Can Mario Complete Dry Dry Ruins Without Any Keys?
93 frame-perfect inputs later, we’ve got a new glitch video!
I needed to make a TAS to show this off reasonably, and wanted to give a better overview of Loading Zone Storage (LZS) before diving into the challenge.
Applications of LZS are pretty versatile. It is usually used to exaggerate Mario’s angle during a room fade-out, which gets remembered by the game, and gets reapplied as Mario walks into the next room. I think this occurs because the developers wanted room transitions to appear a bit more seamless - if the screen fades while Mario is off-center, the screen reappears with Mario walking from that same angle. Using LZS to amplify our entrance angle enough can make Mario fall out of bounds, and this is sometimes be used to skip sections of the game, or set up other glitches.