Eternal Realm - 47 Star (Savestateless) chainchump 2024-04-16 | Finally got round to finishing this hack that I started back in August last year. It was incredibly fun and probably my favourite kaizo hack so far. All stars were collected without savestates, however they were used to practice stars and on the star select screen/save text boxes to link each star together into one seamless video.Not sure what I want to do with SA2/speedrunning in general at the moment. I don't get much free time anymore, and whenevr I do, speedruns are the last thing I want to do lol. Maybe one day I'll be back, but it won't be anytime soon.
SA2 - Sky Rail M5 in 0:37.25 chainchump 2023-09-09 | Pretty solid run, although the beginning up until the first check could have been slightly better. Sub 37 should be possible!
SA2 - Metal Harbor M2 in 0:26.22 chainchump 2023-09-08 | First time getting the loop speed in a run. I might try to lower this but this is pretty good for now.
SA2 - Crazy Gadget M5 in 0:40.39 chainchump 2023-09-08 | Solid run overall. I definitely think I could get sub 40 here too, but the grind went on for way too long and I'm finally happy I can stop playing this stage.
SA2B - Route 101 M2 in 0:45.15 chainchump 2023-08-27 | The 1 frame WR :DAlso not sure what happened to the video quality. Settings remained the same as my M1 run but somehow got butchered along the way somewhere.
SA2B - Route 101 M1 in 2:12.87 chainchump 2023-08-26 | Good run, happy to finally get a 2:12 on this IL. I would try to incorporate wall bounces to skip going high on the two ramps, but they're very annoying to land well and I knew I could get 2:12 without them. Hopefully now I'll never have to do this again, kart sucks lol.
SA2 - Crazy Gadget M3 in 0:37.55 chainchump 2023-08-24 | Pretty solid overall except from a slow superbounce. I've died with a 37.20 but overshot the chao on a previous attempt. I also tried doing a double bounce to get OOB but could never quite make it to the red platform. Nonetheless, I'm happy with this run!
SA2 - Crazy Gadget M1/4 in 0:39.79 chainchump 2023-08-19 | I finally got sub 40! This is one of my most difficult stages and was trying to get this on and off for so long. The grind is finally over for M4, just M3 and M5 to go!
SA2 - Hidden Base M2 in 1:06.54 chainchump 2023-08-15 | Everything before the check was very solid, but everything after wasn't good. Still managed to clutch WR but I honestly wouldn't be surprised if 1:05 was possible.
SA2B - Wild Canyon M3 in 0:10.17 chainchump 2023-08-12 | Decided to dust off the GC for this week's IL competiton since the statue clip is slightly easier compared to PC. The clip itself could've been a little better, but the 1 frame spiral upper into the chao was pretty much as tight as I could have gotten it, securing a 2 frame improvement over Katie's WR.My fastest upper is a 10.04, but I barely didn't reach the chao unfortunately. The god run for this IL is looking like a 9.9x, I really can't see it going much lower than that and one day it would be incredible to see!
SA2 - Hidden Base M5 in 1:20.89 chainchump 2023-08-08 | Pretty solid run, only tiny timelosses came from breaking the doors and the extra hover before hitting the spring. Surprised at how close this mission is compared to M1's WR, but I definitely think a low 1:20 is possible here and 1:19 being possible in M1 with an absolutely flawless run.
SA2 - Iron Gate M5 in 0:56.87 chainchump 2023-08-06 | Got this just after my M1/4 run but forgot to upload it lol. 1 frame behind Zethor's 2nd place PB, but it's a 56 so I'm happy with it. I've been on the IL grind recently and it's been pretty fun! Hopefully some more runs to come before returning back to Hero Story :)
SA2 - City Escape M5 in 1:13.90 chainchump 2023-08-05 | Feels good to finally improve the longest standing IL WR after a 10 year reign! Despite this mission being garbage to do, this run ended up being alright. Nothing spectacular, but at least I got the 1:13.
SA2 - Sand Ocean Speedrun Compilation chainchump 2023-08-01 | A sequel to the original compilation, now played on PC and improved times across the board.0:00 - M1: 25.55 to 25.251:32 - M2: 25.50 to 25.322:52 - M3: 25.74 to 25.353:50 - M4: 25.55 to 25.295:23 - M5: 25.30 to 25.276:53 - Bonus instawarpless: 27.02 to 26.85All runs are pretty good with all of them being within 0.1 of each with no repeating times. I have no doubt 24 is possible, but this trick is so inconsistent and difficult I'd be happy with these times forever. My total time spent here was just under 8 hours, and in that time I got instawarp 11 times which honestly isn't bad at all, except when I got it 3 times in 10 minutes then nothing for nearly two hours lol.
SA2 - Iron Gate M1/4 in 0:56.10 chainchump 2023-07-21 | I always seem to struggle with the clipout on this stage. Couldn't quite go fast enough for the 55, but I still managed to get back into top 5.I was about to upload an M1 56.22, but did M4 just to get a nice time and PB'd lol
SA2 - Pyramid Cave M2 in 0:19.04 chainchump 2023-07-19 | Wanted an 18 but I'll settle for this for now. First bounce for the 20 ring box was a bit slow, but everything else was very good.
SA2 - White Jungle M2 in 0:36.97 chainchump 2023-07-15 | It's been nearly 11 years since the last time I did this IL. Getting a sub 37 here is really solid, but can definitely be improved. I tried an alternate strat in using the first loop speed to skip a few rings, but you can only afford to miss 2 in the entire run and it makes the whole thing so much harder. Unsure how much time it would save, but I'm sure it will be faster by a few tenths.
SA2 - Security Hall M1 in 0:03.94 chainchump 2023-07-05 | Finally got round to getting a run using the phantom piece strat. If you destroy an enmy with omochao, the emerald stays uncollected as long as you remain in the level. If you die or restart and the emerald appears in the same enemy again, you're able to collect it like normal! Collecting it any other time makes it disappear and you'll have to do the setup again.This run is actually pretty good considering I didn't use any pause strats. Ths is so much better than playing the PAL version lol.
SA2 - Death Chamber M3 in 0:16.55 chainchump 2023-07-04 | Decided to come back to this to try for WR and got it by 3 frames. I honestly don't see much more coming off this, 16.3x seems to be about the human limit for this IL
Silent Hill 64 (Savestateless) chainchump 2023-06-29 | Despite the level being mostly empty and large, the challenges for the stars were all pretty fun, except the reds and the star behind the window. The camera not cooperating makes them a little more difficult than they should be, but overall there is some enjoyable platforming to be found. I've never played a Silent Hill game before so I don't really know if this level is an accurate depiction of them lol.
SM64 - The Bully Fortress (Savestateless) chainchump 2023-06-22 | I've been playing through a lot of old hacks from SirRouven's hack pack to fill out my profile on Romhacking.com and came across this one. The first five stars could barely be considered Kaizo, but star 6 and the 100 coins introduced some very annoying jumps which definitely ramp up the difficulty. I'd consider this more of bad level design than a good kaizo, but at least I got all 7 stars without savestates!
SA2 - Weapons Bed M1 in 1:19.67 chainchump 2023-06-16 | Solid run overall, my best time for check 1 is 9.34 and I got a 1:00.02 last check in a failed run. Ending was pretty slow though. Could see this going to a low 1:19, MAYBE 1:18 with a checkless run which bypasses the metal boxes with the awful camera. Odds of that happening are very slim though, but you never know with this game and the people that run it :)
Kaizo Mario 64 - 120 Star Playthrough (Savestateless) chainchump 2023-05-09 | This is a 120 star playthough of Kaizo Mario 64 completed entirely without savestates by me. They were only used at the beginning of every star and then edited together into one seamless playthough. I recorded this in between attempts of doing Hero Story, but overall it didn't take very long. If this was an RTA attempt, it'd just come under 2 hours 30 minutes, about 7 minutes faster than the world record. I'm by no means that good at speedrunning Mario 64 in general, but I thought this was pretty cool.Considering this was the first ever kaizo hack all the way back from 2009, I honestly didn't find it too bad at all. Sure there are a couple of really janky bits of level design, but the entire hack as a whole was alright. The bowser stages and TTC were probably the hardest parts, but even then it wasn't anything like I've beaten already. More Hero runs to come in the future, but now I'll be focusing on Tears of the Kingdom for the next several weeks!
SA2B - Hero Story Speedrun in 24:05.93 chainchump 2023-04-25 | 49 second PB but still some obvious mistakes here and there. RNG was particularly bad this run except for meteor herd. 23 should be next!
SA2B - Hero Story Speedrun in 24:54.95 chainchump 2023-04-12 | It's been nearly 7 years since my first Hero Story speedrun and I've finally decided to sit down and take it seriously for a while. Not sure how long for, but I'd like to try for at least a 22 and break the top 20.This run isn't that good, loads of mistakes everywhere, but that just means timesave for the next run!More runs to come soon!
SA2 - Death Chamber x20 in 21:16 (22:53 RTA) chainchump 2023-03-25 | This started out as practice for Hero Story, but turned into proper runs so I could really understand how to play the level. This run wasn't too bad overall. Mostly good RNG but a few questionable decisions on my part. Not too much in terms of free pieces either but overall execution was alright.This was the last thing I needed to do in terms of practice so now I'll be focusing on Hero Story. Not sure how long I want to run it for, but I'll at least try for a 23/22. Any PB I get I'll upload here but I won't be streaming at any point. I hope you understand!Also, how is this layout for these sorts of videos? I'm quite happy with it!
SA2B - Security Hall M5 PAL50 Anomaly chainchump 2023-03-19 | About 11 years ago, I uploaded a video which gave me the gitched results screen in Security Hall M5. I was cleaning up my videos a while back and must have accidentally deleted it. This video is a recreation of that glitch and some things you can do in the short time it's active. The results screen glitch only seems to work on the Gamecube version when played on PAL50. On any other version and even PAL60, it only seems like you can get a black screen which is a softlock. I explore a few scenarios that you can do with this glitch, included actvating the chao kew glitch to reach the test level.
SA2 - Wild Canyon M1 in 0:00.77 chainchump 2022-12-25 | I feel extremely bittersweet about this run. It's great because it's the worlds first completion of a 3/3 spawn displacement run, but that P1 is so dissappointing because I got unlucky with "birdbox RNG". You can see Knuckle's freeze in place for a few frames when breaking it, which resulted in me losing 6 frames in total (and I paused 2 frames late)I really wanted to beat the WR with these strats but ended up tying it. I got this run nearly two days ago and tried so long to beat this, but this is easily one of the hardest IL's to do now due to so many frame perfect inputs, particularly getting the spawn displacement for P1 and P2.To give a bit of context, I collected P2 at 8:01pm on the 22nd of December, and collected P1 at 1:43am on the 24th of December. I left the game running overnight and whilst I went to work so that I could continue the attempt in the evening.During P1 practice, I got a 0.25 as my best time, so my best piece times add up to 0.62, which is probably very close to the true human limit for this stage. This run could have been a 0.6X but again the birdbox really screwed me over.I hope you all enjoy the run regardless and have a wonderful Christmas.
SA2 - Wild Canyon M1 in 0:00.84 chainchump 2022-12-18 | P3 and P2 were both frame perfect, but unfortunately I lost 2 frames on P1 due to pausing 1 frame late and another possibly due to this, or that my angle was slightly off. Haven't had any motivation to play this game for a while but since this was chosen for this week's IL in the IL Competition I wanted to try it for a few hours to improve on my almost 5 year old PB when I got the first ever sub 1 second.I might try this again one day to save those last 2 frames, but honestly this is very taxing on the hands and I am relatively happy with this. At present, it's a 3 way WR tie, which to my knowledge is a first for SA2 IL WR's!
King Boos Revenge X: 160 Star Playthrough (Savestateless) chainchump 2022-12-01 | This is a full 160 Star playthrough of the Kaizo Hack: King Boo's Revenge X. All stars were completed by myself without the use of savestates. These were only used to explore the levels and practice each star.In my opinion, this is the best Kaizo Hack I've played so far and was a really great experience from start to end. It was also the hardest hack I've played overall but I don't a single star was harder than Crudelo Reds since there are no red coin or 100 coin stars. There were so many unique and challenging stars in this hack and one thing I liked the most is that hardly any stars are set along the same path, so each one is a different experience than the last. My favourite course overall is probably Course 13 and is a great example of this. It took me a little over 3 weeks to complete this hack and I decided to upload it as a full video instead of 25. It was a real pain to edit everything and took way longer than needed, but I'm very happy with the finished result!Enjoy!
Super Mario 64: Chaos Edition 4.0 - 120 Star Highlights chainchump 2022-09-28 | Nearly 8 years ago, I uploaded a video of highlights I recorded from a 120 plathrough of Super Mario 64: Chaos Edition. With version 4.0 just being released, I decided to make a follow up video! This time I decided to put all the clips in chronological order and I thought the use of Star Display and Input Display make the viewing experince a little nicer to watch overall.I originally had plans to upload the whole playthrough, but it ended up being recording in six parts and Rainbow Ride 100 Coins took over 6 hours to get. I could always edit together each successful attempt at every star to show the entire playthrough if that is something people would like to see. I still have the recordings but it would take a long time to edit everything but I think it could be fun!Thank you so much for watching!
SA2 - Death Chamber M1 in 0:06.64 chainchump 2022-07-30 | + 1 frame on Key 3, + 2 frames on Key 2, - 6 frames on Key 1 = a 3 frame PB. Overall decent, but should be able to reach around 6.3 with an optimised run.
SA2 - Lost Colony M3 in 1:05.94 chainchump 2022-07-24 | Kind of unexpected, I set myself a goal of getting a 1:06, but I got this after just 30 minutes of playing lol. Still a pretty solid time!
SA2 - Green Forest M4 in 1:03.49 chainchump 2022-06-22 | Slight mistake at 0:28, but everything else was very good! 2.5 seconds faster than the previous record for one of the hardest IL's in the game. Definitely can be lower but for now the Green Forest sweep is real!
SA2 - Green Forest M2 in 0:28.19 chainchump 2022-06-20 | I really wanted sub 28 but this mission is a contender for worst M2 IL. I thought I lost more time than I did right before the first check but it wasn't enough to make sub 28 happen. One day I'll probably come back to this, but this mission is a real pain.
SA2 - Mad Space M5 in 0:39.70 chainchump 2022-06-19 | Good run overall, but need to properly learn spiral upper after final rocket to save a bit of time but it's extremely wonky lol.
SA2 - Egg Golem (Dark) in 0:11.02 chainchump 2022-06-11 | Really wanted sub 11, but ths boss is agonising to play. Only reason I did this again was for the IL Competition. Still better than Hero Golem though.
SA2 - Green Forest M5 in 1:00.45 chainchump 2022-06-07 | Pretty great run overall, it's very similar to M1 except for a few spike balls in very annoying places. Sub 1 should definitely possible here too but I played the ending super safe due to running very low on lives.
SA2 - Green Forest M3 in 0:40.22 chainchump 2022-06-06 | Pretty solid overall, I think I could have subbed 40 though if the last section went a little better, but I got it on the life right after the checkpoint. I also hit the first checkpoint on the final frame before the fadeout which was pretty cool. I did a couple more runs after this which ended with a 40.44 and 40.25 so I'll take this for now. Hopefully one day sub 40 will be achieved!(Apologies for the input display, for some reason it didn't capture properly but at least you can still make out my A and L inputs!)
SA2 - Green Forest M1 in 0:59.60 chainchump 2022-06-04 | World's First Sub 1 in Green Forest!!I had been grinding this stage for almost 3 weeks to achieve this time and today I finally made it reality. I am really happy with this run. Sections 1 & 2 were both 0.1 from my best times, but sections 3 & 4 were both the fastest I had ever done them. I practiced each section for so many hours in order to achieve this run. Sub 1:00 wasn't my original goal, but as I played more, I got a lot more consistent at all the strats and my check times started to come down until my best checks surpassed sub 1:01 and ultimately sub 1:00, which proved that with enough effort I would be able to achieve it.I hope you guy enjoy the run, I'm really proud of being the first person to achieve the sub! This can definitely be lowered though, I wouldn't even be surprised if 58 happens in the near future.
SA2 - Final Rush (Restricted) in 1:44.95 chainchump 2022-05-08 | Very fun IL. Restricted essentially bans any Out of Bounds skips, including the one at the end of the stage as well as others varyng from stage to stage. Wallrun is still allowed for this category since yo'u're still within the bounds of the stage and following the intended path. This run iself is very good. 59.39 is currently my best check time but my last section could have been better by a few tenths at least. A low 1:44 or even 1:43 should be achieveable!
SA2 - Final Rush M3 in 1:19.89 chainchump 2022-05-04 | My goal of a 1:19 has finally been achieved. First section and wallrun was really clean, but the second section could have been a little better. I think a mid-low 1:19 could have happened, but I definitely think a 1:18 will happen one day in the future!
SA2 - Dry Lagoon M2 in 0:18.54 chainchump 2022-04-29 | Really solid overall, but lost a bit of time right at the end due to poor alignment. Probably could've been a tenth or so faster, but still very happy with this one!
Star Revenge 2: Night of Doom (v1.2) - Destroyed Star Boulevard (Savestateless) chainchump 2022-04-10 | 0:00 - Level Entrance0:26 - Star 15:28 - Star 29:13 - Star 311:06 - Star 413:50 - Star 515:12 - Star 616:33 - Star 719:06 - Star 7 (Again)19:18 - Final Bowser FightI finally beat Night of Doom 100% savestateless! I had a lot of fun playing this hack, and it feels good having another full kaizo hack under my belt. I feel like I'm definitely improving my skills in SM64 and I'd love to do more hacks in the future. This stage wasn't too bad since you can skip some of the really difficult platform sections with clever use of the cap boxes and stars 3-6 were really easy. I'll probably return to SA2B first, it's been almost 6 months and I'm slowly getting my motivation back! Hope you guys enjoyed my playthrough and I'll be back soon!
Star Revenge 2: Night of Doom (v1.2) - Course 15 - Discoloured Madness (Savestateless) chainchump 2022-04-09 | 0:00 - Level Entrance0:26 - Star 14:13 - Star 28:08 - Star 310:39 - Star 414:57 - Star 523:15 - Star 626:33 - Star 7The hardest stage in Night of Doom beaten without savestates! The overall difficulty of this hack is pretty consistent throughout, but course 15 definitely undergoes a big spike. I wouldn't say it is as hard as Crudelo Reds, but it is definitely very challenging across all 6 stars. Very happy to get this one done, only Bowser 3 to go!
Star Revenge 2: Night of Doom (v1.2) - Course 14 - Blue Volcano Town (Savestateless) chainchump 2022-04-08 | 0:00 - Level Entrance0:26 - Star 11:26 - Star 22:19 - Star 33:27 - Star 44:40 - Star 58:09 - Star 69:49 - Star 7By far the easiest main course in the game. Nothing here was difficult at all, except for the secrets for star 3. It was quite refreshing not seeing a single patch of quicksand anywhere which is probably why this wasn't so bad at all. The next course is the hardest one in the game though...
Star Revenge 2: Night of Doom (v1.2) - Course 13 - Oldschool Sand Fields (Savestateless) chainchump 2022-04-07 | 0:00 - Level Entrance0:27 - Star 12:02 - Star 24:16 - Star 36:02 - Star 410:02 - Star 511:37 - Star 611:53 - Star 7Another stage I find really fun. Overall not too difficult, but there were a couple of tricky jumps here and there. Getting close to the end game now!
Star Revenge 2: Night of Doom (v1.2) - Course 12 - Rainbow Drugs (Savestateless) chainchump 2022-04-06 | 0:00 - Level Entrance0:17 - Star 11:11 - Star 23:01 - Star 35:28 - Star 47:38 - Star 58:51 - Star 614:15 - Star 7When I played this level before, I remembered it being one of the hardest in the game, but this time around I didn't really have much trouble. Nothing was overall too difficult and it really didn't take too long. The previous level was harder for me but I'm happy to move on to the 'bonus' levels before taking on the final Bowser level!
Star Revenge 2: Night of Doom (v1.2) - Course 11 - Dat Letters (Savestateless) chainchump 2022-04-05 | 0:00 - Level Entrance0:23 - Star 11:07 - Star 22:33 - Star 35:00 - Star 47:23 - Star 512:04 - Star 613:52 - Star 7I wasn't really a fan of this level. There are a lot of really annoying enemy placements and the overall atmosphere was pretty boring. I will say the concept of going from letter to letter is kinda cool though!
