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=== Re-recording === | === Re-recording === | ||
Since replacing an AVI requires the deletion of the original one, unless it is significantly less difficult than the new one or a no boost route, specific criteria are required to upload the new AVI. In some cases, | Since replacing an AVI requires the deletion of the original one, unless it is significantly less difficult than the new one or a no boost route, specific criteria are required to upload the new AVI. In some cases, AVIs are re-recorded, especially where the route calls for [[boosting]], [[spring step]]s or other maneuvers that become more difficult for the watcher to comprehend with the jerky quality of other screen capture software like ''SnagIt''. | ||
Usually, however, the new AVI is a [[Chip's Challenge scoring|tenth improvement]], an easier way to do the same route, or an actual time improvement. Since tenth improvements do not increase the level score, they are added when the new route is easier but not when it makes the route less likely, as for the 288.6 route through [[Scoundrel]] in comparison to the recorded 288.0. | Usually, however, the new AVI is a [[Chip's Challenge scoring|tenth improvement]], an easier way to do the same route, or an actual time improvement. Since tenth improvements do not increase the level score, they are added when the new route is easier but not when it makes the route less likely, as for the 288.6 route through [[Scoundrel]] in comparison to the recorded 288.0. | ||
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=== Implied routes === | === Implied routes === | ||
Many [[random-element]] levels such as [[Blobnet]] and [[Yorkhouse]], although their more advanced routes require much greater dependence on chance, all start from the same basic route such that the slower routes are obvious and do not require uploading. Similar [[melee]] | Many [[random-element]] levels such as [[Blobnet]] and [[Yorkhouse]], although their more advanced routes require much greater dependence on chance, all start from the same basic route such that the slower routes are obvious and do not require uploading. Similar [[melee level]]s such as [[Spooks]] and [[Underground]], though they require no chance, can also be completed either ignoring the monsters entirely or barely disturbing them such that they have no effect on the rest of the level. | ||
This also applies to no boost routes which require movement through melee sections, such as [[Three Doors]]: although the route itself through the monster room is dangerous for the [[bold time]] of 222, there are many ways through such that the same result, though perhaps with a smaller time, will occur. | This also applies to no boost routes which require movement through melee sections, such as [[Three Doors]]: although the route itself through the monster room is dangerous for the [[bold time]] of 222, there are many ways through such that the same result, though perhaps with a smaller time, will occur. | ||