Cartoon-Strip Mine Discoveries - 29/9/13

Stuff I found on Cartoon-Strip Mine on 29/9/13
Video of 3.) and 4.) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1NkdnnvNhg





1.) Easter Egg: Walk towards the entrance and a backdrop of Wile E. West will fall on top of you. A brick wall that says EXIT blocks the way out.



2.) Clip by the barrels and crates near the entrance, useless, but it's a REAAALLY long fall.



3.) Clip by the barrels and crates near the elevator: near the elevator, jump up the barrel and you'll fall in between some crates, the barrel and the wall. Spin the control stick (Counter clockwise works best for me) and you'll clip into the wall.

After clipping, start holding down-left, to the front of the elevator, but you'll be falling OOB. Quickly jump towards that direction, and you'll fall on one of the elevator floors. You'll want to fall on the second one, the one with the train station (if you fall on the floor above, spin down the elevator shaft and jump to that floor. If you fall on the floor below, go to the one below that and fall OOB. If you fall to the bottom of the elevator shaft, you're stuck, so exit the level.)

Look to the right and you'll see many paths and giant dark rooms, including a large red one - this is the minecart area. Charge a spin into the closest one, and jump on the rails up the track into the red area, which is where the minecart sign is.

To escape the Minecart area, you have to fall OOB, and you can do that by falling on the red pit and going right (left if you were to follow the normal minecart path). Some of the wall doesn't reach the floor, so you can walk under it and fall OOB or look at the whole level from the outside, which looks amazing.



4.) Walking into the sign will destroy the object (counts towards destruction bonus), but not the sign. After testing it for about 2 hours, it seems that the sign is destroyed when you pass by the LOCATION with the minecart, as destroying the "sign" and then riding the cart through where the sign was destroys it for good (this is further proven by the fact that even when the sign is destroyed, going past the sign's location with the minecart will cause Yosemite Sam to yell at you, as if you destroyed a sign). This is completely unlike Taz: Haunted's cart sign, which is destroyed when Taz touches it.

Destroying the sign without the minecart has a strange effect: if you open the map and try to watch the hint video of where the sign is, you'll hear the audio ("Keep on track for this sign!") but the video won't play. If you watch another sign's film after that, you're OK, but if you close the map after seeing (or rather, not seeing) the sign's video (viewing the hints works, but doesn't affect anything), the game softlocks. No button works except for the C-stick, which is the camera, which is useless.


I messed around with this softlock: I jumped into an OOB fall and softlocked, but I just fell through the OOB plane.

I also tried riding the cart then softlocking: I kept riding the cart and could only move the camera, and once I hit an obstacle, I got teleported to the beginning of the track, still softlocked.

I also tried softlocking just before hitting the sign, as I thought hitting the sign would unsoftlock the game, but that didn't happen, and I continued riding the cart until I fell on one of the holes. Surprisingly, you could press A to skip the Sign-collecting cutscenes (the one that shows you how many signs you've destroyed and how much money you have).

After that, I thought I could softlock and fall on the end of the level after destroying all signs, but you can't "watch" the film after destroying the sign.

Finally, I managed to jump, softlock by looking at the glitched sign video, fall into a plank that pushed me into the loading zone at the beginning of the level, and I managed to exit the level after softlocking. However, the glitch was gone when I reached the hub area.



5. (THE USEFUL ONE)) To the left of the Water Maze Sign are 3 boxes. Jump on them and walk into the corner. You'll first be on top of the crates, but once you're on the floor, spin the control stick (once again, counter-clockwise works best for me) and you'll fall through the floor, OoB, and go back to the last cage, the one after the platform sign. This saves around 5-10 seconds (comparing a perfect clip with a perfect crate jumping) and you don't have to do the crate jumping section ever again.