Speedrunning Discussion Thread

I thought it would be a good time to get this thread running about. If you don't know what Speedrunning is, it is where you attempt to beat a game as fast as possible ( its like touge racing... but with entire video games ) while abusing glitches and exploits. Discuss!

Seriously, watch these videos. It's worth it. Your mind will be blown.




www.speedrunslive.com

www.tehurn.com

I remember when I speedrunned Halo 2. I finished one level that took about 30 minutes the normal way in 5 min haha good times.

What's your record for Halo 2?

I don't even remember but it was probably around 2 hours.

Dang, that's pretty good. The world record for Halo 2 is 1:30:29 according to SpeedRunsLive. I am going to speed run Super Mario Bros 3 pretty soon on VC so that will be fun. I never knew you speedran.

Then I probably did 2:30 more realistically although I never timed myself. Still I remember trying hard as hell not to die while walking by HUGE groups of enemies hahaha. Its not that I speedrun but back in my Halo days I found the campaign very exploitable and I got kicks out of it.

^It's a competition of speed is it not?

Racers to Touge is Speedrunners to games. @Felon

And HotDog eaters to eating lol

Felon wrote:

More like hotdog eaters to early heart attacks.

Speedrunners is to games as is Hotdog eaters is to heart attacks............. That makes no sense at all.

Felon wrote:

It was a false comparison meant to be stupid, come on kona lol

Troll-alloll-loll-loll-loll-lahhh

That's the joke... ba dum tss

Ocarina of time and super mario64 are both before your time kona lol
these games are still in a box somewhere in my house haha

^ both quality games! Was never able to complete zelda lol

^ agreed very good games back in the days and still

Koolaid wrote:

Ocarina of time and super mario64 are both before your time kona lol
these games are still in a box somewhere in my house haha

Yeah, I really like playing the older Zelda's and Mario's better than the "Motion Control" Zelda and Super Mario Galaxy. Going to buy them both on VC when I get the money. Great games.

i played donkey kong country series
Super cool musics, awesome graphix at that time, and story was pretty interesting

Have you tried emulators? They are really great for playing older games. I would recommend ZSNES for super nintendo games and Project64 for N64 games.

Yeah, I have P64 to play OoT a lot. All I need is a gamecube to usb converter and I can start speedrunning it soon when I get a Wii to get some ideas on what to do.

Konasumi wrote:

Yeah, I have P64 to play OoT a lot. All I need is a gamecube to usb converter and I can start speedrunning it soon when I get a Wii to get some ideas on what to do.

You could just use a wired xbox controller or a dualshock 3 controller with DS3 tool. Or do you have to use a gamecube controller as a rule or something?

betadood wrote:

Konasumi wrote:

Yeah, I have P64 to play OoT a lot. All I need is a gamecube to usb converter and I can start speedrunning it soon when I get a Wii to get some ideas on what to do.

You could just use a wired xbox controller or a dualshock 3 controller with DS3 tool. Or do you have to use a gamecube controller as a rule or something?

Funny thing is, I don't own any wired controllers to use on my PC, but when I get a Wii, It comes with 2 GC controllers. So I will buy a GC to USB converter off Amazon and play that way. I like GC controllers better than any other controller.

Just got my Wii and GC controller, going to get OoT later. SPEEDRUNSLIVE HERE I COME!

AGDQ 2014 has begun! It's a speedrunning marathon on Twitch.

http://www.twitch.tv/speeddemosarchivesda

I wonder what the windwaker speedrun is

Wind Waker will be awesome. It's later in the marathon, though.

I'm pretty excited for the the Half-Life 1/2 runs and the Portal 1/2 runs.