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| The attempt session that got the 1:15.05 @zallard1 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
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The attempt session that got the 1:15.05 @zallard1
![Splatterhouse (Arcade) - Speed Run [13:37]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Uvgl8DadM6M/hqdefault.jpg "Splatterhouse (Arcade) - Speed Run [13:37]
This was played on an original Splatterhouse arcade PCB on the H.A.S. supergun. This run was done on the hardest difficulty, which starts you at 2HP instead of the default 4HP. This was recorded through an S-Video connection because my setup cannot support RGB signals at the moment.
It is also worth noting that since I am running this game on an original arcade board now, that the game is running at a slightly higher framerate than the previous version that I ran (JP Wii VC at 59.94 fps). This board appears to run at about 60.60 frames a second, so this run benefits from small time gains gradually throughout the run vs my old run on Wii JP VC.
So I started going for a really hard strategy that requires good luck on the stage 2 boss, as well as a really difficult jump-punch strategy to take out the 2 airborne knives. So, 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). However, if you press jump and attack at the same time, Rick carries the punch state into the air! This is really hard to do precisely, but it saves 2 seconds, which is huge for where this run is now.
I made huge mistakes on stage 3, which ate up that entire lead, but it let me get an attempt going on pace, so I carried on with it. I lost a bit more time on the final stage due to not slide kicking the final cycle faster, but otherwise, pretty decent run!
Gotta love the leet final time ;)")
![Super Punch Out!! - Heike Kagero [00985] (PAL WR)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/V_7B4Q3mUoo/hqdefault.jpg "Super Punch Out!! - Heike Kagero [00985] (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.
Just like in the NTSC version of Heike, it is indeed possible to score a KO on him as opposed to a TKO, which was widely thought to be the only way to win this fight for a very long time, at least until McHazard released his NTSC TAS in 2014. The strategy is basically a carbon copy of the NTSC fight, but yields a lower in-game time due to differences between the two clocks in each version. If youd like to compare the two fights, you can check out my NTSC fight here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_7B4Q3mUoo
So the idea here for enabling the KO is to get Heikes HP lower in phase 1 than the TKO strategy. The KO has 3 components to it, which involves a unique base refill value that every boxer has, a timer penalty (this has to do with how fast the knockdowns are, with most phase 2s needing to be within 4 in-game seconds to get the best value), and 25% of the amount of HP the opponent has right before their knockdown.
The equation for refills goes something like [Timer Penalty + 25% Opponents HP Before Knockdown - Boxers Base Refill Value], and if this ever ends up being negative or zero, the opponent gets a refill of 0 (i.e. the boxer is KOd). Fellow Super Punch Out speedrunner Akiteru made a fantastic calculator tool that you can mess with to determine subsequent health refills (and KOs) based on specific criteria. You can check it out here if youd like: https://akiterusda.github.io/Spoko/
This fight starts with you holding Up for the first frame of the fight, and then letting go of Up and throwing a right gut punch for the next frame. Follow that up with buffering another right gut punch, a left jab, and two more right gut punches; they should all land without issue as long as the first punch of the fight landed.
From here, Heike is going to attempt to hit you with a jab on your left side, which you will need to counter with a very slightly delayed left jab of your own. As soon as the punch connects and as long as the punch was delayed enough to be a counter punch, you need to pause the game to allow the super meter to fill up completely. Once its filled, just unpause and buffer a low super for Heike to go dizzy! For the dizzy, you can buffer a right gut punch into a quick dodge thats cancelled with a low super to hit the instant knockdown window.
For the start of phase 2, Heike is going to attempt an attack on your left, and youre going to need to intercept that with rapid punches within the first 2 frames that rapid punches can come out. The input for rapid punches is to double tap the A button pretty fast. You need to make sure that youve tapped the button the 2nd time within 8 frames for your rapid punches to come out as fast as they possibly can. Once they start hitting Heike, then one of two things will happen.
Either Heike will block you, and youll have to buffer a low super to get the KO. Keep in mind that the KO with this pattern will only work if you score the 2nd knockdown at 10.01 or earlier. If you get the 1 in 8 luck where Heike dodges, then you will have a chance at pulling off the slightly faster KO, which involves throwing a low super right around when Heike is just about centered from the dodge, but not quite there yet.
Its also worth noting that when throwing this punch, Heike has a random chance of dodging your low super 3/8s of the time even if its timed correctly, making this the final luck event needed, which makes the total luck of the fight (1/8)*(5/8) = 5/64, or about 1 in 12.8 (~7.8%). The only situation where youve actually mistimed your punch ends up being when Heike is able to block your super when its thrown too early. Once it lands, depending on the time, you should be good for a KO as long as your final time ends up being a 1001 or lower!
Anyways, thanks for watching!")
![Mike Tysons Punch-Out!! - Piston Honda 2 [0:40.25]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VuuHMPGCDc8/hqdefault.jpg "Mike Tysons Punch-Out!! - Piston Honda 2 [0:40.25]
I recently learned how the guard manipulation in the TAS works at the end of phase 1 to set up phase 2 thanks to Summoningsalt explaining it to me, so I decided to try to improve my personal best time for this fight. I think I can match Salts new record of 40.00 with a little bit more effort, but I thought this was nice progress for now to upload something.
Might be able to try for 39.9X too if I get to 40.00, but that would be way more difficult, since thats approaching the TAS time.")
![Punch Out!! (Wii) - Title Defense Bear Hugger [1:32.79]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WBmHQeoVJdo/hqdefault.jpg "Punch Out!! (Wii) - Title Defense Bear Hugger [1:32.79]
Shoutouts to Mysteryman for this adjustment. This run bests his WR by a frame, which also happens to make this fight match the TAS time! This is a very peculiar fight to optimize. With the way this fight works, it technically only requires *one* frame perfect input, but there are a few catches that go along with that.
Firstly, none of the inputs in this fight matter until the 1:35 mark on the fight timer (youtube timestamp is 1:00). You want to get to a specific spot in Bears attack script at that *exact* frame, because Bear will decide what type of attacks he does depending on what whole second the in-game timer is. In this run, if I were to get to that spot 1 frame earlier, Bear would throw a delayed hook with the squirrel on his head and ruin the fight.
My approach to this problem was to buffer as many things as possible up until that point. Every buffer in phase 1 is frame perfect to make sure my pace is sufficiently good. First buffer is 1 dodge, 2 quick dodges, and jab. Second buffer is simply 4 full dodges into jab. Third buffer is 2 dodges, 1 punch, dodge, quick dodge, jab, and triple star punch.
My phase 2 buffers are intentionally *lazy* so Im wasting an amount of time such that my average counter timing makes it really likely for me to get to the correct frame I need to be at. This just so happens to be compliant with literally all left dodges for everything in phase 2 lmao.
Phase 3 is the important part. You need to counter the first hug, then cancel the 2nd one, counter the Catch & Release hug, then do a centering hook. This centering hook dictates your entire pace, because the very next attack is going to be the pivotal attack at 1:35. You can elect to do this centering hook sooner if you feel your manual counters up until this point have been bad, or you can do the hook later if you feel all your manual counters have been really tight. This is hard to really judge accurately in the moment sometimes, so this really comes down to judgement calls to increase your odds of success.
After that centering hook, Ive found a frame perfect buffer to always counter his next hook (2 dodges, then right jab, left jab). And right here is the only *mandatory* frame perfect punch aside from the weird centering hook if youre going for a 1:32.79, which is dodging his hook, stunning him, and throwing the final triple star punch. My pseudo buffer for this final attack is that Ill wait until I hear Bears footsteps hit the ground, then do 2 dodges. It works really really well in my opinion.
Anyways, thats it for this fight! I got this ridiculously fast after finding the buffers and testing stuff in emulator, which was something like an hour of actual attempts. Im thinking about improving my Sandman time a little bit before moving onto a different fight, since I feel I can do a least a little better on those cancels for now. Anyways, thanks for watching!")
![Super Punch Out!! - Masked Muscle [00632] (PAL WR)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WNF2ldKOweQ/hqdefault.jpg "Super Punch Out!! - Masked Muscle [00632] (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.
Masked Muscle is a fairly innocuous fight in the full game speedrun. He doesnt dish out luck that can outright kill your entire lead due to a couple of backup strategies, but despite this, he has a fair bit of randomness that can make getting the perfect fight on him mildly annoying.
The fight starts off with the usual guard manipulation that youve been seeing in other fights where you hold up for the first frame of the fight, then let go and hold punch for the second frame, however this fight introduces something new into the mix: random blocking from the opponent.
This happens to be a very similar strategy as the newer NTSC one that McHazard found in his 2014 TAS (I know its weird to call that new but it still feels new to me lol). If youd like to directly compare this fight to its NTSC counterpart, you can check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spDuMYzQo9A
With this strategy, Muscle can block the first two punches, and the final punch that sends Masked Muscle into dizzy status. These are the only luck events in the fight, and the first blockable punch has a 3/4 chance of going through, while the second and third blockable punches have a (3/4)^2 chance of going through since theyre buffered punches. This means the odds of the strategy working are:
(3/4) * (9/16) * (9/16) = 243 / 1024, or about 1 in 4.214 (~23.7%)
Once you’ve landed your first left gut punch of the fight, then immediately buffer a second one and pray he doesn’t block either of those. Thankfully, the next 2 left gut punches you’re about to buffer here will land 100% of the time, since Muscle is attempting to throw hooks here, and while he commits to throwing an attack, he cannot commit to randomly dodging during that time. Its also worth noting that this is technically different than the NTSC version of the fight, as you cannot buffer left jabs here since Muscle blocks them in the PAL version. You can technically do left jabs and get the same time, but you would have to delay them, which is silly to do when you can just do gut punches.
After the 2nd jab, you need to do a slight delay and counter an uppercut that Muscle is about to throw on your right side, to which, you counter with a right gut punch. From here, you need to hit a frame perfect delayed punch such that when the punch lands, you get 2 extra arrows, as well as speed up Muscles recoil animation.
You can either time this delayed punch manually, or do a buffer that involves you to do 2 quick ducks which are actually pretty tricky, because this means you have to tap Down and Up extremely quickly one after the other.
Several years ago, Hootey had actually found that if you do not have your super meter completely filled up, that holding the A button will actually automatically cancel your dodges for you, which effectively eliminates the Up portions of the quick duck inputs, meaning now your only obstacle is to quickly press the Down inputs at the correct rhythm. Its still fairly tricky to get it down just right because of how fast the ducks come out now.
If you hold Down too long, then you end up getting a quick duck that isnt actually the fastest, which makes the punch get blocked. If you over compensate for that by going too fast, then youll only have one duck actually come out.
Once you get the double quick duck, buffer a right gut punch into a left gut punch, which should hopefully get Muscle dizzy (remember he can block the final punch if he wants), and just hold Left until you start to see your character start to dodge, then immediately let go of Left and throw a low super as your character centers himself for an instant knockdown!
For phase 2, the NTSC version has you throw a low super exactly *1* frame after the fight starts back up again, otherwise hell dodge your punch outright, however, inexplicably the PAL version doesnt have this issue at all. You can simply hold the super punch button and just automatically hit Muscle on the first frame possible with a low super. From there, Muscle will not be able to get up, which nets you a KO if you followed this strategy perfectly!
Anyways, thanks for watching!")
![Super Punch-Out!! - Blindfolded Race w/ Hootey performed at GDQx 2019 [18:57]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WSMsErZOqB8/hqdefault.jpg "Super Punch-Out!! - Blindfolded Race w/ Hootey performed at GDQx 2019 [18:57]
Both myself and fellow Super Punch Out speedrunner Hootey both got the opportunity to race each other in Super Punch Out blindfolded at a GDQ! The time listed was my finish time from pressing start until the TKO appears at the end of the Nick fight (this time accounts for the accidental quick start by adding a second to the time).
This game is ridiculously inconsistent and difficult to beat blindfolded at all, let alone in a marathon setting. When I beat this game blindfolded in AGDQ 2014, it had tons of lucky breaks in it, so a repeat performance would require an intense reroute to heighten the chances of success before another marathon showing would be worth attempting.
Both Hootey and myself have been hard at work finding extremely fast setups and ways to make many of these fights as consistent as they could possibly be. That being said, Super Punch Out is wildly random in terms of getting extremely fast times, even to the point where most of our setups are either mostly consistent but cant be completely or we just literally have to options for some fights in terms of consistency.
Despite everything, both of us were extremely close the entire race with tons of huge lead changes. I am also ecstatic that both of us were able to handily beat the AGDQ 2014 time that I got for blind SPO, which really shows how far this game and the community surrounding it has come!
This also happens to be the second time Ive ever completed a blindfolded Punch Out run at a Games Done Quick event to where I never lost a single bout with any opposing boxer! The first time I pulled this off was actually the most recent Wii Punch Out run at SGDQ!
I am super proud of how far Hootey has come in learning this game to the point to where we were both handily capable of sharing our hard work and practice with the GDQ audience this year!
Anyways, I hope you all enjoy our run!")
![(TAS) Super Punch Out!! - 2 Player Mode [2P Wins All Fights] (0:55.64 In-Game Time)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WfVL9k3Vtic/hqdefault.jpg "(TAS) Super Punch Out!! - 2 Player Mode [2P Wins All Fights] (0:55.64 In-Game Time)
I started this TAS several months ago, but left it unfinished due to various other distractions that took my attention away from it. 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 2 if player 1 happened to throw out whatever attacks that are beneficial for player 2?
This is the opposite of the TAS I released a while back, which attempted to get the lowest player 1 times possible, which can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSb-hLWcMyM
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: For this TAS, both players hitting each other on the same frame will cancel some of the end-lag of player 2s attacks, which ends up saving time in some cases! I fit some in to complement the damage from Gabbys Cmon! charges, which freeze the clock. These fights are optimized for in-game time, so attacks like these will be used when available.
Bear: Pretty similar fight to Gabby, but exchange the charges for bear hugs.
Piston: This one likely took the most effort out of the entire TAS lol. I went through several drafts of this strategy, since the first several strategies had so many double hits that Piston would go dizzy, meaning I would have to make him back up to freeze the clock and let his meter drop back down. This version ended up being the best damage per second for double hits that I could find. Piston also starts phases with uppercuts automatically, meaning it needed to be worked around. Im not convinced this is the best strategy, but its good for now.
Bull: Similar to the other TAS, but Bull takes the win each charge.
Bob: The fast hooks are filthy on Bob, and mixing it with his windmill charges make this fight a really quick one.
Dragon: His kicks freeze the timer and are instant knockdowns, making this ridiculously short.
Muscle: Muscles quick jabs, punctuated with headbutt, makes short work of phase 1. Its worth noting that moves with a lot of end-lag ends up usually working out to be faster at the end of knockdowns, since the timer stops immediately when the final blow connects. This is also the first fight where a P1 KO seems to be possible, due to how short phase 2 ends up being, combined with how low health P1 has right before the knockdown. KO mechanics against P1 appear fairly similar compared to the normal game.
Sandman: This might be my favorite, because Sandmans big jab is so ABSURDLY powerful, and its speed is hilarious when cancelled with double hits. I also have Sandman take P1 out with 2 fast jabs, because if you throw a powerful hit for a faster phase 2, P1 doesnt get KOd, and the KO ends up faster.
Aran: I tried a lot of different stuff for this fight, but fast attacks + 1 normal jab always ended up being the winning strategy.
Heike: The same disgusting hook from Bob shows up again, and its very clearly the most lucrative button as far as damage and speed. Hair, while powerful, has a very long startup, and ending a phase with it gives P1 a big refill for phase 2, making a KO not quickly feasible, since Heike automatically starts phase 2 with a scripted uppercut.
Clown: Instant knockdowns too strong.
Macho: Super spin freezes time & connects 1 frame after the timer starts again, making this the shortest possible time for a fight to end with in the game.
Narcis: The fast 3 jab combo lends itself well to setting up a KO, and just being better than every other button he has.
Hoy: Stick partially freezes the clock & deals massive damage, making it the move of choice for this kind of TAS. It also happens to leave P1s health just low enough for a 1 phase KO.
Rick: Instant knockdown + fast hook secures yet another ridiculously fast KO.
Nick: Instant knockdown + fast uppercut makes short work of this fight.
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!")
![Arcade Super Punch-Out!! (Switch; Caravan Mode) - High Score [176,450 points] (WR)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XIL1gTTHUOs/hqdefault.jpg "Arcade Super Punch-Out!! (Switch; Caravan Mode) - High Score [176,450 points] (WR)
Done on the Arcade Archives port of arcade Super Punch Out released on Nintendo Switch. This port actually appears to be based off of the Japanese romset, which has different voice samples than the US version, and a few differences on a couple of fighters themselves.
This mode sets a 5 minute timer for you to get as many points as possible under the timer limit. This is probably my favorite leaderboard in this port since it puts a heavy emphasis on skill, speedrunning and optimization over lasting in an endurance run.
This run had a good start, but kind of fell apart a little at the end of the Macho fight. It seems like thats a section that I dont quite have figured out, since throwing a super to end the fight almost always ends up causing awkward situations that drag the fight out longer.
I got to finish the 2nd phase of Bear Hugger 2, but ran out of time sadly. If I can get to Bear 2 with over a minute of time to fight him, as well as get good luck on getting more 3 counts when opponents are down, I can see it being possible to gather the fight bonus with frames to spare, but the luck and execution make it extremely difficult.
Its also worth noting that the game will save your top 3 times, but only sometimes? Ive found no rhyme or reason as to which ones it saves, so it makes it kind of difficult, since any time you get a top 3 time, it will play a longer cutscene that shows you that your time is being ranked.
Ill be actively trying to improve this, at least until I get a run that finishes the Bear Hugger 2 fight and collects the fight bonus. By the time you read this, the record may have changed hands, as the player in 2nd is also actively improving their score quickly too! Weve exchanged the record a handful of times already, so expect more of that happening soon!")
