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http://www.justin.tv/cosmowright/b/293465238

Pretty cool recent attempt at a record, clocks in at sub 11:30! Uses a savegame glitch to pass Slug Village, but otherwise plays all levels legit--and has a few lucky breaks.

It both amused and didn't surprise me that the most dangerous enemy in the run is the Skypest.

Please be forewarned that he curses a few times, so if you have sensitive ears, you may want to mute the volume. :)

I find it hard to believe no one has beaten this time, considering how much he fumbles around.

Paramultart wrote:I find it hard to believe no one has beaten this time, considering how much he fumbles around.

Thems be fighting words!

Go on, try it!

"You gotta be 18 to view this" wth.

Pretty nice watch, I like how the guy gets comparatively tense the further he gets. Also that's a cool timkeeping tool he has there, I wonder how and where...

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This video might be fake, but he got some amazing skills! I personally saw 3-4 mistakes, non of which were big though. Without these mistakes the time would probably be ~11:20. And the save and exit bug that he uses is still a cheat.

Yeah--the thing is, each individual level or challenge isn't all that tricky to overcome. But when you consider that this is a single-segment speedrun, with no mid-level saves, or saves at all, it is very lucky and requires a good degree of planning.

Obviously a Tool-Assisted Speedrun (TAS) would be faster, but for an actual person playing live, this is impressive. :)

If you're looking for the tools he used, check out http://www.speedrunslive.com/tools. I think the one used in that run was WSplit.

And by all means, PLEASE challenge this speedrun! :) Record it on a stream of your own or upload to YouTube. The cool part about SpeedRunsLive is that you can challenge people to races of games live--more popular games like Super Mario 64 or Super Mario World are run multiple times daily, and the community is very welcoming to newcomers. :)

Pretty impressive how well he knows the placement of many of the enemies and their movement tendencies based on where they start.

Most of the time, when speedrunning a game, as soon as you make a mistake, you restart/reset... If you run the beginning of the game enough times, you get a pretty good idea of what's going to happen! :)

Not shown in this run were the dozens of times he mis-fired, mis-pogoed, or just plain mis-stepped and died!