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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.
The development of a strong speedrunning community is considered to have originated with the 1993 computer game Doom. [2] [3] [4] The game retained the "par time" mechanic from Wolfenstein and included a feature that allowed players to record and play back gameplay using files called demos (also known as game replays).
Piotr Delgado Kusielczuk, better known as The Mexican Runner or TMR, is a speedrunner who specialises in Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) games. After three years, on February 26, 2017, TMR was the first player to play through the entire NTSC and PAL NES catalogue, [1] completing 714 officially-licensed titles in a project he called NESMania, which earned him a Guinness World Record. [2]
Writing for techraptor.net, Andrew Stretch wrote, "[Running with Speed takes] the time to set up what Speedrunning is at the start, giving viewers a working foundation of knowledge before diving deep enough into Speedrunning to explain how pixel-perfect jumps and sequence breaking are so important to get the best possible times while speedrunning games like Super Mario Bros. 3 or Super Metroid.
The term was coined during early Doom speedrunning. When Andy "Aurican" Kempling released a modified version of the Doom source code that made it possible to record demos in slow motion and in several sessions, it was possible for the first players to start recording tool-assisted demos. In a few months, in June 1999, Finnish Esko Koskimaa ...
In 2020, after a break from running the 100% category, Zfg took back the world record for it with a time of 3:43:44, fourteen seconds faster than the previous record. [11] [12] At the end of 2020, he completed a run of Ocarina of Time in the 100% (SRM) category with a time of 3 hours, 12 minutes and 55 seconds. [13]
[5] [6] She previously held the records for the fastest completion of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker on the GameCube, [7] [8] The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on the iQue Player (and later on Nintendo 64 in 2020 after years of competitive speedrunning activity), [9] [10] Paper Mario on the Wii using Virtual Console, and Castlevania 64 ...
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.