[GBC] Metal Walker Speedrun Route v2 Omnigamer 2024-01-16 | New and improved! Still some rough spots to flesh out, but significantly cleaner route with less scan farming and slightly better use of warps. This is much closer to a "proper" route than the initial proof of concept from earlier. I plan to run commentary with full details on this later, but major improvements in this route:- Consistent low-level strats for Bolt and Dragon- Removed the Lance grind- Reduced Ray and Galeous grinds- Fewer overall scans- Reduced travel timeAnd to be yet improved:- Further rework heal and base warps- Expand (or ditch) Metamorit use- Final few battles are still scary- Better late-game scrap planning- Optimized battle sequences for random encounters
[GBC] Metal Walker - Proof of Concept Speedrun Route Omnigamer 2024-01-08 | This video is an unoptimized TAS I put together for a full RTA route of Metal Walker. It serves mainly as a reference for the general flow, but also as a means to identify simple improvements, such as when to self-destruct to return to base points or whether farming other items may be worthwhile. I learned a number of things mid-playthrough, so the back half is especially sloppy, but still workable. Most significantly, I'll probably go back to farming Hot Head to take out Dragon and a portion of the later bosses, as they get a stat boost I was unaware of. Exactly where to stop in the various level farming is also still a big question mark. Either way, I expect the final time for this run might be in the neighborhood of 2 hours once proper analysis is given to the pain points.The extra patterns and numbers on-screen are from a script I created to gain further insight and planning. Most valuable is the current move counter (upper right, one type of RNG), and the item toss predictions. I have setups for most boss encounters for just about any throw position, but a few specific ones I may need to go for broke or tune the move counter to an appropriate value to proceed. Figuring all that out will happen at a later date, though.
Announcement: Super Mario RPG $1000+ Bounty [Game Ventures] Omnigamer 2023-11-15 | Game Ventures has started a $1000+ Bounty for the Super Mario RPG remake on Switch! Check the Bounty page for up-to-date details and rules. Bounty Page: gameventures.org/bounty/01HF8PNDDX423XNHAATQBDJBJKGame Ventures Discord: discord.gg/SY9UZYfWhDWays to participate:* Crowdfunded award - add to the prize pool to raise the stakes!* Stake a Claim - beat the goal time and submit a claim to be in the running* Stream Log - follow along with community progress and runs* Catch Updates - make an account and follow the Bounty to get notified of new ClaimsQuestions or comments? Ask in the Discord, or send a message to support @ gameventures.org
[SNES] The Firemen - Boss 4 Quick Kill Omnigamer 2023-06-23 | Sure enough, the same quick kill from Boss 2 can also apply to Boss 4. Unfortunately, it may be trickier to go for, and still has the 50/50 interaction frame - still more to test!The high-level description of what's happening: a special flag is set on-and-off while the water bomb is descending from the window. If you get lucky and connect with the boss hitbox when that flag is set, they are instantly KO'd. Neat.
Metal Warriors Speedrun Full Tutorial Omnigamer 2023-05-21 | Full tutorial for the Metal Warriors speedrun, covering each stage with tricks, notes, and backups. Give it a try! -- Watch live at twitch.tv/omnigamer
[SNES] Majuu Ou Theory TAS - Uncorrupted Hard in 20:20 Omnigamer 2022-07-13 | This video is meant to demonstrate a possible path and time to complete Majuu Ou using only the Human form (uncorrupted) on Hard difficulty. The RTA timing is approximately 20:20.This replay was completed with the assistance of save states, but was performed by hand at full speed and is meant to illustrate what a good Uncorrupted Hard run might look like. It is far from perfect - both better luck and execution could save an additional 30-60 seconds. This was only the work of one night's effort, after all. But it does demonstrate that the active Game Ventures Bounty (http://vent.rs/G6W0) is more than possible, and provides an example route to follow.I won't be doing any attempts of this category for at least a while, if at all. But I wanted to offer my insights and route in case anybody else feels up to trying it out. Good luck!
[SNES] Metal Warriors Speedrun - 18:13 Omnigamer 2022-05-12 | According to the video file, I completed this run on Oct 13, 2021. Originally wasn't planning on uploading since I still felt a PB was around the corner, but it never quite materialized. Still want that 17:xx, but will have to wait until I get spun up on it again. I don't remember much about the run, but it looks like I at least had decent luck throughout, and probably at least one major mishap.
[SNES] Metal Warriors Speedrun - 18:42 Omnigamer 2021-10-01 | A new PB! Generally clean play, but a bad spider clip setup and no lucky crate on the last stage. Can still knock quite a bit off this time, but it gives me some competitive splits for a while. -- Watch live at twitch.tv/omnigamer
[SNES] Metal Warriors Speedrun - 18:54 Omnigamer 2021-09-19 | A new PB 8 years later! This is a so-so run, but shows evidence of the new strats and mechanics I recently looked into. There's a huge luck component to runs, but I'll see how much further I want to drive this down. For now, target is 18:3x. This also met the requirement for a Bounty! You can see details on it and follow the progress here: gameventures.org/bounty/01F6PDVBNQ3R462PKWHYWQE0AT-- Watch live at twitch.tv/omnigamer
[SNES] Metal Warriors - Stage 4 Speedrun Path Omnigamer 2021-09-16 | This is my best (recorded) path through the notorious stage 4. This is nearly 15 seconds faster than my previous path used in runs from 2013, and about 5 seconds shy of the TAS. This stage is a huge pain and very subtle differences in timing can ruin the spawn order and timing, which has cascading losses throughout the rest of the stage. Even if some parts look sloppy, this is (almost) the fastest I have ever been able to pull this off, and the path is even somewhat repeatable. Uploading for posterity and reference.
[SNES] Metal Warriors Speedrun - 19:11 Omnigamer 2021-09-08 | My actual Metal Warriors PB from way back when that I never bothered to encode/upload since I still wanted to improve it. I think this is my only recorded attempt where I got the crusher skip in the final stage. The date on the file says June 29, 2013. Figured I'd put it up now since I'm getting back on the grind.
[SNES] Majuu Ou Speedrun - Any% Hard in 17:50 Omnigamer 2020-11-05 | A pretty good run! Some mild improvements can come in each stage, but this is more than what I was aiming for, so I'm happy to call it good. -- Watch live at twitch.tv/omnigamer
[SNES] Majuu Ou Speedrun - Any% Hard in 18:24 Omnigamer 2020-11-03 | A weird run, but ended up being ok. Still plenty to clean up, and got trolled pretty hard in the final stage, but it finished out! I'm not sure if 17:xx is in the cards at this point, but certainly something around 18:10 is a reasonable goal for now. -- Watch live at twitch.tv/omnigamer
[SNES] Majuu Ou Speedrun - Good Ending Hard in 19:00 Omnigamer 2020-10-29 | A pretty decent run! I got pretty much all the luck I wanted, however it was balanced out by some poor play and improv throughout. That said, no one stage was especially bad. Didn't hit the magic 18:xx, but I'm happy with this for the time being. I'll give it some more polish when it gets into a marathon at some point. -- Watch live at twitch.tv/omnigamer
[SNES] Majuu Ou Speedrun - Good Ending Hard in 19:31 Omnigamer 2020-10-22 | Getting closer to something reasonable! Still plenty of slop to clean up, but it's still progress. Sub-19 is probably in the cards... -- Watch live at twitch.tv/omnigamer
[SNES] Majuu Ou Speedrun - Good Ending Hard in 19:54 Omnigamer 2020-10-21 | Still not a great run. One unintentional death, and some other sloppy play. However, this is my first two-cycle Spider, which I wasn't sure was even going to be possible. Just means my first stage split is ruined for subsequent runs. Up to a minute of improvement to come. -- Watch live at twitch.tv/omnigamer
[SNES] Majuu Ou Speedrun - Good Ending Hard in 20:48 Omnigamer 2020-10-15 | My 2nd reasonable attempt - still a lot of slop, particularly in Temple, but it's a start. I think I want to at least aim for 19:30 after some more route refinements, but we'll see how things go after some more practice. -- Watch live at twitch.tv/omnigamer
[NS][Game Feed] Rune Factory 4 Special Speedrun - Hell Mode in 2:10:47 Omnigamer 2020-08-04 | Same run as before, now with just the game feed. Enjoy!
[NS] Rune Factory 4 Special Speedrun - Hell Mode in 2:10:47 Omnigamer 2020-07-24 | A pretty decent run! Some typical/bad luck, and a handful of mistakes, but overall it went as I planned it to. Getting under 2:10 is very possible, probably down to 2:08, but I don't think I'll push for that any time soon. -- Watch live at twitch.tv/omnigamer
[OBSOLETE] [NS] Rune Factory 4 Special Speedrun - Hell Mode in 2:15:30 Omnigamer 2020-06-26 | Started out pretty OK. Lost a bunch of time to Goblin Dons and final boss, but serves as a good reference for the route and run. Can still shave off several minutes, re-route a few more sections, and tighten up execution in several places. -- Watch live at twitch.tv/omnigamer
[NS] Rune Factory 4 Special - Ethelwill Round 1 KO Proof of Concept Omnigamer 2020-06-16 | YouTube ate my first attempt at the video and description, so instead here's the short version: -The trigger to advance to the next story scene is getting knocked down at 0 HP-There's a special circumstance for parts of this fight that make it so you can't be KO'd, even at 0 HP-Straight Punch's stance has super armor to every attack, and can't be knocked down to start the next scene-Combining all of the above, with careful play you can defeat Ethelwill the first time so long as you don't get hit while not in the stanceToo risky to use in speedruns, at least for now, and is actually slower in Hell compared to watching through the cutscenes and following fights normally. This demonstration is in Hard just to speed up the fight a bit; the damage reduction in Hell almost doubles the amount of time it takes.Enjoy!
GDQ PAX East 2020 Speedrun Gauntlet Recap - Scenes and Strats! Omnigamer 2020-04-16 | I go through the background and scenes for the speedrun gauntlet setups that GDQ used at PAX East 2020. I also discuss some of the strategies used, and provide basic details on how to effectively clear par for each scene. -- Watch live at twitch.tv/omnigamer
[SNES] Skyblazer Speedrun - 25:29 [Game Feed] Omnigamer 2019-12-31 | This is the direct capture for my 25:29 run of Skyblazer. The converted JP time is about 25:11.75 . The stream recording can be found elsewhere on my channel.
[SNES] Skyblazer Speedrun - 25:29 Omnigamer 2019-12-31 | A new run! Other than the atrocious mishap against Kh'lar, this run was near perfect. I hit every one of the new manips, had reasonable zip performance, and otherwise did everything else well. By JP timing, this run works out to be about 25:11.75 . Pretty satisfied, though now the 25:10 JP timing barrier is looking at me funny... -- Watch live at twitch.tv/omnigamer
Skyblazer speedrun - new Wind strat Omnigamer 2019-12-27 | This is an interesting one! Had to dig up a new manip in Fortress and do a fair bit of theorycrafting, but it was a pretty big payoff! This should save another 3-4 seconds if performed perfectly, and even with only one manip out of Fortress it should save a second. Now to figure out how to redo my splits...
[SNES] Skyblazer Speedrun - 25:42 Omnigamer 2019-12-26 | New PB/WR for Skyblazer! Has some very notably bad things - like an extra cycle on both Petrolith and Dragophant - but otherwise does OK. A HUGE PB is still due in the near future. JP Time is approximately 25:23. -- Watch live at [twitch.tv/omnigamer](twitch.tv/omnigamer)
Skyblazer Speedrun - Great Tower Water Strat Omnigamer 2019-12-13 | A new manip and use for the Great Tower. The magic actually saves time by lag alone, and then the comet saves another second on top of it. The window is wide, but the cues aren't great, and it is somewhat dependent on positioning. Unsure if I will incorporate into runs.
Skyblazer Speedrun new strats - round 3 Omnigamer 2019-12-09 | Some more refined strats that give me a lot more consistency and flexibility. The new Sands strat works well, and combined with the Fortress manip, gets about a net gain of 4 seconds. The Tower new stuff may be up to 5 seconds, and the better usage in Ice saves another second over the previous iteration.
New Skyblazer Speedrun Strats Rd 2 Omnigamer 2019-12-04 | Even newer strats for Sands and Bridge... they work in conjunction with each other. However, due to the extra overworld movement penalty to play in this order, it only saves ~40 frames over doing it the old way. And for a 3-frame manip, followed by a 2-frame manip... doesn't quite seem worth it.The Sands strat can be attempted in normal play, though, and could be used to skip the Fortress magic check instead, potentially saving up to an additional second. So yay!
New Skyblazer Speedrun Strats Omnigamer 2019-11-11 | Just a quick rundown of some of the new tweaks I've come up with for the Skyblazer route - they don't save much time and make the run immensely less consistent, so of course they have to be done.
Announcement: Chimera Universal Controller Remapper Omnigamer 2019-03-21 | At long last I can talk a bit more about my next big project! In this (brief, unpolished) announcement video, I introduce some of the features and functions that I'm planning for my universal controller remapping system, tentatively named Chimera. It's not big on marketing and pizzazz at the moment, but as things get closer to a completed product I'll launch some more formal branding.Have a look and let me know what you think! I'm happy to field comments below, by email omnigamer@speedrunscience.com , by twitter @TheOmnigamer , or on my Discord discord.gg/wEeXTyp
[3DS] Rune Factory 4 Speedrun - Hard Mode Arc 2 in 2:12:04 Omnigamer 2019-02-26 | A new run, now with more optimized and practiced route! Still had some significant flubs or poor luck, but this is starting to look like a real run might. Sub-2:10 is definitely in the cards, but possibly into the 2:08 range as well. More to come! -- Watch live at twitch.tv/omnigamer
[3DS] Rune Factory 4 Speedrun - 2nd Arc Hard Mode in 2:16:17 Omnigamer 2019-02-12 | Finally a run I approaching reasonable! Still some slop here and there, but overall the route is sinking in. Another handful of minutes can come off, but this is the point where each new improvement isn't free. -- Watch live at twitch.tv/omnigamer
[3DS] Rune Factory 4 - Arc 2 Hard Speedrun - 2:33:53 Omnigamer 2019-01-31 | A decent run! Though this was only my second completed run, a lot of things went pretty well. Still a lot of obvious slop to work through, but I'm starting to get comfortable with the order of days and tasks. 2:2x is definitely happening, so look for more runs soon! -- Watch live at twitch.tv/omnigamer
[SWI] RIVE - Campaign Speedrun in 1:17:51 Omnigamer 2018-09-03 | A new RIVE PB! Only particularly poor mission was 10, with honorable mention to a stray death in 3. Really good stages everywhere else though. 1:15 is on the way! -- Watch live at twitch.tv/omnigamer
[3DS] Rune Factory 4 Speedrun - Hard mode in 2:47:33 Omnigamer 2018-04-17 | I hesitate to even call this a run, given how much I was winging it. Saving this to keep it around as a reference, but another 20+ minutes can easily be shaved off with further route tuning and optimizations. Expect better soon. -- Watch live at twitch.tv/omnigamer
The Case Against Billy Mitchells Donkey Kong Omnigamer 2018-03-18 | In this video, I try to enumerate the charges against Billy Mitchell, and establish a common ground for discussing the controversy.You can find the original presentation here: docs.google.com/presentation/d/1FhJcNoazcHpCp_Rr6-yXluuVS_6CTzjMKs3ShM6nx6o/edit?usp=sharingUPDATE Apr 12, 2018: As of this morning, TG removed all of Billy's scores, including non-DK ones, from their scoreboards.UPDATE Mar 21, 2018: There's been some new information on this that's worth clarifying. The versions of MAME that produce the "girder finger" have now been verified as all versions prior to .122, depending on the refresh rate settings used. Additionally, Billy has admitted that the board swap video was staged as a stunt to promote Robert Childs' YouTube, and not as a verification mechanism. END UPDATECORRECTION: At some point in the video I describe the orientation of the 1.04M and 1.05M as incorrect. This point is overall correct, but my comments about it were not; they were not upright, but rather were simply rotated the wrong direction. They were essentially flipped 180* from what they should have been. END CORRECTIONI am not involved in the dispute! I only condensed the statements and arguments others have made. I'm happy to take corrections, but for specific and technical questions you are better off asking in the threads.Donkey Kong Forum thread here: http://donkeykongforum.com/index.php?topic=2055.0Twin Galaxies Dispute thread here: twingalaxies.com/showthread.php/176004-Dispute-Jeremy-Young-Arcade-Donkey-Kong-Points-Hammer-Allowed-Player-Billy-L-Mitchell-Score-1-062-800
[PSN] Suikoden II Any% Speedrun - 5:56:xx Omnigamer 2018-03-04 | Finally got around to encoding/uploading this run. I don't remember anything about it, other than I save in the castle after the Beast Rune so I can learn what IGT I have. This is important to study for thinking through Kindness Rune deaths on future runs.
[SNES] SWAT Kats - Hard Mode Speedrun - 36:21 Omnigamer 2018-02-19 | I don't remember much about this run, to be honest. It was ok, but I think I still had some unintentional deaths. When I get back to it, hopefully a 32 is in the works.
[GG] Sylvan Tale 100% Speedrun - 58:27 Omnigamer 2018-01-30 | New PB! Still a lot of slop, but most of the new route is there. Have to pull it off with a proper recording and fewer distractions. Some poor luck, but I got all the major tricks without much hassle! New goal: under 57:45. -- Watch live at twitch.tv/omnigamer
Hagane - New 3-2 miniboss strat Omnigamer 2018-01-29 | They're vulnerable right after the screen freeze, so bombs make short work of them... This is just a short proof-of-concept, can definitely be improved.
[GG] Sylvan Tale 100% Speedrun - 1:01:xx Omnigamer 2017-11-23 | Not my PB, but it was the closest I could find recently. This is just a direct recording showing the main strats and route, although probably not with a ton of polish.
[SNES] SWAT Kats - Fish Kick pt 2 Omnigamer 2017-10-29 | Some of the potential uses of Fish Kick. I am scared. -- Watch live at twitch.tv/omnigamer
[SNES] SWAT Kats - Fish Kick Omnigamer 2017-10-29 | Either the best or worst glitch to happen to the game. I can potentially use it to farm easy XP. -- Watch live at twitch.tv/omnigamer
[SNES] SWAT Kats - Metalikats strategy Omnigamer 2017-10-20 | This stage should be mostly fine, but the middle climb is going to be stressful. Overall one of the better stages.
[SNES] SWAT Kats - Level 5 Strategy Omnigamer 2017-10-09 | Shouldn't be too terrible, but the boss at the end will definitely be a challenge. At the very least this one should be OK with some good practice.
[SNES] SWAT Kats - Castle strategy Omnigamer 2017-10-08 | Holy cow this level is difficult. Will undoubtedly be the trickiest stage to run properly. A lot of these strategies will probably have to be adjusted to account for enemy randomness and global timers.
Work in Progress - SWAT Kats Speedrun [VHS Quality] Omnigamer 2017-10-07 | Quick video showing (and helping me to remember) the most significant strats I've developed so far. Stages 1 and 2 at the start, then the Ogres fight in Stage 3 (on Hard difficulty), and finally the Metalikats fight. Bad quality is bad because my recording settings were still configured for Atari recordings...
Dragster 5.57, Analysis, and Storytime Omnigamer 2017-09-11 | Includes some more of the gameplay from before my 5.57, as well as my immediate analysis of it, and then finally the story behind my efforts with Dragster. -- Watch live at twitch.tv/omnigamer
[A2600] Dragster - 5.57 Omnigamer 2017-09-11 | We did it folks! This is just the gameplay itself and a little bit of celebration after. -- Watch live at twitch.tv/omnigamerSpreadsheet for this run available here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TK4fkt7eYfkMaFdGIo-Eb9CLhWIOZpdKA92GZz9mDLg/edit?usp=sharing
