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Thanks to the youtube mashup site I was able to watch these videos side by side with the 56 run from miles.  If it were not for the errors made getting boostball along with a very few other places I think a 54 min run is absolutely possible.
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rekameohs: 2014-07-21 03:16:35 pm
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Wow, that was some really impressive boosting, and there were a ton of dashes that I had never really seen used before. Seems like 0:54 might be the absolute best time with this route based on how optimized this was, but you never know with this game. Looks like Phen Canyon, Sheegoth, PB Maze, Omega Pirate, and Ridley flyby skip will make up a chunk of the remaining minute, and the rest would just be overall even further optimization. Seems like what might be best would be putting it in a couple segments that lose no time (i.e. Save at ship after frigate -> Save at ship after left side SJF -> Save at ship after Lifegiver -> Save at ship before Ridley). I know Miles has the - now dead? - segmented run going on, but the tricky question here is at what point is the cost of going to the save rooms less than the inherent precision lost in the humongous segments?

Anyways.... awesome, awesome job T3!!
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Quote from rekameohs:
Seems like 0:54 might be the absolute best time with this route based on how optimized this was, but you never know with this game.


if one somehow managed the LITERALLY PERFECT SS Any% run i'm pretty sure they would break the 0:50 mark. However since we all know this is never going to happen you might be right about 0:54 being the absolute best time for human standards. i know i was one of the fools who once said sub hour is not gonna happen and i was proved wrong but regarding the literally frame-perfect SS run i'm pretty sure it's not possible for human beings, at least not in SS.
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Drewseph: 2014-07-21 05:19:52 pm
I thought that OOB was illegal in a speed run back when sub hour was thought impossible.  I wonder what the fastest in bounds segment would be
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Quote from Drewseph:
I thought that OOB was illegal in a speed run back when sub hour was thought impossible.  I wonder what the fastest in bounds segment would be

Pretty certain that it would still be sub-hour. I can't imagine that IBBF saves that much time.
IBBF doesn't save as much time as people think, certainly not more than 2-3 minutes. I don't know why people are wondering about in-bounds anyways when IBBF is one of the lesser significant breaks in the route.
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I don't know why people are wondering about in-bounds anyways when IBBF is one of the lesser significant breaks in the route.


People wonder about it because IBBF and out-of-bounds in general looks glitchy as shit. It doesn't matter that GTH bars saves more time than IBBF because it looks way more natural.
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it shows people never played the game if they can't notice a massive timesaver like GTH bars skip.

people who have never played the game have no right to decide what's legal and what isn't.
One shall stand, one shall ball.
lol they don't decide that. But it sure as fuck looks weird to them and it's only natural to question it's validity. And they'd never learn about any of this if they didn't.
Metroid is EPIC! Nuff said
Man congrats T3! ApplauseApplauseApplauseApplause
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TheMG2: 2014-07-22 12:05:44 pm
http://kotaku.com/ocarina-of-time-metroid-prime-speedrun-records-beaten-1608111624

lmao, this basically got slapped onto an article about cosmo's oot record.

Destructoid apparently got in on it too and wrote more than kotaku on the metroid prime record: http://www.destructoid.com/hey-let-s-watch-someone-clear-metroid-prime-in-55-minutes-278433.phtml
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Skull64: 2014-07-23 01:50:01 am
Those comments tho

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as soon as he started glitching through walls and skipping content i stopped watching. Doing that to me is the same as using a cheatcode. I don't count it as a speed run.
you have to re-do your run T3, you were using cheatcodes Shame on you

but yeah if he stopped watching that's his loss, not everybody can recognize the skill, the art, the pure dedication.
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As I posted in the Eurogamer news post comments about this run:



Oh, and I didn't know T3 was Cosmo, loved your OOT run as well man. Massive respect sir and outstanding work.

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Aruki: 2014-07-23 03:39:53 am
Quote from Andrew Mills:
Oh, and I didn't know T3 was Cosmo, loved your OOT run as well man. Massive respect sir and outstanding work.


Uhh... he's not. Not sure if you're joking. :P
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Quote from Paraxade:
Quote from Andrew Mills:
Oh, and I didn't know T3 was Cosmo, loved your OOT run as well man. Massive respect sir and outstanding work.


Uhh... he's not. Not sure if you're joking. :P

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-07-23-speedrunner-sets-new-world-records-for-ocarina-of-time-and-metroid-prime

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Dedicated speedrunner Cosmo Wright


??????? *is confused*
lmfao wow. T3 and Cosmo are completely different people. I have no idea why Eurogamer is saying they're both by Cosmo.
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Quote from Paraxade:
lmfao wow. T3 and Cosmo are completely different people. I have no idea why Eurogamer is saying they're both by Cosmo.

*shrugs* I found it strange that OOT had the runner on webcam but not on the MP video. I'll comment to ask them to update it.
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cause they're not the same person
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Quote from LetsPlayNintendoITA:
cause they're not the same person

I know that *now* Razz

I see you asked them to correct it too in the comments. Hopefully they'll see our responses and update it.
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Aruki: 2014-07-23 03:54:30 am
Yeah, I tweeted at the author of the article as well. He doesn't seem to be super active on Twitter though so I'm not sure if he'll see it. In any case hopefully they update their article soon.

I seriously can't figure out how they got the idea that the run was by Cosmo.
my umbrella goes directly to Bankai
eurogamer sets a new fail record.
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TheMG2: 2014-07-23 08:12:11 am
lmao can news outlets please stop reporting about speedrunning except for GDQs and such? That would make things so much simpler.
EDIT: I think eurogamer was too lazy to do their own reporting so they just looked at Kotaku's article.
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ho. ly. shit. very, very nicely done.

that sheegoth fight looked so painful. and the pb maze.

54 is within reach!
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Quote from Paraxade:
Yeah, I tweeted at the author of the article as well. He doesn't seem to be super active on Twitter though so I'm not sure if he'll see it. In any case hopefully they update their article soon.

I seriously can't figure out how they got the idea that the run was by Cosmo.

Shocking news that a games journalism site doesn't do research