Caverns 00 Agent 2:53 by Samuel Scholten

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  • Achieved: 30 July 2018
  • Posted: 30 July 2018 at 6:43 am EDT
  • System: NTSC-J
  • Points when achieved: 0
  • Rank: N/A - Samuel Scholten has improved this time
Player's comments:
Finally, a PB after a huge break. I didn't have internet or an n64 controller for over a week, then I got a new controller, internet and my JAP cart all at once.

Nice to get this huge time cut, this is my final time that I needed to cut OVER 2 minutes to get the PTR. Got this on the literal FIRST run after taking a break for dinner after playing around an hour.

Disappointed that I didn't nail the PTR first time, was slightly off on my ending timer because I was distracted by guards. Still, happy with this for now, looking forward to going for it again later when the time is a bit lower (probably go for it when 2:44 is the PTR).

This is also a bit of a milestone moment in my quest, since this is the first level where I started to develop my own strategies for playing the level with the PTR goal in mind. Well, the first time the strategies went beyond "waiting for a timer or music cue to know when to end the level".

Specifically, I spent tons of time building speed in the elevator for more consistent starts, occasionally stopped on the stairs in A to give scientists time to run away and make sure my mines were good, waiting in B to shoot all the alerted guards rather than running past and dropping a mine and throwing a mine at C to make sure I can get D and give scientists a tiny chance to escape.

Looking over the vid though, I actually only do the speed building. Trev kept beating me to the drones and locking me out, so I tried to speed through B, dropping a mine to kill a single guard. I ran out of mines, so I shot the barrels at C. I didn't stop for the scientists at A because I took some retarded line through the boxes that I've never done in 25 hours of playing Caverns and I figured the run was dead so I just played it like SA.

Very bad internet at the moment, so no video, but I will probably chuck the video up eventually. Technically it IS Pointless Time Record, since nobody else has achieved a faster time without getting points, but under my strict definition I will only count PTRs that are listed on the Pointless Times page.

Anyway, enough rambling. It's good to be back.

Samuel Scholten's time history for Caverns 00 Agent

Date Achieved Time Proof System
1 July 2020 1:39 Video NTSC-J
22 June 2020 1:40 Video NTSC-J
7 July 2019 1:41 Video NTSC-J
7 July 2019 1:45 Video NTSC-J
7 November 2018 2:34 Video NTSC-J
30 July 2018 2:53 Video NTSC-J
27 April 2018 6:54 Comments PAL
10 April 2018 8:23 Comments PAL
10 April 2018 10:14 Comments PAL
17 March 2018 12:16 PAL

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