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/ i always wanted a thing called tuna sashimi! /

shmup fan, puzzle fan, sometimes talks (should do that more tbh)


cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

my favorite thing about speedrunning is that if you knew nothing about it, you'd assume that most of the glitches and tricks were discovered by programmers with disassemblers tearing apart the ROMs, since we have that power now. nah. it's like 1%, if that. other than the fucked up "replace the item donkey kong is holding with whatever he last bumped into" shit, almost everything else is "well i was on my fortieth run that day and i accidentally hit B in the middle of a jump and passed through a wall. then we all got on the discord and watched the VOD over and over while screaming until someone managed to replicate it"


SeerSkye
@SeerSkye

Here's PJDiCesare accidentally discovering a credits warp in Dragon View while investigating a crashing bug that would later be discovered is caused by reaching that cutscene without having saved and reset since defeating the first boss of the game.


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in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:

My favourite one of these is in Ocarina of Time, you can get King Zora to give you the eyeball frog during the "have the Zora's tunic" dialogue by just holding R while having any other trade item. Which is more or less how it was discovered.

OoT speedrunning is so oriented around the shield, hitting R is just instinctive behaviour - still wasn't found til like 2012.

Once before at European Speedrun Assembly, I left my headphones plugged into one of the PCs being used for practice runs at the event. Later, while someone else was on practicing a Star Trek game (I forget which one) I passed by and was all "hey I'm gonna need those back" and unplugged my headphones. This caused the currently playing cutscene to skip the otherwise unskippable line of dialog that was playing, and it turned out with more experimentation that yeah, you could skip through dialog faster by disconnecting and reconnecting the speakers/headphones. I think that might still be a legit strat

in reply to @SeerSkye's post:

Oh, the PJDiCesare "Grand Memory Clobber" is even more ridiculous because it has a very remote chance of warping to the credits. More often than not it will do something that causes the game to crash in a variety of hilarious ways. I remember him getting other effects like "warp into items menu with fucked up graphics", or "weird smiley face displayed on screen".

It's absolutely astounding that he did serious attempts at this run, and even more astounding that he actually succeeded.