New speed run idea
3 years ago
Texas, USA

I want programmers and hackers to speed run games with their own programs so essentially changing the game to make the fastest run. maybe one rule that will be needed is MAKE YOUR OWN PROGRAM FOR SPEEDRUN HACKING (maybe to prove originality they have to stream it) and maybe some rules depending on the game that's played also maybe we can time how fast their hacked run is

Israel

That's called a TAS (Tool Assisted Speedrun), which is a concept that is around for about 7-8 years. The main central site for TAS: http://tasvideos.org/

Gaming_64 likes this
Antarctica

That’s not even really a TAS. A TAS is not hacking the game to change its behavior, it’s just using a computer and other tools to achieve results and inputs that a normal human could not achieve; they are still playing the game in its unmodified form, they’re just abusing tons of things inside the game itself by pushing it to its limits of reacting to inputs/actions.

I have no idea what the OP is talking about, idk how hacking a game is a speedrun in an way, shape or form (in most cases that would probably be considered cheating since it sounds like you’d be changing the actual code of the game unless I misunderstood the OP).

Edited by the author 3 years ago
Oreo321, Pear, and Walgrey like this
California, USA

I think what they mean, we'll use me as an example, is using a program I created (in this case we'll say I created cheat engine) to change a value in the game to give me more money, ammo, shiny objects, etc.

However, this would only likely work for PC games.

Edited by the author 3 years ago
United States

Wouldn't the natural conclusion of this be programmers finding the single byte that controls the credits and changing its value, resulting in an instantaneous run? It'd be ACE without any execution.

AC...quite a chilling concept...

Edited by the author 3 years ago
Pear likes this

The dev of Universal Thief did something like this (on the old version of his game), though he only manipulated RNG. He did it to have a "no stolen HP" run, which would essentially be impossible otherwise.

Like the others, I don't see any reason to add this to the site.

Pear likes this