Sonic Adventure 2 - Cannon's Core - m3 - 1:09.95

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This just gets crazier and crazier. Note that for all practical purposes, as long as you can pull off the last jump without a ring trail and with time stopped, Cannons Core 1 and 3 are the same. For one you go down at the end, and for the other you go up, but its not like time is ticking or anything. That said, the previous unified 1 3 record (1:15.94) was set just under a year ago, and I decided I wanted to try another run at the level, this time using the new trick I unveiled in the A button challenge video for CC1, with the goal of getting closer to (or possibly under) 1:15. After a short bit of experimentation, I found out that unfortunately, the new route wasnt going to be good for saving any time. But since I already had a personal record through three parts, I wasnt just going to throw that much of the run away. Instead, while I still had the old route available as a backup plan, I thought Id spend a bit more time just looking around to see what was possible, and...the rest is history, they say. While its still true that the break out at the top is, on its own, no faster than breaking up through the acid room, that fact that you start higher up leaves you in better position for another timesaver. The normal path for Knuckles CC starts: dive down to stop time, get back up to go past a laser wall, hit a switch to kill another set of lasers underwater, then dive down again, go past where the laser wall used to be, enter a room...That room has a time stop switch on its diagonal wall; somewhat relevant here is the fact that its the longest lasting switch in all of Knuckles part, and extremely relevant is...the fact that you can activate this switch from OUT OF BOUNDS. Just get close to where the switch would be, on the other side, and you can stop time without getting sucked back in the wall! This lets you keep the time stop going all the way to the security door switch, cutting several seconds at once. For those of you who want to try this at home, I will tell you that Knuckles part alone took in excess of 4 hours to get right during this recording session, and the repetitive read write erase stress ended up killing two DVD RWs from my rotation. And for the first time in all my experience with Cannons Core, Im now truly wondering just how low a TAS of the level would be able to go. I can imagine as low as 1:02 might be possible, but I may not even be ready to try for as much even if the tools were available to me.

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