zallard1 | Super Punch Out!! - Gabby Jay [0'06"26] (NTSC WR) @zallard1 | Uploaded January 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
This run was done on an original US 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: pastebin.com/TtXx1PQx
Additionally, I've decided to include a non-stretched version of this fight in an unlisted video. If you'd like to learn more about why I'm including this too, you can check out the description in the second video here: youtube.com/watch?v=EyOXKI7UEBU
So, just for the record, Super Punch Out's IL fights (IL meaning Individual Level) are relatively easy and straightforward compared to optimizing fights in the other Punch-Out games. For even the hardest fights, the most instances you have to be frame perfect in a row to get the TAS time is 5. Compare that to Mike Tyson's Punch-Out being 20 to 22 frame perfect inputs on Tyson just to complete the strategy, and 24-27 inputs for matching the TAS on some of the last couple of fights in Title Defense, Super Punch Out stands out in having a lower skill ceiling when it comes to optimizing IL fights.
Because of the relative ease of these fights, and the fact that I have this extremely crisp RGB recording setup now, I've decided to re-record the 15 TAS times that I already got in this game upwards of a decade ago, since several of these fights were either recorded with bad capture cards, encoded with poor quality compression, or got marred by youtube's upscaling back in the early 2010's. I've learned a lot about recording videos in pristine quality after all this time, and I think re-recording these will make me more motivated to match the final TAS time that I never got in this game, which is Narcis Prince.
Narcis I never went for only because the luck for that fight is extraordinarily more rare compared to even the worst luck expected of you in any other fight in this game. I completed the strategy one time, with a time of 8"28, which is 4 frames away from the TAS's 8"20 time. Several people have been able to pull this time off recently (Nolan414, FatPotatoSeal, Cranklinson, AwosomeAndy, and MrMega), and I figure I should give it a shot soon too now that I have my recording setup figured out!
Anyways, let's talk about Gabby Jay! Yay! This is the easiest fight in the game to match the TAS on with current strategies. You start the fight by pressing nothing for the first frame of the fight (0'00"01 on the timer), then for the very next frame, you press and hold Up+Y to buffer a left jab. This delay will set Gabby's guard to be down for the entirety of 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 in total, then throw a right jab immediately after. The right jab deals more damage, but the main purpose of it is to waste a very small amount 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 counter his first and only jab in this fight. 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 a lot of arrows in your super meter, but your super 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 Down, then wait until your character comes to the center of the screen on his own, then hold B to force your character to throw a right hook, and then Up+A for an uppercut, then Gabby will go down instantly for a KO!
I should also put this somewhere since someone will likely ask, but the reason the first place time says "Heidrage" on it is because I am still playing on his cartridge of Super Punch Out, since he gave it to me before AGDQ 2014 so I could get ready for my blindfolded run on console. I've kept his name on my leaderboards because I respect him so much in helping me get ready for that, and as a friend.
I should be uploading some more Super Punch Out IL's pretty frequently over the next while. Hopefully you're ready for a ton of these re-recorded!
Anyways, thanks for watching!
This run was done on an original US 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: pastebin.com/TtXx1PQx
Additionally, I've decided to include a non-stretched version of this fight in an unlisted video. If you'd like to learn more about why I'm including this too, you can check out the description in the second video here: youtube.com/watch?v=EyOXKI7UEBU
So, just for the record, Super Punch Out's IL fights (IL meaning Individual Level) are relatively easy and straightforward compared to optimizing fights in the other Punch-Out games. For even the hardest fights, the most instances you have to be frame perfect in a row to get the TAS time is 5. Compare that to Mike Tyson's Punch-Out being 20 to 22 frame perfect inputs on Tyson just to complete the strategy, and 24-27 inputs for matching the TAS on some of the last couple of fights in Title Defense, Super Punch Out stands out in having a lower skill ceiling when it comes to optimizing IL fights.
Because of the relative ease of these fights, and the fact that I have this extremely crisp RGB recording setup now, I've decided to re-record the 15 TAS times that I already got in this game upwards of a decade ago, since several of these fights were either recorded with bad capture cards, encoded with poor quality compression, or got marred by youtube's upscaling back in the early 2010's. I've learned a lot about recording videos in pristine quality after all this time, and I think re-recording these will make me more motivated to match the final TAS time that I never got in this game, which is Narcis Prince.
Narcis I never went for only because the luck for that fight is extraordinarily more rare compared to even the worst luck expected of you in any other fight in this game. I completed the strategy one time, with a time of 8"28, which is 4 frames away from the TAS's 8"20 time. Several people have been able to pull this time off recently (Nolan414, FatPotatoSeal, Cranklinson, AwosomeAndy, and MrMega), and I figure I should give it a shot soon too now that I have my recording setup figured out!
Anyways, let's talk about Gabby Jay! Yay! This is the easiest fight in the game to match the TAS on with current strategies. You start the fight by pressing nothing for the first frame of the fight (0'00"01 on the timer), then for the very next frame, you press and hold Up+Y to buffer a left jab. This delay will set Gabby's guard to be down for the entirety of 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 in total, then throw a right jab immediately after. The right jab deals more damage, but the main purpose of it is to waste a very small amount 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 counter his first and only jab in this fight. 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 a lot of arrows in your super meter, but your super 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 Down, then wait until your character comes to the center of the screen on his own, then hold B to force your character to throw a right hook, and then Up+A for an uppercut, then Gabby will go down instantly for a KO!
I should also put this somewhere since someone will likely ask, but the reason the first place time says "Heidrage" on it is because I am still playing on his cartridge of Super Punch Out, since he gave it to me before AGDQ 2014 so I could get ready for my blindfolded run on console. I've kept his name on my leaderboards because I respect him so much in helping me get ready for that, and as a friend.
I should be uploading some more Super Punch Out IL's pretty frequently over the next while. Hopefully you're ready for a ton of these re-recorded!
Anyways, thanks for watching!
![Super Punch Out!! - Gabby Jay [00626] (NTSC WR)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hqwYzrfj0eg/hqdefault.jpg "Super Punch Out!! - Gabby Jay [00626] (NTSC WR)
This run was done on an original US 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=EyOXKI7UEBU
So, just for the record, Super Punch Outs IL fights (IL meaning Individual Level) are relatively easy and straightforward compared to optimizing fights in the other Punch-Out games. For even the hardest fights, the most instances you have to be frame perfect in a row to get the TAS time is 5. Compare that to Mike Tysons Punch-Out being 20 to 22 frame perfect inputs on Tyson just to complete the strategy, and 24-27 inputs for matching the TAS on some of the last couple of fights in Title Defense, Super Punch Out stands out in having a lower skill ceiling when it comes to optimizing IL fights.
Because of the relative ease of these fights, and the fact that I have this extremely crisp RGB recording setup now, Ive decided to re-record the 15 TAS times that I already got in this game upwards of a decade ago, since several of these fights were either recorded with bad capture cards, encoded with poor quality compression, or got marred by youtubes upscaling back in the early 2010s. Ive learned a lot about recording videos in pristine quality after all this time, and I think re-recording these will make me more motivated to match the final TAS time that I never got in this game, which is Narcis Prince.
Narcis I never went for only because the luck for that fight is extraordinarily more rare compared to even the worst luck expected of you in any other fight in this game. I completed the strategy one time, with a time of 828, which is 4 frames away from the TASs 820 time. Several people have been able to pull this time off recently (Nolan414, FatPotatoSeal, Cranklinson, AwosomeAndy, and MrMega), and I figure I should give it a shot soon too now that I have my recording setup figured out!
Anyways, lets talk about Gabby Jay! Yay! This is the easiest fight in the game to match the TAS on with current strategies. You start the fight by pressing nothing for the first frame of the fight (00001 on the timer), then for the very next frame, you press and hold Up+Y to buffer a left jab. This delay will set Gabbys guard to be down for the entirety of 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 in total, then throw a right jab immediately after. The right jab deals more damage, but the main purpose of it is to waste a very small amount 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 counter his first and only jab in this fight. 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 a lot of arrows in your super meter, but your super 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 Down, then wait until your character comes to the center of the screen on his own, then hold B to force your character to throw a right hook, and then Up+A for an uppercut, then Gabby will go down instantly for a KO!
I should also put this somewhere since someone will likely ask, but the reason the first place time says Heidrage on it is because I am still playing on his cartridge of Super Punch Out, since he gave it to me before AGDQ 2014 so I could get ready for my blindfolded run on console. Ive kept his name on my leaderboards because I respect him so much in helping me get ready for that, and as a friend.
I should be uploading some more Super Punch Out ILs pretty frequently over the next while. Hopefully youre ready for a ton of these re-recorded!
Anyways, thanks for watching!")
![Mike Tysons Punch-Out!! - 2 player 1 controller with sinister1 [First ever attempt]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hsMI8E5REYI/hqdefault.jpg "Mike Tysons Punch-Out!! - 2 player 1 controller with sinister1 [First ever attempt]
First things first... this is not from a professional event like Games Done Quick, so stuff like audio balancing being un-ideal and talking over each other is very common in this run. This was done at a very small invite only event called the Contra Conference where players would attempt to get very optimized co-op speedruns during a single week (primarily in the Contra series). This was held in DK28s house at the time, so its a pretty cozy lowkey stream.
Sinister1 happened to go to this event, so we were actually in a rare scenario where we could attempt this challenge that was popularized/invented by Contra speedrunners Mr K and Hurblat. This video was back in September 2014, just to put a date on how long ago it was and where our skill levels were at that time. I was still somewhat of a novice at MTPO at the time, so Sinister opted to take control of the dpad, leaving me A/B/Start for punching. We also obviously attempted this with vision, because I had never attempted MTPO blindfolded up to that point.
This run had a ton of debacles, which were as immediate as Glass Joe since me and Sinister had 2 different buffer strategies at the time and the addition of buffers were still new to the speedrun. We had a few other people in attendance that youll hear from time to time too (DK28, Mr K, Mike Uyama, and Murphagator).
Other than that, theres not a whole lot else to talk about. The run was just a really lighthearted fun experience with pretty funny banter between us runners, and ended up being the origin for me and sinister to attempt this very same challenge at AGDQ 2020 blindfolded. Hopefully this gives some extra fun insight on how difficult this type of coordination is!
I know Ive been not uploading videos for a while, but health issues have been pretty rough, so Im probably going to lean back on posting videos from other events for a while like I was before.
Thanks for watching!")
![Mike Tysons Punch-Out!! - Soda Popinski [0:45.97]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hzOhWpNYOpI/hqdefault.jpg "Mike Tysons Punch-Out!! - Soda Popinski [0:45.97]
This run was done on an original cartridge of Mike Tysons Punch-Out!! on an NES that was modded with the Tim Worthington NESRGB kit. For some more in depth information about my RGB setup, you can check out this pastebin here: https://pastebin.com/m7tzR5Cq
Ive also 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=6S7zVZ5RxZc
Ive also got my full attempt session from power-on to the successful attempt right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8yOtYlqL5Y
So yeah, I already got a sub 46 lol. The luck for this fight in its current form is honestly really not that bad. It obviously gets much much worse the more you add to it, but as of right now, this is shaping up to be a great way to get more comfortable with the execution of the advanced phases 2 and 3.
Soda is a very fast opponent with a couple of random elements, but has a massive weakness to exploit. The fight starts off with Soda attempting to throw 2 hooks at you, and they need to be cancelled immediately with 2 blocked hooks from Mac. Its more consistent to throw 2 right gut punches, but you can opt to instead buffer a left gut punch as your 2nd. It will save a couple of frames, since left gut punches are faster, but it will also whiff about 25% of the time, which would instantly end your attempt. I opt for the faster 2nd cancel.
After the cancels, Soda can take one of 2 different routes; throw 2 uppercuts, or throw 2 more hooks. Hell throw the uppercuts about 75% of the time, which is part of the luck we need to continue the strategy, but we also need something else that Ill go into next.
Off of the 2nd cancel, a right dodge is buffered, which is a perfect setup to land a gut punch into Sodas ducking uppercut stance, assuming that he does the fastest delay anyways. Soda can do one of 4 different delays, each 25% likely. When Mac is about centered, you need to buffer a left gut punch, then immediately press Down as the punch goes off. This technique is called the Screwdriver, and it was discovered by Jack Wedge days before I set my last PB in this fight.
A somewhat newer discovery is that by holding Right for the entire duration of when youre doing the Screwdrivers dodge, you will effectively eliminate 2 of the 4 possible delays for Sodas uppercut, making it ~50% likely instead of ~25% each time its used.
Once the gut punch lands, you just need to do a delayed gut punch to cancel his 2nd uppercut, and buffer a star punch out of it. No matter what Soda does after that, the star will land, and since you landed a gut punch while he attempted to throw an uppercut, it enables Soda to be knocked down instantly from a star punch!
Phases 2 and 3 are the same, and they can be handled in a couple of different ways. The traditional way is to counter his first hook with a right jab, then buffer a right gut punch, then perform the Screwdriver just like in phase. I opt for a harder variation that theoretically should save frames over the standard approach though.
I instead cancel the first hook with a right gut punch, then throw a jab into his 2nd hook. You are supposed to buffer a jab and let go of Up on the first possible frame, which allows the jab to be bufferable and land, but Ive opted to let go of all inputs as soon as I land my gut punch, then quickly press Up+A in isolation, which theoretically should be possible to land on the same frame as the buffered one, but doesnt kill an attempt outright if I let go of Up a frame late like the other approach. I may switch to the fully buffered method later when saving those frames become more necessary.
I definitely was better at the timing of the new adjustments compared to the 46.00 I got recently, but theres still quite a bit of room for improvement. Im probably going to be sticking with this strategy for a bit longer, because my potential for new PBs with it is still very high. For comparison, Jefeman, whos in 2nd place for Soda, has a 45.48 with this same strategy, and Im reasonably certain thats the lowest timer increment that you can get with it. Id like to get either a .61 or .48 before I even consider learning/attempting the WR strategy, because I clearly still need to practice these adjustments.
The world record is a 45.00 by lucandor158, which is leagues more advanced than what Im doing here. I still have a ways to go before attempting his strategy, because I have a lot of practice & possible PBs that I should get before I need to resort to anything faster. Whenever I feel comfortable switching over to that strategy Ill talk about why its such a monster of a record, but until then...
Thanks for watching!")
![Punch Out!! (Wii) - Mr. Sandman [0:31.98] (WR)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/itQv-OGtNs4/hqdefault.jpg "Punch Out!! (Wii) - Mr. Sandman [0:31.98] (WR)
This has been an ongoing fight that Ive been grinding on the down-low for the past week+ or so. Ive had a tendency to stop short on tying the TAS for some fights in the past, and this is one that I really wanted to see happen, no matter how difficult it was to optimize. So I realized an incentive that would get me to finish the job on this fight, which was to not upload *any* PBs of this fight until I literally hit the best possible time, which is a 31.98. Granted, the only time people missed out on seeing was when I initially hit 32.04, because once I hit that, I was stuck there for quite a bit, haha.
This is also partly due to the very bizarre and difficult method that I had to use in order to tune my timing to the exact rhythms needed for the 4 frame perfect move cancels in phase 2. I literally had to TAS the Sandman fight in Dolphin, and take relevant pictures in order for me to identify what frames Mac needs to start punching on. This was problematic, because the Wii Us video quality for this game is a bit spotty, while Dolphins is perfect, so the cues look a bit different, but I had a rough idea on where the punches need to be, so I started there. Any time something went wrong in phase 2, I would stop recording, look at my video, diagnose which punch was incorrect, find new visual cues to use, do more attempts, diagnose punches, ect ect. It was very tedious, but it was necessary for this fight due to the ambiguous nature of the 4 cancels in phase 2.
I quickly got a 32.04 with a 2:35 knockdown, which was great, but leaves things a little ambiguous on where the frame was lost. All I knew was that phase 3s punch was frame perfect, and exactly 1 frame was lost somewhere in phases 1 and 2. It gave me some new pictures to use as a way to diagnose punches more accurately, so it was slow but steady progress in cutting the final frame off this fight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v v7x1fFXExE
Lets get into the fight itself. First off, this fight is played in Champions Mode, which is a toggle-able option that you can earn from 10 consecutive wins in Macs Last stand to make every punch from the opponent knock you down in a single hit. This is used to take a knockdown immediately at the start of phase 1 to advance a bit in his move script. You also need to do *2* blocked punches in order to make him attack immediately as you get up from your knockdown.
Once you get up from the knockdown, you cancel the first punch Sandman attempts to throw (you can buffer this punch for some reason?!?) and then counter his quick overhead punch for a star. Then comes the extremely important part; you need to cancel his Stand Still overhead punch with a slightly delayed blocked punch as hes coming to the center, then do ANOTHER very slightly delayed punch. This 2nd punch is mandatorily frame perfect, and is timed in such a way that his normal Boo taunt is actually AN INSTANT KNOCKDOWN when you buffer a star punch off of it!
The next phase is the scary part of optimizing this fight, because in order to match the TAS, you need to hit his first counter on the first frame, then cancel his two Night Night! punches on the first frame, his Stand Still! punch on the first frame, and finally, throw a mandatory frame perfect punch in order to set up the glitch on Sandman for the second instant knockdown. The 4 cancels are really hard because they are 4 inputs that all happen within about 2 seconds of real time.
Additionally, the tempo of these punches are very slightly misaligned, making the timing a bit harder than if they were equally spaced. For the first cancel, Macs punch needs to come out about 35 frames after youve collected the star, then the next cancel is 32 frames later, then 32 frames later for the 3rd cancel, and *31* frames later for the final cancel. This last one is so tricky, because you need to hit the previous two at an identical timing. My timing cue that I used for all of these is that Ill throw the first punch as soon as I see Sandmans sprite freeze from the previous counter, then the next 3 I end up timing when Sandmans head crosses the middle of the X on his knockdown counter.
In order to get a 2:36 instead of a 2:35, you need to do everything before phase 3 frame perfectly. I got five 2:36s before I landed the 31.98, four of which were today, which is ridiculous, but also reasonable, since Ive only just recently dialed in the correct timings. Before that, I got one 2:36 a few days prior, and absolutely nothing before that. It is just *that* specific to get it all right.
In the last phase, you just need to jab his taunt, buffer a gut punch, and finally the star for the instant knockdown off his dreamland express. I ditched the old pseudo buffer because timing it out manually seemed better for the precision needed.
Anyways, I hope you enjoy this one! This was a huge struggle to get done properly from scratch, but Im really happy that this one is over and done with!")
![Mike Tysons Punch-Out!! - Bald Bull 1 [0:55.97]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jOxU6RvLqxk/hqdefault.jpg "Mike Tysons Punch-Out!! - Bald Bull 1 [0:55.97]
My attempts for the new Bull 1 strategy came up short today, but it was still enough to get a personal best time and tie the WR that Brandflakes set a few days ago! This strategy requires 1 in 1024 luck to happen, but I didnt get the 25% low refill for the final phase, so I had to throw an extra punch at the end of the fight that I otherwise wouldnt need to do. Still good progress so far!
Ive been currently streaming attempts for this fight on Twitch lately, along with stuff in Animal Crossing simultaneously. Heres the VOD of when I got this run live to see how silly my setup for this is lol: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/626147039
Thanks for watching!")
![Mike Tysons Punch-Out!! - Blindfolded run performed at AOD 2016 [21:51] (Current PB)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jtFxClnfYkY/hqdefault.jpg "Mike Tysons Punch-Out!! - Blindfolded run performed at AOD 2016 [21:51] (Current PB)
So after AGDQ 2016, I finally started to branch out and do marathon runs at other smaller events here and there. For this one, I was invited to the anime convention AOD (Anime on Display) to do a blindfolded run of Mike Tysons Punch Out, since I was still in practice for the category due to the recent one at AGDQ 2016. I was invited to do this run on February 13th, 2016, and this run had gone so well that it still continues to be my personal best blindfolded time in this game, due mainly to a fluke at the end of the run.
Since the speedrunning stuff at this event was obviously not the main focus, it was kind of interesting to practice for this run, since there was a ton of noise, and only a limited amount of monitors to practice on. I ended up finding a PVM in the general area that the speedrunning marathon was being held, but the general noise level was SUPER loud, and the PVM that I found did NOT have powerful speakers at all, so I ended up just putting my ear completely next to the speaker while closing my eyes. It was literally the only thing I could do, lol.
https://i.imgur.com/XFTo2jU.jpg
The run itself was also kind of a weird situation, since initially the plan was that sinister was going to show up and do commentary, but he ended up not being able to make it, so I had to do my own commentary for this run, which actually worked out ok since this game thankfully has a decent bit of downtime, and I think I did a decent job of balancing commentary while doing a blindfolded run.
I made a couple of silly mistakes in this run on Piston Honda 1 and King Hippo that actually wouldve gotten me the WR for this category at that time from sinister1, but all in all, I was still super satisfied with this run having gotten a clean 14-0 record, especially after the race at AGDQ 2016 where I had such a bad struggle with Bald Bull 2.
I should have a couple more of these one-off marathon runs mixed in for a little bit, since I didnt get another GDQ run all the way until AGDQ 2018, and in that time I had the opportunity to go to at least one other event before I went to GDQ again. This is definitely a run Ive been looking forward to getting uploaded here, especially because it still remains my PB, and I really like that it was set in a public marathon setting.
Anyways, thanks for watching!")
![Punch Out!! (Wii) - Title Defense Disco Kid [0:22.88]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kDcYvFvBthQ/hqdefault.jpg "Punch Out!! (Wii) - Title Defense Disco Kid [0:22.88]
So... this somewhat new strategy for TD Disco *requires* motion controls to pull off; Im not kidding.
So far there are 2 WR strategies in this game that have the odd privilege of needing access to Little Macs lesser known Left Handed Star Punch to provoke specific patterns from the opponents. So far these two fights include TD Von Kaiser, and TD Disco Kid.
Thankfully, TD Disco is a very short fight, however that just means that theres more of a reason to optimize the time even harder than his TD Kaiser counterpart. As of right now, LeeA1 has the record for this fight with a 22.76, which is 2 frames faster than what I was able to come up with on my first session of attempts with TD Disco. Ill keep at this fight, but due to the nature of doing attempts on him, I will not be consistently doing attempts on him since my arms are a bit sore from this set of attempts lol.
Anyways, lets talk about the fight itself. Start by countering his taunt, and doing a delayed gut punch to gather two stars. Throw a right handed star punch by pressing A and moving the Wii Remote forward, then allow him to go naturally into his next attack. Dodge and do a delayed gut punch into a delayed opposite gut punch to gather 2 more stars. This time, throw a *left* handed uppercut by pressing C on the nunchuk and moving the nunchuk forward.
This will provoke Disco to go into his 2 jab pattern afterwards, which you can gather 1 star from by intercepting the first jab before he even gets a chance to throw it out with a gut punch and subsequent delayed gut punch. From there, you can knock him down after blocking his next jab and stunning him with alternating body blow punches; you should have 1 star in reserve.
In phase 2, all you need to do is counter his taunt, do a delayed gut punch, then do a delayed triple star punch into his disco flurry windup and you should get an instant KO!
So yeah, I think Ill throw attempts at this fight extremely occasionally as opposed to grinding just this fight out due to the nature of motion controlled attempts being somewhat taxing to do for extended periods of time.
Anyways, thanks for watching!")
![Super Punch-Out!! - Blindfolded Speedrun performed at AGDQ 2014 [24:09]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kFy8bSIxODE/hqdefault.jpg "Super Punch-Out!! - Blindfolded Speedrun performed at AGDQ 2014 [24:09]
This run was done on Friday, January 10th. This Friday still holds up as one of the greatest days in Games Done Quick history, with the back to back blindfolded MTPO and SPO runs, the quintessential Super Metroid race, the Metroid Zero Mission low% hard WR, and so much more.
This was so nerve wracking for me because I just saw sinister1 get to Mike Tyson in his blindfolded MTPO run, which got a standing ovation; there was an unbelievable amount of pressure on me. It was an amount of pressure that was so significant, that there were several seasoned GDQ speedrunners had approached me after the two punchout runs to tell me that it was an unfair amount of pressure for someone who is literally just debuting at GDQ
Regardless, as I was sitting down and trying to get to a point mentally to attempt to follow up the incredible run that sinister just pulled off, my heart was pounding at the strong possibility of messing up so much that my run would be etched in GDQ history as a debacle that had to be mercy killed. Once I put the blindfold on, it was that much more real that I was about to attempt beating this blindfolded in front of a crowd; something I had only been able to manage exactly one time before attempting it here.
It took until being able to make the entire crowd laugh at calling the exact time on Gabby Jay for me to calm down, which I ended up doing a couple more times with Piston Hurricane and Bald Bull. This ended up helping me settle in a lot more than I anticipated, which was everything I needed in that moment.
Beyond that, the truly scary part about this run was that I needed to beat the first 12 boxers in a row without a single loss anywhere in order to unlock the final circuit. Because of the estimate, I would have been forced to unblindfold to finish the run, as full game blindfolded completions at GDQ were not expected for runners to pull off at live events at that point.
I had some really close calls after getting lost a few times, and got some really favorable luck to help me get past the first 12 fights. Once I got to Narcis, I knew that finishing the game at AGDQ was on the table. I ended up losing to Narcis due to playing way too defensively, since during the one time I beat the game, I had learned that his counter jab can drain almost your entire health bar in certain circumstances. I hadnt practiced Special Circuit very much, because I didnt think I would get far enough for it to matter, so that loss was a direct consequence of that.
Once I got past Narcis though, I knew Hoy was going to be difficult if I got off track, but I barely pulled it together in a pretty memorable match in this run. Rick was a pretty simple fight, even when blindfolded, so I knew that one was a freebie for me lol. Nick was a big wild card, because I knew I was vastly underprepared if anything went wrong on him, so I *needed* that counter to get the quick knockdown at the start of the first phase. It was to the point where if I didnt finish this fight before the 25 second mark, I was almost guaranteed to lose.
What happened instead, was possibly the most memorable moment of the entire run, which was accidentally hitting the earliest frame of the random height counter, which had a significantly faster recoil animation that I had to take into account when following up with my next several punches. Thankfully, I knew exactly what to do, and was able to capitalize on it. With that, I was able to complete the run, which marked the first time a full length game was completely finished blindfolded at a Games Done Quick marathon.
This run, while sloppy at times, is a very important and special run to me, because it was a run where I felt I overcame unbelievable odds for myself, and gave me the motivation to try more runs like this at GDQs for years to come.
I hope you enjoyed this run, and thank you for watching!")
![Super Punch Out!! - Rick Bruiser [01065] (NTSC-U WR)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kQZu8m929KY/hqdefault.jpg "Super Punch Out!! - Rick Bruiser [01065] (NTSC-U 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=UUD_A5pFeb8
The reason for the distinction on NTSC-U in the title is because on the Japanese version of Super Punch Out, Rick Bruiser has the one and only speed difference between the US and JP versions of the game, since JP Rick does *not* do the leaning back animation before going dizzy that US Rick does. This results in a faster time of 1037, which you can watch me do here if youre interested in seeing the differences between the two versions firsthand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE37xPqLWik
Despite needing to be frame perfect in 5 places, this feels like the easiest fight to finish with that difficulty for me. To re-match the TAS on the J version of Rick, it took me like 8 minutes, and for this one, it took about 12. It might be because 3 of these inputs are guard manipulation, which is more than the other 5 input fights (Bull, Sandman, Macho), and is something that you have to use in nearly every fight anyways, so it requires less practice than other punches. This fight also has a little bit of luck, in that you need to win two 5/8 luck rolls for landing uppercuts, and two 7/8 luck rolls for his sidesteps in order to complete this strategy, meaning a 1225/4096 probability (or almost a 30% chance of success), which is honestly not bad at all for Punch-Out luck standards.
The fight starts with, you guessed it, guard manipulation. Dont press anything for the first frame of the fight, then press Up+Y for the second frame to get a left jab to sneak past his guard. Rick is unique in that he will reel back and retaliate with a jab every time you sneak a punch through his guard, so keep that in mind whenever you fight him!
Dodge his retaliation jab, and Rick will immediately attempt 2 jabs on your right side, followed by a hook on your left side. Immediately upon being centered from your previous dodge, throw a right jab to counter Ricks jab, then proceed to buffer the following sequence: right jab, right body, right jab, right body, then another right body to interrupt his hook. This deals *exactly* the amount of damage needed to get you the ideal phase 2 and 3 refills of 25HP and 14HP, which is exactly enough HP for a single uppercut in phase 3 to TKO Rick.
Upon throwing that final right body, Rick will go dizzy, and buffering 2 left body punches into a low super will net you the first knockdown of the fight. Its worth noting that if you get a 6.99 or lower for your phase 1 knockdown, you are hard committed into going for the TAS phase 2, because of the 4 second rule for knockdowns, you will only have ~3 seconds to get the second knockdown, and the usual phase 2 for single segment runs will be too slow to get you the good refill for phase 3.
If you find yourself wanting to do that safe strategy, throw an uppercut during the dizzy instead of the low super to fix that issue. This also happens to only really be a concern with the US version of the game, as the JP version has way more wiggle room for phases. As a random tidbit since were on this topic, throwing a low super for the dizzy knockdown is 99 frames faster in real time than knocking Rick down with an uppercut, just because he spins around a bunch in the animation, haha.
For phase 2, you will need to do a guard manipulated uppercut, which means pressing nothing at all for the first frame, then Up+A for the second frame. This allows Rick to take an uppercut, although he has the ability to dodge the uppercut 5/8s of the time, as well as doing a sidestep jump, which is 1/8 likely each time he shuffles his feet. Assuming he does neither of these, hell be hit with the uppercut, and attempt to counter-jab you for it, to which you just dodge to the right, and then dodge to the left to avoid his hook, and cancel the dodge by pressing the A button to do a low super for the 2nd knockdown of the fight. You want to do this low super cancel as tightly as you can in order to match the TAS time, and I dont have a great cue for it, but its one thats relatively easy to get the hang of by feel thankfully.
Phase 3 is simply the exact same as the start of phase 2 thankfully, which just involves another guard manipulated uppercut, which means pressing nothing at all for the first frame, then Up+A for the second frame. The same odds apply, where you need to win a 5/8s luck roll, and not get the 1/8 Rick sidestep.
Anyways, thanks for watching!")
![Mike Tysons Punch-Out!! - Soda Popinski [0:45.82]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kakacYH1HOQ/hqdefault.jpg "Mike Tysons Punch-Out!! - Soda Popinski [0:45.82]
This run was done on an original cartridge of Mike Tysons Punch-Out!! on an NES that was modded with the Tim Worthington NESRGB kit. For some more in depth information about my RGB setup, you can check out this pastebin here: https://pastebin.com/m7tzR5Cq
Ive also 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=mVb4GvSod2c
Ive also got my full attempt session from power-on to the successful attempt right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHr_EoSzGcw
Despite being a small PB, this is actually a fairly large tie break, as there are several people who have a PB of 45.97 for Soda. With that 45.82, this currently puts me solidly in 3rd place, behind jefemans 45.48, and lucandors 45.00. My execution is starting to tighten up a little bit, and Im thinking the main punches I timed better in this fight over my last one are the jabs after cancelling Sodas first hook in phases 2 and 3.
As far as the fight itself, Soda is a very fast opponent with a couple of random elements, but has a massive weakness to exploit. The fight starts off with Soda attempting to throw 2 hooks at you, and they need to be cancelled immediately with 2 blocked hooks from Mac. Its more consistent to throw 2 right gut punches, but you can opt to instead buffer a left gut punch as your 2nd. It will save a couple of frames, since left gut punches are faster, but it will also whiff about 25% of the time, which would instantly end your attempt. I opt for the faster 2nd cancel.
After the cancels, Soda can take one of 2 different routes; throw 2 uppercuts, or throw 2 more hooks. Hell throw the uppercuts about 75% of the time, which is part of the luck we need to continue the strategy, but we also need something else that Ill go into next.
Off of the 2nd cancel, a right dodge is buffered, which is a perfect setup to land a gut punch into Sodas ducking uppercut stance, assuming that he does the fastest delay anyways. Soda can do one of 4 different delays, each 25% likely. When Mac is about centered, you need to buffer a left gut punch, then immediately press Down as the punch goes off. This technique is called the Screwdriver, and it was discovered by Jack Wedge days before I set my last PB in this fight.
A somewhat newer discovery is that by holding Right for the entire duration of when youre doing the Screwdrivers dodge, you will effectively eliminate 2 of the 4 possible delays for Sodas uppercut, making it ~50% likely instead of ~25% each time its used.
Once the gut punch lands, you just need to do a delayed gut punch to cancel his 2nd uppercut, and buffer a star punch out of it. No matter what Soda does after that, the star will land, and since you landed a gut punch while he attempted to throw an uppercut, it enables Soda to be knocked down instantly from a star punch!
Phases 2 and 3 are the same, and they can be handled in a couple of different ways. The traditional way is to counter his first hook with a right jab, then buffer a right gut punch, then perform the Screwdriver just like in phase. I opt for a harder variation that theoretically should save frames over the standard approach though.
I instead cancel the first hook with a right gut punch, then throw a jab into his 2nd hook. You are supposed to buffer a jab and let go of Up on the first possible frame, which allows the jab to be bufferable and land, but Ive opted to let go of all inputs as soon as I land my gut punch, then quickly press Up+A in isolation, which theoretically should be possible to land on the same frame as the buffered one, but doesnt kill an attempt outright if I let go of Up a frame late like the other approach. I may switch to the fully buffered method later when saving those frames become more necessary.
The world record is a 45.00 by lucandor158, which currently uses a misdirected gut punch in the first phase of the fight. Its a very tricky input, and the odds of it even working at all are about 1 in 4, making completing the strategy a bit more rare than it is now.
On top of that, lucandors fight is very very optimized compared to the theory TAS for his strategy (44.97), so chances are very high that if I wanted to attempt to match his time, I would need to get the luck multiple times because of the execution needed to be that fast. Ill probably talk about the misdirect more when I start using it in attempts, because Im still learning about it myself, but until then...
Thanks for watching!")
![Sunset Riders (Arcade) - Co-Op 1cc Speedrun w/ Mr. K [14:57]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/klkRbV9v8Io/hqdefault.jpg "Sunset Riders (Arcade) - Co-Op 1cc Speedrun w/ Mr. K [14:57]
So Mr K and I have been practicing this game for a Co-Op run through Parsec (although, we may also try fightcade, as weve heard good things about it for 2p runs). This gives me a bit of input lag to deal with, so things on my end are a little bit harder than usual.
Anyways, this was our 3rd attempt after routing and a bit of practice, so were pretty happy that weve been able to simultaneously beat the preceding world record, as well as get our first co-op 1 credit clear of the game. Despite this, this is admittedly still a very sloppy run, but were very much going to be improving this soon!")
