The Speedrunning Thread

[EtienneSM]

I remember I used to play stepmania with RB drums, had no clue you could hook up your NES controller and do the same thing. Pretty cool how he basically gave SM a shoutout, whoop whoop.

[Kibblre]

Someone beat me to it lol.

Great fire.

[Coolboyrulez0]

fro%

[darklordsarumon9]

Glitch% Im outta here

[Wafles]

Yoshis island glitches were hilarious

[tosh]

cetaka about to run Katamari Damacy
everyone get your butts onto the stream
http://www.twitch.tv/speeddemosarchivesda

[Dynam0]

Wish I could donate and give a shout-out during the run but no credit card

[shenjoku]

Originally Posted by EtienneSM

I remember I used to play stepmania with RB drums, had no clue you could hook up your NES controller and do the same thing. Pretty cool how he basically gave SM a shoutout, whoop whoop.

someone was playing SM? I hopped on the middle of the yoshi's island 100% so I guess I missed a lot, including the fire D:

[Kibblre]

Originally Posted by shenjoku

someone was playing SM? I hopped on the middle of the yoshi's island 100% so I guess I missed a lot, including the fire D:

Trihex plays SM on controller before his runs to warm up. He didn't do it at the marathon, he just mentioned it.

[~Zeta~]

[Coolboyrulez0]

good run dj ceTAKA

[Dynam0]

gj ceteker...u dun gud

[Charu]

I believe two people sent a donation shoutout to him. They didn't get read, oops.

[Wafles]

They get far too many donations to read I think

Something like 3500 total donations since it started. No way they could read all of them.

[FFR Pro 21]

Originally Posted by Wafles

They get far too many donations to read I think

Something like 3500 total donations since it started. No way they could read all of them.

There have been almost 4,500 donations made to the marathon so far.

[darklordsarumon9]

Jazz Jackrabbit soundtrack holy shit too good

[darklordsarumon9]

Omg jc a bomb

[Dynam0]

Not gonna lie I found the Quake run to be underwhelming...coolkid is really skilled at the game but I don't like how he was making quicksaves before hard tricks and restarting when he failed them. It's like watching people play on emulators ffs . Big part of speedruns is use of back-up strats and it's disappointing to see runners unable to finish a level when they mess a trick up.

[Wafles]

Pretty standard for Quake runners to use quicksaves to simply retry tricks. Backup strats don't really exist for that game, at least everyone I've seen run it just sticks to their route.

Its also the reason why Quake is kind of easy to get into. Pretty much anyone can grind out a sub 20 in only a couple weeks.

[Dynam0]

Oh I know it's the standard in that community. Just makes for really unimpressive marathon material to see someone literally resetting to an earlier point in the level when the actual time loss is so insignificant that back-up strats should be used instead. Imagine Zoast making a quicksave before going for the full-halfie in Super Metroid or Siglemic trying cannonless for five minutes because he has no back-ups lol. I suppose it's just an awful feature in old fps games that makes it great for practice but terrible for no-reset runs.