Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone PS1 any% speedrun - 1:19:26

Since I didn't write a Pastebin, I'll explain what has happened with the game below.

There was a random spanish dude called 'Trunske', who explained in a YouTube commentary how a glitch allowed him to skip (almost?) the entire Dungeons and half of the Upper Castle sections. At first, we didn't give it importance, but a couple of months later (aka yesterday, 01/25/17) TheRedhotBR decided to test the glitch Trunske described and, surprise! It worked. This glitch made us change completely the route, as so we call it the 'Trunske route'***.

So, how does this skip/strat/route change/whatever work? First, you should know that, apart from the main story, the game allows to play a 'Quidditch League', consisting in 6 Quidditch matches. However, in the main story we have to do 2 Quidditch matches NON-RELATED with the Quidditch League. By completing the 2nd match of the Quidditch League, the game thinks we've completed the 2nd match OF THE MAIN STORY, allowing us to trigger a cutscene that sends us to Diagon Alley, which isn't supposed to happen until ~30 mins later with the normal route.
So yeah, this new route would save ~30 mins if it wasn't for the fact that the Upper Castle (where the endgame takes place) door is still locked. The only way to unlock the door is by completing Dungeons. However, for any weird reason, by going to Diagon Alley sooner than expected, we learn all the spells without having to visit their respective classrooms. That means we can still skip ~70% of the Dungeons.

So, how much this definitely save? Note that this is a route change, so it isn't easy to tell. Furthermore, the route I use in this video is not the optimal. I'd say it can save about 15 mins over a perfect run with the old route.

And here are the good news. In the old route, we had to do a skip called Early 4 eyes. That skip was hard, inconsistent, long and [insert negative adjective]. Since we don't have to do that skip anymore thanks to learning the spells earlier, this game is now not only faster, but also EASIER. So I encourage you to start with it, because it's a very good speedgame (imo) and the only barrier you may find is Fire Seeds Skip.

PS: The funniest thing about that is that it happened literally 24 hours after I got a new record for which I had been practicing Early 4 eyes for hours.

***I think the fact that this is not the first skip found by non-runners is worth telling. Clody skip (the jump I made in 1:16:22-1:16:30 on LiveSplit timer) was also found by a viewer. Here is the funniest thing: both Clody and Trunske managed to find these skips as childs beacuse they were scared of certain parts of the game. Clody was scared of the knights battle, so he found a way not to have to do it. Trunske was scared of Dungeons, he got bored of the game because he didn't want to enter Dungeons, did the Quidditch League and found this. So yeah. Scared children are the solution if you wanna find new stuff.

EDIT: I nearly forgot. Shoutouts to pr0te, the one who found Trunske comment (and the one who taught me a consistent Fire Seeds Skip

Version with my voice and chat replay (480p tho): https://www.twitch.tv/slendbed/v/117340595

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