For years now, the TASBot team has shown time and again that tool-assisted speedruns—which can feature superhuman input speeds powered by frame-by-frame emulator recordings—can actually work on ...
The Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ), which has been held every six months in the United States since 2010, is a speed run charity event called 'How to Clear Games Faster.' In AGDQ, it is an annual ...
Awesome Games Done Quick, the incredible charity event happening all week, is mostly about speedrunning, as its name suggests. But over the years, the folks behind AGDQ have created a tradition of ...
Can a Linux-powered robot play video games faster than you? Only if he takes a hint from piano rolls...and doesn't desync. Let me begin with a brief history of tool-assisted speedruns. It was 2003.
But just how did TASBot—and the team of coders behind it—intend to turn an old game of Super Mario World, running on a standard SNES, into a heavily editable game of Super Mario Maker? Luckily, we had ...
Some things in life are hard to understand. Why do socks vanish in the laundry? Why do cats stare at nothing for minutes on ...
Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ) concluded recently and, as it does every year, it went out with an excellent lineup of impressive speedruns and a remarkable load of cash for charity. One thing that ...
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SNES owners have been investigating a strange issue with their consoles where they seem to be getting faster the older they ...
The sixth day of Awesome Games Done Quick includes just 10 events, largely because of a huge Final Fantasy 9 run scheduled for late this evening. That and two other games will be played by ...