Videogame Speed Running Speeds Up A Notch

Radix37 writes "The PlanetQuake-hosted Speed Demos Archive, dedicated to 'trying to complete a videogame in the fastest time possible', has been updated with an improved speedrun of Half-Life in 0:45:45, over 5 minutes faster than the previous run - some more crazy level-skipping shortcuts were added to cut the time by so much, and there's very detailed commentary from the creator. The Metroid Prime record was recently dropped to 1 hour 4 minutes from 1:17 by a lot of new tricks and exploits, too. Also of note, recent improvements on Super Metroid, on Metroid Zero Mission, and, interestingly, on Super Mario 64 (including a glitch collecting 'only 16 stars' instead of 70) have been impressive."

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Halo

[Have Blue]

A contest for speedrunning Halo for Xbox has just concluded, with a total time of 2:15:15. It's probably possible to do better, this was the first real attempt at it.

Quake done Quick

[Swift(void)]

Quake done Quick are, IMO, still the best speed runs ive watched, especially Quake done Quick with a Vengence (full run through all 4 episodes on nightmare in 12:23)

http://www.planetquake.com/qdq/

Re:Halo Going Nowhere Fast

[ghutchis]

They're posting the videos of each level on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays over the next few weeks--the contest just finished. The first level has already been posted and is an impressive piece of work.

The BitTorrent for the Pillar of Autumn video is here.

-Geoff

Re:Metroid Prime PAL differences.

[Spleener12]

Basically, Retro changed some things to make it harder for people to sequence break (what the fuck Retro has against them I don't know,) by adding a few more walls that require Power Bombs to get through and not allowing you to dash when locked onto something with the scan visor (which makes a trick that gets you the space jump boots right after you land on Tallon IV MUCH harder.) This was also done to the Japanese and NTSC Player's Choice versions.

Re:No BitTorrent

[Radix37]

the FullPlanet mirrors are /.'ed

FilePlanet is indeed very Full these last weeks ... gamespy doesn't seem to care either. But that's why there's also an archive.org link with no lines or registration bull.