Game:

Bionic Commando (1988)

Duration: 0:44

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Big shoutouts to Omnigamer for figuring out the mechanics of the "wrong warp" glitch, and for MASTER-88 for initially finding this bug.

Here's the summary:

When you enter a door on the same frame your grapple connects to a solid surface, you "store" the door entrance event. As a result, you are invincible to everything except terrain (fire, spikes, Area 12 barrier), and the game thinks you are in the room that door takes you to (let's call it Room A). If you enter another door after you activate "room storage", then game will take you to wherever that door would take you if you were actually in Room A.

To put this into practical terms, let me explain how this stage works now.

I begin in Room 07. This isn't terribly important. I enter Door 01 which takes me to Room 4E. There are two doors in Room 4E:

Door 00: Takes me to Room 53 (the second elevator shaft with the boss room)
Door 01: Takes me back to Room 07.

In Room 53, the boss room is behind Door 01. You can see where this is going. I go to Room 4E (the cannon room), activate room storage on Door 00 so that the game thinks I am actually in Room 53 (even though I'm clearly still in Room 4E), and then go through Door 01. Even though that door should take me back to the first room of the stage, it actually takes me to the boss chamber because of room storage. Pretty cool. I also don't need to actually activate the computer terminals in this stage to unlock the boss door.

This is ~62 seconds faster than my best "intended route" run of this stage, and 42 seconds faster than my previous wrong warp route (which warped to Area 1 and then finished that stage). It also saves a bit of time because I don't have to actually equip the blue communicator. Good stuff!

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