I decided to post this forum when a friend of mine told me to beat this one game. I told him I have this game, so I could probably speedrun it. He was amazed when I did this, saying he could never beat the game. (Super Mario World, GBA) So, I was just wondering if there are any other pro speedrunners like me on this website, and what games that can speedrun it, along with their usual time.
@Bloodysaber It's really hard. There are a bunch of glitches you use. You get 16 stars then you use glitches to go through doors, and you use the endless stairs glitch to get to the final battle, you beat bowser and you're done. It's really annoying when you mess up because then you have to start over.
In order to attain the highest possible quality of play in a speedrun, the author usually has to look at and think about the game differently from the way that most casual gamers would. Generally, it is usually required that speedruns are planned out carefully before they are attempted; this need stems from the complexity of the separate areas in which the gameplay takes place. Additionally, games and their physics engines are not flawless and will allow the runner to do unexpected things that could save time. Despite their inherent differences, they seem to share a lot of common traits in this context, such as the ability to disjunct the common sequence of events in a game and thus skip entire parts of it—the act of sequence breaking—and the ability to use programming errors, or glitches, to one's advantage.
It's like, I just love a cowboy
You know
I'm just like, I just, I know, it's bad
But I'm just like
Can I just like, hang off the back of your horse
And can you go a little faster?!
@Bloodysaber It's really hard. There are a bunch of glitches you use. You get 16 stars then you use glitches to go through doors, and you use the endless stairs glitch to get to the final battle, you beat bowser and you're done. It's really annoying when you mess up because then you have to start over.
Yeah, looked up a "former" world record on youtube and was actually kind of disappointed that all it turned out to be was a series of glitches being abused. Albeit it would take me some time to memorize and execute everything required to reach such low times; something about glitching to beat a game faster doesn't really appeal to me.
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