DK64 NLE MMM FAQ

Q: What is No Levels Early?
A: This is the medium length category of DK64 speedruns. This category requires you to beat the game as fast as possible without going into any levels early. It is comparable to Ocarina of Time's All Dungeons run and Super Mario 64's 70 star run.

Q: What is banned?
A: You cannot glitch past the B Lockers (which means you need to get 100 golden bananas throughout the run), you cannot glitch into level lobbies (which means you need to get the boss keys), and you cannot duplicate golden bananas.

Q: What is all the menu stuff at the beginning?
A: An Intro Story Glitch (ISG) called "Main Menu Moves" (MMM).

Q: What does MMM do?
A: Basically this memory exploitation glitch allows me to get all Cranky upgrades, all instruments from Candy and all guns from Funky without having to buy them in game. As a bonus, because I have to wait for the entire Intro Story cutscene to play in order for the glitch to work, I can pre-watch all the boss cutscenes beforehand. The penalties for using this glitch is that the game no longer saves, I cannot pause exit, and I do not take any damage (meaning I cannot die unless I fall into an insta-death zone).

Q: How much time does it save?
A: I'm not sure yet. I'm sure it is faster than the old, non-MMM route though, which is why I'm doing it.

Q: But didn't you skip the boss room door?
A: The boss isn't a separate level.

Q: How did you clip into the stairs?
A: There is a very thin, pixel-thick plane I can fall through on some ledges in the game. By using C-Up to buffer my movement, I can find this plane relatively quickly.

Q: How are you getting into all these walls?
A: What walls? Actually, the game speeds your character up when the game lags to make it look like it isn't lagging. The walls have a hard time with sped-up characters, and you can pass through virtually any wall in the game if it's laggy enough. Most of the time, I throw oranges to cause lag.

Q: I want to learn this! Is there a route I can see?
A: Right here: http://bombch.us/xsW This NLE route is beginner-friendly and gets all 40 blueprints to allow you to play a Snide's bonus game, the only possible way to enable saving in MMM.