Fanfare Skip

Fanfare Skip is a glitch that allows players to skip most of the cutscene that typically follows collection of a Pendant. Since it requires a misslotted Somaria block in order to perform, it is banned from runs that ban Misslotting (all NMG and RMG Speedruns).

Loose Explanation

First of all, when learning this trick it's super helpful if you go into the Practice Hack and turn on the Ancillae Super Watch (Menu > HUD Extras > Super Watch > Ancillae). This will draw the relevant values on your HUD.

Two main conditions need to be met in order for the fanfare to be skipped after collecting the pendant:

• Slots 0-4 are all filled at the time the Pendant is grabbed.
• A Somaria block is misslotted 8 slots higher than the pendant. Typically this means loading the pendant in slot 1 (it wants to spawn in slot 3 by default, so this requires some manipulations), and misslotting a Somaria block into slot 9, but a setup that uses slot 0 pendant and slot 8 somaria block would also work.

To execute this, we're gonna look at the left column of numbers in the Ancillae Super Watch:

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• We want the search index to be greater than 09 so that we can create a slot 9 Somaria Block. Usually this is set prior to the trick, possibly even several rooms/screens ahead of time.
• We want the pendant (object 29) to be loaded in slot1. Normally when you grab the Heart Container, a Heart ancilla (object 22) is briefly loaded into slot 4 while the heart rises above Link's head and the pendant ancilla (object 29)is immediately loaded one slot below in slot 3. By having slots 3 and 4 occupied before touching the Heart Container, we can have the container and the pendant spawn in slots 2 and 1 respectively, which is what we want.
• We want to create a somaria block (object 2C) in slot 9.
• We want slots 0-4 filled. A common way to do this is just to pop a normal somaria block, which is convenient because we'll already have somaria equipped for creating a slot 9 block. With the pendant occupying slot 1, the beams from a somaria block will fill all the other front slots.

Applications

Armos Fanfare Skip

Glan Method

Technique:

• Immediately after firing the 18th arrow on Armos, menu to Cane of Somaria and place a block roughly in the center of the room. This isn't very precise at all, we just want to give the beams a bit of room to travel when we pop the block later. The object 2C should now be in slot 4.
• Menu to Lamp and use the lamp just before grabbing the Heart Container. If you time it well, you can still collect the Heart Container asap, but if you wanted to be safe, you could stand to the side and wait for the Container to spawn in, and then lamp before walking into it. If you do this sequence correctly, a lamp flame ancilla (object 2F) will load into slot 3, the Heart Container ancilla (object 22) will load into slot 2, and the pendant ancilla (object 29) will spawn into slot 1.
• After collecting the container, move towards the center of the room where the pendant will fall. Lamp twice while facing north to set the search index to 0D.
• Press and hold B to hold a sword charge. Sparkle ancillae will appear in slots 7-9.
• Pause and menu back to Somaria. It's way easier if you do this pause after you've started holding your sword.
• Out of the menu, pop the initial somaria block you set and immediately place another one. The beams from the first block will occupy slots 0, 2, 3, and 4, and the 2nd block you place will be loaded into slot 9. If done correctly, you'll catch the pendant and skip the fanfare.