[FFA] Any% speedrun - 11:47 Xenon 2025-09-06 | Yet another new route. This time Chocobo is skipped, and instead we fuse a dying enemy with Iflyte to get Drôle Menu.00:00 - Intro02:29 - X-Cure1. Farm to 160g, charge up a key glitch during the process2. Go to the weapon shop in Topple once you're done farming3. Store the shopkeeper from the weapon shop.4. Walk to one of the two Topple women, and purchase an X-Cure from them (I chose to go around to the bottom-left one for safety reasons).06:07 - Iflyte1. Once you leave Topple, head left and kill the fused goblin (it will be the one that's moving more erratically).2. Reload the screen and do key glitch to store the goblin, then re-enter Topple3. Get the goblin-woman to walk into you * This updates the woman's properties and gives her the goblin's contact damage. Without this, she wouldn't damage you and would instead break out of her infinite walk later on.4. Move to a full tile from the top edge of the screen, then perform key glitch * Be careful when mashing for the key glitch here, as it will most likely affect your count for step 5 * The woman will need to get stuck infinitely walking for this strat to work. If she doesn't cooperate, kill her and redo the setup from the start of this segment.5. Count 194 B presses6. Stand in the exact spot shown in the run (shown at 7 : 35) and face any direction except left, then get bumped by the goblin-woman (you will get sent to the right). * facing left will knock you upwards instead7. Pull up the pause menu a couple of times until your knockback ends, you should end up directly above the bridge. * Menu pulls can be used reduce your knockback, as is the case here * All the menu pulls in the following steps set up your invulnerability timer to run out as you step onto the warp tile, allowing you to perform snowmanless.8. Buffer an up press when closing the menu, pull up the menu again as soon as you begin walking9. Buffer a down press when closing the menu, pull up the menu again as soon as you begin walking10. Walk down onto the warp tile, make sure to stop as soon as you're fully on top of it11. Move up half a tile12. Smack the goblin-woman without moving from the warp tile, start holding down during your sword swing13. Walk down to the next screen and activate key glitch by mash the remaining B press(es) on the way * This key glitch will fuse the dying NPC onto Iflyte. The amount of time you get to perform drôle menu varies slightly depending on how long it takes for the explosion to begin * If you react fast enough when NPC vanishes, you can do step 14 before entering the boss room. This will give you a little bit of extra time to get drôle menu.14. As soon as the boss spawns in, pull up the item menu and equip the X-cure15. Get Drôle Menu08:08 - Julius 10:17 - Julius 3It's almost certainly faster to get projectile storage on J2 to skip this fight. I opted not to do it just to guarantee that this run finished.12:07 - CreditsPlayed on mGBA v0.10.5
[RoRR] Providence Trials - Ruins of the Future - 0:49.700 Xenon 2025-09-01 | Loader got new grapple tech this update.played on v1.1.0
[FFA] Any% speedrun - 13:12 Xenon 2025-08-27 | Yet another new route. This one is quite the doozy. This route was drafted after the discovery that projectile storage could be activated on regular enemies. It became speedrun-viable after the discovery of a rather complicated addition to storage involving temporary chocobo.00:00 - Intro02:30 - Chocobo05:57 - Kett's08:37 - Crystal Desert09:21 - Projectile Storage10:28 - Chimera11:15 - Julius 1I made a mistake here and forgot to equip the broadsword to dismount from airship mode. I should have swapped weapons immediately after getting airship mode.13:00 - Julius 313:33 - CreditsPlayed on mGBA v0.10.5
[FFA] Any% speedrun - 13:42 Xenon 2025-08-11 | Routed in projectile storage, a new application of key glitch, to save massive time at the end of the run.00:00 - Intro02:37 - Chocobo05:33 - Axe07:55 - SnowfieldI begin setting up a key glitch during the walk to the ice cavern.09:27 - Sword Warp10:14 - Sanctuary of Mana10:59 - Julius 112:01 - Projectile StorageThe full sequence for projectile storage goes as follows:1. Begin with an escape from the arena using the Julius clone's movement, then go to one of the rooms adjacent to the snake/shadow zero room.2. Store Chocobo using key glitch, then walk into the snake/shadow zero room before he reappears. Chocobo will get fused with a snake. Walk back to Julius's arena. Julius will have a glitched object lodged inside him which needs to be destroyed.3. Hit the glitched object with your sword a couple of times to destroy it. It will now become an even more glitched object? (I'm not entirely sure if it's even an object at this point) NOTE: Since Chocobo normally wouldn't be destroyable if fused with Julius directly, we needed to fuse him with the snake first (any enemy we can damage works for this).4. Perform Key glitch on the garbled mess. NOTE: it is critical to get key glitch while the boss is in a state where he fires projectiles -- in J2's case, it's when he is floating around with his legs tucked in. 5. Perform Key glitch on the garbled mess a second time. The same restriction applies as with the first time. NOTE: It seems that it's possible for the glitch to work while Julius is diving as long as any of his projectiles are still on screen.6. Confirm that you have projectile storage. the visual cue is that one of the lightning bolts that Julius shoots (probably the left one) will instantly vanish instead of moving.7. Leave the arena and go to the Sanctuary of Mana. You will need to do a fully charged sword attack to remove airship mode.All objects that are affected by key glitch will now be treated as a projectile, while retaining their original properties. This does mean that you can still interact with them (provided they don't just blink out of existence).13:32 - Julius 3Julius is a projectile, projectiles get deleted when they collide with things.14:09 - CreditsNo funny credits anymore :(Played on mGBA v0.10.5
[FFA] Any% speedrun - 14:23 Xenon 2025-08-07 | 00:00 - Intro02:30 - Chocobo05:23 - Axe07:50 - Snowfield09:15 - Sword Warp09:54 - Sanctuary of Mana10:48 - Julius 111:51 - Julius 212:54 - Julius 314:43 - CreditsPlayed on mGBA v0.10.5
[FFA] Any% speedrun - 14:57 Xenon 2025-07-31 | Sub 15 has been achieved!00:00 - Intro02:32 - Chocobo05:31 - Axe07:53 - SnowfieldI Finally started doing Snowfield without Chocobo to charge the will bar on the way to the sword warp.09:21 - Sword Warp10:07 - Sanctuary of ManaCompletely skipped enemy kills this run. I'm not sure if it's better to gain a couple of levels or not, since I bleed a lot of time during the fights without them.10:53 - Julius 112:01 - Julius 213:14 - Julius 315:20 - CreditsPlayed on mGBA v0.10.5
[FFA] Any% speedrun - 15:24 Xenon 2025-07-29 | Changed my approach to various parts of the run, which saved about a minute overall.00:00 - Intro02:31 - ChocoboStreamlined the process of moving the egg to Topple. I realized that you don't need to reload the egg room at all, so you could do one continuous mash to warp and reload the egg.You need to wait for the egg to "settle" into place, it will visibly shift left a couple of pixels when it fully warps back onscreenDuring my first bit of testing I must have screen transitioned before it settled, which is why I thought the room reload was a necessary step05:42 - Axe08:10 - SnowfieldI dismount slightly before entering the cave here to begin charging the Will bar sooner. Optimally this would be done as soon as possible, but enemy spawns make that difficult to do efficiently.09:25 - Sword WarpI began loading the room from below to encourage the enemies to drift downwards instead of upwards.10:36 - Sanctuary of ManaThe level grind is mostly skipped, instead I fight a couple of elephants on the way.12:03 - Julius 112:45 - Julius 213:51 - Julius 315:45 - CreditsPlayed on mGBA v0.10.5
[FFA] Any% speedrun - 16:31 Xenon 2025-07-28 | Another new route, crafted by Dagmor. this route uses key glitch to get us to the ice cavern early, from which we could go straight to the end of the game.I decided to add bit of quantum entanglement and over 1500 B button presses to the mix00:00 - Intro02:35 - ChocoboKey glitch is used a grand total of 4 times (1024 B presses) to move the egg to Topple and get it into a state that can be interacted with. I got unlucky with the key glitch on villager at the start of the sequence, so I had to do one extra.06:06 - AxeMandatory to farm 150g to purchase the battleaxe, key glitch is used again (another 256 B presses) to skip Bogard and the subsequent movement08:40 - SnowfieldSince the Chocobo running across the screen isn't real, I save and reload to be able to ride him. the Axe is used to cut down the trees to enter the snowfield, its only use in the run. Chocobo is useful in this segment because he ignores enemies completely.09:56 - Sword WarpThis sword warp room is terrible.10:46 - ExcaliburChocobo once again proves his usefulness. Instead of performing snowmanless, you get to just ignore the warp tile and dismount on the next screen to enter the Mana Sanctuary.11:26 - Level grindSince this route fights all three forms of Julius, a farm in this section is pretty much mandatory.15:50 - Julius 1I enter the cutscene while riding Chocobo, this bugs the game out a little bit.The game assumes that I entered the battle as Sumo. once the fight begins, it sees that I'm supposed to be riding a chocobo. it decides to pull in the closest object as my mount, in this case it happens to be Julius. This essentialy fuses Sumo, Chocobo, and Julius together.I remain in this partially fused state until I either walk to another screen, or use a fully charged sword attackI need to dismount Chocobo to end phase 1, since I'm currently one of the Julius clones (or maybe the real one)14:07 - Julius 2I need to remount Chocobo to end phase 1, since I'm once again part of the greater Julius15:11 - Julius 3I want to separate from Julius at this point for a few reasons:1. I want to regain control of my character, fighting for control of the character is especially annoying during this phase, and it runs the risk of Julius teleporting to the waterfall on either side (for some reason these count valid ground), effectively softlocking the fight.2. I need to avoid having to charge my Will bar at the very end of the fight3. The credits lock up after a bit. The game does count as being beaten, but I prefer having the full ending sequence play out.To escape the arena and separate from Julius I wait until Julius (me) starts walking on his own. his walk gives airship mode for its duration, which is long enough to walk down the edge of the screen.I perform one final key glitch here, just for fun16:55 - CreditsKey glitch does funny things to the credits.Played on mGBA v0.10.5
[FFA] Any% speedrun - 17:55 Xenon 2025-07-28 | 00:00 - Intro02:35 - Kett's06:38 - Cave of Marsh10:21 - Sword Warps11:49 - Forbidden Mines14:42 - Drôle menu bug15:15 - Julius18:18 - CreditsPlayed on mGBA v0.10.5
[FFA] Any% speedrun - 18:30 Xenon 2025-07-24 | Julius knew the secret all along!Introducing the brand-new Key glitch. If you mash the B button with certain items equipped, it has a chance to unload objects. You can then change rooms while objects are unloaded to stack object behaviors onto each other. If you spam B you can continuously respawn and unload the phantom object. this second effect can be used to glitch out the screen scroll. 00:00 - Intro02:37 - Kett'sA visit to Topple is necessary to pick up the key at the very first shop.Set up the glitch two screens to the right of where you meet Girl/Fuji, a crowded room seems preferable.Once you're set up, mash the B button until you see a goblin vanish.Reload the goblin by mashing the B button some more.scroll the right screen from the top strip, then walk left to screen wrap. You need walkable tiles from OOB to reach the other side.06:50 - Cave of MarshBecause Bogard's cabin is skipped, the Mattock needs to be farmed from either the land leeches or slimes (the mage is necessary for the latter).The route re-converges after this point11:20 - Sword Warps12:49 - Forbidden Mines15:17 - Drôle menu bug15:50 - Julius18:54 - CreditsPlayed on mGBA v0.10.5
[FFA] Any% speedrun - 19:33 Xenon 2025-07-17 | 00:00 - Intro02:33 - Bogard's cabin05:19 - Kett's08:58 - Cave of Marsh12:30 - Sword Warps14:04 - Forbidden Mines16:22 - Drôle menu bug16:51 - Julius19:56 - CreditsPlayed on mGBA v0.10.5
[FFA] Any% speedrun - 20:17 Xenon 2025-07-04 | 00:00 - Intro02:32 - Bogard's cabin05:15 - Kett's08:48 - Cave of Marsh12:28 - Watts14:23 - Megapede17:00 - Drôle menu bug17:28 - Julius20:40 - CreditsPlayed on mGBA v0.10.5
[FFA] Any% speedrun - 20:33 Xenon 2025-06-24 | Now with an input display! Small route change that skips the shopping trip. I now farm the Key and Mattock inside the Cave of Marsh.00:00 - Intro02:36 - Bogard's cabin05:34 - Kett's08:59 - Cave of Marsh12:46 - Watts14:36 - Gigapede17:08 - Drôle menu bug17:49 - JuliusI've from a down-walk-B to a neutral-b facing up to warp more efficiently. I Also started to do a brief farm on the way to J1 to speed up the fight.20:55 - CreditsPlayed on mGBA v0.10.5
[FFA] Any% speedrun - 21:51 Xenon 2025-06-13 | Improvement of over a minute, mostly due to integrating Dagmor's Julius strats for the endgame.00:00 - Intro02:32 - Bogard's cabin05:45 - Item Shop07:30 - Kett's09:54 - Cave of Marsh13:37 - Watts15:32 - Gigapede18:25 - Drôle menu bugswap to Broadsword here after getting drole beacuse it allows me to reliably get out of airship mode without having to save-quit. Also started using a down-walk-B to warp to the to top edge of the screen to cut travel time.18:58 - JuliusImplemented Dagmor's Julius strats to skip the cutscenes and J2 entirely.22:10 - Creditshard drive ran out of space, so the video cuts off abruptly.Played on mGBA v0.10.5
[FFA] Any% speedrun - 23:02 Xenon 2025-06-09 | Put together a route that utilizes the brand-new Drôle menu bug.00:00 - Intro02:32 - Bogard's cabin05:36 - Item ShopI skip the Battle Axe here since it's not needed for any warps. I'm not positive that skipping it is worth as of now, since it helps with the combat until the Sickle is acquired.Both a Key and Mattock are purchased to be able to navigate to the end of the Cave of Marsh.07:40 - Kett's10:12 - Cave of Marsh13:35 - Wattssword warp south to reach the ice cave, head south two rooms, sword warp south again to reach the mines.15:32 - Gigapedean X-cure is immediately purchased from Watts to set up for the drôle menu bug. If Man was recruited to help in Cave of Marsh, a save is strongly advised after the purchase, since loading any save will revert the companion to Man instead of Watts.18:08 - Drôle menu bugX-CURE MUST BE SET TO THE ITEM SLOT WHILE PERFORMING THE GLITCHThis is where the magic happens, I pull up the status menu (main menu works as well) on the last frame of the explosion to activate the drôle menu bug. once the glitch is active I modify my item slot from the X-cure to a blank item (full sequence: X-cure195, Heal195, blank, *blank*), which allows Boy to become invincible and ignore collisions.18:41 - JuliusInvulnerability needs to be reapplied after the first cutscene, and again after J2.23:11 - CreditsI did a save-reload after J2 to fix the credits. If J3 is killed immediately the credits will softlock after running for a bit.Played on mGBA v0.10.5
[RoRR] Providence Trials - A Colossal Feat - 0:55.0 Xenon 2025-01-05 | Discovered that killing the first lemurian quickly enough immediately spawns the next wave.Properly started manipulating the Wandering Vagrant to prevent it from staying out of reach for long stretches of time.
[RoRR] Providence Trials - Ruins of the Future - 0:53.700 Xenon 2025-01-05 | Swapped two mechanical spiders fore ones more closely clustered together and tweaked a bit of movement at the start of the temple interior.
[RoRR] Providence Trials - Shadows of the Past - 0:29.300 Xenon 2025-01-05 | Reverted back to manipulating the Elder Lemurian to walk left to get the Swift to dive at a more favorable angle and timing.
[RoRR] All Artifacts speedrun - 8:49 (Pilot) Xenon 2024-12-23 | Removed pocket watch to be able to reduce gold count without having to worry about pausing the Providence fight for too long.00:00 - Dried Lake01:48 - Sky Meadow03:31 - Ancient Valley05:09 - Hive Cluster06:49 - Temple of the Elders08:26 - Risk of Rain
[RoRR] No Artifacts speedrun - 11:20 (Pilot) Xenon 2024-12-23 | Faster run overall, but missed one of the door clips. I had more movement speed than usual, so I couldn't use my visual setups and had to improvise. Thankfully 2/3 was good enough to get the job done.00:00 - Desolate Forest01:51 - Damp Caverns03:34 - Sunken Tombs05:15 - Hive Cluster06:54 - Temple of the Elders08:50 - Risk of Rain
[RoRR] Low% speedrun - 14:14 (Drifter) Xenon 2024-12-23 | Absolutely absurd run. This was the first and only Drifter run I had that was able to stack enough red drops to start cascading. As a result Drifter became virtually self-sufficient. I had to tweak my unlocks many times to get the correct balance between having enough good items for movement/combat, while keeping the item pool small enough to have the items stack well and last through the Providence fight. 00:00 - Dried Lake02:01 - Sky Meadow03:59 - Sunken Tombs06:05 - Magma Barracks08:03 - Temple of the Elders09:57 - Risk of Rain
[RoRR] All Artifacts speedrun - 8:52 (Pilot) Xenon 2024-12-21 | Went a little ham at the end and lagged the game out. This run was done on a file with full unlocks, so I intend on coming back with a file that has proper equipment unlocks (no pocket watch).00:00 - Dried Lake01:54 - Sky Meadow03:40 - Sunken Tombs05:20 - Magma Barracks06:58 - Temple of the Elders08:40 - Risk of Rain
[RoRR] Low% speedrun - 16:16 (Sniper) Xenon 2024-12-21 | Low% is hard.00:00 - Dried Lake02:32 - Damp Caverns04:21 - Sunken Tombs06:03 - Magma Barracks08:12 - Temple of the Elders10:16 - Risk of Rain
[RoRR] No Artifacts speedrun - 11:34 (Pilot) Xenon 2024-12-21 | Blast Doors weren't enough to keep Providence safe from Pilot.00:00 - Dried Lake02:05 - Sky Meadow03:46 - Ancient Valley05:26 - Hive Cluster07:11 - Temple of the Elders09:15 - Risk of Rain
[RoRR] Any% speedrun - 8:29 (Pilot) Xenon 2024-11-24 | The 8:30 barrier has finally been broken!00:00 - Dried Lake01:46 - Sky Meadow03:22 - Sunken Tombs04:58 - Hive Cluster06:34 - Temple of the Elders08:12 - Risk of Rain
[RoRR] Providence Trials - In the Clouds - 0:17.300 Xenon 2024-08-22 | Found an optimization after the quadruple restock where I could preserve momentum on the following Tectonic Surge.
[RoRR] Providence Trials - Slide to the Finish! - 0:54.700 Xenon 2024-08-20 | Randomly decided to check if killing more pigs dropped subsequent hooves, this was the result.
[FFA] Becoming Julius Xenon 2024-08-17 | When you can't beat them, Join them.00:00 - Julius Fight03:17 - Final Cutscene07:25 - Glitched Credits
[VoM] Any% Demo speedrun - PC - 08:30 Xenon 2024-08-10 | This route is interesting, but the tricks are very inconsistent. 00:00 - Rime Falls02:20 - Fallow Steppe04:25 - Rhata Harbor06:15 - Kraken
[RoRR] All Providence Trials speedrun - 1:03:31 Xenon 2024-04-03 | An unfortunate death at the very end of Danger Orbits cost me over a minute.00:00 - Assassination Contract01:47 - Inner Demons02:14 - S.O.S03:29 - Equivalent Exchange06:32 - Get Off My Lawn!08:55 - Blades in the Wind09:31 - Gup Sorting?10:18 - Shadows of the Past 10:56 - Hot-Rope Hop11:35 - Bullseyes Only12:29 - Piercing Space and Time13:10 - Break The Targets!13:27 - Race to the Finish!13:50 - Uncontrolled Experiment14:31 - In the Clouds14:53 - Slide to the Finish!15:57 - Judgement22:16 - Scavenger Hunt24:58 - Castle of Memories26:07 - Ruins of the Future27:13 - A Duplicator?!30:17 - Think of the Children30:49 - Scorching Heart32:04 - From All Angles33:55 - Highway Robbery35:14 - Routine Maintenance36:01 - A Fresh Harvest37:47 - Emergency Ejection38:28 - Lightning Strikes Twice38:42 - Danger Orbits41:42 - Kited Blades42:11 - Go 0n Without Me43:27 - Lone Wolf44:46 - Meteor Showers45:43 - Perilous Descent46:16 - A Colossal Feat47:34 - Endless Stand-Off48:33 - A Rung Above50:09 - Main Systems Offline51:24 - Caustic Climb51:55 - A Toxic Path53:41 - Brave Heart, Steady Hand54:07 - Don't Think, Feel54:46 - Specimen Sampling55:36 - Drowning in Research57:42 - Colossal Lift59:34 - Crash Landing1:00:07 - Juggling Priorities1:00:36 - The Right Ingredients
[RoRR] Providence Trials - Assassination Contract - 1:34.900 Xenon 2024-04-02 | Done during an All Providence Trials attempt, the time save is likely form being a higher level on the Imp Overlord from extra kills + exp barrels. I've since improved the time to a 1:34.400 through cleaner execution but unfortunately lost the recording, so this is the current fastest recorded run.
[RoRR] Providence Trials - Bullseyes Only - 0:50.200 Xenon 2024-04-02 | New route that's both easier to execute and is slightly faster.The timesave is from not having to charge Quickscope to break the rightmost target.
[RoRR] Providence Trials - Piercing Space and Time - 0:24.500 Xenon 2024-04-02 | Massive improvement thanks to a complete route change. I originally found the 2nd checkpoint shot a while ago and routed up until the last shot, where I found I was on a lengthy cooldown. It wasn't until I started experimenting with the old 1st checkpoint route that I realized that I had a utility skill restock below that I barely had enough time to pick up.
[RoRR] Providence Trials - Piercing Space and Time - 0:25.100 Xenon 2024-04-02 | Improvement using the same route, but a faster ending.I started charging the final shot a step higher than usual to get a much shallower angle.
[RoRR] Providence Trials - Shadows of the Past - 0:30.800 Xenon 2024-04-02 | Finally got a run where the lemurian walked off the left side of the stage to end the enemy wave even sooner. Still some time to improve, as the first phase was very slow.
[RoRR] Providence Trials - Judgement - 5:49.500 Xenon 2024-03-17 | Insane run, best pace ever entering Providence by around 5 seconds. Ended up improving record without any one-shot kills on any of the phases.00:00 - Sunken Tomb01:33 - Magma Barracks02:22 - Hive Cluster03:30 - Temple of the Elders04:38 - Providence
[RoRR] Providence Trials - Scavenger Hunt - 2:11.600 Xenon 2024-03-03 | last second missile drone upgrade + double arms race drop
[RoR2] Any% SoTV speedrun - 8:28.46 (Huntress) Xenon 2024-02-19 | Finally the sub 8:30 on current patch. Decided to swap to wings early since the pace was good, ended up being the correct decision since there were no equipment drops for the rest of the run.I fully expect pod + long dash strats to overtake this run, but since I do not have DLC or plan on getting it in the near future, I'll likely not continue to run current patch.0:00 - Verification0:11 - Stage 1 2:08 - Bazaar2:29 - Stage 23:35 - stage 34:41 - Stage 45:48 - Sky Meadow6:55 - Commencement9:02 - Verificationran on version 1.2.4.1 without DLC
[RoRR] Providence Trials - A Toxic Path - 1:30.500 Xenon 2024-02-19 | Jumped too soon after the long drop on lap 3 and had to do the bottom path. The lynx archers then decided to turn Acrid into a porcupine.
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