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"
I can't help but wonder if there's a correlation between any particularly infamous instances of a glitch that couldn't be easily recreated, and people getting more religious about using their input views religiously. Like...is there any glitch out there that took years to recreate or never could be replicated because no one had the inputs?
That's one of my favorite glitches and I personally subscribe to the cosmic ray theory (not for any scientific reason, but because the idea that space rays from space caused it make me giggle.) I just can't help but wonder if that run had input view on and, if not not, if the attempts to replicate it would have gone differently if it was present.
