Speedrunning As Fast As Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2017-05-06
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1,079 words · ~5 min read
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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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tried it you don't need any special skills or equipment to Dive Right In
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just watch some runs of your favorite games and learn the unique nuances and
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glitches as you go pretty soon you might
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be the one a top World leaderboards and even if not having fast reflexes is
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