Uploaded September 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Finally a run that I'm satisfied with! As you can see at the top left, getting this run took me almost 9½ hours of attempts (over 7 days of streams), countless more hours of routing and practice, and well over 700 failed runs (most of which died to block room RNG, of course).
There are still a couple of spots where I messed up and/or didn't quite go as fast as I wanted to, but I'll leave those timesaves to somebody else—I'm done grinding this category for the foreseeable future. (Good luck in advance if you're looking to beat this :P )
The exact time of this run, according to my Profile.dat, is 9740 (in-game) frames, or 2:42.33 at 60 FPS. (At 50 FPS, this would have been a 3:14.80.)
No turbo or other form of tool assistance was used in this speedrun.
Twitch highlight with my commentary: twitch.tv/videos/733600919
Finally a run that I'm satisfied with! As you can see at the top left, getting this run took me almost 9½ hours of attempts (over 7 days of streams), countless more hours of routing and practice, and well over 700 failed runs (most of which died to block room RNG, of course).
There are still a couple of spots where I messed up and/or didn't quite go as fast as I wanted to, but I'll leave those timesaves to somebody else—I'm done grinding this category for the foreseeable future. (Good luck in advance if you're looking to beat this :P )
The exact time of this run, according to my Profile.dat, is 9740 (in-game) frames, or 2:42.33 at 60 FPS. (At 50 FPS, this would have been a 3:14.80.)
No turbo or other form of tool assistance was used in this speedrun.
Twitch highlight with my commentary: twitch.tv/videos/733600919
![[CS+ Switch] Almost a 3 HP Alien Medal skip :((](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mecKkCF7IKA/mqdefault.jpg "[CS+ Switch] Almost a 3 HP Alien Medal skip :((
Is it possible to avoid collecting the Alien Medal in a low% (3 HP/minimal items) run? Normally, you get the medal from not taking damage during the Ironhead fight, so to avoid collecting the medal, you would simply have to take damage somewhere...but everything in the room does at least 3 damage, so theres no way to get hit without dying.
HOWEVER...there is a bug in the Switch version of the game where if Player 2 dies, but then immediately afterwards a boss (or an entity with the run an event on death flag) is killed, then the player death event will be interrupted by the death event of that boss/entity, allowing you to continue the game (albeit with Player 2 no longer visible or controllable). So, I had the idea of using this bug to have Player 2 take damage (hopefully triggering the fail condition for the Alien Medal) while also killing the boss, which in theory should allow me to avoid collecting the medal. Does that idea work? This video shows the result....
(Side note #1: Yes, this is not a low% save file since I have Machine Gun and missiles. I got those extra weapons to make it easier for me to record this video.)
(Side note #2: This version of the game has another bug that actually lets you skip the medal...along with really the entirety of the game after the Core fight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7ZqmhJW-AU . But just for the sake of this video, lets pretend that were disallowing that glitch (or that were playing on the Japanese Switch release, where that glitch has been patched out).)")
