Caverns 00 Agent 2:53 by Samuel Scholten
- 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 | Video | 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 | None | PAL |
| 10 April 2018 | 8:23 | None | PAL |
| 10 April 2018 | 10:14 | None | PAL |
| 17 March 2018 | 12:16 | None | PAL |
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