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Gaming/Link: Speed Demos Archive (Videos)

Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:21 pm
by VLSmooth
http://speeddemosarchive.com/
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]):Very amusing site; especially for people too lazy to get/play.

Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:22 pm
by VLSmooth
Oh yeah, it seems someone beat my Chrono Cross completion time :(



Okay, you can stop being amazed now.

Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:45 pm
by Jonathan
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.

Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:43 pm
by George
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.

Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 9:07 pm
by Jonathan
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.

Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 9:12 pm
by Jonathan
Super Mario Bros. in 5:06 is insane considering that the tool-assisted SMB is 5:00.

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