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So, you're saying *I* have a WR on Punch Out and I didn't even know about it? That's wild.

Gotten this record recently when I was playing!

The thing that dumbfounded me in this video more than anything else is that Glass Joe can dodge a star punch 💀

That music choice for Don Flamenco 1 is so great and imposing, matching the impossible challenge

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I love the score in mtpo because i cant beat gj or piston honda 2 without it

What is RNG?

Of all the NES speed runs I've seen, this one seems to be the most technically well thought out and also the most complicated due to all the RNG manipulations and the RNG itself. You guys are gods for putting so much effort into dissecting MTPO. Wicked interesting in terms of game design analysis. Lol. The final odds to tie this TAS are magnitudes more than the number of objects in the observable universe, including dust particles and stray hydrogen ions. 14'46" is completely absurd all by itself.

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The naming of these speedrunning tricks is almost as great as the trick itself

The Sandman fight is the most anime thing I've seen in this game. It's like Mac is just trying to survive the onslaught of Sandman's triple uppercuts until at the last minute he learns to replicate the attack and finishes the fight with the last of his strength. I swear I've seen the exact thing happen in Dragon Ball or something.

I have to ask why isn't the focus for this single fight or single circuit max score, it's shorter, you can skip the ones you don't want to do/are boring/other reason here?

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these strategy names are wild (wooley)

A masterpiece. Thank you for this, I enjoyed the whole movie at fullest. A question: How some people find some proxies such as waterfall, I can imagine it would take insanely a lot of research time to find it.

All right next time try beating Punch-Out without throwing any punches

High score seems so complicated and cool so thats cool

now do maximum punches possible please

I broke my back.......Spinal😂😂😂

wait a minute, you have my name!

You need to get a decent mic.

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Plz no laugh senpai papi i guess 69420 points.

Probably the future would be a mix of score and time. It would alleviate a lot of the complaints and specific fights, also opens the doors to routing using some fights as point farming locations and other fights as "time" farming. Simply dividing score by some incriminate of time or setting some baseline time marker and multiplying the score per unit time saved to keep higher values for ascetics

>PLEASE SHOW ME YOUR WEAKPOINTS hahahaha

Just hosted a 23 person race for MediEvil and went back to watch this video. It's legit one of my favourite videos in all of speedrunning. Your narration is just so freaking good man

Watched the entire video, very nice can't remember last time I watched something for more than 10 minutes, thank you

question: is sandman's nightmare frame perfect? red tom's page simply says "delayed gut punch" so I would assume not.

red tom is such a legend tbh

I suspect a big part of it is how much longer it is. The shorter a run is, the more times you can attempt it per unit of time. I suspect this is a big part of SMB's speedrunning popularity - it's such a short game, speedrun attempts are very fast. The longer categories are, the fewer people tend to participate. And when you are doing a game which is VERY heavily RNG-influenced, a long run is even worse. By making your fights 6-9 times longer, you're making it so that each run takes way, way, way longer. Also, I think speedrunning is just flashier as well than the max points strategies in Punch Out! There may be strategies involved in max score, but in a lot of speed runs, you either never get hit, or only get hit strategically in such a way to make things faster. Max score in Punch Out looks... way jankier.

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Hippo manippo is the best name for a trick maybe in all of speedrunning

The power of a beer

55:06 the crest chicane honestly isn't that bad once you get used to it. personally for me that's one of the easiest parts of that track.

Part of the way into this video I treid for record, 42 seconds flat, first try.

I honestly don't care much for speedrunning. I like character action games because the culture is less about playing optimally and more just about seeing what insane shit you can get away with. Yeah, I COULD beat 4-1 from ULTRAKILL in less than 20 seconds, but I'd rather just play through the whole level.

interested to know if someone made a rom hack that manipulates the RNG so that it gives the optimal result

Excluding Disco Kid, Bear Hugger, and Aran Ryan

This video got me hooked on speedrun progression doccumentaries. Thanks Pap, I'm addicted now.

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insane video 👏

I shall consider it!

I'm gonna guess 52 punches.

If the score attack scene makes a revival shmups are back on the menu boys

A console game that does actually have an active high score community (or active at some point, at least) is Super Monkey Ball. Admittedly Monkey Ball high score runs are much more similar to speedruns than Punch Out because the main sources of points are time and bananas you pick up along the way, so there is not nearly as much incentive to stick around in levels unless the time you lose is made up for in bananas.

okay, hear me out, you find an ACE exploit and set the score to -65,535 using that

Groobo being an eccentric and powerful source of secrets and knowledge is so wizardly of him

i like the probably unintentional story telling of this category you're no longer the little guy, you're THE guy, and it's not about winning anymore, but about putting on a show so as many flashy finisher moves as possible, and intentionally dragging out the fight to increase tension

i fucking love this game!

Does random number manipulation mean you do precise in game actions (probably after forcing original RNG state) or does it mean actually controlling the RNG on a case-by-case basis?