speedrunning
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Speedrunner Beats Super Metroid With Horrifying Vaseline-Covered Controller
Sometimes, it just isn’t enough to speedrun a game. Sometimes, you need to get your hands dirty. One speedrunner took those words to heart this weekend, completing a Super Metroid speedrun with their hands and controller covered in vaseline.
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Newly Discovered Trick Transforms A Metroid Speedrunning Scene
3Gamers experimenting with the 2002 Game Boy Advance game Metroid Fusion have discovered such a profound and bizarre shortcut that speedrunners have had to create a new category to account for the latest new way to break the game: Memory corruption.
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As Mario Odyssey Patches Change The Game, Speedrunners Scramble To Keep Up
Super Mario Odyssey speedrunners often use glitches to grab tricky power moons or skip through major portions of the game. A new patch implemented alongside the new Luigi’s Balloon World mode last week blocked some of those crucial tricks, slowing any runner who upgraded their game. Now, the community is trying to figure out what…
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This Weekend In Speedrunning
Every week, countless speedrunners hit the go fast button in their game of choice and broadcast it to the world on sites. Here’s a quick look at some of the events happening this weekend where people hit the go fast button.