Shadow the Hedgehog (GCN) – Expert Mode (No CCG, No Warps) speedrun in

Описание: Achieved on August 20, 2022 in the 2022 Expert Mode Tournament for Shadow the Hedgehog. The tournament was run by the Sonic Adventure Era Speedrun organization. This was my second completed speedrun for this category.

This speedrun was live streamed on Twitch. Live stream version: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/15694958...

The speedrun.com category here called No CCG, No Warps is the same as the Glitchless category, except that you can go out of bounds. The tournament used this. This category has in-game time as its timing rules. In game time is calculated by adding the levels’ times up and adding time between the start of a stage/checkpoint and losing a life if that happens. You add times on the timer when you restart a level too. Some shortcuts are used here that are not allowed in the Glitchless speedrun category, in Mad Matrix and The Ark. I did not go out of bounds in The Doom, Lost Impact, and Black Comet, which have shortcuts.

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I got this time in the Losers Quarterfinal match against Drumbasher004. Azurillkirby and BlazinZzetti were the commentators. I lost the match by ~3 minutes. This speedrun had a lot of big mistakes in the early levels, but after Circus Park, I played better. I had a lot of small mistakes in the whole speedrun and many of them were poorly played. My internet lost connection when I was playing Digital Circuit and the stream was offline until it was made online sometime in Circus Park, so the watchers did not see the big mistakes. I was thrown off when the internet lost connection and made those mistakes mostly due to this distraction.

I was ahead of Drumbasher004 from Digital Circuit until ~Prison Island. Drumbasher004 also made a lot of mistakes in the early levels, but he played a little better and we both did not have large problems for the rest of the speedrun. I could not play to catch up enough to win in this speedrun. There are strategies that I did not use and backup strategies I did not remember, so I played poorly outside of the errors I made.

I improved my first record by 8 minutes, 21.94 seconds in this video. That record was achieved earlier that day in the first match of elimination.

In game time calculations:

Westopolis: 2′02″20
Digital Circuit: 4′19″36
Glyphic Canyon: 2′13″50
Lethal Highway: 3′29″81, 1st lost life: 1′45″63 - Checkpoint at 0′48″68 = 0′56″95
Cryptic Castle: 3′19″91, 1st lost life: 1′36″02 - Start of level at 0′00″00 = 1′36″02
Prison Island: 3′44″51, 1st lost life: 2′46″79 - Checkpoint at 0′55″54 = 01′51″25, 2nd lost life: 1′04″23 - Checkpoint at 0′55″54 = 0′08″69, 3rd lost life: 1′33″69 - Checkpoint at 0′55″54 = 0′38″15, 4th lost life: 1′01″58 - Checkpoint at 0′55″54 = 0′06″04
Circus Park: 3′05″58
Central City: 2′43″44
The Doom: 1′09″83
Sky Troops: 3′06″41
Mad Matrix: 6′14″03
Death Ruins: 1′22″99
The ARK: 1′29″70
Air Fleet: 2′42″81
Iron Jungle: 1′55″97
Space Gadget: 2′02″76, 1st restart: 0′27″18 - Start of level at 0′00″00 = 0′27″18
Lost Impact: 2′12″05
GUN Fortress: 4′03″24
Black Comet: 4′32″28
Lava Shelter: 2′03″03
Cosmic Fall: 2′58″40, 1st restart: 0′32″29 - Start of level at 0′00″00 = 0′32″29, 1st lost life: 01′01″06 - Checkpoint at 0′58″24 = 0′02″82
Final Haunt: 4′24″71
The Last Way: 1′51″23

4407.14 total seconds is 1 hour, 13 minutes, 27.14 seconds.

Note: I recorded this video at 60 frames per second by accident in OBS Studio when the frame rate setting should be set at 59.94. This is incorrect and causes some extra duplicate frames and other behavior to be present in the video because the signal from the system isn't 60 fps.

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This record was achieved with:

Display: Vizio D32f-E1 (Game Low Latency setting Off)
System: Nintendo Wii (RVL-001, unmodified)
Controller: OEM GCN (Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Edition, unmodified)
Audio/Video: OEM component cable
Video scaler: None
Game version: NTSC-U 1.0 (unmodified)
Extra notes: None

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Westopolis: 0:00
Digital Circuit: 2:30
Glyphic Canyon: 7:20
Lethal Highway: 10:01
Cryptic Castle: 14:57
Prison Island: 20:20
Circus Park: 27:23
Central City: 30:54
The Doom: 34:05
Sky Troops: 35:41
Mad Matrix: 39:14
Death Ruins: 46:03
The ARK: 47:54
Air Fleet: 49:48
Iron Jungle: 52:56
Space Gadget: 55:19
Lost Impact: 58:20
GUN Fortress: 1:00:57
Black Comet: 1:05:28
Lava Shelter: 1:10:34
Cosmic Fall: 1:13:04
Final Haunt: 1:17:08
The Last Way: 1:22:00
Credits: 1:24:17