Riveted - Early routes, guides, and speedruns https://www.youtube.com/user/Riveted321/videos Apr 13, 2014 ---> Sep 13, 2015

Old Forums and Info-Base https://kb.speeddemosarchive.com/Metal_Arms:_Glitch_in_the_System 20 March 2014 ---> 19 July 2016‎

Riveted - Early postings starting the community https://old.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/20al8u/metal_arms_glitch_in_the_system/ https://old.reddit.com/r/metalarms/comments/26mgw3/metal_arms_speedrunning/ 13 Mar 2014 ---> 27 May 2014

SPJglitches - Early Attempts at a Segmented Run https://forum.speeddemosarchive.com/post/metal_arms_segmented_pure_speed_run.html 2005-12-11

SPJglitches - Early skips and tricks https://www.youtube.com/c/spjglitches/videos Aug 3, 2006 ---> Jul 8, 2007

GroundShaker - Early wrench clipping https://www.neoseeker.com/forums/6900/t635001-unhandled-excpition/ Jul 29, 08

"dudes your doing it the sucker way i know a glinch where you can complete the entire mission and get revenge on a certain few Mills(evil laugh ). Ill share this awsomeness with u, ok first do as normal up until where you get the wrench. The part where your supposed to go under once you lose your head run at that and just before impact use the wrench, if you did it right you should zoom up real close then reassemble and walk forward you should be on the other side. Repeat 2 more times till your at the end then jump on the crates and on to the conveour belt do the same. Go through doors like this and bust their helpless asses they can't do anything cuz their not programmed to in the game. "

chumpp - Origin of the 30 Second Mozer https://forum.speeddemosarchive.com/post/metal_arms_segmented_pure_speed_run.html 2006-01-25

"me and a friend were beta testers at vivendi universal for that game we always talk about how much fun it is and how fun it was to test with all the glitches we found i would love to see a speed run on this game all the testers on it would abuse several glitches with it to make the playthroughs much easier "nuts of steel" was near impossible without these i personally would like to see some of your best times and would probably contribute some of my own

perhaps have a category for normal and nuts of steel but both being segmented normal would be faster, but nuts of steel is more about strategy and surviving with limited ammo and life my friend was constantly put on nuts of steel playthroughs and could do it in about 14 hours straight, but that is not as interesting to watch as there are some levels that are not as optimizable as others like when the dog is driving for you (and that is challenging enough on nuts of steel)

i would love to see this game as a category and i think you would be pleasantly surprised at some of the glitches we know that are still in the game

its a shame its not such a big title because Vivendi wasted all their marketing on "the hobbit" ...such a horrible game

i will check back and hopefully you will start trying it out. for starters...try to beat level 8 in 30 seconds i know i can "

SkittleCrows - The old Leaderboards from before the game moved to SRC https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AaeRcAL_O9_ulwvauWLEknux0m-JupsE4JQ8HfqwTcE/edit

DJOwns - Timesheet comparing IL runs against Skittles Runs pre SRC Leaderboard https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pKYKz_AZkobj_ArjSNKJ30KAZCucVLa_EUhZrmMyOXY/edit?usp=sharing