Somewhere out there is almost certainly a person who managed to get a world record time or managed to find a new glitch that could change the speed running scene but all they did was go "wow that was cool"
The former world record of cooking mama cook off run of 2:49:30 is unfortunately lost media. It was around for 5 years and sometime in 2020 deleted his twitch. Since the community was so small it was never archived, 2 of his other runs were found though on an alt
My most tragic lost media was "the pit" in 16.90, a spec ops level from modern warfare 2, done in late 2010, set to music that was copyrighted and I quickly removed the video because of this. Even today it would still barely be a top 10 time.
I always had fun grinding the spec ops levels to beat the iw best times, i think i only actually beat 2 or 3 but it's quite a thrill to finally get that sub iw time
actually I've been trying to find your videos that were featured on a channel called AmazingGames247 (or something along those lines) that's where I first saw your speedruns and by extension met you but it seems impossible to find the channel
I was there during the alexsm64 era, i was into speedrunning and made my twitch account in early 2013. I remember watching his streams but never thought that what i was watching would be lost to time one day. I'm glad that in current years everything is archived by mods so it never happens again.
There are tons of lost runs of Perfect Dark Zero, nearly every run done by Elite members are gone besides Deepdarkness' and a couple of other random ones I tracked down on youtube. I tried to reach out to some of them hoping they had theirs backed up, but only Adam Miller seemed to have any.
I have the opposite problem. I sent a tape to Ngamer with most of my PRs in like 2001 and he captured and uploaded all of them. Most of them weren’t notable even at that time but they now live forever in mediocrity on RU-vid.
Awesome video! This is something I have thought about because when I set the world record in Super Metroid I did that by running my SNES through a VCR and recorded the gameplay on tape, and sent the only copy to be verified. Plus the run I performed was a 100% completion without saves so there was not even a save file when I was done. It was not a perfect run by any means but does hold more value now than I initially thought.
hey i broke my neck last year, and i was stuck inside wearing a cervical brace all of that summer too! he had a good idea maybe i should’ve spent that time learning to speedrun mario 64 lmao
In Portal 2, the runner Peroculos, on two separate occasions, got wr on the stage Finale 1 and failed to save the demo file required for proof. Both times are largely obsolete now though.
Plot twist; his laptop in the landfill contains 5 bitcoins. Password forgotten. Edit: just watched the lore about the lost bitcoins. Not to copy the lore. Just my first thought.
I don't get why people like twitch,twitch deltes videos after 2 weeks or 2 months so what's the point of that if you can't go back anytime to watch them later? that makes no sense to me, it's no wonder let's plays and speedruns become lost media
media archeology facinates me there are so many movies that were lost in time due to the old flammable filmreels and things like simply being discarded for not seeing the value of the future
Speaking of Lost Media I couldn't find a pink USB that had some files. I looked everywhere and turned the room upside down searching and searching and like 7 days later I found it on the floor behind a recliner in the room. What was weird was I already looked back there and it just magically shows up.
One speedrun that I’ve been searching for is a Link to the Past run by now disgraced runner TSA. Back when Gamespot had a user videos section on their website, I remember watching 3 speedruns on the site, one of which was ALTTP by TSA. Since Gamespot has since removed their user videos, I have been unable to find that TSA speed run. I know he’s not well regarded any more in the speedrun community and hasn’t been for years, I still long for the day when I can once again feast my eyes on that run. A lot of those user videos were uploaded elsewhere but I’m sure there are a handful that are now considered lost media, including the ALLTP speedrun I mentioned.
@@GamerFolklore During my time watching Gamespot videos in the mid to late 2000s, it was a user name Ioupopio who was cutting TSA's run's into different sections and uploading them in parts (since video sharing websites had stricter time limits back 15 years ago). I have no idea how I still remember that person's username. Probably since it looked like such a strange name to me for whatever reason. Good to hear that others have kept ahold of TSA's runs. Despite the splicing, watching his runs is what got me into watching and learning about speed runs and so it would be sad to see them disappear.
I thought everyone salvaged their HDDs from their broken devices. HDDs often outlive the motherboard and all other computer components. It's estimated some can potentially last 100's of years if carefully and properly stored and handled. That goes for broken external HDDs too.
To be honest, I'm pretty sure any Raid Shadow Legends versions older than recent are lost media already, and the entire game will be lost once developers decide it isn't profitable anymore.
I don't know if so much lost media (as I haven't really looked after his videos in aaaaaages) but Moltov, Psydoyks and the Poodleskirt were LEGENDARY OoT runners, all and everyone of them! Fuck I miss those guys! Used to watch them ALL the freaking time. And even download their WRs to watch at home (had no internet at home at the time, cus of a super rural area in Norway)
Seems to me that, if you were only able to do one wr-pace run, it's not that relevant if you lost the footage. Whats the point of speedrunning, showing some "proof" to others that you managed to do it once, or proving to yourself that you are able to execute a game a certain way, and in the latter case, should you not only be satisfied when you know you can do it pretty consistently? Like, you would eventually get that footage if you are actually on the level of that run you did, else I don't know what's the value in knowing you could do it that one time only.
The history of the Mario 64 community is a little bit off. Originally, emulator and console runs were both acceptable and widely accepted, but people grew to not trust emulator runs after various emulator runners were caught cheating. Ignorance into how emulators were used to cheat caused the community to largely shift to being run on console because at the time, many didn’t understand why running on project 64 was fine because it wasn’t being articulated that runners cheating were using Mupen64 which had TAS tools. This large paranoia surrounding emulators is what led Wii VC to become so hated because it was seen as a direct advantage and due to the past with emulation, the fact the VC release was emulated soured things even more. Eventually there was a category split, but unfortunately, the damage had already been done and people were being harassed for running on emulator or virtual console.
@@mathprodigy I'm a man of principle. Plarium is a total scumbag piece of shit company. I Like most of Goose's videos, I comment to help the algorithm, I want him to succeed and get paid, but f Plarium.
They were under the influence of drugs. Really cheating. But not. Just drugs. All of them. Even me. Kids: don’t do drugs. Not even frogs. Don’t do them.
