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Dustforce (2012)

Duration: 0:54

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Sometimes TASes have strats that could maybe be replicated in an IL if a runner was crazy enough. Other times, they have this seam heavy.

So for a while, the portion of the community which cares about obscure and impractical tech has known about the "seam super," wherein at extremely precise positions, the code which checks if you have a clear line-of-sight to surface dust can fit through the seams between tiles, allowing you to clean dust on the other side of a wall. More recently, we've come to understand that this only happens with negative Y values, and thus the primary place we thought it might be useful, Firefly Forest SS, it doesn't work.

However, around the same time, we also learned that it can happen with side attacks. Looking around for a bit, I found a spot where it could be helpful: Night Temple SS. Just before the first turkey, there's a platform which you normally have to drop down to, then run up a wall. If that dust could be cleaned through the wall, that segment would instead be a straight shot horizontally, saving some time... and with a seam sideheavy, it can! It's totally unreasonable for a live IL, though, since it requires basically a double frame perfect input to get the heavy to come out at the exact vertical position necessary, and then a jorf to actually skip dropping down and thus take advantage of the potential savings... and overall the savings aren't even that significant! It's awfully stylish in a TAS though.

Otherwise, this TAS is pretty straightforward. Jorf to get aircharges back any time that would save time, get some unlikely boosts and carry them as long as possible, etc. That climb on the left side is so awkward I feel there MUST be something better, but I experimented a fair deal and I couldn't find anything, so I'm calling it good for now.

Replay: http://dustkid.com/replay/-7755627

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