Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Today we embark on a little journey into the past revisiting a short but incredibly influential period of time for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (PC). And this journey takes us all the way back to 2016, the year in which brightness boosting was first discovered for the game and changed the way we speedrun it forever! But the brightness boosting trick that you know nowadays is actually not how it has always been. Now we have basically mastered the craft of gaining height through rapidly changing the brightness during a ledgegrab and through fast and practiced menuing it looks super smooth and makes the run incredibly fast paced and dynamic to play!
But there was this short but important time in Harry Potter 2 (PC) speedrunning history where all of those things we know very well now still had to be figured out. And you will notice that boosting looked A LOT different back in the day and was a ton slower than what you are used to nowadays. Which of course also meant that it was a lot less useful compared to nowadays and wasn't used on virtually every ledgegrab in Any% but instead had to be done a lot smarter and more selective to only do the biggest and most timesaving skips out there.
And I have to say that it was such a nice and refreshing throwback and blast from the past because even if I wasn't actively speedrunning at that time yet I still watched people do it already and recognized a lot of the struggles and issues I was having during this run again. Also as a sidenote, I also chose to ban Quidditch Warping to skip some level completely because it's just against the spirit of doing the old, manual boosting during this run. And on top of that this strategy hasn't even been found yet in 2016 either so to stay as true to the original 2016 experience I just ignored that the trick ever existed. I hope you are going to have fun with this nostalgic throwback that brings us almost a decade back in the history of Harry Potter Speedrunning! Thanks for watching and enjoy!
-- VOD: youtu.be/Qcqw5SIqhys
-- Watch live at twitch.tv/nixxo
Thx to Blusagi for the Outro Art
Thx to Ignasci (fiverr.com/ignasci) for the outro music
#harrypotter #speedrun #challengerun
Today we embark on a little journey into the past revisiting a short but incredibly influential period of time for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (PC). And this journey takes us all the way back to 2016, the year in which brightness boosting was first discovered for the game and changed the way we speedrun it forever! But the brightness boosting trick that you know nowadays is actually not how it has always been. Now we have basically mastered the craft of gaining height through rapidly changing the brightness during a ledgegrab and through fast and practiced menuing it looks super smooth and makes the run incredibly fast paced and dynamic to play!
But there was this short but important time in Harry Potter 2 (PC) speedrunning history where all of those things we know very well now still had to be figured out. And you will notice that boosting looked A LOT different back in the day and was a ton slower than what you are used to nowadays. Which of course also meant that it was a lot less useful compared to nowadays and wasn't used on virtually every ledgegrab in Any% but instead had to be done a lot smarter and more selective to only do the biggest and most timesaving skips out there.
And I have to say that it was such a nice and refreshing throwback and blast from the past because even if I wasn't actively speedrunning at that time yet I still watched people do it already and recognized a lot of the struggles and issues I was having during this run again. Also as a sidenote, I also chose to ban Quidditch Warping to skip some level completely because it's just against the spirit of doing the old, manual boosting during this run. And on top of that this strategy hasn't even been found yet in 2016 either so to stay as true to the original 2016 experience I just ignored that the trick ever existed. I hope you are going to have fun with this nostalgic throwback that brings us almost a decade back in the history of Harry Potter Speedrunning! Thanks for watching and enjoy!
-- VOD: youtu.be/Qcqw5SIqhys
-- Watch live at twitch.tv/nixxo
Thx to Blusagi for the Outro Art
Thx to Ignasci (fiverr.com/ignasci) for the outro music
#harrypotter #speedrun #challengerun
