This is a compilation of all my best segments in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie; No Pause Storage, the "main" category for this game. A “gold” or “best segment” means that it’s the fastest I have ever completed a segment on my splits. The purpose of this video is to show how fast you can theoretically complete this category. While some of the golds are noticeably improvable, I'm very happy with the results. If my sum-of-best were "perfected" (fixing mistakes, implementing strats I don't currently do, etc.), I could maybe get sub 59:45. Of course this SOB will continue to decrease, but that's as low as I can see it going until my skill level improves or until there are more timesaves discovered.
Some segments were taken from other categories. This is because some segments in those categories are identical to how they’re done in NPS, so it’s the equivalent of if I achieved that segment in NPS anyway. My playstyle is the same in every category regardless of length.
I'm playing on NTSC original Xbox (PAL Xbox with a soft-mod that makes the Xbox think it’s an NTSC console and can then read NTSC discs) as it’s the fastest version for this category. It has faster and much more consistent lag-tech, and faster driving than Xbox 360 (NTSC also has faster driving than PAL. PAL60 doesn't increase driving speeds). Only English OG/360 can compete in this category because of "Mindy skip", a trick that saves over 18 minutes using "bowl storage" tech (we don't know why).
My best gold is Rub a Dub 2. I accidentally setup the skip so fast that I needed a one-frame jump to land on the other side, which I don't intentionally do. All of my golds are very solid but my worst gold is "More Bounce" in Planktopolis. While extremely rare, it's possible to get a ledge-grab that saves 2s. But if we're only counting reasonable timesaves, then Weenie Parking is probably my worst. I can probably save 1s with better movement, which for that segment is much easier said than done.
This segmented run is flawed because load times, cutscenes, etc. will always have some variance. If this run only had below-average loads, the final time wouldn't be a 59. My Xbox has average loads overall, but sometimes a load will be very fast or very slow.
There's an asterisk next to the Rub a Dub 2 gold. This is because my gold warped to the wrong level. It didn't lose any time in the full run, and in fact the menuing I did was slower and harder. It's extremely basic menuing that I obviously wouldn't have messed up in the gold so I felt like it was fair to splice the menuing from a different clip. The gold is extremely fast and I can't reasonably beat it, so I was desperate to keep it.
What originally made me want to compile all of my best segments was that I got an incredible “Sandwich Driving 101” segment in 2020. I went on to compile a 1:05:54 segmented run in July 2020. On May 12th 2020, the sum-of-best finally broke through the sub-hour barrier. This is also inspired from SHiFT’s BFBB segmented speedrun from 2017 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrMbee9jTug). I may never make another segmented run in this category in future because there's no significant time to achieve anymore, but I will keep highlighting my golds just in case. I may start highlighting my 100% golds, but I don't play that category as much, it's much more likely to have strat discoveries and route changes, a chunk of segments are uninteresting no matter how well I play, and so on.
TL;DR - This compiles my best segments for No Pause Storage, the main category. Some segments are taken from other categories because they're identical to how they're done in NPS. I'm playing on NTSC Original Xbox because it has superior lag-tech and driving speeds. With current knowledge, a perfect sum-of-best could maybe be sub 59:45. Only English OG/360 can play this category.
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Дата на публикация: 17 май, 2023
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