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Hobbies Speedrunning

I'm not someone who speedruns myself, but I do watch quite a lot of Pokemon speedrunning, primarily the side games, with Mystery Dungeon being my favorite. Recently Wh0misDS pushed for a new WR on English Wii U Blue Rescue Team (2:20:33, a record of almost 4 minutes over his old one for Wii U) and has been going for japanese runs as a result.

One of the big things with Blue Rescue Team are missions, which you want to get "near missions" (missions that want you to find an item in a dungeon, which can be completed without having to do anything if you just happen to have the item already), there's also the dungeon Uproar Forest, which is entirely mandatory despite potentially seeming optional to start with, where you will also need to get two exclusive items to the dungeon (Chestnuts) to progress. It is possible but unlikely to find 2 in a single run, but you will always find one on 9f, and if you have a pokemon with Pickup recruited they will always pick up a Chestnut on 9f if at all possible. Partner choice is something, the run uses Cyndaquil due to it having a better midgame, but Squirtle is often used for a better early game with Skitty not needing the better partner for the midgame if you get a TM in the shop to link with tackle

There's a lot more that goes into this but i think i'll stop there, the run was uploaded on youtube about 3 weeks ago, it's pretty cool, you can go check it out if you're interested
 
I semi-recently watched a commentated All Dungeons run of Twilight Princess by bewildebeest and it's a fun time.


imo All Dungeons tends to be the best category for Zelda run spectating because you get to see the whole game being broken without skipping massive chunks and all the crazy glitches that involves. In TP this means Back In Time, early Master Sword for warping + on demand wolf, Ooccoo shenanigans, and dungeons done out of order (Snowpeak is the second dungeon completed).

Oh also, Poe Gate skip was discovered within the last year or so, which is cool.
 
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pzwrd said:
How much game knowledge do I need to start making successful speedruns.
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It varies on the game, as well as the category, for example some runs can be as simple as NES Home Alone in that as the whole game is a timed mission, merely beating the game (aka, surviving) in a casual run (which lasts nearly 20 minutes) nets a world record (nowadays a bug is exploited to make this trivial within about a minute), this also applies to scrolling levels in platformers as by nature merely surviving until the end almost inherently nets a world record for those (for example the Klonoa community bans level-specific runs for that kind of levels out of their simplicity at getting WRs).

Meanwhile, other games demand advanced knowledge and skill for them (glitches, RNG stuff, optimal tricks and routes, fallback options, muscle memory for specific time-sensitive inputs, etc), but even then they can be simplified with categories, such as variants that ban certain tricks (most commonly certain glitches that may limit / change gameplay, for example, the Spongebob Battle for Bikini Bottom remake has a separate category for runs that abuse a bug that allows to skip nearly the entire game to the final boss), limit the run to a single level / chapter / mission / boss or similar (over beating the entire game), or disallow going out of bounds, among others.

In general it's recommended to beat a game in a casual run before trying to speedrun it, as well as checking resources and guides for speedrunning the pertinent game in question or their Discord server (if any), once you've done that you're more than ready to start trying.
 
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