Poll of the Day > I got a speedrun WR in a 30 year old dos game

(+) Yeah! (+)

very chuffed rn

what game.... also isn't chuffed bad?

God of Thunder: https://www.speedrun.com/god_of_thunder/level/Serpent_Surprise?h=Any_Default_Settings&x=l_n93gj2nd-7kjz78gd

I feel like chuffed is a good word

i hope someday i get a speedrun on some old ass DOS game from my childhood

josh posted...

God of Thunder: https://www.speedrun.com/god_of_thunder/level/Serpent_Surprise?h=Any_Default_Settings&x=l_n93gj2nd-7kjz78gd

I feel like chuffed is a good word

You also like God of Thunder!? I played that a ton as a kid, I know it's on Steam... maybe I should give speedrunning a go

agesboy posted... i hope someday i get a speedrun on some old ass DOS game from my childhood

I did, I still have the Out of the World record (SNES version)

agesboy posted...

i hope someday i get a speedrun on some old ass DOS game from my childhood

yeah! I was gonna replay it anyway so decided to check out what the speedruns were like since I know the 1st game (1st act) is pretty quick. Wonder how the other classics go though I'm sure they're a lot more competitive.

Lokarin posted...

You also like God of Thunder!? I played that a ton as a kid, I know it's on Steam... maybe I should give speedrunning a go

Give it a go! If you watch(ed) the run I think you'll see there's not much in it (in terms of wacky technical tricks) and I have a tonne of mistakes that need to be cleaned up. Competitive runs could be there for the taking.

That reminds me, last week I apparently found a secret named NPC encounter in a 30 year old SNES RPG that no one on the dedicated forum had discovered before.
The guy that makes gamefaqs guides for said series featured my posts in his YouTube video on the discovery, which was kinda cool.

Almost nobody knows about the 'e' glitch in Paladin's Quest... I even told a few glitch hunters about it and they, ehh.

basically, if you name Chezni anything starting with a lower case e, the game script breaks

AltOmega2 posted...

The guy that makes gamefaqs guides for said series featured my posts in his YouTube video on the discovery, which was kinda cool.

Is the vid out yet?

Lokarin posted...

basically, if you name Chezni anything starting with a lower case e, the game script breaks

that's pretty curious/funny, what does the game do when the script breaks?

Omg fuck yeah, brother

Chuffed means very pleased. "I'm dead chuffed, innit." Also, congrats.

josh posted...

that's pretty curious/funny, what does the game do when the script breaks?

For the most part you can't get out of the tutorial and the screen is dark, I never explored it that much back in the day to see if different letter combinations did different things

Makes me want to finish a Spyro 2 any% and upload it. I keep getting better, but it's really, really hard. Involves many frame perfect tricks, been trying for years.

speed runs on emulators dont count

potdnewb posted...

speed runs on emulators dont count

Maybe speedrunners disagree, particualrly in the Adventure Game crowd which often use modded versions of ScummVM

Lokarin posted...

Maybe speedrunners disagree, particualrly in the Adventure Game crowd which often use modded versions of ScummVM

speedrun on the og system or dont bother

imagine trying to get your 486 working for a speedrun of a 30 year old dos game lmao

"hold on guys my cam corder isn't sync'd with my crt and it's making lines"

ems speed up game play don't lie

Actually that's an interesting question now that I think about it. Heaps of DOS games ran on CPU clock speed, does DOSbox and ScummVM emulate to the fastest possible version or some developer intended version? I looked it up for like 2 minutes and couldn't find the answer right away. Probably depends game to game ig but at least with those DOSbox and ScummVM everyone's on the same playing field.

Yoooo we almost STP the same thought

we did og games on an og 16bit system run very different in a modern system

i'm a dumbass i just remembered dosbox default clocks to 3000 lmao

I speedran Jim Power just cuz ICOYAR dared me... and he never responded

Lokarin posted...

I speedran Jim Power just cuz ICOYAR dared me... and he never responded

i dare you to speedrun god of thunder

potdnewb posted...

speed runs on emulators dont count

They actually do, they have to be specific versions of emulators, though.

A good emulator usually is going to be accurate down to the TAS, and old hardware is dying off anyway.

This speedrun explicitly requires dosbox, so arguing the point about emulators not counting is moot lmao

while i'd love to own a permanently setup 486 i simply don't have the room (:

For now all I have is this to trigger the good brain chemicals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhAIaykpdYU

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