NLE Helm Escape FAQ

No Levels Early - Helm Escape FAQ

Q: What is No Levels Early?
A: The middle category of DK64. As the name suggests, you cannot enter any level earlier than intended.

Q: What is Helm Escape?
A: Helm Escape is a route of No Levels Early which never turns off Main Menu Mode (The glitch that is activated in the first 4m26s of the run). Because of a result of it's properties (Mainly it's inability to Save/Die/Pause), you cannot exit Helm the conventional way.
So you have to do some lag abuse to escape Helm.

Q: What do you have to collect in this run?
A: 100 Golden Bananas (To open Hideout Helm) and 8 Keys (To open the levels/Spawn the final boss)

Q: What are you doing in the first 4m26s of the run?
A: By abusing the way the game handles gamemodes and storing data in memory, we can write various things to a file. This includes guns, instruments & moves, which saves having to buy them all during the run. This saves a decent amount of times and allows us to collect some GBs earlier than you would normally. However, this has some side-effects.
After the 4m26s are up, we are put into the main game. However, the game thinks we're in the main menu; we cannot do certain things that the game would not expect/allow us to do in the main menu.
These are:
- You cannot pause
	- The start button is disabled
- You cannot save/autosave
	- This means that resetting the console/turning it off would return us to the progress we were at 4m26s into the run
- You cannot die
	- Except from Insta-death pits and storing damage.
Since this glitch HAS to take 4m26s at minimum, we pass the time by doing some training barrels and watching boss cutscenes so we don't have to later in the run.

If you have any more questions, feel free to ask!