eggplant run

Salix Babylonika

a very impressive task is accomplished. Recommended watch for people who like watching hardcore gameplay even if you're not necessarily into Spelunky.

Salix Babylonika

for the record (it's not explicitly stated I don't think) this was livecasted, and is a recording of that live broadcast.

glennmagusharvey

You can run UNDER the ghost now?  And ABOVE it in a two-high hallway?

Obā-san

what was he doing with the ghost there on the first level?

Salix Babylonika

Pangur Bán said:

what was he doing with the ghost there on the first level?

Letting the ghost pass over gems ("ghosting" them) turns them into diamonds which are worth more.

I wasn't there for the entire livestream but I believe he bought the Ankh (which costs $50,000) instead of killing the shopkeepers and just taking it. So he'd have needed the extra money.

glennmagusharvey said:

You can run UNDER the ghost now?  And ABOVE it in a two-high hallway?

If you're really really good, yes.

glennmagusharvey

I'm pretty sure running under the ghost such that you're overlapping a portion of the ghost's sprite was not possible in the original.  Even barely touching the ghost's sprite wouldn't work.

So they probably shrank the ghost's hitbox a little.

Salix Babylonika

Spelunky HD isn't a port of the original, it's a complete remake.

So I wouldn't say they shrunk it more that the hitbox is simply smaller as a matter of circumstance.