I'll start: 34. But the enemy was very close, so it should be easily beatable with an enemy that stands further from Valere from the start.

Hello guys,

As the title says, I would be interested in knowing your definition of a glitch. Thank you in advance!

As I can see everyone throws the word "glitch" whenever they find something relatively out of the ordinary out there. I would like to know though, what is the definition of a glitch according to you?

Hello there,

As many speedrunners out there who have tried to speedrun the game, a good portion of it has to do with button mashing. Especially the bosses in this game rely on it.

While it's understandable that the use of turbo is banned on the main category, I suggest a separate one that does allow turbo, so that people can lay off the button mash a bit and compete equally with the use of a turbo. I am very certain there are many players that are interested in playing this, myself included.

Greetings,

It came to my attention that the video provided by Razinuh, for the IL record of Deep in the Windy Valley was kind of suspicious. And the more I checked, the more I believe this run is not a 1:05.

First, at the very end, right before mario hits the tape, the timer actually moves. It could be some sort of graphical mistake, but it's really weird because when you go frame by frame, you see that the video is 60fps, but we can only see 30fps out of them. The timer actually moves during two identical frames.

Second, I remember when I speedran Buzzy: the book, the movie, the ride, I had a very hard time getting 24s because the timer actually continues 3 frames after you hit the pole. If you count the frames, mario hits the pole exactly 60 frames in the 434, but since the counter still goes for 3 more frames, it doesn't add up to a 434 but a 433.

Third! Just to be really sure, I opened my switch and tried to match the 434. Since the level is so linear it's not very hard to get a perfect time on it. And one thing that Razinuh doesn't seem to know is that you hit the pole 1 frame faster when you're big mario compared to small mario. Plus, that simili corner boost on the ceiling slope is not a thing, you can't gain time with this. Therefore I had one additional frame to spare over the runner, yet I've never been able to match his 434.

Therefore I strongly believe that we, unfortunately, have a cheater right there.

Thank you.

Greeting everyone,

Since the former moderator was not active anymore I requested to be able to moderate this channel myself and revive the speedrunning of this game a bit.

The former categories, any% and underground championship% didn't make much sense to me as much a Rookie, Pro and Champion categories. Therefore I moved all the any% runs to "Pro" as I believe everyone used this to category so far. If your run has been falsely put in Pro, please let me know. Also I will not remove the Underground Championship category right now in case I missed something relevant and somebody wants to point it out to me, but I won't update the category and will eventually remove it.

I also added the Workout%, which is to beat the game as Rookie, Pro and Champion in a single sitting.

I would also like to encourage the use of autosplitters / livesplit, but I don't even know how to have one myself. If someone could make a tutorial on their respective platform, that'd be great!

Thank you everyone and have a good workout!

Hello there,

I made an attempt at speedrunning this game a few minutes ago. It didn't take me long before to realize that I had much more loading time than the current run, which is not something that should matter. I have like 10 seconds of loading time when the run has 0.5s, which adds up very quickly. Therefore I believe loading times should be removed from total speedrunning time..

Second, why the speedrun in Pro instead of Rookie?

EDIT: I switched the game from my HDD to my SSD, and now my loading time is about 1s behind the current video, but this is still 1s lost for no reason.

Hey there,

I'm past the (seemingly) first chapter, just beat the pencil case, and went back to the village. There is an arena simulator in which it proposes you to beat 10 puzzles as fast as possible. Seems like a perfect new category to me!

My personal score so far is 18.56. It's not perfect but it's the best I could come up with on the first day of the game.

Let me know what you guys think.