One intrepid Super Mario 64 player with far more skill and patience than I can ever hope to obtain has done the once unthinkable.
    • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Jokes aside, a lot of devs love watching stuff like speedrunning. It means someone loved their creation enough to minutely analyze it and spend countless hours with it.

      eg check out the devs watching a guy beat Psychonauts https://youtu.be/lsDc1YVxHA0?t=517

      (I’m pretty sure there was similar version of this where they guy wasn’t in the room and they were just watching the earlier recording of the speedrun but I can’t find it now)

      • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 months ago

        a lot of devs love watching stuff like speedrunning

        True, but some of them hate it. But with the growing presence of speedrunning friendly features in new titles (looking at you, Supergiant), I think that’s becoming less of a problem.

        Either way, these “devs watch” reaction videos are fantastic.

  • OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    11 months ago

    For anyone wondering, this was done on the virtual console version, so the floating point glitch that lets you skip the climbing pole from Bowser in the fire Sea is available.

    The A Button Challenge still stands for the console versions.

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      “Still stands” means is impossible. Is there also a “no thumbstick” challenge? Or a “no controller plugged in” challenge?

      • missingno@kbin.social
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        11 months ago

        Pannenkoek does have a few videos documenting stars that can be beaten with No Joystick Allowed strats (these are old and there are more on the secondary UncommentatedPannen channel but I don’t see a playlist compiling them). A full run is definitely not possible, but at least some stars are doable.