Mickey Mousecapade 2023 Notes

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| Mickey Mousecapade 2023 Notes |
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- Earliest frame to start game is appears to be frame 63 from power on (tested in BizHawk)

[Fun House]

Fancy ASCII map of the Fun House. True GameFAQs fans remember.

S - Start     E - End
# - Ladder    * - Star Chest
' - Open Door : - Locked Door $ - Key

+--------+--------+--------+--------+
|        '  04B   '  05B   :        |
|---03-#-|--------|--------|---06-#-|
|        '  04A   '  05A  $|        |
+#-------+--------+--------+#-------+
|        |* 11A   '  08B   '        |
|---02-#-|--------|--------|---07-#-|
|        '  11B  *|  08A   '        |
+#-------+--------+#-------+--------+
|        |        |        |$       |
|---01-#-|   12   |---09-#-|---10-#-|
|S       :      E |        '        |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+

Room 01
- Good Snakes vs Bad Snakes (~1.8s on average)

Room 10
- 0 Hit Wizard Skip (Fastest)
  > Jump at (68,58)
- 1 Hit Wizard Skip (about 1 second slower than No Hit)
  > Get off ladder (earliest ladder exit is Y-coord 5B)
  > Jump at wall panel line left of 2nd lamp
    > Jump should be held about 8-11 frames
  > Turn left before apex of jump; hold right again before apex (about 3f)
- 2 Hit Wizard Skip (about 50f slower than 1 Hit, nearly 2 seconds on No Hit)
  > Standing against the left wall, wait for the wizard to jump before moving right.

[The Ocean]

TAS Wave Jump
- This saves roughly 30 frames
Poop Skip Window
- 3 frames to jump
Post Poop Shooting
- Jump at center of platform to kill fish and bird as descending
- Full Jump at sharp point in platform > Kill high fish with Minnie

[The Woods]

Fast Spring Door
- Saves about 20 frames
  > 4 shots must land on door after clearing pit

Clearing vs Walking through Bears
- Bears 1
  > Always kill
- Bears 2
  > Shoot at edge of pit,
  > Do not shoot while descending; getting hit by boulder is important
- Bears 3
  > Start shooting when left pit leaves the screen
- Bears 4
  > Walking by seems way too risky
  > There might be one-off cases worth considering here

[Pirate Ship]

Room 01
- Frame Counter C determines Pirate position
  > Pirate position can cause about a 1 second variance
- Minnie-sync not worth on 1st screen

Room 02
- Retested big Pirate skip here. The TL;DR is, it's not really worth it based on this test run.
  > 276 Kill (getting hit)
  > 241 kill (not getting hit)
  > 232 skip (jumping into projectile to walk past)

Room 03
- Avoiding Pirate projectile can save about 10 frames at the risk of desyncing Minnie

Room 04 (Boss)
345 - 1 Jump
370 - Delayed Knife hit

[The Castle]

Room 03
- Corner clipping to next room does seem to save about 10-12 frames
  > Mickey's X position carries to the next vertical transition
  > Hitting corner exits room 4 frames later, but places you about a "tile" right of the pit

Room 04A
- Not syncing saves 10-15 frames lag

Room 05A
- Syncing does not matter here

Room 06
- 99% of the time, it's worth taking damage from the dragonflies to knock them out

Room 04A (Backtrack)
- Syncing is better here overall because of the descent

Room 03 (Backtrack)
- Best to sync Minnie here if possible

Room 02 (Backtrack)
- It's best to have Mickey & Minnie both facing right entering this room
  > Move/Fall right at least 1 frame then hold left to avoid both from falling

Room 1B

Boss Room
- In order for Minnie to turn around, she has to still be moving when you tap left.

[Misc]

Fairy manipulation info (credit goes to spandaism):

T = thousands place
H = hundreds place

Exact game calculation:
(T ^ (H mod 4)) mod 4

Simplified:
(T ^ H) mod 4

or just look at the bottom 2 digits in binary of each number and exclusive OR them:

fairies are 00

 0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9
00  01  10  11  00  01  10  11  00  01


Jump height is determined by how long the button is held. Some of the tighter strats require a specific jump height in order to execute (specifically the Wizard Skips).

*Minnie will NOT jump if the Jump Button is held for 4 frames or less.

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|     Jumps Heights     |
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| 1f press* | 30 pixels |
| 2f press* | 31 pixels |
| 3f press* | 34 pixels |
| 4f press* | 36 pixels |
| 5f press  | 38 pixels |
| 6f press  | 40 pixels |
| 7f press  | 41 pixels |
| 8f press  | 44 pixels |
| 9f press  | 44 pixels |
| 10f press | 47 pixels |
| 11f press | 47 pixels |
| 12f press | 49 pixels |
| 13f press | 49 pixels |
| 14f press | 51 pixels |
| 15f press | 51 pixels |
| 16f press | 53 pixels |
| 17f press | 54 pixels |
| 18f press | 55 pixels |
| 19f press | 56 pixels |
| 20f press | 56 pixels |
| 21f+/hold | 58 pixels |
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Some useful memory addresses spandaism provided to me.

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|      Memory Addresses      |
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| 005D | Frame Counter A     |
| 0075 | Frame Counter B     |
| 0078 | Frame Counter C     |
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| 007D | Mickey X Coordinate |
| 007F | Mickey Y Coordinate |
| 007E | Minnie X Coordinate |
| 0080 | Minnie Y Coordinate |
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| 00C2 | Mickey Life Bar     |
| 0792 | Boss Life Bar       |
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