Scott Rogoff | Mario Break the Targets 7.88 @Mario64Master | Uploaded January 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Played by Mario 64 Master (Scott Rogoff) on January 25, 2024. This was the world record for this level, tied with MegaQwertification (youtu.be/5i2P-J3JkIE), until MegaQwertification achieved 7.87 on March 19, 2024 (youtu.be/XryMGJ7nMHw).
My previous best was 7.97, from 3 days prior.
Happy to have finally pulled this off! There's a lot that has to come together in this stage, with so many ways to drop a run. I recently made a small change to my technique which caused a significantly increase in speed and consistency - a new claw grip on the controller for the very beginning. I find it makes it much easier to hit the initial X, X, B sequence quickly. I also started using a slight control stick recenter to optimize the rejump angle towards T2, and an L trigger trick to avoid light shield after the first wavedash.
This level has a bottleneck after throwing the T6 fireball, with it being optimal to start the jump at 3.70. This run had a 3.72 jump, which causes a 2 frame loss. There was also a few frame loss around the T7 to T8 part, with everything else being essentially perfect.
This is not a TAS (tool-assisted speedrun) - it was played by me in real time.
Setup:
Dolphin 5.0-18498
Melee NTSC 1.02
Nintendo GameCube controller
Nintendo GameCube USB adapter (set to 1000Hz polling)
M'Overlay 2.0.3b
Fullscreen Resolution: 3840x1600 (cropped to 1944x1600 with OBS)
Internal Resolution: 8x Native (5120x4224) for 5K
Anti-Aliasing: 8x MSAA
Anisotropic Filtering: 16x
#speedrun #smash #melee
Played by Mario 64 Master (Scott Rogoff) on January 25, 2024. This was the world record for this level, tied with MegaQwertification (youtu.be/5i2P-J3JkIE), until MegaQwertification achieved 7.87 on March 19, 2024 (youtu.be/XryMGJ7nMHw).
My previous best was 7.97, from 3 days prior.
Happy to have finally pulled this off! There's a lot that has to come together in this stage, with so many ways to drop a run. I recently made a small change to my technique which caused a significantly increase in speed and consistency - a new claw grip on the controller for the very beginning. I find it makes it much easier to hit the initial X, X, B sequence quickly. I also started using a slight control stick recenter to optimize the rejump angle towards T2, and an L trigger trick to avoid light shield after the first wavedash.
This level has a bottleneck after throwing the T6 fireball, with it being optimal to start the jump at 3.70. This run had a 3.72 jump, which causes a 2 frame loss. There was also a few frame loss around the T7 to T8 part, with everything else being essentially perfect.
This is not a TAS (tool-assisted speedrun) - it was played by me in real time.
Setup:
Dolphin 5.0-18498
Melee NTSC 1.02
Nintendo GameCube controller
Nintendo GameCube USB adapter (set to 1000Hz polling)
M'Overlay 2.0.3b
Fullscreen Resolution: 3840x1600 (cropped to 1944x1600 with OBS)
Internal Resolution: 8x Native (5120x4224) for 5K
Anti-Aliasing: 8x MSAA
Anisotropic Filtering: 16x
#speedrun #smash #melee
![Link Break the Targets 3.48 [World Record]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/61MnKMe_xa4/hqdefault.jpg "Link Break the Targets 3.48 [World Record]
Played by Mario 64 Master (Scott Rogoff) on May 18, 2023. This is the current world record for this level.
My previous best was 3.50, from 1 month prior (https://youtu.be/VdHzsW8xK80). That was the previous world record, tied with samthedigital (https://youtu.be/2E0qyX5jM2I).
Only took me about 14k more attempts since I hit 3.50 to shave this 1 frame. This run was absolutely frame perfect until the final platform slip off, where a single frame was lost during the hookshot movement. The optimal ending requires a rejump and air dodge immediately after leaving the platform. I think the ideal 3.46 should be tough but likely doable...
This is not a TAS (tool-assisted speedrun) - it was played by me in real time.
Setup:
Dolphin 5.0-18498
Melee NTSC 1.02
Nintendo GameCube controller
Nintendo GameCube USB adapter (set to 1000Hz polling)
MOverlay 2.0.3b
Fullscreen Resolution: 3840x1600 (cropped to 1944x1600 with OBS)
Internal Resolution: 8x Native (5120x4224) for 5K
Anti-Aliasing: 8x MSAA
Anisotropic Filtering: 16x
#speedrun #smash #melee #zelda")
![Samus Break the Targets 7.20 [TAS]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7e0AaxMNPrI/hqdefault.jpg "Samus Break the Targets 7.20 [TAS]
This tool-assisted speedrun (TAS) was completed by Mario 64 Master (Scott Rogoff) on May 1, 2020.
This was the TAS world record for this level until I achieved 7.11 on September 13, 2020 (https://youtu.be/XxXUv1GXVBM).
My previous best (and previous world record) was 7.28, from a week prior (https://youtu.be/05yBRwdqLX4).
Comparison with the 7.28 run:
- 4 frames were saved by rejumping towards target 4 two frames sooner (in-game timer 2.55). This required approaching from a lower angle to avoid hitting the ceiling near target 4.
- 1 frame was saved by staying farther *right* after the first left waveland (in-game timer 4.52). This allowed building more leftward velocity by the next slipoff (in-game timer 4.80), which allowed barely reaching the next slipoff (in-game timer 5.16) in one less frame.
This TAS is 28 frames faster than my real-time 7.67 run (https://youtu.be/n-wDUGsHnoc).
Setup:
Dolphin 5.0
Melee NTSC 1.02
Recorded with Nvidia ShadowPlay (1080p, 60fps, 50 Mbps)")
![Pichu Break the Targets 5.45 [World Record]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9yQYxzghgCI/hqdefault.jpg "Pichu Break the Targets 5.45 [World Record]
This is the current speedrun world record for this level.
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Original video with more details: https://youtu.be/bZEhqFZ6DZo
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