official TNL thread for gaming speedruns

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Originally Posted by PBMax

Why is anyone impressed, ever, by anything tool-assisted? It's an enormous waste of time.

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It serves as a good way to show just how badly a game can be wapwned.

It also serves as a useful tool if you are obsessed with speed running a game legitimately, as it sets a reasonable upper bound for one's performance.

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Originally Posted by Dipstick

It also serves as a useful tool if you are obsessed with speed running a game legitimately, as it sets a reasonable upper bound for one's performance.

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Agreed. After seeing the speed run of Castlevania NES I can totally pwn that game now. I'm not as fast as the speed run, but it's still pretty good.

Most speed runs through emulators are likely hacks and can't be counted officially, but what they demonstrate can show the player how to turn any game into a fun experience and sometimes teach you how to actually break it.

Considering this thread's potential, I think it would serve better to list games that have been burned through because I'm really impressed with some of the vids they have listed. I'll start with Alice.

Damn, Youtube doesn't have Quake 2 Done Quick 2.

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Why is anyone impressed, ever, by anything tool-assisted? It's an enormous waste of time.

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Oh please. When it's passed off as real play, of course it is, but you'd have to be bitter as hell to not find some of the tool assisted videos cool.

I did a speedrun of Brain Age the other week.

I'm going to try Madden '95 next whenever I have the time.

I keep thinking of buying a recordable VCR/DVD player and that would most likely include putting up videos of games people don't seem to put much attention to, but that's gonna put a $300 hole in my pocket.

Or you could just buy a fifty dollar low-lag capture card. I got a Leadtek Winfast TV2000 or something like that, works great. Not perfectly lagless, but fine for pretty much everything I've tried outside of shooters.

I made a video of myself speed running SMB1 and SMB3 without tool assistance, but the SMB1 is kind of slow @ 6 minutes and SMB3 is too long for youtube to take without a director account :(

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Originally Posted by Tain

Or you could just buy a fifty dollar low-lag capture card. I got a Leadtek Winfast TV2000 or something like that, works great. Not perfectly lagless, but fine for pretty much everything I've tried outside of shooters.

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Isnt' there supposed to be a card that'll allow you to hook up via component and play your xbox/ps2 on? I've been thinking of going that route for a long time.

Yes.