The History of Contra World Records 

【d0mino】 I lost my shit when he showed uo

I just heard him say his name I’m shocked

The had us in the first half, not gonna lie.

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one

I honestly thought the same thing

Hope they bring him back for the 3rd instalment.

More legends than just Matt Turk tho, such as Zalard

Matt Turk is honestly a legend

Matt Turk is pretty cool, I liked his punch out record breaking video

@@Jacksonshroy yea

And then some just didn't!

I said this when I encountered the bullshit this game shipped out with

That was every kid's shout back in the day. But it was as soon as they threw the controller at the screen for the tenth time and their mother yanked the NES off the TV and hid it for a week. That was the acceptable way to complete the game for a long, long time.

My favorite thing is that they're always recording with a cactus instead of a mic lmao

Didnt expect to see you here.

dont get turked lol

This comment is brilliant.

I had a mouth full of raman noodles when he said his name and about did just that.

I used to watch your custom amiibo videos like a 2 years ago

I dunno, I flipped my shit when he mentioned TMR.

Yea mee I got chills😂

Like fr I was thinking: 'Matt Turk, it has to be him'

My reaction literally was "Matto Taaku desu ka!?"

if we put matt turk as the super bad ass in full metal alchemist brother hood there all like yes we win we did it and MATT TURK GOS AM BACK and there oh my god oh my god were going to get fucked up

Instant e-9 promotion. I'd say commission but I'd imagine "he works for a gd living"

9 minutes and 48 seconds :P

​​​@@JK-gm6kk All I can hear is Sgt Dornan from Fallout 2 "I AM NOT A 'SIR'! I WORK FOR A LIVING YOU *M O O O R O O O N* "

Then come backs and does it again but with even better times

​@@jadenpadin4707sandbags the first round to have fun with you later? Yeah... that's Abeny and MTurk all day long

bro I could not beleive matt turk made an appearance in the contra history Holy shit

All top 10 anime plot twists are name reveals in summoning salt videos. Still recovering from the Punch Out kaiser souze moment.

Of course it's Matt Turk, it's always Matt Turk! I literally said those exact words

69. Niceachu 21. Black Boi 7. Slot Machine 1. The Z7

Or do you mean Buffy the vampire slayer??? (I know you don’t, but that would be great.

@@charteon9092 doom eternal

somadman JOHN CENA

Seriously. Dude had to likely have a day job. Just doing it for fun

The amazing part is the lack of help, he was playing on an entirely different playing field from anyone today

@@Zamu273 brings me back to looking for cheats in the back of game pro magazines

Yes but you also got to understand that the level of competiton improved with time..in todays competitive gaming..some of these legends might just be labelled ordinary.

@@desmondgovender3142some of his records withheld the test of time for so long. That's what's crazy

Underrated comment

Literally what I did

So fucking true man

thats how I felt about his Ninja Gaiden video

COME TO BRAZIL

exactly.

And now it’s 9:47 with a completely new player’s WR. Insane that they keep pushing it lower

Getting top 75 with what I assume is limited access to other speedrunner’s insight is very impressive!

literally who

Ikr? I was like HOLY SHIT WHAT A CROSSOVER

🤯

IcedVenom Nightcore Scott Kessler was a guy who did SMB1 speedruns in 2004

@@daxmoney5011 Also held more than 10 world records in various other games lol

yeah, cuz who really enjoys playing contra?

I don't think I've beat super c to this day. I grew up playing it every time I went to my grandma's but far as I remember I got maybe 3-4 levels in max hah but I loved it back then. Falling out of that helicopter at the start was so sick to me as a kid

“Goodbye contra i won’t play you again” _1 year later_ SIKE im back at it again

With certain games you kinda hit a point where fun falls off and pure obsession takes over. Contra and Ninja Gaiden were both series made of that type of game.

@@E.B711 Well... if you just play it, then you do. If you try to beat the fucking world record... that's a different kind of matter...

Relatable xD

DORIME

One winged angel n

*Akatsuki theme*

*CANTATA ORBIS*

Man’s name inspires Voldemort levels of awed dread

Yo it did tho

*detective conan theme plays*

danganronpa: new world order plays

Well, on this channel, he's got the same amount of street cred as AndrewG, I definitely get the connection

🤣🤣🤣

Although that is nowhere near every swear word in Spanish, that is a pretty comprehensive list of the ones that you are likely to hear in Mexico/from a Mexican. No kidding. I have only been to Mexico once when I was a child and during that moment in the video I felt transported there for a moment.

Neighbors: AY DIOS MIO...!

I only know basic Spanish so for me he did say literally every curse word I know in Spanish, plus other stuff I don't even know lol

What did he say?

I feel the same Myk Al. Loving this comment

I literally yelped out loud when I heard that, no joke.

@chubbyurma always has been

@chubbyurma It always has been

I pretty much screamed

Matt Turk: now this looks like a job for me

That reveal shook me with goosebumps

Trust me, we know why Turk gets boss music, he deserves it

And the boss music is chill electro beats.

Because he's already at the final boss

Yeah I read that manipulating the température could help to control some precise subvalues ( it has something to with electricity and the hardware I don't Know much about it) so maybe it could help to get the glitch more frequently

@@DaringDramis well, it would be controversial maybe using a hotplate(though they do use those in some DQ speedruns), but an NES console can in theory be played to a point it reaches hot temps naturally, so by controlling the temp of the console would be no different than playing in a heated or air conditioned room. Mario Kart 64 speedeunners regularly use worn down controllers to be able to perform the quick boosts you can trigger from inputting left and right directions simultaneously, so I wonder if such logic may allow temp glitches in the future. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@@chazzeo I want the material to be in perfect shape, as intended by makers, either from the computer and the controllers, in normal Earth temperature (15 degrees C). When I turn left, it turns left, and when I turn right, it turns right, and nothing more. I want from the material to respond for what I've asked for. So many NES games, only with a cross-shaped controller, fulfilled all of that. Turning left and right at the same time is maybe possible with worn electronic material, but with a trusty steering wheel, it's not possible at all. The analog joystick was designed to replicate the experience of driving, and should be observed... In my humble opinion. But I'm not against alternatives! But in a directed way that must be obvious to everybody, regardless the temperature.

@@DaringDramis many feel that same way, and that's why the glitchless categories exist seperate of glitch/exploit runs. Spread speed-rhythm strats and base level boss vulnerability strats both lean pretty heavily into being exploits. Contra has a long way to go if some glitches are ever found, and the lvl 1 skip is a very promising prospect for runners who decide to start attempting glitch runs.

@@chazzeo As I understand it, glitches from mistakes by the programmers (such as Mario 64 star doors) are acceptable in speed runs, but not glitches from an external source. This makes for an interesting problem: is a hardware glitch a violation? NES is notoriously susceptible to heat-related issues. Obviously, a hot plate could be construed as an external source of a glitch, but a player could theoretically just increase the ambient temperature in the room until the glitch becomes reliably exploitable. Quite a conundrum.

Yeah, contra really needed 30 lives to be a blast. But... now that I think about it, speedruns are 30 live codes, if inputted correctly. Gets you through it all looking like a breeze.

I legitimately let out a shocked "No..." when I heard his name

Who is Matt Turk and why is everyone in the comments section making such a big deal out of him

@@AhnafAbdullah SummoningSalt says who he is in this same video. He was like, the ultimate Punch Out player, holding the record of every fighter during soooo long time that all Punch Out community (practically) needed to focus ALL their efforts to dethrone him (a feat that was like... 5 or more years -I can't recall it properly RN-)

@@AhnafAbdullah watch his video, “the quest to beat Matt Turk”

@@AhnafAbdullah watch summoning salts video on the quest to beat Matt Turk and youll fully understand.

make a drinking game outta this

home- we're finally landing starts playing, and you know shit is about to go down

@@aloysiuskurnia7643 one shot per day the run stood? Lol

This run is amazing and they didn't think they could get better Still 40 minutes left

... And then...

Oh yeah true

Meh

Yo I kept checking the video time because I was driving home from work listening and I kept tripping out how much time was left after checking a few times. Shits great

the bait and swiiiiiitch

@@modest1989 hahaha I was getting ready for my morning shift and tryna squeeze a 50 minute video in

I really enjoy how long the videos are and how much effort is put it this some quality content that’s not just being rushed out... really represents the speed running community well

He meant speedrun time stupid

Just like darbian

Technodog when he watches literally any video: Why is this video so short...

It's short because it's really damn Hard

@@COAllAces Back when there were only Arcades, games were made to be hard to suck out quarters. When games were brought to home, they were made to be hard because of hardware limitations not allowing massive amounts of content on one cartridge.

"this game is so short, also I've put more time into it than you put into high school."

I WAS GOING TO COMMENT THIS LOL

*beautiful

what? This is such a stupid comment.

Dunkey Is Black it’s 562 vs 1 LOL

@@sx1 There's a lot of stupid people, you're exhibit A

What does he say?

​@@piyo744all I could make out was a shitload of curse words.

​@@piyo744 he said "You son of a b****, of course you f**king f**ker, go f**k yourself, b****" haha

​@@piyo744a mexican here. I wrote a long and explicit explanation, but I think it didn't pass YT security guard. So yes, it was an exquisite mix of spicy mexican chilango slang and some english words, so nasty and rude. No doubt he is a mexican.

Looooooool

Matt from wii sports irl

@Multi WOAH

@Multi Wait, really?

A 5% chance of beating the record, and that's provided you dont mess up anywhere else. Goddamn.

He taps into the Speedforce

He's the Alan Smithee of speedruns.

Bro that’s like that TAS guy, has the WR in so many different games. Absolute legends, whoever those group of people are /s

@@Icysnowman256 Who's the better speedrunner, Matt Turk or TAS? Nobody knows...

Matt Turk is Thanos

Time to learn how to obliterate a game I will never play and give summoningsalt all my ad revenue

His old smb video is what put me on speed running and now I watch a lot of streamers on RU-vid and shit... just crazy. I’m 30 years old and SummoningSalt is such a huge reason my interests are what they are.

@@jacobhouser7672 pretty much but I remember contra from xbl and beat it on one credit so I understand how hard this is.

Lol this is so accurate XD

He could make a video on any game and I'd watch it

I love how he got "a little angry" hahaha

great comment! Even SM64 takes serious months dedication to even get sub 20 minute times never mind WR or even sub 15 your looking at (for most) years and hundreds if not thousands of hours practicing with save states, level resets and grinding out small segments. The feat really is incredible once you understand what goes into some of these records !

I’m a runner (the physical sport lol) and have always appreciated this about speedrunning. It’s all about the grind you put in when no one’s watching. Cycles of months and specific work to build. The mental ups and downs. It deserves so much more respect than it gets sometimes.

LMAO!! summoning salt is so good!!

The TAS of that would be a leaf blower

For years, runners have been using the blackest paint as it was believed to dry the fastest. But in March of 2014, runner Bob, discovered he could shave just seconds of the record, by using a brown color with a higher manganese rate. Armed with this new tactic, all he needed was good weather rng and paint drying would be changed forever.

XD

Speed running paint drying would be fucking HYPE and I'm not even being sarcastic.

That would still require Tonka to have any idea how to market video games, which they didn't.

In fact, he was there all along, from the very beginning

Spooked

Lol SAME here i was like no not him any one but him..no no not cool..lol he's too good.

Me:"oh this just got interesting"

Lol it’s like a tv show that you didn’t expect to be into, but after ten minutes you’re just so invested.

I audibly gasped when he uttered the words "1 cycle kill" even though I haven't played Contra in well over fifteen years and have never followed speedrunning outside of these videos.

Yes.

i don't think i ever beat contra level 1. to be fair i was an infant when i played it but still.

Before Summoning Salt Video: man what is going on After Summoning Salt Video: HE GOT ONLY ONE CYCLE??? HOW THE FUCK??,

How about now?

@@woodfamily5229 unchanged

@@wighar Thank you

no

@@thiccycheeser5866 But actually yes.

scp foundation: we dont speak of him

And we still don’t even know things like: What does he look like? How old is he? Where is he from? He’s like this wise guru who sits upon a mountaintop that few people dare to visit

Literally every Summoning Salt video: The Matt Turk Story.

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The Boss

Oh it really does

That, as well as 4

Yup! Somehow it feels nostalgic even though I haven't watched Salt's videos for all that long. Something about the song just does that

Not early but not too late

Absolute god

Cybertronlaser I hope he gets the WR

Love that

And his name....is Matt Turk. Haha!

Contra 3 was never an arcade game tho

@@wannabecinnabon idk his memories fuzzy, i had a famiclone when i was a kid and i think contra 3 ripoff was in there somewhere so he might have gotten confused.

Can’t fall asleep to this because of the Mexican guy screaming

I actually don't care about any game that summoning salt covers, but somehow he always finds a way to entrance me

Salt: "Matt Turk" Me: "You had my interest, but now you have my attention."

Contra: i sleep Matt Turk: real shit

I fell asleep watching RU-vid the other night and actually woke up when the Punch Out video started playing. You cannot ignore Matt Turk.

I gasped when he said his name. What a legend.

Just watch the history of Punch-Out!!

Matt turk is a monster

Well there is a quest to beat Matt Turk

@@mariogamergod1750 Ik. Good video with the amazing flex at the end by summoning salt. If salt ever ran out of topics he could just go through the history of Matt Turk and his accomplishments.

Hello Aqua you are useless

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it's not

Summoning Salt Cinematic Universe

And zallard1

They developed it, he just tells the story.

I was gonna say zallard too

Ye lol

This is the turning point for 2020

Nice references

This takes my evening

That's a reference I can relate to.

I like to think of it the same way I look at competitive games. When you lose a game of baseball you don't hate the game. You hate that you lost. When I play shooter games, so often I shout about how I hate this stupid game. But I don't hate it. I just hate that in my mind I'm better at it than reality. I see the frustration as less directed towards the game, but frustration with the mentality of competition and the certainty that the player is capable of more than they can perform. The pure catharsis in achieving a record often comes off as relief as they can stop playing. But I interpret it as more like they can stop competing for the record. The competition is over. That's why so many people take breaks after achieving a record but return when it is broken. They don't hate the game, but it's inarguably stressful to compete in a game, especially one where RNG is your biggest roadblock. If I have hatred for games like these, it's hatred for the things beyond my control like RNG or glitches. I'm sure to some extent the act of running a game does mean it becomes less fun. But there are tons of moments in competition that aren't fun. But competing itself surely is. I love speedrunning content even though I've only dabled in it with Minecraft and Mario Kart double Dash. Summoning salt is by far the best presenter and researcher I've found in the speedrunning community. Without these videos I would never find the love I have for it.

usually with other games its stuff like “oh shit i beat it” or “aw that was a terrible run”, but with contra its “FINALLY i can quit” i think its more of a thing with contra being ridiculously soul rending than speedrunning it

Underrated comment

He is speaking truth though.

I read that in the voice of the French narrator from SpongeBob

And everytime I'm like "What! Insane. Amazing."

It gets me every time. SS: "10 minutes was impossible." Me: *checking the timecode to see there's still 45 minutes left in the video* Then comes the string of: "That was a record that seemed like it would stand for years.... 4 months later...."

The speedrunning mercenary legend himself!

The Virgin Billy Mitchell vs. The Chad Matt Turk

oh damn did he really?

@Fen Vulpeus I already watched it like months ago now hahaha I'm genuinely curious what other games he speedran!

@@demkikun7783 Aside from Punch-Out and Contra, as Salt has discussed, Matt Turk also held the tied smb1 record back in the Twin Galaxies days with a 5:07, that's about it for his speedrunning accomplishments

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The funniest part is that even TAS speedruns seem impossible to beat, but after a few years they almost always get topped by even stupid milliseconds like reducing lag in certain areas. Tldr, records are meant to be broken

@@davidolinger3948 wait hold up, is there speedruners that can clap the heck out of the TAS?

@@iriswav7379 not real people, I just mean Tas'ers making a better TAS then others. Although I do think it's happened sometimes that a speedrun will beat the current TAS for a game, like if there were a tas for DK64 before the revolution that probably would have happened

Yep. This fallacy has broken some speedrunners. Get record, declare it will never be beaten, gets beat sometimes in less than a year, guy the loses it.

@@davidolinger3948 Sponge BoB BFBB TAS also was beaten by Shift

6am ...just woke up...summoning salt notification...2.20 minutes later "and the runner was matt turk".

Gone outside

@@sonata7204 lmaoo

I don't know why, but my gut feeling is that his return is near.

He is a NES legend

"thats not true!!!??? THATS IMPOSSIBLE!!!"

I had to triple check twice when he said that, I couldn't believe my eyes and ears

haha i just love the mexican dude screaming out 'fuck your mother' every time he wins hahaha but yeah turk seems to just be ubiquitous with speed runs id just feel like youd be kind of pessimistic in this scene since people spend months getting a time only for it to be beaten 5 minutes later, but this one seems to be an exception

I find myself kinda expecting him to pop up in the history of certain titles. NES -SNES records specifically, I almost figure he'll be on the record track at some point between 2002 and now for virtually every game. Kinda like OatsnGoats too for Metroid, etc.

He doesn’t “play” he wins

He probably doesn't so when he play he try to make it fast

“I HAVE to play video games”

"I like to play video games." -The Mexican Runner probably

"I don't like losing."

you only yolo once

you only you only live once once

Long time watcher have been trained to assume that if he says "Clearly getting a sub-10 wasn't realistic" that it's going to happen before video end. :P

He should submit these to Netflix. It would be a great companion to High Score.

thats a truer and a half

The problem is that networks will often force a narrative. I think we should just sit back and enjoy the fact that someone like SS exists, pushing to have this infected by some shitty network feels like a step in the wrong direction

I know right. This guy is amazing

The intro...

Do you know the name of that music

It's absolutely necessary

@@thefrogchamp600 We're Finally Landing - Home

We’re Finally Landing - Home

he and Scott Kessler

Yeah, Turk was also tied for 2nd place on the Twin Galaxies Super Mario Bros. leaderboard as well, he was way more than just a punch-out runner

Paper Sonic And Hotarubi

Came here to mention this!

Hope someone can get a sub 50, a 49 would be amazing!

Yes lmao

Update from the future, Lanks got the sub 9:50, a 9:48, he's never seen a 49 and he never fucking will

Water is wet 05 wait what? He is a fucking legend, skipped 49

Don't feel bad, everyone sucks at Contra. Just think how much money you saved by not playing the arcade version!

Every... dam... time

I love when a risky method is avoided in favor of a safer setup until pretty much everything after the risky part has been optimized and the only real way is to go back to risky run-ending method.

Speedruns.. uh.. find a way.

@@masterman1001"Speedruns... find a way" -Jeff Goldblum

Hahahaha