Thanks to a thorough speedrunner, we now know there are 977.
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As a speedrunner, mmDust explained, his primary interest in games was mechanical.
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Speedrunner Kosmicd12 has broken the world record for the Super Mario Bros.
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Speedrunner Darbian just lost a World Record-pace run of Super Mario Bros.
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It's not like you'll have a shot at being the first speedrunner to finish.
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On the other hand, Prey has also made you something of a speedrunner by this point.
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Then there's Colombian speedrunner WhitePaaws, who holds the third-place 100-percent speed record behind Cane.
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Another streamer, a speedrunner under the name FriendlyBaron, found his speedrun attempts sabotaged by a cheater.
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And on the other end of the spectrum, it also offers a "gauntlet mode" and speedrunner-friendly options.
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Speedrunner Nikolaj "ThaRixer" Sørensen and fan argues the context that inspired Dog's Life also helped seal its fate.
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The speedrunner also uses the GLOO Cannon to cleverly manufacture platforms to navigate the space outside the game's environment.
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Many have tried to crack a long held record by speedrunner Bryan Bosshardt on "Dam," the game's first level.
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It was as long ago as 2010 that legendary Mario speedrunner AndrewG first hit a sub-5-minute run.
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Chris Grant, a speedrunner and organizer for Games Done Quick, told Mashable that the Pepsiman costume presented its own challenges.
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Darbian is a speedrunner and Twitch streamer who has attempted over 20,000 speedruns of the original Super Mario Bros since 2014.
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Together, with another well-known SMB speedrunner, Kosmic, the two have pushed the game to levels of speed once thought humanly impossible.
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You can't really become a decent speedrunner without dedicating hundreds, even thousands of hours to repeating the same game over and over.
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"All I was thinking in the moment was that this would hopefully end questioning of my legitimacy as a speedrunner," he said.
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That record was set in 2011 by speedrunner HappyLee, a time that stands about two seconds faster than what Kosmic just achieved.
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Speedrunner Isotarge discovered the previously unknown location of a rainbow coin in Donkey Kong 64 in the Fungi Forest level using data analysis tools.
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Colbert decided to test his Hot Pocket-eating skills against renowned speedrunner Mitch Fowler, who holds the world record time in Super Mario Bros.
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And we went to Awesome Games Done Quick with Clint "Half-Coordinated" Lexa, a speedrunner who competes without the full use of one hand.
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Summoning Salt uses clips from a lot of recorded speedrun videos, but, like any good speedrunner, he goes further into obsessive levels of detail.
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I imagine Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is the closest I'll ever get a speedrunner-like sense of competition, but I can definitely feel the pull.
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He wanted people to respect him seriously as a legitimate speedrunner, so he posted illegitimate runs in the hopes his speedrunning peers would notice him.
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At times, this interferes with the Flagpole Glitch, nulling its effect, which means there's no reason for a speedrunner to risk messing up an attempt.
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Functionally, these 20-second stages require players to act like a speedrunner and hit every single beat exactly, or else you're sent back to the beginning.
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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Blindfold % Longtime speedrunner (and current Twitch charity events head) Romscout is well-known for having dissected this classic over the years.
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Castlevania speedrunner RomScout just cleared a new world record for the "all bosses" category in the beloved Castlevania: Symphony of the Night with a 31:51.
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Speedrunner Jamacanbacn shows off a speedrunning trick he found in 'Tron Evolution' The routers I spoke with often emphasized the importance of collaboration within the speedrunning community.
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Speedrunner Jamacanbacn shows off a speedrunning trick he found in 'Tron Evolution' The routers I spoke with often emphasized the importance of collaboration within the speedrunning community.
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The story, documenting how this Fallout speedrunner was instead adopting the name "TomatoAngus" for the upcoming Awesome Games Done Quick event next January, takes this at face value.
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I see this from both extremes of the spectrum as a speedrunner and accessibility consultant, and in both cases, it's just a matter of letting your creation breathe.
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I tried to ask Sakinyan what they were thinking at that moment, when the adrenaline was finally wearing out, but my attempts to contact the speedrunner proved unsuccessful.
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Monday night, speedrunner Kosmic completed the 1985 NES games in stunning fashion, breaking the world record of the any% category with a time of 4:55 and 913 ms.
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Link to the Past Speedrunner ParisianPlayer managed to complete the classic SNES game Saturday, Kotaku reported, without using his eyes in a unique all-bosses, all-glitches blindfolded speedrun.
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That downtime resulted in speedrunner Baffan, who I profiled in a story earlier this year, getting slapped with a very surprising 24-hour ban from Twitch over the weekend.
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In order to get to his unprecedented time, Draqu leaned on his own skills as a speedrunner (his Dishonored runs are a thing of fractured beauty) and a dedicated community.
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Speedrunner Darbian improved upon his previous Super Mario Bros world record run of 4:57:627 from October 18, 2015 by shaving a ludicrously quick 367 milliseconds off his previous time.
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There's a new kind of level ripping up the charts on Super Mario Maker 24, and for once, it's not some daunting monstrosity meant for speedrunner demigods and thirsty social media shares.
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Speedrunner Skavenger216 stumbled on a brand new glitch in Blaster Master on Monday that let him skip a boss level entirely, but it still wasn't enough to finish first in a 1v1 race.
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Speedrunner Mark "Werster" McKenzie has not only completed the game multiple times, he just beat his own world record with a run time of 20:09:49, too — over 20 hours of Pokémon battling.
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By falling through the map in a particular stage, speedrunner Chris Grant is able to interact with the game's memory and make it think it's been beaten the next time he enters a new level.
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The new Team Ninja game that delivers Dark Souls-style RPG play in feudal Japan has now been completed in one hour and 40 minutes — by speedrunner Distortion2 — and you can see video proof above.
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Later, Danika discusses her time with Horizon: Zero Dawn's big DLC, The Frozen Wilds, Rob relays the confusion of entering the world of 4K with the Xbox One X, and Austin accidentally becomes a speedrunner.
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And yet seemingly against all odds, speedrunner DraQu has already made a world record by beating the brand-new game in a whopping 19 minutes and 34 seconds less than four full days after launch.
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Speedrunner Allan "Cheese05" Alvarez managed to set an astounding new world record last night with a time of 1 hour, 39 minutes and 57 seconds, breaking his own world record of 33:40:05 he set in April.
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Some they play to 100% completion, and others they use as platforms for racing, each speedrunner putting their all into a live performance of their mastery of gameplay systems I couldn't execute even if I somehow knew about them.
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Whereas a typical speedrunner uses a gamepad to glitch through the game, SUPERHOT VR is controlled via wireless Oculus Touch motion controllers, meaning that these speedrunners physically exert themselves at ninja speeds to beat the game in record time.
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It was only after I began Googling more sophisticated speedrun tactics that I found that the Breath of the Wild community had already figured out the best secret of the Trial of the Sword: that it makes everyone into a speedrunner.
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Speedrunner and YouTube creator Daniel Baamonde has just released a video—a short documentary, really—on the rise of the glitchless any % speedrun of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and it is well worth your 18-ish minutes.
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With a blindfold wrapped securely around his head, a speedrunner completed Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past using nothing but his ears and unbelievable memory to navigate the world — and it only took him 9 hours and 5 minutes.
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A common way for a speedrunner to cheat—which, to be perfectly clear, really doesn't happen all that often—is video splicing, where the cheater carefully lines up multiple speedruns through crafty video editing, making it appear as though it's the same run.
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I found Connor after stumbling upon a video called "worst run ending ever," where Final Fantasy X speedrunner Josh Schweers bungled a speedrun in the final moments of the game because he accidentally prompted a single character to do the wrong action, resulting the death of his characters and his record run.
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This is the rare game I've played enough of (somewhere around 200 hours, at this point) to have the slightest grasp of the kind of subtleties that a speedrunner will know how to exploit, so, on top of being entertaining, this one was actually very interesting on a mechanical level to me.
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And throughout this, I couldn't stop thinking of speedrunning communities and what our own Cameron Kunzelman described as the "cosmic horror" of speedrunning, the sheer enormity of the work done by a community to break down a game and find its every imaginable seam: I'll probably never be a speedrunner, but just dipping my toe into this aspect of Oversight has given me some idea of the immense, wonderful, possibly terrifying aspect of human labor.
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Discussed: Outer Wilds, Void Bastards, Mario Maker 2, This 'Mario Maker' Level Has Been Played 2.6 Million Times and Never Beaten, The Speedrunner Who Wasn't: How a Community Dealt with an Elaborate Cheater, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Pokémon Shirts, Pokémon Sleep, Death Stranding, Draugan, Oculus Quest, Virtual Virtual Reality, Hollow Knight, Mobile Suit Gundam, Life is Strange 2: Episode 3, KIDS, Ape Out You can subscribe on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher.
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Speedrunner IV arriving at Milos Speedrunner I in Piraeus Aegean Speed Lines is a Greek ferry company operating fast ferries between Piraeus and the Cyclades.
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David Hunt (born April 11, 1985), known online as GrandPooBear, is a prominent video game streamer, speedrunner and creator of Kaizo Super Mario levels.
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Mychal Ramon Jefferson, better known under the screen name Trihex, is an American professional gamer and speedrunner. Active at the semiannual Games Done Quick events, Trihex is best known for his runs of Jet Set Radio and Yoshi's Island.
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Narcissa Wright (born Cosmo Wright,Cosmo reads his Wikipedia page YouTube. February 1, 2014. Retrieved June 29, 2020. July 21, 1989) is an American speedrunner and co-founder of the website SpeedRunsLive, which allows speedrunners to race with one another in real time.
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It was later taken by speedrunner Liam on March 31, 2020. On October 31, 2018, Alvarez officially changed his username from cheese05 to cheese. In addition to Super Mario 64, Alvarez also speedruns The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Super Mario Odyssey, and Celeste.
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The project was started on August 4, 2014. A custom engine was developed for the game using SFML and C++. The game's grappling hook mechanic was inspired by Spider-Man 2 and Worms Armageddon. Remnants of Naezith was designed as a fast-paced speedrunner friendly game.
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In 2009, SpeedRunsLive.com was created by Narcissa Wright and Daniel 'Jiano' Hart as a way for speedrunners to showcase speedrunning races in real time with a set goal consisting of various possible categories. Each game has a dedicated leaderboard that shows who is the top speedrunner for the game.
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Allan Alvarez (born February 26, 1995) more commonly known as cheese, is a speedrunner and podcast host from Spain known for his Super Mario 64 gameplay. Alvarez held the speedrunning world record for the 120-star category of Super Mario 64 from June 4, 2017 to March 31, 2020.
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In 2015 she returned to service in Serifos, Sifnos and Milos, while in 2016 her service was extended to Kimolos, Folegandros and Sikinos. After the summer of 2016, the Speedrunner IV was sold to Greek company Golden Star Ferries. She is due to enter service with them in 2017, operating from Rafina to the Cyclades islands under her new name, Superrunner.
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Pollesel ended his review by stating that the game "ends up being more frustrating than anything else." Pure Nintendo's Trevor Gould stated that he, as a speedrunner, "[didn't] think it [was] satisfying trying to master [the] levels," and also criticized the game's controls and how levels blend in with each other. GameSpew's Chris Mc called the level design "seriously frustrating" but praised how the game is easy speedrunable.
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The site became a success, usually updating several times a week with demos recorded by its maintainers and submitted by its readers. The site was active until August 10, 2001, when it was converted to an archive. The popularity of Doom tool- assisted speedrunning has dwindled since then. In mid-2003, an anonymous speedrunner using the nickname released a video in which he played through Super Mario Bros.
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In 2015 she was chartered to Moroccan company Navline, operating between Algeciras and Tanger. In 2016, she returned to Greece and was chartered to Levante Ferries of Ionian Group, operating in the Ionian Sea, on the Patras-Sami-Ithaca line. In late 2016, following the sale of her fleetmate Speedrunner IV, she returned to Aegean Speed Lines, and is due to operate in the Cyclades again in 2017.
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More novel achievements have also been accomplished in Super Mario Bros., such as beating the game with the lowest score possible. As of June 11, 2020, the world record time for beating Super Mario World belongs to speedrunner FURiOUS, who beat the game in 41 seconds and 22 milliseconds. This was done by making the game's credits roll using arbitrary code injection in the first level of the game.
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Piotr Delgado Kusielczuk, better known as The Mexican Runner or TMR, is a speedrunner who specialises in Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) games. After three years, on February 26, 2017, TMR was the first player to play through the entire NES catalogue, completing all 714 officially-licensed titles in a project he called NESMania, which earned him a Guinness World Record. TMR is also known for his speedrunning accomplishments in Contra, Battletoads, and Cuphead.
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The original The Legend of Zelda and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time are popular speedrunning candidates. The record for the first game in the series is currently held by speedrunner LackAttack24 in 27 minutes and 57 seconds. Any% speedruns of this game involve a great deal of movement optimization and item drop management, as well as some amount of luck. Speedrunners rely heavily on having bombs with which to defeat high-level enemies.
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Cuphead runners have also invented many creative categories, such as only using one gun type, completing the game in pacifist mode, and completing the game as fast as possible using the character duplication glitch. The majority of Cuphead speedrunning records are held by Jason2890, who holds world records in All Bosses, All Flags, Full Clear and Low%. Speedrunner SBDWolf holds the world record for Any% as well as Low% on Regular difficulty.
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Alex Tan (born March 13, 1996), better known under the screen name PangaeaPanga and formerly Penangbenny, is an American ROM hacker and tool- assisted speedrunner. He is best known as the creator of difficult Super Mario World ROM hacks and Super Mario Maker levels. His notable work includes Super Mario World ROM hack Super Dram World and Super Mario Maker levels "P-Break" and the "Pit of Panga" series. He has also played through Super Mario World blindfolded.
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Jared Rea, community manager of Twitch, has stated that he really enjoys watching Trihex and is "amazed by his technicality." Trihex believes that "a good speedrunner is also a good commentator." Though this outlook may result in worse runs, Trihex notes that it leaves a greater impression on the audience. On November 23, 2016, the American eSports professional video game team Tempo Storm welcomed Trihex as their newest member and is currently a member as of 2020.
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Most notable speedruns of Super Mario games are generally carried out without tool-assistance, though speedrunners make frequent use of glitches and even memory corruption to make optimal times. As of February 18, 2020, the world record holder for the first game in the Super Mario series, Super Mario Bros., is speedrunner Kosmicd12, who beat the game in 4 minutes, 55 seconds, and 646 milliseconds. This was done by using many frame-perfect tricks and in-game warps.
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Alvarez typically streams around midnight in Spain, which is peak viewing hours for the United States. On February 7, 2018, Alvarez uploaded the first episode of his podcast with speedrunner Ryan Reeves, better known as "Simply", titled Two Dads One Show, a podcast centered on speedrunning and the mentality and work ethic associated with speedrunning. The name was later changed to The Two Dads Podcast. The next day, Alvarez broke the 120-star world record for Super Mario 64.
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It took the Super Mario Maker community a collective total of 11,000 tries before speedrunner Bananasaurus Rex beat this level. By the end of October 2015, "P-Break" was beaten 41 times. After stating that "in an ideal world, no more than ten clears would satisfy me", PangaeaPanga went on to create the even more difficult "Pit of Panga: U-Break", which was later awarded the world record for the "Most difficult level created in Super Mario Maker" by Guinness World Records. PangaeaPanga influenced several other people to create unusually difficult Super Mario Maker levels.
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Several of Todd Rogers' records had come under scrutiny for being seemingly impossible or lacking sufficient proof. As listed on the Twin Galaxies leaderboard until January 2018, Rogers' record in the 1980 Activision game Dragster was a time of 5.51 seconds from 1982. Previously, in 2012, Rogers was awarded the Guinness World Record for the longest-standing world record for that record. However, a speedrunner named Eric "Omnigamer" Koziel disassembled the game's code and concluded that the fastest possible time was 5.57 seconds while Activision claims 5.54 is the fastest time.
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Initially, the only site focused on documenting the two Metroid games released in 2002—Metroid Prime and Metroid Fusion—but after merging with another site Metroid Online, it became "the one resource for Metroid Prime sequence breaking info." Ever since, it has been the central repository for everything related to speedrunning the Metroid series. It was also in November 2003 that Metroid speedrunner Nolan Pflug released his 100% run of Metroid Prime, in which he finished the entire game in 1 hour, 37 minutes. It gained widespread attention, notably on Slashdot.
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Both ships remained in service between Helsinki and Tallinn. However, in 2009, the company decided to bring both ships to Greek service. The SuperSeaCat Three arrived on 17 June 2009, was renamed Speedrunner III and began service on 25 June 2009 on the Piraeus-Syros-Tinos-Mykonos line, which she also served in 2010 and 2011. In 2012 she was laid-up in Eleusis Bay due to her company's economic difficulties, but she returned to service the following year, operating on the Piraeus-Serifos-Sifnos-Milos line, where she also remained in 2014.
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However, in 2009, the company decided to bring both ships to Greek service. The SuperSeaCat Four arrived on June 17, 2009, was renamed Speedrunner IV and began service on her owner's main service: the Piraeus-Serifos-Sifnos-Milos- Kimolos-Folegandros line, which she also served in 2010 and 2011. In 2012, her service was only limited to Serifos, Sifnos and Milos, and in 2013 she was laid-up in Eleusis Bay due to her company's economic difficulties. She returned to service the following year, operating on the Piraeus-Paros-Naxos line for the summer.
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In order to reach the Yama, a player needs to carry a sceptre from level 4–1 to level 4–2. As it is impossible to carry two items simultaneously, a player needs to bring a non-player character to these levels in order to carry the sceptre for them. However, such AI-controlled characters are difficult to manipulate and are prone to accidentally kill themselves, adding to the difficulty of solo eggplant runs. On November 10, 2013, Spelunky speedrunner and live streamer Bananasaurus Rex executed the first known successful solo eggplant run.
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In 1982, video gamer Todd Rogers claimed to have set the world record for Dragster with a time of 5.51 seconds. Until January 29, 2018 this claim was accepted by video game record-keeping organization Twin Galaxies, and Guinness World Records, which later also recognized the achievement as the longest-standing video-game world record. Rogers had previously said that the way he achieved the record was by putting the car into second gear as the countdown timer reaches zero. Eric "OmniGamer" Koziel, a speedrunner and creator of tool-assisted speedruns, analyzed the code of the game.
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In addition, a one-off promotional event was held on March 20, 2015 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the God of War franchise. Over the course of five hours, God of War Done Quick ended up raising $3,500 for The AbleGamers Foundation. In 2020, Games Done Quick expelled a speedrunner for violating social media policies after the runner made remarks on Twitter that supported antifeminism and the far-right Spanish party Vox. During the start of Frost Fatales 2020, they announced their new GDQ Studio to produce in-person live events outside of the normal marathons.
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As of July 2020, the Any% world record is held by speedrunner Zoast, with a time of 40 minutes and 55 seconds. Because the Metroid series rewards players for completing the game faster, groups of players were inspired to discuss techniques on message boards such as GameFAQs and to capture and post videos of full playthroughs. Despite internet limitations in the early 2000s, the ability to share video footage of Metroid runs allowed speedrunners to collaborate and learn from one another. It was during online discussions of Metroid Prime that the term "sequence breaking" was first widely used.
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The winners from each of these eight locations, plus eight players invited by Nintendo, became the contestants for the last event. The live video of the Championship's final event was streamed online from Los Angeles on June 14, 2015. The qualifying games were Splatoon (Wii U), The Legend of Zelda (NES), Metroid Prime: Federation Force (3DS), Super Metroid (SNES), Mario Kart 8 (Wii U), Balloon Fight (NES), and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (Wii U). The last contest consisted of custom levels within the then unreleased Super Mario Maker (Wii U), played by the two finalists: John Numbers and professional speedrunner Narcissa Wright (then known as Cosmo Wright).
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As of March 2006, Speed Demos Archive contains a total amount of 8481 demos (on both official and custom maps), accounting for a total time of 253 hours, 44 minutes and 39 seconds. The fastest minimalist single-segment completion times that have been recorded thus far, as of June 10, 2006, are 0:13:46Downloadable demo for the easy difficulty run and 0:19:50Downloadable demo for the nightmare difficulty run, both by long-time Quake speedrunner Connor Fitzgerald. The 100% single-segment completion times are 0:46:02Downloadable demo for the easy difficulty run and 1:09:33 for the nightmare difficulty run, respectively Marlo Galinski and Justin Fleck.
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Matt Whittaker of Hardcore Gamer called the level "one of the most iconic missions in the entire series, as it blends Warthog play, labyrinthine interior sections and a blend of every type of Covenant enemy present in Halo: Combat Evolved", praising the improved visual clarity of the Hunter aliens as the best improvement to the level in Halo: The Master Chief Collection. Jonathon Dornbrush of Entertainment Weekly ranked The Silent Cartographer the best level in Halo: Combat Evolved, calling it "an impressively long but rarely tedious mission that employs all of Halo's best elements, while also introducing the brutality of Hunters." Speedrunner Andrew "Goatrope" Halabourda noted that in 2004, "The Silent Cartographer" was the most popular single level in Halo to speedrun.
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Though speedruns exist of people playing through the game as intended, it is possible to skip large portions of Super Mario 64 by using glitches. Using a glitch dubbed the "backwards long jump," (BLJ), with which the player character can move through walls, a player can skip almost all levels of the game and beat it in only a few minutes, collecting 0 of the intended 70 stars that are normally required. As of March 20, 2020, the world record for this category, dubbed "0 star," is 6 minutes, 36 seconds and 430 milliseconds, by Japanese speedrunner KANNO. Additionally, many players run an older route that omits one BLJ in favor of using a different, slower glitch, which requires 16 total stars.
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Spelunky, a 2012 indie platformer created by Derek Yu, has been a common candidate for speedrunning, with its fastest runs taking between one and two minutes. As Spelunky features a large amount of random procedural generation, speedrunners cannot solely rely on memorization. To have a chance in beating the current record, a speedrunner must get a specific random seed, though despite this, skillful players may recognize repeating level patterns and know how to optimally use the game's items, such as a difficult to use "teleporter" that allows a player to skip large chunks of a level. Despite the high difficulty of the game, even Spelunky "Hell" levels have been used for speedrunning, with the world record sitting under four minutes.
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Games Done Quick's former logo, used until 2018 Writer and speedrunner Eric Koziel identifies two important precursors to Games Done Quick: the "Desert Bus for Hope" donation drive organized by LoadingReadyRun in November 2007, and a series of charity speedrun marathons held by The Speed Gamers starting in March 2008. Users of the site Speed Demos Archive decided to hold a charity marathon in January 2010, during MAGFest 8. It was themed around 8-bit and 16-bit video games and thus dubbed "Classic Games Done Quick" (after the 1990s speedrunning project Quake Done Quick). Internet connectivity problems at the MAGFest hotel forced SDA administrator Mike Uyama to relocate the event to his mother's residence, but it raised over $10,000 for CARE. Following that initial success, the first Awesome Games Done Quick marathon was held in January 2011, expanding from two days to five days, incorporating newer games such as Halo and Portal, and raising more than $50,000 for the Prevent Cancer Foundation.
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