The Speedrunning Thread
 

After 50 pages of teh urn and some discussion over whether or not this should get its own thread, I figured "fuck it, this seems lively enough" and so here we are.

Tips? Tricks? Streams? Vids? Jizzing in your pants? Put 'em here. TAS is welcome here as well.

Streams:

rushyrulz: http://www.twitch.tv/rushyrulz (SM64)
YoshL: http://www.twitch.tv/djdai (Banjo Tooie)
DarkbearX: Hoo boy. http://www.speedrunslive.com/profiles/#!/dbx/1 http://www.twitch.tv/shmus (Super Metroid, Cave Story)
Remederp: http://www.twitch.tv/remedy1502/ (SM64, Tony Hawk Pro Skater)
Cetaka: http://www.twitch.tv/doughyguy92/ (Katamari)
Fluttershy: http://www.twitch.tv/DanMeister1234 (Super Monkey Ball 1-2)
intensez: http://www.twitch.tv/ferrarizz
danceflashrevo: http://www.twitch.tv/r3cebarnett/ (Rayman 3, Paint)
Wafles: http://twitch.tv/WaflesSMO (Rogue Legacy, MMX2, Super Meat Boy)
AlexDestructions: http://www.twitch.tv/alexdest (Spyro The Dragon 1-3)
Macgravel: http://www.twitch.tv/snes_wes (Legend of the Mystical Ninja)
Arbliterator: http://www.twitch.tv/arbliterator He runs a lot of games.
customstuff: http://www.twitch.tv/itscustom (SM64 70 star)

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speedjizzing?

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Might as well put it here. I'm currently rewatching my favorite playaround TAS of all time. After having played this game for so long during my youth, I can definitely say it is a blast seeing it get destroyed. There's so many good parts:

SNES International Superstar Soccer Deluxe (USA) in 15:24.38 by Marcokarty

What's your favorite SR/TAS?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfM2-L7f1MA

Random TAS of Street Fighter Zero/Alpha 3. I love the playaround TAS videos

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Well that's new. I never really understood the idea behind fighting playarounds that much anyway but I really enjoyed this one.

The Sagat and E. Honda streak is absolutely absurd haha. Dat Balrog juggle.

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He does some funny bugs too, like the one with Guy haha

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Anyone else speedrun SM64? :D

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nope, just you.

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Don't you have a 70 star race to be in, rushy? Kappa

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i think remedy speedruns sm64. anyone speedrun smw? im pretty sure minion does, but i was just wondering if anyone else here is any good at it.

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http://www.twitch.tv/djdai/c/1963708

I have the fastest recorded run of banjo-tooie :D

P.s. first post could have streamers + games they run mebbe

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just won a SM64 bingo race :)

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What recording equipment do you guys use? lately i've been playing around with time trial-ish runs of Rush 2

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Moltov apparently had no idea he could cutscene skip with bombchus~

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XSplit

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I'm #1 on speedrunslive for minesweeper and cat planet.

lol

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I can't even get on team SRL -.-
I guess I should race more. I usually only do independent runs.
btw, stream link in my signature if you wanna follow I'd love you eternally~

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Team SRL upped its reqs recently

iirc, it's 25 races and at least 1 each month

p.s. http://twitch.tv/djdai follow and I will also be eternally grateful

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I've watched your stream before yoshl, don't think I followed though. If not, I will right now :P. I do like watching Banjo runs :P

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Yea, I'll definitely try to get into more races now that I'm more consistent/confident in my general gameplay. It's also fun to beat people with controllers :D.

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I used to do 16 star SM64 runs.

I can beat Megaman X in under 1 hr (50 minutes is about as fast as I can go). I used to practice that one a LOT. X2 I can beat under an hour as well but barely.

I have a save in Final Fantasy 7 at the bottom of Northern Crater @ 8:58, which is probably my best RPG run. I don't know how fast people have gone, but I put a lot of time into that one (it's pretty much a minimum level run since I never level up anywhere ever other than exp from bosses)

Final Fantasy 9 -> Excalibur 2 in 11 hours. I didn't put as much effort into this. Sub 10 hours is probably completely possible, I leveled up a bit in a couple spots just to make things easier for myself, but it's mostly not necessary since I abuse limit glove basically, very overpowered.

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p.s. rushy you're my 250th follower <3

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I'll edit them in if you bastards would link 'em. Plus there's already a stream thread in FFR Events.

As for my experiences with speedrunning...meh, still noob at it. Can't even get under 7h30m on Pokemon Ruby (Wattson and Norman can suck 37 dicks each)

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I don't really do speedruns, but reading this thread is making me want to try something with PS2 Shinobi. Probably can't put together a great start-to-finish run, but could probably get a fantastic level time sum with a lot of retries.

But yeah I like watching people do them and I'm impressed with the optimization, but I don't like playing games to see how much of them I can skip, with the exception of games that are explicitly about that: minesweeper, Mario Kart, etc.

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http://www.speedrunslive.com/profiles/#!/dbx/1
www.deertier.com
www.thisistherun.com <- good site

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I broke out my XBL Arcade copy of Hydro Thunder Hurricane last night. Somehow pulled a sub-1:52 out of my ass on Storming Asgard Gauntlet. That shit is hard as hell to optimize because there's a whole bunch of swells after the first checkpoint that eat through your boost gauge. 1:50 might be possible if I learn how to do the home stretch.

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I used to run Mega Man X as well. My best recorded time on an old PC for X2 was around 46:30 D;

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I was randomly browsing SRL one night and I did see you playing Cat Planet. I told everyone in the TB chat and they were like "wait he speed runs?"

None of us knew and TB has a lot of people who wait for teh urhns.

Also we should keep a list of recommended streamers that aren't just FFR users.

Add links for say Siglemic, Cosmo, Moltov, ect (to name a few of my personal favorites)

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I swear to god, Patashu is in every fucking srl chat I go to.

And I don't just visit the same five guys over and over again.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUgf-K2K154 i love moltov ^_^_^_^_^_^_^;; best streamer siggy and cosmo too love em all top tier

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bitch plz

I pussy out in X2 and waste time getting and filling some health containers so that I don't die in sigma's fortress hah. I think ~55 is the fastest I could ever get it.

Game is fun as hell to speed run though.

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I'd NEVER seen that before oh my god my ears

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And I thought I was alone hah.

I might get into the speedrunning bandwagon and start helping on planning some more obscure titles (basically, I'll try running some crappy games in the spirit of AwfulGDQ, like Quattro Adventure). Don't really know where to start though.

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somebody go speedrun Rascal ps1 game

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I also from time to time frequent speedrunslive to get my crave for random speedruns.

...

Hoping to see a marathon from them again some time. I love tuning in to those week long ones.

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Here's a good one too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nllqiar7cSk

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http://minesweeper.info/

do you even sweep

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lol i saw you pop in my stream, i even said hi, but you left

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This seems like a good idea, but then people will argue over whether someone deserves to be on "teh ilst" or not, which I feel would be counterproductive. Besides, these runners are well known enough that people can sniff around the interblag for the relevant links.

Also, anyone open to discussing tool-assisted runs in here, or are we keeping this to all skill?

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16th place on the world ranking~

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#1 sweeper US

in da hizzouse

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http://www.deertier.com/OneHundredPercentRT.aspx

Got second best time in world on sm 100% tonight. could wr if care enough maybe one day just not as fun as any%



edit: a trick i was satisfied to get. really tight super short speedball and a very tight springball http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...PRjVxQ#t=3839s

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Im starting to run jak and daxter 100%

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ask anyone in the #kbo crew how quickly I can ejaculate (lmfao)

been thinking about speedrunning Skies of Arcadia: Legends. I know the game inside and out. Maybe I could beat the current WR, which is 12 hours, 9 minutes.

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I speedrun Super Mario world, Tetris Attack and sometimes Bomberman 64

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Hey, I speedrun Tetris Attack too. Also, Pokemon Puzzle League and Tetris. I suck at Dr.Mario, but I'll still do 0-10. (and SM64)

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smw nice what category or categories

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Oh wow hey bomberman 64 I remember that game that's so cool Whats your best time ???

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I used to speedrun MMX and Doom -- both are a lot of fun to optimize

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trick withheld by the SM illuminati finally coming to life after years.


incredibly hard and precise, and the cost of failure is huge. but with practice really consistent. Even got it in an RTA. #metagame

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Interesting that the programmers didn't think someone would try to do that.

Welp, you learn something new every day.

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nowhere near what you have haha

sitting at 38.xx atm


also I do SMW any% (best is 12:35) and all castles (best is 57.xx)

my best tetris attack vhard is 9:52.08, Endless 50k is 2:30.xx

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dis trick

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have you tried doing orb at all on smw? my pb was almost exactly the same as yours before i learned how to do it. then i improved my pb by a full minute after learning it. and now i'm sitting at 11:08 as my pb. haven't tried any other categories yet though. i don't have the patience to do 96 exit and haven't practiced any other categories

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Recently I have been learning the paths for Amnesia Speedruns. My fastest time so far is 40:33 which was my second attempt ever. My goal is to get under 35. I will post my livestream when I start it again ^ _ ^

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what's orb?

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the glitch (idk how you perform it), that somehow gets the finish orb in your backup item box thing, and you use it at the beginning of castle 1

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I know you can get a finish orb when Yoshi eats a Chargin' Chuck (so sayeth the tool-assisted runners). Never beat SMW, though. Beating Morton's Castle was like winning the lottery for me.

Anyone here buy Hydro Thunder Hurricane for Xbox Live Arcade? Protip: Don't use Razorback on Seoul Stream Expert. The best path requires a shit ton of air control to nail, and it's very easy to lose speed while you get up to the shortcuts, particularly the one in the shopping mall. Cutthroat is a better choice, or Rad Hazard if you're a masochistic fuck that doesn't like driving in straight lines.

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I have a break for a week, so I'm gonna try to learn a real Zelda game (thinking a 2D one, probably one of the Oracle games) :D

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alttp or bust

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I have one of europe's best times on Megaman X however not recorded..
Plus it's way worse these days considering people found some new glitches and even a boss skip..

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http://deanyd.net/smw/index.php?title=Orb

http://deanyd.net/smw/index.php?title=Glitches

http://deanyd.net/smw/index.php?title=Main_Page

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video explanation of orb: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VwGJ65g6oI

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too Kryssstal for me

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Wait there's a boss skip in MMX?

I've whored that game six ways from sunday and I don't even know of this

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Also is there a way, somehow, to have a side-by-side speedrunning competition? Like video chat but with two people's screens up at once, speeding the same game etc?

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You can open up two videos or live streams in different windows and just start them at the same time. People do that pretty often to stream races or show a comparison between their live run and the WR.

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Ahhhh apparently Armored Armadillo in the boss gauntlet stage is skippable

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Hence why i havent spent time learning it either, takes too much perfect. Plus it's at the very end of the game ;_;

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'atta boy Garri, fuccen 30

and dat clutch Draygon fight too w0..

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If u weren't there to see 30 where were u

thats history bros

dklsfjdasklfjasfklj k230 30 3030303030

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Anybody who likes Final Fantasy speedruns might like to know of a marathon happening this coming weekend: http://www.crystalsforlife.ca/

Honestly this site is like a million times better organized than any of the main SDA ones. All relevant info is up top and you can organize the stream/chat/donate windows any way you feel like. Twitch viewing is also an option and you can even keep me company in the chat again. I guess they're just going to do it via Poxnor's personal stream rather than making up a new one for the marathon so subscribe or whatever all the cool kids do nowadays: http://www.twitch.tv/poxnor

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minish cap?? I've played through it once(blind race). Pretty easy game to learn apparently. It's basically a lot of rolling. Only major glitch is the ocarina glitch, which isn't that hard to do. I kinda wanna get into this game. ^-^

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I'm going to speedrun Sonic Riders for the World Wildlife Fund in a week as a part of a speedrunning marathon. So far it's taken me about an hour to go through both storylines, although I've a had a few hiccups with Sky Road, so I've been trying to improve consistent wins on that track. Also been speedrunning Lost Kingdoms 2 as well. Got that around 22 min. I'd like to get that sub 20 mins, but that's just being hopeful.

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i love speed gaming, and being a Speed Runs Live Voice.

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did a speedrun on a game by PROTODOME which is also one of my favorite chip artists





can definitely improve a few tiny spots. I could save 2-3 seconds easy.

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congrats on voice

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D e e R F o r C e

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Oracle of Seasons is my recommendation, as Ages has a lot of potential run-killers in quick succession, particularly in the minigames between levels 5 and 6. (Sweet Christmas, that bomb game...) Not that the Great Moblin fight or the repairing of the Tuni Nut are particularly easy, either. And don't get me STARTED on the Level 5 boss.

Anyway, have a thing to get you thinking. Of note, Zelda games in general are difficult to optimize because of enemy spawn locations being extremely unpredictable. Yes, it's a TAS, but here's a few tricks I've pulled off on the Game Boy Color before inflicting this:

-Doing level 5 before level 4
-Slaying all four Golden Beasts to get a ring that doubles sword damage, hit me up if you wanna know how to get them to show (there's also a ring that lets you kill the floor boss in the final dungeon with four bomb hits instead of five)
-Not needing to pursue the "favor chain" at all to get the level 2 sword, an activity that is mandatory in Ages. On the other hand, Ages you can get the upgraded sword before the fifth dungeon, and trust me, you'll want that extra power.
-Hopping an extra tile while using the Roc's Feather (only works with pits)
-Using a bomb to hit the crystal switch in the Tower of Winter instead of going to the trouble of getting the boomerang (though the boomerang does make getting the Power Bracelet easier)



The one trick I have yet to master is hopping between the dragon's hands while scoring hits, and the Great Moblin fight in Seasons can drag on for quite a while if you don't have the timing down.

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Yeah, I am actually working on Seasons, although at this point I can't even do the full game yet :p I'd definitely like to talk with you about it sometime, seems like you know some very useful stuff.