It's not super difficult but I've gotten really good at super bouncing in sonic adventure 2. Although I still haven't done it in the egg golem boss fight (Possibly the hardest trick involving super bounces in sa2 speedruns)
If there's something you're spamming reset for, make sure to pause after failing before you reset. This'll give you time to think when you succeed and not reset
I love watching the speedrunners react to actually performing the trick. They’re so excited and happy - even better when their twitch chat is up and you can see everyone cheering along with them.
Yeah. That "Holy shit I did it! I DID IT!!!" expression they get is priceless. You just can't help but feel great for them, but in a more connected way. Like you're not just sitting there saying "Yeah man, you did it.", you're smiling/laughing like "Dude, that was AWESOME!!". I know I do that when they get excited.
@¯\_(ツ)_/¯ A lot of Speedruns don’t have insane tricks, take Mario Odyssey for example, one of the most popular games to speedrun. Also, as @Frisky D. said, there are games like Spelunky 2 and Minecraft in which the worlds are randomly generated, making such tricks much rarer. I definitely recommend that you give speedrunning a try.
@@michaelestrada1972 she is too powerful and is graceful enough to allow us all to attempt to speedrun without simply obliterating us, we appreciate her kindness
@@global9104 "How my Mom became a Top 50 Speedrunner in the world." timestamp is around 21:33, youtube keeps deleting my comment when I try to put the link in it ffs
The hardest one is definitely when a particle comes from space and hits your computer at exactly the location where one bit flip gives you a big advantage. It's only happened once
@@orestisgeorgatos6725 i know it sounds like a joke but yes it did actually happen. That was the actual, real explanation for an insane fluke. It was a M64 run, look up “How Cosmic Rays Affect Mario Speed Runners.”
@@orestisgeorgatos6725 how is radiation messing with tech hard to imagine? If you don’t think it’s possible go microwave your phone and come back to me after buying the replacement.
Some folk like Zuckerberg and Tom Brady need some practice in that trick. I'm fairly certain neither are human, but rather one an android and the other a deity, respectively.
It's kind of inspiring that these tricks and glitches can be performed on new games as well as old ones. I'd kinda expect older games to be more glitchy and breakable, but apparently not, and it's good to know the weird hobby of speedrunning won't die any time soon
New games are far more complicated than old games, which gives them a lot more moving parts that can be messed with. I'd expect glitches to only increase as time goes on, just because squashing every bug becomes more and more untenable.
Most AAA studios nowadays seem to be working under the mentality that they should release the game as soon as it enters the realm of "technically working", with not much regard to polish or quality assessment, which I'd imagine lends itself well to glitches. Of course this is a gross generalization and not all big games or companies fall under this, but it is a trend that I've noticed.
This video manages to be 23 minutes while feeling like an hour long presentation, really amazing how many different speedruns you managed to cover here!
4-2 is not where most runs die... At this point in smb1 any% there's pretty much 1 "tas-like" trick in each level, and 4-2 is the easiest out of all of them
Similarly in BK, MMM Early is honestly one of the easier float clips, compared to Click Clock Woods early 11 minutes later in the run (or Witchyworld early in Tooie). The tricks aren't even necessarily "difficult" - they can be done relatively consistently - they're just so absurdly precise that you must follow the setup input perfectly or it will not work.
@Ezra Portela Changing controllers is allowed. Many runners switch between the gamepad (for equipping items without pausing) and pro controller (for general comfort and easier item slides). It would probably not be allowed to use a third-party console mod that allowed you to map a Guitar Hero controller's strum bar to up & down.
@@cyberdragonzekrom6790 there were guitar hero controllers you could plug wiimotes into. I could be wrong but I think the strum starts mapped to up and down.
As I was watching this, so many tricks came to my mind. Almost all of it seems impossible to me, but there are several tricks that I've added to my arsenal over the years. For instance, I had no idea how to beat the boss rush towards the end of Shovel Knight in New Game+. For context, you have to beat all the bosses in the game in a row with no health items. After watching the AGDQ run, I mimicked the runner and ended up beating it after a few tries. I've also learned Castlevania, Super Metroid, Bloodborne, and Dark Souls speedrunning tricks over the years, since I play those games near annually. This was a lot of text just to say, you guys should make a video about the easiest or most accessible tricks. I think that would be cool.
@@Astridax93 It's an injoke within the mario odyssey speedrun community I'd think. And I don't think anyone has figured out exactly why making the nut wet allows for this either (I mean, other than Nintendo who patched it out, but I doubt they'll tell).
I think werster’s HGSS all gold prints run deserves to be somewhere in the hardest trick. It would seem only he has done runs in that category, but his character movements and his personal actions he devised for the run require near perfect execution to maintain RNG manipulation for a large majority of the battle frontier. The craziest part of the run to me is around 8 hours in to his world record video. He has to do 49 battles for one of the prints, and there’s a modifier you can roll before each battle that can make the fight harder or easier, which occurs by pressing the right one as it scrolls through a bunch of different options. Not all must be perfectly selected, but at least half of these modifiers need to be perfect or else he can lose the run. Over 8 hours in. It’s wild to me.
this video is SMOOOOTH! the way you carried out explaining all the speedrun tricks WHILE managing to make transitions in a way that I wouldn't even notice is marvelous, good work
Thanks for the video, I loved it! :D To answer your question at the end, I really like to do glitches for fun ;) I only ever attempted 1 speedrun ever in a niche Mario64 category and got the world record on livestream, but that is the only exception and was glitchless. The most fun glitches I ever experienced are in the gen 1 and 4 pokemon games and Mario 64. If anyone ever wants to try out glitches, I recommend these games. The glitches are easy, harmless and a lot of fun, but the games also contain harder to perform stuff if you want more
I don't count accidental one-off non-reproducable tricks as "speedrunning tricks" so much as flukes, so stuff like bit flipping don't count for me unless a speedrunner has done it deliberately. With that criteria, the hardest trick in speedrunning that I know of is the "Grand Memory Clobber" in Dragon View. It's been done deliberately by a human, so it counts as a "speedrunning trick", but it can't be reproduced in TAS, because it's so unlikely and not well understood.
SIDELINES! This stuff is awesome. I love these videos, and the people grinding every day to find new ways to beat games faster are so dope. Personally, I have enough fun just playing the game. My days of obsessively working a game to death are long gone.
In MK64, there's a glitch in Kalimari Desert (1/9000 chance) that lets you clip through the fence. Basically, you need to go through the fence by using a mushroom, jumping, and hitting the middle of the fence. The hitbox is 3 characters long.
I find it funny how this came out on the same day as terminal montages subspace emissary video, which features mario being possessed by a speedrun demon.
Oh sweet, he made more stuff since I last looked! Also, for some reason I wasn't subscribed to him. Not sure why not. Well, that has been fixed. Edit: Having just watched a minute of it, I decided to stop and put it off till later, and to first watch this video and then rewatch a bunch of "Termontage"'s other stuff first. I suspect they will mesh very well with this being the "I get to drink a lot of sake" day of the week.
@@SephirothRyu he basically created an entire storyline around the something about series, so I would suggest watching them in chronological order before checking out the new one.
@@DeltaOdyssey Reminds me of Carbot and his "Starcrafts" series in that respect. You'd never guess from the first "season" that it would end up how it was by the final episode. Also, zerglings are adorable.
The hardest trick I’ve ever done was the mine throw in Chicago Agent, Perfect Dark. You can save a ton of time (bringing the record from 1 minute plus down to
I'm surprised Dragon view's "Grand memory Clobber" wasn't mentioned. It requires a deathless, saveless play-through of about 45% of the game. The first Boss, Piercia (a giant scorpion) has a bug in her death animation which dirties up a byte in memory, which isn't cleared. This dirtied byte is the catalyst for what causes the glitch, and is cleaned up upon reloading from a save, which means you only get one life per attempt. after you defeat a boss later on, you are go into a room and greeted by dragon spirits of some kind... except that they use that dirtied byte, and all hell breaks loose. the game will glitch up tremendously. you could wind up back in the first town with 0 HP, dying as soon as you exit your items menu. You could end up with a black screen with the game LITERALLY laughing at you. and since you lose control, you cannot retry this, since you have no save file, and even if you did, that dirtied byte would clear up, meaning you only got ONE shot at this, before restarting. but if everything ends up right, you can get the credits. fair warning, NOT EVEN A TAS was able to pull this off reliably. The person who found this glitch, PJDiCesare AKA theSuperSNES, deticated almost an entire week of attempts trying to get this, before getting it on his 24th clobber.
Every time I hear "It's considered way too difficult to go for in runs", I just think "It's only a matter of time..." You know one day someone's gonna load up stream and say "I'm gonna grind it out. I'm gonna be the first person to [game]'s [category] speedrun with *[impossible trick]* no matter what!" 4,000 attempts later (let's HOPE it's only 4,000) they get it and then over the next month, everyone's doing it and soon it's just... part of the run.
Completely unrelated but imagine if there were irl speedrunning categories about health or skills. Like competing for who can lose 15 pounds the fastest, or learn a complicated song on the piano from scratch. Speedrunners would be healthy asf
In New super mario bros wii a skip has been recently discovered in 3-4 allowing you to reach the normal exit without hitting the red switch on the world map, allowing you to skip the rest of 3-4, 3-5, hitting the switch and playing 3-4 again, potentially saving upwards of 3 minutes in cannonless. Sadly the skip is ridiculously impossible, two setups have been discovered, one involving using three players simultaneously and standing on ice blocks on each other's heads, and another involving carrying over koopas from earlier parts of the level, and then doing multiple back to back air enemy freezes with the penguin suit, and both of these setups have only been proven to be possible with tas.
12:23 I've watched a vid where they explained the history of how the lowest cappy captures turned to 3 (By SmallAnt) and I didn't laugh once at the nut part. But the way you say "When this giant nut is wet" made me laugh so hard I choked 13:54 That water must be feeling good
there is a possible skip in yoku's island express which was done once, sadly not on stream/video. If you go with a very precice speed to a very precice spot in the hideout on the very right side of the map you can get launched by the fasttravel system upwards. that only is not that hard and can be achieved in a few minutes. but getting launched to another fasttravel system which launches you further up was only done once and skips building the beanstalk.
One of my favourite hard tricks is the Highway 17 abh from Half-Life 2. Imagine endlessly scrolling your mouse wheel to jump while you fly at ridiculous speeds, making sure to hit slopes perfectly in order to keep yourself on the air and going fast enough to fly over the entire chapter. Oh, also, do that facing backwards so you can't see at all where you're going.
Well done video sir, a little surprised we didn't see any entries for Super Metroid in here. Many of the maneuvers used require "pixel-perfect" (or very close to it) execution and a theoretical "perfect run" requires you to do a lot of them throughout the whole run consistently without screwing anything up going full throttle for over 40 minutes (WR is just under 41 minutes). In comparison it's similar to attempting a carpetless but... you have to do that 4 times throughout the run in different places, plus all these other unforgiving tricks in-between. Also would love to see you do a vid on "unique" runs that don't fall under the main speedrun categories such as the "pacifist" run for Castlevania SotN and "reverse boss order" for Super Metroid. Those just boggle my mind that anybody ever figured out that it 'can' be done, and then went through the trouble of actually doing it.
16:22 "the first time a human successfully pulled off this credits warp on console was on January 21st, 2015." _And at the same time as that, somewhere across the country, I was celebrating my younger siblings's 5th birthday_
Honorable mention to the Triple Tiziano skip in Crash Team Racing, an incredibly difficult skip where in one of the tracks Papu’s Pyramid you must obtain 2 masks and make an incredibly difficult jump driftboosting up a slight incline off the track and grinding along the wall of another section of the track and trying to maintain enough speed to jump off a very small bump in the wall, followed by an incredibly precise jump across the track behind the finish line in a tiny zone where the game doesn’t have the out of bounds mask active and you can complete the full lap. The wall is actively trying to push you off it as well, so aside from incredible balance to stay on the wall you can’t go slow as you need the mask speed to make the cross-track jump.
The saddest thing about this channel is you can’t produce content quick enough. It’s so so good and I hope you blow up into the speedrunning explanation channel.
i just remembered a crazy speedrun video i saw: someone was playing the Japanese version of Majora's Mask. he went to the Graveyard area, did several maneuvers to get into a very specific position, then played a song while wearing the Deku mask. this somehow warped him to the ENDING!
The thing I love the most about speedrunning is glitches. I was able to perform teardrop in Dark Souls 3, but what killed me was the route. I can perform almost frame perfect glitches, but I can't kill a crab :)
Imagine doing wrong warp setups by abusing the game over screen. The steps include dying to an enemy, looking in a specific angle, standing in a specific spot, and accurately timing movement down to the half-second, but you're doing it blind with a hard 8 second time limit. That's Bell Sliding in Turok 2 Remastered, and you HAVE to do it multiple times during any%.
"An absolutely incredible feat today, and perhaps the standard for world records tomorrow." Cut to Niftski getting the Super Mario Bros. World Record a few days ago.
@@redcircle7875 it's a trick in mario kart 64 where you do a frame perfect pixel perfect thingie to do a lap but the whole thing is done at the start line without ever leaving -- I don't remember the exact details lol
@@rhewn1572 well I can tell you your wrong since I got farther in the video I’m not done but he def said a glitch in another Mario kart rainbow road was harder
The rainbow road glitch on mkw isn't even the most difficult humanly possible mkw glitch, but it's likely the hardest one that has been done. Just today a new humanly possible koopa cape glitch was found that is probably the hardest humanly possible 3-lap glitch in the game
i remember watching a video where someone was trying to complete Super Mario Odyssey with ZERO captures. he didn't worry about how LONG it took, however. i think he actually had to do ONE capture, Bowser, at the end.
I have vague memories of when I was rather younger and my older brother's friend would use actual speedrunning tricks in games of Mario Kart Double Dash. I had no idea there was even such a thing as speedrunning back then.
8:40 no fucking way, i remember seeing a video about this and i knew no one has done that and you showing me that date now, bruhhhh that is SO UP-TO-DATE omfg gg
What’s the hardest trick or glitch you’ve ever done? I wanna see if any of y’all wanna even ATTEMPT these.
Great vid
@@nobodybelievesunderscores4122 What’s “great vid”? I never heard of that trick before
It's not super difficult but I've gotten really good at super bouncing in sonic adventure 2. Although I still haven't done it in the egg golem boss fight (Possibly the hardest trick involving super bounces in sa2 speedruns)
Some easy SMO clips... I usually play games “correctly”
Just coz I don’t use glitches that much doesn’t mean I play right
@@LunaticJ idk if you being sarcastic or not if you are then nice but if your not then i mean nice narration
The hardest trick is drinking coke and eating pizza and enter the final level with a heart rate of 85
Lmao
Nice reference right here
Lmao
Badabing BADABUN
*sigh
Overcoming the muscle memory to instantly Retry after actually succeeding at a hard glitch.
Yea like that guy who almost broke the train level in Mario Kart 64
If there's something you're spamming reset for, make sure to pause after failing before you reset. This'll give you time to think when you succeed and not reset
@@hazeltree7738 please say that it's a quote if it is one. Karl Jobst said that
@@jan-lukas It isn't a quote, just something I learned XD
@@hazeltree7738 some speedruns are disqualified for pressing pause
12:24 “When this giant N U T is wet, it gains a strange property of being able to repeatedly be caught mid air” -lowest percent
69 likes ;)
😏
@@player1iOS 🥵
😶...
thank god its not NNN right now
I love watching the speedrunners react to actually performing the trick. They’re so excited and happy - even better when their twitch chat is up and you can see everyone cheering along with them.
Yeah. That "Holy shit I did it! I DID IT!!!" expression they get is priceless. You just can't help but feel great for them, but in a more connected way. Like you're not just sitting there saying "Yeah man, you did it.", you're smiling/laughing like "Dude, that was AWESOME!!". I know I do that when they get excited.
Flag pole glitch? You would not believe my shock when I discovered a glitch where you don't even play the game. It just takes you to the end screen
There would be a lot less pressure if they weren't doing it live though.
i don't speedrun and never will, i just think pushing games to their absolute limit is fascinating.
Not all games work like that
@@Polska_Edits i'm not sure what you mean. all games can be exploited in some way.
@@smugshrug I agree, but I'm also going to point you to Spelunky2
Me to
@¯\_(ツ)_/¯ A lot of Speedruns don’t have insane tricks, take Mario Odyssey for example, one of the most popular games to speedrun. Also, as @Frisky D. said, there are games like Spelunky 2 and Minecraft in which the worlds are randomly generated, making such tricks much rarer. I definitely recommend that you give speedrunning a try.
"The nut jump is the hardest part of the run"
*flashbacks to Tanner's mom getting it on like the first try*
The only reason Smallant mom doesn't speedrun is because she would beat all the records
@@michaelestrada1972 she is too powerful and is graceful enough to allow us all to attempt to speedrun without simply obliterating us, we appreciate her kindness
What’s that video again?
@@global9104 "How my Mom became a Top 50 Speedrunner in the world." timestamp is around 21:33, youtube keeps deleting my comment when I try to put the link in it ffs
She did like 1-2 in a row while in the actual run you do like 40 in a row although it is still really impressive for not playing the game before then
I would say that “welcome to banjo-kazooie any%” has to be the best pre-ad cliffhanger I’ve ever heard
😂 totally agree
frankly "welcome to banjo-kazooie any%" is a hilarious quote in this context
The hardest one is definitely when a particle comes from space and hits your computer at exactly the location where one bit flip gives you a big advantage. It's only happened once
It's probably still be hard if you had access to the large hadron collider
none of that is possible
@@orestisgeorgatos6725 i know it sounds like a joke but yes it did actually happen. That was the actual, real explanation for an insane fluke. It was a M64 run, look up “How Cosmic Rays Affect Mario Speed Runners.”
@@shan8130 that doesn’t seem physically possible
@@orestisgeorgatos6725 how is radiation messing with tech hard to imagine? If you don’t think it’s possible go microwave your phone and come back to me after buying the replacement.
Hardest trick is convincing everyone that you’re still a human and not a robot
dude just click the chimneys
Oh no theyre onto us beep boop
That’s why I sell programs that help you pass the captcha test. Hit me up if you’re a robot.
Bet
Some folk like Zuckerberg and Tom Brady need some practice in that trick. I'm fairly certain neither are human, but rather one an android and the other a deity, respectively.
20:38 Mikko has also performed carpetless without save states, but his video only has 13k views
My b. Mikko clearly got done dirty
@Mantel's Spoons you could, but the channel auto-filters links. It is to prevent bad links from being shared.
@Mantel's Spoons it should be the first thing that pops up when you look up mikko carpetless.
We must change that
THANK YOU!! HE NEVER GETS THE CREDIT HE DESERVES FOR THAT... he did it in July 2019
It's kind of inspiring that these tricks and glitches can be performed on new games as well as old ones. I'd kinda expect older games to be more glitchy and breakable, but apparently not, and it's good to know the weird hobby of speedrunning won't die any time soon
*cough *cough
Cyberpunk
*cough
New games are far more complicated than old games, which gives them a lot more moving parts that can be messed with. I'd expect glitches to only increase as time goes on, just because squashing every bug becomes more and more untenable.
Most AAA studios nowadays seem to be working under the mentality that they should release the game as soon as it enters the realm of "technically working", with not much regard to polish or quality assessment, which I'd imagine lends itself well to glitches. Of course this is a gross generalization and not all big games or companies fall under this, but it is a trend that I've noticed.
This video manages to be 23 minutes while feeling like an hour long presentation, really amazing how many different speedruns you managed to cover here!
Which is ironic because it's a video about speed running 💀
Yo TBZ didn't expect to see a comment from you here. Good to see you.
4-2 is not where most runs die... At this point in smb1 any% there's pretty much 1 "tas-like" trick in each level, and 4-2 is the easiest out of all of them
Yeah the whole run is kinda insane huh
I thought he meant lightning 4-2? But fast 4-2 ist def pretty easy
Right Fast 4-2 has the lucky subpixels... but yeah Lightning 4-2 was what I kinda tried to focus on
Similarly in BK, MMM Early is honestly one of the easier float clips, compared to Click Clock Woods early 11 minutes later in the run (or Witchyworld early in Tooie). The tricks aren't even necessarily "difficult" - they can be done relatively consistently - they're just so absurdly precise that you must follow the setup input perfectly or it will not work.
@@RingRush sounds like oot tricks. It's impressive you can get precision to that level with setups in banjo
Love to see my Rainbow Road clip included! Great video all around.
Thank you! You're an excellent TASer
FLAVIOOOO
Love the picture of Linkus' "speedrun" arm
"speedrun" suuuuure
Imagine someone accidently did the credit warp and though "wow that was a short game"
Either that or "why is my game melting"
More people have walked on the moon than have performed the Wethertenko. Just something to think about.
Speedrunners win again
Than
@@MrLachapell 22 hours later and your comment hasn't changed anything, maybe this is a sign?
@@that_deadeyegamer7920 i have failed
@@MrLachapell you'll get em next time
The rainbowroad ultra shortcut was so insane that when someone got it, it even came on the national news in the Netherlands😅😂😂
Thats poggers
That is amazing, I kinda wish I could find a link to that
Jammer dat ik dat nieuws gemist heb, awesome stuff tho
@@cecillewolters1995 waarheid
Yo seriously? Was the speedrunner who performed it Dutch? Anybody got the link to the broadcast?
Been binging this channel, and I love that the Carpetless section is so massively outdated. Speedrunners are unstoppable!
21:12 I was half expecting "We're Finally Landing" to play.
I'm just imagining someone bringing out a guitar hero guitar and using it to do the superswim at the start of windwaker
Oh boy, step aside, Dark Souls with a steering wheel.
Ghostforce gets wind waker any% WR when
@Ezra Portela Changing controllers is allowed. Many runners switch between the gamepad (for equipping items without pausing) and pro controller (for general comfort and easier item slides). It would probably not be allowed to use a third-party console mod that allowed you to map a Guitar Hero controller's strum bar to up & down.
@@cyberdragonzekrom6790 there were guitar hero controllers you could plug wiimotes into. I could be wrong but I think the strum starts mapped to up and down.
rake strumming to build up speed
This video is literally just 'BUT WAIT. THERE'S MORE'
So true
BUT I'M NOT DONE YET!
The speed run video when I’m watching it: 3:32
The speed run video when my parents walk in: 12:19
As I was watching this, so many tricks came to my mind. Almost all of it seems impossible to me, but there are several tricks that I've added to my arsenal over the years. For instance, I had no idea how to beat the boss rush towards the end of Shovel Knight in New Game+. For context, you have to beat all the bosses in the game in a row with no health items. After watching the AGDQ run, I mimicked the runner and ended up beating it after a few tries. I've also learned Castlevania, Super Metroid, Bloodborne, and Dark Souls speedrunning tricks over the years, since I play those games near annually.
This was a lot of text just to say, you guys should make a video about the easiest or most accessible tricks. I think that would be cool.
You can tell how much fun was had when talking about the giant nut
"When this giant nut is wet...' I broke down in laughter at that point. So clearly enunciated on purpose I'm sure.
@@Astridax93 It's an injoke within the mario odyssey speedrun community I'd think. And I don't think anyone has figured out exactly why making the nut wet allows for this either (I mean, other than Nintendo who patched it out, but I doubt they'll tell).
“Oh, you are just a HUNK of a man, how’d you get so strong?”
“I flick control stick to make guy go fast”
I think werster’s HGSS all gold prints run deserves to be somewhere in the hardest trick. It would seem only he has done runs in that category, but his character movements and his personal actions he devised for the run require near perfect execution to maintain RNG manipulation for a large majority of the battle frontier. The craziest part of the run to me is around 8 hours in to his world record video. He has to do 49 battles for one of the prints, and there’s a modifier you can roll before each battle that can make the fight harder or easier, which occurs by pressing the right one as it scrolls through a bunch of different options. Not all must be perfectly selected, but at least half of these modifiers need to be perfect or else he can lose the run. Over 8 hours in. It’s wild to me.
this video is SMOOOOTH! the way you carried out explaining all the speedrun tricks WHILE managing to make transitions in a way that I wouldn't even notice is marvelous, good work
The hardest trick is THAT jump at the end that's always easy in practice.
Yeah, one block jump is impossible especially if its on a easy level
XD skip is the hardest skip in the game
@@illegalmemedealer3549 only god smallant can execute it every time
@Timmah06 ._.
3 spike jump
I love how this video is just like "Uff this trick is hard... but wait it gets harder."
7:05 "It would take over 27,000 failed attempts..."
Good God. I wish I had the determination in life to be that dedicated to ANYTHING.
The fact that minimum captures requires the nut jump and CRC's is ridiculous. Hats off to all of them
Ironic, considering minimum captures has you throw the least hats
@@smolhedge8935 yes that’s the joke.
I see what you did there
Nut jump is also possible on 1.1
1:10 in and I’m already thinking “Imagine you are at a bus stop” like a true SummoningSalt fan
It is necessary when talking about runs of Mario games
That was Bismuth.
While carpetless is now less insane glitches and movement, and is more oot style setups, it’s still absolutely ridiculous.
I need more videos consistently on this channel. There’s never good speedrun channels.
@TOK_ I already have 🥲 I’ve eaten up every single bit of speedrunning content on this platform I stg
I remember hearing summoning salt talk about the rainbow road clip and I didn't know someone actually did it
it literally happened 3 or 4 weeks ago lol
It was like mid January
now two people have done it, Arthur and Logan
summoning salt has the rare power of making records be beaten immediately after he puts out a documentary about said record
It blows my mind people takes hours/days perfecting singular glitches and skips like these, the dedication is amazing
Oh, many of them take months to even complete once lol
@Anifco67 bruh, it’s not cheating. If you don’t like that it’s abusing unintended game mechanics, just play the non-glitch categories of games
Thanks for the video, I loved it! :D
To answer your question at the end, I really like to do glitches for fun ;)
I only ever attempted 1 speedrun ever in a niche Mario64 category and got the world record on livestream, but that is the only exception and was glitchless.
The most fun glitches I ever experienced are in the gen 1 and 4 pokemon games and Mario 64.
If anyone ever wants to try out glitches, I recommend these games. The glitches are easy, harmless and a lot of fun, but the games also contain harder to perform stuff if you want more
I don't count accidental one-off non-reproducable tricks as "speedrunning tricks" so much as flukes, so stuff like bit flipping don't count for me unless a speedrunner has done it deliberately.
With that criteria, the hardest trick in speedrunning that I know of is the "Grand Memory Clobber" in Dragon View. It's been done deliberately by a human, so it counts as a "speedrunning trick", but it can't be reproduced in TAS, because it's so unlikely and not well understood.
I love the excitement behind finding new tricks, when runners race to break the game down and find all the secrets and time saves
it’s crazy how people are still making developments on a game that came out in 1985
Yeah, thats one of the things I love about speedrunning. Games are timeless in the world of speedrunning
SIDELINES! This stuff is awesome. I love these videos, and the people grinding every day to find new ways to beat games faster are so dope. Personally, I have enough fun just playing the game. My days of obsessively working a game to death are long gone.
In MK64, there's a glitch in Kalimari Desert (1/9000 chance) that lets you clip through the fence. Basically, you need to go through the fence by using a mushroom, jumping, and hitting the middle of the fence. The hitbox is 3 characters long.
Oh yeah I was watching Abney do that on Twitch the other day. He got it a couple of times actually.
The hardest trick is getting someone to play with you for a 2-person glitch
Ok Edgelord
Just do it like super mario odyssey speedrunners and use another controller with your feet.
@@ortherner his joke is as tame as it gets. Did it hit too close to home? Lmao
@@mattys.3099 wait thats how they do the second controller?? agile toes..
Don’t need to as they have their feet
I find it funny how this came out on the same day as terminal montages subspace emissary video, which features mario being possessed by a speedrun demon.
Oh sweet, he made more stuff since I last looked! Also, for some reason I wasn't subscribed to him. Not sure why not. Well, that has been fixed.
Edit: Having just watched a minute of it, I decided to stop and put it off till later, and to first watch this video and then rewatch a bunch of "Termontage"'s other stuff first. I suspect they will mesh very well with this being the "I get to drink a lot of sake" day of the week.
@@SephirothRyu he basically created an entire storyline around the something about series, so I would suggest watching them in chronological order before checking out the new one.
Yo I thought it was just mr
@@DeltaOdyssey Reminds me of Carbot and his "Starcrafts" series in that respect. You'd never guess from the first "season" that it would end up how it was by the final episode.
Also, zerglings are adorable.
yeah me too lmao
Hey I really enjoy your videos! Thanks for making them :)
lesson : every nintendo major speedrun skip is insanly difficult or frame perfect
A topic I would love covered is "How long has someone kept a WR"
I believe someone on Goldeneye 007 held a WR for over a decade.
this is just the TLDR of Summoning Salt’s entire channel
Tfw I wrote this comment 10 minutes into the video
(please make a goldeneye video Salty :))
The hardest trick I’ve ever done was the mine throw in Chicago Agent, Perfect Dark. You can save a ton of time (bringing the record from 1 minute plus down to
Speedrunners are so dedicated it wouldn't surprise me if they found a glitch in Zelda OOT where Link gets wrong warped into Peach's castle in SM64.
15:40: That right arm is the result of the unbuffered super swim, right? 🤔😁
I'm surprised Dragon view's "Grand memory Clobber" wasn't mentioned. It requires a deathless, saveless play-through of about 45% of the game. The first Boss, Piercia (a giant scorpion) has a bug in her death animation which dirties up a byte in memory, which isn't cleared. This dirtied byte is the catalyst for what causes the glitch, and is cleaned up upon reloading from a save, which means you only get one life per attempt.
after you defeat a boss later on, you are go into a room and greeted by dragon spirits of some kind... except that they use that dirtied byte, and all hell breaks loose. the game will glitch up tremendously. you could wind up back in the first town with 0 HP, dying as soon as you exit your items menu. You could end up with a black screen with the game LITERALLY laughing at you. and since you lose control, you cannot retry this, since you have no save file, and even if you did, that dirtied byte would clear up, meaning you only got ONE shot at this, before restarting.
but if everything ends up right, you can get the credits.
fair warning, NOT EVEN A TAS was able to pull this off reliably. The person who found this glitch, PJDiCesare AKA theSuperSNES, deticated almost an entire week of attempts trying to get this, before getting it on his 24th clobber.
Every time I hear "It's considered way too difficult to go for in runs", I just think "It's only a matter of time..."
You know one day someone's gonna load up stream and say "I'm gonna grind it out. I'm gonna be the first person to [game]'s [category] speedrun with *[impossible trick]* no matter what!"
4,000 attempts later (let's HOPE it's only 4,000) they get it and then over the next month, everyone's doing it and soon it's just... part of the run.
Completely unrelated but imagine if there were irl speedrunning categories about health or skills. Like competing for who can lose 15 pounds the fastest, or learn a complicated song on the piano from scratch. Speedrunners would be healthy asf
In New super mario bros wii a skip has been recently discovered in 3-4 allowing you to reach the normal exit without hitting the red switch on the world map, allowing you to skip the rest of 3-4, 3-5, hitting the switch and playing 3-4 again, potentially saving upwards of 3 minutes in cannonless. Sadly the skip is ridiculously impossible, two setups have been discovered, one involving using three players simultaneously and standing on ice blocks on each other's heads, and another involving carrying over koopas from earlier parts of the level, and then doing multiple back to back air enemy freezes with the penguin suit, and both of these setups have only been proven to be possible with tas.
i wanna see it. Link?
Yeah I want to see this too
Can't believe Twilight princess small key skip got ignored like that
prob cause tp has a very undervalued speedrun
It's not TAS only anymore?
Is that that one glitch that takes 17 hours to complete?
@@anddatkat796 I think it's the one rearanging the level, but I tough it was still TAS only.
If only twilight princess was more appreciated as a game for speedrunning...
Speedrunning is absolutely in the category of “cool and fascinating, but I’ll never try it myself”.
12:23 I've watched a vid where they explained the history of how the lowest cappy captures turned to 3 (By SmallAnt) and I didn't laugh once at the nut part. But the way you say "When this giant nut is wet" made me laugh so hard I choked
13:54 That water must be feeling good
by the way, the lowest cappy captures small ant video, IS this channel, just a different video, multiple people have used this channel
I was there when Sethbling first got the Credits Warp, and it's still the coolest thing I ever saw live on Twitch
people who watch SummoningSalt: WE HAS ALL THE NAWLEDG
SUMMONING SALT IS MY RELIGION
We could make a religion out of this
@@meatballman_botw no, don’t (I’m quoting the “History of the Entire World I Guess”)
For those who haven't watched yet epilepsy alert at around 15:00
there is a possible skip in yoku's island express which was done once, sadly not on stream/video. If you go with a very precice speed to a very precice spot in the hideout on the very right side of the map you can get launched by the fasttravel system upwards. that only is not that hard and can be achieved in a few minutes. but getting launched to another fasttravel system which launches you further up was only done once and skips building the beanstalk.
One of my favourite hard tricks is the Highway 17 abh from Half-Life 2. Imagine endlessly scrolling your mouse wheel to jump while you fly at ridiculous speeds, making sure to hit slopes perfectly in order to keep yourself on the air and going fast enough to fly over the entire chapter. Oh, also, do that facing backwards so you can't see at all where you're going.
The hardest speedrun trick is getting a partner in life :(
Facts.
@@RTDelete fax
We dont use the partner trick in the any%
That's the Partner%, we usually do the Lonely%, only a man who has incredible charm, time and mashing skill to seduce a girl can run it.
@@mailman7 nah there's a money skip for that if you get lucky
There is something so satisfying watching people just crush games perfectly at a fast paced.
Well done video sir, a little surprised we didn't see any entries for Super Metroid in here. Many of the maneuvers used require "pixel-perfect" (or very close to it) execution and a theoretical "perfect run" requires you to do a lot of them throughout the whole run consistently without screwing anything up going full throttle for over 40 minutes (WR is just under 41 minutes). In comparison it's similar to attempting a carpetless but... you have to do that 4 times throughout the run in different places, plus all these other unforgiving tricks in-between. Also would love to see you do a vid on "unique" runs that don't fall under the main speedrun categories such as the "pacifist" run for Castlevania SotN and "reverse boss order" for Super Metroid. Those just boggle my mind that anybody ever figured out that it 'can' be done, and then went through the trouble of actually doing it.
15:30 girls must love him
A few corrections:
You need an 11 pixel bump off the elevator in smb1
Mikko has performed carpet less, xiah isn't the only one
Thanks for using the Chrono Trigger OST as background for the intro. Gave me a lot of nostalgia
16:22 "the first time a human successfully pulled off this credits warp on console was on January 21st, 2015."
_And at the same time as that, somewhere across the country, I was celebrating my younger siblings's 5th birthday_
Glitches are speed runners best friends
Adn vice versa.
Unless you run glitchless
"when this giant nut is whet" sounds awful to my ears
Honorable mention to the Triple Tiziano skip in Crash Team Racing, an incredibly difficult skip where in one of the tracks Papu’s Pyramid you must obtain 2 masks and make an incredibly difficult jump driftboosting up a slight incline off the track and grinding along the wall of another section of the track and trying to maintain enough speed to jump off a very small bump in the wall, followed by an incredibly precise jump across the track behind the finish line in a tiny zone where the game doesn’t have the out of bounds mask active and you can complete the full lap. The wall is actively trying to push you off it as well, so aside from incredible balance to stay on the wall you can’t go slow as you need the mask speed to make the cross-track jump.
Ha, how crazy it is to see these old videos talk about Carpetless
15:12 I practiced my whole teenage life for this.
Ah, another one like me, I see
The saddest thing about this channel is you can’t produce content quick enough. It’s so so good and I hope you blow up into the speedrunning explanation channel.
12:13 is where the sus begins
i just remembered a crazy speedrun video i saw:
someone was playing the Japanese version of Majora's Mask.
he went to the Graveyard area, did several maneuvers to get into a very specific position, then played a song while wearing the Deku mask.
this somehow warped him to the ENDING!
The thing I love the most about speedrunning is glitches. I was able to perform teardrop in Dark Souls 3, but what killed me was the route. I can perform almost frame perfect glitches, but I can't kill a crab :)
Title: What's the hardest trick in speedrunning?
Thumbnail: Endless staircase blj
Hmmmmm
11:11 BRUUUH RING RUSH HOLY SHIT
After seeing his contributions to DK64, it's so cool to hear his name again
Imagine doing wrong warp setups by abusing the game over screen. The steps include dying to an enemy, looking in a specific angle, standing in a specific spot, and accurately timing movement down to the half-second, but you're doing it blind with a hard 8 second time limit. That's Bell Sliding in Turok 2 Remastered, and you HAVE to do it multiple times during any%.
that sounds like one of those tas tricks no one wants to do lol
haven't watched the video but probably the XD skip in Mario Odyssey
you haven't attempted it have you
It's a joke
i love speedrunners because they take their valueable time to play the game they love and to challenge themselves to be better
"An absolutely incredible feat today, and perhaps the standard for world records tomorrow."
Cut to Niftski getting the Super Mario Bros. World Record a few days ago.
Definitely not some of the hardest, but the tricks used in Portal 2 runs are just cool to watch and satisfying to do yourself.
Yeah portal speedruns are nuts
Before watching this video - my guess is the weathertenko. Will edit later to see if I'm right.
Whats that
@@redcircle7875 it's a trick in mario kart 64 where you do a frame perfect pixel perfect thingie to do a lap but the whole thing is done at the start line without ever leaving -- I don't remember the exact details lol
@@rhewn1572 well I can tell you your wrong since I got farther in the video I’m not done but he def said a glitch in another Mario kart rainbow road was harder
@@nihadahmed9821 hahaha damnit
The rainbow road glitch on mkw isn't even the most difficult humanly possible mkw glitch, but it's likely the hardest one that has been done. Just today a new humanly possible koopa cape glitch was found that is probably the hardest humanly possible 3-lap glitch in the game
“It took over 26000 failed attempts”
Geometry Dash Pro Demonslayers: You gotta bump those up, those are rookie numbers
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*D O W N R I G H T P A P A S T E R O U S*
19:40
"What's the hardest trick in speedrunning"
*thumbnail is a famously easy trick*
I've never been able to do it...
Only on endless and 50 star door
It's surprisingly easy once you know *how* to do it, but getting there is the real task.
14:00 access of the quantum realm mode
i remember watching a video where someone was trying to complete Super Mario Odyssey with ZERO captures.
he didn't worry about how LONG it took, however.
i think he actually had to do ONE capture, Bowser, at the end.
My god, Linkus does so many manual super-swims that his right arm is actually more muscular
Insert scene from Family Guy where Quagmire comes out of his house with one Samson arm.
I have vague memories of when I was rather younger and my older brother's friend would use actual speedrunning tricks in games of Mario Kart Double Dash.
I had no idea there was even such a thing as speedrunning back then.
That must’ve been very frustrating
Dude I've never really cared about speedrunning but I just binged all the videos in this channel
When you said "Ever since the Fall of 2019" I immediately went "oh shit what happened to 2019"
8:40 no fucking way, i remember seeing a video about this and i knew no one has done that and you showing me that date now, bruhhhh that is SO UP-TO-DATE omfg gg