Alex Kidd in Miracle World Speed Run | Ex-WR |
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2019
- !! This WR was beaten on 09/Oct/2019 by Strackel !!
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Quite a few mistakes, but still a good run. I've calculated that a Potential (realistic) time save of about 17.9 seconds is possible through flawlessness, but for now, I'm done with the game till someone beats it!
Here is the possible time saves if anyone wants to attempt to beat this run:
Lv 1 - 0.7 s (Slightly non-perfect descent; a 28 is very doable)
Lv 2 - /
Lv 3 - 0.2 s (Clipped slightly going past the first octopus, didn't punch the three block smoothly)
Lv 4 - /
Lv 5 - 0.1 s (Bumped the helicopter into the red block slightly late)
Lv 6 - 0.8 s (Lost nearly two seconds from the messed up jump, but then made back a second by killing the boss faster than I've ever killed it before!)
Lv 7 - 1.3 s (Slight misfire midway through the Lv nearly cost me, but I managed to recover well)
Lv 8 - / (Note that sometimes I will not buy the Cane on this Lv, which is why I lose 2.5 seconds against my previous PB)
Lv 9 - /
Lv 10 - 6.3 s (TBH, I thought the run-killer had killed my run; I was very close to resetting. The rest of the Lv was almost optimal)
Lv 11 - 0.3 s (Slightly non-optimal descent after the three Flames)
Lv 12 - / (Pulled off my new Fast-Route for the boss)
Lv 13 - 0.8 s (I get through all the bits that normally kill me, then I mess up the final manoeuvre to destroy the Heli. D'oh!)
Lv 14 - /
Lv 15 - / (I seem to be landing that 5th jump 100% of the time now. Also, this is where I make back that 2.5 seconds from not buying the Cane)
Lv 16 - 7.2 s (A few non-perfect jumps early on; One fall during the 'U-Turn of failed runs' (which is acceptable); Aced the run-killing jump (you know which jump I mean); Messed up the double punch on the shower fall (which nearly killed me); Lost the most amount of time missing the earliest frog-jump cycle; Aced the Flower-Prong section in the water; Didn't quite get the optimal route during the 'Shark's Tooth' section; The rest of the Lv could have been done a bit quicker)
Lv 17 - 0.2 s (I think I lost time by not jumping onto the first block After spawning in the Crown, I'm not sure...)
Total time save possible - 17.9 seconds
Note that this is not a comparison against my sum of best, this is just my estimated realistic time saves that I think is possible based on the errors I made.
Also, note that I cannot accurately say what the best Lv 16 time should be; I haven't been able to perfect the level on a timed run to see what potential time save I'm looking at. I did manage to almost perfect the lv once, dying only during the 'Shark's Tooth' section underwater, costing me about 6.5 seconds (and that run was 0.5 seconds faster than the run posted above, so my best guess is that a seven second time save is possible if you do everything *perfectly*).
Overall, I think that the best time achievable would be around the 13:07 mark, but a sub 13:10 should definitely be possible. - เกม
![[TAS] Genesis Kid Chameleon by TheRandomPie_IV in 12:47.52](/img/n.gif)
Thanks everyone for getting this vid to over 100,000 views! I plan to return to Alex Kidd soon to go for the Glitched WR, so be sure to follow me on Twitch for live attempts: Twitch.TV/DynamixDJ
This was called Alex the kidd in miracle world when my older brother had the console with it built in 🤔 mandela effect?
@@chipsounder4633 100% the Mandela Effect lol, I still have this debate with friends who remember it as Alex The Kidd. It always has been 'Alex Kidd', as in Kidd being his surname. I guess it stems from Billy The kid.
This man achieved in 13:25 what I could not in 35 years
ahahahaha Im with you bro 😂
@@jeger679 i always got stuck in the swimming between the spikes
@@qwertyui90qwertyui90 Me too. Swimming between the spikes seemed absolutely impossible. I would build up loads of extra lives & lost them all on that one bit of the game. Never got passed it 😢
@@jimmym8348 glad i wasn't the only one :)
Swimming past the spikes... the trick was not to press up or down n u wud just float past them, just press left or right
Oh the nostalgia. Just imagining me being a little ol 90s kid playing this game. My lord I'm old.
Tell me about it bro. This game is practically as old as I am haha
I'm old just like you then lol. I remember playing this game for hours at my ain't house. As well as time soldiers and wonder boy in monster land haha.
Me and my brother got this for Christmas and It took us 6 months to finish it, just tried playing it an hour ago and nearly put my controller through the TV, don't know how I had the patience 😑
This is the game that set the foundation for so many of us, thank you for that trip down memory lane.
Amazing. This game was VERY hard when I was a kid. I spent literally hours to understand everything. I didnt know what was rock, papers and scissors game. I didnt even know that the boss always repeated the same sequence. I thought It was random.
This game REALLY improved my intelligence at the time. I'm thankful to it
Indeed, this was the first game I ever owned at the age of about 4 or 5, and it massively helped to improve my cognitive functions. Super hard though, I don't think I ever made it past the thundercloud level - most of the times I would get a game over at the volcano level lol
@@dynagamerproductions8249 Exact same here. I just beat it today for the first time. Took me a bit longer than you though 😂
Awesome speed run by the way! I'm beyond impressed 👏 👏👏
@@alcoholandfun243 GGs, glad you were able to beat it :)
@@dynagamerproductions8249 Thanks 😊
I still have the old bits of scrap paper my brother and I wrote out as kids. It's quite amazing when I think about it, this is pre-internet so we had all the combos and we worked out the button combo how to trigger continue too.
Thank you for giving me closure! After 30 years, I get to see the ending of this game.
so many memories. thank you for that!
I'm glad you found this run entertaining :)
I can see why no one ever completed this game when we where kids now.
I was like 10. Now I'm 33. I never finished this game. But now I see there were only 2 stages left, daaamn
I dont think I ever got past Lv 11 as a kid haha
This game is hard.
The kids have problem with it
How you know that no one completed the game as kid. I completed
I know it's so difficult but I did actually manage to beat it as a kid. I think I was around 9. I am currently playing the remastered version and it's just way too hard!
this 12:27 is pure evil, i still find it hard to think how i did it when i was a kid, this whole castle level is hell
There's a neat trick to that section - if you don't press Up or Down as you pass the spikes you won't die, instead you'll just bop into them without being harmed, Just press left/right and you'll be fine (although you can still get screwed on the corner of the spike as you enter the spiked passageway).
But yes, the castle level is hell, and I lost a lot of time there lol. It;s one of the reasons I want to go back to reclaim my WR someday (that, and the horrendous choke on the thundercloud lv).
The first game I owned and the first to beat at 12 years old!So many deaths at the last stage, took me many lives and broken pads to find the code of the moonlight stone!!!
I wish i knew the secret continue code back then..
You played like God my friend!
Thanks man, I never even made it to the final castle as a kid - the furthest I remember getting to was Lv 10 (Thundercloud Lv). I think I may have got to the Lv 11 castle once or twice, but never past it
When ive heard the music of the first castle
Remind me some of my forgotten childhood nightmare
Now I know why I finished the game just once. I always tried to kill every enemy, get every money bag, get to the end of stage with helicopter and boat. Now i'm 40 and tried playing it again. I suck at it and was trying to do the same hahaha
Lol I just had a flashback to the trauma of trying to pause the game for my brother but accidentally hitting the reset button instead.
Im proud to say that i finished This game when i was a kid
Wow that's better than I could ever do haha. I think the furthest I could get was the thundercloud level, although I do recall getting to the castle once or maybe twice (I thought that was the final level haha).
Me too
I never knew how to figure out the code at the end. I could get up to that point every time. Also never knew the real princess was up the top lol
@@ViralZen i dont remember How in for the code, but i think was attemp and error.
@@jeanpaim22 u see how long it is tho? Like they seriously expected a 7yo to figure it out lmao
The funny thing is, getting a master system 2 is cheaper than getting a standalone cartridge of Alex Kidd.
BRAVO on the right to left helicopter level. That level scared the balls out of me when I was a kid, I"M STILL MENTALLY SORE!!!!!!!
Yeah, tbh that lv is a pain on a run too. If I die I go all the way back to the start and the run is dead haha. It's super easy to bump and lose a life, too!
The motorbike was harder for me as a kid lol
I come back and play this every year. It never gets old. So fun
Indeed, have you tried getting the cheevos on RetroAchievements? Some of them can be quite a challenge, but fun nonetheless.
@dynagamerproductions8249 no I never heard about it until now. Will try for sure. Thanks 😊
Just came across this video by accident! How many memories! I've beaten this game after countless attempts. I remembered I struggled a lot in the very last level but I can't remember if I figured out the sequence all by myself or not...
Seeing a full run in 13 mins while I spent like 3 hours in my own clear is quite impressive! Nice run there!
Thanks mate, glad you enjoyed!
Funny how I got recommended this video the day of Sonic's 30th anniversary and the game's remake.
Wow the skill shown at some parts of this run is truly amazing. Never knew you could skip the final Jankken boss either
Thanks dude!
From one gaming channel to another, your video's are great !
Thanks bud, really appreciate it!
Amazing, congrats!!
Janken is like “Wait, what just happened?”
what i loved most about this game is that it was preinstalled on the console. just dont insert a game and it started
Indeed, either Alex Kidd or Sonic was built into the bios. I remember swapping my console with a friend so I could get to play Sonic and he could play Alex Kidd (6 yr old me could actually beat Sonic haha)
Sometimes this was kinda annoying when there was dust in the card slot. Everytime Alex the Kid started up AAAARGH
@@dynagamerproductions8249 I remember doing that as well. Sadly I never got my Sonic SMS back. It's gone for good :(
Just realised i never completed that, i remember putting a 1000 hrs in. My nostalgic heart bleeds.
It's my first video game and I love it. It's hard to believe these days but the ghosts in the game used to scare me as a kid.
Just played on Nintendo switch and it took me 10 hours :O. You're good man!
Sick man, really cool.
Happy days. Thanks bro!
No worries mate!
I allways thought that the Rock,paper sciccors games wher Random..
Now it occurs to me
That the shape of enemy head is a give away
🤣
Props to you for not judging them by their disfiguring faces.
The 90s aye that’s Meeeeeee!!! Forever Love the 80s and 90s
I still remember every single rock paper scissors for every boss still. Haven’t played this game in years!!!
5:16 That was unreal how you blazed through that level.
Haha, the funny thing about Lv 10 is that I was very close to resetting the run after I missed 'that' jump and lost 7 seconds. Glad I carried the run on tbh.
I was enjoying this very much, until my sudden anxiety flashbacks when he swan through those underwater spikes in the castle. I lost all my lives there many times. That top right one always snagged me
haha, fair play, I never once made it that far as a child. The furthest I ever got was the Lv 11 castle which I was sure was the final level haha
never made past those spikes, did not even think that was possible. i used the flying stick to avoid falling in the water and get to the high ladder.
@@IsteriaCollettiva I thought it was impossible, but once you know this it's very easy: you can touch the top spikes and not be hurt, so long as you don't press up while touching them.
That was amazing! I still have my old MSIII from when I was a kid. I'm gonna have to try speedrunning the shit out of that thing now. Good Lord this game was so hard to me as a child. I was already 10yo when I learned about the continue function and finally beat it. Good times!
Oh man, that continue code would have been a God-send had I known about it LOL. I don't think any of us did as kids. Great fun to speedrun btw, but the music does get monotonous after a while haha
What was the tips to have a continue?
I had it one time but never understand how i do. My friends never believe me.
I played this game hundreds of times as a kid
it was the first game that I knew about glitches
congratulations on the WR
Do you remember it being hard as fuck? Because I do.. I know I got up to that second last level or possibly the code part at the end but I doubt I ever finished it.
@@EatMyShortsAU I know I never finished it as a kid. Game was hard as hell, especially for a 6 yr old (I think by the time I was 7 I had a Mega Drive)
@@EatMyShortsAU it was pretty hard. like Ninja Gaiden. but I finished a half dozen of times
@@dimitreze Congrats dude. I only finished Revenge of Shinobi recently.
Just out of curiosity, do you remember the bouncing fish things at around 3:10? I remember everything else, just not those.
Well done brah!
thx mate!
5:45 Incredible timing and narrow misses, wow! Great speed run that no doubt took plenty of practice and skill. Great job.
Thanks dude, yeah that thundercloud level is ridiculously hard. I lost 7s on that level and very nearly reset the run (thankfully I played it out haha). There was also a chunk of time loss on the final castle.
@@dynagamerproductions8249 You are an expert video gamer as this speed run proves. Awesome achievement.
@@BlackArroToons thanks dude, I appreciate the comment! My main speedgame at the minute is Goldeneye for N64, but I do want to return to Alex Kidd someday to reclaim my title haha
@@dynagamerproductions8249 Goldeneye N64, nice going!
I broke the plastic lid of my mastersystem because of this game. Pretty sure I had an older version of the game because if you failed one of the helicopter levels [13] it would spawn you back without a helicopter making the game impossible to beat. When I played this later on roms though the bug seems to have been fixed.
Good speedrun!
thx mate
5 years before the real mascot
That spikey blue haired meth addict will never be the true mascot! (Kidding of course)
That damn shady ghost
Floaty controls, scary ghosts, angry butt-potatoes.. this is truly one of the games ever made
Not to mention downwards scrolling platforming. What a game!
Wow The music takes me back instantly ❤
So much memories and nostalgia
I always remember that 'oh shit' moment when you buy the bike on the jungle level. Yeah, let's not do that again.
LOL yeah that level is NOT friendly with the bike. I think I would use the flying stick to get past the large spike gaps when I was younger
Great player 👏
I had this when I was a kid.. staying balanced in the water isn't as easy as this made it look
It actually is.....
The trick to the water section is to never press up or down on the spikes - if you only press left and right you'll simply bop up and down into the top spikes without dying lol.
I only wish that I was privy to this as a kid lol.
Yes player would knew this secret if Capcom's employee didn't leak it first
Great memorys but the coin sound, oh my it hurts so much. I forgot about that one :D
Good job. 😳
As a kid, this game was so hard I rather played Master of Darkness and Rampage. Good times.
since when could you touch the green vines under water?
The hitbox for the vines is actually only the top part of the plant - the "stem" part of the vine has no hit box and you can waltz right through them
@@dynagamerproductions8249 my whole childhood was a fucking lie lol
@@dynagamerproductions8249 where the hell were you speedrunners when I was growing up in the 80s having mental breakdowns playing these games! 🤪
Damn.. So many evenings spent with this. What a strange time in my life
This was the first game I ever played, and it holds a warm place for my childhood.
WOW! Just wow. And I can’t even get past the 2nd Paperhead lol
thunder level was pure anxiety
Yeah, I was extremely close to resetting on that messed up jump. I'm glad I didn't but there's 7 seconds of time save there so I'll probably come back to beat this at some point
Unbelievable!!
It's so weird hearing this at full speed. I am so used to the PAL version which is slower.
I know mate, us PALers got the slower end of the stick for most game back then. Thing is, we didn't even realise till years later when emulators became available and we could play the NTSC versions.
It was still very hard even at PAL speed
How do you even find the combination for the crown?
I never figured that out as a kid
You're supposed to firstly obtain the letter on the first castle letter (by freeing your brother). It is missable. When you meet the King on Ch 14 he will exchange the letter for the Stone which tells you what the end sequence is. If you do not collect the letter then the King will just summon a ghost.
@@dynagamerproductions8249 oh that happened to me yesterday, the king told me he had no business with me but I was able to finish the level anyway.
In the remake it forces you to get the letter before leaving the first castle.
That thundercloud zone was scary as fuck!
I was a nano second away from resetting lol. I lost a dumb amount of time from 'that' jump
I remember my mother finishing this game back in 1990, not my dad, sisters or I could ever get near the end. Classic nostalgia. 😁
Oh wow that's actually insane. I could never even get past the Lv 11 castle (which I was sure was the final level as a kid)
weird same here
Memmoooorrriiiiiiiies !
What a flash back......nice
Dam so many memories fighting with my brother and cousins over the sega controller 🤣🤣🤣❤️
oh man. I remember playing this some 25 odd years ago. I never could beat that rock paper scissors stuff back then :D
Yeah, me neither. If only I'd known that the pattern is fixed and it's the same result each playthrough haha.
i got to the end stage a few times but didn't realise that the tablet you got gave you the order that you had to run over the icons with. Ghosts would come out and kill you
yeah this wasn't apparent at all as a kid
Amazing
Well done never thought of trying to do it so quickly when younger, Always greedy chasing all the $$$ and points by killing everything!
my first ever console game.
The furthest I have got is 16 but I never had the cane for that bit. Also memorising that code to get the crown is nuts
Tbf, the game actually intends you to defeat Janken the normal way, but we use the cane there to skip him lol. We used to use the cane a bit earlier to skip out the water section with the spikes, but that isn't as fast as skipping out the final battle with Janken.
The end screen puzzle is fairly easy to remember once you've done it enough - 321, 4312, 545 haha
Yes, I used the cane to get through the collapsing bridge, and then I fought Janken (it was a easy battle, you just had to stay behind him). Never knew one could avoid it.
Ive been playing the new version of this game I cant believe it took me 50 minutes to get 3 minutes into the run
13 mins!!!??? There is at least a whole minute of jenken! So really this guy is doing it in around 11 mins of real game play, that's INSANE
Those were days, punching animals in the face as a kid.
insane
I have this game on my console and i never see the final, thx for showing for me lmao
No problem haha
why has this not more views?
I'm guessing because Strackel beat it by six seconds only two weeks after I got the time lol
It's had a fair few views now though haha
14:00 such an epic ending to the game! I thought the master system couldn’t handle 3D graphics?
haha XD
In Europe, the price, was a burger
That ending, after all that 😂
Why is Janken the symbol for the Radaxian Castle level if Gooseka is the boss?
The first game I figured out a glitch on.
This game was so damn hard!
I like the master system better than the ones. I couldn't convince anyone else in my elementary school.
wow you've made this game look so damn easy! never been able to finish it with those symbols in the last stage. how did you know which order to jump on?
It's always the same - 321 4312 545
The game intends you to find the letter on the first castle stage, you then exchange the letter for 'Hirotta Stone' later on (if you don't have the Letter then High Stone just tells Alex to "go away" and summons a Ghost), you can then use the stone to work out the puzzle at the end level. The solution is fixed, so it doesn't matter if you actually get the stone or not - so long as you know the sequence, you're good.
@@dynamixdj9506 ohhh right! tbh i was way too young at the time to even understand english so i just did whatever ^^
well thanks for that! i finally know how, 30 years or so later xD
Same here...many moons ago. But what a great game. Had it for a Christmas present built in with my Master System II
@@danielmullady1271 Same here dude - it was the first game I ever owned when I was like 4 or 5 yrs old haha
Are you guys telling me u never knew about the stone tablet u pick up for saving his brother. It tells on the stone tablet what the sequence is.
You planning on doing a speed run on the new DX version just released haha
Some of the other Alex Kidd guys are running it. I may do, but tbh if I return to Alex Kidd it will probably be to reclaim my WR title for the glitchless category haha
i think only 5% have finished this game when it came out, really too hard for most young player!!!
Most definitely - if only I'd known as a kid about the continue code (press A eight times on the game over screen to get a continue at the cost of $400 coin)!
True, it was the end stepping stone code that got me.
@@ninjacostar3849 Yeah, it doesn't help that the "stone" that gives you the solution reads from right to left lol.
@@dynamixdj9506 Ho yeah I 5hink i remember something really strange like that, good point, crazy times unlike now lol 😆 time to put in some times, thanks for the reminder.
Damn that 5 %
Wow I thought that that underwater spiked maze in the last castle was impassable
Yeah it's actually quite easy once you know how, Just don't press Up or Down as you're going past the spikes and you'll be fine :)
This was insane mate, we’ll done. Can I ask? Do you have any tips on jumping onto the tiny platforms with out running off them PLEASE? Thanks so much.
It's mostly just skill and practice tbh. I use save states so I can rehearse certain segments over and over.
@@dynagamerproductions8249 ah I see, thanks so much for the reply 😎👍
... 13:06 Rock, Paper, Scissors... And Middle Finger
Haha
U spend 13 minutes, i spent 13 years
the janken ending is very different, too. is that because you didnt pick up the letter in the first castle?
I'm assuming you mean that I used the cane to avoid fighting Janken? There has been a bit of controversy on the speedrun.com boards surrounding the use of the cane in this manner - some regard this skip as a glitch, but in the end, the moderators allowed this trick in the glitchless category, so we all use it to skip the final boss fight. It saves more time than if we were to use the cane to skip the water segments earlier on.
yeah thats right, skipping the final janken at the end. I get what you mean that it's not a glitch, since you're not doing anything unusual, just using an item in a proper manner.
That theme song lol Duda Duda Duda Duda loot loot.
This is the one game I couldn't beat.
Always on the last level 🤣. Might try and get it again see how I do now.
12:26 most difficult part of the game
It's actually a lot easier than it looks. If you *only* press Left and Right you will not die; it's when you press up or down that alex swims into the spikes; otherwise he will just bop into them without dying
@@dynagamerproductions8249 seriously lol you can swim without dying at the spikes left to right?
@@tonyp9313 yes it's true, spikes are very very easy. But spikes also hurts horizontally, be careful.
@@mario.pinducciu I played the game just before. Swam right through it. It's cool that he'll hit the spikes on top on not die. Super easy.
8 years old beating this game in "96".
Two Questions:
1-Why you take the motocycle in the second stage ans sounds standard music and no moto music?
2-In the first level you take 310$ but in the shop of the 2nd stage you have 220$.
😆😆😆😆
1 - In the JP original version of the game, the Bike Song does not exist. It was added for the subsequent NTSC and PAL releases.
2 - Money bags that you grab that are already placed on the screen (not from boxes) are worth $10. I grab ten of these for $100. I punch six money blocks and five of them were large ($20) and one was small ($10) so that's an additional $110. The other $10 comes from a glitch that happens when you hit the Money Bag that is in the air at a specific angle; you can get two for one this way, which is what happened on the final money bag as I fell into the water. This isn't something that can be controlled; the glitch either happens or it doesn't (and most of the time it doesn't).
We always punch six money bag blocks on Lv 1, and three of them need to be large bags or else it's a reset unless we get the extra $10 from the glitch, but as I said, that doesn't happen often so usually it's just a reset (it takes too long to get to Lv 2 just to find you have $190, again lol). Note that I purposely didn't get the 11th money bag before the water because I knew that I had enough; normally we get 11 lots of fixed $10 bags but the final one can be missed if we get 4x Large bags from the boxes (or more) as it saves a few frames.
I'm assuming there's some alternate paths, i completed the game multiple times back in 93' . but some sections seemed different. obviously meeting his brother isn't a requirement
Yes, there are a few different routes to take on Ch 11. The route we take is the fastest, and freeing Alex's brother isn't needed to complete the game.
Legit first game I ever played #atari
As a kid in the late 80s never got past the final level. Where are you suposed to learn the tile combination from the end so that the crown appears? I remember doing the game over and over and never got to finid out until the internet came around.
You're basically supposed to free your brother on the first castle (Lv 11). This allows you to acquire the letter to the king on the same level, which you then exchange for the Hirotta Stone on Lv 14 (if you don't have the letter the King just summons a ghost). This stone tells you the combination (even though it reads from right to left).
The pattern never changes, so once you know the combination you do not need to go out your way for the Hirotta Stone.
@@dynamixdj9506 Never knew that. There where some items I just didnt kow what they do or where to use them. Thanks for the explanation!
Daaaamn, it took me 81 min 30 yrs ago😲