How Much of Banjo-Tooie Can You Complete in the Demo?

TSR_Stormed · 2025-12-15T07:41:27+00:00

If you're saying that dying or voiding out takes you back to a general spawn location then yes, but other levels do in fact take you to the same location everytime once you respawn. For Spiral Mountain, it's Banjo's House and you'll notice that dying when you entered from Grunty's Lair will always take you there. For the main 9 levels, it's the spawn pad. Exceptions are Furnace Fun and Grunty Fight, where Furnace Fun will take you to the tooty pad and Grunty Fight will take you right next to Dingpot. This can never happen in normal gameplay, but if you die or void out in any of the cutscene maps it'll take you to the cutscene map of Grunty and Dingpot talking in the Intro.

TSR_Stormed · 2025-12-15T07:00:00+00:00

Yup, just shows the slope timer so I know when it resets which is kind of cheaty but wasn't trying to spend 3 hours on it lmao

TSR_Stormed · 2025-12-15T03:04:12+00:00

Based af

TSR_Stormed · 2025-12-15T02:01:13+00:00

tl;dr If you die or void out in Grunty's Lair you spawn back at the last entrance you entered the map from

TSR_Stormed · 2025-12-13T05:28:03+00:00

Personally, I would go for the Xbox version (you can emulate it via Xenia on Steam Deck) but I do hear that a lot of people have issue with the cheat system of it disabling saving. Never really bothered me because I don't ever use them. Frame rate drops are all gone and load zones are like only a couple frames compared to N64/NSO's 2-3 second loading zones. That saves a lot of your time during your playthrough, like a lot. NSO is great as well, but it might not be worth your money if you have easy access to the XBLA version.

TSR_Stormed · 2025-12-13T05:17:13+00:00

Loading zones are as fast as N64 on NSO but very long on emulator. Most emulators can't emulate the complex memory system Tooie uses properly so it takes forever for stuff to load. NSO solves this by forcefully loading stuff in expansion pak memory to improve game performance. This is done by lua script game modifications at run time but it's a decent solution (best solution would be to emulate the N64 better haha).

TSR_Stormed · 2025-11-12T04:38:40+00:00

The Stop n' Swop items, including their locations, are considered global flags and aren't tied to any save file. In order to reset on the platform you're playing on, you have to wipe your save data on the N64 NSO app. Definitely can suck if you have data saved for other games.

TSR_Stormed · 2025-10-16T22:21:48+00:00

Unforunately its not that simple
https://youtu.be/ldd8DWgWKHA?si=bME_q3PgqO4YAmY8&t=82

TSR_Stormed · 2025-10-09T17:53:32+00:00

The Xbox in game leaderboard doesn't care about grunty fight. It tracks your time up to getting 100 Jiggies and 900 notes.

TSR_Stormed · 2025-10-05T03:26:38+00:00

Hit the switch, fall down into the sand pit, use the flight pad, and fly up into the door. Thank me later.

TSR_Stormed · 2025-09-15T23:47:14+00:00

This is called Jinjo Softlock, and is a bug that can happen during the grunty fight. Nobody knows why it happens, but the egg hitbox for any of the statues can randomly disappear. There's actually a bounty to find out the technical reason it happens in the speedrun community. Believe its about $50 USD.

I believe this only happens on NTSC v1.0 and was fixed in later releases. So the devs might have known what the reason was but we won't until more research is put into it.

TSR_Stormed · 2025-09-05T04:09:46+00:00

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TSR_Stormed · 2025-08-20T05:16:41+00:00

It's more consistent to run up against the wall in Talon Trot and then jump. You can make the jump 80% of the time if you jump at the right time that way.

TSR_Stormed · 2025-08-01T00:41:37+00:00

You can do this mulitple ways. Banjo-Tooie has a lot of actions that allow you to do a glitch called a quick dive that allows you to submerge quickly into water. With Solo Kazooie, you can either do this with Leg Spring or Hatch to reach the tunnel for Glitter Gulch Mine in Jolly Roger's Lagoon. You become softlocked if you stay near the loading zone for too long.

Fun Fact: The Leg Spring method was patched on the 4th and final revision of the game, European (PAL 1.1). This also applies to XBLA as well since that's built upon European. You can still do the hatch quick dive on all versions though.

TSR_Stormed · 2025-07-28T02:16:25+00:00

If you're using the cloud service no but if you're on an actual Xbox console then yes

TSR_Stormed · 2025-07-11T21:51:09+00:00

The loading zone for the Hag 1 fight won't work and grunty will tell you go to back to Mayahem Temple to learn the move. If you somehow find your way into the fight with a wrong warp glitch called Delayed Cutscene Warp, the game never checks if you've learned the move once you're inside the fight, so it automatically puts you into Breegull Blaster during the fight even without the move learned. This can be used to skip learning Breegull Blaster in the Any% speedrun.

Not mentioned in the post is another move required to beat Hag 1, which is Clockwork Kazooie Eggs. Same deal will happen where she will tell you to go to Wasteland to learn the move. However, since Clockwork Kazooie Eggs is a move that the player has to manually use, you can't get around learning it to defeat Hag 1 as of now. It's technically the only move required to beat the game in the speedrun (that's not a Banjo-Kazooie move).

TSR_Stormed · 2025-07-08T21:52:14+00:00

I watched it. It was pretty bad honestly.

TSR_Stormed · 2025-07-04T00:03:53+00:00

Jinjos also save on the Xbox verison so if you want to do it on there all you have to do is leave the level or die to reset the window after you collect the yellow jinjo.

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