Brain Age speedrun (!) by Ryuto. Instead of correctly answering the problems in this tool-assisted speedrun, Ryuto draws images that incorporate the strokes that the game uses to recognize numbers.

The result is a high-speed, kind of psychotic flash of weird patterns, random drawings, and Super Smash Bros. fanart. 6 x 5 = Maxim Tomato? The “speedrun” could have been done more quickly, but “the run aims to be as entertaining as possible.”

I miss writing about Brain Age. We used to have fun making random Dr. Kawashima pronouncements.

[Via Game|Life]

tags / brain age / speedrun / jc / ryuto

Takeshi no Chousenjou speedrun. Idle wondering about whether or not anyone was crazy enough to perfect their Takeshi no Chousenjou game to the point of attempting even a tool-assisted speedrun of this game — so impenetrable that it’s assumed to be a cruel joke on the part of Beat Takeshi — led me to YouTube.

Justin Chan is that crazy. Sure, he exploits a glitch to do it, but it’s not like the glitch makes any less sense than the rest of the game.

tags / famicom / takeshi no chousenjou / speedrun / jc

Makai Toshi SaGa (Final Fantasy Legend), completed in one minute and 58 seconds, thanks to a chain of glitches. A bug in the inventory screen allows the player, depending on the in-game location the bug is triggered, to generate new items, warp to different locations, change characters to much more powerful classes, and even create items that work better than they’re supposed to. Magweasel’s Kevin Gifford translated a guide written by this speedrunner, if you require more details.

The result is that the ending for this Game Boy RPG takes longer than the actual playthrough.

tags / final fantasy legend / saga / speedrun / square enix / jc

Ridiculously fast, nonsensical Link’s Awakening speedrun. Ross Miller from Original Nintendo uses the select-button glitch to warp throughout the whole game in like two minutes!

[Via GoNintendo]

tags / zelda / links awakening / jc / speedrun