The World's Hardest Game 4 any% glitched in 9:26 RTA (wr speedrun)

Watch this video with commentary here:    • The World's Hardest Game 4 any% glitched i...   This video is an improvement of nearly five minutes over my previous run:    • (former WR) The World's Hardest Game 4 any...   For a while now I've had plans to improve that run, with the optimal route for L4 and the new 1-C1 skip, plus some other small timesaves like stuff that other people found in 2-A1 and 4-A2, lavawalks in L5, and a deathpause in 1-A2 (different from the one in this video). My goal for this run would’ve been around sub 13. But then I discovered L1 coin door skip, which changed everything. No longer would the entire first half of the run be taken up by just one level. While I'm still not very fond of grinding lengthy runs, cutting out so much of the early game made it infinitely more bearable and fulfilling. So the coin door skip in L1 is based on a glitch that I've known about for several years, which I am now calling timestop (less descriptive than cutscene load or intangibility glitch but a lot more catchy). With this glitch I can enter the final room in the level without interacting with the checkpoint, which allows me to savewarp to the end. I had actually already tried something similar in L3 to skip C4/C3, but that ended up being slower. All the ingredients were practically there, it just took me a very long time to actually realize this. It wasn't until ‪@Jo560hs‬ released an early version of his whg4 mod, that my attention was brought to this area of L1. I tried this method to skip the coin door in the mod, and quickly realized I could apply this same method to the original game. Big shoutouts to Jo for creating a mod of this game, I get a lot of enjoyment out of applying all my glitch knowledge in a brand new environment. I'm not very hopeful on any other big discoveries to come out of this, but that doesn't really matter when it has already led to the biggest singular timesave in this game's history. Join the discord: twhg.info/discord 0:00 Level 1 2:30 2:33 Level 2 1:31 4:03 Level 3 2:26 6:30 Level 4 1:13 7:43 Level 5 1:47