this just raises so many questions about what the hell is going on. I get parts of it, but there are too many gaps and oddly specific things that I wonder if you can shed some light on? 1. I get the crouch+camera thing is so you can interact with the world while having the camera open, therefore both opening the apparatus and taking a picture. But why is having the shield out necessary? 2. It seems the camera UI takes precedence over the apparatus cutscene, and my assumption is this: both take away your ability to open the menu, but the camera gives it back once the image is deleted and it closes. So now you can open the menu while the apparatus cutscene is setting up, which is good for reasons. Am I correct so far? 3. Now what about the "holding an item & quickly reopening" bit? Is that just a way to check if the timing of the first menu open was close enough? Or is there actual significance to it? 4. The other tutorials I saw instructed to watch a memory after the second menu open; it wouldn't play, but after closing the menu you have the apparatus active without being captured. I'm confused bc it looks like you just scrolled to the memories but never actually opened them? Am I just blind?? 5. But more generally, what does "watching" the memory do exactly? My guess would be that the apparatus and memories are both a similar cutscene type, and now they're again fighting for the same global flags or sth, and then the memory kinda ends the cutscene status without the apparatus logic ever being turned off. Again, is that anywhere close? 6. But what REALLY gets me is: how is this useful?? I get how the apparatus glitch is performed, and roughly how it works… but why does it do anything? Why does it persist "the state of being inside the shrine", or in the case of the heart glitch "the state of having full hearts", across savefiles?? The shrine flag I kinda half get, but what do the hearts have to do with the apparatus?? Are there shrines in the game that need to mess with the hearts & so this special handling was put into place for those, maybe?
