The Speedrunning Thread

[igotrhythm]

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holy fuck that x2 low%

we're lucky he was at such a big event, any good runner would have reset way before violen made him eat shit.

[Kriptos]

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Hey guys, I'm pretty new to speedrunning and have only ever done one game (nitronic rush) and I'm looking for games to speedrun that are ~$5 and have more than one person speedrunning it. Any type of game is ok, I'm just looking for another thing to try out. Thank you

[igotrhythm]

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Hey guys, I'm pretty new to speedrunning and have only ever done one game (nitronic rush) and I'm looking for games to speedrun that are ~$5 and have more than one person speedrunning it. Any type of game is ok, I'm just looking for another thing to try out. Thank you

I think people run the LoZ Oracle games, those are like 5-10 bucks on Virtual Console. I've seen a TAS of Seasons and an RTA of Ages that uses a glitch to skip from the sixth dungeon right to the final boss. And I don't blame him, that last stretch is bullshit.

I've been playing those games a lot myself, so I've picked up a few tricks that you might find helpful.

[Dinglesberry]

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Hey guys, I'm pretty new to speedrunning and have only ever done one game (nitronic rush) and I'm looking for games to speedrun that are ~$5 and have more than one person speedrunning it. Any type of game is ok, I'm just looking for another thing to try out. Thank you

Are you more interested in technical games (your skill and speed = ability to execute inputs and stuff fast, think melee or even FFR, or like super Mario 64), or more interested in route and planning based runs (e.g. rpgs, turn based games etc)?

What about run time? Me personally, I don't think I'd be down to do a run that's hours long, my style is the same as ffr, I prefer shorter bursty stuff.

[Deidara837]

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Are you more interested in technical games (your skill and speed = ability to execute inputs and stuff fast, think melee or even FFR, or like super Mario 64), or more interested in route and planning based runs (e.g. rpgs, turn based games etc)?

What about run time? Me personally, I don't think I'd be down to do a run that's hours long, my style is the same as ffr, I prefer shorter bursty stuff.

My ideal run is something that's reasonably short but has enough content that it doesn't get dull, somewhere from like 30-60 minutes

[Dinglesberry]

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My ideal run is something that's reasonably short but has enough content that it doesn't get dull, somewhere from like 30-60 minutes

I used to run Super Mario 64 30 star - it's a really fun category and is like 25-40 mins depending on how good you are, theres some super technical and fun stars, my two favorites are are bowser in the dark world red coins https://youtu.be/yP1GjLXWDa0?t=1m21s (basically, its sick because if you miss anything and aren't fast enough, you miss the platform at 1:55 where the red coin is and have to wait like 6 seconds for a rotation lol).

My other favorite (actually 2 stars) is whomp fortress red coins and 100 coin star, https://youtu.be/yP1GjLXWDa0?t=3m48s, to be able to do the sequence at 4:02 is actually alot harder than it looks (there are other strats that are slower though so its not that hard to get into). Honestly, in terms of content and technical skill, I don't think another speedrun game matches sm64, maybe super metroid.

Shit I just remember another disgusting star.. The cool thing about 30 star is you basically clear all the fast stars upstairs, and then do a ton of interesting stars in the basement part. https://youtu.be/yP1GjLXWDa0?t=13m30s it'll take alot of practice to pull this trick off though, I couldn't ever do it lol

[Deidara837]

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I like Sonic Adventure 2 and Kirby 64
Mostly because of childhood but they're p cool

[Dinglesberry]

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Kirby 64 is great, I loved that game too, mixing all the power ups was super fun.

Not a huge fan of speedrunning it though, don't you just get meteor and fly through the levels? For me it's too linear of a game to speedrun, but I dunno, never really seen it ran before.

[Deidara837]

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Kirby 64 is great, I loved that game too, mixing all the power ups was super fun.

Not a huge fan of speedrunning it though, don't you just get meteor and fly through the levels? For me it's too linear of a game to speedrun, but I dunno, never really seen it ran before.

Quite a few of them yes, it looks simple but the efficiency (at least with double fire) comes from knowing where to use it aka where you'll end up, which is ideally on the small platform right between a pair of enemies for example
So it goes more in on the routing than it seems
Boss strats, certain powerup combinations are better in certain places (flame sword for W4/W5 bosses, fireworks for a few W6 rooms, bomb for another boss, etc)

It's a neat game, relatively simple run once you've learned all of the routing, definitely some RNG involved for a few of the bosses. My friend is really close to nabbing 2nd place on the leaderboards though 1st place is so very far ahead haha

SA2 on the other hand is like oh look lol broken game let's do cray-Z stuffz

[igotrhythm]

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This might be helpful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAoRh0CRr4I

[Kriptos]

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I think people run the LoZ Oracle games, those are like 5-10 bucks on Virtual Console. I've seen a TAS of Seasons and an RTA of Ages that uses a glitch to skip from the sixth dungeon right to the final boss. And I don't blame him, that last stretch is bullshit.

I've been playing those games a lot myself, so I've picked up a few tricks that you might find helpful.

Thanks for the suggestion

Are you more interested in technical games (your skill and speed = ability to execute inputs and stuff fast, think melee or even FFR, or like super Mario 64), or more interested in route and planning based runs (e.g. rpgs, turn based games etc)?

What about run time? Me personally, I don't think I'd be down to do a run that's hours long, my style is the same as ffr, I prefer shorter bursty stuff.

Sorry for the late reply but i like more technical games and I would like a game that doesn't exceed an hour, such as pokemon puzzle challenge or tetris attack (shoutout to ffrpro21 for getting me into that btw)

[remedy1502]

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obligitory tony hawk's pro skater suggestion
5 minutes, super technical, minimal rng

[igotrhythm]

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So IDK how to do the Ages skip and I've never been able to jump between the hands in the final Seasons boss...in either case, it's worth the time investment to get the sword upgrade. (Unrelated, Veran phase 2 can be hurt with the seed shooter, which is a good thing because she's so damn mobile.)

I still can't figure out how I want to do the second half of Ancient Tomb, but at least getting the Blue Ring is a minor detour compared to the Red Ring.

[AlexDest]

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bump for AGDQ hype

[AutotelicBrown]

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hype