zallard1 | Super Punch Out!! - Gabby Jay [0'06"23] (PAL WR) @zallard1 | Uploaded January 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 minute ago.
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.
So here's what's going on, because I know people will have questions about why I'm "reuploading Gabby Jay" here. Super Punch Out has 3 distinct versions of the game: the NTSC version, which is what I was uploading on my channel already, the NTSC-J version, which is almost identical for speedruns aside from Rick Bruiser having a slightly faster time, and then there's the PAL version, which has COMPLETELY different possible times for MANY fights, sometimes solely because the PAL timer has different timer increments due to running at 50 frames a second.
I can't count the number of times people have left comments on my NTSC fights, telling me that MeLeeak has already beaten my times, even though MeLeeak was actually playing on the PAL version all along. I totally get the confusion, because MeLeeak's videos were never labelled as PAL, so it's kind of just lumped together with the NTSC times to random people who don't know any better. And like I said on the PAL Narcis video I wanted to go through matching the TAS/WR times for the PAL version because my muscle memory is still a bit strange from the stroke. It's getting better and better over time, but I figured I may as well take advantage of this situation and knock these out before going back to finishing up NTSC Narcis Prince.
The tech setup for this is also kind of weird. I'm playing on an actual PAL Super Nintendo on an original cartridge, but the CRT I usually play on can't be used because it can't accept 50Hz PAL signals and display them properly, so I actually had to do these runs through a RetroTink5X. The feed from the RetroTink was kind of weird though, like it was overly dark and super letterboxed and stretched, but it was playable! It looked kind of terrible though, but my console is also a 1Chip console, so I was able to run it through my usual RGB capture setup with the Datapath E1, and it clearly looks amazing through that.
Anyways, let's talk about Gabby Jay! Yay! This is the easiest fight in the game to match the TAS on. You start the fight by pressing nothing for the first frame (0'00"02 on the timer), then for the next frame, you press and hold Up+Y to buffer a left jab. This delay sets Gabby's guard to be down for the next several punches, since he reads your input for the first frame of the fight and guards accordingly.
From here, just let go of Up+Y and press it again before your next punch animation starts, which will ensure your next punch comes out on the first frame possible. Just repeat that until you've thrown out 4 left jabs, then throw a right jab immediately after. The right jab deals more damage, but the main purpose of it is to waste a couple of frames since the right jab is also slower than left jab. This sets you up for either a quick dodge or quick duck to perfectly counter his jab. If you feel like you were 1 frame slow on your first input, you should opt for a quick dodge into a right jab to perfectly set yourself up for a free counter, since his first attack comes out at a predetermined number of frames of Gabby being idle. Quick ducks are one frame slower than quick dodges, so if you think you were frame perfect on the first punch, then you need to opt for a quick duck to waste the extra frame so your punch doesn't come out too early and miss.
Once your counter hits, you need to pause the fight, because when you do a counter punch, you get rewarded 7 arrows in your super meter, but your meter doesn't fill up quickly, so you need to make sure you can throw a super instantly when the game unpauses. When you unpause, just hold A and your super should send Gabby into dizzy status. While he's dizzy, if you hold Y, then let go and hold B while your punch is going off, then you'll automatically do the right gut punch after the left one goes off, and then hold Up+A for an uppercut, then Gabby will go down instantly for a KO!
Since I've gotten PAL Narcis out of the way, the rest of the game's fights have magnitudes less luck, and the execution is all very reasonable. I'll be uploading a PAL TAS tie every other couple of days, just because I don't like spamming anyone's inbox with an influx of videos all at once. Also, some of the explanations of fights may re-tread the same content as their NTSC counterparts if they end up being similar strategies, and I'll likely be pointing you towards the NTSC fights as well.
I've actually matched all 16 records in this version of the game, making me the 4th person to have matched all the TAS times for the PAL version, and the first person to have done it on actual original hardware, as the other runners did their runs on emulator, mainly because PAL SNES hardware is pretty awkward to import and do runs on, as I've come to find out, haha.
Anyways, thanks for watching!
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.
So here's what's going on, because I know people will have questions about why I'm "reuploading Gabby Jay" here. Super Punch Out has 3 distinct versions of the game: the NTSC version, which is what I was uploading on my channel already, the NTSC-J version, which is almost identical for speedruns aside from Rick Bruiser having a slightly faster time, and then there's the PAL version, which has COMPLETELY different possible times for MANY fights, sometimes solely because the PAL timer has different timer increments due to running at 50 frames a second.
I can't count the number of times people have left comments on my NTSC fights, telling me that MeLeeak has already beaten my times, even though MeLeeak was actually playing on the PAL version all along. I totally get the confusion, because MeLeeak's videos were never labelled as PAL, so it's kind of just lumped together with the NTSC times to random people who don't know any better. And like I said on the PAL Narcis video I wanted to go through matching the TAS/WR times for the PAL version because my muscle memory is still a bit strange from the stroke. It's getting better and better over time, but I figured I may as well take advantage of this situation and knock these out before going back to finishing up NTSC Narcis Prince.
The tech setup for this is also kind of weird. I'm playing on an actual PAL Super Nintendo on an original cartridge, but the CRT I usually play on can't be used because it can't accept 50Hz PAL signals and display them properly, so I actually had to do these runs through a RetroTink5X. The feed from the RetroTink was kind of weird though, like it was overly dark and super letterboxed and stretched, but it was playable! It looked kind of terrible though, but my console is also a 1Chip console, so I was able to run it through my usual RGB capture setup with the Datapath E1, and it clearly looks amazing through that.
Anyways, let's talk about Gabby Jay! Yay! This is the easiest fight in the game to match the TAS on. You start the fight by pressing nothing for the first frame (0'00"02 on the timer), then for the next frame, you press and hold Up+Y to buffer a left jab. This delay sets Gabby's guard to be down for the next several punches, since he reads your input for the first frame of the fight and guards accordingly.
From here, just let go of Up+Y and press it again before your next punch animation starts, which will ensure your next punch comes out on the first frame possible. Just repeat that until you've thrown out 4 left jabs, then throw a right jab immediately after. The right jab deals more damage, but the main purpose of it is to waste a couple of frames since the right jab is also slower than left jab. This sets you up for either a quick dodge or quick duck to perfectly counter his jab. If you feel like you were 1 frame slow on your first input, you should opt for a quick dodge into a right jab to perfectly set yourself up for a free counter, since his first attack comes out at a predetermined number of frames of Gabby being idle. Quick ducks are one frame slower than quick dodges, so if you think you were frame perfect on the first punch, then you need to opt for a quick duck to waste the extra frame so your punch doesn't come out too early and miss.
Once your counter hits, you need to pause the fight, because when you do a counter punch, you get rewarded 7 arrows in your super meter, but your meter doesn't fill up quickly, so you need to make sure you can throw a super instantly when the game unpauses. When you unpause, just hold A and your super should send Gabby into dizzy status. While he's dizzy, if you hold Y, then let go and hold B while your punch is going off, then you'll automatically do the right gut punch after the left one goes off, and then hold Up+A for an uppercut, then Gabby will go down instantly for a KO!
Since I've gotten PAL Narcis out of the way, the rest of the game's fights have magnitudes less luck, and the execution is all very reasonable. I'll be uploading a PAL TAS tie every other couple of days, just because I don't like spamming anyone's inbox with an influx of videos all at once. Also, some of the explanations of fights may re-tread the same content as their NTSC counterparts if they end up being similar strategies, and I'll likely be pointing you towards the NTSC fights as well.
I've actually matched all 16 records in this version of the game, making me the 4th person to have matched all the TAS times for the PAL version, and the first person to have done it on actual original hardware, as the other runners did their runs on emulator, mainly because PAL SNES hardware is pretty awkward to import and do runs on, as I've come to find out, haha.
Anyways, thanks for watching!
![Super Punch Out!! - Gabby Jay [00623] (PAL WR)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yQSXOeLOoEU/hqdefault.jpg "Super Punch Out!! - Gabby Jay [00623] (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.
So heres whats going on, because I know people will have questions about why Im reuploading Gabby Jay here. Super Punch Out has 3 distinct versions of the game: the NTSC version, which is what I was uploading on my channel already, the NTSC-J version, which is almost identical for speedruns aside from Rick Bruiser having a slightly faster time, and then theres the PAL version, which has COMPLETELY different possible times for MANY fights, sometimes solely because the PAL timer has different timer increments due to running at 50 frames a second.
I cant count the number of times people have left comments on my NTSC fights, telling me that MeLeeak has already beaten my times, even though MeLeeak was actually playing on the PAL version all along. I totally get the confusion, because MeLeeaks videos were never labelled as PAL, so its kind of just lumped together with the NTSC times to random people who dont know any better. And like I said on the PAL Narcis video I wanted to go through matching the TAS/WR times for the PAL version because my muscle memory is still a bit strange from the stroke. Its getting better and better over time, but I figured I may as well take advantage of this situation and knock these out before going back to finishing up NTSC Narcis Prince.
The tech setup for this is also kind of weird. Im playing on an actual PAL Super Nintendo on an original cartridge, but the CRT I usually play on cant be used because it cant accept 50Hz PAL signals and display them properly, so I actually had to do these runs through a RetroTink5X. The feed from the RetroTink was kind of weird though, like it was overly dark and super letterboxed and stretched, but it was playable! It looked kind of terrible though, but my console is also a 1Chip console, so I was able to run it through my usual RGB capture setup with the Datapath E1, and it clearly looks amazing through that.
Anyways, lets talk about Gabby Jay! Yay! This is the easiest fight in the game to match the TAS on. You start the fight by pressing nothing for the first frame (00002 on the timer), then for the next frame, you press and hold Up+Y to buffer a left jab. This delay sets Gabbys guard to be down for the next several punches, since he reads your input for the first frame of the fight and guards accordingly.
From here, just let go of Up+Y and press it again before your next punch animation starts, which will ensure your next punch comes out on the first frame possible. Just repeat that until youve thrown out 4 left jabs, then throw a right jab immediately after. The right jab deals more damage, but the main purpose of it is to waste a couple of frames since the right jab is also slower than left jab. This sets you up for either a quick dodge or quick duck to perfectly counter his jab. If you feel like you were 1 frame slow on your first input, you should opt for a quick dodge into a right jab to perfectly set yourself up for a free counter, since his first attack comes out at a predetermined number of frames of Gabby being idle. Quick ducks are one frame slower than quick dodges, so if you think you were frame perfect on the first punch, then you need to opt for a quick duck to waste the extra frame so your punch doesnt come out too early and miss.
Once your counter hits, you need to pause the fight, because when you do a counter punch, you get rewarded 7 arrows in your super meter, but your meter doesnt fill up quickly, so you need to make sure you can throw a super instantly when the game unpauses. When you unpause, just hold A and your super should send Gabby into dizzy status. While hes dizzy, if you hold Y, then let go and hold B while your punch is going off, then youll automatically do the right gut punch after the left one goes off, and then hold Up+A for an uppercut, then Gabby will go down instantly for a KO!
Since Ive gotten PAL Narcis out of the way, the rest of the games fights have magnitudes less luck, and the execution is all very reasonable. Ill be uploading a PAL TAS tie every other couple of days, just because I dont like spamming anyones inbox with an influx of videos all at once. Also, some of the explanations of fights may re-tread the same content as their NTSC counterparts if they end up being similar strategies, and Ill likely be pointing you towards the NTSC fights as well.
Ive actually matched all 16 records in this version of the game, making me the 4th person to have matched all the TAS times for the PAL version, and the first person to have done it on actual original hardware, as the other runners did their runs on emulator, mainly because PAL SNES hardware is pretty awkward to import and do runs on, as Ive come to find out, haha.
Anyways, thanks for watching!")
![Splatterhouse (Arcade) - Speed Run [13:33]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yRNnNzcw_gk/hqdefault.jpg "Splatterhouse (Arcade) - Speed Run [13:33]
Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween today!
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 slower 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.
As far as the overall run, I finally got the optimal stage 2 boss kill! I also cleaned up stages 3 and 4 to be really good again. This was the best pace I had ever been on going into the stage 5 boss, at a whopping 8.4 seconds ahead, but I got a bad pattern from the boss and lost 3 seconds because of it, but quick thinking allowed me to at least keep going. The stage 6 boss ended up losing me some time too, since the quick kill on that one was pretty clean in my 13:36, but here I was super nervous and missed one slide kick input and got some not great patterns, which cost quite a bit of time. The final stage was perfect execution though, with less than a second lost to the final hand being on the same side as the head.
The exact time of this run is a 13:33.397, which beats the old run by a whopping 3.564 seconds (old record was an 13:36.961).
With this run, Ill probably still throw some attempts at it here and there, but Ill likely not do it at the same frequency as I have been doing it for the Halloween holiday unless new strategies pop up. Ill likely start messing with some kind of Punch Out again soon with this run finally being decently solid with the new strategies.
Anyways, thanks for watching!")
![(TAS) Splatterhouse 2 - Tool Assisted Speedrun [14:22.243]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yyrYzNEI3xc/hqdefault.jpg "(TAS) Splatterhouse 2 - Tool Assisted Speedrun [14:22.243]
This was a collaboration between myself and ezgames69 after finding out a pretty significant improvement over the previous TAS of his. To clarify, this is not a live run done on an actual console like I usually upload; this is a TAS (tool assisted speedrun), which is a run done on emulator where you do inputs frame by frame, effectively trying to achieve a theoretical best possible time. You can pretty much have your character do everything frame perfectly, mash multiple buttons at inhuman speeds, and manipulate luck events to be perfect in every scenario through your inputs.
So its no secret that Ive been doing a bunch of attempts on this game recently, as well as trying to figure out strategies to help lower the time. Recently, I woke up and had an idea that I pretty much had to test immediately, which was if it were possible to kill the worm miniboss at the end of stage 6 with a standing punch chained into a jump. I had suspicions that since the current TAS didnt do it, that it probably wasnt possible to reach him, but somehow, it killed him sooner!
This improves the TAS by 43 frames, so I collaborated with ezgames69 to try to find more improvements. We went back and forth on a few revisions, but this ended up with us having to resync the TAS so that the slightly different random positions of the ghosts in stage 4 room 1 were accounted for. This in turn, led ezgames to discover another pretty huge time save in terms of kicking away from the loading zones to extend the hitbox backwards in order for the screen to fade sooner!
Ezgames69 uploaded a comparison video that chronicles all the changes between the current TAS and the new one. You can check that out here if you want: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=002f60LPBkU
Anyways, enjoy!")
