The Speedrunning Thread

**Reach** · 07-6-2014, 07:27 AM

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Thanks for the tips and videos. I'll probably never get terribly fast at this, given how difficult it is and how little time I actually have to practice, but it's fun none the less and helps me appreciate top tier runs a lot more haha

**Reincarnate** · 07-6-2014, 05:58 PM

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How's your MMX speedrun, Reach? (Any%)

**igotrhythm** · 07-6-2014, 06:12 PM

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Speaking of MMX1:

**Reach** · 07-11-2014, 07:04 AM

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Originally posted by Reincarnate

How's your MMX speedrun, Reach? (Any%)

40ish? (100%).

Honestly I don't remember exactly though because I haven't ran the game in a few years. My mario 64 was just over 20 minutes (16 star run). Was always really bad at using the bunny to get through the wooden door.

Don't have my SNES set up currently but think that I should, not sure I love the controller I'm using for speedrunning on emulator. It's alright, but the D pad isn't the most responsive and it makes hitting walljumps and stuff in SM a bit harder than it should be. I'm hitting stuff like alkatraz decently frequently now and skipping kraid here and there now which isn't bad.

Biggest hiccup now is Phantoon. It's not awful on emulator because I can just reload the fight but if I get a bad pattern I die a lot. I pick up an extra energy tank after Kraid but even then I always find I'm low on health and it makes me wanna not shine spark across the water to get into the ghost ship. It's also really hard to hit that little shit sometimes with X beam.

I think the thing I suck at the most right now is actually damage boosting. Just never seems to work. Shine sparking Draygon is pretty easy now and Ridley is alright assuming I pick up two extra energy tanks.

Did about an 8 minute Spore Spawn RTA for shits and giggles. I think I waste the most time on the long chamber climb before bomb because I randomly miss walljumps, which is is why I think I'll set up my SNES when I get time.

**shenjoku** · 07-11-2014, 01:37 PM

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Spore Spawn RTA is best category

I use it for warmups a lot since it's nice and quick.

Phantoon is where I lose a lot of time as well. I don't know the most up-to-date strategy since it requires memorizing exact movements and timings based on which pattern you get so it'll take a lot of practice to get it right every time. Even with the old strategy hitting the x-factor is really tough sometimes. I wouldn't worry too much about that though until much later. Just get good enough that you don't die to him and worry about speed later.

EDIT: We should organize some SM races with all the people on FFR that run it. Would be fun

**Reach** · 07-11-2014, 01:52 PM

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Would be fun.

Though w/o save states anything other than spore spawn RTA will be me dead at phantoon likely unless I skip the ghost ship shine spark and dick around a bit to keep my health up

i.e. I won't be much competition yet hahaha

**rushyrulz** · 07-11-2014, 03:48 PM

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Originally posted by Dynam0

.I play with a keyboard though so fast/precise wall-jumping might be a lot easier than with a SNES controller (I can execute The Climb relatively well and my best bomb time is about 5 mins flat).

I play SM64 with my keyboard and nobody can tell the difference :P

**shenjoku** · 07-11-2014, 04:04 PM

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Originally posted by Reach

Would be fun.

Though w/o save states anything other than spore spawn RTA will be me dead at phantoon likely unless I skip the ghost ship shine spark and dick around a bit to keep my health up

i.e. I won't be much competition yet hahaha

If nothing else it would be good practice for surviving without save states

Pretty sure I did that my first race. Spent a lot of time farming energy outside phantoon with those little atoms and the ghost by the green door.

**intensez** · 07-11-2014, 07:13 PM

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hi i don't post that much but i did a run of mario golf (??!!??) a week or two ago, was proud of it so i thought i'd share it here too. starts @ 1:02

video has a description with random details about this xd

**Reach** · 07-13-2014, 08:39 AM

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Thread was a good laugh: http://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/com...in_a_nutshell/

**igotrhythm** · 07-13-2014, 04:47 PM

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Not sure if predicting the future or designers getting inspiration from the cartoon

**shenjoku** · 07-13-2014, 06:20 PM

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Originally posted by Reach

Thread was a good laugh: http://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/com...in_a_nutshell/

lmao that's amazing.

**_Zenith_** · 07-13-2014, 07:51 PM

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I've been doing the speed runs on Rayman Origins (They implemented speedrunning into the game). Any of you also doing this?

**AutotelicBrown** · 07-13-2014, 07:56 PM

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Originally posted by _Zenith_

I've been doing the speed runs on Rayman Origins (They implemented speedrunning into the game). Any of you also doing this?

Wait, really? I'm actually into running a game like Rayman Origins, I'll check that out.

**_Zenith_** · 07-13-2014, 08:02 PM

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Yeah, it's fun and decently challenging. If you mess up and pop, you have to start all the way back at the starting point, so make sure you run with agile and a heart

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