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Add note about Balloon Pod
=== Masamune Drop ===
* There is a save room near the first Black Panther you encounter in the Alucard Any% Saturn route, and the Black Panther's rare drop is a very powerful weapon called the Masamune
* In [[SOTN/Alucard_Any%_Saturn | Alucard Any% Saturn]], a lucky drop of the Masamune can save minutes off of a run
* Normally, the Masamune has a roughly 1 in 300 chance of dropping from a Black Panther
* With the manipulation, it instead becomes a frame-perfect trick with the right setup
#* Audio cue: Begin your wingsmash input before the 5th note of the song plays, releasing just after the 5th note begins
#* Visual cue: Begin your wingsmash input as the cluster of clouds coming down the left side reaches the corner of the stone wall
# Let Alucard fly straight to the right, killing both the Balloon Pod and Black Panther
* Right around the correct frames is a cluster of item drops and critical hits that you can use to tell if you are close
** A $50 Bag means you were 1 frame off
** A crit on the Black Panther means you were 2 frames off
* NOTE: Alucard's Luck stat does not ultimately matter for this setup
* NOTE: Killing the Balloon Pod gives you 2 frames (exactly 4 frames apart from one another) that will yield a Masamune drop instead of just 1 frame, possibly due to a fortunate interaction involving crits on the Balloon Pod consuming some of the RNG
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