Mega Man X Sigma 1 Vile Text Skip

Mega Man X Sigma 1 Vile Text Skip

This is one of the more interesting tricks of Mega Man X speedruns. Essentially, what you do here is jump off of the ladder, then climb up the wall a bit, and dash jump into and through the door. Why? Because if you touch the floor, you start the cutscene with Zero and Vile. Once you get into the next room, you can move as soon as the textbox shows up. You need to get through the room and out the door with the textbox still on screen. Then, after the door closes, you dash forward, shooting a Rolling Shield (I'm not sure why this is necessary, but it is). As the screen is transitioning from left to right, hold start so that you will skip all of the text faster. If you don't do this as the screen transitions, and attempt to do it after the transition happens, you will soft lock (freeze) the game. Zero will be stuck mid-air and his mouth will never stop moving. If done correctly, Vile will skip the text prior to the first part of his fight and just start going after you to capture you. You will also skip a bit of Zero's text and whatnot. Then, once you're recharged, you hadoken Vile when he's slightly off screen, but just on enough to get hit by your hadoken. I assume you do this not only for speed, but the explosions occurring off screen would probably reduce lag (if explosions of a boss dying occur off screen, the SNES doesn't have to process the graphics of it).