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Begginer Tech

Piggyback

This is one of your base moves. It's performed with a dedicated input and requires both Checkers and Marbles to be alive. While piggybacked, you can press Attack to perform a special move depending on which character you have in front.

Marbles: Throw checkers, which can be used to hit enemies/targets, destroy breakable blocks, or perform a Shell Jump (explained further in the Intermediate section).
Checkers: Marbles will grab you and throw you upwards, which can effectively serve as a second jump. This can also be cancelled out of with a groundpound/dropdash.

Speed Preservation

The main way to preserve speed is a combination of attacking and jumping. Attacking keeps your speed for most of the animation, but you slow down at the end, so you can jump during the animation to prevent that. Gliding and entering water can also briefly preserve speed, but will slow you down over time, so its useful to minimize these where you can.

Above a certain speed (sometimes referred to as "star speed"), a trail of stars will appear behind you (or music notes if you've completed Chime Runners). This speed can be achieved in various ways, but the easiest way is with either a spin charge or dropdash jump.

Auto-fire Cannons

When you enter an auto-fire cannon (the ones with arrows on them that fire you automatically), if you have jump held, you'll get fired about 0.3 seconds earlier than normal, which can add up across a chain of cannons.

For example, in B.V. Broadcast Tower, holding jump saves 1.9 seconds in the beginning section over not holding jump.

Spin Charge

If you hold Attack with Marbles, you'll start charging up a spin, which can be released after enough time to perform an attack while putting you at star speed (although you have to jump shortly after this to maintain that speed). This can also be done in mid-air, either by running off of a ledge while doing it, or doing a shorter spin off of a ledge and then holding it once in mid-air. Releasing a spin charge in mid-air makes you briefly stop falling, which makes it useful for crossing large gaps, or in places like Salamancer's Sanctum where it's used to get under ropes and ceilings.

Additionally, you can charge a spin charge out of another spin charge, which is sometimes used to stay in the air even longer.

Dropdash / Dropdash Jump

If you press Attack during a groundpound, or while landing from one, you'll get a boost forwards that ignores gravity, called a Dropdash. This can be cancelled out of with a jump, which puts you at star speed. This can all be done in quick succession by groundpounding and then buffering an Attack and Jump input.

You can only dropdash once before having to land or bounce on an enemy to recharge it. However, dropdashing into an enemy will recharge it immediately, letting you chain multiple in mid-air. If you try to dropdash after you've already used it up, Checkers will do a small 'fumble' animation, which gives a tiny bit of height and kills your speed.

Marbles vs Checkers (differences)

Ground Speed

Marbles is a little faster than Checkers on ground, and so is generally preferrably for stages that are mostly horizontal. Below is the code that determines your horizontal speed:

speed_H = (accel_Attack + accel_Deflect + accel_DropDash + accel_Move + accel_Run) * nerf_Speed_H

nerf_Speed_H acts as a speed multiplier, and is set to 1 for Marbles and 0.925 for Checkers, meaning Checkers moves at 92.5% of Marbles' Speed when not in water.

Swim Speed

Checkers moves about 15% faster than Marbles in water, and so is preferred for swimming sections such as in Aucora's Abyss or Shrine Of The Salamancer.

Intermediate Tech

Quad Jump

It's possible to piggyback during a dropdash, even if you're in mid-air, where you can also do an additional jump (which is the case for regular dropdashes as well). By combining this with a jump and piggyback throw at the start, then another piggyback throw at the end, you can effectively chain together 4 jumps in a row, letting you get a ton of height.

The inputs are as follows:

Piggyback with Checkers in front
Jump
Throw yourself upwards
Perform a dropdash
Piggyback during the dropdash
Jump
Throw yourself upwards again

Shell Jump / Mid-Air Shell Jump

When thrown, Checkers can bounce off of walls, and if timed just right, Marbles can bounce off of him for extra height, as seen in Dire Dire Ducts. However, the application of this most useful in speedruns is the Mid-Air Shell Jump.

If you get up to star speed, piggyback, jump, and throw Checkers, you can bounce off of him in mid-air without the need for him to bounce off of a wall. The timing is fairly generous, but you want to throw Checkers at around the peak of your jump to get the bounce consistently. You can get a shell jump if you do the throw really late, as shown below, but this doesn't currently have any uses.

Instant Dropdash

If a level spawns you on a semi-solid, such as in Hue's Shade or Over The Raybow, you can hold your groundpound button before the level starts (ie. during the level entry or restart screen) and immediately get a groundpound without the wind-up animation. You can then dropdash out of this, effectively getting an instant dropdash / dropdash jump with no delays.

Advanced Tech

Dropdash Fail / Checkers Flight

As mentioned before, if you try to dropdash multiple times without landing, Checkers will do a small fumble that gives a little bit of height. If you hold jump during this, it'll give more height, and with this extra height, you have enough time to do another dropdash fail without losing the height from the initial one. What this means is you can effectively chain dropdash fails infinitely to either gain or maintain height.

While this technically has an application for cheesing various sections of the game, the downside for runs is that its extremely slow. Its main uses are for gaining height or backing up a failed strat. Its also used in B.V. Broadcast Tower to scroll the screen to where the goalpost is while avoiding the cutscene trigger.

Semisolid Groundpound / Dropdash

If you go up through a semi-solid and groundpound when you're just barely above it, you'll get a groundpound without any wind-up animation, similar to the Instant Dropdash. Like with that, this can also be chained into a dropdash. The main use for this is to stop or gain speed on a dime when shooting out of a cannon, as cannon trails can be freely groundpounded out of, but it can also be used to save time over a regular dropdash in the right situations (such as in Vexatious Vents).

Clips

There are multiple ways to clip out-of-bounds, each with their own use cases.

Top corner clip :

You can clip on any 90° angle wall over you by teaming up and jumping in the angle then swapping partner. You can then spam the swap button to progress further into that wall. Note that for certain stage (with water for exemple) you need to change your looking direction before doing the 2nd swap to then go further into it. This can be used in stage like Aucora's Abyss to clip into the top right corner of the underwater train wagon.

Reverse looking one button remap clip :

You can clip throught vertical wall in multiple stage. It is used a lot in stage like Bluppo's barge, Nippa's nook, Temporal Railroad, etc... To do the clip throught a wall that is on the right side of you, you need to piggyback and hug the wall while looking to the left. You need to be sure to be hugging the wall, you can jump to do the turnaround to make it easier to not move left while turning. once you are in position you can then you need to press both Right + Swap on the same frame. An easy way to do that is to go in the control menu and rebind the 2nd fonction of both of those to a button you don't use. You then only need to press that button and it will do both action on the same frame.

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-==Basic tech (game basics)==
+==Begginer Tech==
 ===Piggyback===
-The piggyback mechanic allow you to team with your partner and use an action specific to that character.
+This is one of your base moves. It's performed with a dedicated input and requires both Checkers and Marbles to be alive. While piggybacked, you can press Attack to perform a special move depending on which character you have in front.
-Marbles : Will throw checker, can be used as an attack to kill ennemies, to open breakable walls or to do a shell jump
+* Marbles: Throw checkers, which can be used to hit enemies/targets, destroy breakable blocks, or perform a Shell Jump (explained further in the Intermediate section).
-Checkers : Will throw marbles in the air, used mostly to gain a lot of vertical height.
+* Checkers: Marbles will grab you and throw you upwards, which can effectively serve as a second jump. This can also be cancelled out of with a groundpound/dropdash.
-</br>
-===Top Speed===
-When you attain top speed you will have a star trail (or music trail) following your character. To keep top speed you can dash and jump with a certain rythym. You can attain top speed instantly with Marbles via the charge and with Checkers via the groundpound air dash.
-</br>
-===Canon autofire===
-When you enter a canon that autofire you (the one without arrows) you can hold the jump button to have the canon autofire you on the first frame. This save a lot of time over letting the canon fire you naturally.
-</br>
-===Marbles charge speed===
-If you hold the attack button with marbles it will start charing and once you release you will instantly have top speed. This is used a lot for every stage that start with Marbles or during certain gap to help reach a bigger gap on a horizontal plane. </br>
-===Checker groundpound air dash===
-If you press grounpound while in the air and then press attack + jump while holding a direction (left or right) you will instantly dash forward and gain top speed with checkers.
-</br>
+===Speed Preservation===
+The main way to preserve speed is a combination of attacking and jumping. Attacking keeps your speed for most of the animation, but you slow down at the end, so you can jump during the animation to prevent that. Gliding and entering water can also briefly preserve speed, but will slow you down over time, so its useful to minimize these where you can.
+Above a certain speed (sometimes referred to as "star speed"), a trail of stars will appear behind you (or music notes if you've completed Chime Runners). This speed can be achieved in various ways, but the easiest way is with either a spin charge or dropdash jump.
+===Auto-fire Cannons===
+When you enter an auto-fire cannon (the ones with arrows on them that fire you automatically), if you have jump held, you'll get fired about 0.3 seconds earlier than normal, which can add up across a chain of cannons.
+For example, in B.V. Broadcast Tower, holding jump saves 1.9 seconds in the beginning section over not holding jump.
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+===Spin Charge===
+If you hold Attack with Marbles, you'll start charging up a spin, which can be released after enough time to perform an attack while putting you at star speed (although you have to jump shortly after this to maintain that speed). This can also be done in mid-air, either by running off of a ledge while doing it, or doing a shorter spin off of a ledge and then holding it once in mid-air. Releasing a spin charge in mid-air makes you briefly stop falling, which makes it useful for crossing large gaps, or in places like Salamancer's Sanctum where it's used to get under ropes and ceilings.
+Additionally, you can charge a spin charge out of another spin charge, which is sometimes used to stay in the air even longer.</br>
+===Dropdash / Dropdash Jump===
+If you press Attack during a groundpound, or while landing from one, you'll get a boost forwards that ignores gravity, called a Dropdash. This can be cancelled out of with a jump, which puts you at star speed. This can all be done in quick succession by groundpounding and then buffering an Attack and Jump input.
+You can only dropdash once before having to land or bounce on an enemy to recharge it. However, dropdashing into an enemy will recharge it immediately, letting you chain multiple in mid-air. If you try to dropdash after you've already used it up, Checkers will do a small 'fumble' animation, which gives a tiny bit of height and kills your speed.
 ==Marbles vs Checkers (differences)==
-===Ground speed===
+===Ground Speed===
-Marbles is a little bit faster then Checkers on a horizontal plane without extra movement needed.
+Marbles is a little faster than Checkers on ground, and so is generally preferrably for stages that are mostly horizontal. Below is the code that determines your horizontal speed:</br>
-</br>
+: <code>speed_H = (accel_Attack + accel_Deflect + accel_DropDash + accel_Move + accel_Run) * nerf_Speed_H</code></br>
-===Swim speed===
+<code>nerf_Speed_H</code> acts as a speed multiplier, and is set to 1 for Marbles and 0.925 for Checkers, meaning Checkers moves at 92.5% of Marbles' Speed when not in water.
-Checkers is faster then Marbles in the water by about 15%. So you will want to use checkers in water if you need to swim for more then a few seconds.
+===Swim Speed===
-</br>
+Checkers moves about 15% faster than Marbles in water, and so is preferred for swimming sections such as in Aucora's Abyss or Shrine Of The Salamancer.
+==Intermediate Tech==
+===Quad Jump===
+It's possible to piggyback during a dropdash, even if you're in mid-air, where you can also do an additional jump (which is the case for regular dropdashes as well). By combining this with a jump and piggyback throw at the start, then another piggyback throw at the end, you can effectively chain together 4 jumps in a row, letting you get a ton of height.
+The inputs are as follows:
+* Piggyback with Checkers in front
+* Jump
+* Throw yourself upwards
+* Perform a dropdash
+* Piggyback during the dropdash
+* Jump
+* Throw yourself upwards again
+===Shell Jump / Mid-Air Shell Jump===
+When thrown, Checkers can bounce off of walls, and if timed just right, Marbles can bounce off of him for extra height, as seen in Dire Dire Ducts. However, the application of this most useful in speedruns is the Mid-Air Shell Jump.
+If you get up to star speed, piggyback, jump, and throw Checkers, you can bounce off of him in mid-air without the need for him to bounce off of a wall. The timing is fairly generous, but you want to throw Checkers at around the peak of your jump to get the bounce consistently. You ''can'' get a shell jump if you do the throw really late, as shown below, but this doesn't currently have any uses.
+{{#ev:youtube|E6nbZcmgE5c|500px}}
+===Instant Dropdash===
+If a level spawns you on a semi-solid, such as in Hue's Shade or Over The Raybow, you can hold your groundpound button before the level starts (ie. during the level entry or restart screen) and immediately get a groundpound '''without''' the wind-up animation. You can then dropdash out of this, effectively getting an instant dropdash / dropdash jump with no delays.
+==Advanced Tech==
+===Dropdash Fail / Checkers Flight===
+As mentioned before, if you try to dropdash multiple times without landing, Checkers will do a small fumble that gives a little bit of height. If you hold jump during this, it'll give more height, and with this extra height, you have enough time to do ''another'' dropdash fail without losing the height from the initial one. What this means is you can effectively chain dropdash fails infinitely to either gain or maintain height.
-==Intermediate/Combo tech==
+While this technically has an application for cheesing various sections of the game, the downside for runs is that its extremely slow. Its main uses are for gaining height or backing up a failed strat. Its also used in B.V. Broadcast Tower to scroll the screen to where the goalpost is while avoiding the cutscene trigger.
-===Quad Jump===
-With checkers in front, you can piggyback from the ground, jump then throw marbles. After that while in the air you can start a groundpound then cancel it with the attack button to dash with Checkers. You can then piggyback again, jump then throw marbles again. This is used to gain a huge amount of vertical movement. Note that you can also dash fail after all this combo.
+=== Semisolid Groundpound / Dropdash ===
-combo order : piggyback-->jump-->throw-->groundpound-->dash-->piggyback-->jump-->throw
+If you go up through a semi-solid and groundpound when you're just barely above it, you'll get a groundpound without any wind-up animation, similar to the Instant Dropdash. Like with that, this can also be chained into a dropdash. The main use for this is to stop or gain speed on a dime when shooting out of a cannon, as cannon trails can be freely groundpounded out of, but it can also be used to save time over a regular dropdash in the right situations (such as in Vexatious Vents).
-===Mid-air Shell jump===
+===Clips===
-If you have top speed with Marbles you can piggyback and jump, if you then throw checkers close to the apex of your jump while holding the jump button you will automaticly shell jump. It's worth praticing in a stage like 1-1 to get the feel of the timing then it will be easy to get it all the time once you have the timing down.</br>
+There are multiple ways to clip out-of-bounds, each with their own use cases.
-===Auto Dash start===
-On a particular tileset (the wooden floor one) you can do a fast start if you start with Checkers in front. During the stage loading you need to hold the groundpound button then after that press Attack+jump at the same time while holding the direction you wanna go. You might need to pratice to get the timing down for the Attack + jump press. You can hold both the groundpound and the direction during the loading but the other 2 need to be pressed with a certain timing.
-==Advanced tech (speedrun tech)==
-===Fail dash===
-If you finish a combo and you try to do a groundpound then dash (attack button) you will see Checkers flash and do a little move forward. If you hold the jump button while doing this it's possible to gain vertical height by chaining them. The timing is important to gain the vertical height so you might want to pratice it in stage like 1-1 to get the timing down. You need to repress a little bit after using the previous one (if you spam them too quickly you won't gain any height)
-</br>
-===Wall clip===
-There is multiple way to wall clip.
 ====Top corner clip :====
 You can clip on any 90° angle wall over you by teaming up and jumping in the angle then swapping partner. You can then spam the swap button to progress further into that wall. Note that for certain stage (with water for exemple) you need to change your looking direction before doing the 2nd swap to then go further into it. This can be used in stage like Aucora's Abyss to clip into the top right corner of the underwater train wagon.