Paper Mario: TTYD TAS Improvements

Because of the discovery of Minor League Skip (aka Yoshi Skip) and Pirate's Grotto Early, I will now be re-doing the TTYD TAS in the hopes that I can improve from a time of 4:15:48.233 to under 4 hours. Minor League Skip saves roughly 15 minutes, and Pirate's Grotto Early saves roughly 45 seconds. There are also a few other places at which I can improve. I do believe that at this point, we have enough timesavers to get under 4 hours TAS, though it will take much longer to optimize enough.

Below are the current timesavers that will be implemented and how much they save.

1. Hooktail Battle: Instead of 9 jumps (8 damage), Koops attacks, 10 jumps for the first phase, it will be faster to manipulate 11 jumps, pass with Koops, and then jump 10 times. This will save one or two seconds.

2. You can clip behind a tree in the room with Flurrie's House in Chapter 2. This allows you to go directly to the pipe instead of going all the way to the right and using paper mode to get to the pipe. This saves a second each time most likely.

3. It's faster to clip out of bounds after the Shadow Sirens fight in Chapter 2. This allows you to respawn at the far right of the room. This saves nearly a second.

4. I think there is a faster way to enter horizontal pipes. They take a very long time to enter compared to the English version of the game. I encountered an instance where I immediately entered the horizontal pipe instead of walking against it for a while. This may help save several seconds throughout the run, mostly in Chapter 2.

4. I constantly say this, but the Jabbi fights can surely be improved, being that they are entirely RNG related. Possibly a second or more can be saved between both fights.

5. When opening the Ultra Hammer Chest, I jumped to the right, causing me to move farther away from West Rogueport. This cost several frames, so I will be able to save a few frames by fixing it.

6. I mistakenly bought an extra Thunder Rage because it was required for Dark Bones in Chapter 8, until the idea of manipulating Mega Rush from the Hammer Bros in the sewers was suggested and implemented. In addition, because I will be skipping Minor League, I will be buying less items in the shop. Because of this, I will not have to store any items by talking to the shopkeeper. All this will save several seconds.

7. Minor League Skip allows you to skip straight to Chapter 4 instead of going back to Chapter 3 for Yoshi. This saves just over 15 minutes.

8. Pirate's Grotto Early allows access to the Grotto immediately after getting Bobbery instead of going back to Keelhaul Key after beating Smorg and arriving at Poshley Heights. This saves about 45 seconds.

9. Spring Jumps can be optimized a bit more. I most likely lost around 10 frames with each one because you can charge the spin mid-air instead of after landing. This will save under 2 seconds.

On the contrary, I will be underleveled, so time may be lost because I will need to use different strategies, whether that means less Mega Rushes/Power Rushes or less FP. This will be routed later.

If these estimates are correct, I will get under 4 hours by just a couple seconds, so let's hope for the best!