zallard1 | Splatterhouse (Arcade) - Speed Run [13:32] @zallard1 | Uploaded November 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
This was played on an original Splatterhouse arcade PCB on the H.A.S. supergun. My Splatterhouse PCB also now has the EVERTEN stereo expansion board, so the audio is more clear now with separate stereo channels! This run was done on the hardest difficulty, which starts you at 2HP instead of the default 4HP.
This was also recorded through the Datapath E1 capture card via RGB and upscaled to 4k, so this quality is about as crisp as you can possibly get on real hardware. For comparison, you can check out my first 13:37 run from a while back which was recorded via S-Video to see how much better the recording quality has gotten: youtube.com/watch?v=Uvgl8DadM6M
It is also worth noting that the game is running at a slightly higher framerate than the home release ports out there (JP Wii VC at 59.94 fps, and the Namco Museum version runs at ~60 fps). This board appears to run at about 60.60 frames a second, so this benefits from small time gains compared to those versions.
So stormcrow56k picked this game up for speedrunning recently, and found a couple of new strategies in a few spots. The main optimization he found was for the stage 2 boss, where he found an approach to kill the chair with one punch and one slidekick, however it's extremely difficult and inconsistent, so he also found a backup strategy that minimizes time loss if you don't get it, which helps justify going for it.
Beyond the chair kill, there's a really hard strategy that requires good luck on knives such that they cross in the center of the room, as well as a really difficult jump-punch strategy to take out the 2 airborne knives, which requires pressing jump and punch on the same frame to get Rick to carry his "punch state" into the air and punch twice in the air. Normally when you do a jump, your first attack will always be a jump kick, and any subsequent attack will be a jump punch (unless you hold down for more jump kicks).
The other big find that stormcrow found was for the Jennifer boss fight in stage 5. Effectively, you can exchange one of the punches early in the the fight with a very late slide kick for the last attack, which saves you one attack and nets you a tiny bit of time.
I actually beat the 13:33 *twice* in the same stream! First with a very high 13:32, and now with a very low 13:32 (5 frames from a 13:31 in fact). As far as the overall run here, I got the good stage 2 kill again, as well as better stage 5 and 6 boss kills, but gradually lose time across several stages due to very small errors that gradually add up.
The exact time of this run is a 13:32.077, which beats the old run by 1.32 seconds (old record posted here was a 13:33.397). I found some options to color correct my captures too, so these colors are actually way closer to what they are in MAME now (they used to have a red/yellow tinge to them which is now gone).
I also realized that because I'm totally practiced up with this run, that I should try to keep pushing it closer to my sum of best (currently a 13:26). I think if I can hit a sub 13:30, that should be a solid time for me to move back on to other projects.
Anyways, thanks for watching!
This was played on an original Splatterhouse arcade PCB on the H.A.S. supergun. My Splatterhouse PCB also now has the EVERTEN stereo expansion board, so the audio is more clear now with separate stereo channels! This run was done on the hardest difficulty, which starts you at 2HP instead of the default 4HP.
This was also recorded through the Datapath E1 capture card via RGB and upscaled to 4k, so this quality is about as crisp as you can possibly get on real hardware. For comparison, you can check out my first 13:37 run from a while back which was recorded via S-Video to see how much better the recording quality has gotten: youtube.com/watch?v=Uvgl8DadM6M
It is also worth noting that the game is running at a slightly higher framerate than the home release ports out there (JP Wii VC at 59.94 fps, and the Namco Museum version runs at ~60 fps). This board appears to run at about 60.60 frames a second, so this benefits from small time gains compared to those versions.
So stormcrow56k picked this game up for speedrunning recently, and found a couple of new strategies in a few spots. The main optimization he found was for the stage 2 boss, where he found an approach to kill the chair with one punch and one slidekick, however it's extremely difficult and inconsistent, so he also found a backup strategy that minimizes time loss if you don't get it, which helps justify going for it.
Beyond the chair kill, there's a really hard strategy that requires good luck on knives such that they cross in the center of the room, as well as a really difficult jump-punch strategy to take out the 2 airborne knives, which requires pressing jump and punch on the same frame to get Rick to carry his "punch state" into the air and punch twice in the air. Normally when you do a jump, your first attack will always be a jump kick, and any subsequent attack will be a jump punch (unless you hold down for more jump kicks).
The other big find that stormcrow found was for the Jennifer boss fight in stage 5. Effectively, you can exchange one of the punches early in the the fight with a very late slide kick for the last attack, which saves you one attack and nets you a tiny bit of time.
I actually beat the 13:33 *twice* in the same stream! First with a very high 13:32, and now with a very low 13:32 (5 frames from a 13:31 in fact). As far as the overall run here, I got the good stage 2 kill again, as well as better stage 5 and 6 boss kills, but gradually lose time across several stages due to very small errors that gradually add up.
The exact time of this run is a 13:32.077, which beats the old run by 1.32 seconds (old record posted here was a 13:33.397). I found some options to color correct my captures too, so these colors are actually way closer to what they are in MAME now (they used to have a red/yellow tinge to them which is now gone).
I also realized that because I'm totally practiced up with this run, that I should try to keep pushing it closer to my sum of best (currently a 13:26). I think if I can hit a sub 13:30, that should be a solid time for me to move back on to other projects.
Anyways, thanks for watching!
![Splatterhouse (Arcade) - Speed Run [13:32]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5TypFsZi9bc/hqdefault.jpg "Splatterhouse (Arcade) - Speed Run [13:32]
This was played on an original Splatterhouse arcade PCB on the H.A.S. supergun. My Splatterhouse PCB also now has the EVERTEN stereo expansion board, so the audio is more clear now with separate stereo channels! This run was done on the hardest difficulty, which starts you at 2HP instead of the default 4HP.
This was also recorded through the Datapath E1 capture card via RGB and upscaled to 4k, so this quality is about as crisp as you can possibly get on real hardware. For comparison, you can check out my first 13:37 run from a while back which was recorded via S-Video to see how much better the recording quality has gotten: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvgl8DadM6M
It is also worth noting that the game is running at a slightly higher framerate than the home release ports out there (JP Wii VC at 59.94 fps, and the Namco Museum version runs at ~60 fps). This board appears to run at about 60.60 frames a second, so this benefits from small time gains compared to those versions.
So stormcrow56k picked this game up for speedrunning recently, and found a couple of new strategies in a few spots. The main optimization he found was for the stage 2 boss, where he found an approach to kill the chair with one punch and one slidekick, however its extremely difficult and inconsistent, so he also found a backup strategy that minimizes time loss if you dont get it, which helps justify going for it.
Beyond the chair kill, theres a really hard strategy that requires good luck on knives such that they cross in the center of the room, as well as a really difficult jump-punch strategy to take out the 2 airborne knives, which requires pressing jump and punch on the same frame to get Rick to carry his punch state into the air and punch twice in the air. Normally when you do a jump, your first attack will always be a jump kick, and any subsequent attack will be a jump punch (unless you hold down for more jump kicks).
The other big find that stormcrow found was for the Jennifer boss fight in stage 5. Effectively, you can exchange one of the punches early in the the fight with a very late slide kick for the last attack, which saves you one attack and nets you a tiny bit of time.
I actually beat the 13:33 *twice* in the same stream! First with a very high 13:32, and now with a very low 13:32 (5 frames from a 13:31 in fact). As far as the overall run here, I got the good stage 2 kill again, as well as better stage 5 and 6 boss kills, but gradually lose time across several stages due to very small errors that gradually add up.
The exact time of this run is a 13:32.077, which beats the old run by 1.32 seconds (old record posted here was a 13:33.397). I found some options to color correct my captures too, so these colors are actually way closer to what they are in MAME now (they used to have a red/yellow tinge to them which is now gone).
I also realized that because Im totally practiced up with this run, that I should try to keep pushing it closer to my sum of best (currently a 13:26). I think if I can hit a sub 13:30, that should be a solid time for me to move back on to other projects.
Anyways, thanks for watching!")
![Punch Out!! (Wii) - Title Defense King Hippo [1:08.03]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5fkdYEyrdvk/hqdefault.jpg "Punch Out!! (Wii) - Title Defense King Hippo [1:08.03]
Finally giving this irritating fight a shot again. The new TAS/WR time for this fight is a 1:07.97 and my previous PB sat at a 1:08.09, which at that time beat the then TAS time of 1:08.21 (which was later found to be due to the getup timing being more nuanced than was used in that TAS). I ended up finding this strategy completely randomly when I was looking for buffers for Pottoww since he was on a grind to get this to match the TAS time. I found that you can take an extra knockdown off of his counter-attack jab while simultaneously canceling his overhead punch that we would skip anyways.
I improved my PB by a single frame, but I have a bad feeling that Im going to be stuck with this time for a while, as this fight is very drawn out, similar to TD Joe, which makes it very time consuming and tedious to do attempts on. Because of this, I figured it would be best to upload this PB time just incase this ends up being a struggle to match.
Lets get into the fight itself. The fight is played in Champions Mode, which is an option you can unlock from lasting 10 fights in Macs Last Stand. This mode removes red flashing tells from opponents, and makes any attack that they throw instantly knock you down. This is used to minimize game time by manipulating more favorable patterns from opponents in some fights.
In this fight, Hippo throws a lot of overhead punches that need to be countered extremely fast in order to get enough stunned punches in for this strategy to work. Hippo opens the fight with one of these punches, and I always time my first jab right around when the rumbling noise is ending.
In order to take off the manhole cover optimally, you want to buffer punches on the same side, which can be tricky if you arent familiar with how it works. Basically, you want to be re-pressing the punch button during the brief window where Mac is pulling his punch back from the previous punch. If you mistime this, then Mac wont do anything. After the first jab of the fight, do 3 same sided punches to knock off the first layer of tape.
You want to start a buffer for the attack he does when he comes back to the center of the ring. There are 2 buffer strategies that set up 2 frame perfect punches in the fight. Youre able to throw attacks and dodges during the cutscenes where Hippos manhole cover is coming off, and since the sounds are very quiet by comparison to other Punch Out games, its kind of difficult to determine the buffer from watching.
The buffer for the 2nd phase of the manhole cover is to buffer 5 more alternating punches after the punch that takes his tape off, then duck and jab. From here, buffer a jab on the opposite side, then do 3 more same sided punches to knock off layer #2 of tape. When Hippo returns, he will do a kind of hug attack, along with a double axe handle attack. Ducking and dodging respectively will let you evade both, and punching him just as he looks up is how you know youve hit this optimally. From this jab, remove the final bit of tape with 3 more same sided punches, and youll finally be done with the manhole cover section.
You want to immediately go into a buffer for the cancel/provoke for the immediate self knockdown after the last bit of tape is punched off, which is a same sided punch compared to the jab, then do 7 more alternating gut punches from there (8 total at this point), then duck and jab.
When getting up, you *need* to start to get up as 1 completely disappears from the screen from the ref count, because you want Hippo to be either in the middle of the screen, or slightly beyond the middle during his dance so he attacks as soon as possible. Immediately counter his overhead, and throw 9 stunned punches. Then throw a jab as soon as his stun ends naturally (I use the left pineapple being vertical as a cue to throw).
Start getting up when 1 disappears, and counter Hippos overhead for 9 more stunned punches. For the counter to gather a star from his next overhead punch, I use a pseudo duck buffer when the right pineapple just barely touches Hippos shoulder. Then counter his next overhead for 9 more stunned punches and let the stun end naturally. For the final overhead that Hippo does, hes going to delay it extra long, and it kind of sounds like theres 2 rumbling sounds as opposed to the usual 1, so I try to throw as the 2nd rumble ends. From here, land 3 stunned punches, and Hippo will be at the HP level where he changes pattern and does his hug/axehandle like before. I use a pseudo buffer to start ducks/dodges when the pineapple just passes the left side of his eye, and if timed right, will be an instant KO!
Im going to be jumping around fights a lot at this point and wont be hesitating to upload even small 1 frame improvements now, since thatll serve as a good incentive for me to want to improve them to WR quality. This is currently 1 frame from Nolan414s record, so Ill likely be stuck on this PB for a while.
Anyways, thanks for watching!")
![Punch Out!! (Wii) - Soda Popinski [0:42.90]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5iOlvhSzz9M/hqdefault.jpg "Punch Out!! (Wii) - Soda Popinski [0:42.90]
As of right now, this is the fastest Soda fight to have video proof, but the commonly accepted WR is currently held by Kefkamaydie at 42.84, set back in 2009. This time is 1 frame behind that. My old personal best was a 42.96, which was also set back in 2009... making this my first PB on this fight in over 11 years.
This is one of two fights in this game that requires a technique called the TKO Recovery which, as the name suggests, is when Mac resists being TKOd and gets back on his feet instead of going down for the expected TKO. This happens completely randomly, estimated to be anywhere from 15-25% on average. This makes optimizing this fight far more difficult than it would otherwise be, considering 75%+ of your attempts wont make it past this point. Champions mode is used for this fight to skip his rage uppercuts whenever he gets up from a knockdown. It also has Soda throw a jab whenever you get up from a knockdown, which can be countered for a star!
Lets get into the fight. The first thing thats done is a delayed gut punch off of Sodas first jab, which if done correctly, yields a star. If you follow that up with a delayed jab, then throw a star as hes reeling, Soda will be instantly knocked down!
Phase 2 involves taking a knockdown to skip Sodas rage uppercuts, then getting up and countering Sodas jab for a star. Off of this counter, I buffer 2 ducks into alternating punches to hit Soda on the first possible frame as he finishes drinking his soda and walks back in, which weirdly enough, rewards a star. The instant knockdown done in phase 1 works in subsequent phases... but will require an additional star each time its done (this time requires 2). This particular attack also lets me do a delayed jab to get him into position for the instant knockdown too, since countering his bottle would just make Soda mad and rush in for a sequence of rage uppercuts.
Phase 3 has Mac take his 2nd knockdown, to which Mac gets up and counters Sodas scripted jab. Now, this delayed star punch needs to be timed in a very specific way such that Sodas next attacks gets skipped. If you throw the star punch too early, then Soda will do slow hooks after Macs next knockdown, which instantly ends the attempt. The visual cue that youve thrown it correctly is if Soda just barely gets completely centered as the star punch lands.
After the star punch, Soda reels to the back of the ring and runs back to Mac to throw more rage uppercuts, which Mac takes. This is where luck comes into play, because thats Macs 3rd knockdown, meaning we need the lucky TKO recovery. Thankfully in this run I get it!
Once Mac is back up on his feet, counter Sodas scripted jab, and counter Sodas bottle. This will make Soda mad and hell approach you to do rage uppercuts, however a delayed star punch will hit him if you time it just right, and a double star punch here is just enough to take him out for good.
This was actually a fight I streamed on my Twitch page, so you can hear my reactions there if youd like!
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/740660120
Ill be doing more ILs streams there too, so if you like these fights, check out my progress live! I wont be doing *all* my ILs on stream, but Ill certainly do some amount of them for sure! Ill definitely be trying to improve my Soda time on stream at the very least.
Anyways, thanks for watching!")
![Super Punch Out!! - Narcis Prince (No face punches) [03431]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5lCgV1oIVOI/hqdefault.jpg "Super Punch Out!! - Narcis Prince (No face punches) [03431]
This run was done on an original Super Nintendo cartridge of Super Punch-Out, as well as an original Super Nintendo 1chip console that was recapped and modded with the Voultar RGB amp to restore the correct color intensity. For some more in depth information about my general RGB setup, you can check out this pastebin here: https://pastebin.com/TtXx1PQx
When Ive streamed attempts of this fight, Ive gotten a handful of questions on if its possible to beat Narcis Prince without ever punching him in the face. Narcis is a fighter that has a pretty well known quirk where he boxes extremely defensively while guarding his face constantly, forcing you to either counter an attack of his outright, or dodge an uppercut of his to stun him and punch him in the face.
Landing a face punch changes the entire fight dramatically, because Narcis gets angry and fights recklessly for a while, leaving his face completely open. The intended strategy to beat this fight is to get him mad and punch him in the face repeatedly, because face punches deal a TON of damage to him, whereas gut punches dont deal much at all.
The basic rules I follow are:
-Do not land a punch on Narciss face, or even attempt to throw a jab
-Do not throw high supers of any kind
Back in 2013 or so, I ended up messing around with the fight to where I set some time of 35.xx seconds on him, but I lost the video file of it. I figured I might as well try to beat that old PB to obsolete the lost video, so I came up with this in an afternoon as a fun distraction.
As a side note, this is not optimized at all like the fights Ive usually been uploading, since I got several instances of bad luck, and the strategy here is mostly just me winging it and hoping I beat my old PB lol.
The main strategy here is basically provoking retaliations from Narcis several times in between sets of attacks to deal some damage to his gut, while trying to get to his next set of 2 hooks later on in phase 1. I generally felt like the single punches that he did werent worth the time to dodge and punch always, so I usually tried to cancel them. Of the phase 1 times I got when messing with this, this was the fastest I ended up getting today.
Phase 2 always seemed to end up with me needing to land a low super to start the phase to get his HP low enough for the subsequent attacks to knock him down, so I attempted it here, but the phase 1 was so fast that it actually gave me a lower refill than I was expecting, and couldve just not attempted a super at all, and landed counters and low supers to take him down.
Phase 3 I basically just tried to get a random gut punch in and hope hed retaliate after landing one, which would be enough to get him down for a TKO. Unfortunately I ended up getting a dance, then misjudged when he would start his next hooks, so I ended up countering them and sending him to the mat with a normal gut punch. It would be better in that scenario if I had timed a delayed super to intercept his hook, but I played it safe because the phase 1 and 2 times were far better than what I had gotten previously.
Obviously this is super improvable if you put some effort in getting better luck and putting together an actual strategy to follow, but I just wanted to get something up here that was relatively fast just to show that Narcis is totally possible without face punches, and is kind of a fun challenge! Worth a try if you want some extra replay value out of this game!
Anyways, thanks for watching!")
![Punch Out!! (Wii) - Bald Bull [0:32.29]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6VMTUKJJguw/hqdefault.jpg "Punch Out!! (Wii) - Bald Bull [0:32.29]
I decided that I wanted to slowly chip away at a new PO Wii fight occasionally with very short sessions, which is admittedly hasnt been very often. I settled with contender Bald Bull because of the strategy being decently challenging to execute, as well as the fact that the strategy got a slight update since my PB of 32.76 back in 2010. I also wanted to see if I could still pull something difficult like this off despite the rough health condition that Im in, and as long as I pace myself and not throw too much attempts at a time at it.
Pottoww set the record a while back with an impressive 32.24, and had opted to use 2 buffers to help consistency, but at the cost of a tiny bit of time (0.08 seconds collectively). I decided to mess around with omitting the final buffer to see if its reasonably viable for IL purposes, despite its time gain being very miniscule (0.02 seconds).
This is quite a difficult strategy to pull off. Several of the counters are mandatorily frame perfect, and the newest adjustment that Mysteryman found saves upwards of half a game second, but requires the addition of 3 precisely timed star punches to take full advantage of that time gain.
Lets get into the fight. I didnt watch the full cutscene since I wasnt at the level where that mattered yet for where my PB was, but watching the full cutscene for contender Bull wouldve saved me a frame. Whats unfortunate is if I had watched the cutscene for this run, this would have been a new record by 0.01, so its kind of a sad outcome lol.
The first punch I throw is a move cancel to remove the 1st of his 3 rolling jabs, but theres a dodge buffer that wastes 1 frame that I use, which is 100% consistent. After cancelling his rolling jab, I duck the second one and stun Bull to land 2 buffered jabs, then throw a slightly delayed jab in order to pick up a star. I do the same for his next rolling jab to pick up a second star, then I do a precise dodge in order to stun him in a specific way.
The amount of punches you get from Bull when you dodge an uppercut depends on exactly how fast you dodged it. You can get anywhere from 4 to 7 stunned punches depending on how quickly you dodged his uppercut. For this strategy to be optimal, you need that number to be 6, so you need to dodge fast, but not *too* fast. After landing 6 stunned punches, you need to throw 2 delayed punches in order too get your 3rd star.
For throwing the 3 star punch, the old strategy would just throw it immediately, but Mysteryman found that if you delay this star for about ~20 frames or so, then the timer will move at a slower pace than it usually does, which overall nets you a couple of frames if done perfectly every time. The cue I use for this is when Bulls head *just* centers itself after getting the star.
After that, buffering a dodge into a right jab into a left jab will counter his hook frame perfectly (this normally is frame perfect anyways). Countering his hook again with a jab wont deal enough damage, so for this second one, you need to counter his hook with a gut punch. The window is frame perfect, but since this punch will knock him down, his extended recoil animation doesnt lose you any time since the clock stops as soon as Bulls HP reaches 0.
When Bull gets up, youll need to throw another frame perfect counter to get a star from his hook, then throw a delayed triple star punch just like the star punch in phase 1. Then Bull will throw an uppercut, to which you will also have to counter for a star (this punch is also frame perfect). Throw that star punch with the same delay as the previous star punch, and he should go down at 2:30 on the clock if you were fast enough.
For the final phase, you can opt to use a buffer strategy thats only 0.02 seconds slower than a frame perfect bull charge by simply chaining dodge into 2 punches, however I decided against that. Instead, I decided to use a pseudo buffer to counter the bull charge manually, which is just throwing 2 punches at the correct starting time. I time this around the moment I first see steam come out of Bulls nose, which will roughly around the area where the counter will hit the earliest possible frame. I think this saved me 0.01 in this instance but Im not sure? I dont feel like researching it right now, but I probably will eventually when I feel more up to it.
Id like to at the very least get my time into the 32.1X range, since I feel like Im capable of that after this fight. Itll be much more tedious this time around though, as Ill need to watch the entire cutscene for every attempt if I want that time save.
Thanks for watching!")
![Super Punch Out!! - Super Machoman [00931] (PAL WR)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6ZVICoBhE-8/hqdefault.jpg "Super Punch Out!! - Super Machoman [00931] (PAL WR)
This run was done on an original Spanish Super Nintendo cartridge of Super Punch-Out, as well as an original PAL Super Nintendo 1chip console that was recapped and modded with the Borti RGB amp.
Super Macho Man on the PAL version is very similar to the NTSC strategy, except for a couple of punches in phase 1 If you would like to compare the NTSC fight to this one, you can check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb-dTAbaBSc
This strategy starts by pressing nothing on the 1st frame, then pressing Up and Y for the second frame, and unlike other fights that Ive mentioned these inputs on, this punch has to be EXACTLY like this, because if you are not frame perfect on the first jab, then you will not be able to sneak in the 2nd buffered jab before Macho starts to wind up for his first punch. Hell block the 2nd jab because itll instead be connecting with him as he winds up for his first punch, which hell just auto guard. Also, because this 2nd jab is buffered, it has lower odds of getting through due to the RNG getting called twice for buffered punches.
After landing the frame perfect left jab and buffering your second left jab, Macho is going to wind up for a jab on your right, and youll need to land a delayed right jab of your own to counter it. From here is where this strategy diverges from NTSC, as the NTSC fight will hit macho with left gut punches every time hes stunned, while PAL has slightly extra leniency on the dizzy meter due to timing differences between versions. This allows you to exchange some of the left gut punches for jabs! DJ Incendration was the one who found these jab adjustments, resulting in a faster possible time on PAL Macho than the previous best strategy that yields a 936.
So once the 2nd jab is landed, you want to land a jab into a gut punch, specifically in this order because the animation that Macho has when a stun ends with a gut punch ends up exactly the same speed as ending with a jab, which makes it the best place to shoehorn in a gut punch if one is needed, and in this strategy, it absolutely is for getting Macho dizzy. Then Macho will throw another jab, so youll need to throw a delayed right jab of your own to counter it, then buffer a left jab into a low super, which should barely fill up in time and just barely get him dizzy if you played fast enough.
However, theres a big caveat with this adjustment, which is that in order to still get Macho into dizzy status, you *must* do everything in phase 1 frame perfectly. That means that if you are late on a single punch by one frame, then you will miss the dizzy. This is an all-or-nothing strategy that saves you 2 frames compared to the 936 strategy that used to be the previous best PAL Macho time.
Once Macho gets up, phase 2 ends up being completely identical to the NTSC phase 2. We want to manipulate Machos guard up by pressing Up for the first frame of the phase, then let go 1 frame later and press A to throw a low super. If Macho doesnt do an exercise program, dance twice, and lets a super through (5/8 likely), then it should land while hes idle.
Once the super animation ends, Macho will throw a hook immediately after, which you can counter with a delayed left gut punch to stun him. Simply buffer a low super while hes stunned and Macho will be down for the KO!
Now lets talk about luck. This fight is one of 2 fights where the RNG actually doesnt work correctly (Masked Muscle being the other one). For Muscle, the instance of the luck being broken doesnt come into play for IL fights, as it only occurs with the first instance of him spitting in the fight, but for Macho its always relevant because it affects the first exercise program he does in the fight. Im not going to go into everything here, but heres a pastebin that talks about the issue in more detail: https://pastebin.com/yt6FqTuQ
So, with that cleared up, heres every luck event in the fight, as well as the total luck needed to land this strategy...
Phase 1:
-Macho doesnt dance (7/8)
-Landing an unstunned jab (3/4)
-Macho doesnt dance (7/8)
-Landing a buffered unstunned jab (3/4)^2 = (9/16)
-Total Phase 1 odds: (7/8)*(3/4)*(7/8)*(9/16) = 1,323 / 4,096 (or ~32.29%)
Phase 2:
-Macho doesnt do an exercise program (405/512)
-Macho doesnt dance 2 times in a row (63/64)
-Macho lets an unstunned super land (5/8)
-Total Phase 2 odds: (405/512)*(63/64)*(5/8) = 127,575 / 262,144 (or ~48.66%)
-Total fight odds: (1,323/4,096)*(127,575/262,144) = 168,781,725 / 1,073,741,824 (or ~15.72%)
It took me 8 frame perfect 1st phases in order to get the perfect time of 931 on PAL Macho. Definitely a tricky fight to match with that first phase requirement, but I think its cool to see a relatively new strategy that has a tight enough dizzy threshold to where everything has to be frame perfect.
Again, gotta give a huge thanks & shoutout to McHazard for explaining everything regarding the skewed odds to me!
Anyways, thanks for watching!")
![Mike Tysons Punch-Out!! - Speed Run [15:34.08]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6w-pF571yjQ/hqdefault.jpg "Mike Tysons Punch-Out!! - Speed Run [15:34.08]
An extremely small PB compared to my last PB, but had some fun moments like the frame perfect star at the end of the Bull 1 fight, and the Sandman glitch. Also as a quick sidenote, the timing method for this game is by summing up the in-game times you see on the blue screens at the end of fights. Anyways, hope you enjoy!")
![Splatterhouse Part 2 (JP) - No-Damage Hardest Difficulty Speed Run [15:42] (WR)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7EiT2cDBYQo/hqdefault.jpg "Splatterhouse Part 2 (JP) - No-Damage Hardest Difficulty Speed Run [15:42] (WR)
This version of the game has a difficulty where you have only 1HP for the entire game, so I figured if I were to ever do a hard mode run, that it should be on this version. I did attempts of this shortly after my any% record of 15:30, and very quickly pulled out this sick no death, no damage run!
This has a few mistakes, but all in all, the run was very strong in the places where it counted. It should be easy to improve on this time given what strategies can be pulled off, but I figured finishing this run at all was worth an upload.
Also, this was captured off of an S-Video modded model 1 Sega Genesis with an original Mega Drive cartridge of Splatterhouse Part 2.")
![Punch-Out!! (Arcade) - 1 Loop Speedrun [3:12 RTA; 2:16 In-Game Time] (Default Settings)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7IinRxHx7Q8/hqdefault.jpg "Punch-Out!! (Arcade) - 1 Loop Speedrun [3:12 RTA; 2:16 In-Game Time] (Default Settings)
This run was played on a Nintendo Switch on the port done by Hamster. This port is based off of the Japanese romset, which has some key gameplay differences in some spots compared to the run I did previously on an actual arcade board. The DIP switch settings were set to the default settings that Hamster assumed were default (2nd of 4 difficulties & 2nd longest timer), which is different from classic default settings (easiest difficulty & longest timer).
Getting this version of the game ready for SGDQ, so I re-routed the game based on this version with these settings, not to mention just getting used to the timings of everything in this version compared to the arcade board that I usually play on. That being said, the luck for this run was INSANE.
The only realistic time gains for this run are pretty much 1 second on Kid Quick if youre stupidly fast with the best possible pattern, and 2 seconds on Pizza Pasta from a dumb mistake I did. The Sandman luck is extremely dumb, and I got the absolute perfect pattern on him while going for the risky WR individual fight strategy on him that provokes a counter.
To put in perspective how insane this run is, despite the artificial difficulty increases due to the settings, this STILL beats my run on arcade board with easier settings!
This run is also timed by summing up all the in-game times of each fight. For example, Glass Joe had 2:44 left on the clock, so thats considered a 16 second fight.")
![Punch Out!! (Wii) - Von Kaiser [0:18.93] (WR)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/87Hak0rx5m0/hqdefault.jpg "Punch Out!! (Wii) - Von Kaiser [0:18.93] (WR)
This one is also a pretty big tie between many runners of this game. I was actually the first person to tie the TAS for this fight in real time, which was back in late 2014! I decided to match it again just because Id like the quality of all my Wii Punch Out fights to be consistent with each other.
This fight requires 6 frame perfect inputs in order to match the 18.93 record. Probably the most subtle of the punches is the 3rd punch I do in this fight. I actually have to delay that punch very slightly in order to let Von Kaisers move timer tick down so he throws a jab immediately after I get my 3rd star. Outside of that, theres nothing too special outside of hitting the other punches on the earliest frames possible.
I should be looking to match King Hippos time next. I found a slightly new adjustment that should hopefully help me match the best possible time sooner rather than later. After that, Im really not sure where else to look. Possibly TD Tiger would be the next easiest fight to match? Well see!")
![Super Punch Out!! - Dragon Chan [00730] (NTSC WR)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8Mjjf6hyTHA/hqdefault.jpg "Super Punch Out!! - Dragon Chan [00730] (NTSC WR)
This run was done on an original Super Nintendo cartridge of Super Punch-Out, as well as an original Super Nintendo 1chip console that was recapped and modded with the Voultar RGB amp to restore the correct color intensity. For some more in depth information about my general RGB setup, you can check out this pastebin here: https://pastebin.com/TtXx1PQx
Additionally, Ive decided to include a non-stretched version of this fight in an unlisted video. If youd like to learn more about why Im including this too, you can check out the description in the second video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tXzlTYWQ34
Dragon Chan is a fight that also tends to cause headaches when it comes to full game runs, because if he wants to, he can take nearly 5 seconds away from you compared to an optimal fight. If youre going for an individual level record on this fight, hes not too bad thankfully. His first phase requires a decent bit of execution, but thankfully that part has no luck requirements.
The fight starts out by holding Up for the first frame of the fight, then for the next frame, you want to throw a left gut punch, followed by buffering a second gut punch. For these next 2 right gut punches, you need to do very small delays for both of them so that he gets far enough in his punch animation to where he doesnt block them.
Then, you want to do a delayed left gut punch to counter the hook hes about to throw, then buffer a right gut punch as hes stunned, then press down and IMMEDIATELY press B to buffer a right gut punch while simultaneously cancelling your duck into a quick duck. This will end his stun early, while getting you everything you need in order to set up phase 2 for the KO.
Now, for this super knockdown, you can easily buffer a right jab into an uppercut, but since Im optimizing real time for these uploads, I wanted to change it to a low super. You can buffer a rapid jab (which is where you press the A button, then press it again within 6 frames of it starting) into a duck, which you cancel into a low super by pressing A as soon as you see your character start to duck, but I didnt give it enough time to learn it before I landed the fight without it, lol. I ended up just hitting this manually, which is a 3 frame window to where the timer still says 5.86 when the low super lands. This adjustment saves a measly 2 frames of real-time compared to an uppercut super knockdown, which is the smallest difference of frames between an uppercut or low super knockdown in the entire game.
When Dragon gets up, hes going to do one of 3 patterns, which will either be him doing 3 kicks on random sides (this is the worst pattern), a heal with a slow delay, or a heal with a fast delay, which is the one that we need. Thankfully, the execution for this buffer has gotten a lot more straightforward recently. All you have to do is hold Up+Left when the fight starts, and keep holding it for the entire phase. Simply press and hold A as soon as your characters dodge begins, and your super will hit Dragon on the first possible frame that hes vulnerable when he does the fast heal!
Back when I first matched the TAS on this fight, I didnt realize the game prioritized the Left and Up inputs in such a way to where Up doesnt cancel the Lefts full dodge input, so I would always do this awkward input where I would hold Left only, then very quickly switch to Up+A on the very last couple of frames of the dodge, which I remember costing me attempts back when I originally did this. So shout outs to Universe004 for that really nice simplification for that buffer strategy!
Anyways, thanks for watching!")
