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Summary

Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land is a remake of the NES title Kirby's Adventure. It was released on the Nintendo GBA in 2002, and on Wii U Virtual Console in 2014.

Version Differences

Kirby's Adventure vs. Nightmare in Dream Land

English vs. Japanese

There are two main differences between the English and Japanese versions that are significant for speedrunning

Soft reseting is around 0.5s faster on the Japanese version
The Japanese version has a bug where if you combine your discarded ability with 2 other enemies holding abilities, the mix roulette will always start 1 ability after your discarded ability. On English, your discarded ability is completely ignored.

There are no known differences between the US and EU versions of the game.

Wii U VC

Wii U VC has a few differences compared to playing on Console. There is a gray filter to help protect players eyes from the flashing affects, as well the flashing effects of midbosses and bosses being mostly removed. This means each time you kill a boss, you save time on Wii U VC. That being said Wii U VC has slower load times, and also runs at a slower framerate. This means Wii U VC is overall less than a second faster than console versions.

Framerates

Knidl Framerate comparison by swordsmankirby

Loading times

KNIDL 60 door test Master

Rules & Categories

Emulator Rules

The only allowed emulators are mGBA and BizHawk with mGBA core. Runs using these must also use the BIOS file, and show the GBA startup screen via a hard reset before or after the run.

Movement & Tech

Jumping

Your speed is barely faster while in air compared to just running on the floor. The difference is extremly minimal unlike Kirby & the Amazing Mirror.

Sliding off edges

By pressing Down+A (or Down+B), Kirby will preform a slide. Sliding speed starts off fast and gradually slows down. By sliding near an edge, you can cancel the slide meaning you get a speed boost from the beginning of the slide while skipping the slower part of the slide. The only real disadvantage is that you need to restart your dash once touching the floor, but generally you want to slide off edges as much as possible with most abilities.

Eaten Inputs

There's two Primary ways your inputs will get eaten in Knidl.

Trying to do anything during hitlag
Trying to jump while turning around around as normal Kirby (? Fact check)

Ability Tech

Wheel

The most used ability in Knidl. Fastest in horizontal mobility.

Wheel Cancel

Wheel Cancel Turnaround(?)

wtf is the name of this tech?

Reverse Bonk

You always bonk away from the direction you are facing. By turning before bonking off a wall, you will bounce forward allowing you to reach locations otherwise impossible to reach without floating.

Hi-Jump

Best vertical mobility and high damage output.

Hi-Jump Cancel

To use Hi-Jump, press B. If you want to cancel your Hi-Jump you can press B again to immediately start falling. You won't be able to use Hi-Jump again until you touch the ground again.

Also shown in this gif, you can do a short hop before using hi-jump by sliding your fingers from A to B. This grants you a bit more extra height before you begin to slow down.

Hi-Jump Hitbox

Hi-Jump has a both a strong and weak hitbox. HiJump's strength depends on how close you are to the target.

This gif uses Autofire in Bizhawk

Ball

Burning

UFO

Mixing

Goal Game Info

Knidl's goal game is simple: Press A or B the moment Kirby touches the cloud. Optimally you want to jump on the earliest possible frame, but you have 3 frames to get a standing 7 which is still good. The 4th frame will be a climbing 6, which is a long animation. Since you can use both A or B for the goal game, a common strategy is to slide your finger across A and B. This way you essentially have two chances on hitting the earliest possible frame.

Below is a table with information on how much time you lose depending on how late you jump off the cloud.

Frame	Cloud	Frames lost
1st	7 (Fast)	0
2nd	7 (Mid)	11
3rd	7 (Slow)	22
4th	6 (Climb)	96
5th	6 (Fast)	15

Route Information & Guides

Stage Table

Meta Knightmare

Level Editor Information

Map Deluxe

Cool Ass Dedede Gif