Goal for Bionic Commando

== GOAL =============================================================
Complete areas 1, 5, and 6.
You do not need to enter any other areas besides these three or collect any items from the neutral zones.


== TIMING ===========================================================
Timing ends when the screen fades out after the core is destroyed in Area 6.  Stop at the first frame of the fade-out animation (the first frame in which you can see the screen is getting dimmer).


== SUGGESTIONS ======================================================

Both the 100% and the Any% categories have videos up on SDA (http://speeddemosarchive.com/BionicCommando.html).  Area 1 is only done in the 100% run, while Areas 5 and 6 are done in both of these videos.

There are three other decent runs available:
* An Any% run by Zeth Hattory
  part1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5xBW-IUcj8
  part2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGbVE1wXWH4

* Scott Kessler's Any% run from 2004:
  http://archive.org/details/BionicCommando_1820

* The current Any% WR:
  http://www.twitch.tv/feasel/c/1885974


All 5 runs have their share of good strats that are worth considering, even the runs with slower overall times.


The "hop" move that you see used everywhere (where it looks like your character is doing a small jump) is achieved by connecting your grapple line to something at a 45-degree angle, initiating a swing (by pressing right or left on the d-pad), and then cancelling the swing (by pressing down on the d-pad) just a few frames after the swing has begun.  How quickly you break out of the swing affects whether you hop to the left or to the right.