Even as a TAS, your mastery of this game is ridiculously evident! Very cool to watch after my paltry non-TAS run of emulator minor to moderate state save abuse where I still struggled. Major respect!
Yes, the bonus levels must be done for the game to count. Even with the 75 Kremkoins trick, the game doesn't count how you got them, but if you did the bonus stages.
If I ever get a chance to beat this game 102% (Which I never will since the bonus rooms are extremely hard to find) I'll take you to Krocadile Kore for the true and original ending.
Unlock all 75 coins. It is intentionally programmed into the game to unlock all coins, but it unintentionally allows a time save in speedruns not by having all of the coins, but by allowing a conversation that cannot be skipped normally to be skipped.
@@nicorido 2 more years later.... Its a cheat code activated with a sequence of button inputs. You can find these cheat codes on the internet. And if you grew up playing the game before the internet, you'd have to find it in a gaming magazine like Tips & Tricks.
No, there are 75, you need 15 for each golden barrel and there is one of those barrels in every world (7 in total) except the first and the last one, so you end up with 5 golden barrels.