As per the reminder we gave at the weekend, Summer Games Done Quick is currently providing round-the-clock entertainment with speedruns and competitions, covering classic games both old and relatively new. At the time of writing it's already raised over a quarter of a million dollars for the Doctors Without Borders charity; that's with much of the week still to come, too.
It's a fantastic event, and we've been looking through the runs uploaded to the YouTube channel and found some great Nintendo-related runs already. A favourite so far is the run below of Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric, which somewhat gloriously manipulates the infamous pause menu glitch. Truly a homage to the flaws of the Wii U title; appropriately considering the source game there are some audio issues at the start, but it gets better and is well worth a watch.
That's just one example, so we recommend checking out the YouTube channel link above. Even better, you can watch the event live on the official website, which is hosting chat and has that all-important donate button.
Have you been enjoying Summer Games Done Quick so far?
[source gamesdonequick.com]
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Everyone watch the Crash Bandicoot 2 run by gamepro011
ayy lmao
The game looks cooler now.
@ThomasBW84 will you guys have the stream for some runs like Super Metroid?
Btw for those wondering, it is currently Metroid Prime: Hunters (finished now, pretty fun end since he took out Gorea just as he died) and Echos is next.
People actually still play this game?
I wish they wouldn't force the 1GB patch on me. If I want to play with the glitches, let me play with the glitches!
@yokokazuo I'm planning regular articles over the next couple of days, but I want to direct people to the official website, which is streaming the whole lot.
@liljmoore Sonic Boom is actually my favorite Wii U game. It's the only Wii U game I've played so far this year, besides Rainbow Curse.
@ManateeBlubber
You can delete update data by going into system settings. And then disconnect from the internet to avoid automatic updates.
@ThomasBW84 ah I see, just want to make sure I don't miss some of them.
There is a special place in my heart for horribly glitchy games. I can't help but feel bad for Sonic fans though, because the trailers for Sonic Boom were much better than this mess.
@ManateeBlubber Even turning wifi off doesn't work?
@Totaldude911 @EarthboundBenjy Nope, it doesn't work. It just tells me to connect to the internet to download the update and won't turn on the game.
@ManateeBlubber
It would probably work if you delete all Sonic Boom save data as well. But I'm not telling you to go and do that - there's still a chance it won't work even after doing that. I don't really know how it works for certain.
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