The Sims 2 (GBA) - Any% - 23:51 (Speedrun)
30A glitch I discovered by complete accident from a softlock that occured. Not sure how to explain it (Never been good at explaining) exactly but I'll try:
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From what I can tell, there's a slight delay between the "Episode Complete" box closing animation playing and the "Episode Rating screen" begins, where you are still in control of your character for less than a second.
But because you're able to close this box via Start (Inventory/Character Menu) and Select (Pause Menu) the game will bring up those menus in that tiny delay window. Doing this pauses the game world and prevents the "Episode Rating screen" from playing, but the game is still aware that the episode is complete and will finish the execution once the game world is no longer paused.
From this, you are able to quit the game, reload a different save (Or quit the episode and start a different one) all while the game is still waiting for the game world to resume. As soon as you gain control of your character and the game world is playing again (In-game cutscenes seem to set the game world in a "paused" state) the "Episode Complete" script finishes, regardless of episode or location.
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I setup the glitch save file on "The New Cola" as it's the shortest episode by far (Excluding the tutorial).
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