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although some of us are super completionists when we play our games

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and don't rest until we've explored every crevice of every map and picked up

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every single unnecessary item there's something pretty awesome about powering

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your way through a game as fast as possible like when you did when you were

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a kid and you use those Warp Zone pipes at the end of Mario levels or was that

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yesterday I don't remember but anyway a

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large community has sprung up around the practice of speed running which is a

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pretty simple idea complete a video game in the shortest period of possible Time

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speedrunning videos can be found all over the Internet and part of their

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appeal is that it it's kind of mesmerizing to watch games get completed

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at what seems like impossibly short periods of time so how is it that

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speedrunners are consistently shattering World Records obviously being really

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good at a game and having tons of practice does help but many speedrunners

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commonly employ other tactics to push their times from being merely very good

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to truly remarkable one fundamental

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concept is route planning to ensure that a speedrunner doesn't get mired in some

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timeconsuming part of a level this involves studying a level very very

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closely or simply playing through it many many times to figure out which

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route presents the fewest obstacles and

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difficult uh timec consuming enemies or even the best shortcuts to time-saving

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powerups to allow them to finish the level in the shortest possible time

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since many competitive speedrunners are fighting for every last millisecond it's

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not uncommon for them to even keep track of parts of the game that are prone to

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lag and system slowdowns and avoid those as well although some speedruns are

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indeed done cleanly and nothing but practice and route planning and loss of

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practice are put into play it's more common to see faster runs that employ

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some form of sequence breaking which entails doing something out of order in

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the game sometimes this is done by executing precise moves to get to an

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area that is not really meant to be reachable at that point in time but more

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often speedrunners will take advantages of glitches in the game to skip ahead

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and save huge amounts of time since it

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can take a long time for The Gaming Community to discover and exploit these

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kinds of glitches older games are often more popular for speedrunning the number

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of well-developed emulators available for older games and platforms

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has also made speeduns of retro titles enormously popular not only because

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emulators allow people to try their hand

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at speedrunning without the original console or without one that's still

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working but also because emulators have opened up a different method called tool

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assisted speedr running or Tas T takes

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advantage of emulator tools like being able to save the game at any particular

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instant called the Save State this allows the player to piece together a

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near-perfect run even if they make a mistake another one is slowing down the

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game to such a low speed that a speedrunner can execute complicated

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Maneuvers that would be virtually impossible to do in real time this is in

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order to shave off small little bits of time and this often involves executing

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very hard to exploit glitches for reasons that should seem obvious task is

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usually considered a separate discipline from regular speedr running to keep

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things Fair tool assisted runs are often posted so others can enjoy watching the

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sheer perfection of speeding through a game flawlessly but unassisted speedr

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running is still popular for organized competitions and high-profile

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speedrunning events such as things like Games Done Quick a series of twice

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yearly gaming marathons that feature Live speedruns While raising money for

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charity from the viewers which is awesome and while watching streams of

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experienced speedrunners can be a little intimidating to those who have never

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glitches as you go pretty soon you might

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