0'45"14 for now :(
I can definitely cut off that bit to improve my rank... and that's not counting that I plan to
experiment with holding the controller in different ways (instead of just with my right thumb
on the control stick and with my left thumb on the buttons).
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Now, I'll just add these little comments and stuff about the last challenge.
I don't know how much anyone cares, but at least part of it is a bit funny.
-White Jungle was the first one I did. It didn't take long to figure it out (go past the boxes
and use the sloped sides of the path to jump back over and through the wall),
and I just happened to land on the boxes on one of the first tries.
I noticed that the cheap, flat, fake roof of that place is the same in Green Forest.
-Metal Harbor was second. It was a little tricky, but not super-hard in any way.
(At the chain of floating robots, do a big jump to land on the last one, and then
bounce off it. Time it so you bounce off right when the sliding box comes by.
For the line of rings, use the hook thing to get up to where the item was,
jump around the first stack of crates, climb up on the second, and then jump from
the top of the tower to easily reach the runway place.)
Then, I came to the third huge jump (there was one?). I tried jumping to the Chao platform,
but I couldn't quite reach it. Then, after too many deaths, I noticed the rocket right below the line of rings!
As if that wasn't bad enough, when I was talking to RPG, he reminded me about the Mystic Melody!
(I might've thought of it, but for some reason I didn't think it was allowed or something.)
-Then, I did City Escape. There's not much to say, other than that I discovered the hard way
that you need to have no more than 3 rings when rolling into the truck area at the end.
-I tried to do Sand Ocean, but I got stuck at the part with the stack of containers.
Then, I checked the thread and found out that I was supposed to be playing Mission 3!
(I had memorized the challenges, and I hadn't seen them for a few days.)
M1 might be possible, if Robotnik can get on top of that flat roof above the little jar things
(He could hover around the corner from there.), but I don't think that can be done without cheats.
M3 was slightly easier! :P
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EDIT: 0'37"52... "Huh! Good enough!" I guess, although an S would be nice.
I can't remember exactly what I said about the controller, so I made this picture. (Excuse the sloppiness.)
This way is almost as easy as having it right-side-up, except it hurts my wrists.
EDIT2: 0'34"35... YAY!
