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Speedrun of a SuperTux level. Speedrunning is the act of playing a video game, or section of a video game, with the goal of completing it as fast as possible.Speedrunning often involves following planned routes, which may incorporate sequence breaking and exploit glitches that allow sections to be skipped or completed more quickly than intended.
Some players have fraudulently recorded speedruns, either by creating montages of other speedrun or altering the playing time, posting them as TAS or RTA. Because tool-assisted speedruns can account for all aspects of the game code, including its inner workings, and press buttons precisely and accurately, they can be used to help verify whether ...
Games Done Quick (GDQ) is a semiannual video game speedrun charity marathon held in the United States, originally organized by the Speed Demos Archive and SpeedRunsLive communities.
Niftski is an American speedrunner who is the fastest person in history to ever complete Super Mario Bros. at 4 minutes, 54 seconds and 565 milliseconds. He also holds other world records for the video game and was the first person to beat it in less than 4 minutes and 55 seconds.
In 2012, Zfg (then-known as ZeldaFreakGlitcha) was the first to use the "Ganondoor" exploit to set a world record in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time under any completion percent. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The exploit allows players to teleport from the first dungeon to the last, skipping most of the game. [ 4 ]
Summoning Salt is one of the leading speedrunners of the NES video game Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (MTPO). [3] As of November 2024, he holds the records for a variety of MTPO categories, including single-segment (playing through the entire game in one sitting), where his 14:46 time is over 13 seconds faster than the No. 2 speedrunner.
Speed Demos Archive (SDA) is a website dedicated to video game speedruns.SDA's primary focus is hosting downloadable, high-quality speedrun videos, and currently has runs of over eleven hundred games, with more being added on a regular basis.
European Speedrunner Assembly (abbreviated to ESA), formerly European Speedster Assembly, is a semi-annual video game speedrunning charity marathon held in Sweden.Held since 2012, the events have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for several charities.