Super Monkey Ball Master Speedrun in 14:56.75 callumbal 2019-09-15 | I have written an FAQ about the run/category below!!!Q: Is this WR?A: This is the fastest completion of Super Monkey Ball Master as of September 15th 2019. This is also the first ever run to break the 15 minute barrier!Q: How long have you been speedrunning this game?A: Since January 2015.Q: How many attempts have you done of Master?A: My current splits read 15275 attempts. I think I lost some splits from my old laptop that were at around 12k? I'm honestly not sure. I have also done a few thousand attempts without any splits. Guesstimate is somewhere between 17k and 30k attempts.Q: Why do you enter and exit the game at the start of the run?A: This is load manipulation. I do it for both Expert 5 and Expert 1. Expert 5 is pre-loaded via practice mode. Expert 1 is pre-loaded via the difficulty selection screen. Combined together they save roughly 1.5 seconds.Q: Why is there audio stuttering/framedrops in the run?A: I'm not entirely sure, it's either a) the fact I chose to record direct audio from my cap card instead of what I normally do where I play it through my speakers and/or b) I was watching a high-bitrate stream the entire time I played (shoutouts to Sick_Nerd lol).Q: Will you keep playing?A: I will come back to polish up a few other categories sometime. I have no immediate plans for Master though, maybe if there are new discoveries found in the future I shall return.Further details:Played on a PAL Wii with a PAL disk.Raw upload of my entire gameplay session - youtube.com/watch?v=lVaw2CvuRS0THANK YOU to everyone who has supported me through this journey. This is without a doubt the greatest speedrun I have ever done. Sure it's not perfect (looking at you Expert-Extra), but damn am I proud of this. Love you all!twitter.com/callumbaltwitch.tv/callumbal
Super Monkey Ball 2 Master Speedrun in 3:51.70 callumbal 2023-09-17 | WHO NEEDS GOOD LOADS WHEN YOU EXECUTE LIKE A FUCKING GOD
Super Monkey Ball 2 Story Mode All Levels Speedrun in 27:53.16 callumbal 2023-09-09 | Record pace until 10-8 Revolution. Lots more to come!Twitch VOD: twitch.tv/videos/1921557983
Super Monkey Ball 2 Story Mode All Levels Speedrun in 27:55.98 callumbal 2023-09-01 | MY ERA IS HERE. WR NEXT!Notable timelosses:Death on fluctuation (9.7s)Death on Double Spiral (3.5s)Exit Game on 8 Bracelets (4.3s)Death on Quick Turn (11.8s)Death on Trampolines (6s)Total timeloss across those 5 mistakes: 31 seconds.Twitch VOD: twitch.tv/videos/1914367228
Super Monkey Ball 2 Story Mode All Levels Speedrun in 28:10 callumbal 2023-02-25 | Chipping away.Notable timeloss: - 3.5/4s Spinning Top- 3.8s Randomizer- 5/6s Seesaw Bridges- 5s Swing Shaft- 12.5s GimmickTwitch VOD: twitch.tv/videos/1748802978
Magical Taruruuto-kun Any% Speedrun in 15:41.1 callumbal 2022-12-13 | Great run outside of splits 4 and 5. Going to be tough to go lower, but I'll give it a shot.Twitch VOD: twitch.tv/videos/1677680406
Master of Darkness Any% Speedrun in 18:13.08 callumbal 2022-11-07 | A few small time losses here and there but I'm happy enough with this!Played on a Sega Genesis via a Mega EverDrive Pro.Twitch VOD: twitch.tv/videos/1645730856
Super Monkey Ball 2 Beginner Speedrun in 4:50.71 callumbal 2022-10-21 | thanks for that seesaws -- will go lower!
Super Monkey Ball 2 Master (Warpless) Speedrun in 5:29.83 callumbal 2022-07-06 | Choked many 5:28's late game sadly. 5:29 with no Double Twin IL is still solid, though. I would ideally like a 5:27 eventually (Double Twin IL + 50 Torus). I have unfinished business here.
Batman: The Animated Series (GB) Any% Speedrun in 17:40 callumbal 2022-04-04 | Hoping to improve this by 3-5 more seconds before I'm done for goodTwitch VOD: twitch.tv/videos/1445816580
Super Monkey Ball 2 Master Speedrun in 3:53.95 callumbal 2022-03-01 | Very nearly choked it on Nintendo. I started the timer a bit early, so the retime came out to be a 3:53 by just 3 frames. I did not expect to get a 3:53 without 53 Planets, crazy. Timing is from the A dim on Lives screen to the frame the goal tape breaks.Played on a Black PAL Wii region hacked to NTSC-U. Default console launcher.
Super Monkey Ball 2 Expert Speedrun in 15:08.85 callumbal 2022-02-13 | Bad first 3 splits, good ending. Goobz AND Callum gang!Timing is from the A dim on Lives screen to the frame the goal tape breaks.
Super Monkey Ball 2 Advanced Speedrun in 8:19.76 callumbal 2021-09-19 | Never Give Up!!!Timing is from the A dim on Lives screen to the frame the goal tape breaks.
Ivy the Kiwi? Any% (DS) Speedrun in 21:48.3 callumbal 2021-04-16 | Wow. A deathless run with zero major mistakes. Can't ask for anything better than that! Play this game, it's wonderful :)Played with an original cart on a DSi XL console.Twitch VOD: twitch.tv/videos/988991936
[TAS] Wheres My Cake? • GBC • 1:55.35 callumbal 2021-04-08 | Quickly thrown together TAS of a cute Game Boy Homebrew game.Check out this games creator here: http://cabbage.cx/
[TAS] Shounen Ashibe • SNES • 12:57.8 callumbal 2021-03-24 | TASvideos submission: http://tasvideos.org/7046S.html
Witcheye Any% (Normal) Speedrun in 20:41.53 callumbal 2021-01-09 | Nice cut here, still has some slop though. Will likely improve again sometime.Played on the Steam version with an Xbox One controller.
Witcheye Any% (Hard) Speedrun in 20:59.55 callumbal 2021-01-07 | Still has some mistakes, but I'm happy enough with the sub 21 in this. Going to get the sub 21 in Normal mode next!Played on the Steam version with an Xbox One controller.Twitch VOD: twitch.tv/videos/865011185
Waves Bombing Run High Score - 145,454,903 callumbal 2020-10-04 | Forgot to record a 160m run prior sadly.For those unfamiliar, a x10 or higher combo in this mode gives me 1 shield, which I rely on heavily to survive and maintain a high enough combo count.
Dragon Tales: Dragon Wings Any% (Easy) Speedrun in 13:59 callumbal 2020-09-12 | Hour 5 of the 12 hour challenge, pretty fun game actually. I impulsively switched to this game after randomly finding it on speedrun.com about an hour before going live with the challenge.Youtube Upload: twitch.tv/videos/739066371
Coca-Cola Kid Any% Speedrun in 9:54.0 callumbal 2020-09-04 | IGT = 6:32Meh execution but insane luck saved the day.My timing is from pressing start until the final hit registers.Played on Bizhawk with keyboard.Twitch VOD: twitch.tv/videos/731399869
Shounen Ashibe Any% Speedrun in 13:47.5 callumbal 2020-07-26 | Good enough! Sorry for bad audio, using my fan.Twitch VOD: twitch.tv/videos/690853869
Super Monkey Ball Expert (Warpless) Speedrun in 11:27 callumbal 2020-07-03 | Ok run, will come back for a low 11:2X. Vid from June 28th.Twitch VOD: twitch.tv/videos/664709826
Super Monkey Ball All Difficulties (Warpless) Speedrun in 20:02.6 callumbal 2020-06-26 | Sorry for the background noise, neighbours were shovelling or something outside and kids scream all the time during the day. This run is so funny to me, 2 absolutely ridiculous deaths then good everything else.11:36.6 Expert | 6:17.2 Advanced | 1:54.5 Beginner | 16.3s of deathsTwitch VOD: twitch.tv/videos/662154149
Soul Bubbles All Levels NG+ Speedrun in 1:23:20 callumbal 2020-06-15 | A handful of big mistakes. Happy with this for my 2nd run! Will come back to chip off another minute or two sometime.Twitch VOD: twitch.tv/videos/651099378?t
Kururin Squash! Slippery Slip Speedrun in 20:45.7 callumbal 2020-06-11 | Good enough!Twitch VOD: twitch.tv/videos/647291306Played on a PAL Wii on original disc. The text is garbled because my European console doesn't support it. This neither gains or loses any time.
Kururin Squash! Any% (Easy) Speedrun in 28:52 callumbal 2020-06-01 | Solid run for no 4-8 quick kill. Will likely try get 1 more pb with that in it sometime.Twitch VOD: twitch.tv/videos/638588920Played on a PAL Wii on original disc. The text is garbled because my European console doesn't support it. This neither gains or loses any time.
Pokonyan! Henpokorin Adventure Any% Speedrun in 6:58.3 callumbal 2020-05-13 | Very happy with this run! Apologies for all the background noise, it's tricky for me to stream during the day.1402 combined IGTTwitch VOD: twitch.tv/videos/620084224?t
Toto World 3 Any% Speedrun in 10:06 callumbal 2020-04-22 | Edit: I just realised I had turbo set for the Pause button from when I was testing stuff previously. The Pause button reduces lag frames sometimes during level transitions. Because I was mashing, it only applied the turbo speed half of the time, as the other half of the time my finger was off the button. I have changed the time on my run to reflect this. I don't think it even adds up to 3s of difference, but I wanted to be fair.I really cant be bothered playing this game anymore to try and beat it, so I'm just going to leave it here.Twitch VOD - twitch.tv/videos/599746548
[TAS] Delta Warp • Neo Geo Pocket Color • 39:23.95 callumbal 2020-04-11 | For details about the run, see my TASvideos submission: http://tasvideos.org/6720S.htmlA big thank you to EZGames69 who encoded this movie for me!
NESert Golfing 256 holes Speedrun in 30:32 callumbal 2020-03-06 | Wow, some really solid segments in this run. Only 2 splits were above a 1:1X, which is pretty sick. Sub 30 is going to be tough. Might let this one settle for a bit.419 strokesAverage split time = 1:11.6Twitch VOD: twitch.tv/videos/562521502
NESert Golfing 100 holes Speedrun in 11:37.9 callumbal 2020-03-05 | Low weather effects and generally good execution = a big bop.This run went on to be 1:21 ahead before getting completely bodied and lost all that time after 2 splits, and then was mercy killed when a similar amount of time loss happened a few splits later.
Noddy & the Birthday Party Speedrun in 7:53.8 callumbal 2020-03-01 | Final day of attempts. Stretched 2 hours over my 12 hour challenge time to get this run. Fun game, gg no re.Twitch VOD: twitch.tv/videos/560470858
Pulstario Speedrun Mode in 4:59.50 (IGT) callumbal 2020-02-22 | Some notable mistakes in levels 5 and 8, as well as a slow 6, otherwise good! My SoB is a 4:49, so we're getting close now. Might stop here even with the few errors as I reached my goal time.
CometStriker Arcade (Easy, Lt Striker) Speedrun in 17:09 callumbal 2020-02-09 | This took literally one attempt. The raw file was only 11 seconds longer than this highlight lmfao. I got pretty crap boss luck overall, but had great execution with no big mistakes so GG.Played on the official steam release with Xbox One controller.
Pokémon TCG Any% (No ACE) Speedrun in 13:44.6 callumbal 2020-01-21 | Awful execution, I'm really bad at this glitch. Going to play other games for a bit.
Super Monkey Ball Advanced Speedrun in 3:12.234 – (4:23.134 Advanced Extra) callumbal 2019-10-06 | BONK CITY
Super Monkey Ball Advanced (Warpless) Speedrun in 6:06.084 (7:15.900 Extra) callumbal 2019-09-28 | Slow buffering, but I got all the strats. I'm just glad I didn't choke in Extra's.
Super Monkey Ball Expert Speedrun in 10:09.366 callumbal 2019-09-18 | Bad E30 split again, solid everything else. E40 and E50 were both insane, they each tied my gold!! Included the rest of the run for funsies. Still really enjoying playing this game, plan to improve my Master record next (with controller cam too if I can be arsed!)Played on a PAL Wii with a PAL disk.
Super Monkey Ball Master (Any%) Speedrun in 3:25.333 callumbal 2019-09-03 | Meme alert. Good run until M1, then I went baby mode. This run does new load manipulation as seen at the beginning of the clip to save around 1.2s on the transition from Expert-Extra to Master.Played on a PAL Wii with a PAL disk.
Kero Kero Keroppi no Daibouken 2 Any% Speedrun in 12:43.9 callumbal 2019-07-26 | Played on an RGB NES via PowerPak with original controller.I list further details about the run below:I had some small mistakes in 1-2, 3-1 and 4-3. Otherwise this was a good run (selecting the wrong card in the first minigame is intentional, as this skips waiting for extra lives to refill when playing a faultless game).It's actually pretty hard to piece together a clean run in this game now, because a) I cant miss any enemies or item pickups, as this messes up my minigame manipulation, and b) I do dozens of precisely timed jumps in combination with letting go of right for a handful of frames throughout each stage. Doing this in certain parts of levels jolts you forward a little bit on the screen. If I happen to be holding a diagonal when I land, I get stunted, thus losing me time. It's also hard to just remember where all these locations are in the level, took a lot of trial and error/tedious memorisation! Doing this saves an average of around 0.5s per level I'd say, presuming I don't stutter step or mistime a lot of them.My sum of best is a high 12:41, so I guess this is close enough without having to go insane. Certainly an unbeatable time for my strats without going for all those right releases, which I guess was the goal.
PROTO DARE .NES Warpless Speedrun in 3:31.683 callumbal 2019-07-21 | My timing is from last frame of title screen until the period appears in the end text. This beats the current TAS by a couple of seconds. There's some obvious mistakes here. You can also grind for good luck on all the fire sections and enemies to save more time, as well as playing as if you get perfect patterns for optimal movement. Most screens in the game have 2 different sets of patterns though, so screw doing that!Played on an original console with original controller, using a PowerPak.
Kabuki Quantum Fighter Any% Speedrun in 9:49.533 callumbal 2019-07-15 | Original console (RGB). Original controller. Played on PowerPak.Twitch VOD - twitch.tv/videos/453311178I've written a stage-by-stage analysis below! ↓↓↓1-1: A standard good stage here.1 Boss: I missed a hit, but did everything else fast. 0.2s timeloss.2-1: I fell through the ladder towards the end because... reasons. I went for a frame-perfect ladder jump after this to recoup the time and got it. Net timeloss of about a half a second here.2-2: The biggest timeloss segment in the run. I messed up my jump timing in the water climb section, causing me to get stuck, as well as making my assent a bit slower afterwards. I then got boosted the wrong way from an enemy cause I tried dboosting them too early. Overall, I lost a second here.2 Boss: Great weapon switching, shot timing and luck. Awesome fight!3-1: Essentially perfect stage. 299 on the timer in a run is really sick.3 Boss: Perfect luck, no missed hits. Sweet!4-1: All damage boosts were perfect and health/ammo collection was optimal. Waiting after shooting before I pick up the ammo is a cool manipulation I found to get the enemy behind to shoot at the perfect time so I can get a clean, stress-free dboost up past the next swing and enemy. Only mistake was a really big swing towards the end of the stage.4 Boss: Nailed the fastest kill I came up with and had a quick menu after. I shouldn't have walked right once the boss was dead though, as that caused me to take an extra hit from a projectile. Bit silly.5-1: I had just about enough health to skip the refill from the enemy, which would have netted me 0.3s of timesave, think I just decided to play it safe for this run. Apart from 2 big swings near the end, this was a nice stage.5-2: The first 2/3s were awesome, no mistakes and played the few random elements really well. Flubbed the ending a bit though, did a huge swing at one point and then right at the top I did a really stupid mistake from nerves where I shorted my very last swing of the stage, resulting in a half a second timeloss. Would have been very close to gold otherwise, so can't complain too much.5 Boss: I cut a menu out of the run here compared to my previous attempts and do it on the next boss. This is quite a bit trickier, and requires within 1 chip of max, as well as perfect health to work. The upside is it saves a full second!! I played slightly slightly slow to make sure I did everything right, was good though.6 Boss: I almost completely scuffed this LOL. I shot a bomb way lower than I normally would right before I went into my menu, which I for sure thought meant I'd miss some damage. I instinctively added enough extra ammo to do an additional hit, which put my health DANGEROUSLY low, and fired the remainder off. Turns out all the hits I wanted to connect did, and I put myself in this far more precarious situation for no reason. I only lost a handful of frames scrolling the menu further in the end so it didn't matter. At the very end I had to perfectly read the bosses pattern (you can get loads) to dodge his final shot which would kill me if it connected. Thank god I've practiced what to do in this scenario before and clutched it out no problem!Overall, this was a mostly clean run with some pretty great luck! Can't ask for much more than being within 6 seconds of my sum of best, especially when I'll always leak a little time to my golds because of varying health/ammo refills between stages.
Spider-Man 2: The Sinister Six Easy Speedrun in 14:43.6 callumbal 2019-05-13 | Very close to the run I want now!Twitch VOD - twitch.tv/videos/424501923Played on Gambatte with an Xbox One controller.
Togepis Great Adventure Tower of Origin Speedrun in 7:02.1 callumbal 2019-04-17 | Not sure what compelled me to optimise the run this far down but it was worth the struggle. Nice time!Played on PokeMini emulator.
Togepis Great Adventure Tower of Adventure Speedrun in 22:59.2 callumbal 2019-03-28 | Got the sub!Twitch VOD - twitch.tv/videos/402291415Played on PokeMini emulator.
Super Monkey Ball Beginner Speedrun in 1:26.683 – (2:08.783 Beginner Extra) callumbal 2019-03-05 | Apologies for the crappy recording, this run was done just before I upgraded my capture setup.
Pokémon Pinball Blue Field (Defeat Mewtwo) Speedrun in 6:04.8 callumbal 2019-03-01 | still a bit shit
Pokémon Pinball Red Field (Defeat Mewtwo) Speedrun in 6:54 callumbal 2019-02-19 | Finally managed to sub 7 this. Shite evo like always in runs but everything else was good. Will go for a 6:3x sometime.
