The Speedrunning Thread

[inDheart]

Originally Posted by igotrhythm

So who watched Mitchflowerpower on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert? I'm amazed he did the glitch on national TV like that.

i saw it and after that i really wanted hot pockets

i'm gonna go buy hot pockets

too bad mitch isn't actually running smb3 @sgdq, but at least the game will make an appearance

[Deidara837]

Originally Posted by igotrhythm

So who watched Mitchflowerpower on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert? I'm amazed he did the glitch on national TV like that.

That was a really fun spotlight, Colbert's such a great dude

Glad we got some attention for GDQ as well on mainstream networks

[shenjoku]

Here's the video for anyone that wants to see it

[inDheart]

the whole week this year is a 100% windows update run

[hi19hi19]

Anyone know what that awesome jazz song was during setup before the Sonic '06 run?
Damn that was good music. I wish they had a box showing the song that's playing...

[shenjoku]

It does tell you what the song is, but only when it first starts playing. It really should stay up the whole time though =/

[hi19hi19]

Oh I didn't ever see that, I'll go watch the VOD then

EDIT- Where does it say the name? Am I just blind?
https://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick...2482?t=902m27s

[L.B.D.D]

good work on tetris attack @ ffr pro 21

[Charu]

Good job on 2nd place, ffr pro!

[FFR Pro 21]

Originally Posted by Charu

Good job on 2nd place, ffr pro!

Originally Posted by L.B.D.D

good work on tetris attack @ ffr pro 21

Thanks guys! <3

[igotrhythm]

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]

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]

Originally Posted by Kriptos

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]

Originally Posted by Kriptos

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]

Originally Posted by Dinglesberry

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]

Originally Posted by Deidara837

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]

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

[Dinglesberry]

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]

Originally Posted by Dinglesberry

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]

This might be helpful.

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