Super Mario Galaxy 2: Two Small Tall Trunk Speed Tricks logitechSDAZ 2026-09-22 | Super Mario Galaxy 2: Two Small Tall Trunk Speed Tricks
Twilight Princess: Clawshot Target Skip logitechSDAZ 2014-07-23 | If done quickly, this should save 4 or 5 sec for any% and no save/quit runs. In segmented runs, it is still faster to roll along the narrow ledge and clawshot the targets.
Twilight Princess: Timesaver For 1st King Bulblin Battle logitechSDAZ 2013-06-01 | saves around 5 seconds
Twilight Princess: Palace of Twilight - LJA to Skip Death Warp logitechSDAZ 2013-05-09 | This is faster than death warping if set up quickly. I haven't found another way to do this, and haven't ever cleared the guard rail. The best I've done is land on top of it. Not standing on the very edge before doing the lja, and/or doing the lja one frame to late causes Link to bounce off the guard rail and die. Also, if I'm a couple of pixels off setting up the lja, I always fail it. All things considered, for me this is one of the more difficult ljas in the game. Probably not worth trying in a single segment run. Might be worth trying in any% (provided you can set it up quickly). Defintely worth doing in a tas.
Twilight Princess: Palace of Twilight LJA (might not save any time) logitechSDAZ 2013-05-09 | This likely will not save time in a speed run. Zant's head shoots a ball of energy at Link while on the moving platform, then disappears for a few seconds. Unless Zant's head happens to reappear immediately after the lja, then this saves no time.
Twilight Princess: City in the Sky - Small Timesaver logitechSDAZ 2013-05-09 | a couple of seconds faster than sidehopping and clawshottingcan be used for single segment no save/quit runs
Twilight Princess: Easier (But Slower) 3 Bomb King Bulblin Fight logitechSDAZ 2013-05-09 | Unfortunately, this is around 12 seconds slower than the standard 3 bomb strat and around 24 seconds slower than the faster strat. This could be useful in a race if you aren't confident you can do a standard or faster 3 bomb fight. Or if you are failing the normal bomb fight method, you could switch to this strat and try to make up the time later on during a race. This is useless in a single segment speed run since it's slower.
Twilight Princess: Faster King Bulblin Fight logitechSDAZ 2013-05-09 | around 12 seconds faster than the standard 3 bomb king bulblin fight
Twilight Princess: Faster Faron Escape Setup For RTA logitechSDAZ 2012-06-20 | You have to escape twice in a rta run. This saves around 10 seconds overall.
Twilight Princess: City in the Sky - Small Timesaver For 100% logitechSDAZ 2012-05-21 | The original setup in segmented and RTA 100% was to lja to the platform where the heart piece chest is and clawshot to the poe soul. This isn't risky because the lja seems to always work. It only saves about 3 seconds though.
Twilight Princess: Goron Mines - Consistent LJA Setup logitechSDAZ 2012-05-21 | This lja has always been somewhat of a pain. With the original 5 lock-on targetting in one spot, the boomerang wouldn't always stay in the spot long enough to get the lja. And if you got the lja, but were standing on the railing in the wrong spot, you'd recoil into the water. With this setup, you should have plenty of time to lja to the platform and you won't ever recoil. Just make sure that you target closer to the right side of the guard rail post. Don't target the center or anywhere close to the left side, or you might not get the lja.
Twilight Princess: Heart Piece Timesaver For 100% RTA logitechSDAZ 2012-05-10 | There's no risk of the bombling exploding if you aren't standing too close to the wooden planks surrounding the deku baba.
Twilight Princess: Snowpeak Ruins - Alternate LJA Setup logitechSDAZ 2012-05-10 | freezards are chilly
Twilight Princess: Early Lakebed Without Rupee Dive logitechSDAZ 2012-01-27 | I think I avoided drowning by about 1/10 of a second. Awesome. Also, this setup is not even remotely close to being a 100% to ensure you enter Lakebed early. I've clipped through the wall maybe 10 times in 3 hours and drowned 9 of those times. 10 times in 3 hours is the most consistent I've ever clipped this wall. With zora armor, the wall is easy to clip. Without zora armor, it is completely different. Once getting behind the pillar, there must be some exact pinpoint position Link needs to be in before swimming upward and I can't figure out what it is. If someone can find a way to get this consistently (like 50% of the time), then it could be used in a RTA speed run. In the meantime, I'll keep testing it and see if there is a more consistent method I can find.
Twilight Princess: Possible Lakebed Entry Without Rupee Dive logitechSDAZ 2011-07-29 | Even if this is possible, it is around 10 seconds slower than rupee dive :( The only way it might not be slower is if a speedrunner clipped the Lanayru gate, turned into a human before jumping off the bridge, and did the lake hylia wall clip all in the same segment, but that might make the segment even more tedious than rupee dive.
Twilight Princess: Route Update - Skip Buying Water Bombs For 100% logitechSDAZ 2011-06-19 | keese ketchup
Twilight Princess: Lake Hylia Timesaver (for single segment speed run) logitechSDAZ 2011-06-16 | This could be used in a 100% run as well. It saves around 15 seconds. You'd skip selling bombs to Barnes and buying water bombs. If you skip selling bombs to Barnes and buying water bombs then you only have 485 rupees (the normal route you'd have 494 after buying water bombs). This is easily remedied by grabbing 9 rupees in the grass during the Telma escort, which won't cost a second of time since Telma's carriage goes slow. Get the ant by the tree in Kakariko graveyard, LJA onto the ledge, and swim out of bounds behind the rock to enter Lake Hylia. Then clip out of bounds to Lakebed, open water bomb chest in first room. This gives you 10 water bombs. With the other route (buying water bombs from Barnes), you'd have 13 water bombs at this point. Having 10 still works out though.
Twilight Princess: Alternate Method - Early Gale Boomerang logitechSDAZ 2011-05-26 | zesty zora zucchini
Twilight Princess: Timesaver After Iron Boots (for 100% speed run) logitechSDAZ 2011-05-21 | epona croutons
Portal 2: sp_a1_intro6 - Very Small Timesaver logitechSDAZ 2011-05-11 | If you pan the camera nearly all the way up before going through the portal, you'll land on the same platform the cube is on. This saves one second at most.
Portal 2: Gain Momentum Without Reportaling logitechSDAZ 2011-05-10 | I'm not sure this would be very useful even if it works in other areas.
Portal 2: sp_a2_triple_laser route logitechSDAZ 2011-04-28 | adzicents also made a videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XQ6jgpRxpU
Portal 2: The Reportal Glitch logitechSDAZ 2011-04-23 | a glitch that can be used to save time in a few areas
Portal 2: Chamber 1- Easier Trick logitechSDAZ 2011-04-21 | This isn't faster than Paraxade's trick, but it is easy enough to probably be used in a single segment speedrun. It seems to work about 75% of the time for me. Just jump on top the switch and look up. With the correct angle, the cube will automatically fall over the wall and onto the switch.
Dragon Age 2: Skip Deep Roads Dragon logitechSDAZ 2011-04-05 | Have your companions run in the opposite direction. Stay close to the left wall and you can bypass the dragon trigger. Once you get enough distance away from your companions, they will instantly appear behind you. This keeps them from triggering the dragon fight.
Dragon Age 2: Blackpowder Promise Sequence Break logitechSDAZ 2011-03-23 | This skips meeting Javaris and the Tal-Vashoth cavern. Using "hold position" on DA2 is a little different than in DAO. In DAO, you could hold your companions' position. No matter how far your main character walked in an area, your companions would stay still completely until selecting "move freely". If you moved far enough away, then selected "move freely", your companions would instantly appear on screen. In DAO, doing this in front of a gate caused a companion to instantly appear behind it, leading to a huge sequence break. In DA2, if you select "hold position" on your companions, then move your main character to a certain distance, your companions will break hold and run until the distance gap has shrunk, which means they don't instantly appear on screen. However, there is a way to increase the distance gap between the main character and your companions. On 360, hold left trigger, press right bumper to change characters, select "move to point" for each companion, press right bumper again to go back to your main character, and finally let go of left trigger. Watch the dots (your companions) on the minimap move until you think they've reached the spot you selected. Then do the same thing over again. Eventually, with enough distance, your companions will instantly appear on screen close your main character. If you time it to where 2 companions appear on screen at almost the same time (while using the main character to run against the right corner of the gate), one will appear behind the gate in the docks, allowing you to complete the Blackpowder Promise quest early. The cutscene trigger normally makes everyone appear close to Arishok. If you don't leave the area at about the same time as the Arishok cutscene occurs, you'll be trapped behind the gate with no way out. Go to the "leave area" location you see in the video. After getting to the "leave area" spot, hold left trigger, switch to the other person behind the gate, select "move to point", press right bumper to go back to the person in front of "leave area", let go of left trigger, and watch the dot on the minimap. When the dot has almost completely crossed the small "x" on the minimap, start mashing A button like crazy. If you timed everything right, after the Arishok cutscene (which contains an invisible Javaris if you skipped meeting him), you'll be able to leave the location. After traveling somewhere, the quest will be completed.
Dragon Age 2: Map Freeze, Crash The Game logitechSDAZ 2011-03-13 | 1. map freeze2. crash the game (will corrupt your autosave if you have it turned on)3. enter a house and open a container at the same time
Dragon Age 2 (360): How To Do The Map Glitch logitechSDAZ 2011-03-13 | The setup for map glitch (the 1st method in the video) is very similar to the setup in Dragon Age Origins, but the timing is tougher with button presses. Also, due to precise timing, what worked for me talking to the bartender at the Hanged Man might not work the same way in another area. Map glitch will probably work elsewhere, but the timing to get it right might be dependent on your location. (the timing was always the same in Dragon Age Origins). The effects of map glitching are probably very similar to DAO. Have a cutscene occur at the same time as loading an area. In DAO, you'd either end up out of bounds or at a random spot inbounds depending on the location and the cutscene.edit: map glitch works on PC
Mass Effect 2: How To Glitch A Cutscene (might be useful) logitechSDAZ 2010-12-28 | Not sure if this could be useful in a segmented speed run or not. If I remember correctly, a couple of bosses have a cutscene immediately following a door opening. This could be used to potentially freeze those bosses in place (or other enemies helping the boss). Saving the game skips the cutscene. In certain instances in a speed run, this should be faster than fast skipping all the dialog in a cutscene. This also works if you trigger a cutscene while walking. During Jacob's loyalty mission, a cutscene will occur when you touch a certain area while walking. If you save the game just as you touch the spot, you'll skip the cutscene and all the enemies. I need to test this in several other areas.
Mass Effect 2: Map Screen + Start = Soft Freeze logitechSDAZ 2010-12-28 | Probably old by now. Click analog stick to access your map (if you're in an area that will allow you to do so), and press start. Exit start screen and you'll get a "soft" freeze.
Twilight Princess: Small City In The Sky Double LJA Trick logitechSDAZ 2010-12-28 | This is 3 seconds faster than the older method assuming the boomerang lock ons are done super fast. It has to be nearly pinpoint accuracy for this to work. With the older way, a speedrunner clawshots the grating, climbs up, then uses a single LJA.
Metroid Prime 3: Zipline Station Delta Trick with no lock-on logitechSDAZ 2010-12-28 | I found this a few days after Paraxade0 finished his run. It only saves one second if that. I'm surprised this worked. I thought the door lock-on was the only way you could get to the platform. This is just as hard as the door lock-on method. This also makes me think having the door lock-on doesn't actually gain you any extra distance after all. It probably has to do with certain angles of your double jump before you start SAing.
Super Mario Galaxy: Slope Long Jump Technique logitechSDAZ 2010-11-20 | step 1: long jump onto the slopestep 2: immediately upon landing, tap the opposite direction of where you're facing (in this case tap down) on analog stick + Z + A simoultaneously. Don't hold down for too long or the jump will go a shorter distance.step 3: when landing, tap down on analog stick + Z + A simoultaneously to long jump again The final long jump you see in this video is very hard for me to pull off for some reason...much harder than the 2nd jump. I usually accidentally backflip or do a normal jump. Find a way to do this quickly, and it should save a couple of seconds in Bee Luigi Takes Flight. This should also be useful in Conquering the Summit while climbing the icy slope, assuming it can be done.
Super Mario Galaxy: Dreadnought - Skip Switches logitechSDAZ 2010-11-20 | This saves 3 seconds at most and is difficult. After several attempts, my success rate is maybe 10%. 1. Make sure your long jump lands on the screw slightly off center toward the right. Directly on center, Luigi will just stop on the screw and you have to swing the wiimote to get him to fall off. Too far to the right or left and he'll almost instantly fall off the screw. 2. While sliding along the screw, you can control Luigi's movement a bit. I press left as I'm gliding so I don't instantly slide off. 3. When falling off, I continue holding left and wall jump to the next screw.
Fable 3: Glitch Collection logitechSDAZ 2010-11-16 | 0:00 - 0:43 options menu glitch0:43 - 1:20 freeze your character 1:20 - 2:07 camera glitch2:07 - 2:50 open treasure chest delay2:50 - 3:29 two treasure chests using a delay3:29 - 4:21 delay collecting an item4:21 - 4:48 warp to a treasure chest4:48 - 5:21 warp to a job5:21 - 5:38 save or load in wrong section of sanctuary5:38 - 6:14 buy or sell The Iron Hoof during blacksmith job6:14 - 7:17 crash the game
Castlevania Lords of Shadow: Underground Caves Out of Bounds logitechSDAZ 2010-10-09 | random out of bounds spot I just found
Castlevania Lords of Shadow: Enchanted Forest Speed Trick logitechSDAZ 2010-10-09 | Very simple trick that skips climbing and a couple of grapple points. Saves about 15 seconds.
Metroid Prime 3: Strange Glitch - Chozo Observatory logitechSDAZ 2010-10-05 | I've been trying to get this to happen again with no success. When it happened I was jumping up against a wall. I had the random light show occur and then it suddenly stopped. I couldn't move while this glitch was happening. Sometimes I would lose health (probably from the phaazoid), but then it stopped. I wanted to see what would happen when I died. Since I couldn't lose anymore health, I went to the map screen to take a look. I pressed Z to zoom and it reset the game instead. Strange.
Metroid Prime 3: Drone Attempt Without Screw Attack logitechSDAZ 2010-10-05 | This is how you get an instant unmorph on top of the ship.
