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Generally, speedrunning communities (for games and other things) already bar tricks and strats that require setup on an external file/system. For instance, you
by CM30 7y ago
Generally, speedrunning communities (for games and other things) already bar tricks and strats that require setup on an external file/system.
For instance, you can't carry hearts/stamina from one file to another in a Breath of the Wild speedrun, or use wrong warping to instantly go to a location saved on an alternate save file.
There are exceptions in certain scenes (in speedruns for Banjo-Kazooie, a glitch is used on another save file to fix the RNG for a quiz section later in the game), but generally, everything has to be done from an empty file/system with no external resources already setup.
- yashap 7y agoWould this rule also invalidate the OP’s approach of getting to the point where you can download wget, then using that to download other programs? wget, and the things you’d download with it, would live on external systems.
- linux2647 7y agoI would say not. Those programs are general purpose. The programs GP and GGP are referring to would be specifically designed to assist a speed run.
- ProZsolt 7y agoYou can "airgap" a gaming system so you can't use any external resources. It is very clear what you can use and what you can't. Here you have a network connection and you should use it. It's part of the challenge. What counts as an external setup?
- Legogris 7y agoNetwork, not necessarily internet.
- fragmede 7y agoThere are different categories for everything. There's getting to the end of the game and defeating the end boss ASAP. For games with a completion percentage, there's speedruns to get to 100% completion rather than just getting to the end. There's categories for not using "warps", and others that allow using "warps" to skip levels. Tool Assisted Speedruns (TAS) is a category unto itself. This involves running game on an emulator and making human-impossible precise set of inputs, often disassembling the ROM to find bugs to take advantage of. The Arbitrary Code Execution 'stunt' category includes one where someone programed Super Mario World by picking up items in a precise order (and time) to specify bytes, managing to write tetris and jmp to it. Competitions are made up, so we can make up whatever point A and point B is, and the rules along the way. Timing going from a Ubuntu ISO to desktop browser with google.com loaded is one A, B pair, but there's so many different possibilities out there!