Speedrunning?

[nocturnal YL]

I'm thinking of speedrunning (keyword: THINKING) recently. I don't think I'm good at playing games quickly, but I'm somewhat interested in giving Meta Knightmare Ultra a try (because it's easy to play it fast without much thinking). The obvious issue? It's a DS game.

Plus I don't know what should I do to even appeal to speedrunning communities. SDA seems to have started something called casual speedrunning, and I'm a little interested.

Oh, and I have a normal, 640*480 camera (same resolution as Nintendo DSi). I don't even have a DV camera. Qualities would be similar to my YouTube account.

[Fryguy64]

The whole point of speedrunning is to constantly improve your time. You just have to keep playing and recording over and over until you're happy with the result.

I am sure this is a time-consuming exercise though. And you usually need to take advantage of exploits.

The only one that I've ever enjoyed is seeing how fast I can beat Super Mario World. I've got it down to 13 minutes (using the Star Road, of course). Once I cleared all of the exits in the game in under 2 hours as well.

[TV Eye]

Sept 17, 2009 10:57:45 GMT -5 Fryguy64 said:

I am sure this is a time-consuming exercise though. And you usually need to take advantage of exploits.

Once I cleared all of the exits in the game in under 2 hours as well.

Well, aren't you special.

[Fryguy64]

Of course I'm special. I'm MEEEEE!!

[nocturnal YL]

Beaten Meta Knightmare Ultra the second time at 42 minutes. Made me think my previous record of 39"38'50 (not single segment) not special at all.

I think I'll give up now; especially since capturing DS games isn't easy.