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Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko (1999)

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Guide

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I decided to put up 100% runs of each of the main levels and put them on YouTube that have tips in the description. I am doing this mini series as a guide for people who will run Gex 3 100% in the future. I don’t intend to have tips for everything but just the things that you should know. This last video features the 100% routes for the rest of the game that excludes the main levels. Here is my run for reference for this category.

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

Here are links that explains most tricks that I used in a 100% run.

http://gexruns.wikia.com/wiki/Movement_%28Gex_2_and_3%29
http://gexruns.wikia.com/wiki/TV_Cancelling

General tips are in part 1 of this guide.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=460oG7COISE

This is a decent enough guide for now to get started. In the future, I might create videos to add to this guide and write more in the video descriptions and add annotation commentary to videos that don't have them. This video includes annotation commentary. Here, you will find advance info on this game. Shoutouts to Tigame and the rest of the Gex community for finding tricks :D

Here’s the Gex 3 Forum on www.speedrun.com
http://www.speedrun.com/gex3/forum

Here is a pastebin that lists version differences of the game.
http://pastebin.com/WuBLTB0d

Walking in Water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1I5BCdLP8U

Wrong Warping to Mission Control
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDXOklvWcoA

Little bit Faster Spawn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWpJYiwN_ko

Pausing the game can create more lag for jumps to be longer. More lag in general also makes jumps longer. When you jump over a slope that will make Gex fall, tailwhipping can make Gex not fall down the slope. You can control how high Gex initially jumps by various lengths of holding down the X button.

Be aware that the game takes longer to load at the start when it plays the cutscene that is at the beginning of the game. This might be caused by activating any level’s cutscene with Agent Xtra and/or creating a new game the first time. Without having the cutscene, the game loads faster so simply create a new game that will play the cutscene and then create another new game on top of the new game that you just created that will not play the cutscene.

Checking at the end of levels to make sure you got everything is a good idea if you are not sure. At the end of game when entering Channel Z, you should have 49 remotes, 45 bonus coins, and 50 pawprints when you pause the game. Be warned though: If you complete the bossfight with missing collectables, then that sucks because the game doesn’t save when you beat the final bossfight, resulting in you loosing everything from your last save to the end.

Using the Debug Menu is great for practice. Here’s the cheat code.
Pause the game then hold R2 while entering: Up, Circle, Right, Up, Left, Right, Down. When you hear a sound, go back to the game and press the select button to view it. You can’t press the start button to pause the game anymore while using this. You also have infinite hit points.

Here are splits from my 2:13:50 run if you want to see splits for this category. “Worst Level” is Holy Moses, “All Those Western Resets” is Western Station, “NIGHTMARE TV” is Mythology Network, and “Glitch TV” is Gangster TV.

https://imgur.com/a/I3hum

I might not run Gex 3 100% again because to have a good enough chance to PB, I have to nail 1 of the 2 frame perfect TV cancels that are in Holy Moses and Mythology Network.

Thanks for watching this video and reading this. I would imagine sub 3 hours is a good goal to get in Gex 3 100%.

Mission Control 00:09
Lake Flaccid 03:03
Slappy Valley 10:05
Funky Town 15:20
Kangeroo Bonus TV 21:29
Snowboarding Bonus TV 22:17
Tank Bonus TV 22:55
Donkey Bonus TV 24:17
Crocodile Bonus TV 25:02
Secret TV 1 26:20
Secret TV 2 27:40
Secret TV 3 29:05
Secret TV 4 30:56
Bossfight TV 1 32:22
Bossfight TV 2 32:42
Bossfight TV 3 34:15
Rez Bossfight 36:04

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