Welcome to this week's episode of RUSH!
Yeah, this week, we never miss anything, ever.
We're very good.
Let's kick this episode off by talking about
something that we kind of missed last episode.
After over a year of slowly improving his
time, Richard Sage has beaten Torje's No ACE
world record in Ocarina of Time.
Not just once, but three times.
He first beat it by just two seconds with
a 16:56, but now sits at a 16:49.
Yeah, sorry we missed it last time.
[Richard] Yes!
Woo!
Yes!
Come on!
Yes!
Yes!
Yes, yes, yes!
Come on, baby!
YES!
Y--
[Shiva] Jumping into the next topic.
What's Luigi's brother known for?
Turning into Bowser via a cap, obviously.
And what does he do?
Well, the trick's dubbed 2D Skip Skip, and
it's what you can see here on the screen.
It's insane, but it just works.
Another event in Odyssey was on March 28th
when the best theoretical time for the game,
which uses two-player mode and edits together
the best individual sections of every runner,
fell below the 56 minute mark.
These clips were compiled in a video by Lupus
and released on April 18th, with the final time
of 55 minutes and 28 seconds.
This video highlights the accomplishments
of human runners, and may be the last minute
barrier broken without tool assisted software.
A new very n-sane glitch has been found for
the Crash N-Sane Trilogy.
Because it isn't wacky enough just yet, you
can do an n-sane fusion to fuse two different
save files, and it usually makes you end up
at the boss.
Skyrim surely is jealous of this masterpiece
of programming.
It currently only just works on PC, as far
as we know.
Runner Crodi originally did a clip in Bug
Lite, the 25th level, and went back into Crash 1,
and it loaded him in Castle Machinery.
This exploit is so massive that it is only
seen on the category extensions leaderboard,
where Crodi holds the world record with a
time of 6:56 for Crash 1.
Moving on to our TAS block, presented by LexiAC.
A few exc--
[laughter]
A few exciting new PC TAS's have been released
in the past few weeks.
TommyeAsY released an Undertale genocide ending
TAS, featuring the famous fight against Sans,
and the death of every beloved character in
58:11, which is faster by 7 minutes than a
normal human can perform.
While the run doesn't get to make use of the
very broken punch card, seen in the neutral
ending TAS, Tommy is still able to move around
in cutscenes through text storage exploits,
and use RNG manip to breeze through battles
with shorter or cancellable animations.
Keylie also finished his TAS for the recently
released Shovel Knight: King of Cards, finishing
the game in 27:11, which is over four minutes
faster than the real-time record.
Tricks used includes cancelling animations
with a jump, skipping the recovery animation
of the turncoat, and manipulating the RNG
of characters and their movements on the overworld.
[ALT] RUSH fans, this is ALTInsider, competitive
speedrunning hype-man.
And today, I am here to provide that hype
for GSA's Super Mario Maker 2 League which,
after fourteen weeks, is reaching its apex
in very short order.
Real quick rules breakdown for all the people
that have no idea what I'm talking about right
now: GSA, or Global Speedrunning Association,
has many competitive speedrunning leagues.
But today, I'm just going to talk about the
Super Mario Maker 2 League, which is made
up of some of the very best players in the
entire world.
The format is this: each player is given the
same set of expert levels as their opponent,
and the player that can clear the most levels
in fifteen minutes is declared the winner.
What makes this spicy, so saucy if you will,
is that each player has three skips to use
at their disposal.
You'll see these skips used for all sorts
of reasons.
But this strategic aspect is what makes SMM2
my favorite form of competitive speedrunning
going at the moment.
As for the finals, we have two of the biggest
titans in the industry, the faces of which
are already getting modelled, getting ready
to be chiseled into the Mount Rushmore of
Super Mario Maker fame.
Of course, I'm talking about the beast himself,
Thabeast721, and the machine, iiPK.
Two of, if not the, very best players in the
short history of Mario Maker.
Thabeast721, of course, the champion of last
season, the returning champ here to defend
his throne from iiPK, a player known for having
not one, not two, not three, not four, but
all five of the top spots in the worldwide
rankings of Super Mario Maker 2 versus mode.
I can't hype this up anymore, but I'll give
you one more fact, one more nugget to chew on.
They have a combined win-loss ratio of 27
wins and 1 loss.
Something has to give here.
Will it be Thabeast721 keeping his sweet cheeks
on that throne of Super Mario Maker excellence?
Or will the machine iiPK himself play king-slayer?
I'll be in the booth with the one and only
Ryukahr as well.
May 1st, 6:30 [PM] eastern, I hope to see
you there.
Stay hype.
[Shiva] My friends, it just keeps happening.
Perfect Ace has climbed not just one, but
both ladders of both GoldenEye and Perfect Dark.
I think he used a tape measure.
From March 26th to April 9th, he achieved
four untied world records, which put him on
the throne from that point onward.
After passing the Big Bossman in time ranks
with Deep Sea Special Agent in Perfect Dark,
he managed to be the dual champion.
April 19th: Perfect Ace tying the longest
untied Perfect Dark/GoldenEye record
by Chuya Takizawa:
Attack Ship Agent.
A run notorious in the community for bad video
quality, odd choice in music, and a four-second
[untied record] when set, with a time of 2:06.
[Music] You said what are the chances we find
each other through all the madness?
[Shiva] April 12th would see one of the untied
records slain [in] Villa Agent in Perfect Dark,
with a time of 1:01 by Illu.
Daniel "Wodahs-Reklaw" Coelho improved
his silo times and became the new
champion of GoldenEye.
Wodahs was one of the first to join during
the advent of livestream speedrunning, and
achieved the champion status [first].
The next topic are the marathons that have
happened in this month.
Some of the runs that I found that stood out
for ESA were definitely Celeste, run by TGH.
He's just a genius, he just knows how to do it.
And they also did something very curious by
allowing Final Fantasy 7 remake to be run
by FroobMcGuffin, which I think is a very
gutsy decision, but a huge props.
Also, the back-to-back runs of World of Illusion
and Castle of Illusion were really amazing.
Edenal was on doing commentary as well there,
so really cool to see if the organizers themselves
are appearing.
(CRDQ) kicked off really strong with V0oid
running the 101% category of Donkey Kong country,
which was a super hype run.
And of course, the Super Mario Sunshine race
where SBlectric managed to get a PB in a marathon
setting, really insane.
So this is the first episode that I, Shiva
Ruka, wrote.
Kind of a short notice.
Thanks to Willis Greyman for the GoldenEye
section, really insane.
I honestly have no idea about that, so writing
that history up was very much appreciated.
Thanks so much-- he sent me an insane document...
it was very good.
Shoutouts to Podz for the intelligence, and
of course ALT.
Dude, thank you so much for that audio file.
I'm just really grateful.
Alright, get out.
I'm done.
Cut the video.
Lexi, what are you doing!?
Comment% is not that interesting!
Dangit!
Urgh.
[laughter]
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