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The Switch version has this feature by holding ZL or ZR.

There are several strategies out there (one method that seems to work well for many people is to use the L3 Bubbline to shield yourself against the Butes), but honestly, I'm not great at that room myself so I'm probably not the best person to ask about that. But more than getting better at B2, my recommendation for clearing Hell on hard mode is to practice B3 through the end on a normal mode save, until you get to the point where you can clear it consistently without taking damage. Then in theory, you would only need to get through B2 on hard mode once or twice to beat the whole level.

I guess it despawned because there were already 5 sprites on screen (two firebars, two lifts, and Bowser's flame).

I suspected it. It's strange that I've never seen it in the NTSC version​@@periwinkle.

Same, I'll have to keep this in mind. Guess it's proportional enough with short save disk distance and long cutscene length for this to work.

The video shows exactly every single Bute that you will encounter in the level-it's not an infinite spawner nor is it time-based. Each Bute is placed in a specific position in the map (imagine a little kid making a Mario Maker level and spamming enemies everywhere, and now imagine Pixel making Cave Story in a similar style of editor and clicking a bunch of tiles arbitrarily to place down Butes in this room), and they start out invisible and intangible but become visible, shootable, gain a hitbox, and start moving once the player crosses a certain horizontal distance away from them (roughly 18 blocks, which I stretched the screen so you could see).

@ Ah, thank you. Is why I said/asked all of that, as I did want to be able to confirm. So there’s a concrete number of them, and this means that when you pass by the ones on the left they have about 18 blocks to catch up to you? Thank you for the exact details on this.

Yeah, the Butes that start out facing to the right appear once you're 17-18 blocks to their right (so they come at you from your left), and the Butes that start out facing left appear when you're 17-18 blocks to their left (so they come at you from your right).

Meanwhile, I love how chaotic it is. It feels unpredictable, even if everything is technically made to happen at specific trigger points. Everything can and will go wrong and that's precisely what I love about it. Same reason why I like Monster X and The Core.

it's much worse than intended in every nicalis version, since the original game runs at 50 fps, but every nicalis cave story made the game run at 60 fps, without changing any of the numbers involved in physics. the room hit the hardest is absolutely this tile room

There's no mod, this is just what the Switch version looks like with the remastered graphics setting.

There are 5 soundtrack options (including the original if that's what you prefer). This soundtrack originally comes from the WiiWare version, and is also not my favorite of the 5 but it seems I was changing the music throughout the stream and this just happened to be the setting for this particular run.

It could be a positioning issue. For Heavy Press, the weak spot is only in the center, so be careful not to stand too far off to the side. Ballos phase 1 is all about staying within his hitbox and not missing any shots (it helps to start the fight near the edge of his hitbox and then move as little as possible). Then for phase 2, you should start shooting as soon as his eyes open, because despite the health bar making it look like he always starts with full health, he does still take damage before that.

@@periwinkle. Thanks, I really appreciate your wisdom!

Kappa is a Twitch emote indicating sarcasm/joking, so that split name should be interpreted as "Quick-kill (joke)". The "quick kill" here is referring to a strat we do in normal mode runs that involves fighting the boss in a certain way so that you end the fight with only 10-20 air remaining, which cuts out a lot of time waiting to drown after the fight. Although some version of that strat is _technically_ possible on hard mode (see ruclips.net/video/-5ok8mLJ2IQ/видео.html), I didn't go for it because it's very inconsistent (due to not having missiles on hard mode) and carries a high risk of getting hit and dying (because you have to get up close to the Core while it's still shooting at you).

The biggest mistake was boosting too low at 2:46 and hitting the side of the block instead of boost-jumping off of it, which cost me almost 0.5 seconds. (It's single-handedly the reason why the final split went from -0.7 to -0.3.) Besides that, Ballos phase 3 can theoretically be started all the way against the left wall, but even when testing it with a turbo button I haven't found a consistent strategy (yet) to make it work. And then of course, it's always possible to tighten up the movement throughout the level even more...(could theoretically save a few tenths with perfect play with the current strats)

​@@periwinkle.Why do you unequip and reequip the booster?

@@litio9759 Unequipping the booster mid-boost preserves the speed from the boost. Otherwise you slow down instantly as soon as you let go of the button (or run out of fuel).

@@periwinkle. does this only apply to the freeware version?

@@41Tracen It works in every version. You can see it in my Cave Story+ Hell PB: ruclips.net/video/BLuOhNW4wJ4/видео.html