JESUS. You have pushed this game to an edge that will be close to impossible to surpass. Huge, huge congratulations, this is an EXTRAORDINARY run. Truly extraordinary.
Dude... You're the greatest!!! You did all that alone, i remember when I was a kid, even with my brother, it was crazy to finish the game... and here you didn't even give me time to enjoy the music..
Joined the stream during this run, on base1 boss. Seeing low 4:24 sensor kill followed by the glitch kill, that was something. And that energy zone, that JJ kill! Closing this run out after seeing that juicy -3.3 split, very impressive, congrats!
Wow. Great job! I've been playing Contra a lot lately. Trying new strats. Got my time down to 13:17. When I looked for the WR, I had no expectation of it being 3/5 minutes better ! I never knew about all of these briliant faster ways. Thanks for sharing!
Reminds me of my childhood. Often neglected, he was so pure and so involved with his games which accompanied his childhood. He was fulfilled. But the whole world had to tell you video gaming is wrong and instead give you 1 million things to achieve in life.
@@SxGaming3390 yes cant argue eith that. the pressure to put food on the table... Lets pray for a future where basic needs are guaranteed for everyone and we are free to pursue our passion. Hoping Elon Musk is right about it.
I never played Contra before until I watched your video. My BF plugged up his old rusty NES for me to try and I was infuriated lol. Thanks for introducing me to this fun game. One day Ill get a sub 60 mins record in hopefully lol.
Im 17 years old, i started play Contra, beacuse i love retro games, you make it look so easy, and i have die a lot of times in this game, my respect gentleman
Dude my school seniors built an arcade and it had Contra in it. I played 2 player with my friend and we can somewhat reliably pass stage 2 but keep dying at 3 so i came to watch a run. I'm impressed at how fast you can go through it and so effortlessly
@@acedemonic142 whoa, that’s awesome that they built that! I’ve played this game so much, it’s just mostly muscle memory and the right combination of patterns coming together. Like anything else, it’s just lots of time and effort poured into it. Hope you continue to enjoy the game.
This might be my 5th or 6th time watching this to get the new waterfall skips (I watched *aiqiyou's* tutorial, and the 2nd skip especially is being a pain in the ass to get, I dunno what I'm doing wrong, the skip seem to only work 50% of the time) and I can't help but be amazed by your consistency every single time I watch this. You'll forever be a legend among the speedrun community. Also, thank you for everything you do for the community. From modding the Contra page at speedrun.com to making a full tutorial for speedrunning Contra (for the NES-cathlon way back, remember?). That tutorial was pretty much the sole responsible for me to try speedrunning this game, and I had no idea it could be this fun. Congrats for the 9:48 Lanks. You deserve it. Rooting for you to hit 9:47 someday!
Africa By Toto Thank you! Very kind of you to say all of that. So that second skip is easy to miss because of the vertical jump where you have to also shoot at the guy in the water. The reason it’s messing up the skip sequence is because the jump to that ledge above is quite a bit higher than most of them. Due to this factor it’s very easy to move to the right too early because you want to shoot that asshole in the water. So what happens is the screen isn’t finished scrolling, and then your movement happens while the screen is just finishing scrolling, rather than after. I’d recommend paying extra close attention to that area, and make sure you don’t move right and shoot, until bill has starting his descent from that jump. The next two jump vertical jumps you’ll also want to keep this in mind, but since the ledges you’re jumping too aren’t as high up, you have a large window on the descent. I hope that can help your consistency in the second skip.
@@Angrylanks Ooohhh, that was it, I just tried it a few times with savestates, and I was moving right too early while the screen was still scrolling up, just like you said! I had a feeling it had something to do with the way I was dealing with the guy in the water, but since it was difficult to shoot him I decided to not shoot him, and instead jump before his bullets and their explosions could hit me. I also tried triggering him then waiting for the bullets to fall beneath the platform I was going to jump to, to avoid getting killed by the explosions, but it loses too much time too early in the run to not try the other methods. And even when I tried not to shoot him, I was still moving right too soon, which messed up the values for the skips. But now I just tried waiting for the right moment after the beginning of the descent of the jump, like you said, and now I'm even able to kill the guy in the water consistently, since waiting that long also helps with my timing on the next jump, which triggers him. Imma practice it a bit more then I'll try to lower my time again. Also, just fiy, the times I killed him and got the skip were the times when I could tell my jump height would be perfectly aligned with the bullets if he had shot them, but most of the times I managed to jump *beneath* his bullets I didn't get the skip, and the screen appeared to have scrolled less than it did at that same jump during the times I got the skip. It seems to be nearly impossible to jump beneath the bullets AND still get the skip, since the main reason I managed to jump beneath the bullets seemed to be because the screen didn't scroll enough. Therefore, if the jump beneath the bullets was easy then the values for the screen to scroll enough for a skip to be made were already messed up. Don't know if this is useful info or even how accurate my perception of this is, just thought it wouldn't hurt to let you know about my experiene with this method. You rock man, thanks for the explanation! Turns out even today I'm still being helped by your tutorials, haha! :)
Africa By Toto yeah I also noticed some work arounds a with missing the shot. I experimented with those ideas of jumping in certain places instead to try and create a consistent way to take that damn shot out, but in the end it proved too inconsistent as a whole, and I decided the shot should be manageable. Once I understood the positioning, and later movement it wasn’t much of a problem. But there is a ledge if you wait and jump instead that will always cause the three way shot to spilt and explode at a lower point on the screen. So if you wanted to you could stay in that ledge without worrying about the shot, and lose (I’m guesstimating) about a half second. So it would still be faster than the old 2 skip routes. I’d honestly just go with the shot though. It gets more consistent. Which it seems like you’re already saying at this point for yourself.
Dude I played this game like crazy and could beat in a single run, My respects on Level 5 6 7 Cannot run through those like that just yet your a freaking Beast.
How fast are you pressing the fire button? I tried following your strat for the first level and I can't seem to get close to killing the boss at the end of the stage.
It’s a frame perfect glitch. Lemme see if I can find some good info on it for you. But basically you have 1/60th of a second to hit both of the bosses on an exact frame, and it clauses the hit box to activate when it isn’t supposed to. I’ll try to link something soon.
Offtopic: Can I ask, how do you setup your gear at home to stream your old NES games? Ive been trying to find some answers on Google, but without luck. Maybe do a video on that too? ;) What equipment is needed etc. Ontopic: Really nice WR! Good luck on your further journey
Yeah no problem. I just use a device called a gv-usb2. It has composite inputs on one end and just plugs into a USB port on my computer. I use a few sets of composite cables and splitters to get the Nes, and crt to run into the gv-usb2. This is also a very affordable capture device, generally at about $30. You could spring for nicer ones if you like, but it serves me well. It’s also in a different language than English, (Korean I believe) but there is a tutorial online for what to click and get it running. Super easy to follow.
Killing the cannon is to help maintain the bullet stream and also take out the extra threat of its bullet. The middle sensor on the wall that needs to be killed doesn’t have an active hitbox, so you actually have a bit of time to kill the turret and maintain that bullet stream before it starts to take any real damage.
@@Angrylanks Awesome. Thanks for the reply. I was having trouble at the lvl 1 bridges till watching your vid, and noticed you jumped way earlier why does this work? What's a great resource for learning strats? I'm checking out the speeddemosarchive. I've always found glitches and speedrunning interesting, but this'll mark the second game I've actually tried to speedrun. I just want a respectable time.
@@jonathanbetenbender307 So jumping early works because the sections of the bridge start to blow up before you reach them. As for resources lemme go grab some links to send your way.
@@jonathanbetenbender307 so these days everyone goes to speedrun.com to submit times. Speeddemosarchive is dated these days, although still fun to search through. This is a great way to talk to other runners. I recommend downloading the discord app and hopping into this server. discord.gg/34bNxTkX Here is a nice wiki that a runner called sideswipe put together as well. contra-speedrunning.fandom.com/wiki/Contra
Dude I think honestly without the waiting screens and if the timer would stopped right when u destroyed the brain I think your time is truly like about 9:30.
![Mega Man 2 Speedrun in 26:32.4 [WORLD RECORD]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Hoqdi6783vw/mqdefault.jpg)
![[World Record] Contra Low% in 10:22 (Co-op) - Best speedruns of all time](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Cp6FsYjJJHc/mqdefault.jpg)
Of course you break the 9:50 after the summoning salt video. Congrats on this amazing run, this is legendary
JESUS. You have pushed this game to an edge that will be close to impossible to surpass. Huge, huge congratulations, this is an EXTRAORDINARY run. Truly extraordinary.
not real
My cousins achieved this in under 8 minutes. Unknown champions
Amazing stuff man. Think you just made WR in outdating a Summoning Salt video too!
I heard someone outdated the Sonic video in two hours. Haha. I think I get second place with the faster 9:50 in under 24 hours though.
But we need Home’s “We’re Finally Landing” 😂
@@nicklaskowalski "...And that is where the world record stands today."
@@TBONE_2004 you got it 😃
😂😂😂😂😂😂
This was super impressive. I just recently discovered speedrunning, and this is one of the more impressive runs of any game I've seen.
I was precisely thinking of the current WR Speedrun of this game, and suddenly I realized it was done today!! Congrats!
Amazing stuff! Just subbed to you after Summoning Salt's video and you made 2 back to back WR. GG man. Keep it up!!
Dude... You're the greatest!!! You did all that alone, i remember when I was a kid, even with my brother, it was crazy to finish the game... and here you didn't even give me time to enjoy the music..
Damn dude. This is epic. Konami should just give you keys to the place.
agreed
Joined the stream during this run, on base1 boss. Seeing low 4:24 sensor kill followed by the glitch kill, that was something. And that energy zone, that JJ kill! Closing this run out after seeing that juicy -3.3 split, very impressive, congrats!
Wow. Great job! I've been playing Contra a lot lately. Trying new strats. Got my time down to 13:17. When I looked for the WR, I had no expectation of it being 3/5 minutes better ! I never knew about all of these briliant faster ways. Thanks for sharing!
The fact that you just shaved nearly two whole seconds off the previous WR AND got a sub-9:50 is absolutely legendary. Holy shit dude, way to be.
That was amazing. I have only managed to beat Contra once, and I died 100+ times doing so. You did an awesome job.
Still awesome to witness; spent quite a few weekends in Contra Co-Op back in the 80s.
Good stuff.
I looked for the speedrun just to see how fast a human can finished contra, your time and hability are unbelievable, congratulations
Congratulations, I guess Summoning Salt released his video a few days to early!
lol this popped up in my recommendations right after the summoning salt vid
wow, absolutely magnificient run
Reminds me of my childhood. Often neglected, he was so pure and so involved with his games which accompanied his childhood. He was fulfilled. But the whole world had to tell you video gaming is wrong and instead give you 1 million things to achieve in life.
@@SxGaming3390 yes cant argue eith that. the pressure to put food on the table... Lets pray for a future where basic needs are guaranteed for everyone and we are free to pursue our passion. Hoping Elon Musk is right about it.
I never played Contra before until I watched your video. My BF plugged up his old rusty NES for me to try and I was infuriated lol. Thanks for introducing me to this fun game. One day Ill get a sub 60 mins record in hopefully lol.
congrats man its because of you i still play contra, shout out to you, matt, mr k, tmr and the rest of the contra speed runners and community
Im 17 years old, i started play Contra, beacuse i love retro games, you make it look so easy, and i have die a lot of times in this game, my respect gentleman
I love the fact you name these stages with points to keep in mind
This shows how well crafted this game is. There are no stage skips or similar exploits. Just high level strategies.
Insane run! Idk why you're wearing a mask but still awesome.
I have been working so hard. Now i need a drink
Im happy for you, man. King of Contra
Mind blowing honestly. I remember having to use the Konami code to beat this when I was a kid. You destroyed it
Just watched Summoning Salt's Contra video. Incredible work dude! Keep going!
One of the things i like the most after watching a Summoning Salt video is looking at how history progressed afterwards
😮😮😮 historic!! legendary!! congratulations!!!
I played this game so much that I got to this level of perfection.
Well Done my friend
Crazy amazing. Grats again man! It got hot fast
7:22 That hitbox
2 records in a week you're on a roll man awesome work !!
My dad loves this Contra and he acts like this is how he used to play😂 props to you and awesome speedrunA
Awesome video! Congrats on achieving the dream! :) I hope you hold the record long enough to feel super satisfied with it :)
Dude my school seniors built an arcade and it had Contra in it. I played 2 player with my friend and we can somewhat reliably pass stage 2 but keep dying at 3 so i came to watch a run. I'm impressed at how fast you can go through it and so effortlessly
@@acedemonic142 whoa, that’s awesome that they built that! I’ve played this game so much, it’s just mostly muscle memory and the right combination of patterns coming together. Like anything else, it’s just lots of time and effort poured into it. Hope you continue to enjoy the game.
This is amazing! congradulations
Dude you know the game more than it knows itself
brother this is legendary stuff !! i know i’m late to the party but sincerely !! GG’s WP!!
super happy about time! congratz, lets hope we will see a 9:45:xx time in few years beating TAS :D
This might be my 5th or 6th time watching this to get the new waterfall skips (I watched *aiqiyou's* tutorial, and the 2nd skip especially is being a pain in the ass to get, I dunno what I'm doing wrong, the skip seem to only work 50% of the time) and I can't help but be amazed by your consistency every single time I watch this. You'll forever be a legend among the speedrun community.
Also, thank you for everything you do for the community. From modding the Contra page at speedrun.com to making a full tutorial for speedrunning Contra (for the NES-cathlon way back, remember?). That tutorial was pretty much the sole responsible for me to try speedrunning this game, and I had no idea it could be this fun.
Congrats for the 9:48 Lanks. You deserve it. Rooting for you to hit 9:47 someday!
Africa By Toto Thank you! Very kind of you to say all of that.
So that second skip is easy to miss because of the vertical jump where you have to also shoot at the guy in the water. The reason it’s messing up the skip sequence is because the jump to that ledge above is quite a bit higher than most of them. Due to this factor it’s very easy to move to the right too early because you want to shoot that asshole in the water. So what happens is the screen isn’t finished scrolling, and then your movement happens while the screen is just finishing scrolling, rather than after. I’d recommend paying extra close attention to that area, and make sure you don’t move right and shoot, until bill has starting his descent from that jump. The next two jump vertical jumps you’ll also want to keep this in mind, but since the ledges you’re jumping too aren’t as high up, you have a large window on the descent. I hope that can help your consistency in the second skip.
@@Angrylanks Ooohhh, that was it, I just tried it a few times with savestates, and I was moving right too early while the screen was still scrolling up, just like you said! I had a feeling it had something to do with the way I was dealing with the guy in the water, but since it was difficult to shoot him I decided to not shoot him, and instead jump before his bullets and their explosions could hit me. I also tried triggering him then waiting for the bullets to fall beneath the platform I was going to jump to, to avoid getting killed by the explosions, but it loses too much time too early in the run to not try the other methods. And even when I tried not to shoot him, I was still moving right too soon, which messed up the values for the skips.
But now I just tried waiting for the right moment after the beginning of the descent of the jump, like you said, and now I'm even able to kill the guy in the water consistently, since waiting that long also helps with my timing on the next jump, which triggers him. Imma practice it a bit more then I'll try to lower my time again.
Also, just fiy, the times I killed him and got the skip were the times when I could tell my jump height would be perfectly aligned with the bullets if he had shot them, but most of the times I managed to jump *beneath* his bullets I didn't get the skip, and the screen appeared to have scrolled less than it did at that same jump during the times I got the skip. It seems to be nearly impossible to jump beneath the bullets AND still get the skip, since the main reason I managed to jump beneath the bullets seemed to be because the screen didn't scroll enough. Therefore, if the jump beneath the bullets was easy then the values for the screen to scroll enough for a skip to be made were already messed up. Don't know if this is useful info or even how accurate my perception of this is, just thought it wouldn't hurt to let you know about my experiene with this method.
You rock man, thanks for the explanation! Turns out even today I'm still being helped by your tutorials, haha! :)
Africa By Toto yeah I also noticed some work arounds a with missing the shot. I experimented with those ideas of jumping in certain places instead to try and create a consistent way to take that damn shot out, but in the end it proved too inconsistent as a whole, and I decided the shot should be manageable. Once I understood the positioning, and later movement it wasn’t much of a problem. But there is a ledge if you wait and jump instead that will always cause the three way shot to spilt and explode at a lower point on the screen. So if you wanted to you could stay in that ledge without worrying about the shot, and lose (I’m guesstimating) about a half second. So it would still be faster than the old 2 skip routes. I’d honestly just go with the shot though. It gets more consistent. Which it seems like you’re already saying at this point for yourself.
Omg amazing speedrun and that cycle kill was 👌. Congratulations man!
My man that's crazy, congrats:3
absolutely insane
i watch this alot when i having a quick bite
what a run !
I'm still here .. just killing boredom on work
Congrats! Nice run!
You are god of contra! Really op gameplay
I can only imagine how our boy feels hearing that credits music, getting those feels.
holy shit dude, incredible run, well done
sick run! you’re amazing at what you do
Damn dude... congrats!!!!
Woah GG man, this is a very good run
i'm here to say that it was awesome!!!! one of favorite games from my childhood
It's awesome to watch how your efforts pay after all the grinding.
GG that run was insane. Middle flame and no jump, wow!
why is he wearing a mask?
Those 90s graphics are so beautiful❤
2020 was a crazy time. this man wearing a mask in the safety of his own home
came here from summoning salt! amazing speed run
Thath boss kill at Energy Zone... superb bro!
Outstanding! What a RUN! Congrats!
Just finished watching Summoning Salt only to find out you already broke the 9:50 haha, awesome run, big (late) congratz
Even my brother and I
can't go that fast 2 player. Congratulations man!
Nice speedrun,keep it up bro :)
Wow..almost a full 2 sec. save...amazing..gg amazing Angrylanks!!
Dude I played this game like crazy and could beat in a single run, My respects on Level 5 6 7 Cannot run through those like that just yet your a freaking Beast.
Are you playing Contra, the classic racing game?
Congretusational. You're Winner!
Buenisimo! Felicitaciones.. se sintieron los nervios!
Congrats!!! 🍾
Omg Man, you make this game looks so easy, great run
I just watched my whole childhood in 10 minutes
wowee. thats absolutely mental, what a run!
Holy shit ggs well done man :)
2 headed boss on round 4 has me lost... Played the game since 1988.. ain't never seen the heads take damage until there lined up.. please explain..
Jumping Joey was really sus too..
Id like to see you do it without the game genie
m.th-cam.com/video/hL1BMFRt6aA/w-d-xo.html
This explains what’s happening. It’s a frame perfect glitch.
Великолепно!
Man playing this game of my youth on switch and kicking my ass.
Your splits have the best names. GG
mad respect! 9:50 finally broken!
The man is good in contra!! Haha speedrun top!!
This videos deserves more views, outstanding run man! Keep it up!!
Bro how are you reading and talking to the chat while breezing through this hell hole 🥶🥶🥶
How fast are you pressing the fire button? I tried following your strat for the first level and I can't seem to get close to killing the boss at the end of the stage.
I press the button at around 12 presses per second on average.
What a run! Incredible!
something's fishy at 4:42, can't kill those bosses like that, they don't take damage until they're overlapped...
It’s a frame perfect glitch. Lemme see if I can find some good info on it for you. But basically you have 1/60th of a second to hit both of the bosses on an exact frame, and it clauses the hit box to activate when it isn’t supposed to. I’ll try to link something soon.
th-cam.com/video/hL1BMFRt6aA/w-d-xo.html
Why the mask? Wtf
Offtopic: Can I ask, how do you setup your gear at home to stream your old NES games? Ive been trying to find some answers on Google, but without luck. Maybe do a video on that too? ;) What equipment is needed etc.
Ontopic: Really nice WR! Good luck on your further journey
Yeah no problem. I just use a device called a gv-usb2. It has composite inputs on one end and just plugs into a USB port on my computer. I use a few sets of composite cables and splitters to get the Nes, and crt to run into the gv-usb2. This is also a very affordable capture device, generally at about $30. You could spring for nicer ones if you like, but it serves me well. It’s also in a different language than English, (Korean I believe) but there is a tutorial online for what to click and get it running. Super easy to follow.
4:30 Just tried playing can't tell if it's faster to kill the canon or not. What's the story here?
Killing the cannon is to help maintain the bullet stream and also take out the extra threat of its bullet. The middle sensor on the wall that needs to be killed doesn’t have an active hitbox, so you actually have a bit of time to kill the turret and maintain that bullet stream before it starts to take any real damage.
@@Angrylanks Awesome. Thanks for the reply. I was having trouble at the lvl 1 bridges till watching your vid, and noticed you jumped way earlier why does this work? What's a great resource for learning strats? I'm checking out the speeddemosarchive. I've always found glitches and speedrunning interesting, but this'll mark the second game I've actually tried to speedrun. I just want a respectable time.
@@jonathanbetenbender307 So jumping early works because the sections of the bridge start to blow up before you reach them. As for resources lemme go grab some links to send your way.
@@jonathanbetenbender307 so these days everyone goes to speedrun.com to submit times. Speeddemosarchive is dated these days, although still fun to search through.
This is a great way to talk to other runners. I recommend downloading the discord app and hopping into this server. discord.gg/34bNxTkX
Here is a nice wiki that a runner called sideswipe put together as well. contra-speedrunning.fandom.com/wiki/Contra
@@Angrylanks Very grateful. Thank you so much for your kindness, time, and effort. People like yourself are pillars for communities.
Amazing! Congrats! :)
Dude I think honestly without the waiting screens and if the timer would stopped right when u destroyed the brain I think your time is truly like about 9:30.
Dude is wearing a mask... inside.... by himself...
Yeah this dude and other like him are the reason we’re in this socioeconomic mess
I am playing this game too now this guy gave me existential crisis
Dude, why were you wearing a mask in your own playroom??
Is covid 19
@@wiliamdmi7541but why would he be wearing it in what is presumably his own house?
@@wiliamdmi7541biggest scam in human history
slave of the system
no he can't
How do you button mash? I always wondered why you can press so fast, even when I use turbo, button mashing is better
I have a hand cam in my most recent pb video. You can get a decent idea if you check that one out.
Congrats! :)
4:44 wait, I only ever needed to destroy the thing on the right???!
It’s a frame perfect trick that allows you to hit them both at the same time. So you kill the left one as well.
Wow this is just insane, came here from the summoning salt video
Good video man is the best ;D
Fantastic play man, you've got this game by the balls
I love this game, nice play