Get up to 37% off on Displate using my link displate.com/?art=672a0838d12ba or my discount code 'SUMMONINGSALT'! Check them out today and don't miss out! Thanks to the following people for help with research! Check out their channels: LiquidWiFi: twitch.tv/liquidwifi 12_Kelvin: www.twitch.tv/12_kelvin HomerOfSteel: www.twitch.tv/homerofsteel Vapo: www.youtube.com/@Vapo_ TickerSR: www.twitch.tv/tickersr Baconman12: www.twitch.tv/baconman12 Also, I keep forgetting to credit POST ELVIS for his cover of We're Finally Landing in the intro and outro, so here's a link to it - th-cam.com/video/doWW79qTtgA/w-d-xo.html
As the Hit & Run lead designer, this is incredibly fun and heartwarming to see. (And no, I don't think we knew about a single one of these optimizations during development!)
Fun fact! At some points during his reign at the top of ASM, Liquidwifi also held world record in every major category at the same time (All Story Missions, 100%, Any%, NG+, No Mission Warps and All Tasks, referred to as the infinity stones in the community). As far as I'm aware, no one else has managed this until HomerOfSteel recently achieved it! Although his 100% record was taken back by liquid 5 days later, It's still really cool and definitely solidifies this era as HomerOfSteel's
I am not someone who watches speed runners, for thr most part. However, I was waiting for someone to mention liquidwifi. Like I am suprised he hasn't commented yet
“Such a stupid simple mistake” I say to the World Record holder for missing a 5 sec time save on a game I didn’t even know had 7 levels cause it was too hard for me
For real, bro pulled a Matt Turk; mans showed up on everyone's radar, changed the game (literally), soloed all the competition with ingenious big-brain strats, then peaced out to make it _everyone else's_ problem.
As someone who knows the lore its insane. He was a member of the shar community for a while but then started speedrunning one day and got wr in asm as well as a lot of ILs, lowering each by a very big amount. He was also a moderator and did a lot for the community, such as banning the games first (now reformed) cheater. Then one day he just deleted all of his runs, logged out of discord, and barely anybody has heard from him since. If his runs were viewable now they wouldn’t be as crazy by todays standards but, the fact they aren’t makes him really legendary in the community.
@@da_timbs2995damn… hope he’s doing well, it’s wild someone whose so influential in the community just vanishes. Do you know if he said why he stepped away from speedrunning and moderation?
Wiggum: Dangit we can't go into their house uninvited. Welp, pack it up boys. Lou: Uhhh chief I think you're getting us confused with vampires. Wiggum: Ah well better play it safe
Chief Wiggum would use every excuse within game mechanics to not continue his job. Chief Wiggum: Oh shit he went to the repo shop, oh well, I wouldn't be able to tell which one is the one anyway.
Liquid is a legend. I first knew him as a Kingdom Hearts 2 speedrunner back in the day and was clearly a cut above the rest in that game too, getting the first sub 4 hour time. His dominance in Simpsons Hit & Run is pretty astounding, all while being a pretty entertaining streamer too. Great video once again Salt
I was like "Hmm I never really got into this stuff, but I know tons of people love this guy's videos, and he's covering one of my childhood games apparently, so I'll check it out", and the moment he said "Carl skip" I was hooked lmao
I really thought this game couldn't have a world record progression. I thought Liquid stayed on top for so long, that any attempt to cover the game's history would be too monotonous, that you couldn't make a narrative from it. Boy am I glad to be wrong. Thank you Summoning Salt.
Watching this, I'm having horrible flashbacks to those levels on the boardwalk with all the people standing around everywhere. Those were evil. Great video! I'm shocked that there weren't even more out of bounds exploits with how wonky some of the terrain and hit detection is. People said that it was a bad game to speedrun but the mission structure made it fun and technical to watch in this video!
it's kinda funny that this game and mario sunshine have really similar beginnings, where no one really wanted to run it for a long time because of issues with the game internally, but eventually grew a strong community with some of the coolest tech in speedrunning as a whole
SMS might be a future Salt video I think. Average Trey made great videos about it years ago but those have become very outdated with the tons of discoveries that emerged since. Though if GreenSuigi actually pulls off the SM64 5/5, he might be the focus of his own video soon.
@@KremBotopI do hope that Salt makes an SMS video! I know that he commented on the original any% video when it first came out so he might think that it's not necessary to cover? I would really like a new one since so much has changed, and especially because AverageTreys video on it is one of my personal favorites to revisit
i've noticed how, especially in compared to a lot of your older videos, your voice is a lot more peppy and full of life, it really shows how far you've come as a content creator! :D
54:25 saying you'll wait for others to break your record so you can feel what its like coming back from behind after winning who knows how many WRs in a row has to be one of the most chad moves ever made.
"Oh ye gods! My run is ruined! But what if... I were to exploit backups and disguise them as main strategies? Hohohoho, delightfully devilish, Seymour!"
What I truly love about Speedrun history are the names of the runners, it adds some real spice to the whole thing because what you mean a Mango and an Iguana were trading records..... In Simpsons Hit & Run??? Only to get beaten by Wifi??? It's always a good day whenever we get an upload on your channel, keep it up man And huge props to all the runners.
He also went from kind of androgynous emo aesthetic to an average looking dude, it's really cool seeing so much of someone's life in this kind of video bc he was dominant for so long
Outside of speedrunning, the Donut Mod community has done so much to keep Simpsons Hit & Run alive and I'm so glad that it has plenty of new modded content that people can try
Nigel Brooke (one of the developers of Hit & Run) was a lecturer in a game development course I took recently, I asked him about the possibility of a sequel and he said they don't know who owns the IP. Sorry everyone!
unless their license lapsed or expired, i believe EA still holds the rights to the license. they just haven’t done anything with it for new games since Tapped Out.
Man, as a person who discovered SHAR speedrunning years ago when i thought to myself "I wonder if anyone speedruns this childhood game of mine" and then following LiquidWifi for years, watching him improve and beat records, for you to make a video about something i've actually been engaged with is awesome!
There's just something about your videos that makes me get all giddy and tense over every single minute of time save in any of these games you cover. Your commentary is just magically engaging.
It's so wild to me how SHAR and Battle for Bikini Bottom are weird ass franchise games that somehow ended up being not only extremely fun on their own merit but great speedrun content when on the surface level they look like massive cash grabs
I often say a good licensed game based on a TV show feels like one big playable episode from whatever show it's based on. This is why BfBB and SHAR are so beloved, they accomplish this with both vibes and having gameplay fun enough to let you be immersed enough to stick with it
there are quite a lot of games of the ps2 era that age like fine wine. just imagine, if someone made hit and run today... it would be a crappy unity "f2p" project with microtransactions up the a... and battle royale. they did a GTA simpsons clone, and they did it well
I honestly don't know if I have never seen this before, but the fact that you only charge your patreon members PER UPLOAD is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. I'm going to subscribe to yours now, and I wish I would have known this sooner. You just keep finding ways to be one of the best channels on this site and I and many others look forward to each and everyone on or your videos ❤
0:00 Intro 1:56 Chapter 1: A Bad Game To Speedrun - 9:50 Cutscene Skip 15:55 Chapter 2: Gaseous Ethernet 25:09 Chapter 3: What Happened Next - 31:44 Out of Bounds Wave 2 36:00 Chapter 4: The Quest for Sub 20 - 42:41 The Quest for 1:18 49:35 Chapter 5: The Reign's End? 57:25 Chapter 6: The Skirmish 1:12:17 Credits
Huge respect to LiquidWifi for putting the bar so high that made HomerOfSteel go above and beyond. Keeping so many World Records for so long is so incredible and kept motivating competition, now that's having a big competitive spirit.
Ha, ha! It is amazing to see people still enjoying this game after 20 years! As the game’s Level Designer it is tough for me to watch as this was my 2nd game, but, there are principles here that were next applied to building cities in Midnight Club at R* and later in Carnage Racing. A process for level design is now something I teach at Sheridan College.
Midnight club and Hit and Run... Thank you, Sir. From all of us who grew up being enriched by your art. The escapism you helped to provide was absolutely vital to some of us whilst we were fighting through our youth, and a lot of us are grown now and still playing. I just hope you know you made a difference.
I've fallen off watching for a while to backlog some S Tier youtube content, seeing you at almost 2 million subscribers absolutely warms my heart, this is the kinda channel that deserves all the success it's fostered 👏
Speedrunning is such a fascinating concept to me. Like, yeah we understand that there is 48 hours of content and millions of dialogue options with three-dimension NPCs with unique day cycles, but I’m going to go straight to the end and do it over and over but faster every time
Usually speedrunners have already played the game and seen most of that before they even tried speedrunning. It's not "I picked up the game and decided to ignore all the content to play it fast", it's "I exhausted the game's content because I loved it so much I played it to death and now all there is to do to keep playing it is to do it fast"
Modern AAA games are terrible to speeedrun because their gameplay is incredibly limited. Most of these speedruns are classic games that are all about gameplay.
I have a nice routine with SS videos. I watch them once, I really enjoy them, and from then on, I use them to sleep. Not because they're boring, obviously, but because they are soooo relaxing and comfy. If I play a SS video, its a matter of minutes for me to fall asleep, when normaly it takes me almost an hour. Thank u so much, man, not only your videos are amazing, but also make me sleep really good❤
Try audiobooks. David reads a song of ice and fire (he does different voices for everyone AND regional accents) Name of the wind and wise man's fear ( mad comfy) World war Z (zombies, mark Hamill, Henry Rollins, different voice actor for every character).
I am fascinated by the world of speed running. I do not have the temperament for it in the slightest, I know me, if I were to try, it become very dangerous for me. However, TH-camrs like Summoning Salt and Karl Jobst make me feel connected enough to the community where I can still feel some fervor around the content. Thank you for these.
Summoning Salt - you may never fully comprehend how appreciative we are for the work you do. When I see an upload, I literally begin planning the current day or next day around when I can sit back and watch uninterrupted. Your videos literally help with my anxiety so I am even more grateful.
Salt, I don’t know if you read your comments but you rock man. Your work is exceptionally of a higher quality, as if you put a little bit of your soul into it.
Liquid Wifi Evading the cops going into the dead end to collect the waste and then again evading going out of the dead end was a thing of beauty and im so glad that run was a world reccord.
Played this game so much with my brother, but for many years we were stuck on the first level, ultimately thinking that was it, spending all of our time messing around with anything we could lol. But several years later my brother went back to it and actually finished the game.
@joshuabryan3692 haha same, somehow 4 year old me could beat some of the hardest missions in the game, but not the last one. the level 6 finale was very hard for me too
3:41 I love when he sets up a video like this at the beginning. And we get to sit here and enjoy watching him dismantle all the reasons they said it wouldn't be a good speedgame
The most impressive thing about any of these videos is Summoning Salt's ability to make me care about any of these games I've never seen nor played. It's incredible how invested I become in these stories of people I've never met before. Now I hope they all continue pushing this game to new heights, and look forwards to keeping track of their progress 😁
Love the videos. Keep up the good work. Have you ever considered doing an Epilogue video to update some of your older videos? Like, which records have since been broken, or any new discoveries found?
Honestly some of the best speedruns to watch are Hit and Run ASM and 100%. The driving tech and goofy physics are hypnotising. The tiny optimizations and boatload of tricks. No video will ever do this game justice.
I'll still never forget how rage inducing the last 3 missions of the game were for me as a kid. Not running into walls was one thing, but the timer made everything so much worse, especially for the last one. Nothing quite like making it all the way to the end just before the timer runs out, but failing because it takes extra time for the car to float up into the spaceship.
The funny thing is that's exactly how much of this video I watched before seeing your comment. He started talking about bonus material and behind the scenes stuff, which I wasn't interested in, so I stopped and went to read the comments. Yours made me glance at the timestamp and I was at exactly 1:12:20. So there's a 27 second time-save possible if he performs an outro skip.
I feel like I waited too long for this, ive been continually pondering this episode for what feels to be 2 months. Although it may seem overdue, I do not think it could have come at a better time. I have been feeling rather down as of late. But this episode has reignited my purpose. I feel alive... Mr Salt , I thank you from the bottom of my heart, for the joy and peace that you invigorate into every cell of my organism. Every fraction of my being. Summmoning Salt you have come so far and brought so many along with you. You truly are the unsung hero bringing us alll together. A True saint of his time. Keep being you and doing what you do best. ONE LOVE
Omg thx for this video, I loved this game so much as a child (never owned, always played at my best friends house on his ps2) that I always keep coming back to every couple years on pc... Speedruns of this game are so enjoyable to watch, thank you really once again for covering this game
This is extremely random. Recently TH-cam has been dropping me many speedrun content and it turns out Summoning Salt uploads new video of none other than Hit and Run, this is so crazy and I'm glad it is that way
i am also pretty sure this is an open collaboration between Summoning and the music artist. and i think the artist is very happy to be featured. no need for copyright strikes or repitching
@@SummoningSalt Fair, though there should be a copyright exemption for iconic use cases such as this, lol. I hope it works out and thanks as always for the high quality infotainment.
This video is so funny because most of it is just LiquidWiFi’s biography lmao I also love how every time you mute the banger music, you’ll just hear a random Simpsons character saying some bs
At the end of the day, its not about games being complex. Its about people loving a game so much they make it complex. I love this kind of videos and i cant wait to have time for a cozy afternoon heheh
The funniest part of this video is the fact that the only Irish person on the leaderboard is a lad named greenbulmers. Green being the colour of our country obviously and bulmers being a fairly popular cider sold here in Ireland. The cider is called Magners i’m other countries
What's Dublin like now that its been Africanized? So glad to hear a country 432 times bigger than yours feels entitled to move their population there 🙂
Every time I hear HOME all I can see are the American dad speedrun parodies of your videos 😂 Glad to see the GOAT is still uploading in current year. We are truly blessed
Lmao made this exact comment pretty much, as I was near fished with the video. Started scrolling the comments and just saw this and now I'm upset you beat me to it lmao
27:08 About a decade ago I looked up 100% runs of The Simpsons Hit and Run, and at the time this room was like the main juice of the 100% run. If you don't fully break the boxes and soda machines you can still get most of the coins, then reload at the mission that drops you close to that area (one of Bart's 2nd level missions), and then you just farm coins until you have enough for everything you need to buy in the game. Took forever tho, glad to see this game got some optimization, would love to see if anyone has done a 100% route with these strats thrown in
LiquidWifi's done a ton of optimization on the 100% run and recently took WR using the any% schmovement combined with some super optimized coin strats, including a more optimized version of the coin room grinding where a glitch causes all coins dropped to instantly be picked up and added to your total
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Thanks to the following people for help with research! Check out their channels:
LiquidWiFi: twitch.tv/liquidwifi
12_Kelvin: www.twitch.tv/12_kelvin
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Vapo: www.youtube.com/@Vapo_
TickerSR: www.twitch.tv/tickersr
Baconman12: www.twitch.tv/baconman12
Also, I keep forgetting to credit POST ELVIS for his cover of We're Finally Landing in the intro and outro, so here's a link to it - th-cam.com/video/doWW79qTtgA/w-d-xo.html
ALRIIIIIIIGGGHHHHTTTTTTT
Yay
Ey Summoning Salt.
The Rebirth just happen in tetris. Maybe if there's something happen like this. It's good short content for Short video.
I just bought 10
@@ZenHorakti Rebirth?
As the Hit & Run lead designer, this is incredibly fun and heartwarming to see. (And no, I don't think we knew about a single one of these optimizations during development!)
thank you for this great game, loved it as a kid and still play it from time to time
Legend!!
thank you for one of the absolute best games of my whole childhood!
I've never played it, but it seems incredibly fun!
I loved this game when I was younger
35:38 "The record had become very optimized." (There is 40min left in the video)
“The record had become very optimized.”
Why don’t I believe a damn word of that?
ahahhaahha
classic summoning salt video
I just love human ability for things like this
hahaha when he said it, i immediately checked how much time was left in the video
Fun fact! At some points during his reign at the top of ASM, Liquidwifi also held world record in every major category at the same time (All Story Missions, 100%, Any%, NG+, No Mission Warps and All Tasks, referred to as the infinity stones in the community). As far as I'm aware, no one else has managed this until HomerOfSteel recently achieved it! Although his 100% record was taken back by liquid 5 days later, It's still really cool and definitely solidifies this era as HomerOfSteel's
Fuck yeah.
His thanos arc was a beautiful thing to watch
I am not someone who watches speed runners, for thr most part. However, I was waiting for someone to mention liquidwifi. Like I am suprised he hasn't commented yet
Thano5
Liquid is hands down the king of SHAR
“Such a stupid simple mistake” I say to the World Record holder for missing a 5 sec time save on a game I didn’t even know had 7 levels cause it was too hard for me
ngl i laughed at "carl skip" but i completely lost it at "carl skip skip"
Maybe one day we’ll see “carl skip skip skip.” The possibilities are endless
@@devinschwartz7596indeed brother
@@devinschwartz7596 we can dream brother
Carl skip skip saved him from a LOT of car on Carl violence
Celeste has a trick called Autoscroller Skip Skip (A.S.S.)
drop everything. stop driving, stop sleeping, stop giving birth, hell stop breathing. summoning salt dropped
That’s what I just did!
You finna get a wr for 100 likes on a comment 💀
@@MarMaxGamingthe multi-tasking god
it's 3 am here
Do I stop masturbating?
robocroc fr just shows up, revolutionizes the speedrun, refuses to elaborate and leaves
WHAT A GOAT
He showed up, had a big impact, and immediately ran off.
Sort of like a....hit and run.
For real, bro pulled a Matt Turk; mans showed up on everyone's radar, changed the game (literally), soloed all the competition with ingenious big-brain strats, then peaced out to make it _everyone else's_ problem.
As someone who knows the lore its insane. He was a member of the shar community for a while but then started speedrunning one day and got wr in asm as well as a lot of ILs, lowering each by a very big amount. He was also a moderator and did a lot for the community, such as banning the games first (now reformed) cheater. Then one day he just deleted all of his runs, logged out of discord, and barely anybody has heard from him since. If his runs were viewable now they wouldn’t be as crazy by todays standards but, the fact they aren’t makes him really legendary in the community.
@@da_timbs2995damn… hope he’s doing well, it’s wild someone whose so influential in the community just vanishes. Do you know if he said why he stepped away from speedrunning and moderation?
That iguana mango fact is the type of research I need in my journalism. Top notch work
14:01 To be fair, this is very in character for Chief Wiggum.
"They went inside the house? Ah, screw it."
"Suspect is hatless! I repeat: hatless!"
Wiggum: Dangit we can't go into their house uninvited. Welp, pack it up boys.
Lou: Uhhh chief I think you're getting us confused with vampires.
Wiggum: Ah well better play it safe
"I'd rather let a thousand guilty men go free than chase after them"
@@Frigidevil Legitimately can't tell if this is an actual quote or not.
Chief Wiggum would use every excuse within game mechanics to not continue his job.
Chief Wiggum: Oh shit he went to the repo shop, oh well, I wouldn't be able to tell which one is the one anyway.
didn't think we would be watching a 72 minute video on the simpsons hit and run speedruns tonight but here we are
Fancy seeing ye here
Summoning history of hollow knight speedruns when?
hi fireb0rn
Fireborn 😮 Love your content ♥
You’re a goat in your own right,can’t wait for silksong baby
Absolute PEAK cinema
Thankyou for making this video :)
450
here from the stream
fatty
kfc
@@pelicanvi ok pelican
It’s always wild when people are competing for like 20 seconds in an 80 minute run
For real man, I couldn’t do it. Like I LOVE watching speedrunning , but playing highly optimized speed runs seems like hell on earth ahaha
20 seconds is not that bad when you realize some compete for miliseconds
@ in an 80 minute run?
@@njohn043 yes
@@lasagnaboi-b1wwhat game/run?
Liquid is a legend. I first knew him as a Kingdom Hearts 2 speedrunner back in the day and was clearly a cut above the rest in that game too, getting the first sub 4 hour time. His dominance in Simpsons Hit & Run is pretty astounding, all while being a pretty entertaining streamer too.
Great video once again Salt
He's one of the few streamers I can actually watch, he's a funny dude and his chat is pure cancer
@@MrFusion His chat is something else that is true lmao
Dude is super funny and a nice guy, he truely deserves being part of a summoning salt video
I'm not surprised, he kinda looks like a scuffed Roxas (ly liquid
And now I want a KH2 speedrun history video bc what do you mean one person can be dominant with Sora and Homer Simpson
>liquidwifi gets sub 1:20
>glace at time left to video
oh this bout to get good
15:52, I was ready for Matt Turk to come in out of nowhere
or abney lol
Who knows what the future holds
Everyone is Matt Turk
@@Sledge11701 Game: **Exists**
Matt Turk: 👀
Legend
Regarding the last video: Someone achieved Rebirth on Tetris. Like the game reset to level 1. That was pretty exciting to see
I was like "Hmm I never really got into this stuff, but I know tons of people love this guy's videos, and he's covering one of my childhood games apparently, so I'll check it out", and the moment he said "Carl skip" I was hooked lmao
Welcome to the wild world of Speedrunning
Just wait until you get to carl skip skip
Welcome to the wonderful world of SS videos, once you start there is no coming back
I was never into speed runs until I saw a summoning salt video
Learn the legend, the myth, the master, Matt Turk. You're in good company sir.
Holy crap Marge, this is crazier than that time I got my syndicated animated comedy gags mixed up!
FR
Three in one, impressive.
+2
"Homaaaaah why is there a helicopter with your face on the lawn?"
Simpsons did it!!
I really thought this game couldn't have a world record progression. I thought Liquid stayed on top for so long, that any attempt to cover the game's history would be too monotonous, that you couldn't make a narrative from it.
Boy am I glad to be wrong. Thank you Summoning Salt.
Hi Vertic
Shoulda changed his name to LiquidFiber though. Ain't no one getting those speeds off wifi.
Is that the wager race goat
Don't thank me vertic :)
ngl it kinda was, this is bit more monotonous than most summoning salt vids
HomerOfSteel is such a perfect, perfect username for a guy who speedruns a Simpsons game.
Well he probably chose it for that reason, yeah.
Watching this, I'm having horrible flashbacks to those levels on the boardwalk with all the people standing around everywhere. Those were evil.
Great video! I'm shocked that there weren't even more out of bounds exploits with how wonky some of the terrain and hit detection is. People said that it was a bad game to speedrun but the mission structure made it fun and technical to watch in this video!
Love your channel!
There were more oob tricks in other categories, I believe.
Hmm, one could even say that it’s something of a… Simpsons Mystery of sorts as to why there aren’t more out of bounds exploits…
RealJims comment on a Summingsalt video. What reality am I in?
Real Jims, we need a The Simpsons Arcade Speedrun History
13:56
Escaping the police by just walking into your house is hilarious
It's what I do, though it's not always MY house.
"This is my own private domicile and I will not be harassed"
"Understandable have a nice day"
MISSION COMPLETE
literally just how you avoid the police in GTASA, enter safe house, save game, no more wanted level
it's kinda funny that this game and mario sunshine have really similar beginnings, where no one really wanted to run it for a long time because of issues with the game internally, but eventually grew a strong community with some of the coolest tech in speedrunning as a whole
im glad both games are fun :)
Hold on. If I'm not mistaken. I saw your pfp in the corner of the album cover for a fake Hawaii Part II single on the topic page.
SMS might be a future Salt video I think. Average Trey made great videos about it years ago but those have become very outdated with the tons of discoveries that emerged since. Though if GreenSuigi actually pulls off the SM64 5/5, he might be the focus of his own video soon.
@@ItsFoxPlays3Niko Oneshot is on that?
@@KremBotopI do hope that Salt makes an SMS video! I know that he commented on the original any% video when it first came out so he might think that it's not necessary to cover? I would really like a new one since so much has changed, and especially because AverageTreys video on it is one of my personal favorites to revisit
i've noticed how, especially in compared to a lot of your older videos, your voice is a lot more peppy and full of life, it really shows how far you've come as a content creator! :D
Maybe it's the ad sense paycheck and in video ads. 2 million views in 5 days I'd be peppy too.
@@kevinu9528Def the algo voice 2yrs ago was peak SS but still here for the content
With such a huge loyal fan base, who wouldn't be happy?
54:25 saying you'll wait for others to break your record so you can feel what its like coming back from behind after winning who knows how many WRs in a row has to be one of the most chad moves ever made.
"I thought we were having steamed hams."
"Oh no, I said steamed RUNS. That's what I call speedruns!"
"Oh ye gods! My run is ruined! But what if... I were to exploit backups and disguise them as main strategies? Hohohoho, delightfully devilish, Seymour!"
"Well i'm from ANY% and i've never heard anyone call them steamed runs"
@LambofGod69 "Oh, no, not in ANY%, it's an all collectibles expression."
Seymour! The All Story Missions is on fire!
“You call Speedruns Steamed Runs?”
The description of every wr TH-cam video: “could be better”
oh my god i know the feeling
And they not wrong tho
Carl Skip Skip
*gets world record*
"So the run was bad"
@chiiatore8364 AAAAA THAT ONE IN PARTICULAR HURTS
Summoning salt is literally the only channel i don't miss an upload for always so enjoyable and entertaining
on a saturday??? we are so back.
yes
My sleep will be astral ascending today
Sunday for me
Was literally wondering when the next summoning salt vid was going to come out today, must have felt it in the air
What?
What I truly love about Speedrun history are the names of the runners, it adds some real spice to the whole thing because what you mean a Mango and an Iguana were trading records..... In Simpsons Hit & Run??? Only to get beaten by Wifi???
It's always a good day whenever we get an upload on your channel, keep it up man
And huge props to all the runners.
Jimmypoopins is my favorite
@@kevinkishbaugh2051 i watch him on twitch :)
My favourite part is there were three competitors, two of them with names like LIQUID or STEEL and the third guy is just Kelvin
This is why I love Nintendo players. It's a 10 year long tug of war between yoshiiscool7 and Jeremy
Can’t forget my goat PotatoOnCrack
When the world needed him most…he returned.
Been the worst week of my adult life. Thanks, man. Helps me forget for just a single hour. That’s a gift.
Hope things improve for you bud!
Hope things get better one day
Fuerza amigo
You mean the worst week of your adult life, so far
Worst week of your life? Why
ngl, seeing liquids body size change from skinny kid to big boy throughout his speedrun career was just something
He also went from kind of androgynous emo aesthetic to an average looking dude, it's really cool seeing so much of someone's life in this kind of video bc he was dominant for so long
Outside of speedrunning, the Donut Mod community has done so much to keep Simpsons Hit & Run alive and I'm so glad that it has plenty of new modded content that people can try
good to hear :)
@@mudiametokunboh2370 if you do play SHAR, definitely check it out :)
Nobody asked, kid
@@InstanenceBoo, you suuck
@@Instanence I asked, STFU.
Nigel Brooke (one of the developers of Hit & Run) was a lecturer in a game development course I took recently, I asked him about the possibility of a sequel and he said they don't know who owns the IP. Sorry everyone!
unless their license lapsed or expired, i believe EA still holds the rights to the license. they just haven’t done anything with it for new games since Tapped Out.
good to know thanks!
Apparently Tapped Out is about to finally end, so it's pretty likely that the "license expiring" rumours are actually true
I think The Simpsons Hit and Run is already good as its own game. No need for a sequel, unless the IP is given to the dedicated fans of the game.
well, Disney owns the Simpsons, so I don't think it's going to happen
Man, as a person who discovered SHAR speedrunning years ago when i thought to myself "I wonder if anyone speedruns this childhood game of mine" and then following LiquidWifi for years, watching him improve and beat records, for you to make a video about something i've actually been engaged with is awesome!
I’ve never seen Hit and Run abbreviated like that, so my first thought was “Is this Shadowheart?”
There's just something about your videos that makes me get all giddy and tense over every single minute of time save in any of these games you cover. Your commentary is just magically engaging.
Never underestimate the Australian affinity for the Simpsons.
You call that a knife? THIS is a knife 🥄
Dankmus
@@bmac4i see you've played knifey spoony before
Oi mr prime minista!
@@bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819dankmus rules
It's honestly amazing how much dedication you have to put in to repeatly do a 1h+ long speedrun of a game for years.
This video is just a timelapse of LiquidWifi going from Bart to Homer irl
400 kg
Just more of me to love, honey
@@RoboBoddicker🤣
you don't snuggle with LiquidWifi, you strap yourself in and FEEL THE GEES!
He looks like Sam from LOTR
HomerOfSteel literally has every single world record right at the moment, in every single category
That’s insane
Liquid Iguana Mango sounds like a energy drink that kills you 😂
Me drinking the energy drink that instantly kills me:
Or a knockoff metal gear character lol
@@robertscott7812 True lol
Just like the Panera bread lemonade that kills you
Easy mistake, it's called Prime!
SummoningSalt makes you a respect a guy called "cucufocker89" more than your own dad for playing video games a little bit faster than someone else.
It's so wild to me how SHAR and Battle for Bikini Bottom are weird ass franchise games that somehow ended up being not only extremely fun on their own merit but great speedrun content when on the surface level they look like massive cash grabs
I often say a good licensed game based on a TV show feels like one big playable episode from whatever show it's based on. This is why BfBB and SHAR are so beloved, they accomplish this with both vibes and having gameplay fun enough to let you be immersed enough to stick with it
The best franchise game by far is Mr Krabs Overdoses on Ketamine and Dies
there are quite a lot of games of the ps2 era that age like fine wine. just imagine, if someone made hit and run today... it would be a crappy unity "f2p" project with microtransactions up the a... and battle royale.
they did a GTA simpsons clone, and they did it well
Whats shar?
Id love to see a summoning salt video on battle for bikini bottom!
@@maryfreegirl2029 shar is simpsons, I just yoinked the acronym from the vid
so glad to see you getting sponsors!!! people starting to realize and recognize the game-storian!!
Every time he says "Liquid", an image of Solid Snake yelling flashes in my mind.
I think of Liquid Chris 🥲🥲🥲
NO! THAT IS NOT A SUB 20 RUN!
Liquiiiid
DEAR BROTHERRRR!!!!!!
The price of physical prodigy!
8:43
"he just grazed the edge of a tree" as he rams straight into it
That tree just jumped out in front of him.
The Iconic Carl Skip
and the even better Carl skip skip
@@log22513 the ultimate Carl skip skip skip when?
@@nicholasiverson9784 then eventually, the Carl skip skip skip skip after that
I honestly don't know if I have never seen this before, but the fact that you only charge your patreon members PER UPLOAD is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. I'm going to subscribe to yours now, and I wish I would have known this sooner.
You just keep finding ways to be one of the best channels on this site and I and many others look forward to each and everyone on or your videos ❤
0:00 Intro
1:56 Chapter 1: A Bad Game To Speedrun
- 9:50 Cutscene Skip
15:55 Chapter 2: Gaseous Ethernet
25:09 Chapter 3: What Happened Next
- 31:44 Out of Bounds Wave 2
36:00 Chapter 4: The Quest for Sub 20
- 42:41 The Quest for 1:18
49:35 Chapter 5: The Reign's End?
57:25 Chapter 6: The Skirmish
1:12:17 Credits
🫡🫡🫡
I love you
Huge respect to LiquidWifi for putting the bar so high that made HomerOfSteel go above and beyond. Keeping so many World Records for so long is so incredible and kept motivating competition, now that's having a big competitive spirit.
I’m rubbing my hands together like a cartoon villain as I slide into my bed sheets and prop my phone up on a pillow
Ha, ha! It is amazing to see people still enjoying this game after 20 years! As the game’s Level Designer it is tough for me to watch as this was my 2nd game, but, there are principles here that were next applied to building cities in Midnight Club at R* and later in Carnage Racing. A process for level design is now something I teach at Sheridan College.
Midnight club and Hit and Run... Thank you, Sir.
From all of us who grew up being enriched by your art. The escapism you helped to provide was absolutely vital to some of us whilst we were fighting through our youth, and a lot of us are grown now and still playing.
I just hope you know you made a difference.
I've fallen off watching for a while to backlog some S Tier youtube content, seeing you at almost 2 million subscribers absolutely warms my heart, this is the kinda channel that deserves all the success it's fostered 👏
Speedrunning is such a fascinating concept to me. Like, yeah we understand that there is 48 hours of content and millions of dialogue options with three-dimension NPCs with unique day cycles, but I’m going to go straight to the end and do it over and over but faster every time
48 hours of content? How about *decades*?
Usually speedrunners have already played the game and seen most of that before they even tried speedrunning. It's not "I picked up the game and decided to ignore all the content to play it fast", it's "I exhausted the game's content because I loved it so much I played it to death and now all there is to do to keep playing it is to do it fast"
Modern AAA games are terrible to speeedrun because their gameplay is incredibly limited. Most of these speedruns are classic games that are all about gameplay.
I have a nice routine with SS videos. I watch them once, I really enjoy them, and from then on, I use them to sleep. Not because they're boring, obviously, but because they are soooo relaxing and comfy. If I play a SS video, its a matter of minutes for me to fall asleep, when normaly it takes me almost an hour. Thank u so much, man, not only your videos are amazing, but also make me sleep really good❤
BRO SAME I THOUGT I WAS THE ONLY ONE
Well, that was the case but now I feel that I am not listening to a SS. This new, energetic style is no no for me.
Try audiobooks.
David reads a song of ice and fire (he does different voices for everyone AND regional accents)
Name of the wind and wise man's fear ( mad comfy)
World war Z (zombies, mark Hamill, Henry Rollins, different voice actor for every character).
All these books are on TH-cam btw
I am fascinated by the world of speed running. I do not have the temperament for it in the slightest, I know me, if I were to try, it become very dangerous for me.
However, TH-camrs like Summoning Salt and Karl Jobst make me feel connected enough to the community where I can still feel some fervor around the content.
Thank you for these.
Summoning Salt - you may never fully comprehend how appreciative we are for the work you do. When I see an upload, I literally begin planning the current day or next day around when I can sit back and watch uninterrupted. Your videos literally help with my anxiety so I am even more grateful.
i used to play this game with my papaw all the time, he passed away a few years ago and seeing this made me tear up, thank you summoning salt
Playing video games with your grandfather. That’s awesome.
@@cratorcic9362it was awesome :)
Salt, I don’t know if you read your comments but you rock man. Your work is exceptionally of a higher quality, as if you put a little bit of your soul into it.
I read it W person austin
Geenii bo bo😮
Liquid Wifi Evading the cops going into the dead end to collect the waste and then again evading going out of the dead end was a thing of beauty and im so glad that run was a world reccord.
Played this game so much with my brother, but for many years we were stuck on the first level, ultimately thinking that was it, spending all of our time messing around with anything we could lol. But several years later my brother went back to it and actually finished the game.
played it twice i believe wish i had played it more :)
Props to him, that last mission made me cry as a child.
@joshuabryan3692 haha same, somehow 4 year old me could beat some of the hardest missions in the game, but not the last one. the level 6 finale was very hard for me too
@@drillnewsandclips3798 no
I hold the world record for getting stuck on scenery and doing swears playing this game.
"Doing swears"
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@@nukewurldyou know, the swears? you've never partaken?
@Io_mein i do not think I've ever indulged in these infamous "swears" you speak of
*BONK* "F___!"
@@tylerlarsen1842 you're on the internet, dog. You don't have to censor the fuck word
Video gets good at 0:00
Thx cuh
Unfortunately it falls off after 1:12:46
smh my head
The whole video basically.
You definitely need to make a video on the Jak and Daxter speedrun history! So much cool tech and discoveries 🎉
3:41 I love when he sets up a video like this at the beginning. And we get to sit here and enjoy watching him dismantle all the reasons they said it wouldn't be a good speedgame
Liquid played this game for 34 years and instead of turning into a soulless husk like most long-time speedrunners he kept having fun
The most impressive thing about any of these videos is Summoning Salt's ability to make me care about any of these games I've never seen nor played. It's incredible how invested I become in these stories of people I've never met before. Now I hope they all continue pushing this game to new heights, and look forwards to keeping track of their progress 😁
He's one of the best storytellers we have. I mean that in a general sense.
Then, Bacon joined in XD
Love the videos. Keep up the good work. Have you ever considered doing an Epilogue video to update some of your older videos? Like, which records have since been broken, or any new discoveries found?
This was GTA for kids back in the day, a true 10/10 game
Facts. Honestly glad I played this instead
You're downplaying the brilliance or this game. Calling it GTA for kids is insulting.
Summoning salt has been one of the best content creators for years at this point, and keeps getting better.
Honestly some of the best speedruns to watch are Hit and Run ASM and 100%. The driving tech and goofy physics are hypnotising. The tiny optimizations and boatload of tricks. No video will ever do this game justice.
I think this History video has my favourite usernames of any I've seen. Bravo, everyone!
I'll still never forget how rage inducing the last 3 missions of the game were for me as a kid. Not running into walls was one thing, but the timer made everything so much worse, especially for the last one.
Nothing quite like making it all the way to the end just before the timer runs out, but failing because it takes extra time for the car to float up into the spaceship.
The last mission is crazy
I don’t think I ever finished those missions. I still hate them 😂
@@Alizardontour I am fairly certain I only finished those missions by utilizing the cheat codes.
I love how there seems to be this huge 3 way competition between HOS, Kelvin, and Liquid while baconman is just kinda vibing next to them.
"You might have played it 20 years ago as a kid"
Or 20 years ago right after graduating college 👴
Thats awsome. I’m 32 year old but speedrunning has no age or person limit.
If you run yourself or you enjoy the show. We welcome the passion!
@@pappaOfswepreach 🙌
20 years ago when I was a baby 😂
20 years ago I wasn’t even alive, now I’ve graduated high school 🎉
damn unc that's sick
I missed you man. It's been 3 months. Thank you. I've been saving this video to finally watch during my Saturday morning ritual.
The way he tells and delivers his lines are so good and i love his sense of humor. He keeps improving even when i dont think he can do any better.
Ugh you were so close to having your video length the same as the current speed run 1:12:20
That means he has a faster run time now 😎
It would be awesome to do that for one of these videos and actually have the run playing in real time through the whole thing, tiny up in the corner.
Fucking spoiler alert mate. My bad for skimming the comments, but Argh. Salt's videos are better with the suspense.
The funny thing is that's exactly how much of this video I watched before seeing your comment. He started talking about bonus material and behind the scenes stuff, which I wasn't interested in, so I stopped and went to read the comments. Yours made me glance at the timestamp and I was at exactly 1:12:20. So there's a 27 second time-save possible if he performs an outro skip.
@@nescirianThat’s because TH-cam highlights comments containing timestamps pointing to your current position in the video.
I feel like I waited too long for this, ive been continually pondering this episode for what feels to be 2 months. Although it may seem overdue, I do not think it could have come at a better time. I have been feeling rather down as of late. But this episode has reignited my purpose. I feel alive... Mr Salt , I thank you from the bottom of my heart, for the joy and peace that you invigorate into every cell of my organism. Every fraction of my being. Summmoning Salt you have come so far and brought so many along with you. You truly are the unsung hero bringing us alll together. A True saint of his time. Keep being you and doing what you do best. ONE LOVE
Omg thx for this video, I loved this game so much as a child (never owned, always played at my best friends house on his ps2) that I always keep coming back to every couple years on pc... Speedruns of this game are so enjoyable to watch, thank you really once again for covering this game
This is extremely random. Recently TH-cam has been dropping me many speedrun content and it turns out Summoning Salt uploads new video of none other than Hit and Run, this is so crazy and I'm glad it is that way
Summoning Salt intro will always be legendary
Would be more legendary if Salt didn’t have to pitch shift it as of now because of a BS copyright claim.
@@The8BitNerdoh wtf that’s why it sounds like that
@@fordakacar Yep. He first had to do it on his Tetris video.
@@The8BitNerdin the description, the we're finally landing song is actually a remix, not a pitch shifted version of the original
i am also pretty sure this is an open collaboration between Summoning and the music artist. and i think the artist is very happy to be featured. no need for copyright strikes or repitching
Petition to bring back the original opening music. This new version has similar sounding notes, but doesn't hit the same. OG version gets me hyped.
Agreed 👍
HOME's music has had some copyright issues lately, so I have to use a remix of that song for the indefinite future until it's fixed.
@@SummoningSaltThat sucks, hope those copyright issues get rectified soon.
I feel like this channel is where HOME would get a lot of their audience
@@SummoningSalt Fair, though there should be a copyright exemption for iconic use cases such as this, lol. I hope it works out and thanks as always for the high quality infotainment.
Your choice of music, and the times you choose to interject it, are big parts of why I love this channel.
Let's go, finally a breakdown of my favorite drunk driving simulator.
"Look at that, we beat the French, boy!" Greatest record reaction vid in history.
My son's birth: F tier
Summoning salt uploads on a random ass night at 8:00 p.m.: S tier
8pm? Its 4am here :D
9pm here
@@gartoll ever heard of time zones?
2am🏴
@@leeuwevdh No, what are those?
This video is so funny because most of it is just LiquidWiFi’s biography lmao
I also love how every time you mute the banger music, you’ll just hear a random Simpsons character saying some bs
At the end of the day, its not about games being complex. Its about people loving a game so much they make it complex. I love this kind of videos and i cant wait to have time for a cozy afternoon heheh
Man I remember renting this at Blockbuster. I cannot begin to imagine how hard records are
The funniest part of this video is the fact that the only Irish person on the leaderboard is a lad named greenbulmers. Green being the colour of our country obviously and bulmers being a fairly popular cider sold here in Ireland. The cider is called Magners i’m other countries
Haha you hit the nail on the head with that one, was literally a few cans deep of it when I was trying to think of a username
@ Lad that’s actually so fucking funny. Feel like I’m chatting to a local celebrity right now
What's Dublin like now that its been Africanized? So glad to hear a country 432 times bigger than yours feels entitled to move their population there 🙂
"This... is Bacon Man"
Summoning Salt makes me laugh with these every time.
Goated for doing Simpsons Hit n Run
W
"Do you have plans tonight?"
"I didn't, until I saw a new Summoning Salt video. See y'all next time."
LFG.
I've been following Liquid for years now, and it's so cool to see a runner I watch and a record I follow featured in a SS video like this!
Every time I hear HOME all I can see are the American dad speedrun parodies of your videos 😂
Glad to see the GOAT is still uploading in current year. We are truly blessed
BABE WAKE UP NEW SUMMONING SALT DROPPED
Girls don't watch this. Unless ur gf is trans. Oh... got it
LETS GOOO!
@@kubtub3 LETS GOOOOO
Relax, boomer.
🙄
Liquid went from Bart to Homer in a couple years, now thats a speedrun 😎 👍
I too noticed he was getting fat lol
Lmao made this exact comment pretty much, as I was near fished with the video. Started scrolling the comments and just saw this and now I'm upset you beat me to it lmao
27:08 About a decade ago I looked up 100% runs of The Simpsons Hit and Run, and at the time this room was like the main juice of the 100% run. If you don't fully break the boxes and soda machines you can still get most of the coins, then reload at the mission that drops you close to that area (one of Bart's 2nd level missions), and then you just farm coins until you have enough for everything you need to buy in the game. Took forever tho, glad to see this game got some optimization, would love to see if anyone has done a 100% route with these strats thrown in
LiquidWifi's done a ton of optimization on the 100% run and recently took WR using the any% schmovement combined with some super optimized coin strats, including a more optimized version of the coin room grinding where a glitch causes all coins dropped to instantly be picked up and added to your total