The History of Contra World Records
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_* hears Matt Turk is involved *_
Oh so they're bringing back season one characters
Hope they bring him back for the 3rd instalment.
More legends than just Matt Turk tho, such as Zalard
Matt Turk is honestly a legend
Matt Turk is pretty cool, I liked his punch out record breaking video
@@Jacksonshroy yea
All he had to say was Matt Turk and everyone flipped their shit.
I dunno, I flipped my shit when he mentioned TMR.
Yea mee I got chills😂
Like fr I was thinking: 'Matt Turk, it has to be him'
My reaction literally was "Matto Taaku desu ka!?"
if we put matt turk as the super bad ass in full metal alchemist brother hood there all like yes we win we did it and MATT TURK GOS AM BACK and there oh my god oh my god were going to get fucked up
“And the runner... was Matt Turk.”
*When the final boss kicks your ass during the first chapter.*
My absolute favourite thing is every speedrunner yelling “I can quit Contra now!” as soon as they get the WR
And then some just didn't!
I said this when I encountered the bullshit this game shipped out with
That was every kid's shout back in the day. But it was as soon as they threw the controller at the screen for the tenth time and their mother yanked the NES off the TV and hid it for a week. That was the acceptable way to complete the game for a long, long time.
My favorite thing is that they're always recording with a cactus instead of a mic lmao
Summoning Salt:
“And the runner... was Matt Turk.”
_”Somehow Palpatine has returned.”_
【d0mino】 I lost my shit when he showed uo
I just heard him say his name I’m shocked
The had us in the first half, not gonna lie.
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one
I honestly thought the same thing
"And the runner...
...was Matt Turk."
*spits out drink*
Didnt expect to see you here.
dont get turked lol
This comment is brilliant.
I had a mouth full of raman noodles when he said his name and about did just that.
I used to watch your custom amiibo videos like a 2 years ago
Matt Turk out there, holding every record before the internet was of any help (forums, that's about it) and streaming full time wasn't even a job yet. What a legend
Seriously. Dude had to likely have a day job. Just doing it for fun
The amazing part is the lack of help, he was playing on an entirely different playing field from anyone today
@@Zamu273 brings me back to looking for cheats in the back of game pro magazines
Yes but you also got to understand that the level of competiton improved with time..in todays competitive gaming..some of these legends might just be labelled ordinary.
@@desmondgovender3142some of his records withheld the test of time for so long. That's what's crazy
Matt Turk is just that one friend that comes over and casually beats all your records when you are just starting the game so you have to slowly beat them all yourself
Then come backs and does it again but with even better times
@@jadenpadin4707sandbags the first round to have fun with you later? Yeah... that's Abeny and MTurk all day long
bro I could not beleive matt turk made an appearance in the contra history Holy shit
Me at the beginning : why am I watching this I don’t even play contra
Me at the end: HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY GET A 1 CYCLE KILL
Literally what I did
So fucking true man
thats how I felt about his Ninja Gaiden video
COME TO BRAZIL
exactly.
I swear, hearing Matt Turks name had the same impact as a detective show revealing the main bad guy.
Man’s name inspires Voldemort levels of awed dread
Yo it did tho
*detective conan theme plays*
danganronpa: new world order plays
Well, on this channel, he's got the same amount of street cred as AndrewG, I definitely get the connection
“Soldier! You must go and stop this alien invasion!”
“Alright give me like… 10 minutes.”
Instant e-9 promotion. I'd say commission but I'd imagine "he works for a gd living"
9 minutes and 48 seconds :P
@@JK-gm6kk
All I can hear is Sgt Dornan from Fallout 2
"I AM NOT A 'SIR'! I WORK FOR A LIVING YOU *M O O O R O O O N* "
FYI Angrylanks did end up getting his sub 9:50 with the record currently sitting at 9:48 and change. That man is as dedicated to Contra as Summoning Salt is to making quality content.
And now it’s 9:47 with a completely new player’s WR. Insane that they keep pushing it lower
Matt Turk when he picks up literally any game:
*Why is this game so short...*
Just like darbian
Technodog when he watches literally any video:
Why is this video so short...
It's short because it's really damn Hard
@@COAllAces Back when there were only Arcades, games were made to be hard to suck out quarters.
When games were brought to home, they were made to be hard because of hardware limitations not allowing massive amounts of content on one cartridge.
"this game is so short, also I've put more time into it than you put into high school."
Salt: "A time less than 10 minutes was simply unrealistic"
Me: *sees half a video remaining* 🤨🤨🤨
Yo I kept checking the video time because I was driving home from work listening and I kept tripping out how much time was left after checking a few times. Shits great
the bait and swiiiiiitch
@@modest1989 hahaha I was getting ready for my morning shift and tryna squeeze a 50 minute video in
I really enjoy how long the videos are and how much effort is put it this some quality content that’s not just being rushed out... really represents the speed running community well
He meant speedrun time stupid
"What games do you speedrun?"
Matt turk: "yes"
Holy crap! When I was in the Army one of my NCOs got a nintendo with one game: Contra. We started playing to pass the time at lunch or on slow days. The competition started innocently enough, with who could beat the game first. Well eventually we both did. Then it became who could beat it with the most lives left. And eventually it became who could beat it the fastest.
Well long story short, we were both crazy competitive and over the course of a year went from 30 minute speedruns to grinding down to the 11s or so. By the time we had to split up due to new assignments, we ended up both securing speedruns in the top 75 (at the time)!
This video brought me right back to that point. Jeeze what a nostalgia trip. Thank you and great video!
Btw Hangar killed SO many runs. Those damn random claws wrecked us constantly!
Getting top 75 with what I assume is limited access to other speedrunner’s insight is very impressive!
"Ladies and gentlemen... Matt Turk was back."
More horrifying words have never been spoken.
I WAS GOING TO COMMENT THIS LOL
*beautiful
what? This is such a stupid comment.
Dunkey Is Black it’s 562 vs 1 LOL
@@sx1 There's a lot of stupid people, you're exhibit A
I feel like Matt Turk isn't even a person, just a construct of speedrunning created to beat world records.
He taps into the Speedforce
He's the Alan Smithee of speedruns.
Bro that’s like that TAS guy, has the WR in so many different games. Absolute legends, whoever those group of people are /s
@@Icysnowman256 Who's the better speedrunner, Matt Turk or TAS? Nobody knows...
Matt Turk is Thanos
Me in my mid twenties having never heard of contra and the console being released 15 years before I was born ‘there’s no fucking way that guy bled 4 seconds on the no leap of faith jump, unbelievable’
Relatable xD
Matt Turk has been cemented in my mind as a legend, all because of the videos covering him. I wonder if he know his accomplishments would actually mean so much to so many but years later.
I feel the same Myk Al. Loving this comment
“And the runner... Was Matt Turk”
I’d just like you to know that, out loud, I’ve just turned and gasped at my monitor.
I didn’t even know who he was until yesterday and now he’s the boogeyman
I legitimately let out a shocked "No..." when I heard his name
Who is Matt Turk and why is everyone in the comments section making such a big deal out of him
@@AhnafAbdullah SummoningSalt says who he is in this same video. He was like, the ultimate Punch Out player, holding the record of every fighter during soooo long time that all Punch Out community (practically) needed to focus ALL their efforts to dethrone him (a feat that was like... 5 or more years -I can't recall it properly RN-)
@@AhnafAbdullah watch his video, “the quest to beat Matt Turk”
@@AhnafAbdullah watch summoning salts video on the quest to beat Matt Turk and youll fully understand.
I find it hilarious that after getting the records the runners are like "Yes goodbye Contra I can stop playing this god damn game" lol
yeah, cuz who really enjoys playing contra?
I don't think I've beat super c to this day. I grew up playing it every time I went to my grandma's but far as I remember I got maybe 3-4 levels in max hah but I loved it back then. Falling out of that helicopter at the start was so sick to me as a kid
“Goodbye contra i won’t play you again”
_1 year later_
SIKE im back at it again
With certain games you kinda hit a point where fun falls off and pure obsession takes over. Contra and Ninja Gaiden were both series made of that type of game.
@@E.B711 Well... if you just play it, then you do. If you try to beat the fucking world record... that's a different kind of matter...
"And the runner..."
"...was Matt Turk."
[cue epic anime music with ominous latin chanting]
DORIME
One winged angel n
*Akatsuki theme*
*CANTATA ORBIS*
2:18 "And the runner was Matt Turk" I think every speedrun video should include this line. Lol
"... and that runner's name was..."
'Oh, it's probably gonna be Scott Kessler or Tom Vadava or somethi-'
"Matt Turk."
'w h a t'
literally who
Ikr? I was like HOLY SHIT WHAT A CROSSOVER
🤯
IcedVenom Nightcore Scott Kessler was a guy who did SMB1 speedruns in 2004
@@daxmoney5011 Also held more than 10 world records in various other games lol
“And the runner... was Matt Turk”
“Warning - The Slayer has entered the facility”
Or do you mean Buffy the vampire slayer??? (I know you don’t, but that would be great.
@@charteon9092 doom eternal
somadman JOHN CENA
I'm nobody in the whole speedrun community, but DK's lvl 1 skip is believed to be a hardware issue that caused the skip, right? I'm sure DK makes hundreds of runs in a sitting, so I'm wondering if the NES overheating caused the skip? There's speedrunners running Dragon Quest 1 that use hotplates to maintain a precise temp that can consistently trigger glitches, so I kinda wonder if such method could ever be used to reproduce the Contra lvl 1 skip. What do you guys think? 🤔
Yeah I read that manipulating the température could help to control some precise subvalues ( it has something to with electricity and the hardware I don't Know much about it) so maybe it could help to get the glitch more frequently
@@DaringDramis well, it would be controversial maybe using a hotplate(though they do use those in some DQ speedruns), but an NES console can in theory be played to a point it reaches hot temps naturally, so by controlling the temp of the console would be no different than playing in a heated or air conditioned room. Mario Kart 64 speedeunners regularly use worn down controllers to be able to perform the quick boosts you can trigger from inputting left and right directions simultaneously, so I wonder if such logic may allow temp glitches in the future. 🤷🏻♂️
@@chazzeo
I want the material to be in perfect shape, as intended by makers, either from the computer and the controllers, in normal Earth temperature (15 degrees C).
When I turn left, it turns left, and when I turn right, it turns right, and nothing more. I want from the material to respond for what I've asked for.
So many NES games, only with a cross-shaped controller, fulfilled all of that.
Turning left and right at the same time is maybe possible with worn electronic material, but with a trusty steering wheel, it's not possible at all.
The analog joystick was designed to replicate the experience of driving, and should be observed... In my humble opinion.
But I'm not against alternatives! But in a directed way that must be obvious to everybody, regardless the temperature.
@@DaringDramis many feel that same way, and that's why the glitchless categories exist seperate of glitch/exploit runs. Spread speed-rhythm strats and base level boss vulnerability strats both lean pretty heavily into being exploits. Contra has a long way to go if some glitches are ever found, and the lvl 1 skip is a very promising prospect for runners who decide to start attempting glitch runs.
@@chazzeo As I understand it, glitches from mistakes by the programmers (such as Mario 64 star doors) are acceptable in speed runs, but not glitches from an external source. This makes for an interesting problem: is a hardware glitch a violation? NES is notoriously susceptible to heat-related issues. Obviously, a hot plate could be construed as an external source of a glitch, but a player could theoretically just increase the ambient temperature in the room until the glitch becomes reliably exploitable. Quite a conundrum.
I remember when it was widely believed that beating contra without doing the 30 lives code was impossible.
Yeah, contra really needed 30 lives to be a blast. But... now that I think about it, speedruns are 30 live codes, if inputted correctly. Gets you through it all looking like a breeze.
*Hears the word Matt Turk*
“Wait why do I hear boss music?”
That reveal shook me with goosebumps
Trust me, we know why Turk gets boss music, he deserves it
And the boss music is chill electro beats.
Because he's already at the final boss
Matt is literally the default mii who holds all the records before anyone else
Looooooool
Matt from wii sports irl
@Multi WOAH
@Multi Wait, really?
Matt turk needs a God choir to play every time he's mentioned
I was waiting for "unknown to everyone, Hotarubi had actually gotten a 9:42 in 2004"
I swear, Summoning Salt is going to reveal one day that Matt Turk is his father or something
Right? It feels like there's this weird connection between them that just can't quite be explained.
@@takigan I mean SS was/is a mike tysons punch out runner and Matt Turk was one of the few people in gaming history I've ever seen just have his word taken about his speedrun times by just explaining what he did in text. The dude made himself the speedrun endboss for every fight in a game with mostly just text. He was definitely ahead of his time and I wouldn't be surprised if SS looks up to him or saw him as an inspiration or something to that tune. I think there's a touch reverence when SS talks about Matt Turk and because he's such a wonderful storyteller he passes on those feelings to us.
Matt Turk was playing in mid to late 2000s it's not that long ago he's in his 30s probably.
Maybe they are the same person?! Has anyone seen them in the same room together? o_O
Chawnee Coleman has anyone actually seen Turk, maybe he’s an ai
Dude I just want a “history of Matt Turk” video now
Just watch the history of Punch-Out!!
Matt turk is a monster
Well there is a quest to beat Matt Turk
@@mariogamergod1750 Ik. Good video with the amazing flex at the end by summoning salt. If salt ever ran out of topics he could just go through the history of Matt Turk and his accomplishments.
Hello Aqua you are useless
TMR is still one of the best in the business, damn impressive he's one of only a handful of speedrunners that manages to stick around, well, around 10 years at absolute top level in at least one game at any time
These days whenever I rewatch Summoning Salt stuff I can never tell whether "and his name was Matt Turk" is serious.
oh cool a summoning salt vid on contr-
"That runner was matt turk"
_W_ _H_ _A_ _T_
I literally yelped out loud when I heard that, no joke.
@chubbyurma always has been
@chubbyurma It always has been
I pretty much screamed
Matt Turk: now this looks like a job for me
Summoning Salt: Posts this video.
Angrylanks: Beats his own record two days later (9m 50s 516ms).
Edit: Angrylanks: Beats his new own record a week later (9m 48s 650ms).
Stop making me update this Angrylanks.
Came here to mention this!
Hope someone can get a sub 50, a 49 would be amazing!
Yes lmao
Update from the future, Lanks got the sub 9:50, a 9:48, he's never seen a 49 and he never fucking will
Water is wet 05 wait what? He is a fucking legend, skipped 49
25:56 As someone who's a Spanish native speaker (Chile), I understood each and every word of his lol
So hilarious 😂
What does he say?
@@piyo744all I could make out was a shitload of curse words.
@@piyo744 he said "You son of a b****, of course you f**king f**ker, go f**k yourself, b****" haha
@@piyo744a mexican here.
I wrote a long and explicit explanation, but I think it didn't pass YT security guard.
So yes, it was an exquisite mix of spicy mexican chilango slang and some english words, so nasty and rude. No doubt he is a mexican.
Matt Turk's return might have become one of the best moments I've had with your channel
The brilliance of Summoning Salt is making you care about game specific mechanics that you didn't have a clue existed, but 30mins in and you're going "OMG HE ALSO GOT THE MIDDLE FLAME CYCLE"
Lol it’s like a tv show that you didn’t expect to be into, but after ten minutes you’re just so invested.
I audibly gasped when he uttered the words "1 cycle kill" even though I haven't played Contra in well over fifteen years and have never followed speedrunning outside of these videos.
Yes.
i don't think i ever beat contra level 1. to be fair i was an infant when i played it but still.
Before Summoning Salt Video: man what is going on
After Summoning Salt Video: HE GOT ONLY ONE CYCLE??? HOW THE FUCK??,
Billy Mitchell: "I had to lie and cheat to be considered good at a single arcade game."
Matt Turk: "I held the speed running record for basically the entire NES."
The Virgin Billy Mitchell vs. The Chad Matt Turk
oh damn did he really?
@Fen Vulpeus I already watched it like months ago now hahaha I'm genuinely curious what other games he speedran!
@@demkikun7783 Aside from Punch-Out and Contra, as Salt has discussed, Matt Turk also held the tied smb1 record back in the Twin Galaxies days with a 5:07, that's about it for his speedrunning accomplishments
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Please never stop making these.
Also you are a LITERAL GOD for listing the songs you use in your videos. The music selection is absolute chef's kiss.
It has been a while since this video, but Angrylanks still holds it at the time of writing at 9m 48s 650ms
How about now?
@@woodfamily5229 unchanged
@@wighar Thank you
“And the runner, was Matt Turk.”
The Return of the King.
Oh yeah true
Meh
"I like to play video games."
-Matt Turk, probably
He doesn’t “play” he wins
He probably doesn't so when he play he try to make it fast
“I HAVE to play video games”
"I like to play video games."
-The Mexican Runner probably
"I don't like losing."
While I know it's out of context, this statement as quoted is powerful, and explains why I care about speedrunning.
"This run will stand forever, unless you decide to beat it."
It doesn't matter who it was addressed to. There is always more skill. There is always more talent. Every run ever stands forever - unless **you** decide to beat it. Speedrunning allows us to all stand up and refuse to go gently into that good night. We will not go out with a whimper, but with the loudest bang ever made.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it's not
*Matt Turk is like the living legend that everyone speaks of, but no one truly knows about. This video started playing randomly and right before I switched, I heard "Matt Turk" and started to actually watch.*
“And that runner, was Matt Turk”
Top 10 anime plot twists
All top 10 anime plot twists are name reveals in summoning salt videos. Still recovering from the Punch Out kaiser souze moment.
Of course it's Matt Turk, it's always Matt Turk!
I literally said those exact words
69. Niceachu
21. Black Boi
7. Slot Machine
1. The Z7
"which made TMR a little angry"
*_proceeds to say every swear word in spanish_*
🤣🤣🤣
Although that is nowhere near every swear word in Spanish, that is a pretty comprehensive list of the ones that you are likely to hear in Mexico/from a Mexican. No kidding. I have only been to Mexico once when I was a child and during that moment in the video I felt transported there for a moment.
Neighbors: AY DIOS MIO...!
I only know basic Spanish so for me he did say literally every curse word I know in Spanish, plus other stuff I don't even know lol
What did he say?
There's so much satisfaction in Heidrage confirming his 10:11 run and exclaiming "Yes! I'm fucking done with this game!"
I'm not a speedrunner, I just find the scene fascinating, and it never fails to strike me how runners will seem to push themselves to the point of misery, and the sheer sense of RELIEF in their voice when they finally take a Record
I might not fully understand the mentality of someone who would willingly subject themselves to hours upon hours of tedium and stress as a hobby, but I can respect the dedication and perseverance
I do fear that after grinding away for so long, that runners might come to hate the game that they clearly cared enough about to start speedrunning it in the first place
I like to think of it the same way I look at competitive games. When you lose a game of baseball you don't hate the game. You hate that you lost. When I play shooter games, so often I shout about how I hate this stupid game. But I don't hate it. I just hate that in my mind I'm better at it than reality. I see the frustration as less directed towards the game, but frustration with the mentality of competition and the certainty that the player is capable of more than they can perform. The pure catharsis in achieving a record often comes off as relief as they can stop playing. But I interpret it as more like they can stop competing for the record. The competition is over. That's why so many people take breaks after achieving a record but return when it is broken. They don't hate the game, but it's inarguably stressful to compete in a game, especially one where RNG is your biggest roadblock. If I have hatred for games like these, it's hatred for the things beyond my control like RNG or glitches. I'm sure to some extent the act of running a game does mean it becomes less fun. But there are tons of moments in competition that aren't fun. But competing itself surely is. I love speedrunning content even though I've only dabled in it with Minecraft and Mario Kart double Dash. Summoning salt is by far the best presenter and researcher I've found in the speedrunning community. Without these videos I would never find the love I have for it.
usually with other games its stuff like “oh shit i beat it” or “aw that was a terrible run”, but with contra its “FINALLY i can quit”
i think its more of a thing with contra being ridiculously soul rending than speedrunning it
"And the runner... Was Matt Turk"
Hahahaha, good joke, Summoning Salt. You ALMOST got me there again, but I already watched you make that joke before. Cut out that tense music! There is NO WAY Matt Turk would be in this story...
... Why... Why the music haven't stopped? Aren't you elongating the joke a bit too much?... Wait... Why are you explaining who he is? Is this?... Are you?...
ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS!?!?
I love this guy. And I also love Matt Turk. What a legend... And Matt Turk too ;3
“The runner was Matt Turk”
Excuse me what the-
I gasped when he said his name. What a legend.
this guy could literally talk about the history of paint drying and i would listen to every second of it
LMAO!! summoning salt is so good!!
The TAS of that would be a leaf blower
For years, runners have been using the blackest paint as it was believed to dry the fastest. But in March of 2014, runner Bob, discovered he could shave just seconds of the record, by using a brown color with a higher manganese rate. Armed with this new tactic, all he needed was good weather rng and paint drying would be changed forever.
XD
Speed running paint drying would be fucking HYPE and I'm not even being sarcastic.
The Mexican speed runner is hilarious, I love exaggerated speed run reactions like that.
I love how he got "a little angry" hahaha
DK is on his way to smash his own world recor-
*NO!!*
Exactly my reaction
“Ah, a summoning salt vid to fall asleep to, ive never really cared about Contra”
Salt: “Matt Turk”
Me: “I’m listening”
Can’t fall asleep to this because of the Mexican guy screaming
I actually don't care about any game that summoning salt covers, but somehow he always finds a way to entrance me
Salt: "Matt Turk"
Me: "You had my interest, but now you have my attention."
Contra: i sleep
Matt Turk: real shit
I fell asleep watching CZcams the other night and actually woke up when the Punch Out video started playing. You cannot ignore Matt Turk.
Matt Turk is like the Sasquatch of Speedrunning, he shows up, blows everybody's minds, and disappears back into the ether.
no
@@thiccycheeser5866 But actually yes.
scp foundation: we dont speak of him
And we still don’t even know things like: What does he look like? How old is he? Where is he from?
He’s like this wise guru who sits upon a mountaintop that few people dare to visit
Literally every Summoning Salt video: The Matt Turk Story.
In another reality, where NES wasn't marketed as brilliantly in the US during the 1980s, we would have Mr. Salt talking about the speedrun world record history of Alex Kidd, Zillion, Fantasy Zone, and maybe even Choplifter.
That would still require Tonka to have any idea how to market video games, which they didn't.
YES THE INTRO IS BACK
The intro...
Do you know the name of that music
It's absolutely necessary
@@thefrogchamp600 We're Finally Landing - Home
We’re Finally Landing - Home
speedrunning old games: exists
matt turk: *i am speed*
Underrated comment
I watched this when you first posted it. Forgot to leave a like. Yeah, Lanks is a bad ass. Posted his new record, then decided to beat it in less than 24 hours. I was closing in on 10 minutes, and felt like sub 10 was a real possibility. I think the thing only a speed runner would understand is the absolute mental and emotional fatigue involved. It's much more than simple "burn out". When you spent your Saturday, not playing Contra, but tightening up the Base One boss fight. And that's it. For 9 -1/2 hours. Just reset, kill boss, reset, kill boss. Sunday, it's Base Two boss, practicing the glitch kill, for another 10 hours. I don't like to think about how much time I spent on the Waterfall. It seems silly to some people, but these records really are no small feat. It takes dedication.
great comment! Even SM64 takes serious months dedication to even get sub 20 minute times never mind WR or even sub 15 your looking at (for most) years and hundreds if not thousands of hours practicing with save states, level resets and grinding out small segments. The feat really is incredible once you understand what goes into some of these records !
I’m a runner (the physical sport lol) and have always appreciated this about speedrunning. It’s all about the grind you put in when no one’s watching. Cycles of months and specific work to build. The mental ups and downs. It deserves so much more respect than it gets sometimes.
Matt Turk starting to sound like a literal 90s action hero legend with how early he was at making difficult times to beat well after his time, and to inspire others to pursue his times dispite how crazy those times are
Every Summoning Salt video:
"It was considered the greatest speedrun of all time. It was considered impossible to beat"
Underrated comment
He is speaking truth though.
I read that in the voice of the French narrator from SpongeBob
And everytime I'm like "What! Insane. Amazing."
It gets me every time.
SS: "10 minutes was impossible."
Me: *checking the timecode to see there's still 45 minutes left in the video*
Then comes the string of: "That was a record that seemed like it would stand for years.... 4 months later...."
SummoningSalt: *releases a 50-minute video on Contra*
Me, who has never played a minute of Contra: oh hell yeah put this shit in my veins
Time to learn how to obliterate a game I will never play and give summoningsalt all my ad revenue
His old smb video is what put me on speed running and now I watch a lot of streamers on CZcams and shit... just crazy. I’m 30 years old and SummoningSalt is such a huge reason my interests are what they are.
@@jacobhouser7672 pretty much but I remember contra from xbl and beat it on one credit so I understand how hard this is.
Lol this is so accurate XD
He could make a video on any game and I'd watch it
“This run will stand forever, unless you decide to beat it”
I died when I read that 😂 Like dude is the only one at the top, yet keeps inching his way further up. Everyone else is like, “Bro, you made it already, chillllll” 😂
39:53 That edit was TOO perfect. I felt defeated, mad, and lol, all at the same time.
Props, SumSalt
I like how Summoning Salt has developed a speedrunner’s character universe of names I just recognize like Matt Turk, Abney317, and AndrewG
Summoning Salt Cinematic Universe
And zallard1
They developed it, he just tells the story.
I was gonna say zallard too
Ye lol
SummoningSalt: *says Matt Turk’s name*
Everyone: “the king has returned”
In fact, he was there all along, from the very beginning
Spooked
Lol SAME here i was like no not him any one but him..no no not cool..lol he's too good.
Me:"oh this just got interesting"
Matt turk: the man who speedran speedrunning
as an update
Angrylanks managed to get a sub 9:50 getting a 9:48.650
His 1 cycle kill was insanely fast saving 1 second
and his stage 6 boss was the perfect, not jumping at all and immediately focusing on the boss
He got the middle timer for energy plant
and he was slightly hesitant with hanger
No Yolo Jump or Leap of faith
his noticeable time loss was in stage 2 base losing 0.1 seconds
but made it up by a less hesitant start to snow field
it's possible to lower the time if someone risked the yolo jump and/or leap of faith with the skills in his latest run
I think i know who could beat it
and his name....
is Matt Turk
"You only have about a 5% chance to not die, but it saves 1 second vs the record"
that's when you know the optimization is getting real
A 5% chance of beating the record, and that's provided you dont mess up anywhere else. Goddamn.
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I can agree
Literally just called my break at work early to watch, so it checks out
Deadass just stopped another video to watch this.
28:39 when you hear that music start, you know it's going to be good
Me: "Finishes the One Punch video about Matt Turk records"
Video: "..was Matt Turk".
Me: he really is a god uh?
Speedrunner: "No one will ever beat this."
Other Speedrunner: *beats it*
Every. Freaking. Time.
The funniest part is that even TAS speedruns seem impossible to beat, but after a few years they almost always get topped by even stupid milliseconds like reducing lag in certain areas.
Tldr, records are meant to be broken
@@davidolinger3948 wait hold up, is there speedruners that can clap the heck out of the TAS?
@@iriswav7379 not real people, I just mean Tas'ers making a better TAS then others.
Although I do think it's happened sometimes that a speedrun will beat the current TAS for a game, like if there were a tas for DK64 before the revolution that probably would have happened
Yep. This fallacy has broken some speedrunners. Get record, declare it will never be beaten, gets beat sometimes in less than a year, guy the loses it.
@@davidolinger3948 Sponge BoB BFBB TAS also was beaten by Shift
Narrator: "He was a little angry"
The Mexican Runner: [mixed profanity in spanish and english]
for TMR standards, that's little
25:50
Based on his win he has the same reaction whether he's happy or angry
I've watched him stream. He's very...animated when he pops off in any way.
As a mexican watching this at work, I almost burst out laughing XD
Nice to see summoningsalt giving a nice shout out to matt Turk form one mike Tyson speed run champion to another. Both are the greatest of all time.
I really like the fact that every time when you finish your introductory narrative, the music starts to get epic.
When my dad was a teen this game came out. He was really good at this game, probably his favorite, constantly beating the game in one sitting with his best bud at the arcade, including not just the first, but Contra 2 and 3 as well. He sat down and watched this video with me and it brought back so many memories and he was dumbfounded by all the strats and tactics and the amount of mechanical skill and execution required. Thanks for making this video.
Cybertronlaser I hope he gets the WR
Love that
And his name....is Matt Turk. Haha!
Contra 3 was never an arcade game tho
@@wannabecinnabon idk his memories fuzzy, i had a famiclone when i was a kid and i think contra 3 ripoff was in there somewhere so he might have gotten confused.
Matt Turk is like the mentor that eventually gets surpassed by the protagonist
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The Boss
When you think the sub-10 will be the end of the video but there's still 15 minutes left:
_Something's wrong, I can feel it_
"But his mashing speed wasn't as good as Heidrage's... it was even better"
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I think we all collectively said “oh shit no way” the moment Matt Turks name was mentioned
"thats not true!!!??? THATS IMPOSSIBLE!!!"
I had to triple check twice when he said that, I couldn't believe my eyes and ears
haha i just love the mexican dude screaming out 'fuck your mother' every time he wins hahaha
but yeah turk seems to just be ubiquitous with speed runs
id just feel like youd be kind of pessimistic in this scene since people spend months getting a time only for it to be beaten 5 minutes later, but this one seems to be an exception
I find myself kinda expecting him to pop up in the history of certain titles. NES -SNES records specifically, I almost figure he'll be on the record track at some point between 2002 and now for virtually every game.
Kinda like OatsnGoats too for Metroid, etc.
My favorite summoning salt trope is
Runner: "this run is probably going to stand for a while"
*date very close to this run appears on screen*
make a drinking game outta this
home- we're finally landing starts playing, and you know shit is about to go down
@@aloysiuskurnia7643 one shot per day the run stood? Lol
This run is amazing and they didn't think they could get better
Still 40 minutes left
... And then...
Please never change your music Summoning Salt. Paired with your amazing voice and narration ability, the music is so perfect, especially how you edit. I love when, after you say something, at the perfect moment, the beat starts. I really REALLY love this when a featured gamer is going for history, and you edit the music to gain volume/start at the right moment to emphasize how momentous the occasion is! It gives me chills, even makes my eyes water with awesomeness. Yes, your videos even make me cry a little. I rewatch them over and over, even to help me sleep, and take naps during the day after work. Thank THANK YOU so much for amazing, unmatched content. I love the way you do everything in your videos. Thank you.
"And that runner... Was Matt Turk"
*Akatsuki theme plays*
SS has such a great sense of narrative. He really sets up the rules of the world in the first act well and is constantly raising the stakes and subverting expectations. He clearly communicates what makes each moment special by explaining the mechanisms involved without getting bogged down by the details that alienate casual viewers. This slow methodically paced video nearly an hour-long outlining the history of a videogame has me constantly on the edge of my seat with anticipation about what's going to happen next. Incredible documentary work. This series should really get picked up by a network or stream platform.
Long time watcher have been trained to assume that if he says "Clearly getting a sub-10 wasn't realistic" that it's going to happen before video end. :P
He should submit these to Netflix. It would be a great companion to High Score.
thats a truer and a half
The problem is that networks will often force a narrative. I think we should just sit back and enjoy the fact that someone like SS exists, pushing to have this infected by some shitty network feels like a step in the wrong direction
I know right. This guy is amazing
Summoning Salt is Home, we're finally landing on 2020...
This is the turning point for 2020
Nice references
This takes my evening
That's a reference I can relate to.
When I was a kid, I used to watch my dad used to play Contra all the way through without dying once. The video was very nostalgic for me.
"The Yolo Jump"
Of course they'd name it that
you only yolo once
you only you only live once once
Matt Turk finding a new game to speedrun:
Matt Turk: how do I play
Matt Turk: *has drawn first blood!*
Matt Turk: *is on a killing spree!*
Matt Turk: *is on a rampage!*
Matt Turk: *is unstoppable!*
Matt Turk: *is dominating!*
Matt Turk: *is godlike!*
Matt Turk: dont worry guys i figured it out
ahahahahah :-)
Yeah, that sums up his character pretty well
Everyone else: How???
Matt Turk: Iunno it's just obvious
He's a Nasus with 2k stacks I swear, takes every speedrunning community and just puts some crack in everyone's cornflakes making them want the world's best time no matter what it takes.
Luigi 3000 well league isn’t a speed game, so it doesn’t really apply here
When I heard Matt Turk I literally shot out of my chair, what hasn't this man done
6am ...just woke up...summoning salt notification...2.20 minutes later "and the runner was matt turk".
Gone outside
@@sonata7204 lmaoo
I don't know why, but my gut feeling is that his return is near.
He is a NES legend
"what's your favorite video game?"
Matt Turk: Yes
Im a bit late,but damn the nostalgia hit me hard. I was the first person to have a video game console in my whole neighborhood back then,and we played Contra,duck hunting and stuff all the time. Of which contra was my all time favourite,as i tryharded for hours at a time. To see an active community for it still is heartwarming
Never thought I would hear “Matt Turk” again
Absolute god
50 minute video and u think I’m going to watch it???
Absolutely right
Like the quest to beat Matt turk
I didn’t even realise it was 50 minutes
Even after 8 years, there are still only two people who've beaten DK28's last run. Angrylanks, who got the sub 9:50 just nine days after this video came out, and K1ngK0opa, who is the current record holder. He got the record on January 4th, 2023, with a 9:47.8. On the run description, he thanked SummoningSalt for this video and cited it as a huge motivation for him. He lowered it again on September 19th, 2023, which is where it sits right now: a 9:47.55.
I can remember being addicted to Contra when it first came out, and playing until my fingers were numb and my eyes were bleeding from staring at the TV, and used to think my ~30 min times were amazing.
Now I know I just sucked at Contra
Don't feel bad, everyone sucks at Contra.
Just think how much money you saved by not playing the arcade version!
I love how often history repeats in world records.
"It's too risky to be reliable" - someone will lower the record to a point you have no choice
"It's pretty much random" - someone will figure out it isn't
"This record will stand forever" - no it won't
"This is theoretically possible but very difficult" - someone will find a way
Every... dam... time
I love when a risky method is avoided in favor of a safer setup until pretty much everything after the risky part has been optimized and the only real way is to go back to risky run-ending method.
Speedruns.. uh.. find a way.
@@masterman1001"Speedruns... find a way" -Jeff Goldblum
Hahahaha