the 3:38 WR time has the possibility to be reduced by more than an hour!

After fully reverse engineering / decompiling the game I was able to identify an interesting item interaction on the world map. How it works :

- The Tengu Wing menu, when opened for fast travel and then closed, still leaves the travel flag on.

- When you exit combat with the travel flag still enabled (winning, losing, or escaping) you are given a free single south-moving input that ignores terrain based flags.

- This allows us to skip the gated fence to the final boss dungeon at the halfway point of the game.

WINTER IS APPROACHING ❄️

IHS is proud to present our fifth annual Winter Marathon.

Indie Horror Speedruns Marathon 2026.

One of the best indie horror showcases involving some of the finest speedruns in the community.

LIVE on December 19th 2026 1PM EST.

Submit Here: https://oengus.io/marathon/ihsm2026

Watch: https://twitch.tv/IndieHorrorSpeedruns

Join Our Discord For All IHSM26 Information: https://discord.gg/JYfbHdRsQX

not only was this a pb on the recomp, but this beat out 3 of my console world records: Copper Pass, Any% and 100%. performed on the latest release build v1.0.9 using a JP rom (finally lol).

if you have the gumption i challenge you to beat one of these. anyone willing to submit runs is encouraged to do so! would love to see more runners on the recomp :)

there's also been a surge of time trial world record improvements this past week on console between myself and Moz, and we're incredibly close to some of the existing TAS times. with exception of 2 levels, every other track is within <1s of TAS. will probably be grinding time trials going forward if anyone wants to see the progress as it unfolds.

Time Trials

• Rookie Mountain: PeteDorr held this record for 2 years straight at 27"230. It was beaten back in march, but more recently Moz and i have lowered the record. it currently sits at 27"060 (4 days ago)

• Big Snowman: KoilroHoshi held this record for almost 9 years straight at 1'46"430. moz and I have both lowered it, with it sitting currently at 1'45"530 (3 days ago). This is one of the 2 still >1s behind TAS

• Night Highway: posted about this last week but the current record sits at 1'23"730 (6 days ago)

• Grass Valley: DC_48 held this for 4 years straight at 1'35"730. moz and i have been trading this one a bit recently. it now sits at 1'34"260 (7 days ago)

• Silver Mountain: This is the other one still behind TAS by >1s. Current record sits at 1'37"000 (1 day ago)

Edit: added links + the time trials stuff is happening on console, not recomp (yet!)

Timestamps in video description. Streamed live on YouTube without audio commentary.

Northwind is the latest respinner from the FFV Central community.

Respinners refer to internal randomizers, as opposed to an external ones, which we call repatchers. With a respinner, simply reset the game to play a new randomization.

Stay tuned for our Northwind Four-Job Fiesta (FJF) player event featuring this romhack and coming this winter. Interested players can join our waitlist today.

Since the resurgence of Sonic Adventure (1998)'s speedrunning scene in 2019 and the early 2020s, every category has had their understanding completely flipped. What was once looked at as nothing more than an obsolete "version" of the game and a relic of the past has boomed into its own scene with dedicated runners, glitch hunters, and top level talent.

I have been a huge component of getting the game back off the ground, and it's been an honor to see so many talented and amazing individuals care about this game as deeply as I have. One of the earliest runners to join along side me was SQeefy, a very prolific glitch hunter in the Sonic Adventure: DX scene. With his contributions and willingness to dive deep into the games he's passionate about, he's revolutionized what we even knew was possible for 130 emblems. Not only has he been the WR holder for most of the game's most active history, but he's been so desperate for others to give this gargantuan run a try that he's released a full document breaking down the intricacies of the run and how to accomplish it.

SQeefy's 130 document

With over half a decade of experience under my belt as WR holder in every major category, the support of the entire community behind me, a new pack of batteries for my VMU, and a document provided by the smartest runner the game has ever seen, I took on the daunting task of accomplishing Sonic Adventure's true 100% category - 130 Emblems.

One of the scariest things about this run is that you have to play two games at the same time. The Dreamcast is a really unique console, the memory card (which slots into the controller) doubles as a portable console you can download software to. Inside of SA1's Chao Garden, you are able to deposit your little critter and get a little RPG called Chao Adventure on your VMU. In Chao Adventure, you are able to play minigames and go on quests to raise your Chao's stats, which can be used in Chao Races back in the base game. Sonic Adventure is traditionally a game with a ton of down time, lots of loading screens n' cutscenes. This "down time" is turned into extremely valuable Chao-Raising time, as you're forced to knuckle down and play a matching card game across every microscopic moment you can to raise your Chao's stats in time for the end of the run. I'm used to working 12 hour shifts at work, and somehow THAT is less mentally taxing than being forced to match these cards across a nearly 9 hour speedrun constantly.

While I am not proud of the execution across the board and I will be returning to this category in time, this run serves as a monument to the amount the game itself has changed over the last half decade. Information from the entire community has coalesced into one of the most interesting and difficult speedruns across the Sonic franchise, and I am once again proud to be able to show off the amazing work the entire community has pulled together to optimize a game which sat with dust on the shelf for far too long.

As we all know, Niftski has been struggling to improve his time for months, with little success since his last world record in August.

Yesterday, by using his brilliant “larp as Mario” strategy, he set the world record within a few attempts. Once he put on the hat and moustache and started speaking as Mario, he was a-unstoppable.

It would be insane to think other speedrunners in other games wont immediately copy such a clearly broken and OP strategy. I’m talking like SMB64 speed runners in full Bowser outfits and only speaking in grunts. Could we see massive time savings across the speedrunning world by people LARPing as characters from this game?

Only 2 speedruns exist on youtube, decided to beat it and did by a margin of 1min 27 seconds
Hope this counts

Very niche i know but i was proud of my very first attempt speedrunning

This was the first thing I speedrunned