The History Of Spyro 2 Speedruns 

Have I ever tried speed running in Sypro? No. Have I tried speed running any game? No. Am I going to watch a 2 hour video on it? Yes. Yes I am.

Finally got around to watching this as well after watching your MediEvil video. Great coverage. Gonna add some more sidelore because why not :D The race at 26:38 was my first ever race on SpeedRunsLive, and was delayed by around an hour because I was a dumb 15 year old who didn't know how to set up ePSXe, and also had very little practice on swim into Ripto. Yes, i genuinely had people guide me through the trick before the race so that I could actually finish when we started lol Saboom and Touval's rivalry is also legendary as far as head to heads go in speedrunning. Witnessing them trade blows back in the day was mesmerizing, both averaging several hundreds of viewers and reaching the top of the SRL front page. I remember when Puppet found waterfall proxy too and how much that threw a wrench in everything. Also shoutouts to Lapogne for pioneering god damn every playstation game known to man Great video man, keen to see more

Summoning Salt does not own the concept of explaining the progression of World Records, you don't need to ask his permission my dude, just be your own man.

Just an update here! Spora has reclaimed the lead with a 7:29 run! He did miss a text skip, but otherwise it was super clean.

I haven't gotten the chance to start watching yet, but I'm leaving a like preemptively because I know how hard you've worked over the last few months on this and how much you focused on communicating with everyone in the Spyro community to ensure that your video would be as accurate and detailed as possible. Good job!

Pretty late but just got around to watching this. Awesome job capturing the progression of the game. Had a big smile on my face during the later bits of the video.

I had no clue that I would make an appearance at 1:24:17, at 57th place that is lol. Very good video; didn’t know much about the history of this category so I had no clue how many discoveries it took before we got to the route we use today. Thank you for making this; ended up watching this video all the way through!

I've watched a lot of speedrunning documentaries and this is probably one of the best I've seen. The narration and the script are spot on, and the story you were outlining really kept it interesting throughout the entire video. I had never heard of this game before and didn't know any of the mechanics, but I came away feeling like I knew the game in detail. Really loved it, would be cool to see more!

what a banger video. Came here after watching the current WR, so during this vid I kept thinking "when does Bluntbows come in?" Can't believe someone just came in in 2021 and worked up that level of play so fast, insane

no joke probably one of the best youtube videos ive ever watched, fuckin awesome shit dude

I knew a Section regarding Gulp Skip was coming but when the Music hit at 43:04 i got chills, absolutely stellar Editing and amazing Documentary

Grats on doing this massive project. Thanks from all of us who watched.

Lapogne is such a speedrunning icon He's responsible for some of the most incredible skips in dozens of games. I wish more people knew about his exploits

I see Salt's videos have rubbed off on you a bit, and holy shit is that a good thing, this is a damn impressive video for a damn impressive run. Really hope that your channel can pop off thanks to this video, well done.

This video was a blast: exciting, entertaining and gorgeously detailed from start to finish.

Legitimately excellent video, I watched the whole thing in 1 sitting and it felt like only half an hour had passed when it wrapped up. Good job mate

What. A. Video. Had it on in the background and after like the first 5 minutes, I quit what i was doing. Y'all had me HOOKED

Just finished watching this. What a masterpiece. Thank you for all your efforts you put into this, learnt a lot about the speedrunning history of Spyro 2.

Nothing makes me more nostalgic than seeing my favorite game from my childhood! Great video it's always awesome to see people still appreciate this game even after all these years!

So glad this popped up on my feed. Always love finding these videos going in-depth on speedruns for games I love. They're so fascinating and well researched. Great work.

Y’know i was thinking about if someone made a video on spyro 2 speedrunning history yesterday, and now I know that someone has!

Wow, this video was an absolute treat! Spyro speed running is incredibly fascinating and you’ve done an unbelievably good job explaining and documenting not only the history of the category, but all the little nuances that make up the any% route we have today. Thank you so much for taking the time to make this documentary! You have some serious talent. I hope you continue to make videos like these!

This video taught me so much history that I didn't even know about S2 any%. Gives me a new appreciation for my favorite category. :) (I totally forgot to send my comment when this video came out lol!)

man, i love these speedrun history type videos, thanks for this gem pap

This was an excellent video, and a great way to spend an afternoon. Full of context and nostalgia for those of us who played it when it came out, and enough back story to where I could draw a logical step from what I knew playing the game, to what was being done on screen.

i'm watching this a second time because it's so well put together. definetly deserves more views!

I must say I am agreeably surprised at how good those videos are, keep up the good work

This was a fantastic video, s2 is my favourite game of all time and I've had such an interest in the speed running community behind it and I feel this did all of that justice so I just want to say thank you for putting together this masterpiece! Keep it up

One of the best speedrun recap videos I’ve ever seen, can’t wait for the next one!

This video is INCREDIBLE. I absolutely LOVE Spyro and I'm willing to do a video myself. I'll refer to yours in the future for sure. This was amazing, thank you so much. So much information and so well written.

One of my top rewatched videos, thanks!

My uncle used to speedrun Mario, I think the 2nd one with warps. Ever since I’ve been interested in beating games fast. I’ve never truly speedran a game but watching videos like this reminds me what I love so much about speed running; the progression. Ty for telling this story. It's funny watching a game you used to play as a kid casually be completely broken

Great docu mate, keep up the good work!

thank you RU-vid algorithm for recommending this masterpiece 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Both this video and the medievil vid are absolute gold. Thanks so much for your hard work. Subbed and liked.

I have super fond memories of playing Spyro 2 and 3 on my PS1 back in the day. Lots of hours of fun. The strats and the times are insane, hats off to all the runners for their skill and dedication. Thank you for a very informative and entertaining video!

Great video been waiting for someone to do a in depth video like this

Great video. Thanks for 2 hours of informative content.

Insane video, well done!

Criminally underrated content. Really well put together. 👍

This is really well done man, you deserve more subs, looking forward to more good stuff :)

High quality video! Definitely deserves more views.

Very well made video! Great stuff!

My god. The effort involved. I used to make videos, so believe me when I say this I'm insanely impressed the everything that went into this. God tier content. I'd advise you stick to this form of content on popular and interesting games that have speed runs. You will blow up. Thank you for your effort.

my dude that was an awesome watch. i literally thought around halfway through, before the gulp skip part that i can't get any lower only to find out i was only halfway through the vid xD i can't imagine the amount of work and time this cost. huge thumbs up, keep up the amazing work, dude =)

This video is too good to be real

This was a great video deserves so many more likes and views! Keep it up man

You make summoning salt proud🥲. Great video!

Excelent work man!

I was in a situation that didn’t allow me to get the full context of this video. Thank you for laying it all together

I do wonder why they don't remove load times in categories like this (or at least standardise them to 1 value, even if the run itself may have a faster or slower load). Even if the gameplay has some lag even outside of load times, surely removing load times would level the playing field more generally and not make it so brutal for certain systems. Since I've seen games that remove load times, but others that do not Very cool vid btw, I saw the Punch-Out challenge video and then watched this one after and despite being 2 hours long it was a good watch and didn't feel like a 2 hour long video

Very nice stuff here as well! Bravo!

Watched the entire video, very nice can't remember last time I watched something for more than 10 minutes, thank you

Great Video!

I love this doc! I'd love to see more for the other games

Great video. I didn't realise Saboom was one of the greats. You wouldn't pick it hearing him talk, he's super humble and never big-notes himself, rather spends a lot of time talking others up.

Great video! well done

I really like these speedrun history vids. More of these please.

I have searched for this exact video several times in the last year and RU-vid has never given it to me! So frustrating

Fantastic video! Would love to see 14 talisman or 100% get the same treatment.

This made me want to play Spyro 2 again in the slowest way possible

OMG. Spent 2 days watching this masterpiece. Thank you so much for your work. Feel really sorry that not so much people can understand this. Great job

Very interesting indeed! Thanks!

Talk about a journey, honestly, I can't imagine the feeling of excitement, and even more so, relief, they had once Waterfall Proxy was deemed outdated.

My god, this should have 100x times more views

This is well made.

Awesome video. Summoning Salt summons you.

I love/hate that you use how its made theme on the timeline. Damn that brought back memories

Holy 2 hours? Guess I know what I’m doing tonight…

very good video about my favourite game ever since i was 7

This was a really cool vid

keep making these - forget all that other tatt

I noticed a cycle in speedrunning. as optimisation increases, people start investing more effort into finding new strats and skips, which decreases optimization requirements for a great time. Then with time optimisation increases again, putting more pressure to find non-obvious timesaves.

You are very underrated man

1:45:29 I just imagine him putting on some sunglasses and a joint after he said that to Dan lol.

A masterpiece. Thank you for this, I enjoyed the whole movie at fullest. A question: How some people find some proxies such as waterfall, I can imagine it would take insanely a lot of research time to find it.

I blame Elora for making me almost be a furry

Same situation with frogs. On 2004-2005, killed one on autumn plains, and got pushed on the air for like 5 meters, i didnt know how to repeat that movement again😁cuz i had pirate version of spyro 1,2,3. Always though its because of this. On Spyro 2,as long I approached to hunter in summer forest, my screen freezed, and i had to reset my Ps1 again all the time

nice video

need the algorithm to bless this

MADE A MOVIE!

now i have a great question do any of the speed run tricks work in the remasterd trilodgy that released a cupple years ago? im guessing maybe not sense it was i think a ground up remake rather than just an up res. i do know iv been playing the collection and enjoying it quiet a bit. also these guys are very impressive

i used to do this but never had a run get past the winter tundra waterfall proxy into ripto... when i saw a short bit of gulp skip in your intro i want to try again

I swear some of this B roll and music is from Spyro 3?? This is so well put together though I may be imagining things

Your channel is gonna blow up, and soon. You're making great content!

Congrats to spora's 7:29 literally yesterday O:

I don't really care about Spyro, but this video was really interesting and I hope you make more videos similar to this, I subbed just in case u do

Wow, that Retro stuff was a plot twist wasn’t it.

Funny thing, on 2004 on age of 9,i discovered, some how, that i can do double jump(accidentlly) and start to search New ways to escape levels. Same with water fall proxy in winter tundra, swimair in that year. On autumn plains, i always been asking my uncle to Beat Gulp. One time i got stuck next to the wall, only once on 2008,idk how, i was pushed away and saw the entrance of gulps level😂😂i was curious, is it even possible to glide there and skip all rest levels on autumn plains. But didnt succes until this day😂.

And then Spora came back for another clutch haha

How long did it take you to create this video and and how long was your script? Insane video. Loved it

I've watched through this a few times so far and my biggest question is, can't you simply skip the bosses by finding the hub portals under the maps? If the hub portals are right next to the boss holes, I don't see why they can't be accessed just like Dragon Shores. I'm not a speed runner but since this game came out I knew about double jump and Sproder and a few things like that just on my own, not to the extremes the runners do, but I've learned a bit and would think the portal thing would hold true.

do you have any plans to do a video on s1

Almost a year later and the world record has stayed the same

pls tell me the transition at 1:15:34 was intentional

imo, proxies are what make this run fun, a combo of skill and gamble... but mostly skill

Do a speedrun history on Wizards and Warriors 2: Iron Sword. Best game ever made.

music at 43:05 ?? is that from Desperados ?

Great video! Hopefully you got a pop filter after this?

For people watching this in the future, i suggest watching "the man who broke spyro in half" after 43:34