Speed Demos

Its scripted by people, probably using an emulator for testing. It takes advantage of a bunch of glitches.

there was a zelda:LTTP one i saw which took advantage of the fact that a room very near the start of the game is adjacent to the final room in the game, and the fact that if you hold up+down at the same time you can walk through walls. obviously this can be emulated, but it works with a real controller if you open it up as well.

  A/D said:

best

http://speeddemosarchive.com/demo.pl?Clue_003

lol

TAS runs are just as entertaining as the human-based kind, just in a different way ... i don't understand why all the antagonism

  Mike_Haggar said:

speeddemosarchive.com is like my favorite site. I'll take this opportunity to plug my own speed run, which is on their site:

 

Battletoads (without warping)

Holy shit, dude! How many hours did you put into that thing? The work on the third level is masterful. Jesus Christ.

I used to be able to beat the Genesis version of Beavis and Butthead in about 18 minutes. I can still beat Mega Man 2 in about 40.

Diablo beaten in 3 minutes 12 seconds, lol.

http://speeddemosarchive.com/demo.pl?Diablo_Sorcerer_312

i love watching doom/quake/other fps speedruns, for a while i was pretty good at speedrunning certain doom2 levels. could never do the whole game though!

anybody read the FF8 thread on the SDA forums? huge bl to to that guy..almost a 9 hour run that couldn't be accepted because one of his segments got recorded over or something.

  Braintree said:

  Mike_Haggar said:

speeddemosarchive.com is like my favorite site. I'll take this opportunity to plug my own speed run, which is on their site:

 

Battletoads (without warping)

 

Holy shit, dude! How many hours did you put into that thing? The work on the third level is masterful. Jesus Christ.

Thanks! I put quite a bit of hours into it.....but to be honest, my main motivation was to complete the game without dying (which I still haven't done...) . I used all the skill I'd acquired from that though to slaughter the then-current speedrun records for battletoads within 4 weeks or so once I actually started playing fast....

Check this out, by complete coincidence, an article about speedrunning was featured today in The Escapist Magazine featuring loads of chaps from SDA (including me!)...

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/v...of-Speedrunning