Maybe in another three years, I'll manage to write entertaining comments that are worth reading. It only took me three years to realize, but it seems like people are tired of my IFAQs and stage-by-stage comments. X's weapons are ill-equipped for dealing with enemies from below, or just enemies in general for that matter. I know I still get hit a lot in some areas during this run (Frost Walrus's stage comes to mind), but it can't be helped. I'd like to thank Satoryu and RaneofSOTN for bugging me about this route change. I didn't find any major timesavers, except for one small route change - I did Walrus's stage before Mushroom's stage so I could use the frost tower against Mushroom's miniboss, saving me about 15 seconds. Furthermore, screwing up my dashes seems to be the primary function of X's leg upgrade.īarring X's shortcomings, I think I did a good job improving this run. Zero has a sword with a ginormous hitbox that comes out instantly, whereas X gets a piddly little shot and a charged buster shot that still can't match the power of Zero's sword :(. I'd just like to start saying that X really sucks compared to Zero, and that's the reason why it took me forever to improve this run. That run was posted back in the halcyon days of VHS, grainy encodes, and little to no verification. There are 4 phantom grabs you ideally get in a 100% run, 2 are mandatory, 2 are optional but are time saves.ġst is how I grab the Sting Chameleon heart without actually getting near itģrd (I think I missed) is in Flame Mammoth when I get the subtank, the idea is to get the Subtank & Heart at the same time.Ĥth (I missed) Is to grab the Armored Armadillo subtank from the top before you fall (costed me 7 seconds)ĮDIT: Each of the main Phantom Grabs in the game has its own nickname by the community.Well, I finally improved the first run I ever submitted to SDA. Since the platform is too big, the boomerang cannot return to X, X simply goes flying because the boomerang is trying to return to him but can't. To explain what you saw in Storm Eagle, I grab the heart at the exact frame one of the platforms to the right loads and it loads the platform into my boomerang. With that in mind, if you grab an object in your boomerang and let your boomerang come back to you at the same exact frame another one of the above items loads, it instead loads into your boomerang. Apparently there are also items that can exist in the boomerang such as certain platforms and even boss doors. Traditionally these objects are Health, ammo, 1ups, hearts, subtanks as these can be normally picked up by the boomerang. To explain a phantom grab: There are certain objects in the game that for whatever reason are programmed to be able to exist in X's boomerang from Boomer Kuwanger. So there is a glitch used in MMX called the "Phantom Grab", What you see in Storm Eagle's stage is an application of the Phantom Grab.
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