'Completing' A Crack in Time in 0 Seconds

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Published on March 8, 2021 3:51:55 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQHxYTdMEvg

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How does this work? Good question. You can watch the setup at https://youtu.be/_wjjHC9-gcA or...

1. Create a file that hasn't beat Azimuth yet [File A] and a file that's beaten Vorselon 3, but hasn't entered the museum yet [File B].
2. On File A, get Azimuth down to low health, and then double jump out of the arena back to where the Nefarious Space Station portal is. Use the Plasma Striker to zoom in, then press triangle on the portal while always holding the zoom-in to store the menu option to teleport through the portal. Walk over while zoomed in and defeat Azimuth from afar with the Plasma Striker, then immediately confirm the portal entrance once his health bar disappears. This 'stores' the credits sequence to activate whenever you enter the Corvus Sector.
3. On File B, fly over to the Insomniac Museum in the Corvus Sector and press triangle on it, then immediately pause and load your credits-stored File A.
4. File A will now destination warp to the museum. Create a save and then load it.
5. As soon as the file loads, immediately run over to the elevator and hit X to exit the museum. Once it changes to a black screen, pause and exit to the main menu. Go through the New Game option reasonably quickly to force the game to create a new file.
6. This new file will act like a fresh New Game file in most regards, but still has activated mission triggers that are stored from the museum file. This includes the credits sequence which will activate as soon as Corvus Sector is loaded for the first time. Because of what you did in the museum, you have also stored the Corvus Sector load from the Museum via exiting to the main menu and starting the new file, so it immediately warps you to the Corvus Sector and activates the credits sequence. Since my file had beaten Vorselon 3 earlier than intended, it skips the 'Vorselon talks to you' sequence and immediately goes to the Challenge Mode start sequence. Checking the menu to start a Challenge Mode file will show you with a 0:00 time file in the Corvus Sector.

Is this a legitimate run? By Any% FM rules, technically. But it's more of a novelty that expands on the possibilities of file manipulation in this game, so you won't find this on any leaderboard.