June 16, 2022 update: It actually happened! Judge9 has completed the RNG manipulation bob-omb into turnip into beam sword strategy for a new world record! 9.23 with the potential to go even lower! th-cam.com/video/hkXad2AFpbQ/w-d-xo.html November 28, 2023 update: Judge9 has hit sub-9! Check out the bob-omb slide-off for target 4! th-cam.com/video/PR4W7Fc9uqY/w-d-xo.html Subscribe if you want to join my Donkey Kong jamboree: th-cam.com/users/practicaltas twitter.com/PracticalTAS // I have a Patreon now, check it out :) patreon.com/PracticalTAS Dec 23, 2020 update: ONE MILLION VIEWS! THANK YOU EVERYONE!! Big news everyone! WE'VE BROKEN THE 3 MINUTE BARRIER! Demon9 knocked Pikachu down to 7.18 on January 1, 2020 , then 7.10 on January 2, and that very same day mudi hit a phenomenal 6.97 to bring our total time down to 2:59.92! Here's mudi's monumental run: th-cam.com/video/D2GM7h_9WZg/w-d-xo.html YO GUYS! WE HAVE A NEW SUB-10! Demon9, an old-school player, watched this video then used an airdodge-canceled throw to hit 9.97! th-cam.com/video/fZgsuSf3MQ0/w-d-xo.html I'm so excited to see more activity around Peach BTT! Congratulations to Jerry for becoming the 12th person to hit a sub-10! Jerry used the same strat as Demon and landed a 9.95 itemless with an airdodge-canceled throw! th-cam.com/video/hosymvdyKEE/w-d-xo.html Congratulations to Clad, who's the 13th member of the sub-10 club with a 9.99! th-cam.com/video/6ldQhXScLMY/w-d-xo.html Congratulations to Nyz, who's the 14th member of the sub-10 club with a 9.97! th-cam.com/video/5imEFYu2w0M/w-d-xo.html
at 23:20... the up-counting hundredths are rounded down (013568) for 00-48, to nearest (023578) for 50-97, and it uses 99 instead of 98 so 99:59.99 can appear. when it counts down, it uses 99 minus all of these, so it uses 00, the 124679 times from 02 to 49, and the 134689 times from 51 to 99. Interestingly, I checked some Whack/Thwack + no KO stage (in VS, with the timer counting down from 7 minutes) footage I have in _Ultimate_ and SKELUX's video on getting 100 KOs in Cruel Smash (with the timer counting up to about 30 minutes), and these quirks with the timer don't happen; the timer will always count 013568 (the way _Melee_ counts time upwards from .00 to .48). Oh, and also... The hundredths that Melee will display on both up and down counts are 00, 06, 11, 16, 21, 26, 31, 36, 41, 46, 53, 58, 63, 68, 73, 78, 83, 88, 93, and 99, and the ones that it can decide on how many frames they are above .00 are 00 and 99 only (the others represent one frame less when counting down than when counting up).
For those watching who haven't heard: THEY'VE DONE IT!! As of January 2, 2020, the total world record has officially broken 3 minutes: 2 minutes 59.92 seconds!
What strikes me is how FAST the internet and technology moves. Trying to dig up old websites from the early 2000s may as well be like uncovering ancient civilization artifacts. Being excluded from archive.org is like harsh weather or a war destroying those artifacts. Not to mention internet things that are even older, like 90s websites. Searching for 90s internet stuff is kind of like searching for caveman paintings. Great work on this video!
Agreed. Like I remember surfing the internet including GameFAQs back in the late 90s. Crazy how the internet has evolved. In the early 00s no one but the rich kids had cell phones. And by mid 00s everyone had one. By early 2010s everyone had a smartphone, even though they only existed for a decade.
Me : "Ho, another world record history video, it should be nice !" The video : *Reveals a huge new TAS World Record* *Reveals optimisation for the current route* *Reveals 2 differents and more optimized routes, including one that doesn't involve RNG* *Reveals a new world record* Me : "...What did I just watch ..?"
This video is fucking PHENOMENAL. Not just from the insane years of research that went into the beginning, but the storytelling and ending both showing off the new world record and showing how we can go even further really inspires you with a nice positive mood for whatever you're doing next.
Congratulations. You just made a person totally non-interested in Speed Running watch a +1 hour video of Princess Peach parkouring around a target stage. Completely fascinating.
@@zech6857 Jesus it is. I regret nothing. I watch ZFG destroying zelda ocarina of time, but speedrunning is interesting in all honesty. It is pretty awesome watching these people demolish this shit. It is kind of like watching the olympics, except it is for video games.
I find a lot of these speedrunning history videos feel really padded out and obligatory, but you somehow made an hour of video about a single stage compelling from start to finish. That's incredible.
This is one of the best Melee content pieces ever produced. There is so much information, both historical and technical, and yet the presentation of it all is extremely fluid and well-paced such that it was never overwhelming (I never felt the need to pause or rewind the video once). In an hour long video, it's easy to include some "filler" but everything shown felt relevant, even though I'm sure there was plenty more you *could* have said. I don't think anybody expects you to ever put this level of investment into anything like this ever again, but if you do, add me to the list of people who eagerly anticipates it.
I loved the RNG manipulation section. I remember in Pokemon gen 5, they made RNG manipulation INCREDIBLY easy--something that had to be done at 1/60 second precision in gen 4 was changed to 1-second precision in gen 5. Getting legit pokemon with 5 perfect IVs was fun. Then later they disabled that but drastically improved the breeding scene. RIP legit perfect legendaries.
@@kepler69c32 You're right, I was working off of 2015-ish info when I said gen 6 RNG manipulation didn't work. Seems like they have fully broken down literally every aspect of RNG manip since then for the 3DS-era games, but it's an order of magnitude more involved than gen 4 or 5 was (gen 4 was hard, but not *complicated*, it was basically just resetting until you hit the right 1/60th of a second)
@@codetaku it truns out that the guys came across with a way to manipulate pokemon gen 8 raids without any CFWed switch (normal not hacked console). i dont know how they break the walls like this, its like a ton of work finding the game/console routines that handle rng AND do the calculations to reverse seeds with minimal information you can get in-game. if you're still interested in rng manip/seed reversing, you can definately check out the videos about minecraft pack.png seed reversing, its really impressive (you may not like minecraft, but the science behind this research is truly amazing) (also sorry for my english)
Tbh im not a huge fan of summoning salt. I feel like he glosses over some stuff and doesn't get into the story enough. I don't feel connected to the runs like I do with vids like this one
@@triplebog yeah I could say the same too. This is his only problem I see with him. I remember in the Castlevania video he just describes SBDWolf as a high level cuphead player. I believe he didn't even say that SBD holds wr's in the game.
An astonishing number of "firsts" showcased in this video. There's just no way that this video will do well enough to justify it's production value but love makes people do funny things. Thanks for sharing your love of melee, speedrunning, and TAS with us!
@@XandyPants context my dude. here are some previous relatively low effort viral videos from this channel: Who can make the training stage jump - 2.6m views Can piranha plant make the training stage jump - 1.7m views Who can jump higher than Kirby - 7.9m views
This video is so awesome and so entertaining it's just amazing. The amount of research and editing and storytelling and information in this is astonishing. I know that I often surf through TH-cam and watch some boring ass videos. This is not one of them! I enjoyed every second of it and I would love to see more of this kind! Especially entertaining if you were into melee and BtT yourself since childhood!
To be fair, a 10 second world record is a little different than games that are minutes long. Even if he depicted a short one like Super Mario Bros (a little under 5 minutes) that's still a huge chunk of video taken up for it, let alone longer games.
We are incredibly lucky to have people like you in our community making such excellent videos as this. Huge thanks to you (and of course to all the runners too) for weaving such a compelling storyline.
I've just watch a 1 hour long video about how some duds did their absolute best to make their waifu go 5.02 seconds faster ( 8:50 - 1:01:22 ) One true TH-cam Masterpiece.
And think about all the time lost to "save" those 5 seconds... But it's like research: what gets discovered isn't always the useful part. It's the new ways and new strategies used to discover that particular thing, that are useful and can be applied to solve other problems. So in the end it's not a waste of time.
He slept 1 768 days for the rest of them he was researching, while you were working 9-5 he was researching SBM peach target records, while you were walking your dog he was researching SBM peach target records, while you were volunteering your talents at the local childrens hospital cancer ward he was researching SBM peach target records.
I get that you're trying to give a compliment but a video being shorter than another video, can only help it's engagement. The longer something is the less engaging it is. Saying that this video is more engaging the starwars despite it being shorter does not make any sense.
@@Prabohong what you're saying would make more sense if he had said "this was more engaging *despite* being half the run time"... although I get that what you've said is probably what the OP's statement is meant to imply anyway so I see where you're coming from, just thought I'd throw that out there
@@Prabohong also thought I'd add, that "longer" videos do actually have more engagement than shorter ones do, but only up to a certain point, hence the whole "have to reach 10 minute mark by any means necessary for ad revenue on TH-cam" thing, or at least I'm pretty sure I heard that engagement was one of the reasons for why it was implemented. Idk about videos that extend past the 1 hour mark, but I'd be willing to bet a video still retains decent engagement a good bit past 10 minutes though (obviously depending mostly upon the topic/content)
Honestly TASs are way more interesting than "legit" speedruns and this video does a great job illustrating why We need more videos explaining how the most optimal TAS runs work
So here I am, half post-new year hangover, I randomly start watching an hour-long video about a game mode I've never really been much involved with from a game I abandoned playing more than ten years ago... and there I unexpectedly show up in the middle of it. It's been a long time that I haven't been able to keep interest long enough in a Melee video to watch something from beginning to end, I am genuinely amazed at the incredible archeological excavations you did there! I've completely disconnected from the Melee community since 2009 and I've been wondering for a while now where I could find old and/or new record lists, since all the good old websites I knew back then have disappeared from the face of the internet. One thing that has never changed though is that the Melee community's dedication keeps amazing me. All. the. time.
If you go to the description of the video and join the smash stadium discord, we would love to have any veterans rejoin the community, even just to talk. We've updated all the record lists and whatnot, and the discord is full of veterans from back in the day (mudi, Mario 64 Master, etc.), some of which are still working on records today.
holy SHIT this video is good, like unreasonably good, you will get compared to summoning salt a LOT for this video in the comments but this video is on a whole different level. the research you put into the first third of the video alone was impressive but the last part completely blew me away. 10/10
@@PracticalTAS well theres no doubt some people will construe this as ripping off his style but hey it's a good format and you put in a ton of work, very well done
@@tree2992 hmm i'd say this vid is primarily (although it definitely goes beyond it) describing the world record progression, which is undoubtedly summoning salts shtick
Im a competitive Smash player, never been personally into speedrunning and I never thought for a second I would ever watch an over hour long video about WR's for Peach's Melee BTT, but here I am having finished the whole thing. All I have to say is great job on this video, you sucked me in and kept me interested for over an hour on a topic I never thought I would even remotely care about, but this was actually really cool. Good Job.
Never in my life have a been interested in speedruns, and never in my life WILL I be interested in speedruns. But I DID just watch an hour long video on speedruns anyway
The pokemon Uno Edit: this is really good. I dont care if everyone starts copying summoning salt; means more amazing content as far as im concerned. Great job, seriously it must have been a chore to complete.
@@fredrickrodriguez2175 99% of videos covering speedrun history copy the music, structure, pacing, tone, etc of Summoning Salt, and were made following the success of his channel. Call of Duty is not that similar to Pong. Very different.
@@leaffinite2001 I would argue the pacing is actually decently different in this run, with how much it references TAS and future stats. Though a lot of that is to do with how tight the category is being a 10s run compared to an hour something run
@@yu2eZman yeah, the last third of this video is fresh and pretty great, my fave part. But the first 2 thirds are kinda derivative; not that they arent awesome.
This is legitimately some of the most impressive work I've seen at archiving something like this. You dug so deep into so many places. Please donate your finding to a local library or something, this is so important to preserve, even if people don't think so.
Great effort you put into the video - I had watched an hour long video before I even realized it. Your writing and storytelling really drew me in and had me hooked.
honestly this is just so amazing overall, the mad dedication and pursuit of information as well as the smooth and fluid storytelling, no part was boring and it’s insane that there’s so much history on a topic like this!
No, I triple checked that. Unidentified person was his tag specifically - I was told the Japanese characters used are the same as in UFO (same "unidentified"). Also, non-logged in users on the forum translated to "anonymous".
oh. my. god. this may be one of the greatest youtube videos on the site... EVER! i love this much more than the modern, formulaic videos made by summoning salt. the mystery! the adventure! every ounce of research and effort that you have put into this video has paid off in the best way. i know this must have taken you an extreme amount of effort and time, spanning months, as you said. the combination of pannenkoek-like mechanic explanation and speedrunning documentation have occumulated into this masterpiece of a video. conGRATS! even if this doesnt blow up or make any splash of impact upon most people’s lives, it has definitely affected mine. i hope to see more from you in the future, practical. genuinely, at the very least, the melee scene could improve magnanimously from videos at this scale. my hat is off to you, good sir, and i hope this is the payoff you imagined from this type of undertaking.
This was probably thhe best christmas gift I never knew I wanted. By the end of the video i was incomparably excited about something I didn't even know about an hour before. Thank you for all the time and effort you poured into this, the melee community will never die with people like you creating content like this.
When I saw the time at the beginning I thought "I'm gonna just watch some minutes and left" boy I was wrong. This was incredibly interesting for someone that doesn't even play melee. I can't imagine how much work went into this. I had watched your videos before but never subscribed until now just because of this video
Wow, I just watched a video about the evolution of melee peach target speedrun for an hour and didn't even realize it! You've somehow managed to grab & keep my attention with only through research. You're a GOD. I don't how you haven't blown up yet.
Talking about the most nerdy, technical, seemingly inconsequential, actions for more than an hour makes my heart warm. It's like watching a geeky version of the olympics. Such love and care put into an hour long video about breaking virtual targets in a game that's practically 20 years old. God bless you all!
the Half A Press references had me dying 😂😂😂 the music, the jamboree, "first we gotta talk about..." So glad to see you pay tribute to our hero @pannenkoek2012
You've gotten tons of comments like this already, but holy shit bro. Honestly, this was an amazing video. My interest in Melee is very small, and only due to Ultimate/Smash 4 players talking about it. But this? It was incredible. It took a topic I only vaguely knew existed and made me so interested that when you unveiled the times near the end of the video, I was actually shocked. I almost gasped. This production value was insane, and all the research you did was great. And the fact that so many of the names in this video actually showed up and talked to you? Mind boggling. Great work, I'm subbing now.
singularon1 Why is it sad? He’s just saying it’s gonna get recommended even though many may not be interested in Smash Melee Break the Target. I definitely wasn’t, but I enjoyed it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
aaannnddd it just happened to me, i dont play smash, never did. i happened to have watched some speedruns of other games but nothing even close to smash, it was devil may cry and need for speed, lmao. and yes, i watched the whole thing.
@@xHeigoux Ignore the topic and look at what the video accomplished. It explained its material in an accessible manner, was thoroughly researched and factually correct, and even pushed the topic further. tl;dr: it's the perfect documentary film.
I don't like speed runs or smash and I still had it recommended... But I'm totally cool with it. Watched the video entirely because this creator put SOOOO much effort into this that he deserves every view he gets and more
This is some amazing research and archiving work done for the sake of such a niche (to the wider world) community. Serious kudos to you for putting in so much effort. It makes me happy to see so much history being compiled.
I'm randomly here for this videos 1 year anniversary and what I really appreciate right now is this old ass tournament footage of these BTT players, even against each other!
I can't believe I almost didn't watch this. This was truly fantastic. I wonder if this is the first time that the making of a documentary has lead to massive upheavals to the thing being documented.
I saw this video on my recommended. Didn’t even look at the time of it. But damn am I glad I sat through the whole thing. The research, the story telling, the explaining, how everything was put together, it was all phenomenal. I can’t even imagine the work and time that was put into this video. Your passion for this shows so much, and I respect the hell out of it. Thank you for this video.
@@Sam-nq6rh No, I'm ZyOn ! I don't play this game anymore, I stopped like 12 years ago... But it's weird (and also pleasant) to see your own nickname in this kind of documentary video !
Little did I know that at 4:40 am I would watch a documentary on a video game about people breaking targets under ten seconds for one hour three minutes and fifty-three seconds. 10/10 this was awesome I would watch again
Cort's situation is one of those cases where I believe what is being said, but I can't accept it into records if I was somehow put in a position to make the decision.
@@raserucort Hey, happy to see you on here! Tinister, PerfectDonkeyMoon, CornerDealy/Dealie, ShadowTheChog, r1k, deranged, malva00, raserucort, marth1.... I'm sure I'm forgetting others, but it's amazing how often BtT names/memories come up almost 20 years later! Quick q: Were you also the person who claimed to have gotten Fox's WR from 7.28 to 7.23 (or whatever) that was met with a lot of scrutiny? I believe the new strat involved hitting a burner or something. Can't remember if that was you or somebody else. I just remember everyone voting/taking sides about accepting the score.
ok so i love the references to pannenkoek with mario 64 music and the donkey kong jamboree that is not possible but this video is fucking top tier, the sheer amounts of dedication in both making the video and the people making runs for this to be possible in the first place is unreal to me
This video really surprised me, I didn't expect this to be so good. I watched every second. The research you did for this video is amazing. And the fact you revived a category is amazing as well. Thank you for your time to create such an in depth video.
45:40 not finished watching the vid yet, but there is no need to test 4.3 billion permutations manually. You could do this trivially in seconds in code. Every range of values generated by the random function will correspond to a certain item pull. assumedly their code looks something like this: Item PullTurnip() { if(Random.Range(0, 128) == 0) //pulled item { int randomItem = Random.Range(0, 6); if (randomItem
The issue with this is that there are many (hundreds of) random calls between the various pulls, caused by Peach's actions. And the number of calls itself is dependent on the seed, as there can be a variable amount of dust clouds, etc. So the only way to be able to trace the whole path of a seed over a run is to execute the run with the specific starting seed (or, I guess, reverse engineer the whole Melee engine). It's not a trivial solve.
okay I just saw 55:20 where the devs stop using random.Next() based on the seed and do a standard random function based on time. so any set of pulls is hypothetically possible and that other thing is irrelevant. you could get 100 bobombs in a row in that case. in my games I use two different random functions, one seed for core gameplay stuff so runs are consistent, and one for things like random pitching on sounds, dust as you say etc. where it's purely aesthetic and makes no difference to gameplay.
Ah, I see. I suppose I could have clarified this better, but Melee uses random.Next() for both the gameplay and aesthetic rng calls. Going into the stage on the same seed and performing the exact same inputs on the same frame will always result in the same sequence of pulls (and the same dust clouds, etc). So you can get 100 bob-ombs in a row if you manipulate the seed between each pull, but 4 in a row might not be possible if you're pulling back to back frame-perfectly.
@@PracticalTAS ahh okay. One thing I was unclear on is that the frame of inputs makes a difference to the randomness, but I guess that's just a byproduct of the "chaos" of physics and so many untracked particle systems etc. . So yeah, for a frame perfect run you would need a specific optimal seed and I see what you mean by the problem of how calculable it is, you'd have to know exactly how many dust clouds etc. are going to spawn and exactly how many times that RNG function is called. Still maybe calculable for frame perfectness? but obvs frame perfect is so difficult to achieve that it isn't really worth entertaining. dope video! I was thinking from the 50 minute mark like "someone should definitely attempt a bomb + beam run, doesn't seem that impossible" so hearing that people are actually doing that now is awesome. Maybe the bounty will get complete. Really awesome vid all round, good job.
Well someone has done well in their English classes. This is basically a video form of a well-informed and exquisite documented research paper that has us all intrigued right from your thesis in the start. And the evidence used throughout the body of the video flowed through, tying back to your original statement time and time again. Thank you for this! Your time and oodles of supplemental research have definitely paid off to attract your audience!! 10/10
@11:57 - whooo I made it in the video! (CornerDealie). Those were fun times back then.. all competing and coming out with new records and different strategies all the time. Miss the old BtT community. Great video by the way! Thanks for the trip down memory lane
I did not think this would be as enjoyable as it was. I was entertained through the entire video. What the heck is mele and how are we still finding out stuff about it. This is insane
Hey practical, I just watched this entire documentary coming in cold to the category, and having not thought about melee in like 15 years. This was incredibly enjoyable and well sourced, you did a great job, and I hope the effort of this comes back as success for you!
I watched this 10 hours ago before work, and I just couldn’t stop randomly thinking about it. This was the best video that I’ve watched in months, keep doing what you’re doing man. We appreciate your dedication.
“2^32 is just way to many options, there’s no way to check them all” Mattiew bolan, kaptainwutax, and the rest of the minecraft seed finding community: are we a joke to you
And it’s an LCG too, so they don’t even have to brute force it, they can just use matthew’s newest algorithm library as soon as it handles non java LCGs
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June 16, 2022 update: It actually happened! Judge9 has completed the RNG manipulation bob-omb into turnip into beam sword strategy for a new world record! 9.23 with the potential to go even lower! th-cam.com/video/hkXad2AFpbQ/w-d-xo.html
November 28, 2023 update: Judge9 has hit sub-9! Check out the bob-omb slide-off for target 4! th-cam.com/video/PR4W7Fc9uqY/w-d-xo.html
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Dec 23, 2020 update: ONE MILLION VIEWS! THANK YOU EVERYONE!!
Big news everyone! WE'VE BROKEN THE 3 MINUTE BARRIER! Demon9 knocked Pikachu down to 7.18 on January 1, 2020
, then 7.10 on January 2, and that very same day mudi hit a phenomenal 6.97 to bring our total time down to 2:59.92!
Here's mudi's monumental run: th-cam.com/video/D2GM7h_9WZg/w-d-xo.html
YO GUYS! WE HAVE A NEW SUB-10! Demon9, an old-school player, watched this video then used an airdodge-canceled throw to hit 9.97! th-cam.com/video/fZgsuSf3MQ0/w-d-xo.html
I'm so excited to see more activity around Peach BTT!
Congratulations to Jerry for becoming the 12th person to hit a sub-10! Jerry used the same strat as Demon and landed a 9.95 itemless with an airdodge-canceled throw! th-cam.com/video/hosymvdyKEE/w-d-xo.html
Congratulations to Clad, who's the 13th member of the sub-10 club with a 9.99! th-cam.com/video/6ldQhXScLMY/w-d-xo.html
Congratulations to Nyz, who's the 14th member of the sub-10 club with a 9.97! th-cam.com/video/5imEFYu2w0M/w-d-xo.html
at 23:20... the up-counting hundredths are rounded down (013568) for 00-48, to nearest (023578) for 50-97, and it uses 99 instead of 98 so 99:59.99 can appear. when it counts down, it uses 99 minus all of these, so it uses 00, the 124679 times from 02 to 49, and the 134689 times from 51 to 99.
Interestingly, I checked some Whack/Thwack + no KO stage (in VS, with the timer counting down from 7 minutes) footage I have in _Ultimate_ and SKELUX's video on getting 100 KOs in Cruel Smash (with the timer counting up to about 30 minutes), and these quirks with the timer don't happen; the timer will always count 013568 (the way _Melee_ counts time upwards from .00 to .48).
Oh, and also... The hundredths that Melee will display on both up and down counts are 00, 06, 11, 16, 21, 26, 31, 36, 41, 46, 53, 58, 63, 68, 73, 78, 83, 88, 93, and 99, and the ones that it can decide on how many frames they are above .00 are 00 and 99 only (the others represent one frame less when counting down than when counting up).
This video is fucking amazing
Make more of these
Do more videos like this. They're much more enjoyable than the "Who Can?" vids, imo.
Sprythekid 17 true, the who can videos are very cookie cutter and not very original. This is original and very well researched
wife: "plz come to bed"
me: "hold on im watching a 1hr vid on a 10sec speedrun"
Fake!
We all know, that gamers don't have wifes.
@@bennyelsensohn9299 Sure they do, they're just referred to as Hoscores.
Fuck I didn’t see this was 1 hour long until I saw this
@@Romaoplays same... I'm shhhooook
I wish you told me sooner it was one hour, fuck
started watching and it ended too fast
I just watched through an hour of someone discussing the optimization of throwing vegetables and swords at targets, and I regret nothing
When I close my eyes, peach pulling turnips is all I see.
Thank you you just told me this is a hour so bye vid
*Gone sexual*
Dont forget bombs
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I love that SM64 file select theme has become synonymous with "but first I must explain something about this game."
Well, that would be because of pannenkoek2012. But yes, I love it's use, ironic or unironic, every time.
@@noisyninjaboy I hope his most recent commentated video means he's back to commentating.
@@wompastompa3692 I doubt so, but the ABC trials give me hope.
@@wompastompa3692 he'll only commentate for special videos though.
Wompa Stompa FYI i even encountered this theme song watching the news on tv.
For those watching who haven't heard: THEY'VE DONE IT!! As of January 2, 2020, the total world record has officially broken 3 minutes: 2 minutes 59.92 seconds!
@princesspumpkinpanty ???
@princesspumpkinpanty lower is better
@princesspumpkinpanty feck off
princesspumpkinpanty
not quite
princesspumpkinpanty u ruined it
What strikes me is how FAST the internet and technology moves. Trying to dig up old websites from the early 2000s may as well be like uncovering ancient civilization artifacts. Being excluded from archive.org is like harsh weather or a war destroying those artifacts. Not to mention internet things that are even older, like 90s websites. Searching for 90s internet stuff is kind of like searching for caveman paintings. Great work on this video!
@1998SIMOMEGA exactly. Why do people actually do this unironically
Agreed. Like I remember surfing the internet including GameFAQs back in the late 90s. Crazy how the internet has evolved.
In the early 00s no one but the rich kids had cell phones. And by mid 00s everyone had one. By early 2010s everyone had a smartphone, even though they only existed for a decade.
Me : "Ho, another world record history video, it should be nice !"
The video : *Reveals a huge new TAS World Record*
*Reveals optimisation for the current route*
*Reveals 2 differents and more optimized routes, including one that doesn't involve RNG*
*Reveals a new world record*
Me : "...What did I just watch ..?"
history in the making!
This video is fucking PHENOMENAL.
Not just from the insane years of research that went into the beginning, but the storytelling and ending both showing off the new world record and showing how we can go even further really inspires you with a nice positive mood for whatever you're doing next.
This is what real years of research looks like
haha he said years of research
There’s so much dedication and research. That I find it very cringeworthy.
yEaRs Of ReSeArCh
Congratulations. You just made a person totally non-interested in Speed Running watch a +1 hour video of Princess Peach parkouring around a target stage. Completely fascinating.
Exactly... and the same ~10 seconds of a stage at that....
Didn’t even know it was 1 hour till I was finished with it
Oh my God this video is 1 hour?
@@zech6857 Do you incels not look at a video before you click it?
@@zech6857 Jesus it is. I regret nothing. I watch ZFG destroying zelda ocarina of time, but speedrunning is interesting in all honesty. It is pretty awesome watching these people demolish this shit. It is kind of like watching the olympics, except it is for video games.
I find a lot of these speedrunning history videos feel really padded out and obligatory, but you somehow made an hour of video about a single stage compelling from start to finish.
That's incredible.
Do you think summoningsalt is padded?
Depends on the video, he's a little hit or miss for me but I like his work overall.
There’s no padding here. I wouldn’t be surprised if this were more than a hundred hours of research boiled down to an hour.
TRU AF
Are we just not gonna talk about how he called Unown “Uno”
No, we are just gonna enjoy the masterpiece
But... but man on internet made mistake, we no insult?
@@tapatorta are you having a stroke?
@@paradoxinfinity-y2b Not right now
Speedrun strats.
This is my favorite video in the world. Thank you for making this video. You went above and beyond to get everything you could.
You CAN beat the record!
And thank YOU so much for all your help behind the scenes! I couldn't have done it without you.
YES YOU CAN!!! Take that crown back lol
I'm commenting just so my comment is here when he breaks it
LDA was my favorite protagonist of the video tbh
I want the government to fund this kind of cultural preservation.
Bernie would probably do something like that, with enough feedback.
@@crypt0nym0ussec57 ...
your kidding right
Crypt0nym0us Sec that’s a joke... right?
right??
Firebal612 c ffyoee he
This is one of the best Melee content pieces ever produced. There is so much information, both historical and technical, and yet the presentation of it all is extremely fluid and well-paced such that it was never overwhelming (I never felt the need to pause or rewind the video once). In an hour long video, it's easy to include some "filler" but everything shown felt relevant, even though I'm sure there was plenty more you *could* have said.
I don't think anybody expects you to ever put this level of investment into anything like this ever again, but if you do, add me to the list of people who eagerly anticipates it.
Wow, thank you!
lol nice comment bro
This is the comment equivalent of this video, love it.
@@20iqman47 funny cause I was feeling the same way
I'm on that list too! Speedrunning history (and speedrunning in general) always fascinates me, and the quality of this video is spectacular!
We need to talk about Parallel Uni------ Random Number Generation.
Wow, that's me at 24:38. So unexpected.
u r a big fukin nerd
@@chairwood LOL
*THE* MetalKirby??? 😵
u fuckin weenie, good shit bro
Funny to see how many of us still use our same usernames 20 years later.
I loved the RNG manipulation section. I remember in Pokemon gen 5, they made RNG manipulation INCREDIBLY easy--something that had to be done at 1/60 second precision in gen 4 was changed to 1-second precision in gen 5. Getting legit pokemon with 5 perfect IVs was fun.
Then later they disabled that but drastically improved the breeding scene. RIP legit perfect legendaries.
afaik u can manip rng in gen 6 and 7, but its not as easy as gen 5 to perform. i dont know about gen 8
@@kepler69c32 You're right, I was working off of 2015-ish info when I said gen 6 RNG manipulation didn't work. Seems like they have fully broken down literally every aspect of RNG manip since then for the 3DS-era games, but it's an order of magnitude more involved than gen 4 or 5 was (gen 4 was hard, but not *complicated*, it was basically just resetting until you hit the right 1/60th of a second)
@@codetaku it truns out that the guys came across with a way to manipulate pokemon gen 8 raids without any CFWed switch (normal not hacked console).
i dont know how they break the walls like this, its like a ton of work finding the game/console routines that handle rng AND do the calculations to reverse seeds with minimal information you can get in-game.
if you're still interested in rng manip/seed reversing, you can definately check out the videos about minecraft pack.png seed reversing, its really impressive (you may not like minecraft, but the science behind this research is truly amazing)
(also sorry for my english)
@@kepler69c32 your english is pretty good, dude. Thanks for all the info :)
Speedrun analysis video exists
Everyone: summoning salt
Even though he made like 90% of the videos people act like no one else can tackle the genre lol
Someone: Use Home Were Finally Landing in there speedrun history video
Everyone: summoning salt
People have been saying that?
Tbh im not a huge fan of summoning salt. I feel like he glosses over some stuff and doesn't get into the story enough. I don't feel connected to the runs like I do with vids like this one
@@triplebog yeah I could say the same too. This is his only problem I see with him. I remember in the Castlevania video he just describes SBDWolf as a high level cuphead player. I believe he didn't even say that SBD holds wr's in the game.
An astonishing number of "firsts" showcased in this video. There's just no way that this video will do well enough to justify it's production value but love makes people do funny things. Thanks for sharing your love of melee, speedrunning, and TAS with us!
This comment has aged like a fine wine as the video sits at one million views now! \o/
@@XandyPants context my dude. here are some previous relatively low effort viral videos from this channel:
Who can make the training stage jump - 2.6m views
Can piranha plant make the training stage jump - 1.7m views
Who can jump higher than Kirby - 7.9m views
But *THAT* wasnt the world record either!
The world record was below 10.BUT THAT WAS NOT THE REAL RECORD EITHER!!!
This video is so awesome and so entertaining it's just amazing.
The amount of research and editing and storytelling and information in this is astonishing.
I know that I often surf through TH-cam and watch some boring ass videos. This is not one of them! I enjoyed every second of it and I would love to see more of this kind!
Especially entertaining if you were into melee and BtT yourself since childhood!
Debuting 2 world records in same video! Summoning Salt would never.
To be fair, a 10 second world record is a little different than games that are minutes long. Even if he depicted a short one like Super Mario Bros (a little under 5 minutes) that's still a huge chunk of video taken up for it, let alone longer games.
His most recent video, the one on Frappe Snowland, goes over 4 record categories
"Donkey Kong Jamboree"
Underrated reference
If your dream was to have a 7 player Donkey Kong Jamboree, I'm sorry but it's not gonna happen.
We are incredibly lucky to have people like you in our community making such excellent videos as this. Huge thanks to you (and of course to all the runners too) for weaving such a compelling storyline.
I've just watch a 1 hour long video about how some duds did their absolute best to make their waifu go 5.02 seconds faster ( 8:50 - 1:01:22 )
One true TH-cam Masterpiece.
52:12 lets say you're obsessed with donkey kong
w-why are yall looking at me
Someone: How many hours can you talk about people saving seconds?
Any Speedrun History: Yes.
Literally less than seconds
Every second counts yo.
An hour long video about how people saved 5 seconds.
And think about all the time lost to "save" those 5 seconds...
But it's like research: what gets discovered isn't always the useful part. It's the new ways and new strategies used to discover that particular thing, that are useful and can be applied to solve other problems.
So in the end it's not a waste of time.
I like how the mario 64 file select has become the de-facto soundtrack for the "now im gonna learn you some game mechanics" segments
Can't imagine how much work you've done to piece this together. You are insane.
This guy is the technical community personified
On a similar note you must have put in a ton of work grinding to get those beam sword runs. You are insane too.
He slept 1 768 days for the rest of them he was researching, while you were working 9-5 he was researching SBM peach target records, while you were walking your dog he was researching SBM peach target records, while you were volunteering your talents at the local childrens hospital cancer ward he was researching SBM peach target records.
@@SBlazeable That Hanky Panky needs to unget a life and find some fulfillment.
This was a billion times more engaging than the new Star Wars movie while being half the run time
I get that you're trying to give a compliment but a video being shorter than another video, can only help it's engagement. The longer something is the less engaging it is. Saying that this video is more engaging the starwars despite it being shorter does not make any sense.
@@Prabohong what you're saying would make more sense if he had said "this was more engaging *despite* being half the run time"... although I get that what you've said is probably what the OP's statement is meant to imply anyway so I see where you're coming from, just thought I'd throw that out there
@@Prabohong also thought I'd add, that "longer" videos do actually have more engagement than shorter ones do, but only up to a certain point, hence the whole "have to reach 10 minute mark by any means necessary for ad revenue on TH-cam" thing, or at least I'm pretty sure I heard that engagement was one of the reasons for why it was implemented. Idk about videos that extend past the 1 hour mark, but I'd be willing to bet a video still retains decent engagement a good bit past 10 minutes though (obviously depending mostly upon the topic/content)
A y press is a y press, you cant just say it's a half
You see, a y press actually has 3 parts
bruce tell that to the sm64 community. They love their half button presses.
Whatever you say """"""""""""Bruce""""""""""""
-TJ/Bruce Yoshi
TJbruceYoshi
He got not one but 2 world record holders to hold back on claiming WR until his release.
There is so much more melee to be played
@Base Bass Forte how I feel about Peach. I know she's relatively high tier, but I want to see her in S
Honestly TASs are way more interesting than "legit" speedruns and this video does a great job illustrating why
We need more videos explaining how the most optimal TAS runs work
But TAS runs don’t have all the human suffering of a real run
What if you thought you were done, but then ajp_anton said
"Hang on =)"
So here I am, half post-new year hangover, I randomly start watching an hour-long video about a game mode I've never really been much involved with from a game I abandoned playing more than ten years ago... and there I unexpectedly show up in the middle of it.
It's been a long time that I haven't been able to keep interest long enough in a Melee video to watch something from beginning to end, I am genuinely amazed at the incredible archeological excavations you did there!
I've completely disconnected from the Melee community since 2009 and I've been wondering for a while now where I could find old and/or new record lists, since all the good old websites I knew back then have disappeared from the face of the internet.
One thing that has never changed though is that the Melee community's dedication keeps amazing me. All. the. time.
If you go to the description of the video and join the smash stadium discord, we would love to have any veterans rejoin the community, even just to talk. We've updated all the record lists and whatnot, and the discord is full of veterans from back in the day (mudi, Mario 64 Master, etc.), some of which are still working on records today.
Team Frangipane!
holy SHIT this video is good, like unreasonably good, you will get compared to summoning salt a LOT for this video in the comments but this video is on a whole different level. the research you put into the first third of the video alone was impressive but the last part completely blew me away. 10/10
I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
And personally, I'd take being compared to summoningsalt as a massive compliment.
@@PracticalTAS well theres no doubt some people will construe this as ripping off his style but hey it's a good format and you put in a ton of work, very well done
@@dsadsa4336 if anything, this video draws more from pannenkoek with the detailed technical descriptions (and that SM64 music shoutout)
@@tree2992 hmm i'd say this vid is primarily (although it definitely goes beyond it) describing the world record progression, which is undoubtedly summoning salts shtick
yeah summoningsalt's videos have become very formulaic and stale imo
Im a competitive Smash player, never been personally into speedrunning and I never thought for a second I would ever watch an over hour long video about WR's for Peach's Melee BTT, but here I am having finished the whole thing. All I have to say is great job on this video, you sucked me in and kept me interested for over an hour on a topic I never thought I would even remotely care about, but this was actually really cool. Good Job.
45:00 I was kinda expecting you to start saying that it’s possible to pull 3 bob-ombs and a beam sword by traveling to a parallel universe.
The pannenkoek2012 of Melee I didn’t know we needed.
Don't you mean the Summoningsalt of melee?
Now what if someone wanted to break the record for most donkey Kong rng jamboree
Never in my life have a been interested in speedruns, and never in my life WILL I be interested in speedruns. But I DID just watch an hour long video on speedruns anyway
Glad you had fun!
You should do better stuff with your time
The pokemon Uno
Edit: this is really good. I dont care if everyone starts copying summoning salt; means more amazing content as far as im concerned. Great job, seriously it must have been a chore to complete.
Its not copying if everyone does it its like saying all games are copying pong bcz its the 1st
@@fredrickrodriguez2175 99% of videos covering speedrun history copy the music, structure, pacing, tone, etc of Summoning Salt, and were made following the success of his channel. Call of Duty is not that similar to Pong. Very different.
@@leaffinite2001 I would argue the pacing is actually decently different in this run, with how much it references TAS and future stats. Though a lot of that is to do with how tight the category is being a 10s run compared to an hour something run
@@yu2eZman yeah, the last third of this video is fresh and pretty great, my fave part. But the first 2 thirds are kinda derivative; not that they arent awesome.
@@leaffinite2001 Summon salt's oldest video is only 3 years old, so he's copying people like EZScape, Karl Jobst, rwhitegoose and pannenkoek2012.
This is legitimately some of the most impressive work I've seen at archiving something like this. You dug so deep into so many places. Please donate your finding to a local library or something, this is so important to preserve, even if people don't think so.
For some reason I thought this was gonna be like 20 minutes.
Also Merry Christmas Practical
I didn’t realize how long it was until I finished in it. It was intriguing to where I I never looked at the time
@@viledynamite exactly the same for me
oh shit it's already new years eve (00:36 local time)
Holy shit, I just realized this vid was an hour long!
Great effort you put into the video - I had watched an hour long video before I even realized it. Your writing and storytelling really drew me in and had me hooked.
honestly this is just so amazing overall, the mad dedication and pursuit of information as well as the smooth and fluid storytelling, no part was boring and it’s insane that there’s so much history on a topic like this!
Can we just talk about how he manages to make a good documentary that is 1 hour long for a speedrun that is BELOW 10 SECONDS?
Do you think that “unidentified person” might just be the same as “anonymous,” like just any user who wasn’t logged in?
No, I triple checked that. Unidentified person was his tag specifically - I was told the Japanese characters used are the same as in UFO (same "unidentified"). Also, non-logged in users on the forum translated to "anonymous".
oh. my. god. this may be one of the greatest youtube videos on the site... EVER! i love this much more than the modern, formulaic videos made by summoning salt. the mystery! the adventure! every ounce of research and effort that you have put into this video has paid off in the best way. i know this must have taken you an extreme amount of effort and time, spanning months, as you said. the combination of pannenkoek-like mechanic explanation and speedrunning documentation have occumulated into this masterpiece of a video. conGRATS! even if this doesnt blow up or make any splash of impact upon most people’s lives, it has definitely affected mine. i hope to see more from you in the future, practical. genuinely, at the very least, the melee scene could improve magnanimously from videos at this scale. my hat is off to you, good sir, and i hope this is the payoff you imagined from this type of undertaking.
Actually DJNintendo unofficially held world record speedruns in Bowser’s, Yoshi’s, Fox’s and Peach’s Break the Targets. He never submitted his times.
LOL
This was probably thhe best christmas gift I never knew I wanted. By the end of the video i was incomparably excited about something I didn't even know about an hour before. Thank you for all the time and effort you poured into this, the melee community will never die with people like you creating content like this.
Strap yourselves in boys, this has the sm64 menu theme in it
Edit: F O U R TIMES
*Imagine you're at a bus stop*
it's become the de-facto theme for explaining technical aspects of Nintendo games at this point
@@PaTcHiZzEl it's more of a syncing theme imo Kappa
@@kfoley275 But first, we need to talk about parallel universes
@@PaTcHiZzEl de-facto theme for explaining ANYTHING complicated
amazing video. literally had me fucking EXCITED when you showed off the new TAS wr. genius writing and build-up. you've earned my sub.
The pokemon "uno."
Fam.
I know, I hated it too
Same. I rewatched it just to make sure i heard him right
When I saw the time at the beginning I thought "I'm gonna just watch some minutes and left" boy I was wrong. This was incredibly interesting for someone that doesn't even play melee. I can't imagine how much work went into this.
I had watched your videos before but never subscribed until now just because of this video
It seems like all of these world record progression videos always end in “RNG manipulation”
GREAT JOB, dude!! An hour to something so specific, it’s really great!!
It's been beautiful seeing the information age occur in real-time from the sidelines.
Great video.
Wow, I just watched a video about the evolution of melee peach target speedrun for an hour and didn't even realize it! You've somehow managed to grab & keep my attention with only through research. You're a GOD. I don't how you haven't blown up yet.
Ah hour video about Princess Peach.
Yay!!
this isn't silvagunner
Talking about the most nerdy, technical, seemingly inconsequential, actions for more than an hour makes my heart warm. It's like watching a geeky version of the olympics. Such love and care put into an hour long video about breaking virtual targets in a game that's practically 20 years old. God bless you all!
the Half A Press references had me dying 😂😂😂 the music, the jamboree, "first we gotta talk about..." So glad to see you pay tribute to our hero @pannenkoek2012
@Base Bass Forte omg what, no? I'm a falcon main, is there another Chris Truini melee player out there??
You've gotten tons of comments like this already, but holy shit bro. Honestly, this was an amazing video. My interest in Melee is very small, and only due to Ultimate/Smash 4 players talking about it. But this? It was incredible. It took a topic I only vaguely knew existed and made me so interested that when you unveiled the times near the end of the video, I was actually shocked. I almost gasped. This production value was insane, and all the research you did was great. And the fact that so many of the names in this video actually showed up and talked to you? Mind boggling.
Great work, I'm subbing now.
this is gonna end up being one of those “why did youtube recommend this” kinda videos
singularon1 Why is it sad? He’s just saying it’s gonna get recommended even though many may not be interested in Smash Melee Break the Target. I definitely wasn’t, but I enjoyed it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And why did I watch it. It's 7am and I'm still awake. I don't even care about the topic, but damn was the Video interesting.
aaannnddd it just happened to me, i dont play smash, never did. i happened to have watched some speedruns of other games but nothing even close to smash, it was devil may cry and need for speed, lmao.
and yes, i watched the whole thing.
@@xHeigoux Ignore the topic and look at what the video accomplished. It explained its material in an accessible manner, was thoroughly researched and factually correct, and even pushed the topic further.
tl;dr: it's the perfect documentary film.
I don't like speed runs or smash and I still had it recommended... But I'm totally cool with it. Watched the video entirely because this creator put SOOOO much effort into this that he deserves every view he gets and more
0:51
The target maps are in reverse order. The melee heading is over the 64 ones and the 64 heading is over the melee ones.
PraticalTas is officially the biggest nerd of all time
But insanely great video dude
Im gonna make sure he sees this comment because you're not wrong
This is some amazing research and archiving work done for the sake of such a niche (to the wider world) community. Serious kudos to you for putting in so much effort. It makes me happy to see so much history being compiled.
Insane amounts of research clearly went into this and it undoubtedly payed off.
I'm randomly here for this videos 1 year anniversary and what I really appreciate right now is this old ass tournament footage of these BTT players, even against each other!
I can't believe I almost didn't watch this. This was truly fantastic.
I wonder if this is the first time that the making of a documentary has lead to massive upheavals to the thing being documented.
Nah man what about the Jinx
I saw this video on my recommended. Didn’t even look at the time of it. But damn am I glad I sat through the whole thing. The research, the story telling, the explaining, how everything was put together, it was all phenomenal. I can’t even imagine the work and time that was put into this video. Your passion for this shows so much, and I respect the hell out of it. Thank you for this video.
Unreal how good this vid is. Amazing. So many twists
Wait a minute, that ZyOn guy sounds familiar...
Yeah I really hope he watched this video
is that really you???
a legend walks among us
@@givemeyoureggs456 I did ! :)
@@Sam-nq6rh No, I'm ZyOn ! I don't play this game anymore, I stopped like 12 years ago... But it's weird (and also pleasant) to see your own nickname in this kind of documentary video !
Just watched the whole video.
1 hour well spent.
Well done bro ;)
Fastest hour of my life
Worth the time imo
18:08 I like how this is now the default "I'm about to explain something really complicated" music
Very good and interesting video
Little did I know that at 4:40 am I would watch a documentary on a video game about people breaking targets under ten seconds for one hour three minutes and fifty-three seconds. 10/10 this was awesome I would watch again
#BelieveCort
Cort's situation is one of those cases where I believe what is being said, but I can't accept it into records if I was somehow put in a position to make the decision.
@@MageKirby (Yeah, same)
@@raserucort should have had that cap card running mate
@@raserucort Hey, happy to see you on here! Tinister, PerfectDonkeyMoon, CornerDealy/Dealie, ShadowTheChog, r1k, deranged, malva00, raserucort, marth1.... I'm sure I'm forgetting others, but it's amazing how often BtT names/memories come up almost 20 years later!
Quick q: Were you also the person who claimed to have gotten Fox's WR from 7.28 to 7.23 (or whatever) that was met with a lot of scrutiny? I believe the new strat involved hitting a burner or something. Can't remember if that was you or somebody else. I just remember everyone voting/taking sides about accepting the score.
ok so i love the references to pannenkoek with mario 64 music and the donkey kong jamboree that is not possible
but this video is fucking top tier, the sheer amounts of dedication in both making the video and the people making runs for this to be possible in the first place is unreal to me
This video really surprised me, I didn't expect this to be so good. I watched every second. The research you did for this video is amazing. And the fact you revived a category is amazing as well. Thank you for your time to create such an in depth video.
45:40 not finished watching the vid yet, but there is no need to test 4.3 billion permutations manually. You could do this trivially in seconds in code. Every range of values generated by the random function will correspond to a certain item pull. assumedly their code looks something like this:
Item PullTurnip()
{
if(Random.Range(0, 128) == 0) //pulled item
{
int randomItem = Random.Range(0, 6);
if (randomItem
The issue with this is that there are many (hundreds of) random calls between the various pulls, caused by Peach's actions. And the number of calls itself is dependent on the seed, as there can be a variable amount of dust clouds, etc. So the only way to be able to trace the whole path of a seed over a run is to execute the run with the specific starting seed (or, I guess, reverse engineer the whole Melee engine). It's not a trivial solve.
okay I just saw 55:20 where the devs stop using random.Next() based on the seed and do a standard random function based on time. so any set of pulls is hypothetically possible and that other thing is irrelevant. you could get 100 bobombs in a row in that case. in my games I use two different random functions, one seed for core gameplay stuff so runs are consistent, and one for things like random pitching on sounds, dust as you say etc. where it's purely aesthetic and makes no difference to gameplay.
Ah, I see. I suppose I could have clarified this better, but Melee uses random.Next() for both the gameplay and aesthetic rng calls. Going into the stage on the same seed and performing the exact same inputs on the same frame will always result in the same sequence of pulls (and the same dust clouds, etc). So you can get 100 bob-ombs in a row if you manipulate the seed between each pull, but 4 in a row might not be possible if you're pulling back to back frame-perfectly.
@@PracticalTAS ahh okay. One thing I was unclear on is that the frame of inputs makes a difference to the randomness, but I guess that's just a byproduct of the "chaos" of physics and so many untracked particle systems etc. . So yeah, for a frame perfect run you would need a specific optimal seed and I see what you mean by the problem of how calculable it is, you'd have to know exactly how many dust clouds etc. are going to spawn and exactly how many times that RNG function is called. Still maybe calculable for frame perfectness? but obvs frame perfect is so difficult to achieve that it isn't really worth entertaining.
dope video! I was thinking from the 50 minute mark like "someone should definitely attempt a bomb + beam run, doesn't seem that impossible" so hearing that people are actually doing that now is awesome. Maybe the bounty will get complete. Really awesome vid all round, good job.
*Naruto voice*
Hmm... Hmm... Mhm!
(I haven’t a CLUE what I’m reading here, but I’ll act like I do!)
Well someone has done well in their English classes. This is basically a video form of a well-informed and exquisite documented research paper that has us all intrigued right from your thesis in the start. And the evidence used throughout the body of the video flowed through, tying back to your original statement time and time again. Thank you for this! Your time and oodles of supplemental research have definitely paid off to attract your audience!! 10/10
I’ve never looked at break the target speedrun before and i still enjoyed the video so much. A well invested hour imo :)
@11:57 - whooo I made it in the video! (CornerDealie). Those were fun times back then.. all competing and coming out with new records and different strategies all the time. Miss the old BtT community. Great video by the way! Thanks for the trip down memory lane
0:49
melee: 64's break the targets stage
64: melee's break the targets stage
Melee is not just a game, it's a crucial part of history that allowed pieces of art like this video to exist
I did not think this would be as enjoyable as it was. I was entertained through the entire video. What the heck is mele and how are we still finding out stuff about it. This is insane
Hey practical,
I just watched this entire documentary coming in cold to the category, and having not thought about melee in like 15 years.
This was incredibly enjoyable and well sourced, you did a great job, and I hope the effort of this comes back as success for you!
“Oh hey a video about a hard record in melee, I’ll watch”
10 mins in
“Hey this is pretty good I wonder how long it actually is”
One hour. Wow
From the new WR premieres to the depth of documentation, this is really sets the bar for new WR progression videos. Fantastic work!
I didn't even realize this was an hour long until I was finished watching. Really amazing job man
I watched this 10 hours ago before work, and I just couldn’t stop randomly thinking about it. This was the best video that I’ve watched in months, keep doing what you’re doing man. We appreciate your dedication.
21:46 did you just call Unown “Uno?”
Great video anyways.
The real heart of a speedrunner is to go for the all or nothing rng run to get that lowest time possible.
Fantastic video!
It is so hard to code randomness into computers, multiplayer uses the randomness of when the player presses the button
Senju not only give us nice strats, but also a life-hack
"I used a vegetable picker in the air. If it is perfect, it may shrink."
I'll say it in less words because everyone else has said it in more and better.
This video is RAD
“2^32 is just way to many options, there’s no way to check them all”
Mattiew bolan, kaptainwutax, and the rest of the minecraft seed finding community: are we a joke to you
This is also the first thing that I thought about
And it’s an LCG too, so they don’t even have to brute force it, they can just use matthew’s newest algorithm library as soon as it handles non java LCGs