Speedruns for Charity

[cbrunny]

I found a few of these videos on Youtube recently. This morning I decided to check out the website. It's pretty cool actually: http://marathon.speeddemosarchive.com/history#sgdq2013. Organization called Speed Demos Archives.

They take many classic and some mondern games and do speedruns through them with varying criteria. This is streamed over the internet, and people give donations to charity in support of the run. In some cases, there will be an incentive to donate - for example the runner will unlock a hidden room or perform some other glitch if a certain dollar amount is raised.

Sounds very niche to me, but they've still manged to make some extremely cool videos. This is my fav: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M7IINwTFVw Ocarina of time in 22 minutes. I've watched this start to finish twice now.

The very cool thing though is that they've raised over a million dollars for charity in just four years. Their average live viewership at the last event was 27,500 over four days. Impressive.

Next event is early January. The list of games they'll run is here http://marathon.speeddemosarchive.com/schedule. Borderlands 2, 4-way coop is on there. I might watch that one!

 

[slag]

It's neat. I watched this video and I wouldn't consider him beating the game though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M7IINwTFVw

Sure, he got to the last boss and defeated it, but he didn't beat the game. He defeated the last boss with a hack/cheat/whatever, but since he skipped all the other bosses, he didn't beat the game and I wouldn't consider that counting.

I think its cool though that they came up with these hacks and different methods of warping, moving through dungeons, etc.

 

[mmntech]

Then there's the exact opposite of the speed run. Desert Bus for Hope is starting up again soon. They raised almost half a million of Child's Play last year.
http://desertbus.org/

 

[TecHNooB]

they're on twitch all the time.

 

[cbrunny]

It's neat. I watched this video and I wouldn't consider him beating the game though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M7IINwTFVw

Sure, he got to the last boss and defeated it, but he didn't beat the game. He defeated the last boss with a hack/cheat/whatever, but since he skipped all the other bosses, he didn't beat the game and I wouldn't consider that counting.

I think its cool though that they came up with these hacks and different methods of warping, moving through dungeons, etc.

Haha yes, I agree with you, and I'm sure most would too. Still, very cool to see all the hacks and stuff. There are videos of 100% clearing Ocarina speedrun too, but they're 5+hours long.

 

[juiio]

It's neat. I watched this video and I wouldn't consider him beating the game though.

Sure, he got to the last boss and defeated it, but he didn't beat the game. He defeated the last boss with a hack/cheat/whatever, but since he skipped all the other bosses, he didn't beat the game and I wouldn't consider that counting.

He didn't use any hacks or cheats, he just takes advantage of bugs in the game. Skipping bosses doesn't matter, since it is labeled as Any Percentage run. If you want a 100% run, then watch the run before his. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhoS5CjgkF4.

 

[slag]

He didn't use any hacks or cheats, he just takes advantage of bugs in the game. Skipping bosses doesn't matter, since it is labeled as Any Percentage run. If you want a 100% run, then watch the run before his. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhoS5CjgkF4.

Exploiting a bug is both a hack and a cheat.