Went ahead and skipped the first item loss earlier this week:
Yeah, great. How useless. Anyway, been looking into the second item loss (which I was able to skip by editing my position in Dolphin).
- The trigger is the cutscene where you land on Tallon; you lose your items again the frame it starts.
- The trigger is to the left of where you save on the ship. It's actually pretty small, which is kind of annoying to think about.
- Your location is set as soon as the room loads, which is during the "Tracking on enemy target has been lost" text. So, basically, find a way to change your position during that text so you get out of the cutscene trigger's range. Good luck!
- If you save at the ship, the landing cutscene will play if you reload the file. So, if a miracle happens and ILS is found, don't save there.
Also, keeping your items itself wouldn't help in low%. Unlike Echoes and Corruption, which simply do "increase your percent by 1 whenever you touch an item", the percent in Prime is based on what you have. This means that avoiding both item losses would start you off with 8% (3 Missiles / Morph Ball / Bombs / Charge / Varia / Grapple), with more stuff than you need for low%.
Now, it would still help in a different way: you can go back and activate the Tallon item loss at any time, and it gets rid of everything you have. The major thing is that you don't actually need to have the artifacts, you just need to have collected them at some point... You could get Truth, the two in Magmoor, and probably IS Sun. Missiles could also be skipped by going ahead and destroying everything that requires them, AFAIK. There's the major issue of whether the artifact losing would be considered legitimate, though.
On a random note, with percent being "based on what you have", it assumes that 4 max PBs = you have the main PB. Which means that getting all 4 expansions and not the main PB will add only 1% to your total. lol Retro. Also, if it's based on what you have, why doesn't the Phazon Suit count...?
By the way, Missiles cap at 250 and PBs at 8, and if you go above them with codes then they're reduced to their normal cap as soon as you so much as get a refill. Anyone claiming to have gotten 101% is an idiotic liar, it's physically impossible without codes, collecting an upgrade or missile a second time wouldn't do a damn thing in the end.
Yeah, great. How useless. Anyway, been looking into the second item loss (which I was able to skip by editing my position in Dolphin).
- The trigger is the cutscene where you land on Tallon; you lose your items again the frame it starts.
- The trigger is to the left of where you save on the ship. It's actually pretty small, which is kind of annoying to think about.
- Your location is set as soon as the room loads, which is during the "Tracking on enemy target has been lost" text. So, basically, find a way to change your position during that text so you get out of the cutscene trigger's range. Good luck!
- If you save at the ship, the landing cutscene will play if you reload the file. So, if a miracle happens and ILS is found, don't save there.
Also, keeping your items itself wouldn't help in low%. Unlike Echoes and Corruption, which simply do "increase your percent by 1 whenever you touch an item", the percent in Prime is based on what you have. This means that avoiding both item losses would start you off with 8% (3 Missiles / Morph Ball / Bombs / Charge / Varia / Grapple), with more stuff than you need for low%.
Now, it would still help in a different way: you can go back and activate the Tallon item loss at any time, and it gets rid of everything you have. The major thing is that you don't actually need to have the artifacts, you just need to have collected them at some point... You could get Truth, the two in Magmoor, and probably IS Sun. Missiles could also be skipped by going ahead and destroying everything that requires them, AFAIK. There's the major issue of whether the artifact losing would be considered legitimate, though.
On a random note, with percent being "based on what you have", it assumes that 4 max PBs = you have the main PB. Which means that getting all 4 expansions and not the main PB will add only 1% to your total. lol Retro. Also, if it's based on what you have, why doesn't the Phazon Suit count...?
By the way, Missiles cap at 250 and PBs at 8, and if you go above them with codes then they're reduced to their normal cap as soon as you so much as get a refill. Anyone claiming to have gotten 101% is an idiotic liar, it's physically impossible without codes, collecting an upgrade or missile a second time wouldn't do a damn thing in the end.