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Released in November 2001 along with the movie, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone gave fans the opportunity to discover the many secrets of Hogwart's. Collect beans for Fred and George, find cards of famous witches and wizards, and complete spell challenges that further you along the path to facing you-know-who.

 

Best time: 2:06:04 by Ben 'Mkt2015' Fichter on 2005-07-31, done in 4 segments.

Author's comments:

There is only one huge mistake in this run and it's 2/3 of the way through the game. While I'm trying to get ingredients for Snape, I tried to shoot this thing from afar and missed several times. This worked in practice, but oh well.

I did not practice each segment a lot because I figured the game was easy anyway and since the puzzles are easy a person can practically figure things out on the fly. At first I thought of doing the whole game in one segment since I have an external 120 gig but sending information to it slowed down Fraps considerably, so I settled for four segments. Quidditch is the only random thing...so as long as I was able to get the snitch relatively easily, I kept the segment.

Several interesting things:

1. During a practice of segment one during the first Peeves fight something glitched and Peeves no longer moved. I have no idea why this happened.

2. While getting the ingredients for Snape the platforms that go in and out of the wall would sometimes stay where they were. I do not know what causes this, but it helped in that segment...made it probably twenty or more seconds faster since I didn't have to wait for them to come out of the wall.

3. During a practice of segment 3 Mrs. Norris would fail to jump up to a bookcase allowing me to traverse the whole thing without being seen. This glitch happened several times but the segment I kept it didn't happen.

4. I only give beans to Fred and George twice for a total of 50 beans and you still get to see the ending.

5. You can move Harry during certain cutscenes but you won't be able to see him move. This is advantageous but I only did this once in the whole run, and it was on accident...I simply held down a button, getting ready for the cutscene to be over.

Hopefully I'll be able to do Chamber of Secrets some time and Prisoner of Azkaban.

Feel free to improve this run.

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