Beta? More liek private demo. Watched a stream of a guy speedrunning it in under 20 minutes.

But srsly, its a publicity stunt.

Clearly a tool-assisted speedrun.

If you want to see it done as quick as possible

Thanks for the Quality, appreciate it!
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^ Both. The glitch is part of the game, but it takes superhuman precision and timing to trigger it, thus tool assisted speedruns are the only means, where you slow down the game, record and rerecord thousands of times until you get the result you want. Still, everything is done through controller input. In this case, the glitch is so difficult to trigger that it apparently took hundreds of thousands of attempts by a computer running for several weeks to finally stumble upon a solution.

In theory, this could be done on an original NES-system as well, if you were said superhuman, with perfect knowledge of the inner workings of the game.

Wow. I'd forgotten how impressive a speedrun is.

Quake was when deathmatch was fun. So many Uni classes missed because of this game.

They should have posted the 5 min speedrun

I don't think it qualifies as an exploit by itself. However, when used in order to propel Mr.Freeman to places devs didn't intend him to reach, I guess that qualifies. Still, here it's definitely a lot more 'normal' and WAY less frequent than in the other HL2DQ speedruns.

Crapsticks. my15minutes and I re-played D2 not too long ago.. wish I'd known about this!

There are a bunch of games I re-visit. Dozens in MAME alone, but others like Phantasy Star, Final Fantasy, SMB, Zelda, Metroid. Is anyone else on the sift a speedrun voyuer? I mean I don't do speedruns myself but I love watching them (tool-assisted or not -- both types are interesting).

♥ I LOVE VIDEOGAMES! ♥

I love speedruns for their sheer subversion of anything majestic that gaming can evoke.

Click-click-boop.

You ruuuuule the greatest emmmmpire in the galaxyyyyy...

There's a speedrun of this game here, which abuses this constantly. It's sort of hard to read what he types, because it's a tool-assisted speedrun and he types really fast. But his answers are really funny. It's pretty awesome.

If you can't play the .mkv file, you can use VLC, which will play just about anything, no codec downloads required.

My roommate and I theorize that it accepts wrong answers because it has some sort of fuzzy recognition built in, to recognize words when people misspell them. But it sucks.

http://speeddemosarchive.com/GhostsnGoblins.html

And from his YT page:
This is a live (non-emulated) speedrun of Ghosts N Goblins for NES. I go through both rounds of 6 levels each without any deaths in 22 minutes 56 seconds. This video is of the current verified world record time.

Also check out my no-death Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts!

Maybe NOW you'll be impressed.

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Exactly who verified that this is the world record and what was the paramiters? Did he use an emulator (or whatever they're called)? If so, what makes the no dying and fast clearing parts of this loooong video special?
If the player indeed used an emulator, as I think he did due to the inhumanly timed jumps and accuracy with the lance in the six minutes I watched, then the whole point of bragging is lost, isn't it? It's almost like watching the computer play itself.

Ofcourse! That's the reason I upvoted it. A text-based game speedrun... i mean... lol! the fact that you can't actually read the text properly makes it even funnier imho.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
I actually posted this as a joke, because WHO IN THIER RIGHT MIND WOULD ACTUALLY WATCH THIS WHOLE THING? C'mon system shock!?!

I actually really enjoy speedruns, and this one fails in a lot of ways. Check out this one that genisto from tasvideos.org made:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3743029368575041948&hl=en

This is 15 minutes long, and IMO more entertaining to watch. The one you sifted is over 20 minutes long, and he's making mistakes and backtracking and stuff. It's cool that he got the second warp early, but he still manages to run long.

Is this maybe a legit speedrun, as in, not tool assisted?

You should include the YT description, as it clears up pretty well how the movie was made:

This run was made on an emulator, with slow speeds, frame-by-frame shooting, and re-recordings. It is not meant to show skill, but rather the game pushed to its limits, because it is purely a form of entertainment. Anti-TASers are not welcome here, and any anti-TAS comments will be deleted, and the person who posted them will be permanently blocked from posting comments at any of my videos, or on my channel.

TAS, I am guessing, is an acronym for Tool-Assisted Speedrunning.