is a lack of floor on a certain section of the treasure room's sloped walls, meaning you can swim down without the game constantly forcing you back up. This can result in a wall clip as demonstrated here.
Areas in Donkey Kong 64 with missing floors LookAtTheWindow 2024-04-15 | DK64 maps comprise of wall and floor triangles in terms of collision. When the player passes over a floor triangle, as long as it doesn't have a couple properties, it will set the "floor" value of the kong to the y-coordinate of the triangle at that point in xz space. However, the devs weren't perfect and there's a variety of situations where there is no floor triangle under the player even though they are in-bounds. As such, this can lead to the kong seemingly float in the air as they are not passing over a floor triangle to change their floor value.On the right-hand side of each situation is the accompanying floor map. Floor tris are colored white, so any gaps with a dark grey are because there is no floor triangle under that coordinate, and therefore you can stand on it.This isn't a comprehensive list of all areas without a floor triangle, but just a few that I found within about an hour of something. This is unlikely to be worthwhile in terms of speedrunning, but it is interesting to document.
Donkey Kong 64 Kiosk - Lankys Galleon Ship Switch LookAtTheWindow 2024-03-30 | Found by Adam a couple days ago, but here's video of it. There was a 2nd slam switch on the ship in Galleon, which was for Lanky. This would produce what presumably became Enguarde GB. This also finally gives an answer to what Cutscene 16 in Galleon (In final) was intended for after nearly 5 years ( youtube.com/watch?v=neeVnCb8054&t=3m23s )
Donkey Kong 64 Kiosk Demo - Intro Story LookAtTheWindow 2024-03-24 | Whilst this remains mostly consistent with the end game, there are some notable differences. In Kiosk, there is no running music or sound effects played, so I have video edited them in. Not only for viewability, but also because it highlights how out-of-sync the music gets with the cutscene due to their changes.CHANGES:- Scene 1: No significant changes here outside of map geometry getting in the way. It seems like the part of the code which deloads certain aspects of map geometry wasn't figured out at this point. As such, the seals just go through K. Lumsy's prison- Scene 2: From about 1:19 onwards, there's about 18s of added footage which is not used in the final release of the game.- Scene 3: No notable differences here- Scene 4: An additional shot of the back of K. Rool's ship was added before the fade into scene 5- Scenes 5 & 6: These two are swapped around between Kiosk and final, with Kiosk doing the in-Helm segment first. In the in-Helm segment, K Rool has a little bit of an extra animation. When it pans to DK behind the glass screen, DK is unusually huge here, and isn't doing his press-up animations, additionally it waits a little longer on DK.In the out of Helm segment, yet again, like Scene 1, the devs had not programmed in the ability to force deload terrain- Scene 7 (Inside the treehouse): Completely absent from Kiosk
Donkey Kong 64 Kiosk Demo - Donkey Kong 64K (Unused Retro minigame) LookAtTheWindow 2024-03-19 | To activate, set 0x2172 in ROM to 000B and set 1A6EBE to 0003, and enter Arcade. Seems mostly non-functional, pressing start crashes the game and the overlay is really small at 0xF00 bytes, but this is really cool!
Donkey Kong 64 Kiosk - Castle Minecart LookAtTheWindow 2024-03-19 | Lots more gravestone jumpscares, a few extra fire head sections, no coins. Honestly, if they added coins, this would have been a bit more fitting for the final level in the game.
Donkey Kong 64s Kiosk Demo is so good - Exploration Highlights LookAtTheWindow 2024-03-18 | Various highlights of a stream I did a couple days ago going through some parts of the Kiosk Demo with my "Kiosk Restoration Project". Weirdly enough, there's a lot of good things about Kiosk that they should have kept but didn't.Strim: twitch.tv/theballaam96Project: github.com/theballaam96/kiosk-restoration-project
Donkey Kong 64 Kiosk - Freeing Diddy LookAtTheWindow 2024-03-17 | Diddy would be great at commentating randomizer players getting ice trapped.This is thanks to a fix for a bug in kiosk where the game wouldn't initialize a counter variable, and as such would crash from an invalid index to an array call (attempting to read from invalid memory)."You see the driver hooks the function by patching the system call table, so it's not safe to unload it unless another thread's about to jump in there and do its stuff, and you don't want to end up in the middle of invalid memory."
Donkey Kong 64 Kiosk Demo Pause Menu LookAtTheWindow 2024-03-16 | Thanks to ZeldaBoy14 for highlighting this to me. Rune apparently only got this on nemu years ago, but I managed to recreate it on PJ64 with my Kiosk Restoration Hack:github.com/theballaam96/kiosk-restoration-project
Donkey Kong 64 Kiosk Caves Gorilla Gone Room LookAtTheWindow 2024-03-16 | Proof on at least part of the reason why the spawners exist. This still might have been a placeholder for the ice key, I'm not sure why they ditched this and went with the gorilla gone pad but oh well.
DK64 Kiosk Caves Beetle Race LookAtTheWindow 2024-03-16 | IMPORTANT THINGS1) This is a ROM Hack of the Kiosk ROM to bring the data (mostly map geometry and collision) from the US version of the game into Kiosk for data which has been stripped from Kiosk. This is to make it easier for kiosk enthusiasts to traverse the kiosk world and also to potentially bring it inline with what's accessible in the E3 demo2) I figured out texture re-mapping since the last video, about 1200-ish textures still lack a form of mapping from US to Kiosk, but 4700 mappings ain't a bad start. I was able to do this programmatically by running a script to check a US texture against all kiosk textures and figure out which was the most similar.3) Lots of mini differences here, namely a lack of coins, the requirement for 70 coins (likely a placeholder) and the fact that sprint uses up coconuts (something they would fix before the US 1.0 release for good reason).
Donkey Kong 64 Troff n Scoff Kiosk Intro Cutscene LookAtTheWindow 2024-03-16 | KEY IMPORTANT THINGS1) Map Geo Textures are messed up because the mapping between US and Kiosk is all messed up. Working on something to fix this2) Everything in Kiosk is weirdly shifted to the left with T&S. Will fix that with my hack3) Text isn't skippable, apparently we're playing the JP version now4) GH Repo: github.com/theballaam96/kiosk-restoration-project
Project64 3.0 Setup for Donkey Kong 64 Hacks Speedrun in 58.6s LookAtTheWindow 2024-03-13 | Mostly intended as a tutorial but didn't want to talk because voice is strained today.pj64-emu.comdk64randomizer.com/rdb_editor.htmlyoutube.com/watch?v=mnb6Vv6Ezc4
Lanky Attic Skip LookAtTheWindow 2024-03-09 | Found by Revven in Randomizer where the cutscene is skipped, making this a lot easier. I found the cause of this, and was able to replicate it in vanilla.If you exit Lanky's attic quick enough, the minigame doesn't register as in progress before you leave, meaning that re-entering results in the game completing before you kill anything.In this demo, I had about 53f to spare on the timer, so this could be executed in real time if someone could do this whilst wasting less than 1.76s to this demo.This is not faster than beating it normally in the vanilla game by about 2.6s. So if you're good enough at this, but can't beat the minigame within 2.6s of what the 101% TAS does, this will be faster for you.
Rolling Comparison (Tag Rolling vs Regular Rolling) [Tag Anywhere Only] LookAtTheWindow 2024-01-29 | twitch.tv/jxjacob found a new method of rolling using Tag Anywhere. It's absolutely disgusting, but it's faster by about 10%, maybe even more on less laggy platforms.To perform tag rolling:- Start a roll- Have a neutral stick when you get to peak speed- Wait until you start slowing down, then tag to another kong- At least 2 frames later, tag back to DK- As soon as you crouch again, start rolling- Go back to step 3 and repeat indefinitelyYou don't need to touch your stick after the first roll unless you plan to change direction. Touching the stick will make this very slow.This doesn't impact the vanilla game, since that doesn't have Tag Anywhere.
[TAS] Castle Beaver Bother 47 LookAtTheWindow 2024-01-02 | Part of the 101% TAS. Castle Beaver Bothers are a little harder than the Factory one because you only get 4 beavers spawning at a time. However, it does offer the advantage of being able to skip 1 beaver to "double".
DK Arcade with no level caps: L9 75m LookAtTheWindow 2023-12-28 | DK Arcade has several internal caps for the level index at which they stop reacting to increasing the level. If you remove all those caps, this is what level 9 looks like.Safe to say, impossible
[TAS] DK64 101% Aztec 2 End LookAtTheWindow 2023-12-02 | The screen might be black, but at least you can tell it's Aztec because of the sandstorm :^)
[TAS] Jetpac 5000 points in 37.28s LookAtTheWindow 2023-12-01 | Part of the 101% TAS. 70-80% of the 2236 frames involves RNG manipulation. Beats the 2019 LOTAD by 209f (3.48s)
[TAS] DK64 101% Caves End LookAtTheWindow 2023-11-05 | Ending portion of Crystal Caves. No TBS at all in this part of Caves, so you get to see everything that I do. Route for this part of Caves is basically the same as the 101% 2019 LOTAD, but with optimization used throughout. Also, giving the input viewer a second outing after some feedback on my previous video. Going to try to include this in all future WIPs in an effort to refine it as much as possible before the full encode. Feedback on this is appreciated
Donkey Kong 64 TAS Input Renderer Demo LookAtTheWindow 2023-10-26 | Demonstration of a python script I whipped up to generate an mp4 file based on the inputs from a bk2 file. Uses the same art style as my lua script from a few years back, and the low lag solution in the practice ROM.I intend to use this on the full 101% TAS.Script: cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/129337789648076800/1167105056231931986/input_renderer.py
[TAS] DK64 101% Fungi End LookAtTheWindow 2023-10-17 | Just finished Fungi, here's the last 2 minutes of it. Like with Factory, this preview is mostly filled with collecting the last few colored bananas and golden bananas. A couple interesting starts are shown here, including using Orangstand TBS Noclip to get the caged GB
Kremling Kosh Barrel Bug LookAtTheWindow 2023-10-03 | Not sure why this happened. Uploading because dk64lol
[TAS] DK64 101% Wrong Barrel Resolution Setup LookAtTheWindow 2023-09-07 | The entire 10 minutes from the Helm timer. Wrong Barrel Resolution allows for us to hop between levels and do some routing which is more optimal within Fungi and Galleon. However, this implementation requires you game over into Fungi Crown. As a result, we have to start Helm purely for the timer, then do some other things to stuff the 10 minutes as tightly as we can.Enjoy the WIP
[TAS] Spider Boss Strategy Comparison LookAtTheWindow 2023-09-05 | Two strategies for spider boss skip, one is slower but more legitimate and the other is faster, cooler but also less legitimate. Mostly posting for the DK64 speedrunning discord to provide some feedback on what should be done.The photo lag strat hasn't been optimized. If that's chosen as the preferred strategy, I'll optimize it. Photo Lag should save in the region of 7-10 seconds from the skipped cutscene
[TAS] 101% Factory End LookAtTheWindow 2023-08-29 | Factory is complete, 23.05% of the TAS is done. We're ahead of the 2019 LOTAD by a significant amount. Next stop: WBR
[DK64 Rando] Chunky Rotating Room Item Early LookAtTheWindow 2023-07-23 | Requires FTA. Easiest with one of the 3 methods shown here. Charge is **EASILY** the easiest
[TAS] 101% Factory Start LookAtTheWindow 2023-07-21 | So, it's been a while since I last posted a WIP of this. Since the Castle 1 upload, my computer died and the entire 30m worth of progress had been lost essentially. I decided today to just screw the idea of making this a single file TAS and make sure that the end product stays true to what I wanted it to be.More details: twitter.com/tjballaam/status/1682288024833368064This is the start of Factory, and contains some bothering, some melon firing and freeing the last kong. Additionally, a lot of move purchasing as well.Relative to the 2019 LOTAD, it's a little harder to compare given that there are minor routing differences. However, when Lanky leaves the shop, we're already 44s ahead (roughly) in this segment alone. Given that there's another minute afterwards, but there's routing differences, I'd say we're about 40-45s ahead in this segment. We are roughly 90s ahead of the 2019 LOTAD at the 32 minute mark0:00 - The fun stuff3:27 - Move buying city
[TAS] Banjo-Kongzooie Any% in 1:24.867 LookAtTheWindow 2023-07-17 | This TAS utilizes the 1.2 version of Banjo-Kongzooie which has Tag Anywhere. To see the 1.0 TAS, click here: youtu.be/MwokC-6IxLUThis is an Any% TAS of the "Banjo-Kongzooie" hack by GloriousLiar. A download to the hack along with the source code can be found here: github.com/GloriousLiar/Banjo-KongzooieThis TAS was made with a fork of BizHawk 1.13.2 which prevents nasty graphical spiking bugs: github.com/theballaam96/BizHawk-dk64EditionThe aim of this TAS is to reach the credits. Whilst the credits can be reached from just entering Banjo's house at the start of the game, there isn't a big sign which says "credits" when you go near it unlike the one in the waterfall area of Gruntilda's lair.The old route used to go through Spiral and Mumbo's to clear the barriers to reach the waterfall lair room. However, when Tag Anywhere was introduced, I knew that with enough brute force, you could ledge void to void in Spiral. As such, warp to Training Grounds and navigate to Galleon lobby which is the map overwritten by the waterfall lair map.To do the ledge void, you must be DK and tag to Diddy 2 frames before you grab the ledge, additionally, you must hold exactly up on the control stick with zero magnitude x stick input.Once the ledge void is performed, it's the usual DK64 circus to get to Galleon lobby, however I do sprinkle in a couple interesting things which can be done as a result of tag anywhere.Firstly, I change to Diddy to swim underwater. Diddy is the fastest kong underwater (by 0.001 units per frame over Lanky, but every little helps). Once underwater, instead of using phase swimming (That trick is *so* 1999), we use a skew swim instead, spamming the Tag Anywhere input to keep the kongs in a skewed rotation whilst swimming underwater to clip through the Galleon lobby grate
Chunky Dark Room Box Grab with Hitbox Viewer LookAtTheWindow 2023-07-15 | Demonstration for glitchless ruleset discussion, figured it would be a decent inclusion for this channel to shamelessly promote dk64practicerom.com
Donkey Kong 64 US V1.1 (LodgeNet): Arbitrary Lag Boosting LookAtTheWindow 2023-04-28 | Every LodgeNet game had a secret button combination where if you pressed both D-Pad Up and D-Pad Down on the same frame, you could halt the game. Additionally, Pressing D-Pad left and D-Pad Right on the same frame would unpause it. This was presumably to allow the LodgeNet system to pause your game once the paid time had run out as this button combination is not possible on an actual N64 controller without breaking it. However, it is possible with TAS tools and emulation.So what's the trick here. If you halt the game for long enough, you can get a very crazy lag boost. But DK64 does have methods to dampen this with it's complex lag boosting algorithm. However, if you have 4 frames of lag for the past few frames and then pause for your extended boost, that boost will apply.Between the orange throw and the extended pause, there are a few hidden pauses used to extend the duration of the lag from the 2 oranges by a few frames, but probably is possible with a 4-orange explosion without this.Once you do this, you can pause for as long as you like as long as you like. The longer you pause, the stronger the boost.With this, I show off a meme helm early method.However, because it requires inputs that are literally impossible to do on an N64 Controller, don't expect to see it in any TASes if anyone does TAS the LodgeNet version.0:00 - The Setup0:03 - The wait0:27 - The payoff
Donkey Kong 64 4-Version Lag Comparison (US 1.0 vs PAL vs JP vs US 1.1) LookAtTheWindow 2023-04-26 | Whilst testing the lodgenet/US 1.1 version, a few comments came in noticing that the lag seemed to be less than what they remember, prompting a check on whether the newly found version is less laggy than US.The short answer, no, at least not to a non-negligible degree.
Early Spawn Snags | Donkey Kong 64 LookAtTheWindow 2023-03-27 | A collection of videos made in the first 5 days of Spawn Snagging being a thing. Most of these use very outdated tech, so don't use these as a guide on how to do them.Spawn Snagging was found on the 17th April 2017 by myself when I noticed whilst TASing the first NLE LOTAD that the cannon GB in Galleon was visible for 1 frame upon loading the chunk. Being curious, I checked to see whether it was grabbable within that frame with tools, and it was. Then I checked to see whether it was doable without tools, and it was.The first few spawn snags that were found (including number GB, Piano GB and Arcade R1 Skip on VC in this video) were prior to the realization that TBS locked cam could be used to keep the camera away from the chunk, as well as being prior to the discovery of Orangstand TBS Noclip by GloriousLiar. As such, many of the very early setups use a very convoluted series of out of bounds maneuvers to get to the GB location without loading the room. Additionally, these were also made in the early days of Phase walking (TJ finding that trick about 2 months prior). As such, usage of phase walking was limited as knowledge of quick phasewalk locations was not up to par with what it is today.Original upload dates: 17-APR-2017 to 22-APR-2017Original videos:youtube.com/watch?v=3xDtTYRYMzUyoutube.com/watch?v=dTsAjWHQCNAyoutube.com/watch?v=C5qeV-z1cDwyoutube.com/watch?v=37z_JDp8vY0youtube.com/watch?v=a4q7l--HedIyoutube.com/watch?v=i4kB0HPWEAQ
Donkey Kong 64 - Any% (Helm Escape Route) Demo LookAtTheWindow 2023-03-23 | Quick thing I mocked up on BizHawk with savestates. Goes through the first 8m of the route up until it merges with the regular 2014 route. This is not a new fastest route as the 2015 route is about a minute faster than this.The purpose this route serves is that this is a faster route compared to 2014 (by about 50-60 seconds) which doesn't do Helm under ISG. The major tricks you need to learn are:- Phasewalks (To get out of Helm and into Factory as this route doesn't do orange barrel)- TBS with simian slam unlocked (if you do uncrouch TBS)- Telegrab Helm Early with Warp 4Outside of being faster, this route also uses a 100% consistent telegrab. The downside is that this route does Helm a few minutes later into the run, which means that the trick gauntlet of Helm Early & Switch Kick is a little later in the run.This also introduces the runner to some 2015 tricks as they'll need to do Double Reset, Diddy TV and also Tiny phase without the gun unlockedFull route pastebin: pastebin.com/LqG29LzL
[TAS] Banjo-Kongzooie Any% in 3:15.57 LookAtTheWindow 2023-03-21 | OUTDATED. See this for the up-to-date version: youtu.be/JrTkheY-s6sAn Any% TAS of the recently released "Banjo-Kongzooie" hack by GloriousLiar. A download to the hack along with the source code can be found here: github.com/GloriousLiar/Banjo-KongzooieThis TAS was made with a fork of BizHawk 1.13.2 which prevents nasty graphical spiking bugs: github.com/theballaam96/BizHawk-dk64EditionThe aim of this TAS is to reach the credits. Whilst the credits can be reached from just entering Banjo's house at the start of the game, there isn't a big sign which says "credits" when you go near it unlike the one in the waterfall area of Gruntilda's lair.As such, the route of this run is to get the 5 coins in Spiral Mountain, then collect 75 colored bananas in Mumbo's Mountain to access the rest of Gruntilda's lair which enables access to the credits. This run features many moonkicks, tag barrel storage, tag slides, moontails and a phasewalk too.An interesting part of the source code which intrigued me was the fact that loading zones are moved around depending on whether you have completed the objective or not. As such, if you *could* reach it's default location, you can skip some requirements here. However, GloriousLiar had the foresight to put these well out of reach, even with some TBS telegrab shenanigans, these seem to be pretty unreachable.Additionally, another thing I investigated was to see whether voiding in Mumbo's Mountain (which replaces DK 5DT) would bring me to Angry Aztec, which would enable me to go to Angry Aztec lobby, which is the TTC/CC Puzzle room in this hack, which would skip the 75 bananas requirement. However, the void boundaries in this hack are at -32000, -32000 to 32767, 32767. Not only does this make it a lengthy time investment (3.5 minutes of just DK rolling), but because the Isles Escape cutscene flag isn't set, this would bring you to Training Grounds. This does mean that a low percent would void in Mumbo's mountain (Maybe Spiral?), then head into Isles and then Galleon lobby (Waterfall lair map) to skip the 75 bananas. However, it would be a longer TAS than this.
Earthworm Jim 3D Any% in 3:39.74 (World Record) LookAtTheWindow 2023-02-23 | Did some runs for old times sake and got this. Kim RNG really propped this run up by a huge amount. With a better kim early and not getting messed around at the end, I could see a 3:05 happening with some extreme patience
DK64 Practice ROM 1.4.3 - Free Cam LookAtTheWindow 2023-02-17 | A couple kinks to work out regarding cutscenes, but it works and it's pretty nice to get this in.
