Game:

Gex: Enter the Gecko (1998)

Duration: 1:52

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This OOB was already known about and was found by P0rtalFTW. Here’s his video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thTfEjDAgps

But I guess no one found this skip yet. To gain momentum while falling, all you have to do is to jump off while Gex is still moving. This skip saves around 14 seconds for the “Scale the Bionic Launch Tower” remote compared to going for the remote the normal way with no purple fly detours. If you go for the purple fly in Any% then this skip saves 19 seconds. This skip saves more time in 100% too.

Here’s what to do with the method in this video: It involves the timing of the green energy that Gex haves. The camera has to be on manual. First you get out of bounds and then go to the end of the data bridge. Then you go back and jump off at the end and hold left. Keep on holding left until the green energy runs out. When it does, don’t hold anything and prepare to land on the platforms. There are multiple methods to this and I guess with practice, you can find one. You can travel across the whole area down below if you fall down there. But there are invisible cracks that you can fall into since the platforms are always moving, creating uneven gaps. I think that’s the reason why Gex sometimes just falls to his death in these areas of a circuit level instead of going up in the air.

There’s a warning to this: Once you do the OOB successfully, the camera acts weird when you do certain things such as touching the big platform (That enables Gex being throw up in the air I think) at the end that goes to the tv and fall into the space. There’s a chance that you are going to have a locked camera when entering the blue exit area if you decide to mess around with the camera. When you do this, the camera will still be in its locked state, resulting in a black screen. You could go back to fix this or exit this level through the menu.

I used the XYZ information from the debug mode that this game haves on PS1. Based on the information that this function gives in each room of this whole entire level, unfortunately this is most likely the only skip that you could do instead of skipping into any other rooms when you go out of bounds here.

Speedrunning Update: Current PB in Gex 2 100% is 1:52:18. Click this link if you want to see it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFKIun53w2A

With Gex 3 100% being a comparison, Gex 2 100% is more friendlier to start out with if you don’t know the strats to prevent coinfly glitches in Gex 3. But Gex 2 100% is more frustrating then Gex 3 100% if you are aiming for certain goals.

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