4 Punch Hippo Manipo Guide

Comprehensive Great Tiger Single Segment Guide

Click on the link to watch the video I made on how to speedrun Great Tiger in Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! https://youtu.be/SaGk_NXwwqc

Hippo Manipo Timer

How To Get A 42 Second KO On Glass Joe

Struggling to beat the first boxer of the game quickly, or want to improve speed run times? Well if you have ever noticed, he doesn't attack you for the first 38 seconds of the fight. After that he will back up, and come in to deliver a punch 4 seconds later. If you land a stomach punch right at the time before he starts his punching animation, he will fall backwards and (most of the time) you will get a KO. Here's my tutorial on how to do it, along with a video of it and some troubleshooting.

The Technique:

As you enter the fight, start with spamming a face punch, and after it hits him twice, do a standard punch. It will be blocked but it will allow you to perform two more face punches before you have to do another standard punch. This will lower his health enough to be knocked out by the 42 second punch. 

When at the 38 mark when he backs up, wait patiently until he comes back in and as the clock hits 41, deliver a mid level punch. If timed correctly, this will usually result in a KO.

The Video: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvJHfnbhAs4

Troubleshooting: 

If you are struggling on this then try these 3 steps:

Step 1: When I said to punch right as the clock hits 41, I was factoring in human reaction time. If your punch is not resulting in a KO but still hitting him, then try to time your punch just barely before the clock hits 42.

Step 2: If you are having the opposite problem and your punch isn't even hitting him, time it earlier, aim for the 40 second mark.

Step 3: After this if you still can't get it, just keep trying, after only about an hour of practice with this I'm hitting it 9/10 times, so just keep at it :D.

-kThisIsGlitchy

In Game Time Calculator

https://www.ingametime.com/

This website allows you to quickly and easily type in your times for each fight and get a neatly formatted output.

MTPO Speedrunning Wiki

An in progress wiki documenting the current state of speedrun strats, with links to various video/guides can be found here:
https://mtpo-speedrunning.fandom.com/wiki/MTPO_Speedrunning_Wiki

Tutorial Compilation

This spreadsheet is simply a one stop resource for all of the tutorials I am aware of. If I missed something please let me know and I will add it to the list. May your fights go well, and Hippo opens wide!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UhF66xFiw7sbkBHI21BhgJ07EBEmezw2N4xtHOuF43c/edit?usp=sharing

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Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!

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Super Macho Man

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USA / NTSC

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223,030

269670

269,670

270,470

123,810

135,430

225950

225,590

Score

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MTPO_Moderation

Name	Author
4 Punch Hippo Manipo Guide	Retrogamerr80 4 years ago
Comprehensive Great Tiger Single Segment Guide	Speedboy14 11 months ago
Hippo Manipo Timer	Retrogamerr80 4 years ago
How To Get A 42 Second KO On Glass Joe	kThisIsGlitchy 7 years ago
In Game Time Calculator	MattyAlanEstock 3 years ago
MTPO Speedrunning Wiki	KThree 2 years ago
Tutorial Compilation	FIGBird 7 years ago