Paper Mario: TTYD - Chapter 4 Reroute (Vivian Skip)
This may seem like a simple reroute at first glance, but it actually needed a lot to fall into place to be possible. Firstly, if you have no partners during the cutscene after spelling Doopliss' name, the game will softlock. On top of that, having any partner other than Vivian out during the cutscene before fighting Doopliss 2 ends up crashing the game. Both of these obstacles made it pretty hard to come up with a way to complete the chapter when skipping obtaining Vivian.
However, one discovery changed all of that. By using a super jump, we can walk around during the Doopliss 1 cutscenes (the spring is actually what locks Mario in place and is separate from the real cutscene trigger). This lets us leave the room between when our partners are taken from the menu and the partner we have out is removed. With this newly obtained "fake partner" we can keep them out to get past the first obstacle and then save and reload to remove them before Doopliss 2 since the partner will only be kept out on reload if we have them in our menu. This whole process saves us a whole trip through Twilight Trail along with a lot of cutscenes related to obtaining Vivian, which is a bit over 5 minutes excluding the time to setup the new tricks.
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