Super Mario 64

**Greyblades** · 02-02-2011, 18:47

Must... resist... urge... to comment... on pointlessness...

Uh, well done him?

**Motep** · 02-02-2011, 21:01

Ummm....

**pevergreen** · 02-03-2011, 04:03

Originally Posted by Greyblades

Must... resist... urge... to comment... on pointlessness...

Uh, well done him?

I don't think you realise how incredible this is.

You people and your lack of amazement at speedruns.

**Secura** · 02-05-2011, 14:23

How is this supposed to be impressive when they're simply exploiting a bug in the game to facilitate their speedrun?

**Beskar** · 02-05-2011, 14:36

Originally Posted by Secura

How is this supposed to be impressive when they're simply exploiting a bug in the game to facilitate their speedrun?

Seconded.

**Husar** · 02-05-2011, 15:14

How is it impressive when someone spends several years doing the same thing over and over just to get a tiny bit better at it?
It's more or less what every factory worker out there does.

**Greyblades** · 02-05-2011, 16:22

Yeah but they at least get paid for it.

**Husar** · 02-05-2011, 16:26

Originally Posted by Greyblades

Yeah but they at least get paid for it.

Yes, because otherwise they would think doing it is stupid and not do it.

**pevergreen** · 02-06-2011, 03:02

Originally Posted by Secura

How is this supposed to be impressive when they're simply exploiting a bug in the game to facilitate their speedrun?

What is a speedrun.

It is completing a game as fast as possible.

This is great to watch because its a one star speedrun. You want to watch him not get just one star? Here:

Super Mario 64 Jiano 5:17 AM 2:04:55

Thats him, completeing a 120 star run at 5:17am in just over two hours.

Majoras Mask in 1:53:32

Pokey doing Ocarina in 1:16:59

They speedrun the games. They are good at the games.

Less than a month ago they raised over 52 thousand USD speedrunning games for charity.

http://speeddemosarchive.com/marathon/schedule/

You think its so easy? You go try doing a one star run. Or a 120 star run in that time, or anything matching what these people do.

Originally Posted by Beskar

Seconded.

How is it impressive when you cheat in Europa Universalis 3 Multiplayer?

**Beskar** · 02-06-2011, 04:33

Originally Posted by pevergreen

How is it impressive when you cheat in Europa Universalis 3 Multiplayer?

Considering you have been the host for the last ten or so games and I don't know of any way I could have tampered with the game in any way and I don't recall doing amazingly well with Cyprus neither last game (Though thank you Miotas for those gifts keeping me afloat till I hit tech 4 gov). Then there was our Hungery/Ottomen game where we fought over the Balkans and you won. The only game I could think of where anything strange happened was that Holland game where you had 7 merchants in a CoT and had other various bugs due to syncing issues between clients.

**Secura** · 02-06-2011, 05:19

Originally Posted by pevergreen

You think its so easy? You go try doing a one star run. Or a 120 star run in that time

It isn't easy to complete a game in rapid fashion, but it is easy to complete it quickly through exploits, which I have done myself; years ago, I remember sitting down with my father and completing Metal Gear Solid in around seventeen minutes or so.

We'd completed the game twice and wanted to play through with the bandana and active camo rewards, so we started a new game; I think the memory card's data had corrupted in some manner, because we were left with all items in addition to the aforementioned rewards... thus, with the use of Cardboard Box C at the start of the game, we were able to skip Disc 1 in it's entirity (hours worth of content, including several bosses) before proceeding to polish the second disc in around fifteen minutes with the help of the active camo and every weapon in the game.

Yes, it constitutes as a speedrun, but it was essentially a case of exploiting a bug that affected our savefile to complete it so quickly; the gents in that Mario video are doing the same, because humping a wall repeatedly to glitch your way through the content isn't as impressive as just clearing the game based on your own skill and familiarity with the product.

This isn't the case for all their videos, mind you... but this topic is about the Mario 64 run so that's what I'm referring to.

or anything matching what these people do.

A few years ago during a fairly delightful day of English weather, I turned on my PSP, loaded up Sega Mega Collection and managed to complete Sonic 2 in just under twenty minutes, which isn't a record or anything (since I can see that SDA alone beat me by ninety-odd seconds) but I think constitutes as a speed run nonetheless.

Sure, I haven't completed nine thousand and one games in 'record' time, but I have done a few when I've been bored/needed some downtime from essays or work... MGS withstanding, they've been without using exploits/bugs/cheats/whatever too.