WR Progression

Prince of Persia 2008 Any% WR Progression

Major events and breakthroughs

Date Event Link
13-Jun-2009 TI2ophy finds a way to glitch under the desert (ultimate glitch) YouTube
13-Jun-2009 TI2ophy finds warrior black gate skip YouTube
24-Feb-2016 Samabam finishes essentially the first run of the game with a time of 3:47:08 Discord
27-Oct-2016 Sam finds the first skip in the game since the segmented run Discord
28-Feb-2017 Sam uploads the first routing document for the game, which has some concepts relevant even today. Discord
3-Mar-2017 Sam announces completion of the reroute Discord
6-Mar-2017 Sam improves his time with the new route to 3:38:38 Discord
25-Sep-2017 drep discovers dupe glitch Discord
27-Sep-2017 Sam completes the first dupe glitch run with a time of 3:23:14 Discord
30-Oct-2017 vpop does an NMG run, creating the category Discord
2-Nov-2017 drep finished the first Any% Hacked run, creating the category Discord
5-Nov-2017 Sam posts the first draft of an All Seeds route Discord
26-Nov-2017 Sam finishes the first All Seeds run of the game clocking in at 5:14:28 Discord
28-Jan-2018 vpop gets a new WR of 3:32:07 using a a lot of small new skips Discord
3-Feb-2018 drep starts experimenting with ultimate glitch in desert, theorizing barrier skip Discord
3-Feb-2018 drep finds alchemist black gate skip Discord
31-Mar-2018 epicdudeguy finds corner clipping Discord
18-Jul-2018 vpop gets the first sub 3:30 run Discord
19-Aug-2018 drep discovers the first part of barrier skip Discord
18-Nov-2018 drep finds barrier skip! Discord
6-Dec-2018 Sam gets the first WR with barrier skip with a time of 3:12:44 Discord
9-Dec-2018 Sam gets the first sub 3 hour run Discord
26-Feb-2019 Sam finds AI break first fight skip Discord
30-May-2019 Smathlax gets the first sub 2:40 run which is also his first WR Discord
24-Jun-2019 Smath brings up the idea of warrior blueless Discord
27-Jun-2019 drep finds warrior blueless airwalk! Discord
5-Jul-2019 epicdudeguy proposes a reroute that cuts 25 light seeds using BWA
Sam later figures out the timesave would be more than 6 mins Discord
Discord
7-Jul-2019 Smath gets a new WR of 2:30:37 with new route using BWA Discord
8-Jul-2019 Smath breaks the 2:30 barrier with a time of 2:27:48 Discord
26-Jul-2019 drep stumbles upon and describes drepwarp, but no recording Discord
30-Apr-2020 Smath breaks the 2:20 barrier with a time of 2:19:17 Discord
7-May-2020 Smath discovers Ledgefall Discord
14-Jul-2020 Smath finds an airwalk to reach palace rooms without blue plate Discord
28-Oct-2020 Smath finds the highest DPS combo in combat Discord
1-Jan-2021 Smath manages to recreate the drepwarp in temple Discord
13-Nov-2021 Smath gets death storage by accident while doing a Hacked% run
Later, he manages to replicate and document it Discord
Discord
14-Nov-2021 GMP recreates the Warrior death storage Discord
18-Nov-2021 GMP finds writable x,y,z coords to use in Cheat Engine Discord
19-Nov-2021 GMP finds safe spot coords to use in Cheat Engine Discord
27-Nov-2021 GMP finds plate booleans to use in Cheat Engine Discord
12-Dec-2023 GMP releases the first version of calculator Discord

Death Storage brainstorming

Date Runner Type Description
13-Nov-2021 Smath Breakthrough Gets the temple door clip version (p-storage), manages to replicate
13-Nov-2021 Smath Idea Place where you last acquire lightseed
13-Nov-2021 GMP Idea Related to Warrior
13-Nov-2021 GMP Idea Going further in BWA airwalk
13-Nov-2021 Smath Idea Game stores which area to load on death, the glitch stops updating that storage
13-Nov-2021 Smath Idea Longfall seems related to death storage
14-Nov-2021 Smath Inference Doing Temple door clip twice or being first try is not needed
14-Nov-2021 Sam Idea Dying in corruption when jumping into warrior fight cutscene
14-Nov-2021 Smath Idea Temp death storage becomes permanent going through a loading screen
14-Nov-2021 Smath Idea Going into plate realms loses death storage temporarily
14-Nov-2021 GMP Idea Turning the temple lever changes death storage at Warrior
14-Nov-2021 GMP Idea Healing coronation hall might lose death storage because elika is unstuck
14-Nov-2021 Smath Inference Walked part Cavern and lost permanent death storage
14-Nov-2021 Smath Inference Finds a point in stream VOD where he has p-storage without any loading screen
14-Nov-2021 Smath Idea Temple might be a safe area where temp storage can be used mutliple times
14-Nov-2021 GMP Breakthrough Replicate Warrior fight version (t-storage)
14-Nov-2021 GMP Inference Teleporting to temple still loses death storage after one use
14-Nov-2021 GMP Idea t-storage is not consistent, does it depend on how the fight goes?
14-Nov-2021 GMP Inference Idea - using Elika during the fight activates t-storage. Refuted in testing.
19-Nov-2021 GMP Breakthrough GMP finds safe spot coords to use in Cheat Engine
19-Nov-2021 GMP Inference Healing CH after getting t-storage doesn’t seem to lose it
19-Nov-2021 GMP Idea t-storage seems to work consistently on first boot of the game
19-Nov-2021 GMP Inference Combat deaths are unrelated to death storage
21-Nov-2021 Smath Inference Palace rooms fight 1 resets death storage
23-Nov-2021 Sam Idea Does canyon AI break give death storage?
24-Nov-2021 GMP Inference Double jumping into city gate entrance helps not losing storage
24-Nov-2021 GMP Inference Doing the warrior method after losing storage from temple method gives p-storage (aka temple method gives p-storage-storage)
24-Nov-2021 Smath Idea t-storage is related to corruption+cutscence. Could work in alchemist fight.
25-Nov-2021 GMP POC Plateless warrior proof of concept using death storage and drepwarp
27-Nov-2021 GMP Inference Managed to preserve death storage until phase 3 in palace rooms
22-Jan-2022 GMP Inference Don’t need plate realms to get p-storage (but still thought loading is needed)
31-Aug-2023 GMP Inference Corruption loses death storage, initially we directly get p-storage at temple lever
01-Sep-2023 GMP Inference Finds properties of poo-storage at Cavern
26-Jul-2024 Smath Inference Healing Cavern clears all storage, c storage is coined
28-Jul-2024 Smath Inference Cavern gets rid of c and v storage, but coronation hall preserves it. Also endgame p-storage
6-Aug-2024 GMP Inference poo-storage location is hard coded, doesn’t override p storage
10-Aug-2024 GMP Breakthrough Reverses assembly code relevant to death storage
12-Aug-2024 GMP Breakthrough Finds mechanism of c-storage
17-Aug-2024 Smath Final Finalised the definition that we use until today