SMS: Enter Lily Pad Ride without Yoshi Touval 2017-10-18 | Just for fun. I don't know if this is known, or if there's another way to get in without Yoshi, but at the very least this video serves to let my subscribers know that I'm not dead. edit: Someone else has found a way, but it's done during the flood: youtube.com/watch?v=2Fv-yDqgX6Aedit2: I found an older video of the flooded entrance: youtube.com/watch?v=AR92HbzeJToedit3: I feel like the clip might be angle-based too, so a super ground pound might not be the requirement (when I was trying with regular GP I was facing towards the island).I think the box challenge timer glitch is required for this to work, but I don't know why. I'm also not sure if you need a super ground pound, since I've been able to clip into the main beach with a regular one, but I wasn't able to do the same for the island. It's also pretty hard.Not sure why the sound is out of sync.
Spyro 2 - Metro Speedway 38.03 (Fireball) Touval 2018-03-23 | Not bad, but wouldn't be too hard to improve. 36 is possible with a faster jumper section with much harder strats, probably even 35.
Moon Kingdom Koopa Freerunning - 32.93s [Former WR] Touval 2017-12-18 | Really good start, mediocre middle, decent ending. Could probably get 32.7 with current strats.
Cap Kingdom Koopa Freerunning - 21.35s [Former TWR] Touval 2017-12-16 | 3-way tie. edit: KingBoo got a 21.22 lol
Sand Kingdom Koopa Freerunning - 27.70s Touval 2017-12-11 | Rank 2 at time of upload. 2.33 is possible at first pylon, but my best is 2.40 :/
SMS: Spraying a blue coin X with the box game text box open Touval 2017-10-22 | 1st clip: I spray the X and press nothing else. For some reason the box game guy's text changes to what he says when you first speak to him, but it's incomplete and I can't skip it. The only thing I can do is spray and press L. The X never respawns. I did go afk the first time I did this and came back to Mario sleeping and a frozen game, but I tried to replicate the freeze and couldn't. Maybe I didn't wait long enough, or maybe it was an emulator issue.2nd clip: I press A to skip the text box right before the X has been cleaned. I regain control of Mario with the timer on screen still at 00:00. Nothing noteworthy otherwise.3rd clip: I skip the text box a little earlier than in the second clip. Time still shows on screen but says 30:00. Like the second clip, there's also nothing noteworthy about this.In case you're wondering, I tried spraying the polluted piranha in a similar fashion but it doesn't take damage if text is open. I also tried spawning the shine gate shine, which I couldn't do without having a moon jump cheat active and spraying it from a distance just before landing. Nothing interesting happened; the text box opened, the cutscene played, and after I was still able to skip the text box and continue as normal. I wouldn't be surprised if this was possible without cheating, but for some reason I couldn't warp up to the platform that would have allowed me to spray the shine gate. I'm not sure if the moon jump method would have exactly the same result as doing it properly.
Super Mario Sunshine: Entering a level with a text box open Touval 2017-10-21 | Underwhelming, but this took FAR too long for me to not bother uploading. Used a turbo nozzle but I'm not sure if you can do timer glitch with it, so this was purely for curiosity's sake.
Spyro 2: Riptos Rage any% speedrun in 8:50 Touval 2015-10-06 | It took a while, but sub 9 has finally been hit. The final fight was a little disappointing, but given the rest of the run, and how inconsistent this category can be, I can't complain.
Go to Gnastys World speedrun in 36:27 Touval 2014-10-12 | Failed any% run, but it's pretty unlikely I'll ever match this run up until near the end, so I'm uploading it. 38:40 pace coming out of Gnorc Cove. Will probably wind up beating SSBMstuff's any% time (39:16) by a second and saying "fuck it, that's good enough for me", but somehow I don't think I'd really be content without getting a 38 before I die. PS: Twilight Harbour skip can go fuck itself
Spooky Swamp level skip Touval 2014-07-20 | Seems like an obvious skip, but I've not seen anyone do it yet so here it is. If you get a proxy which doesn't reach the roof, you can always charge right into the lantern, bypassing the ladder.Saves roughly 7 seconds over playing through the level normally.
Molten Crater level skip Touval 2014-07-20 | Will come in handy for any%. Saves around 11 seconds. Thanks to Breakingu for letting me know getting a proxy off these was possible. He'd got one before but wasn't sure how.
New Crystal Flight route Touval 2014-05-28 | Played on emulator cause it's easier to retry using save states. Could be faster perhaps to leave the last couple of planes for later, but it's harder.
Coveless on console & S-Video quality test [reupload with better settings] Touval 2014-05-23 | This trick took me probably near 1000 lives to pull off on console, if not more, so it's worth an upload. Would save roughly 40 seconds in an any% run as it bypasses the need to rescue Delbin and enter and finish Gnorc Cove, but it's still a stupidly hard trick to go for at very end of a run. Also, I got a new S-Video cable today so I'm testing the quality I get with it.
Another way to get into Gnasty Gnorc early Touval 2014-04-25 | Found this a couple of weeks ago. It's dumb.
Spyro 2: Riptos Rage any% speedrun in 9:41 Touval 2014-03-31 | Sub 10 at last! All it really required was a quick waterfall proxy and a half-decent run up to that point, but that certainly proved to be more than small task. Happy to get a 9:xx, and I sincerely doubt I'll return to this unless some easier way to get into Ripto is found.
Spyro 2: Riptos Rage any% speedrun in 10:37 Touval 2014-03-25 | Pretty pleased with this run. It's not the greatest time (sub 10 is both possible and inevitable), but it is the current world record and the first run under 11 minutes. I recommend watching all of it, but if you don't have the time or whatever, then at least watch the run from 9 minutes onward, as there's a pretty insane skip (found by ESGPuppetmaster, who also did a lot of work towards the setup, so shoutouts to him) that lets you enter the final boss without needing swim. This saves a lot of time as you obviously don't have to go out of your way to collect gems and there's no need to backtrack to Moneybags to buy swim. The only downside is that it's one of the most precise and hardest tricks to pull off in Spyro games in general.
Spyro the Dragon: How to get onto the mountains surrounding Town Square Touval 2014-03-23 | Someone asked me how I got the location I'm standing at in my offline picture on twitch.tv (http://www.twitch.tv/touval), so I made a video. Figured I'd make it public for easy showing in case anyone else had the same question.It's fairly difficult to get the last couple of damage boosts, and it's clear that I used save states to make it easier, but with enough patience it shouldn't take too long to do this without save stating (i.e. on console). Make sure the glide onto the mountain from the rooftop is a high one, as there's an invisible barrier than Spyro is barely able to make it over. Also try aiming the glide where I do, as it seems the barrier is further back/possibly higher to the left, and it's hard to get anywhere if you glide to the right.
Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly any% speedrun in 1:09.43 Touval 2014-03-22 | Timed from gain of control of Spyro to control loss. This run uses a new skip I found which uses Spyro's headbash to slip through a seam to access Ripto very, very early. This skip saves almost 50 seconds over the old method of abusing lag to bypass a gate before performing the swim in air glitch to swim into Ripto's lair.
Gelato Beach skip Touval 2014-02-21 | Sorry for lack of sound, emulator issues :sThis skip can be done from the front side of the roof too (and I imagine every other side). Only reason I'm doing it from the left side in this video is because I tried the front side first and had no luck, but I must have just had a bad setup or something. Also, it's probably possible to do this without first putting a coconut in the blender to shoot out the blue coin, but I'll leave it to other people to find ways to make this faster and more consistent :)
Spyro the Dragon any% speedrun in 40:25 Touval 2014-02-15 | Nice run, just a shame all time loss was plain stupid: supercharge got cut going from High Caves to Wizard Peak, costing me around 6 seconds and a 25 gem; plane on Crystal Flight was shielded from my flame by a different plane falling, costing me 6 seconds; rescued dragon in Jacques accidentally, costing me 7 seconds. FIRST TRY TWILIGHT HARBOUR SKIP, THO'
Spyro the Dragon 120% speedrun in 1:29:39 Touval 2014-02-05 | Finally sub 1:30! And the funny thing is, this run was actually on good 1:28 pace as I entered the last world. Sadly though, Gnorc Cove, er, 'happened', and I lost a good chunk of time. Aside from that one level though, really, really nice run!First uploaded run on a PS2 using fast disc speed too. All previously uploaded runs were played on emulator, which is roughly 25 seconds slower due to slower loads.Run with live 'commentary' here: http://www.twitch.tv/touval/c/3670001
Spyro the Dragon 120% speedrun in 1:31:14 Touval 2013-12-20 | If you're looking at the title and wondering how this run saves around two and a half minutes over my other most recently uploaded run, it's because this run utilises a fairly recently discovered trick which allows you to skip the entire set of first credits, cutting off almost 3 minutes from the run. Getting this skip very quickly this run as well playing, for the most part, solidly everywhere else let me get this time which I'm pretty damn pleased with!Playing against 1:33:35 splits, which was a run I got not too long before this which used credits skip but I didn't upload it because it was an awful run, lol.Also, I do apologise for the low game sound and constant whining from my mic. I didn't realise the game volume was so low, and I haven't found a way to reduce or get rid of the whistling noise, sorry!
Alternative credits skip method Touval 2013-12-06 | For the flame to hit, you have to hold back as you're just going under the floor (makes Spyro's flame spread out more, I think, or just lets Spyro's head stay above the floor so the flame is higher), then release back so Spyro speeds up while the flame is still spread out/high. Must drown in lava otherwise it doesn't work.
Spyro 1 credits skip Touval 2013-12-05 | It's been known for a while how to kill Gnasty Gnorc while not activating the credits, but it was never possible to collect all 4 pink gems with that method. This way lets you collect all 4 before falling to your death, meaning in a 120% run the credits can be completely skipped. This would save almost 3 minutes.P.S. This shit's hard.
Spyro 2 any% in 13:44 [with Gulp skip] Touval 2013-11-27 | To put it simply, with a new found skip, it's possible to enter Gulp with only 1 talisman, skipping 13 other talismans required prior to this find. This route is still very experimental and definitely improvable, but I thought I'd upload this run as it had a pretty fast skip and the time is decent considering just how new the skip is (and it's pretty damn annoying, too).I was in a skype call with Cyberdemon531, Dzh730, SSBMstuff, and Xer_91.
Spyro 3 Sorceress Skip Touval 2013-11-18 | Requires a proxy like this: http://www.twitch.tv/tsmart/c/1712148 (not my video) edit: OR a series of pretty hard jumps from the top of the castle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CuZzlD9bB8 (gj crash41596 and SSBMstuff on finding you can do this proxyless!)
Desert Ruins skip Touval 2013-11-16 | Not sure how much time this would save over the current skip. 5~ seconds in any%?
Spyro the Dragon any% speedrun in 41:16 Touval 2013-09-18 | Okay run which got Twilight Harbour skip fairly quickly.
Alternative Dry Canyon any% route Touval 2013-08-31 | Not sure if this is worth it, since it's hardly quicker and a lot more difficult than the old route, but hey. Hard part is the jump from the home portal area to Maximos, credits to Stoneknot1 for telling me about that. I've had this route in mind for a long time but wrote it off because I wasn't aware of charge gliding which is very helpful in making the previously mentioned jump, and up until recently I did not know you could use vultures in such a way to damage boost (route I had in mind was pretty much the same but with a TAS-only wallglide from Maximos to the 3 metal chests). Also idk why I didn't get the fan chest after the key chest...
Haunted Towers small time saver & crashing the game Touval 2013-08-03 | crispy spyro: http://i.imgur.com/Ool9xkY.png
Testing new(?) damage boost trick Touval 2013-08-02 | Wouldn't be surprised if this was already known by at least a few people, given just how simple it is. All that's required is an enemy which either uses an electric attack or causes spyro to do a backflip when hit, and an angled wall. To get the boost, you must charge and jump into said wall shortly before spyro gets hit, and with any luck you'll soar upwards.Not all examples in this video use that exact method, such as the two boosts in Terrace Village, but I thought I'd add them just for the hell of it.
Spyro the Dragon any% speedrun in 41:46 Touval 2013-07-24 | After hundreds of attempts, everything finally came together. Taking a break from this category now, and this time I mean it :pOld WR. New WR is 41:41 by SSBMstuff. Streamed live @ http://www.twitch.tv/touval
wallglidez Touval 2013-07-11 | I can think of a good TAS route which would incorporate this with another jump from the exit portal area to the dragon behind where I start off standing in this video.
