Super Metroid Completed In 12 Minutes!

19 responses to “Super Metroid Completed In 12 Minutes!”

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   Trjn

   March 5, 2012 at 1:36 pm

   Looks like a week of record breaking. Super Mario 64’s speed run records fell recently too.

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   PuppyLicks

   March 5, 2012 at 1:41 pm

   Wow what?
   Does it count when exploiting glitches like that? Either way thats pretty insane.

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      Trjn

      March 5, 2012 at 1:47 pm

      From what I’ve seen, if you can pull it off without assistance (emulator, gameshark etc), it’s allowed.

      Most speedruns I’ve seen skip major sections of whatever game is in question.

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         Trjn

         March 5, 2012 at 1:56 pm

         Nevermind, it’s a Tool Assisted Speedrun. That’s all about abusing the hell out of save states and other emulator tools to do ridiculous things that people can’t do 99 times out a 100 attempts normally.

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      OzHuski

      March 5, 2012 at 1:48 pm

      What Trjn just said, as long as your not using a “Cheat” and you only exploit bugs in the game code, it counts.

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   fortalyst

   March 5, 2012 at 1:59 pm

   I was hoping to watch this with Super Metroid’s awesome music 🙁

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      fortalyst

      March 5, 2012 at 2:00 pm

      nevermind – a quick refresh fixed my issue 😛

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   Michael

   March 5, 2012 at 2:04 pm

   While this looks impressive, you’ll notice this is a tool-assisted speedrun, or TAS. This doesn’t make the speedrun technically legit as in a TAS you have a variety of tools at your disposal to “cheat” the game.

   Legit speedruns can always be found at speeddemosarchive.org – don’t believe any speedruns you see until they show up there.

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      Trjn

      March 5, 2012 at 2:10 pm

      Doesn’t that site also allow TAS? Sure they’re in a separate category but they’re still legitimate.

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         Michael

         March 5, 2012 at 2:48 pm

         No. SDA doesn’t allow speedruns submitted on emulators, and doesn’t allow scripts that can perform macros: http://speeddemosarchive.com/lang/rules_en.html

         Basically, they only accept runs submitted on original hardware using original software, although some exceptions are made in regards to officially sanctioned emulators like the Virtual Console.

         TAS speedruns like this one are just pure entertainment value and will never actually be a legitimate show of skill.

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            Blake

            March 5, 2012 at 2:54 pm

            It’s still a show of skill, just a different skill set.
            Rather than quick game reflexes, this would’ve been much more decision based, working out the optimum trade off between life points and getting hit to accelerate backwards etc.

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               Trjn

               March 5, 2012 at 3:02 pm

               I’m definitely in the crowd that considers TAS to be a different, but valid, skill set.

               I’ve never really been that interested in the whole speed run scene but I could have sworn that a major speedrunner site did keep track of some TAS runs. Unless it was SDA and they had a policy change about them in the last few years.

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               Michael

               March 5, 2012 at 3:07 pm

               It’s still not a legit speedrun though because you can’t do it without the assistance of the emulator. People that do TAS speedruns fully know this though.

               SDA has never had a policy change, they’ve had those rules in place since the beginning.

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               Martin

               March 5, 2012 at 8:07 pm

               But macros? That ain’t fair IMO.

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   fortalyst

   March 5, 2012 at 2:07 pm

   Can anyone tell me why at 8:19 he saved & reset the game?

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      Mr Delicious

      March 5, 2012 at 2:17 pm

      Stops the clock and the animation related to saving. Resetting and loading saves you a few seconds.

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   Benny

   March 5, 2012 at 2:53 pm

   I love Super Metroid.

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   Mop

   March 5, 2012 at 4:06 pm

   TAS Speedruns are lame. Takes so little skill to throw on some cheats and no-clip your way to the end screen.

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   Ahtaps

   March 6, 2012 at 12:24 am

   Just goes to show that no matter how fast you play any game, elevators will always be really slow.

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