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| Super Punch-Out!! - Gabby Jay [6"26] (Original Resolution) @zallard1 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
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Super Punch-Out!! - Gabby Jay [6"26] (Original Resolution) @zallard1
![Super Punch-Out!! - Gabby Jay [626] (Original Resolution)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EyOXKI7UEBU/hqdefault.jpg "Super Punch-Out!! - Gabby Jay [626] (Original Resolution)
Super Punch-Out!! - Gabby Jay [626] (Original Resolution)")
![Sunset Riders (Arcade) - Co-Op 1cc Speedrun w/ Mr. K [14:11]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FMDU4OPr9v4/hqdefault.jpg "Sunset Riders (Arcade) - Co-Op 1cc Speedrun w/ Mr. K [14:11]
So, me and Mr. K have been gradually chipping away at the 2 player run for this game, getting it to a 14:19 with Steve and Cormano, which had a bad mistake on my part at the end that cost a decent chunk of time. We were going to improve that time... but then we started messing around with Cormano and Bob as a team, and well... lets just say having 4 shotguns in play pretty handily outweigh the OoB trick that Steve has on the stage 7 boss.
Our run was pretty decent, gaining substantial amounts of time over our other PB constantly on every split of the run. We lose about 2 seconds to the stage 7 boss by not having Bob go out of bounds, because that seems to be a Steve exclusive trick. However, consistency has never been better on other boss fights in the run.
The one exception is now Richard Rose becomes a really dangerous gamble. As you can see, we can absolutely decimate the balcony in about 3 seconds if were both in the correct spot. The problem is we BOTH have to be in a very precise spot in order to kill the balcony in time to escape the oncoming death from the bullets closing in on us, and I ended up costing us this run since I stopped very slightly too early on the right. Even if we do survive the first phase, phase 2 is really luck dependent on the setup we have for it. This run will get absolutely pulverized if we ever land the fight that we want on Richard at the end of a good run, probably to the point where sub 14 is assured.")
![Splatterhouse 2 - Speed Run [15:30]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FeJM-cMoB14/hqdefault.jpg "Splatterhouse 2 - Speed Run [15:30]
Outside of stage 5, this run was basically perfect. The only thing is, stage 5 definitely looked really ugly, so chances are Ill probably be trying to improve that before I move on from this category completely. However, if I cant beat this run, then this will be a pretty decent time to settle with. This ended up being a very high 15:30 (3 frames away from being a 15:31!)
Also, this was captured off of an S-Video modded model 1 Sega Genesis with an original cartridge of Splatterhouse 2.")
![Sunset Riders (Arcade) - Co-Op 1cc Speedrun w/ Mr. K [13:57]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FiwPFsG0UDw/hqdefault.jpg "Sunset Riders (Arcade) - Co-Op 1cc Speedrun w/ Mr. K [13:57]
This upload is a high quality 4k upscale, without commentary, of my previously uploaded 13:57 from the fightcade replay file. I wasnt sure if I could rip the replay correctly, so I went ahead and just uploaded the Twitch VOD, but now that Ive sorted that process out, Im following up that upload with this one. With a proper frame count, the exact time of this run is a 13:57.217, which is timed from the first frame that the character select screen starts to disappear, to the first frame Richard Rose is in his reeling animation from taking the final shot. The rest of this YT description will be the same as my previous uploads for posterity.
Our run was performed on default settings via Fightcade 2, which allowed us to play remotely with practically no input lag. Fightcade 2 uses the Final Burn Neo emulator, and the replay for our run is hosted on Fightcades website, and can be viewed here: https://replay.fightcade.com/fbneo/ssridersebc/1598146839606-7348
Anyways, this is absolutely the best co-op run weve done of this game, both in time, and play quality. We effectively executed our entire route and got favorable luck where it counted. For this run, I played as Cormano, and Mr K played as Bob. We had to adjust a few things in that route since the last upload here however.
First off, youll notice that we have several more planned deaths than before. Thats because we realized that the lower rank on Richard Rose actually gives us several more frames of wiggle room for the balcony kill by slightly slowing down enemy bullets, which improves consistency dramatically because less luck elements with spawns can stop us there.
Weve decided that the deaths need to be compliant with our perception of a 1cc run, which means we want each player to die a maximum of 2 times, which would *also* be a 1cc on the US version that typically doesnt have extends. This means we need Mr K to die once per autoscroller (stages 2 and 7), and I need to die twice on the carousel in stage 6. This allows both of us to get fully restocked on powerups without any time loss, but at the cost of us needing to both get 0 unplanned deaths if we want to reach our personal 1cc restrictions.
The only real hiccups in this run were in stage 5 where Mr K got in a slightly sub-optimal spot during the boss, making him take damage slightly slower from him, and the final boss, where our positions in the top center area were slightly too far (we both could have been dealing more damage if we were closer to center). That had us chase him down, but thankfully he had low HP by that point, and I decided to gamble the entire run by jumping over his bullets and point blanking him; it clearly paid off, haha.
Im not sure what were thinking of doing with this game in the future. Possibly might add more runners for 3p/4p runs? Well see!")
![(TAS) Super Punch Out!! - 2 Player Mode [1P Wins All Fights] (1:09.29 In-Game Time)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GSb-hLWcMyM/hqdefault.jpg "(TAS) Super Punch Out!! - 2 Player Mode [1P Wins All Fights] (1:09.29 In-Game Time)
Ive been occasionally messing around with TASing strategies for the newly revealed 2 player debug mode, mostly out of curiosity. Theres likely several improvements that others could make over this, but I felt like this might be a decent starting point for others to build onto if they wanted.
For people who might be unfamiliar with what this is all about, a fellow by the name of @new_cheats_news on Twitter found several undiscovered cheat codes for all releases of Super Punch Out!
https://twitter.com/new_cheats_news/status/1556727895778856960
The 1st one is by pressing and holding Y+R with the 2nd controller while 1p presses A or Start on the title screen. This brings you to a secret menu where you can fight any opponent. If you select a character on that hidden menu, then hold B+Y with the 2p controller during the pre-fight text while pressing A or Start, then the 2nd controller lets you control the opponents!
This TAS was made to try answer the question of: What are the best possible times you can get as player 1 if player 2 happened to throw out whatever attacks that are beneficial for player 1?
There are quite a few fights that end up being weirdly trivial, while some others end up being either interesting, or really silly. Ill give some descriptions of each.
Gabby: His special attack freezes the clock and has an instant knockdown window at the end, making the fight time stupidly short, and the fight itself ends up being a funny footnote, but not too interesting. There will be a few more fights like this.
Bear: This ones great, because his taunt where he runs to the back of the ring freezes the clock. I use this multiple times to land right jabs exactly as he walks in. These punches are slower usually, but since the slow startup of the punch isnt counted on the timer, it ends up being a nice way to deal extra damage. Because of this extra damage, Im able to KO him without him getting back up for phase 2, saving about 3 frames of in-game time at the cost of several seconds of real time, which is just so ridiculous that I love it.
Piston: This one is similar to Gabby, except Piston does a scripted uppercut after a knockdown no matter what P2 presses, so the fastest way I could cancel it was landing a delayed gut punch for phases 2 and 3.
Bull: This is just a completely comical in-game time of 00011 seconds for the entire fight. Bull charge is just not a good button for P2 to hit, hahaha.
Bob: 3 windmill attacks that freeze the clock = 3 instant knockdowns for a ridiculously short fight.
Dragon: The first knockdown is actually kind of similar to another 3 second knockdown that you can do on the real version of this fight, but since you can swap 2Ps guard at will, you can fit in faster jabs while also getting enough gut punches for the early dizzy. Rapid jabs in phase 2 make Dragon dizzy very fast, which makes his phase 2 refill irrelevant.
Muscle: Headbutt has an instant knockdown window lol.
Sandman: I tried a bunch of stuff, but this really bland simple pattern was the best I could find. As a side note, since P2 controls the opponents guard, you can have him allow as many rapid punches as you want to go through, which comes into play a lot in this weird TAS.
Aran: Pretty similar story to Sandman, however, its worth keeping in mind that landing a super that isnt rapids will make Aran attempt to get you into a clinch, which is not good for the purposes of this TAS.
Heike: This pattern just *barely* allows a KO to be possible this early, due to the timer barely being under 803 off of a high 4 second phase 1. Rapids on phase 2 are a must, because just like Piston, Heike always throws a hook to start a new phase regardless of buttons pressed.
Clown: The end of the balls rush where Clown flips to chop you has an instant knockdown window, so we get yet another one of these silly fights.
Macho: I tried a handful of tricky things that would get low 6 second times, but this phase 1 blew all of those out of the water. Phase 2 is super similar to the real version of this fight, except we can get a left jab counter, which is faster.
Narcis: Ok so, Narcis has access to the triple jab pattern from when he flashes, which has a very fast startup w/o any flashing, but is still counterable! This happens to be very abusable in this fight, which makes this fight look pretty hilarious.
Hoy: Stick has an instant knockdown, so another quick TKO.
Rick: I actually messed around with this one the most, because refills are critically important here. Phase 1 ends up being really similar to the real fight, because all that damage is absolutely necessary for phases 2 and 3.
Nick: The rush from the back of the ring has an instant knockdown, so 3 = the final quick TKO.
The ending I go to at the end of this video is actually unlockable through another code that @new_cheats_news found which you can see here:
https://twitter.com/new_cheats_news/status/1557458843361333250
Anyways, thanks for watching!")
![Splatterhouse (Arcade) - *Former* High Score World Record [742,600 points] (TG/Aurcade ruleset)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HuO4CC5Gjbk/hqdefault.jpg "Splatterhouse (Arcade) - *Former* High Score World Record [742,600 points] (TG/Aurcade ruleset)
EDIT: I beat this by 68,800 points! Check out the new run here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8PPDkUaWsQ
This was played on an original Splatterhouse arcade PCB on the H.A.S. supergun. This run was also done on default difficulty settings shown at the end of the video, and was recorded through an S-Video connection because my setup cannot support RGB signals at the moment. Here is a picture of my boardset w/ its original romset & supergun setup: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dy6ucfvUwAA4AZC.jpg
Its worth noting that this run follows the Twin Galaxies & Aurcade ruleset for score in this game, which bans the use of the double KO tactic on the final boss, which is otherwise the most lucrative option to cash out your extra lives. If this were allowed, then you would have to set up guaranteed double KOs with the blue orb timer, which is something on the order of 14+ minutes per double KO. You could also die to rocks at the end, but if youre on a good pace, the guaranteed route is the best option for consistency. Without the restrictions in this category, scores in the 1.2 - 1.3 million point range are possible.
I also need to make a note that showing your physical DIP switch settings for this game is worthless. Switch 1 enables the settings menu, while switches 2-8 do absolutely nothing, so the only thing that showing the physical dip switches does is tell you whether or not the game is in test mode... which should be already obvious if thats the case or not by looking at the screen. Once the run was over, I flipped DIP switch #1 to show off the actual settings the board was set to during that run.
Because I am doing these attempts on a SuperGun, whenever I reset the board, I am pressing the Test button on the SuperGun. This actually resets the board without me having to power off the board and cause potential damage to it over time.
Im also posting an archive of the entire attempt session, which includes the boot sequence of the board from powering it on initially, up to the successful attempt:
Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9JfMckWfzc
Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/videos/393247354
And for convenience, heres the Twitch highlight of the run itself, complete with live commentary similar to the last video I uploaded of this game: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/393259083
Ok, now that we got all the fine details out of the way, lets talk about the run itself. My pace was pretty good heading into Stage 6 this time, but I still had some stage 6 loops that were cut short. Instead of them being embarrassingly short, they all at least broke 25k, as opposed to some from the last run that couldnt even break 20k. I did also have less than 60k for more of my loops, but my average stage 6 was still better overall, despite seeing less blue orbs than the previous record.
Something I need to elaborate on; the blue orb is a counter-measure so that players do not stay in one spot for an infinite amount of time. This is so theres something to kick idle players off of the game so any new players who walk up to the cabinet dont get any free games, as well as just make sure that players cant stall in one spot to prevent others from playing. This orb is great for score, since it puts a finite limit on how long you can point press any given spot.
I gotta give huge shoutouts to both Anthony Paparo and Caitlin Oliver for driving up this score over the years! Their efforts to optimize this score ultimately inspired me to do attempts of this once I finally got access to arcade hardware.")
![Super Punch-Out!! - Mad Clown [905] (Original Resolution)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/I4F8hCpIILY/hqdefault.jpg "Super Punch-Out!! - Mad Clown [905] (Original Resolution)
Super Punch-Out!! - Mad Clown [905] (Original Resolution)")
![Punch Out!! (Wii) - Bear Hugger [0:26.70] (WR)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/J7yBhPnA2m8/hqdefault.jpg "Punch Out!! (Wii) - Bear Hugger [0:26.70] (WR)
Now these ILs are starting to heat up in difficulty. This fight requires 9 frame perfect inputs to match the WR/TAS time of 26.70, and to set the first attack of Bears to come out as soon as possible, I did not skip the cutscene in any of my attempts. I threw tons of attempts at this fight with numerous really close calls. I had gotten six 26.76s, and five 26.82s before finally getting this perfect time. I also had a whopping 62 attempts that got out of phase 1 with a 2:54 (Ill explain the significance of this knockdown time in a little bit).
Lets break down this fight a bit. The name of the game for this fight is to land star punches during the first frame of startup from Bears next attack. Every single attack and taunt Bear has is critically vulnerable to a star punch, even if it doesnt seem like it should hit!
After collecting the first star from Bears taunt, he starts reeling to the side. If you throw a delayed hook, you can cancel his reel animation so he can start his next attack sooner than normal, which is absolutely mandatory to master if you have any hope of getting sub 27 seconds on Bear. After cancelling his reel, throwing a delayed star punch with the proper timing will meet his hook perfectly to send him to the mat at 2:54, which is a possible first knockdown time ONLY if youve hit the first 3 inputs frame perfectly. One frame slow on any of the inputs in phase 1 will get you a 2:53 first knockdown.
When he gets up, countering his hook will net you a star, then hell bust out his signature hug attack, which you want to hit with a star as early as possible. If you hit it perfectly, you should see Bears head tilt up slightly right as the punch is about to connect, too early and the star will deal normal damage, and too late will obviously have you take a ton of damage.
The final phase of the fight is effectively the same as phase 2, except his hug comes out much quicker than before, so as long as youre ready for it, it should be no problem.
I cannot begin to describe how satisfying it was to crush my decade long PB on this fight almost instantly when I started attempts on him. This fight was *so* hard for me to optimize when I was just starting out with speedrunning. Its just such a tangible reminder in how far Ive come in running Punch Out games, and speedrunning as a whole over the years.
For the next fight, Ill be working on Piston Hondo, since I want to put off Disco Kid as much as logically can, lol. Hondo is another 9 frame perfect input record, held only by Pottoww right now.
The Hondo strategy is pretty new, but the fight should prove to be quite a bit more difficult than this one for me, on the basis of this fight having similar inputs repeated, whereas that fight has mostly unique inputs that have to be mastered and strung together one after the other. Not to mention that fight also has mandatory frame perfect move cancels, and a similar situation where you can get a phase 1 knockdown thats immediately identifiable as frame perfect, since 2:47 is possible to get on the very last frame. Expect me to upload my progress on that fight every now and then (i.e. it almost definitely wont be immediately a record tie like these other ones have been).
Anyways, thanks for watching!")
