Island Hopping: Difference between revisions

'''Island Hopping''' is the 103rd level in [[Chip's Challenge Level Pack 2]]. As is obvious, Chip has to swim around the level, collecting chips from variously scattered obstacles in the common style of Paul Hobden. However, the gliders in the room near the northeast allow Chip to exploit a [[bust]] that allows him to remove the [[bomb]]s in the southeast with them.

Unfortunately for bold-seekers, Chip has to synchronize the [[brown button]]s properly to allow him to direct the gliders where he wants them, and to do that, Chip has to release the [[toggle wall]]s at the ''exact'' moment, complicated by the addition of random [[force floor]]s in the way of the [[green button]], and the requirement that Chip dash out of that random force floor room with almost perfect luck. [[Andrew Bennett]] simplified this method into the following strategy, which was recorded to be noticably more successful.

Now, step into the room and see which way Chip moves. A DLU detour is worth [1] off; in total, Chip must move over ''seven'' force floors before he touches the button. Now, move either U or R, and continue to jump towards the opposite end at the northeast. If Chip reaches the chip on time, and the [[pink ball]] up past the four chips is specifically 2U from him as he enters, he will score the bold if his execution is correct the remainder of the way out. For a simpler route, steal the tools from the gliders and use the [[clone block]] to bridge all the way south to the bombs.

==Unsolvability in Lynx==

The [[blue key]] is erased by a [[pink ball]] once the level starts, so the level is not solvable in [[Lynx]]. This can be changed to [[red key|red]] while preserving the MS integrity, but there is still the problem of reaching it in Lynx, as the [[tank]]s operate differently. To solve this issue, Chip can build a bridge from the [[clone machine]] and use a [[block]] to recalibrate the [[tank]] cycle. Perhaps some other change to the level is still needed, so as not to have the Lynx solution be so unequal to the original, but this is hard to do without messing up any MS routes.