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Speedrunning and Modding the Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer


In this post, I’ll talk about reverse engineering and modding rotu in order to optimize a speedrun. On the way, I’ll answer why cheat code books (remember those?) and websites have listed incomplete or inaccurate cheat codes for this game. I’ll also show some of the game’s debug features and a couple out of bounds glitches.

An example subtle observation that is made possible with this method is that Frozone’s ice glide does different damage depending on how long he is in contact with the enemy. Upgrade LevelFirst punchSecond punchThird punchFourth punchUpgrade 15101520Upgrade 27152230Upgrade 310203040 Note: Fourth punch does insane damage on frozen enemies. Some others dev cheat codes haven’t been documented by any site that I know of include “CA”, “CB”, “CC”, … to warp to checkpoints in a level, and “X” “XX” “XXX” … to give different amounts of XP to the player.

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