Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Yesterday, NSO had a new update. TLDR: It's terrible.
My biggest complaint out of everything is how the day transition font looks really really bad, and there are plenty of other issues as well, all related to the way text looks. Though, other than a lot of font related issues, the game feels smoother than the previous update (sort of), so that's a little bit better, I guess....
But since they added a new language, then I am making a new comparison video.
Yesterday, NSO had a new update. TLDR: It's terrible.
My biggest complaint out of everything is how the day transition font looks really really bad, and there are plenty of other issues as well, all related to the way text looks. Though, other than a lot of font related issues, the game feels smoother than the previous update (sort of), so that's a little bit better, I guess....
But since they added a new language, then I am making a new comparison video.
![Gawr Gura: Quest for Bread | Any% Speedrun [20:30 IGT] (INVALID)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QZluHh8JEu8/mqdefault.jpg "Gawr Gura: Quest for Bread | Any% Speedrun [20:30 IGT] (INVALID)
SUB 20 IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER!!!!
http://youtube.com/post/UgkxcBOFGMzxsx8Or-p7_G5uQwgQ-ZXh2mQg
Thumbnail art by Serra:
https://www.tumblr.com/seraphicyumejoshi")
![Petit Game Collection | Ames HHDG Good Ending Speedrun WR [59.63] (first ever speedrun)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RagkZbJea-E/mqdefault.jpg "Petit Game Collection | Ames HHDG Good Ending Speedrun WR [59.63] (first ever speedrun)
This game released less than 24 hours ago, and I speedran this game too....
This game is one of a few minigames on the new a NSO spinoff game, known as Petit Game Collection (as you could tell from the title).
There is no speedrun.com leaderboard, nor is there any other runs (that I know of), so I made it up as I went. So for the sake of this run, time starts on the menu disappearing, and ends on the first frame when the final text box is gone.
This was also done in a VERY short time frame, but I believe Ive found all there is to know here. Holding the windows key speeds up the text (only when the current text box shows all text), and the beach option is not required if you have already done it in a previous playthrough.
Ive also done MANY runs on Chinese, but Japanese seems to be the fastest here.")
![Typing of The Net | Endless Nightmare Speedrun NG+ [18:07] (first ever speedrun)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/S9rq285ijjw/mqdefault.jpg "Typing of The Net | Endless Nightmare Speedrun NG+ [18:07] (first ever speedrun)
Speedran this game in under 24 hours of release lol.
Update: Theres now an official ruleset and speedrun.com page for the game.
This also means theres a new timing method, which makes the new time 18:07.
The original time was 18:21
My personally rules were as follows:
Time starts as you press New Game or Resume (depending on if youre doing NG or NG+).
Time ends when KAngel turns into Ame.
I might do a few more attempts, and then its back to DreadOut 2.")
![Needy Streamer Overload | Welcome To My Religion Speedrun [5:56.29]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/So3TWWp-lls/mqdefault.jpg "Needy Streamer Overload | Welcome To My Religion Speedrun [5:56.29]
Artist: Inuit0017 https://twitter.com/inuit0017?t=BLwCW0vUuS38aXah3qWO7A&s=09
Thumbnail edited by Light of Destiny and SpicyKingReaper
LoD: https://youtube.com/channel/UC9LxXENv0FOUHWr6d_SJFww
SKR: https://youtube.com/channel/UCvOuH_qQihz08SW4QtOPMpA")
![Needy Streamer Overload Secret.txt TAS (Comment te dire adieu) [37:36.08] (True Ending)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TSEOZOZ9i2k/mqdefault.jpg "Needy Streamer Overload Secret.txt TAS (Comment te dire adieu) [37:36.08] (True Ending)
TAS route, tools, and visuals are all made by Frostworth!
Frostworth is an incredible modder for Needy Streamer Overload, and has made lots of fun mods, such as a randomizer, adding Solitaire to NSO (with custom sprites), and even a custom stream maker that outperforms the official in-game stream maker by a long shot!
Frostworths github: https://github.com/amazeedaizee
Frostworths YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@chippydippy1350
They also made a mod for Typing of The Net: Endless Nightmare: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q5-NFqYNYqGPG1ayd6gkOf9nR2ORfv1i/view
For those who may not know what TAS is, T.A.S. stands for Tool Assisted Speedrun/Superplay.
This is the process of using special tools to do complete a task in a videogame in a more optimal way compared to humans. Although the process is slightly different, depending on the game and tools, this TAS specifically uses an autoplayer that is capable of being fed actions, and executing them in the order they were given. This TAS also uses the help of a mod that limits RNG to become 100% consistent.
For those wondering about some of the specifics, and how this TAS is faster than the previous TAS:
Frostworth recently found a way to make the auto player do a somewhat precise glitch thats able to skip the cutscene for Runaway Angel! For an example of that, heres the human world record: https://youtu.be/qI-LhkZKxt4
This is done by overlapping Nymphomania and Runaway Angel on top of each other, causing the game to think it completed Runaway Angel early.
After finding a good way to complete Runaway Angel with the skip, it all came down to finding proper routing to go along with it. And when its all put together, the fastest TAS time is 37;36, beating the previous TAS by ~3 minutes.
Previous TAS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DByW0FJKsG4
Maybe in the future, if we can implement more human glitches into the auto player, the TAS time could be even faster!!!
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![Needy Streamer Overload Secret.txt TAS [33:24.15]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TsJ0jdIL-YU/mqdefault.jpg "Needy Streamer Overload Secret.txt TAS [33:24.15]
For those who may not know what a TAS is, T.A.S. (Tool Assisted Speedrun/Superplay) is the process of playing a game, while using tools to manipulate many factors of a game, in order to create a desired outcome. This can come in many forms, including presenting the outcome of a difficult trick in a game. Or in most cases, TASes are used to create theoretical perfect speedruns, whether pushing game mechanics to their limits, or showing off the best that a human can possibly do (often not the same, depending on input speeds, levels of precision, or the rules of a leaderboard on speedrun.com).
The term tools can often refer to many aspects, such as using mods that manipulate luck factors, speed, savestates, or fully custom tools that range from giving you internal game information to allowing you to set the exact inputs that the game will make frame by frame.
More specifically to this video, this run uses an auto player mod made by the NSO modder, Frostworth.
This auto player basically runs off of code that attempts to do every action as soon as it is capable of doing so, removing mouse movement and making for the most optimal time for everything.
For information on the run itself, the previous fastest TAS was a time of 37;36.08 (https://youtu.be/TSEOZOZ9i2k). Meaning that this TAS saved a total of 4;11.930.
So whats different enough to make such a large time difference?
- First, the old TAS was done in English, mainly because English is the world language, so more people can follow along (or follow along better). This one is done is Traditional Chinese.
Traditional Chinese (and most non English languages) are much faster when it comes to moments where text is moving slowly. Best example is Galactic Express or Do You Love Me? (This also applies to Runaway Angel and Rainbow Girl, but we do a skip for those cutscenes).
But where a few languages shine the most is skipping streams. When skipping streams, KAngel will often say 1 line of dialog before the stream ends, but Chinese (and others) can skip a stream without a single word of dialog. Even if this doesnt seem like a lot, the time adds up over the course of minutes and doing lots of streams.
- Second, a new(ish) cutscene skip during Internet Overdose.
There is a well known glitch, referred to as Day Skip Glitch where you can skip specific days by loading Day 1 and then going back to the day you wish to skip. Day Skip Glitch is very useful, as it can skip events that are normally unskippable, such as Darkness and Day 10 (if you have less than 10,000 followers).
Theres also a known bug that only works on old versions of NSO, where you can skip the end Day 28 of Internet Overdose by stacking events on top of each other, and it skips the poem that appears (which also turns the final cutscene into a normal stream).
These 2 concepts (Day Skip and skipping Day 28) have never been put together until recently, but now that they are, we can skip Day 28 and not deal wit the long poem. Saving ~12 seconds.
- Third... Caching?
Its not fully understood yet, but there is a weird thing where doing multiple runs through the whole game seems to keep assets still loaded into memory, which makes everything load a little bit quicker that they normal would. Over the course of half an hour, this saves at least minute or 2, as far as we are currently aware.
All tools used and the route was made by Frostworth. Please check out all of their awesome NSO mods!
Frostworths github: https://github.com/amazeedaizee
Frostworths YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@chippydippy1350
They also made a really fun mod for Typing of The Net: Endless Nightmare: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q5-NFqYNYqGPG1ayd6gkOf9nR2ORfv1i/view
Recording by me.
Thumbnail art by Serra:
https://www.tumblr.com/seraphicyumejoshi")
![Needy Streamer Overload | Utopian Parody Speedrun WR [7:37.23]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VkmPDVFc-58/mqdefault.jpg "Needy Streamer Overload | Utopian Parody Speedrun WR [7:37.23]
I realized this was one of the only endings left that wasnt optimized well.
It still isnt... But a new route I made involves a lot of RNG, and I gave up after the 10th time RNG screwed me while I was in the mid-to-late 20 days. Just kept getting screwed over right at the finish line.
With that said, I might as well go with this. The other route was faster by like 30-80 seconds faster (hard to determine because of RNG and speed from the player doing the run).
Artist: Inuit0017 https://twitter.com/inuit0017?t=BLwCW0vUuS38aXah3qWO7A&s=09
Thumbnail edited by Light of Destiny and SpicyKingReaper
LoD: https://youtube.com/channel/UC9LxXENv0FOUHWr6d_SJFww
SKR: https://youtube.com/channel/UCvOuH_qQihz08SW4QtOPMpA")
