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Game speed-runs

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Anyone like watching them? There are some good ones here: http://bisqwit.iki.fi/nesvideos/

If you enjoyed playing super mario 64 way back then, taking your time, you should watch this: http://bisqwit.iki.fi/nesvideos/movies.cgi?id=436

That guy destroys that game in and out. :D
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tool assisted? :icon6:
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Yeah, most of them are. Frame slow-down, etc. But getting good runs even with TA is a difficult feat. Most of the people do it like that just to achieve the best possible times and it makes the video look a lot better with tricks, jumps, and taking advantage of bugs etc. Without using some kind of cheat you would usually die too often and wouldn't get the best times
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getting the best times include not dying, obviously. look i completed the game in 5 seconds! ofcourse i had god mode on, made state-saves every .01 seconds and used level skip, but its the fastest time to date !!1one
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I know a lot of people are pretty looserish for doing all that just for a game, but I think the end result is a bit fun to watch, see the sm64 video :>
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dzjepp wrote:Yeah, most of them are. Frame slow-down, etc. But getting good runs even with TA is a difficult feat. Most of the people do it like that just to achieve the best possible times and it makes the video look a lot better with tricks, jumps, and taking advantage of bugs etc. Without using some kind of cheat you would usually die too often and wouldn't get the best times
I really enjoyed one I saw for Q2. Not assisted or cheated in any way.

They just planned very well when to use power-ups etc and did part for part, not in one go. So if they found a way to do a new part better than their previous record, they started only that part with the items, ammo etc. that they ended the previous part with.
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IDDQD
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prince megahit
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IDKFA!
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i used to love quake 1 speed runs
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i find the q3 defrag videos to be amazing... and incredibly frustrating to mimic.
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netrex wrote:
dzjepp wrote:Yeah, most of them are. Frame slow-down, etc. But getting good runs even with TA is a difficult feat. Most of the people do it like that just to achieve the best possible times and it makes the video look a lot better with tricks, jumps, and taking advantage of bugs etc. Without using some kind of cheat you would usually die too often and wouldn't get the best times
I really enjoyed one I saw for Q2. Not assisted or cheated in any way.

They just planned very well when to use power-ups etc and did part for part, not in one go. So if they found a way to do a new part better than their previous record, they started only that part with the items, ammo etc. that they ended the previous part with.
Yeah, I saw that one I think. I thought it was impressive.
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dzjepp wrote:I know a lot of people are pretty looserish for doing all that just for a game, but I think the end result is a bit fun to watch, see the sm64 video :>
i downloaded it but I don't know what to open it with. I might look around later though
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Post by Pext »

super metroid speedruns ftw!

but that mario bros. 3 thing is pure fun to watch ~ even though it's not legit
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wolf3d.exe -GOOBERS
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