Speedrunning

This section is dedicated to knowledge and techniques for beating Teslagrad as quickly as possible.

Warning: Many of these tricks will spoil normal gameplay and trivialize several of the puzzles in the game.

Version Info[]

Legacy = Teslagrad version 1.3.1.

• This is the fastest version for speedrunning because of faster menus and known exploits.
• It is only available on Steam for Windows: Properties - Betas - V1.3.1 

Current = Teslagrad versions 1.4.0 and above.

• These are the most recent versions. This is also the only version available on consoles and Linux.
• It is available on Steam: Properties - Betas - None. Note that the 1.3.1 option exists here in Steam for Linux, but selecting it does nothing.
• Fast menuing was removed, thus preventing any Save Manipulation.
• The debug menu was removed, thus preventing any Bug Report Manipulation.
• The physics engine runs at 120 fps instead of 150 fps in Legacy, making some Blink Bounces more difficult.
• Tower Bridge Clip was fixed, forcing the route to go through Alternation and Grand Design instead.
• [Unconfirmed] Guerickes Orb Pause Buffering may have also been fixed.

Remastered = A standalone game with graphical enhancements, gameplay adjustments, and the inclusion of the previously-XBox-exclusive Challenge levels.

• The scroll vault has been substituted with the teleporter room, thus allowing players to reach the end without needing to collect scrolls. A new exit to the left of the teleporter room leads down to the scroll vault, which still takes 15 scrolls. Behind the vault is the Challenge levels, in a teleporter room reminiscent of nearly every game in the Mega Man series where you had to re-fight each of the stage bosses near the end.
• All Blink Bouncing was nerfed. Thus, no more Heartwood Grue Bounce, Maze/Wintergarden Skip, Forge Skip, or Dungeon Skip.
• Your standing position on magnetic bars no longer influences their physics. Thus, no more Trials Skip, Magic Carpet Skip, or changing the trajectory of the horizontal bar in Maglev.
• Guerickes Orb Pause Buffering has been fixed.
• The second phase of Guerickes Orb takes less pew pew to break the hull.

Speedrun Categories[]

General Techniques[]

Fundamental techniques that are used multiple times during a run.

• Moonwalking and Moonjumping
• Bunnyhopping
• Item Animation Cancel
• Extended Blink Hitbox
• Blink Bounce
• Cloak Jump
• Save Manipulation
• Bug Report Manipulation

Specific Techniques[]

Situational platforming techniques and skips for progressing through the puzzle rooms.
These are listed roughly in the order that they may be encountered during a run and marked by applicable run type.
Refer to the Scene Index to find out specifically where each is used.

Technique	Any%	100%	NG+Any%	NG+100%
Opening Cutscene Skip
Scale Skip
Stave Church Slingshot
Piston Skip
Trials Skip
Fast Thunderbolt
Iron Lice Skip
Magic Carpet Skip
Spider Skip
Hidey Hole Moonwalk
Fernus Block Popup
Fernus Early Escape
Back In Time: Boots to Well (obsoletes Cages Grue Bounce)
Boots Wrong Warp (obsoletes Boots Grue Skip)
Heartwood Grue Bounce
Heartwood Skip
Act One Bounce
Maze/Wintergarden Skip (obsoletes Fast Maze, Fast Wintergarden Climb)
Faradeus Skip
Scrapyard Skip
Forge Skip (100% runs will do this just to collect Scroll 27)
Brazen Bull Skip
Magnetbridge Skip
Guardian Skip
Clerestory Skip
Oleg Fast Kill
Hamster Wheel Skips
Feast Hall Ladder Skip
Feast Hall Swing
Richard Bump
Tower Bridge Clip (Legacy version only)
Alternation Skip (Current version only)
Grand Design Skip (Current version only)
Grand Design Warp
Faster Rock Breaking
Guerickes Orb Pause Buffering
Oleg Cutscene Control (obsoletes Back In Time: Orb Defeat to Scroll Vault and incorporates Scrolls Vault Skip)
Dungeon Skip (obsoletes Dungeon Bounces, Dungeon Escape Skip)
King Skip
Ende EBH (Any% after Treasure Room, 100% at Home)

Theorycrafting[]

Game mechanics knowledge that is not currently used during a run. Also contains new techniques currently being developed and precision techniques that may be TAS-only.

• Invisibility Glitch
• Ghost Ledge
• Slipping Jump Trigger
• Loaded vs. Spawned Character
• Memory Addresses
• Scene Index

Tool Assistance[]

Tools for run timing, saved game editing, and scripted input.

• TeslaTools
• TeslaSplit
• TAS