Ok that sounds good, thank you for your reply!!

Very helpful! Thank you all so much, I have just been playing the game over and over now and will eventually start trying to actually beat leaderboard times eventually. Need to work on my setup to be able to actually time myself as well!

Hello everyone,

I have a subscription to Nintendo Switch Online. With that, comes access to many old gameboy games. Are these ok to use for speedrunning purposes?

Another question is games that have the retro collections, the specific example is Gameboy / NES games on TMNT “The Cowabunga Collection”.

What’s the general concensus on using the switch to speed run retro games?

Thanks,

Danny

Hello everyone,

I watch GDQ religiously every year and have always thought it would be really cool to speed run a video game, but never knew what game. Fast forward to last year, my wife got me the TMNT Cowabunga collection for my switch, had all of my old favorite TMNT games, especially the Gameboy classic, Fall of the Foot Clan. I started beating the game and trying to get my score higher and higher and then I realized that I think I know this game well enough to start speed running it.

So I tried and its a whole different beast than just knowing the game. Does anyone have any advice to help someone get started? Like is there a routine you follow?

The biggest questions I have is:

1. What is the best way to practice a game?

2. do you run specific areas over and over?

3. how do you stay motivated to get better at this one specific game?

Thanks in advance, maybe one day ill be on the leaderboards!

Ok great, thanks!