Hello! I'm NeverFirst, but you can just call me "Never". I don't mind. Anyways, I watched speedruns, and thought that they looked cool and that I wanted to try! Then... I saw the baggage. And that's how my username was made! I'm just a casual speedrunner, and aim for the top 10 if possible! Not top 3, not top 5, top 10's good enough for me. I'm only gonna speedrun Nintendo Switch, Nintendo 3DS, and maybe some Nintendo DS games. But I won't speedrun full time... because (A) I'm not that dedicated to speedrunning, and (B) I've got a lot of other things. Speedrunning's gonna be a fun hobby for me, and if it gets unfun, I'll take some time off of speedrunning. But I've also got a metal band (and we're making our debut album a double album with 24 songs in total, so that's gonna be a bit tough,) and I'm also writing books (but I'm not gonna try to publish them until I'm confident with my writing abilities,) so I can't focus on speedrunning full time, even if I wanted to! Also, I can't record footage yet. First of all, I don't have a capture card, so there's that. Secondly, I have a Switch Lite, and I don't know if those can output video. And lastly, I don't wanna risk bricking my system, as that would be devastating. So for now, I'll just practice speedrunning games until I can record footage, and start submitting runs.

GOALS: Get into the top 10 for at least 2 of the levels in Minecraft Dungeons, and stay in the top 10 for more than a week Get 10th place, or better (but not first place) on an RPG Discover a new speedrun tactic, maneuver, or make a new speedrun category Get a full game speedrun that's under 2 hours Speedrun every level in Minecraft Dungeons (including the DLC) individually And most importantly... NEVER GET FIRST PLACE

I'll be in the forums for now, but when I can record footage, you'll see me live up to my username! I will never get first place, and that's OK! I'm not looking for first place. I'm just here to have fun.

Welcome to the site! You can record video without a capture card—just point a camera at your Switch’s screen. It can be kind of annoying to set up, but with a cheap phone tripod you can get decent quality.

For 99% of boards recording on your phone is good enough. There's a lot of free apps that you can use to link up your phone to OBS if you want a timer overlay or something, but if you don't you can just straight up record with your phone's camera. That being said, capture cards are pretty cheap these days. You can get a solid HDMI one for like $50 which would cover your switch, but unfortunately the only real way to record a DS/3DS without spending $100s on a 3ds capture card like I have is to record with your camera anyway.

You've got some pretty nice goals in mind, hope you have fun running (and most people here don't do it full time anyway, it's honestly a really fun hobby).

If you have any questions about using the site / just general questions they're likely found in the FAQs thread here: https://www.speedrun.com/speedrunning/thread/pt010

Welcome! I think you can use any camera as long as its not the quality of like gameboy camera, not that I've ever run any games that aren't on pc.