With a little bit of experimentation, it was discovered that it was, in fact, possible to force Chibi-Robo to move a few pixels at a time by executing a specific set of inputs within a one-frame window. Normally, falling off means exiting the mini-game, but Kobazco relied on a separate glitch to force a text box to appear. Last week, Kobazco was screwing around with a mini-game in Chibi-Robo and fell off a rail. 'A lot of games don't even have a small community for the speedrun, so I'm more than happy to have found friends who also play Chibi-Robo in the same way I do.' $250 wasn't enough to move the needle.Īnd then suddenly everything changed, as often happens with speedrunning, by accident. Thirty-seven upvotes this time, but no one responded. 'I for one think this game could really do with a fresh pair of eyes, and we always want more people to enjoy this really fun (but cutscene heavy) speedgame,' wrote Kobazco. Kobazco then linked to a video he'd made showing and explaining various Chibi-Robo Speedrun strategies, with a plea for help in making progress on this 'upstairs early' skip.īack in October, Kobazco returned to reddit and made another plea for someone to help unravel the potential of 'upstairs early.' The community even pooled together $250 for it. In this case, a hidden piece of geometry is missing, meaning it's impossible for Chibi-Robo to make it up the stairs, ensuring you play the game properly. Instead, you walk up to objects and Chibi-Robo (the character) climbs up onto them. All players need to do is climb some stairs, but Chibi-Robo doesn't have a jump button.

It could bring speedruns down by as much as 15 minutes, breaking the two-hour barrier. That 'major skip' they'd been theorizing had been dubbed 'upstairs early,' a way of jumping further into the game by sequence skipping the requirement to build a ladder that lets players access the game's upstairs area. 'For a very long time, we have theorized a major skip that has never come to be.' 'I'm one of the like 3 people who are currently active in the Chibi-Robo speedrunning community,' said Kobazco. Last summer, Chibi-Robo speedrunner Kobazco posted on the popular /r/speedrun forum.

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