Crazy Speedruns

I was researching the fastest speedruns for some of my favorite games and some dude beat Mario 64 in 5:47 seconds with 0 Stars. They were both TAS, but the exploits were real, so no hacks were involved.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTzs9bcNgMQ (Mario 64) [5:47]


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKpHukOaBIY&feature=PlayList&p=7C57F4892EFB8C0D&index=0 (OOT) [2:16:47]

you seen the resident evil 4 knife run ? its impressive

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That Mario 64 run was fucking badass.

I've seen a TES: Marrowind run in like 7 minutes.

There are a tonne of completely insane ones in the Guinness Book of Records Gamer Edition.

The Super Mario Bros speedrun by Andrew Gardikis is pretty amazing; especially if you consider that the TAS was less than a second faster and this run was done on a console and still almost flawless. Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie4E3Bmqb5w

I'd mention more but I'm not sure how many speedruns the average gamer views apart from those of classic AAA titles. I watch a lot at speeddemosarchive.com and have been assisting with a new run for Banjo-Kazooie over the last year which should appear sometime soon.

Edit: There's several TAS runs which are faster than the 5.47 run, but since they only improve by a few seconds (fastest I've seen is 5.29) then once you've seen the first you've pretty much seen them all aside from a few minor timesavers here and there.

I all ways hated TAS runs since most take advantage of glitchs, I all ways enjoyed more the none assisted none glitch runs.

TAS's are still great for entertainment though, and that's their main purpose. But at the same time, if you're speedrunning a game, a TAS is a fantastic resource for all sorts of timesavers you would never have found before if you were playing the game on a console. Non-TAS runs take advantage of glitches too, you just might not notice as many being used, although it generally depends on the game.

If I want to see a showcase of skill, then of course I'm not going to go find a TAS to watch. But they're still great in their own right.

What does Tool Assisted Speedrun mean exactly? What "tools" do they mean? 

"What does Tool Assisted Speedrun mean exactly? What "tools" do they mean? 

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