So Calithon was a smaller scale in-person marathon that was primarily based in southern California, but for a couple of years, was hosted in northern California. I was able to make it to the northern California events, and this was the first of them, which was held at the same place that AOD 2017 was held. This time, the event had its own separate room, so the event itself didn't have to deal with distractions from other adjacent areas at the convention compared to AOD 2016.
I was strongly encouraged by a couple of other speedrunners to submit this peculiar experiment to this marathon, and I was completely out of practice on everything since at this point, I was in the middle of a massive break from speedrunning as a whole for a year+, but the one exception is that I went to AGDQ 2017 primarily for fun and to visit friends, but I had a silly idea to attempt just for fun in AGDQ's casual room, which was recorded by fellow speedrunner and good friend, Mr. K: • NES Punchout & SNES Su...
This was meant as a lighthearted silly kind of gag, especially due to the experimental nature of the the setup, where I've opted to use a Gamecube Wavebird controller with two Wiis, and the receivers both set to the same channel, which sends inputs to both consoles at the same time. Strangely enough, I've found that the Animal Crossing version of NES Punch-Out has the least amount of input lag compared to every other port of this game ever, even including Wii's Virtual Console played on a CRT Television! I decided to opt for that, also because personally, I only have one Wii and one Gamecube, and this would allow me to use Wii Virtual Console's release of Super Punch-Out, and Animal Crossing's version of NES Punch-Out for minimal input lag with this setup.
My run was scheduled for March 18th 2017, and I showed up to practice for it that day. The practice venue didn't have a ton of TVs to practice on, but I did end up with a very special one that you can see here: / 843215342558044160
My practice went well, but I wanted to make it to the stream room well ahead of time so that I don't cause any delays, so I end up turning everything off and packing everything up to transfer it over to the stream room and get right on setting everything up so tech staff can do everything quickly and efficiently.
IRONICALLY, HOWEVER, ONE CRITICAL THING WAS OVERLOOKED... I FORGOT TO SAVE AND QUIT IN ANIMAL CROSSING. For those of you who don't know why this matters, Animal Crossing is a game that heavily punishes you if you forget to save and quit, because the idea is that you can't redo things IRL, so you shouldn't be able to get away with such a thing in this game. The game's countermeasure to that is a character by the name of Mr. Resetti.
If this character is summoned by you forgetting to save, then you better strap in, because this mole can get MAD, and this time, he was the most furious I had ever seen him. I was in the most unique marathon situation I had ever been in, which was everyone in the crowd dying laughing watching me panic and try to get past this mole as quickly as possible for the marathon. He had me typing long sentences with VERY SPECIFIC capitalization, and exact number of exclamation points needed for him to get unmad, AND I KEPT MESSING UP AND EVERYONE WAS DYING LAUGHING, INCLUDING ME.
It is an absolute tragedy that this part of the setup was not streamed or captured in any way, because it very well may be the funniest marathon experience of my entire experience as a speedrunner, and I'm deeply saddened I only got to share it with the people who happened to be in that room at that time.
ANYWAYS, so the run itself was really fun, with a plethora of extremely silly mistakes that I could never foresee, because I only practiced this a very limited amount due to my speedrunning break. This ended up in new and hilarious situations, such as accidentally selecting the world circuit a second time while fighting Super Macho Man in NES Punch-Out, which then sent me into a frenzy that almost deleted my save file and/or created a new file.
This run did, however, mark the very first time that the final fight of NES Punch-Out was ever beaten in a live in-person marathon setting in the first round, which involved several frame perfect punches. It's kind of silly that this feat was done specifically with the Gamecube controller's dpad during a run that involved me juggling 2 separate games at the same time, but here we are, haha.
This run was a fairly important one for me, because it kind of re-sparked my interest in speedrunning again, and ended up being one of the primary reasons why I returned to continue doing speedruns as a whole, because it reminded me of how much fun this really is, and how so many of my friends really truly missed me in this space.
Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this run, thanks for watching!
11 фев 2022
