[TAS] Project M: The Subspace Emissary Speedrun in  

With everything said and done, I'm probably never going to TAS this again. Any other "New Game" variants, with or without Debug Mode, currently feel like a waste of effort because of the gigantic amount of needless time added onto them (Loading times for cutscenes that will be skipped Frame 1, unnecessary character re-choosing). As shown in the video, I've broken down NG+ so incredibly hard that there's nothing left except for miscellaneous optimizations that I happened to miss. Skippable fights and autoscrollers were skipped, stage collision was broken in ways thought of as impossible one year ago, and the mandatory fights were optimized on a greater than or equal to level of the NG Debug% TAS I made in 2018. This TAS has 54,681 rerecords. Assuming that the rerecords were spread out equally across the 110,445 frames of the timed run (Which is heavily inaccurate for multiple reasons), there was an average of one rerecord (The equivalent of loading a savestate, to do an action differently or to fix a mistake) every 2.02 frames. This game will probably never *ever* be truly "maxed" in a similar fashion to games like Super Mario Bros. or Super Mario 64 because of the game's limitless combinations of possible events, both to do with item RNG and to do with enemy AI manipulation. In the majority of other games' TASes, the enemies are either skipped or damage boosted through once and then forgotten about. In Subspace Emissary, even in the most ideal scenarios presented in this video, there are numerous areas where the entire *goal* is to destroy a gigantic amount of enemies as fast as possible. And given how quickly the number of outcomes grow just by killing an enemy to get two different (And important) items a single frame apart, the entire grand scheme of outcomes is practically unlimited. There's a reason why the RTA record for Intense Difficulty (2:21:28) is over *47 minutes* slower than the _ridiculously low optimization_ TAS (1:34:03) I made nearly four years ago.

So this is why Sonic appears at the end of subspace.

This was just footage of Sonic on his way to Tabuu because he was late while everyone was about to die at the end of the game

The unintended narrative of watching Meta Knight climb a mountain only to see him being bodied by Captain Falcon at its summit will never stop being funny for me.

Captain Falcon: Assassin Fox: Multi-Man Master Peach: Boss Slayer Sonic: Human Cannonball Falco: Beeg Monkee Wrangler Meta Knight: Mountain Climber

The four horsemen of the apocalypse: Sonic Peach Fox Captain Falcon

At this point I like to imagine that Tabuu is an anti-cheat program trying vainly to stop you from breaking the game so hard.

Boss: Peach: peace was never an option.

This is sonic rushing to save everyone from tabuu the rest of the roster is already there but he forgot

Sakurai: climb the Glacial Peak and you get a spot in Fighters Pass 2. PM Meta Knight: 22:31

Take a shot every time Sonic hurts himself. Congratulations you’re now reunited with your ancestors you’re welcome

Man even outside of his own games sonic cant avoid clipping out of bounds

This is the Canon story of how fast sonic ran through the game by himself to save literally everybody from Tabuu

Toon Link: What is my purpose in life? DyllonStej: You throw a boomerang to press a button. Toon Link: Oh my god!

I really appreciate the small annotations! this run is mad entertaining these bosses don't deserve all this abuse tho

"So how exactly do I not die?" "Oh, simple! Just move the camera to where you're about to be!"

Sonic breaks the universe to outspeed speedrunner mario circa 2020 colorized

Sonic trying to get to tabuu after realizing he missed 99% of the subspace conquests

23:20 meta knight flying all the way up that mountain just to get kicked back down

This is why sonic is not a starting character

Somebody send this to Terminalmontage!

When Peach said: "Jum-Jum-Jum-Jum-Jum-HEEYAH!" I felt that

Sonic just told the moving platform: "You're too SLOW."

"And that was how the 5 heros saved smash brothers"- vets "What about toon link"- newcomers "He pushed a button" - vets

In this episode of Subspace Emissary, Sonic finds out he's late for the Tabuu fight and through rocket propulsion (and some help from his friends) he is determined to reach the final boss. Will he make it in time?

There is something inherently cursed about sonic doing shell jumps...

Bruh did you really rng manip just to get the ness taunt LOL

Nintendo characters commit a dimension breaking massacre Now featuring sonic the hedgehog

Crazy how this is a better sonic game than Sonic Boom

When Sonic said “you’re too slow” I really felt that 😔

Starts new area* Skips ten 10 seconds* "Oh he's done...

This run is absolutely nuts. Great job! I'd love to see this at GDQ or some other marathon sometime with someone trying to explain every single thing that's happening in real time. And if art weren't so expensive I'd totally commission art of this run's main protagonists

Peach: *exists* Boss: why do i hear bo- wait *dies*

So a non-Nintendo character pwned an entire Nintendo universe Good job Sonic

Meta Knight climbed all the way to the top of Glacier Peak just to get curbstomped back down to the bottom.

Peach against Petey Piranha be like: “Fine, I’ll do it myself.”

Sonic : stages and almost everything Captain Falcon : character fights Peach : boss fights Fox/Captain/Sonic : ennemy waves fights Falco : GIANT DIDDY Meta Knight : Moutain level Toon Link : cheese Mario, Luigi, Ness & Kirby : exist as replacement characters

Leaked footage of Sonic coming to save everyone while doing the shadow clone jujitsu - 2008

I wanna, one day, tell someone close to me: "We go together like Sonic and Bob-Ombs"

Sonic the Runner Captain Falcon the Character killer Fox the Crowd killer Peach the Boss killer (feat. Metaknight the Vertical scaler, Toon Link the Boomerang thrower, and Falco the Monkey killer)

Did you just accidentally make the best sonic game ever?

Sonic after he realized he was late to confront Tabuu.

"Don't blow yourself up" they said. "Throw the bombs at your enemies" they said. Oh if only I could see their faces now after this.

Tabuu got beaten so hard he just sat there floating away and then the choir just started singing in fear of what they witnessed

This makes me sad Ultimate did not do platforming stages with World of Light. As fun as the bosses were, I enjoyed playing huge levels with the huge roster of fighters. The Subspace Emissary will never be surpassed by any other single player content in any other Smash game. If World of Light had DLC that added as many platforming levels as TSE had, I would pay so much for that. I don't care about the cutscenes. In TSE, they were a bonus. Charming, but the levels are what made it fun. In WoL, they just tried to make Event Match more grand. And even then, Melee has more creative matches, some even having new stages and items. I can play Ultimate whenever I have friends over, which is rare ever since all of them moved on with life, but TSE is something I can play with a friend or alone. It is just so much fun to mess around in. I hope someday, somebody mods Project M to include all of the characters from Sm4sh and Ultimate. I don't expect something like that to exist for several more years, but when it does, I will play as every one of those characters in The Subspace Emissary.

Tabu: I am the most powerful being ever Peach: Hold my turnip... And give it back... And repeat that 30 times a second.

Now i see why Sonic was the last character to appear in Subspace...

Sonic, we need to talk about your self harm issues.

I like to imagine TASes are how games canonically happen, so it's just Sonic carrying everyone around the map while Captain Falcon mauls all of the enemies and Peach slaps bosses around with her legendary turnip.

The fact that there's required taunting for this is beautiful

Meta knight: im the best character in the game Sonic: *You are too slow* Peach: *La lala lala la* Captain falcon: *show me your moves* Fox: *C'MON*

Taboo: How are you not dead?! Sonic: I have no idea!

One of the only times where Sonic uses his comic book speed. Also, Peach sounds like 20XX. Prove me wrong.

18:03 "Oh did I win?" intensifies...

Run is over....... RNG manipulates a Bob-omb and 2 more stitches...

Rest in Peach, Subspace Emissary.

Sonic: Speeds together fast! Meta Knight: what-

I love how Sonic and Peach interacted with each other and had more better roles

After the painful setbacks, it's great to see this all finished up, and it's such an entertaining TAS!

Wolf: finally! A worthy opponent. This battle will be legendar- Sonic: How about No.

"Bored Sakurai plays Subspace"

12:30 Ness when he sees Falcon Destroying both in seconds •_•:Ok......

What’s funny is anytime I played this game I never used the stickers because I didn’t know how you could use them lol.

Tails: Uh Sonic weren't you supposed to be in subspace by now? Sonic: Ah crap... Sonic: Time to run

2:18 when Peach saves Peach thanks to a turnip

Man, thanks for doing these things man, ssbb was my childhood, and seeing a nutty TAS like this make me feel happy Also, i love the captions in the bottom left, it helps me keep up, and know whats happening

This video is just sonics POV when everyone is in Subspace already

You see guys, this is why they patched Bob-omb self damage in Ultimate. They saw this coming and didn't want people speedrunning it like this

it's funny how besides peach, sonic is the most usefull character in subspace yet how is only available in the final battle also it's a shame that out of nearly 40 characters only toon link(21:06), metaknight(22:30), falco(19:30), falcon, sonic, fox & peach actually were useful.

There's something about Jason Griffith's 06 Sonic kicking ass that just fills me with joy. Man, Sonic was too badass for Brawl.

Gf: Come over Me: I can't, there's an army of generic enemies I've gotta fight Gf: My parents aren't home Me:

Sonic:Speed Run master Peach:Boss streader Falcon:Character destroyer Ness:Back up

Mario did alot of speedruns, but what is the true lord of speedruns? yes himself and only Sonic the *SPEED*

Dude this is genuinely mad impressive to see a childhood game of mine destroyed before my very eyes, you're doing God's work, keep it up chief

Tails: Sonic, you have to stop the subspace from destroying the Smash Bros world! Quickly! Sonic: Why should I? Tails: It’s tearing through the best chili dog joint in the Mushroom Kingdom! Sonic:

23:19 climbs a huge mountain and gets one tapped at the end by captain falcon

Mario: jumps backwards on a slope to achieve reality breaking speeds and traverse universes Sonic: stops time to manipulate future events and uses explosives to pass through solid matter

When Sonic Dash-Danced “Your too slow!” *I felt that.*

This is probably how Sonic canonical does things lol

When There is a speedrun Sonic always is present

Why is this the greatest thing I’ve ever seen?!? I don’t even wanna know how long this took to make, but you sir are an absolute legend. Please keep up the great work, it looks phenomenal Edit: I forgot to mention that the addition of showing all the craziness that’s happening in the bottom corner is an amazing touch that I wish was used more by others

I like how Sonic is part of the family after beating/rescuing the fighters from Tabuu.

I like how the optimal choice for getting quickly through the running levels is actually Sonic. No weird exploit with some other character, literally just Sonic and a bomb

I used to think the Subspace Emissary was a Kirby game. Now I realize, it's a Sonic game

So thats how sonic got there in time to save everyone *amazing*

The sub space emissary.., even in a TAS speedrun with all characters unlocked, it takes over 30 minutes to complete.

19:57 wow, hes so fast you dont even see him ko jigglypuff!

29:47 Sums this up “Your too slow” *Immediately damaged*

Sonic in this TAS is like the kid who forgot their Pizza Rolls were done.

Wow never knew Sega could actually make a good sonic game again it looks so good!

Loving the annotations in the video of when each technique is performed, super helpful!

Looking at how you controlled Sonic in this, It makes me think a 2D Sonic game with no momentum and a combat system might not just be a bad idea, If you do it just right then it might be fun

Got to relive my child hood on fast forward. So cool.

10:11-10:13 that music and descent absolutely crisp

9:32 this part looks like SMBZ but 3D

Stand User: Peach Stand: Star Platinum: The world Stand User: Sonic Stand: The world

As always, the insane leaps and bounds you've made with this game is staggering to me. Congrats, you absolute madman.

"Big Chungus is at the top of glacial peak" Me: 22:31

Melee: brawl is too slow paced! Brawl: hold my meta knight

This really was a pleasure to watch - absolutely fantastic work! I also appreciate you pointing out the techniques in the corner; especially when it comes to the more subtle things. Keep doing what you're doing ^.^