The History of Mega Man 2 World Records 

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RU-vid policy sucks

No worries!

it’s okay

Nope never, he will always either have the record or be chasing the record. He's not giving up on that. Glad to see he took it back just shortly after this video.

did he get a job tho?

@@pierreluc5382 yep!

nice, i was rooting for him the whole video

Were there any new strats? How did he do it

Funnily enough, searching up "ø" brings up gore and cartel execution videos! Seems youtube has some odd priorities...

@@testname4464 DaFuq? The Greek letter Theta is associated with that? I can't even.

I mean youtube won't even ban people like Sargon or his little nazi followers.

Your first name tells me you have Irish connections. Your surname...Greek? That's probably wrong, apologies. In any case I think the issue is that Google is an American company, bowing to American puritanical language standards. In Europe (including Ireland), coarse language isn't such a big deal. Both Ireland and the UK allow most "vulgar" language after 9pm on TV (C U Next Tuesday being an occasional exception for some random reason). You can't even say "shit" on network TV in the US. You can say it on cable but heaven help you if you even think about saying "fuck" if you're not on a premium adult channel.

RU-vid has frequently promoted to the top known obvious scam videos that have criminals stealing money from victims and they do nothing to stop them. Is anyone surprised they can't anything BUT drop the ball?

YOOOOOO ODKJQDMJA I was so sad he wasnt able to keep wr, you made my day sir

@@ArseAllowance same dude watchimg that run die was so heartbreaking, glad to have watched the wr live

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YEAH BABY (with 1 year delay)

Happens with a lot of his vids actually. Seen plenty of comments over his vids of people beating record within a week of the related vid dropping. Wouldn't be surprised if it's because summoning salt doing research and talking to runners reignites some fervor to get back to the grind

​@@Zeuseus6609 Yup. Imagine inspiring someone to have another go and eventually nail it. I'm sure it's nice to think you may have inspired it

Gbay!!!! :O

My other favorite documentarian!

Agree 👍💯

Gbay99? Damn good to see you here!

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Lets get this bread gamers and stick it to the man!

just saw you driving backwards!

Hello speed driver boi

Hoping you two do a collaboration video in the future!!

WIRUTAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is inspiring ❤️

TechNickL: It truly represents the way to live life in general: let go of the outcome. It allows you to do your best, be satisfied with your effort/performance whether you win or lose, and if you do win, you can actually just enjoy it instead of - compared to when you are attached to the outcome - just worrying about losing your title or experiencing some setback, which is bound to happen, but your mental state decides how to react to it. Ironically you achieve more when you are more at peace with (not necessarily indifferent to, but accepting of) the potential outcomes. Of course you still have a serious chance of failure, but it is saying something that it improves, not worsens, when you let go of the outcome. Related to this is that it reminds me of how people who do things chiefly for the accolades and trophies and such, are not the ones who usually get them, but rather it's the people who don't care so much about those things who end up getting them because their state of mind allowed them to perform better, and the awards flow naturally, whether they were particularly wanted or not. I would argue that the point of awards is more about the community _wanting_ to honor people, rather than satisfying people's wants to be honored. The distinction is clear when oftentimes, the person the community is dying to honor, often seems indifferent to the honor, or even doesn't want the credit sometimes, and that is a sign that the person very much internally understands what they achieved, and no missing of a title can take that away from them. They appreciate the essence of what they achieved, not the recognition of it. This contrasts with other players who might also play at a very high level, but may still be attached to the outcome too much, and so they haven't fully let loose on their potential to become the very best. The very best are exceptional to the rest of the great players, by definition, and it usually reflects not only exceptional technical traits, but also mental and emotional ones. I don't intend to speak in absolutes of course, but I think the trend is that the people who deserve the honor tend to be the ones who don't particularly want/need the credit. Of course this mindset needs to come up organically (by being mentally healthy, etc.), and not merely be fabricated in order to virtue-signal or something. The people with this genuine mindset are not only not in need of credit for their technical achievement, but not in need of credit even for having the mindset itself by those such as myself who notice it in them. The reason I honor it is not because these people need it but because I want to do it, and because they might like to know the people they have inspired by it, and be happy for those people, rather than be validated by those people (as great achievers already found ways to find their own internal validation to get where they are today, and it rubs off on people when they see the fruits of that mindset). It's sort of like laughing: genuine laughter is when we are trying to hold in our laughter but just can't, because the situation takes control of us (in a positive way). We laugh at these people whether they want us to laugh or not. I feel like true admiration can ooze out in this same kind of way as laughter. Where it's not that we honor out of some perceived duty, but when the "honor" feels like genuine enjoyment, to the point where, if someone told us not to honor them, we wouldn't feel relief, but instead would actually have trouble containing the honor we wanted to give them :)

Reminds me of when I was younger and I had come close but never broke the 5:00 mark for a mile. I still remember I had two bran muffins and some regular ass yogurt for breakfast. By game time it was just there. No jitters, just calm. I didn't just do it, I crushed it. I ran down that mile in 4:38 I remember my teacher just kept saying "not fast enough" every lap. I was coughing up blood by the time I was done. It was like a crazy unlock moment for "what the mind wills the body does." I did wild shit for the next two decades, swimming in freezing rivers, crawling through hundreds of meters of drainage pipe under stadium parking lots that was barely wider than my shoulders, shit at one point I got into an argument with my psychotic mother and promptly hiked off to live in the Appalachians for almost 2 years. Working from 0330 to 2230, getting 3 hours of sleep every night. Taking that opportunity to attempt an iron man schedule (sleep 15 minutes every 6 hours). It was wild. But I had no semblance of sanity and now I'm just over 40 and my body is ruined. Sometimes I can't convince myself to sit down and play some video games for an hour.

I like that you talk about the state of mind thing. And I suddenly wonder, if there is something to why someone breaking a long standing record is often then beaten themselves soon after. The longer a record stands, the more legendary it is, the more likely someone is to be tense about it. Even though beating the time that beat that time is logically harder, there is that element of "he just did it, so I think I can too"

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Well Actually…… Hearing a few swear words is causing severe degradation in our society. Most don’t know about it as the biased media won’t cover it. Thankfully RU-vid is accurately censoring these destructive videos. More of this will get our society back on track. Now I’m off to watch the un-age-restricted, family friendly AVGN episodes.

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Good to hear you’re doing better my friend

I know what that's like, i'm glad to hear that you're doing better

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Hope you're staying well. Great to hear you're doing better now!

lol

This deserves a rewatch.

What happened??? Im confused! 😅

Gotta do it three times now to get it even

@@rosehirstius three is even?

Rookie numbers

Couldn’t agree more!

Im on 10 with this one, and thats a LOW estimate

I’ve watched several of my favorites a few times over the years. I forget so much it’s close enough to watching a new video. 😂

I've rewatched the mario kart wii ultra shortcuts video like 10 times and I've never played mario kart wii.

To be a bro leave this video playing somewhere in the background at 0.25x speed. It counts as watching it four times.

lets gooooooooo (im just commenting to help out the algorithm)

I don't think youtube could possibly have their heads farther up their asses but at least re-uploading is a thing and the interaction (may) help the algorithm pick this one back up. Never do I really care about the "like, comment, subscribe" mentality unless I really like a channel, but this would be a nice way to toss a wrench into the system and support one of the best of the best on YT

He really is the best.

He almost turned into the Joker after that crazy run

re-cover lol

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^ not the time

Maybe just say the full name

I agree, this is his job now, he must have been devastated.

Jesus it's bad and annoying but it's not like his immediate family died

Reminds me of slapshoes videos about older nascar chases for the cup (before nascar went full retard)

Allright allright, relax buddy

@@EnjoySackLunch bruh

@@theperfecteraser5988 what is the meaning of this, sir

@@EnjoySackLunch shut up

He has the current world record with a 26:32 achieved in November !

@@Kaygu_ thanks 👍

@@Kaygu_ I just found that out right now when I looked at the current records randomly. Cygpher is a beast, and I was rooting for him since watching this, so I'm glad he took the record back. I think he will either have the record or be trying to get it back. He's a machine at this game.

im just leaving it running on a loop on mute in the background. doesnt do much but it's what i can do.

@@masonw9971 Comment for the algorithm

Yeah the more discussion we generate the more likely it'll get promoted right?

@@spk_eze it failed to get into the ranking even when it has 300k views. seems like algorithm isn't pushing this.

@@fasddfadfgasdgs Ah well, maybe in a years' time it'll pop up in a bunch of people's recommended 😊

I heard it happened, so I didn't watch yet, so I could watch now. Though I was expecting him just to go in and edit the original video with RU-vid's editor, blanking out the audio when the profanity struck. I guess that wasn't an option for some reason. (Maybe a limited number of edits, maybe because RU-vid wouldn't reverse their decision anyway.)

Schutz Staffel

If you really like this channel you’ll probably like SB nation’s dork town series as well.

"Thank you but please refrain from using that acronym"

@@ZipplyZane The thing is, even in the time, the age restricton was lifted for a short period, the video got nearly zero views via recommendations. Regarding the algorithm, the video was dead. So even if it would been possible to edit the part out through the editor and RU-vid lifts the restriction once again, it wouldn't really fix the problem of way too few impressions.

And editing

yeah, it's great how he also explains how the big tricks work in such a way that even those who've never even seen the game can understand what's going on

Yes point exactly

RU-vid's unclear rules are entirely intentional. If the rules are a mystery, they have plausible deniability to do whatever they want whenever they want for whatever reason they want with no accountability.

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@@toby2581 And it shouldn’t be that way. RU-vid only succeeds when it’s creators succeed so why make it difficult for creators to succeed with vague rules and absurd reasons to age restrict videos. It isn’t that difficult to set and enforce specific rules, instead of going back and forth when deciding if a video should be age restricted. I completely understand that videos need to be “advertiser friendly” but the grounds on which to classify a video as “advertiser friendly” shouldn’t vary on every video.

Well Actually…… Hearing a few swear words is causing severe degradation in our society. Most don’t know about it as the biased media won’t cover it. Thankfully RU-vid is accurately censoring these destructive videos. More of this will get our society back on track. Now I’m off to watch the un-age-restricted, family friendly AVGN episodes.

Q look

summoning salt is an amazing storyteller. these videos are emotional and exciting. you feel with the runners.

You must live a boring life

Not surprising the Empire is into speedrunning seeing as they speedran a near-extinction event for the Jedi.

@@SylvaGardenia He would have done it sooner but Force glitches were banned on Twin Galaxies.

@@recitationtohear I think you're wrong there.

@@SylvaGardenia And then Palpatine discovered a new technique. Enter, Order 66.

It is also a little bit of narrative crafting and over emphasizing the drama

Crazy how people do things in real life hey

Agreed. It's a shame it got age restricted in the first place

Me too.

Same. Watching again at 2x speed, gonna have the window open the whole time, too.

Absolutely. Summoning Salt makes great videos, I love the sports documentary vibe and the gravitas it lends to speedrunning and I want the channel to keep growing, sooo... comment, comment, comment!

@@saschaberger3212 You're projecting your own thrist for attention with your question.

RU-vid really needs competition and eventually an end to the whole project.

@@saschaberger3212 who cares lol

@@saschaberger3212 who cares? they left one simple comment because they thought the video was well-made and deserved support. there's no need to care if your comment isn't recognized because you shouldn't expect anything in return, esp. from someone you don't know

Yeah, a bunch of comments are talking about cyghfer, but that Ellon run just...ouch. All through the build up, I could feel the tension.

I think Ellonija's is worse because the outcome was out of his hands. Cyghfer was in control and didn't execute. It's easier to accept failure than to have the opportunity taken from you.

after a quick look at his twitter i think he's returned to streaming and wr attempts

I feel for him. Like a lot. I’m an achievement hunter and have done extremely difficult achievements. I live in a country where we have a SCHEDULE for power outages. And even this schedule can change unexpectedly. I play on a playstation and was so close to 100%ing a game I’ve been playing for at least a year. The power went out as I was getting the final trophy. My game files got corrupted. Everything was gone. I still haven’t gotten that 100% and it still haunts me to this day.

Starting a fake flamewar argument for the algo 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

@@go-away-5555 then to war we must go 🔥🔥🔥

Interacting for the same reason

@@go-away-5555 Not gonna lie I hate you're guts. :)

@UCt8rVaseGSXFsmE49bZ_6oA I’m applauding the creativity of the segment instead of just doing an ad read. It made it more entertaining to watch than the same old ad read I’ve heard a million times for VPN services. I’m not going to shame a creator for having a sponsor, it’s hard to validate spending this much time on something and not getting any money in return, especially if this is his main or only source of income. You’re always free to skip the segment if you hate it so much.

Right? One of the best personalized sponsorship segments I've seen haha

Yeah I really enjoyed it too!

Each video gets better than the last

I dunno if responding to comments also feeds the beast but may as well right? Man makes good content, needs to be rewarded for that.

Yeah, can't hurt! It's a travesty that something like this happens to summoning salt

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Boosting algorithm

I am also commenting. Summoning Salt deserves all the engagement.

Liking, commenting, sharing are all free. They can actually be more valuable than a direct donation. Do not underestimate the power or the value of your love and support!

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Haha why would his girlfriend have to “appreciate his status” 😂😂?

@@thatguymatt5816 Maybe the comment was charged

@@thatguymatt5816 It would kinda suck if the girl you loved demeaned the thing you're the best at.

@@jackbishop8610 yes that would suck. But I think there’s a place in the middle that’s more reasonable.

So many of Summoning Salt's vids have moments moving me nearly to tears. Maybe that's why this one was age restricted. The RU-vid mods, through tears, were like.. we have to protect the children.. 😭 this is too much

Cyghfer got the new wr 4 days ago ! 26:34,4 !!! Lets hope he keeps it or improves it again !

@@ArseAllowancehmm, how can it be a new record if it matches the earlier time from coolkid?

For me, he's the true hero of this story. To clinch out a WR in a live competition at such high level is simply unheard of. Yet, he did it. I wish him all the best for his tech career and his future WR attempts!

@@alex.r.g It's actually a 26:32,4.

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So many old games have crazy flashing because it was such a cheap effect ROM wise. :(

Same here! Even though I usually just listen to long videos in the background while doing something else, I was incredibly grateful for the warning.

​@@bsidetheboxyou mean stuff like the short flash in the a link to the past intro?

@@memesong21 ...I'm not sure? I'm assuming you're talking about Zelda, but I don't have a copy to look at. Let me nerd out and see if that answers your question. (Excuse my word avalanche, I'm not very good at short and sweet.) So, caveats first: I'm no expert. I made art and did design for some cheap electronic toys and Plug-and-Play video games (those $20 straight-to-the-clearance-shelf themed joysticks with like 4 games on them circa 2010ish) that used the cheapest and thus smallest chips possible to keep costs down, and we used all sorts of tricks to keep our games' sizes small. I'm ultimately _assuming_ many of those tricks were holdovers from NES and arcade game development. I didn't go to school for game dev, though the coworkers that I learned from had. First, the easier one to explain: sprites *flickering*. Sprites=the things that move around the screen: MegaMan, platforms, enemies, projectiles, "explosion particles", etc. All art in the NES is broken up into 8x8 tiles, so depending on pose, MegaMan is 2-4 tiles wide. You can have 64 sprite tiles on the screen at a time, BUT only 8 sprite tiles on any single pixel horizontal line before they stop rendering. So...4 tiles for MegaMan, and if he shoots 4 bullets (1 tile each) horizontally, there's no tiles left to render an enemy on that line. But there's a trick where they'll use code to quickly alternate which tiles get rendered so more sprite tiles can occupy a single line. Imagine on frame 1, MegaMan is rendered but the enemy isn't, frame 2, MM isn't but the enemy is, repeat...it's so fast that your eyes and brain have no trouble parsing who/what is where, but visually, you still see the flicker as the tiles quickly cycle on and off. This is incredibly common in old games. From what I understand, the flicker usually isn't a problem for epileptics, as the sprites make up only a small portion of the screen and each flicker is only one frame.

@@memesong21 (Continued) The _flashing_ is different, and I think way more likely to cause epileptic issues. For special effects and highlights and whatnot, we used a trick called 'palette swapping' to keep things as small as possible, and I think something similar is happening here. To make things smaller, the code for each pixel in a tile didn't specify its color. Instead, each tile (sprite or background) indexes a spot in a 'palette'--a group of colors. The games I made usually had 8 or 16 color palettes, but I think the NES was limited to 4 color palette...which are actually 3 color palettes, because the first color is always "transparent". MegaMan is a great example for this: his blue outfit changes to different colors to indicate the different powers, right? So all you need to understand is that it's the same tiles/art and the only thing that changes is that it's indexing a different palette. This means the actual art is encoded not as "transparent, black, blue, blue, aqua, aqua, blue, black", but as "color# 1,2,3,3,4,4,3,2" and the code says "when MegaMan is blue, index palette 1(transparent, black, blue, aqua), when he's red, index from palette 2 (transparent, black, red, pink)". Now here's the "trick". The NES loads 8 palettes at a time, 4 for background and 4 for sprites. Say we want to indicate an enemy taking damage. If it's a 4 tile sprite, we could swap to another frame of animation (cost: 4 tiles in ROM, and processing power to draw those 4 tiles), or use an overlay (cost: 4 tiles in ROM, processing power to bring in those tiles, PLUS we're at 8 tiles in our scanline so likely hello flicker-time/processing power to cycle the tiles in and out as explained above)...OR! we have an alternate palette, wherein instead of transparent, black, blue, aqua, the colors are transparent, aqua, white, white, and code it so when the enemy takes damage, it indexes palette 2 for a couple of frames, then palette 1 for a couple of frames, then palette 2, before settling out back at its normal palette 1. This'll look like the blue-with-a-black outline enemy flashes to white-with-an-aqua-outline twice when it's damaged, and all it costs is a tiny bit of processing power to switch the palette. (Take for example the big fish @ 5:10). Swapping to an alternate palette with transparent, white, transparent, transparent would make a transparent "ghost" with just a white outline. All with negligible cost to cartridge size and working memory. And the background tiles can be palette swapped too--like making the black background flash white @6:51. We used palette swaps for all sorts of things--hiding textures or features within background tiles, changing text colors to highlight menu options, even simulating animation, like "scrolling" conveyor belts or twinkling stars, without additional frames by swapping through multiple palettes. I'm pretty sure the trippy "animated" backgrounds for the Lavos Core boss fight in Chrono Trigger are just a series of palette swaps on a single frame background (the SNES has 16 color palettes, with 8 palette slots for background tiles at any one time.) It was a great trick, but especially with the NES limitations, with 4(3) color palettes (and I think only 64 preset colors to choose from), it's not surprising that there's a lot of painful flashing effects.

Bh

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That definitely was a level up for Salt

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And I will read comments and engage the whole time while rewatching.

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@@orgil.altansukh me also lol

Ellonija got an even better time of 26:36 during his last grind

It just works!

Dunno but mega man always seemed a bit buggy... never really enjoyed it that much

@@disrealnow9664 The first three NES Mega Man games definitely have their fair share of jank. Most of the games after that feel way more polished.

It’s not about the numbers. It’s about the stories we tell. It’s how people worked on this. How they found themselves becoming famous over a few seconds. Even without the speedrun, the passion is what makes this important.

lets gooooooooo (im just commenting to help out the algorithm)

He already is mainstream, as far as gaming related content on YT goes.

This channel is huge man. His videos go trending every time he uploads.

Why are you so aggressive? If it's good, it will get enough recognition. No need to push anything... especially to mainstream. What do you even mean?

Do it! Just do it! It's a cool hobby.

@@sourandbitter3062 It is a very cool thing! I am too much occupied by real life and other liberties to be able to dedicate myself solely to speedrunning, but I would definitely start trying to run if I had the time.