Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
The timing for the wallrun jump is a bit tight, but seems doable in a run. I think the best setup would probably rely on some kind of auditory cue. Overall not free but with a proper setup and with practice seems viable for runs.
If you jump too late from the wallrun jump he goes into a horizontal wallrun. I did once land high enough to get it even with a horizontal wallrun, but this seems very precise. The window for getting it with the earlier vertical wallrun window seems much more lenient.
Also feel free to explore alternative setups for the left-right position. I think if we jumped from slightly further left, we may be able to end up slightly higher on the wall and then it may be easy with a subsequent horizontal wallrun, which would increase the time window on which we need to jump quite substantially.
For the 5 steps, I did them quite slowly in this video, but you can go quite a bit faster.
The timing for the wallrun jump is a bit tight, but seems doable in a run. I think the best setup would probably rely on some kind of auditory cue. Overall not free but with a proper setup and with practice seems viable for runs.
If you jump too late from the wallrun jump he goes into a horizontal wallrun. I did once land high enough to get it even with a horizontal wallrun, but this seems very precise. The window for getting it with the earlier vertical wallrun window seems much more lenient.
Also feel free to explore alternative setups for the left-right position. I think if we jumped from slightly further left, we may be able to end up slightly higher on the wall and then it may be easy with a subsequent horizontal wallrun, which would increase the time window on which we need to jump quite substantially.
For the 5 steps, I did them quite slowly in this video, but you can go quite a bit faster.
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Speedrun of Prince of Persia 2008
Category: Any%
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Prince of Persia 2008 | Any% | 2:23:05 [Former WR]
Speedrun of Prince of Persia 2008
Category: Any%
Normally during these runs we delete the vision cutscenes, however I did this on my new PC and forgot to do so, but for the sake of fairness (particularly to console runners who cant delete these cutscenes) the rules on speedrun.com state that if the cutscenes are not deleted, 46 seconds may be subtracted from the final time. This is what happened in this run, hence the discrepancy between the time on the autosplitter and the time given in the video and on speedrun.com
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PoP SoT AC Zipless dagger quit abuse [slower]
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Prince of Persia 2008 | Any% | 2:35:32 [Former WR] Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/smathlax
Speedrun of Prince of Persia 2008
Category: Any%
Twitch highlight with chat: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/440967695
Leaderboard: https://www.speedrun.com/pop_2008#Any - Normal
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Prince of Persia 2008 | Any% | 2:15:12 [Former WR]
Speedrun of Prince of Persia 2008
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Leaderboard: https://www.speedrun.com/pop_2008#Any - Standard
My Current PB: https://youtu.be/y7_ZrMJNHUk
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