Mega Man X was released in December 1993. At the time it shocked Mega Man fans by not including Dr. Wily! The reason is that it takes place a century later than the NES Mega Man games, with 'Mega Man X' fighting the reploids, copies of his design, who have gone maverick, and their leader, Sigma.
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Single-segment low% 0:34:09 by Freddy Andersson.
Author's comments:
Speedrun history.
2004: September 26. Mike Uyama 37:26
2004: October 9 . Mike Uyama 36:10
2006: September 25. Freddy 'Frezy_man' Andersson 34:51
2007: Februar 11. Sattik 'Tiki' Ghosh 34:42
2007: Mars 18. Freddy 'Frezy_man' Andersson 34:09
I started played this game two, maybe three years ago. Very impressed over Uyama's 36:10 and 41:36 100% run. I never thought Mega man X should be done this fast. Its still far from a "dream run".
Anyway. The goal were to beat Tikis 34:42. I got 34:40 just after the run were posted on Thursday. On Sunday I got this one. I know I could get this time but I would be happy with 34:35 too. So This was like a bonus. A new strategy were to have the moust concentration on the boss fights becuse thats very important. I didn't care very much for mistakes in the levels.
The route for the bosses in the run is Penguin, Kuwanger, Chameleon, Eagle, Mammoth, Mandrill, Armadrillo, Octopus. The time saver with this route is taking down Kuwanger really fast with the buster. Its hard and with bad luck your definately dying if you try to beat him fastest possible!
A fast explanation were I got lucky or parts I did very well.
In general the hole run were very lucky. From 34 minutes and lower you got to have a lots of luck. Pure gaming doesn't always give you these times. Maybe you will even die.
running into the bees seems like the fastest strategy. This way you can shot the bees easily and loose the right ammount of life energy. You can't kill the boss in the stage so he have to punch you down and catch you. when you have three bars left he catch you. And as you see. I have this much energy left after the second bee. You can also let one of the cars in the second part of the level push you all the way to the ship. It seems like the bee technique is a better option in a console speedrun.
I use to shot the bees much faster but something was wrong with my shooting here. The rest of the level were well done until the ship appear. The ship were located to much to the right and I were forced to blow the second car from the front instead. My shooting were not good and I loose a few seconds. But Vile catch me as fast as normal.
Heh, I screw up on the little rabbit in the beginning and ten seconds before the dash capsule I screwed up a jump. Shit happens! Also the moment I missed the robot were shitty. If you noticed, I used some kind of "jumpglitch" wich means I can jump a lot higher if I run downwards anywere. But this is the only level I know you can save something on this glitch. The glitch exist in Mega Man X2 and X3 too.
The rest of the level were not smooth. See for yourself. But the boss fight is interesting. He dive three times. Normal is 5-6. So I got luck here. My play quality were good too. Much of the big blue charged one. If I knew I would slide this few I would probably give him more of the small dash pellets.
Up to the laser everything goes well. The first hit were a mistake, the second one were on purpose. overall a smooth run here. The use of the ice doesn't save time. Just make it easier in some spots.
The boss fight were good played I think. Fighting Kuwanger with the buster is new for me so I'm not an expert here. But I could get a lots of more luck. Its so damn beutiful when kuwanger doesn't use his teleport technique. Like in the chill penguin fight I use bouth fully charged shots and not. The blue charge give three damage points. The green and the small pelets give one point, BUT two points if you dash (or dash jump) when you release the shots. Thats the technique I use. In other words. Green charges or the small normal shots - Its no difference.
Almoust Smooth run trough here. the boss fight is not very complicated either.
This level is also close to a fucking multi segment part! The boss fight were unlucky though. The eagle dived from the air and thats bad for me. Loose a lots of important seconds here.
Maybe you wonder how I could knew wich direction he would come from the last attack? The SNES use left and right speakers. Its simple. I hear were he come from.
Like the sting chameleon stage. An easy part. I would like to do the Flame mammoth glitch. Jumping on the roof and hack half the level but SDAs rule do not accept that glitch so you got to watch a boring normal run trough here. I took one hit from the mammoth. But this was becuse I wanted to reach the centre of the screne. After the fight X always run to the centre anyway and steal seconds from my run.
My favorite, good running the hole level except from I got hit once in the end!
Miniboss: a random bitch, good gaming from my side here. But he could have been killed around 5 seconds faster with more luck.
Mandrill: Nae..OK gaming. Could have been better but I had bad luck with his movements. 5 seconds faster is a fast fight!
Good running again. Just before this attempt Tiki told me about how I should skip all the birds before the boss.
"- Jump like a maniac, no dash jumps and jump to the door after the last hammer bros". Thats what I did. Pretty cool.
I should have killed armadillo faster. But its just a few seconds of mistakes during the fight. Thats OK. I know you can hit Armadillo before he begin rolling with a spark ball. But I can't get a hang of it. And hit him with the buster do not save time. (just 1 damage)
And the giant snake in one shot!
Pretty fast boss fight here. Its a difficult fight in the run. My strategy is "hit him with all you got and don't care very much if you got hit". works well this time too. I don't have to wait for a drain attack either. Thats good.
When I was done with Octopus my time was around 20 minutes. For me this was one of the best times ever for sure. I knew about it and were nervous. The next half of the run were not as good as the first one. But still lucky.
When I cross the giant hole with these green small platforms I were careful. You can jump over them a lot faster and save 5-10 seconds or so. A risky stunt.
I take some damage before the fight with Vile. Like in the intro stage. This is faster. And I also skip the first scene were Vile and Zero have a dialouge. I did the glitch carefully. The secret is to not touch the floor in that room.
If you watched Tikis 34:42 you saw the awsome hack glitch during the fight with Vile and his robot. I never got a hang of it and never use it in this run. Maybe next time.
The fight with Vile could have been faster. I take damage too and thats NOT good if we take a look at the common bosses. thankfully I climb up to Kuwanger and fought him without taking damage, he tried to but I could dodge this time.
Like a chicken I picked up a hughe life filler before bospider. As you can see. That was a good decision. I was lucky to get the filler!
Chill penguin dives five times. Just a couple hits with the charged fire and one hit taken. Thats not very good. With some fucking luck this fight can be done a lot faster!
The robot is not a faster option.
I got luck in the fight with the eagle. He never leave the ground.
Good, lucky and careful Rangda banga fight!
No damage before Octopus is the way to go, the Spark mandrill fight were slow though. No drain attacks from octopus again. But I got two hits by his body so I had to take the filler before mammoth on a safety purpose. The D-rex fight were not good. I were close to die here too.
Velguarder were killed pretty fast and no damage taken. First Sigma fight were good. The final form is always risky. thankfully I survived. I were very nervous trough all the Sigma levels.
I want to give thanks to a lots of people.
100% 0:39:41 by Freddy Andersson.
Author's comments:
This is a good run. It can be improved and there still is mistake in it as you can see but I'm satisfied with this and will not improve it. But if someone beat this time I think I will go back to this fun 100% run again. But I was a little bit tired on this run becuse the random boss fights.
I also had to take two sub tanks (yeah, really) BUT I DON`T CARE AT ALL!!! It cost me a few seconds and thats nothing in this run!
For this run I had a normal Mega man X Cartridge, a normal NTSC/american SNES, a normal SNES controller ( No rapidfire/turbobuttons), a doubble "Groove" Snus portion (swedish tobaco thing), a portion of luck on bosses and a DVD recorder to record the run.
I did this run on the NTSC/american version. Its my first NTSC run. But its nice to couldrecord it now. Why I did this run on NTSC instead of PAL is simpel. This version is funnier, faster and It was impossible to beat the record on PAL.
This is also the first time I beat an old run here from "SDA". I found out that its more fun. You are more motivated to find faster techniques and moves. When you find one you are even more motivated to continue. My goal wasn't to beat the old run with this much. Almoust two minutes. But I guess thats becuse I found and searched for tricks with more motivation.
And biggest thanks goes too Mike Uyama, Nate, Mikael Sjöberg, Tim Trygg. Becuse with out them this run shouldn't exist today =)
DEEP HARDCORE COMMENTS FOLLOWES :--/ ( WARNING )
If you wanna spend some time you can read all this "SHIT". I have spend pretty much time playing this game the last year so I just have too. And I just want you to know how expensive and frustrating it was to finaly be able to record and show this run! Its much "maybe" pointless stuff to read. I just remember details so good in this little story...
HISTORY: I guess this history begun in the end of 2004 or in the beginning
of 2005. I have two friends. One is named Tim Trygg and the other one Mikael
Sjöberg. They forced me to play this game. And I swear that I never touched
a "X" game before that. I thought it looked complicated but still very fast
and maybe could be fun if I played it a lot. Tim Trygg was a real crazy MMX
gamer "backinthedays" too. He just rushed trough the game and I was
impressed. Mikael was also good on the game and he used to play togheter
with Tim. I remember that I watched a run from Mike Uyama togheter with Tim.
I didn't know much of this game but I remember that Tim knew some tricks
wich was faster without ever had seen a speedrun =P that was cool.
They forced me to play trough the game. Tim helped me... And I think he
played all hard parts and filled Sub tanks for me.. It wasn't fun.
Then Some week or so after that I came to Mike after school on my way
home. He sat there and played some Multiplayer shit on his computer and I
was sooo boored. And one of the few video games he had was Mega man X for
SNES. I didn't want to go home becuse I was Lazy so I played Mega man
instead. I beated the game after a couple of hours. I asked "Mike" so I
choosed the right bosses and used the right weapon and so. And finally I
made it trough the hole game. And after that I played trough the game one
moore time... And then I did a third lap that evening. And thats how my
relation with this game begun.
I borrowed the game and begun to be good at it. I really had some
problems with the tumb over the SNES controller in the beginning and I still
have some limits today in very rare moves but Its nothing now.
I and Mike played this game a lot togheter in a little period. I remember
when we, I don't remember who was first but we made it trough the hour limit
and that was good news. We had the slow PAL version since we are swedish but
I played it annyway. Somehow I never buyed a PAL cartridge so I borrowed it
a lot. Then one day I did a 100 % run in 49 minutes so I made the decision
to buy the American version of the game. I found it for 150 swedish kronor
and then I buyed a converter for 100 kr. Somehow I couldn't play the game
trough this converter so I was forced to buy an "american" NTSC SNES.
I couldn't buy it from Ebay since I can't get PAYPAL Becuse I wasn't 18
and couldn't get a VISA CARD or master card and hadn't begun on a
universaty... And I didn't had a job...AAAND I didn't knew someone who could
buy it for me. So I had to search for an American SNES in a couple of months
here in sweden. And I searched everywhere. Somehow I couldn't find one. I
asked on a couple of forums and searched on Tradera ("simply the swedish
ebay"). I know it sounds silly but finally I find one. On "Spelfyndet". I
had to PAY 950 Swedish Kronor!!!! and I guess its around 130 american
dollars today :S. But finally I could play the game how much I wanted and
compare it too Uyamas runs. So I was lucky ( and poor ). After played it as
hell I was close to beat Uyamas run. And thanks too Mike Sjoberg and Tim
Trygg I got some really nice tricks. And I found some myself too so that
helped me.
The first Time I beated Uyamas run My time on the Stop-watch was 40:18. I
really was glad since I think it was Mike and maybe some other that sayed
that I wasn't that good and would never beat Uyamas run so I was even more
motivated to beat it :P
Yes I was a little bit proud of myself So I only had to catch the run on a
video tape (Yeah, I thought so). And after find out that european videos
couldn't record NTSC. I had an even more bigger problem. This was eight
months ago or so and I begun to search gor a way to record it. I wasn't
motivated to play it for speedrunning purpose before could record it. I
couldn't record it on a computer so I had to buy a DVD recorder. And thats
even more expensive :S But I got one as christmas gift from mum and
stepfather. And Of course european DVDs couldn't record NTSC. It stood in
the instruction manual though tried to get the money back. After some
problem in the store with this cheap "LG-DVD-RECORDER" they send it too the
"wholesaler". I also found a lots of other errors on the DVD recorder but
somehow they didn't find even one error when they watched it. So I got a
bill on around 50 bucks but the guy on the store was nice and i gave me the
money back. I never payed that bill. The guy in the store actually asked why
I wanted to record NTSC. So I had to tell about Mega man X and about
speedrunning and this site and stuff So I gived him thiss adress :P
Annyway. I somehow managed to get around 100 dollars more and I tried to
Buy an NTSC DVD recorder in sweden. Then I searched over hole europe but
couldn't find one. I tried to buy one from USA but I'm really bad on english
and didn't know how to do. I found one store but I had some problem with the
payment. Then I somehow asked Nate "the-capture-sonic-man" on this site to
help me. And Thanks to him I finally get the DVD recorder. So I had to PAY
this DVD. It wasn't that cheap. More then 300 dollars for the DVD and a
splitter to get away with the lag. And I was lucky that Nate buyed me the
DVD recorder, tested it, buyed a splitter for me and more. He also helped me
to explain how I should get evrything to work, hehe!
(finally, thanks to Nate I could capture this run =) It was very Nice of him!)
Then I warmed up a little. But pretty fast I captured a run in 40:14 I think. There was some mistake in it and I made a descision to do a run "sub 40 minutes" becuse I was so close. But I should never had made that goal. I guess it took me around 100 attempts more, in five days, and I used 28 DVDs and got over 50 hole runs recorded. over a half of these was between 40 and 41 minutes. And I guss 10-15 of these were between 40:14 and 40:30. There was always a hughe mistake that killed my attempts (Maybe I should call half of it randomnes). But I "didn't give a fuck" and just continue playing this game. My mother was angry becuse that I was on my room in almoust five days straight. So this is also one of the craziest run I have done. But somehow I still had fun when playing it. I guess I can't be sick of it. And afterward its worth it.
THE BIGGEST PROBLEMS IN THIS RUN. MOUST OF IT Killed My "sub 40 attempts"
missed moves on the directional buttons when switching stage
All damn boss randomnes wich destroy this wonderfull game from be PERFECT! ( yes, I really mean it )(with some very small exceptions). Specially when "haduok" Bower Kuwanger, "the spider", Rangda banga and D-Rex
Missed haduoken shots, Its very frustrating and it can be easy to miss when I'm nervous. End You can't do it as in Street fighter. You have to do it a little bit.. Slower, I think.
the second mini boss on launch octpuss stage. The second one I kill with the Spark shots. He sometimes suck me down on the spikes.
Missing taking haduoken. You have to visit that area five times they say. But Sometimes it seems like its more then that.
Missing the jump from the flying plattform when I jump to this Cliff on the first Sigma stage. That jump is cursed.
I choose stages pretty fast in this run. When I begun seriously trying to beat Uyamas old run I tried to save time on everything I could. But its pretty risky and there are a lots of runs that have been killed becuse of this. I use my street fighter skills for this. If you know how to do a "haduoken","shoryuken" or maybe "shinryueppa", "Shin-ryu-ken" and off course "Tatsu-maki-senpuu-kyako". Then its nothing to discuss ;) And two boss choose I did in this run was very bad. Launch octopuss to Ice penguin and Boower Kuwanger wasn't fast at all. And it was becuse I didn't have enough concentration.
This game is very random and this run was luckier the normal. But I could still have earned 20 more seconds or so on randomness I guess. This is frustrating =/
I don't know wich is the fastest wall jumping technique. But I timed the shaft before sigma in the final stage. It was the same times. Thats why I don't care how to wall jump. There is three types. Dashing wall jump, normal wall jump and usage of two walls. I moustly use normal wall jumps.
If you try to speedrun this game you don't have to do the same mistake as I
did once becuse you read this.
I played as the same time as I had Uyamas speedrun played on my Lap top
running when I saw that he could enter the chill penguin stage faster then
me. I watched it again and found that If I hold the A button down the bosses
little scene when enter the stage can be skipped a little. I don't think it
works on Sting chameleon but on the other ones.
"dash shots" is a good technique if you are good and maybe can use it in some places since it take more damage on the enemies and bosses. I don't used it more then on a few places in this run though.
If you compare this run with a minimalist run you can see some differences. I use other techniques in many places wich I can't use in a minimalist/naked/any % run. use of haduoken isn't the only timesaver. Also much use of charging my weapons and buster. And in some place I can take more damage. A minimalist run is a lot harder in some places. Thats becuse I take eight heart tanks AND sub tanks AND the body armour! thats a big difference and it makes the run much easier some times. But since I have to do the haduoken its harder some times too.
I use this "super-special-speed-jump" when I'm in the end of ladders moustly in this run. It looks cool and if I do this move good I earn some time. It isn't much and In this hole run I guess the mistakes I did becuse of this actually made this run slower. But I want to do it becuse its cool and fun. I also have to practice to be good. And yes, it was hard in the beginning.
I always try to stand in the middle of the boss room after beating a boss. I still use to forgett about it but it saves me a sec. or two some times. ( instead of standing close to a wall )
I do some uneccassary shots, L/R button mashings and moves.. Some times risky too. But It is in some places were I can't save time anyway and wanna have something to do =P. specially in sting chameleons stage after I took the armour part when I jumped around for a while. But I use to do the same move there always so my timing when I could get away from the screen was perfect.
COMMENTS "STAGE BY STAGE"
WARNING. I don't know If you understand even a half of this becuse some comments is pretty "hardcore" and I'm not that good on english. Much of this small time savers I speak about isn't that much in this run annyway.
BEFORE THE FIRST STAGE:
I guess I found a "time saver" already here (yeah, really). If you keep
smashing the start button right after pushing "game start". Probably I'm not
the first one that knew about it.
INTRO STAGE:
Lets begin this wonderful game with some slow running. Still I like this one
and a half stages somehow. And I don't know how many times I have beat this
stage perfect. This time it wasn't perfect but still very good. In This run
I just rush trough the big bees. I guess this is the best and fastest way to
beat this stage. I have to take this hits so Vile don't hurt me later. He
took me as a prisoner right away. You can also Let one of the first three
cars hit you and push you almoust all the way to Viles ship. It isn't that
bad but you can't do it as good as the TASs I think. Maybe you didn't even
noticed the mistakes I did in this stage and moves that can be improved. The
game lagged a little in the beginning. If you are good or lucky you don't
have to feel this slowdown here. I can also always shoot the bees faster And
I stopped 0.2 seconds or something becuse I was close to take a
life-filler-tank. But then I realized my mistake. it was a weapon filler :P
I also had luck on Vile and with the ship. The ship was in the best position
when i blowed the second car from this ship. Sometimes I have to wait five
seconds so Vile finally can appear from the ship. After that I also had a
lots of luck on Viles position. It was perfect. But I did this stage very
well and my best times after this stage is only one or maybe two seconds
better.
Chill penguin:
The beginning wasn't done as it use to be but I still did it perfect. I
missed two or three charged shot but beamed me trough annyway. I also
succeed to shot a weapon filler so it was stuck in the floor! (YAY). Righ
after that (if you didn't noticed) I jumped so one of the spiky-wheelie
thing shouldn't stop me a little.
And after eleven conversation screens I get the dash. (YEAH!)
Then the hard and fun begin. Already after a couple of seconds is a hard
place. Were I have to shot two flying enemies and an "ostrich-robot". The
easiest way is take a hit. but the fastest is to shot them down. This time I
don't know If I saved time to shot em but its possible to kill them withouth
stopping. a dash shot can also help. On the way down I take a hit there and
I guess thats the best before jumping into the robot.
In the area before the boss is the next real hard place. I have done some
training here but its just hard. And the hit I took... It was to save time
and make it easier and maybe faster. But this little area could be improved
with some new but harder technique I guess.
Chill penguin himself is just only random. This little penguin can be killed
faster and I didn't played good either becuse I released a shot 0.05 seconds
to early and so.
So far a good run. I'm around five seconds after my best times around here
but its still good.
Storm eagle:
Its possible to jump a little earlier for the heart tank. But its risky too.
On the way down from the sub tanks I used to jump down a little earlier to
get the first plattform into the screen faster(the one I landing on in this
run). But it makes no sense.
And on the way again is an entresting area. When you shall reach the top
as fast as possible. I haven't made some timing but I simple jumping to
another plattform and then to the wall then two jumps to the top. Uyama had
another way up here in his run. that wasn't a bad one either but I think
mine is a little bit faster since It doesn't lag becuse of the enemie with
the spiky ball is outside the screen (almoust). But My friend Mikael Sjöberg
have a really cool technique here. Its similar too Uyamas "old" one. But its
lagging pretty much in his too. I'm sure it would be the fastest way without
lagging but I think its slower on the SNES. Annyway. Its just three similar
techniques on that area. I guess theres not much to discuss.
When I took the sub tank in this stage I stood on this slow pillar for a
while. I guess its faster then the right "road", isn't it? Well I'm not that
sure. After taking the Sub tank is straight forward. jumping on all this
plattform isn't that hard since they are not random and I know were they are
located and the enemies pop up on the same places always. except for a
enemie wich sometimes stand on the first plattform in the last hughe hole.
But I GUESS hes there if you don't have a full charge. I haven't doubble
check it though. Its also a little bit hard jump to do. When I shall jump in
speed down to this exploading wall before the capsule but I made it.
The last trip on the way to Storm eagle was well done. I missed two dashes
on the way but succed with the hard jump between these missile shooters just
before the boss.
Storm eagle himself could have been done faster And the missed shot
before he dissapeared into the air was bad done. Its not very often he stay
on the ground the hole fight wich is the best. I use simple dash shots if I
could to kill him guicker. If you noticed My half charged shoot in the end
did this run one or two seconds slower ;)
My best times here is 5-10 seconds faster.
Flame mammoth:
The move when falling down a bit before the secret pink shot wasn't even
close to perfect. But I'm positive that before that you can't rush faster.
Maybe if you are skilled you can also use the last "bandway thing" to make
your dash faster ;)
I have to do some hard moves in this stage too. The first one is up to the
"pink shot" or if you wanna call it Super charge or something. I don't know
exactly how this braking block technique is but I think you have to hold the
"up" button to crush the lowest sometimes bouth blocks here. And sometimes I
have hard and it take some time to brake my way up there but this time it
was pretty good.
My next check point is the Sub-tank. In the beginning when watched Uyamas
run I thought take the heart tank first is faster but after I spend some
time thinking about it I changed my mind. So I choose to take the tank
first. So after released the test shot after taking it I begin to charge
again. Then I was hit by the second "hammer brother" there. But it was meant
to and except I felled down I did this place as I wanted too. I guess you
can do this place faster. I trained a little on this area once and This was
the best I could came up with ( sorry )
Then after taking the Sub tank I have to do a big jump to landing there
somewhere. Maybe its possible to do this on an faster way but I did a wall
jump from the wall as you can see ( exactly as Uyama in his old run I
think). Then before took the heart tank I killed the middle hammer brother
over me becuse if not he trow an annoying hammer on me!
then I have to go back a bit and jump up and blow an tornado. I was hit by
this enemies hammer so I couldn't see when my tornado should kill all this
three hammer brothers. And after this little mistake I begun to charge... I
don't use tob here but this time I did it. Don't know why... So In the next
area it lagged a bit more then it use to But I think I can Kill the boss a
little bit faster with the charge. And I also did a to short jump and had to
do a little wall jump onto one of the bands.
Before enter the boss I use to do a hard jump, landing just beside the
second last enemie and then Jump over him. Somehow I hit the wall instead,
loosed some time but could still continue nice without taking a hit.
On flame mammoth himself I had a charge ready. I think I could do the first
hit a little faster but I'm not sure and thats why I do it in my run. It do
a damage hit more I think but thats isn't why I save time. I also try too
hit him the rest of the fight with high shots becuse if He jump I don't
loose time. The elephant didn't jump this time so it makes no sense but I
killed him nice and quick. took a hit one time wich didn't affect my time
but maybe I did one of my shot a little late.
I'm almoust ten seconds from my best times around here but its still good.
do you saw when I choosed the next stage?
Spark mandrill:
The best music on the game and one of a few tracks that give me adrenaline
sometimes (NO, ITS NOT A JOKE!)..Its my favorite stage in MMX!
I did one tiny damn real mistake in this little run. I jumped a pixel or two
too much so I was hit by the second enemie. And that mistake gave me to hit
since the third enemie could hit me too. But after that I played as I want
to. I missed a VERY hard jump over a enemie there but its not counting as a
mistake. But off course this stage can be beaten faster. Still it was one of
my best run trough here and I have never be satisfied over my runs trough
here before. But this time I have to be it since I did it good in a speedrun
=) ENJOY!
- (WOW, something similar to "edit"), I watched it again and I found three
more mistakes but I hope you don't see them
I choosed to Kill the sub boss this way. Charge-shot-charge. And I guess its
the fastest and it was my friend Mikael Sjöberg who found and showed me
this.
After the Sub boss I have to charge to kill the next enemie and landing on
his plattform. From there and all the way to the heart tank is a cool line.
You can't dislike it. You just..can't
I also think you can get trough this birds in the dark places faster if you
use the buster instead of tornado to skipp the lag.
The boss is another story. He is some kind of "spark-lion-gorilla", isn't
he? I could have killed him quicker But this time he really tried to kill
me. I had bad luck and did a safe shot near the end. If I shouldn't do that
He should probably kill my run. And did you noticed that I almoust stood in
the middle after killing him :P
And I don't know if Spark mandrill rushed to me like that. Maybe it was
becuse of my moves or just randomness as normal. But I'm not sure here.
Armored Armadrillo:
Heres another big mistake in my run. But I was lucky that It didn't affect
my time so much. I thought I should be able to take the sub thank on the
next visit in this stage =)
I did some mistakes as I said but Other than that I don't know what to
comment. I tried to shot down this flying enemies in the end to skipp some
lag and I had to begin charge so I couldn't shot the last two of them. The
very last one down there is hard to kill annyway.
I played the boss fight good and I couldn't shot him for a while when he
still had his armore when he bounced around the room. Becuse of randomness
it was slow. My time is still 10-15 seconds from my best runs here so its
still good.
Launch octpuss:
I have two choise in the beginning here. Use the storm or just jumping over
all enemies and shot the small ones with the buster. I take the first option
becuse its much easier but I know it isn't faster.
Everything went well. I fired the first miniboss slow becuse he is
invinceble for half a second after each shot. And if I should tried to shot
faster My spark-meter should be finished before killing the next boss like him.
I choose to shot the boat with a charged shot becuse its faster and My jump
from the boat was a little bit of but I guess you can't kill the
Snake/dragon bosses faster then I did.
The boss fight went well too. He did his "tornado/energy drain attack" thing
only once and thats pretty good.
I missed a little when I should choose Chill penguin stage but it didn't cost me more then maybe a second. I also choose to revisit this stage here becuse its close and on the way to boomer Kuwanger.
Chill Penguin revisited:
This time I can rush trough the beginning. The R.Shield Made it easy and
maybe its the first time you see this. Mikael Sjöberg showed me that this
weapon could be of good use in Boomer Kuwanger and Sting chameleon stage. I
found about that I could use it here too =) annyway, the revisit were well
done.
Boomer Kuwanger:
This is one of my favourite stages. Also a hard one. R.shield is the best
weapon in moust of the stage. I took a hit on the lasers but it was meant
to. I took the heart tank pretty good and the way up to the boss was done
good. I missed the "ladder-speed-trick" some times too.
The way from the heart up to the boss door can be a hard place. But after
much pracicing here I know exactly how to do as you can see. I use storm
tornado here and I guess thats the best :P
The boss fight maybe wasn't that cool but "I got the job done". On year ago
I easilly hanged on one wall and shoted my missiles but you can easilly miss
some time that way.
I was around ten seconds after my best times here too.
( Its not funny )
Sting chameleon:
hmm... good beginning here. The mini boss can always be killed faster and I
don't know if the dash techniques works here but I killed him quick enough.
Took the heart tank nice and quick. overall a good stage even if I was hit
two times. And the boss was owned! I also succeed to use exact ammo of my
boomerangs. (YEAH!!!)
thanks goes to Mikael Sjöberg here. I found and showed me the charged
R.Shield and showed me this nice and easy strategy against Sting Chameleon!
My best time after beating Sting chameleon is 24:40. I was ten seconds slower here I guess but still one of my best times. But also remember that I never took the Sub tank in armadillos stage.
Spark Mandrill revisited:
I I had to wait for the storm shot to go out of the screen. switched to
bomerangs nice in the air and got the sub tank.
Armored armadrillo:
I had to take the Sub tank here becuse I missed it last time I was here. I
do upcharged flame on the beast right after becuse its faster but I guess
it could be slower becuse its more lag.
Everything seems to went good here. And I had to die three times to get the
haduoken as usual.
Thanks here goes to "FractalFusion". He showed me a movie on the forum and
told me about how I took haduoken fastest possible. It seems to be like
"they say"...or not. Its not true that you have to take the energy tank. And
this is one proof =) The secret is to have the capsule in the screen I
think. And you don't have to die. Just visit the area four times. the fifth
it shall appear (the capsule). I jumped to the cliff annyway to be safe. So
I guess you can save at least a couple of seconds;)
Overall a nice visit. But did I take haduoken?
The Sigma stages is the hard place in the run. It always here I screw up my good runs. In randomness and becuse its hard.
1st Sigma stage:
I take some damage on the way too Vile. I guess its the best. I don't think
you save time when getting hit by enemies that give you 1 damage point. But
when they give you 2.
before Vile I did a glitch or something too. I skipped the conversation
between Zero and Vile. Its becuse I never touched the floor. I took it safe
here so I didn't touched it and then I was a little bit slow in the next
room on my way to Vile and Zero becuse the game can freeze on the fight
against Vile sometimes. And it seems that the reason behind it is when I'm
just too fast in the middle room somehow.
Annyway, Vile was killed and My position could have been much more to the
right. But its hard to turn around and "haduok" on the right. Especially
when I use to play as the first player and starting from the left in street
fighter. So I had a little bit more proplem to do haduoken from the right ;)
I missed this first bouncing button (RARE). But I wasn't hit. BUT OFF COURSE
on the next enemie. I somehow missed him with half my pinkshot, hehe. But on
the other hand I didn't have to wait when released the camouflage. But I
loosed two or three seconds when I took one of my sub tanks instead. Maybe
looks bad But I don't care. A few silly seconds in a run like this is
nothing to cry for.
I haduok boomer Kuwanger as I should but I was scared when he he stayed for
me. I thought he should just dissapear. Becuse he do it sometimes and that
could have kill my run. I almoust need to have some luck here. If he
dissapear in the beginning even how good I play I can loose twnenty
seconds!!
I continue the stage and rushed to Bo spider. Hes also one of this runs
worst moment. not in this but But He have killed many attempts. I know I
always can haduok him everytime he reach the floor. But some times is just
hard and I fail. When you think about it. Some times he attacking me with
four mini spiders then walking on his metal webb wich is very random.
Sometimes I know exactly were he should touch the floor but sometimes hes
just to fast and hard to "read". I just suck I guess.
This time with a little bit of luck an OK run. Could have been 5 seconds
faster or so.
Between. My best time when killing Vile is still ten seconds faster. I have 5-10 runs as fast or a little faster here.
2nd. Sigma stage:
Good beginning but rushed in to the Ostrich before the boss. I was lucky to get a little tank there. I haduok Chill penguin in a odd way but I still did it pretty fast. He always begin with a slide I think so thats why I always shot him immidietly. Then I release a haduoken. Some times it kill him. sometimes not. This time he didn't wanna die so I had to kill him annyway.
My next stop was Storm eagle. I don't know if I have missed this haduoken sometime. But even this time I didn't fail. Then rushing to Rangda banga. Rangda banga: Hes a hard one to beat fast. its a random fight and sometimes I can't haduok him and some times not. My plan is to stand on the left floor with the chamleon sting. If the eyes wanna come down I just trick them a little and preper to kill them with haduoken =) This time all begun good! I haduok the first blue one but the right was a red one wich wanted to destroy my run. The second time he actually came down so I used an Sub tank but of course I missed the haduoken, (Jävlar!) So this was my biggest time off lost in this run. this fight still was lucky and sometimes I can't haduok the eyes at all annyway. But I screwed up a big chance. Its much more entartaining to watch a good rangda banga fight.
3rd Sigma stage
Fastest possible Armored armadrillo fight. I had luck and he gave up earlier
this time.
Sting Chameleon gets owned as usual. HAHA! If you dissapointed that I
couldn't haduok him. Well, its not that easy. I need to have pretty much
luck and this is a single segment ( one sitting ). I can't take that risk
and I already have to much of it!
Spark mandrill is also an intresting boss fight. I can hit him with haduoken
but If so I have 50% chance of hit him. Freez(y)e him first "saves me some
stress".
After this fight I charged the tornado and released to get away with the
first fish. Then Maybe I could have some other technique trough this area. I
was just too lazy to try some.
And killed Launch Octopus as usual. And this time he gave up even if I just
touched his left foot or just a tentacle. HAH!
Then I killed flame mammoth as usual.
D-rex: one of the moust annoying places in the run. everytime I had a good
time here he had to destroy it. The chances to haduok him is 50 % or so I
think. yeah its true that you always can haduok him but its just to hard and
you had to guess if he just fall together =/ But this time I had luck and
just killed him as fast as possible. If I should missed my haduoken I screw
up at least 15 seconds I think
FINAL:
As I sayed. Don't know wich wall jump is the best. But the last jump into
the boss room was good. I killed Sigma and the dog with haduoken but The
very last boss is impossible to hit with the secret weapon ( OH NO!) I was
hit two times and the plattfrom did some annoying moves. Could have kill him
5 seconds faster or so but do you know how nervous I was here? I just
celebrated this with a lots of beers this evening ;)
My DVD just had 41-42 minutes left wich could be recorded so the movie will stop when Mega man stand on the cliff.
MORE ABOUT THE RUN AND FOR THE FUTURE:
This run is good I think. Probably better then it seems since I had some
luck. But off course it can still be improved. I knew I could with some luck
get down too 39:30 or so But sub 39 is also possible I think. I think I did
A LOTS of small mistakes in this run. I have better played runs I think. but
this one is the fastest completition.
I have a feeling about someone will beat this run someday. Or I'm sure of it becuse this game will never die. Its a good game. But I don't think I will improve this one before someone beat it. I will not be motivated for it. I see it as a good run and has nothing to proove. "I did My sub 40". But I guess Mike Uyama will show wich man he is in the future. right? Or someone else? =)=)=)
THANKS for this run GOES TO:
Nathan "Nate" Jahnkee - For helped me with the DVD recorderand the recording the run. Once again! BIG THANKS. This will also help me to record a lots of other runs in the future. YOU DO NOT KNOW how much this DVD mean to me :D
Mike "Mikwuyma" Uyama - For his old good run and all tricks I learned when studying it. And also when I speaked about this run in the forum he helped me the best he could! I don't know wich stuff i sayed that I didn't knew about but I think he told me about walking trough the bees in the intro stage, haduok spark mandrill faster in the second fight,
Tim Trygg - A friend of mine. forced me to play this game, learned me how to play this game and showed me tricks for this game! And also discussed a lot. Don't remember what he showed me and not. But It was a lot I remember. If It shouldn't already be a run and a record for this run before This speedrun should be minutes slower I guess.
Mikael Sjöberg - A friend of mine. I and "Mike" brought down this clear time in the beginning and discussed tricks and Uyamas speedrun togheter. Hes the one who find and showed me the strategy against Sting chameleon, That Charged R. Shield, Use charge-shot-charge strategy on the mini boss in Spark mandrill stage and more.
"FractalFusion" - for helped me and told me the "secret of haduoken" wich under my attemts saved me important seconds! I didn't used it as good as I could have done but still it was nice..
Capcom for all good Mega man games (YAY). But not for the Mega man games you never released in europe!
TASers for more tricks. I don't know who find out about what.
mum and stepfather for half the payment on the DVD recorder
my father (Mario) - He gave me money to the splitter I needed.
And as usual, Radix for this site, all speedrunners and speedruns
And you, for watching this run.
I probably missed some one. ( sorry )
P.S. I don't know how I should spell "haduoken", "hadouken" or maybe "Hadoken"
// Swedish gamer, Freddy "Frezy_man" Andersson