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The cave of bad dreams can indeed be skipped thanks to my favourite speedrunner(FrozenFrog) for uploading a video about it.If done correctly,this strat will save you from visiting the menhir hills twice and possibly the cave of bad dreams.This strat looks really difficult to pull off so probably practise it to get better.This is a speedrunning strat.It involves a boatload of glitches to perform including one you are familiar with.The music in the video is made from "Jericho's law"This happened in Rayman revolution(Ps2 remake of rayman 2 the great escape) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdsBetVzMjc

Wow, so turning the shell around can be used to dry-run the Clark cutscene? Interesting! I wonder if this works in the original.
Actually, I remember I once turned the shell around in the open area where the paths diverge, and when I went back into the corridor my health drained to zero, but the game just hung instead of giving me a Try Again.

Pretty sure it's Rayman Revolution only. This game is much more broken than the other versions. I know Frozen and this video is almost 2 years old. Cave of Bad Dreams is still in the latest speedruns.

A lot more can be skipped than just Cave of Bad Dreams. Here's Rayman Revolution completed in under 13 minutes by Frozen_Frog:

This does not work in the other versions of Rayman 2(especially the 3ds version)The reason is because the games have deathtriggers everywhere in OOB areas.(out of bounds)

Fair enough. But has anyone else had that thing happen to them with the health bar draining to zero?

That never happened to me.Here are more skippable things that you probably did not know was skippable.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOQ76oFtGYY This one is really useless but it looks fun to try out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9HD6_sY8doThis can only be done in rayman revolution In the echoing caves of rayman revolution, you can actually skip the four switches(This one is really difficult.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKV2KKHEAOo These strats are performed by yours truly:Frozenfrog(speedrunner)

That second one looks like what I described, although it's triggered in a completely different way.

Amusing, isn't it? You can try to do it in Rayman 2. But it might not be possible and what you said was actually a new thing to see.I never seen going the opposite way in menhir hills when riding the walking shell kills you and makes the game freak out.I only thought it was not possible because of this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f9DzEic_pw In order for this skip to happen;you must perform these glitches on the first visit of the menhir hills.Video made by one of my favourite youtubers :Saestrol

Ah yes, I remember watching that video before I even joined this place. Anyway, I made a video of the glitch I was talking about: I think I've reasoned it out though. There's probably a trigger at the exit of that corridor that deletes Rayman and the shell and passes control to a new Rayman+shell entity. Going back activates that trigger again, but this time there's no new entity, so the game's left with no player character, which it believes means Rayman has died. But that doesn't explain why the Try Again doesn't appear…

(BTW I've also posted a little video on the Fairy Glade in the Rayman 2 thread.)

Aw Hell!!! I never seen that before. That is a really weird glitch. I also watched your video in the Rayman 2 thread. You used a software called 'Raytwol', correct? It seems you were sunk Since you moved the purple lums that were supposed to be used for the continuation of the rendevous area that is connected to the echoing caves in the fairy glade. Moon jump cheat never disappoints.....

Well, if I had been able to move the third purple lum I could've short-circuited the whole thing. But no, these things have to be difficult.

PluMGMK wrote:Well, if I had been able to move the third purple lum I could've short-circuited the whole thing. But no, these things have to be difficult.

It was cool while it lasted though. I went to try that glitch myself and it is in fact, true. Here are Screenshots for results: