Gaming/Link: Speed Demos Archive (Videos)

VLSmooth · Post by **VLSmooth** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:21 pm

SDA is the home of speed runs done on many computer and console games. A speed run is a video of a player striving to complete a video game in as fast a time as they can manage. Sound easy? It's not! A large number of tricks are usually used, possibly skipping whole areas of a game in the process, and there will always be mistakes.

This is an actively maintained site with 269 games currently. The videos typically come in a variety of sizes, with quality ranging from flash to 5+ gb divx/h264/etc files. There are also comprehensive rule and FAQ pages mainly regarding submissions (no cheating, no emulators, etc).

Some classics in their library include (game [completion time]):

Super Mario Bros. for NES (0:05:06)
Morrowind, The Elder Scrolls III for PC (0:07:30)
Super Mario Bros. 2 for NES (0:09:42)
Contra for NES (0:10:55)
Super Mario World for Super Nintendo (0:10:56)
Fallout 2 for PC (0:17:51)
Katamari Damacy for PlayStation 2 (0:30:41)
Icewind Dale for PC (0:58:00)
Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn for PC (1:11:37)
Zelda: A Link to the Past, The Legend of for Super Nintendo (1:39:47)
Diablo II: Lord of Destruction for PC (1:53:44)
Legend of Mana for PlayStation (1:58:11)
Starcraft: Brood War for PC (3:17:43)
Starcraft for PC (3:28:39)
Chrono Trigger for Super Nintendo (4:56:xx)
Zelda: Ocarina of Time, The Legend of for Nintendo 64 (4:57:xx)
Secret of Mana for Super Nintendo (5:15:xx)
Final Fantasy III for Super Nintendo (5:26:xx)
Chrono Cross for PlayStation (7:55:08)

Very amusing site; especially for people too lazy to get/play.

VLSmooth · Post by **VLSmooth** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:22 pm

Oh yeah, it seems someone beat my Chrono Cross completion time

Okay, you can stop being amazed now.

Post by **Jonathan** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:45 pm

I'm not too surprised there's a way to beat Fallout in less than half an hour, but I am a bit surprised that Morrowind can be beaten in ten minutes.

George · Post by **George** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:43 pm

That Morrowind run was insane. I didn't even recognize the random person he chopped up, but they must have been important for him to jump halfway across the map.

I was disappointed by the Mario 1 run. He jumped to the top of the flagpole, wasting all the time it took to slide down.

Post by **Jonathan** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 9:07 pm

Random person he chopped up carried the Boots of Blinding Speed, evidently. He also uses the Boots as a cash source to generate extra scrolls of Mark and Leaguestep, before he kills the shopkeeper to get his boots back.

That was definitely insane.

Post by **Jonathan** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 9:12 pm

Super Mario Bros. in 5:06 is insane considering that the tool-assisted SMB is 5:00.

http://tasvideos.org/Movies-NES.html