wow this would be really cool. (also yay my thread got mentioned :D )
haha i remember fondly the early days in my university life which i could afford to squander by choosing to play n all day. i wish i was a first year student again... life right now really sucks
but anyway when i was doing the whole game speedrun, a lot of time was spent unnecessarily testing out routes for the harder,
non-linear levels, such as 24-2, 29-3 (rocket section), 29-4, 37-3, 59-1, 59-3, 69-2, 79-3, 79-4, 83-3, 85-3, 86-4, 89-4, 97-2. i would have been able to get rid of maybe an hour and a half, maybe more, if i'd just memorised routes and practised them beforehand. i didn't include stuff like 59-4, 69-4, 86-3, 88-4, 96-4 because they're linear and it's just a matter of doing what is in front of you. but yeah i don't feel like doing
that again >_<
also i did spend maybe 15mins writing up the log (as fast as i could, which is why it reads a bit rushed) as i was going along, which is obviously non-essential for a speedrun.
you might also want to read the
column speedrun thread to give you more insight on how this would work. dw40/banjodave listed analu's column speeding records on the old metanet forums, some of which are rather ridiculous (31mins for the 80's column? 20mins for the 90's column?
REALLY?) and he personally states that
DW40 wrote:With loads of practice I reckon a 3h30m - 4h time is possible. Maybe one day.
which i think is really ambitious but he probably knows this stuff more than i do.
but sure, with a bit of practice and route memorisation beforehand a six-hour time is certainly within reach for eddy+macrohenry. i'd certainly watch it if i could. i mean eddy beat n v2 incredibly quickly as soon as it came out... this would be thrilling to watch
muscℴvar wrote:metanet should take their fat $ony buxx and pay to fly top highscorers to a single venue for this sort of event
haha i once had a dream like that, in which ben schultz got hold of a portal device and an abandoned multi-storey underground bunker and used the portal device to try to gather n speedrunners across the planet together to compete on a few levels deep inside his bunker. it was about to start, then i woke up.