Thread 12014041

Think about it. TheMexicanRunner beat every officially licensed NES game. The majority of them in the blind with no cheats, tips or help outside of using PDFs of the instruction manuals. Did it live, in front of thousands. No rewinds. No ragequits. No bullshit. Just straight grinding every NES game.

This man casually 100%’d Color a Dinosaur and Silver Surfer in the same lifetime and spent 92 hours learning how to play a keyboard, albeit poorly.

I can't even wrap my head around how insane of a grind it would take to beat all 712 games, back to back.

Unironically, it has to be the greatest gaming feat of all time. Change my mind.

>>12014041 (OP)
Definitely nothing to scoff at, but what was his criteria for beating the arcade games on the system? Was it just reaching 100,000 or did he attempt to kill screen some of them?

>>12014041 (OP)
>gaming feat
no, a competitive pvp tournament win is more impressive. right there in the image it said he only spent 3500 hours I think I probably played old school runescape for that long, not a big time commitment all things considered.

>>12014041 (OP)
reaching master levels in super monkey ball is a greater achievement

>>12014052
https://themexicanrunner.com/

Most of the games it is stated what it took to beat them. It was almost always something lofty and given to him via community effort iirc.

>>12014062
You couldn't do it in 10,000 hours. TMR was already a great and established runner before he took on NESMania. And Runescape was fun. Grinding through every NES game until you beat them is pure torture.

>>12014041 (OP)
Wow this guy must have absolutely no life whatsoever

How can anyone watch this guy for prolonged periods of time, all he does is bitch and moan the whole time he's playing

>>12014051
karl jobst was always a lolcow in his own right

>>12014135
I mostly muted him because I don't like his cumin accent and just laughed at his chat.

>>12014041 (OP)
as lame as speedrunning is, the people that watch these guys and donate to them are way worse.

>>12014125
>Burgertime: Beat one loop
>DKjr: Beat one loop
Disappointing desu. A score goal would've been more impressive, but in the big picture, it's still an impressive feat to complete every NES game.

>>12014125
>https://themexicanrunner.com/
cool

>>12014041 (OP)
Zoomer thread.

Why is this ugly spic allowed to shill himself on /vr/ all the time, fuck you jannies.

I am too distrusting of youtubers.
>pre-record gameplay video using save states between each stage at loading screen
>edit the videos using load screen transitions for seamless "gameplay"
>then play the recorded game footage live on stream and react to it and pretend you are playing the game on a livestream
>little kids then given you money from their dads credit card to read their name on stream

>>12014041 (OP)
https://archive.speedrunwiki.com/DarkLight93

>>12014219
This guy has been seen at live events like GDQ beating games like Battletoads, so at least his skill is legit. No reason to distrust that he can't do it.

>>12014219
>then play the recorded game footage live on stream and react to it and pretend you are playing the game on a livestream
pulling this off is way more difficult than it sounds

>>12014219
dude, that would be pointless because they don't only want a winning run. the lion's share of the donations from retards will be during the 100s and 100s of hours leading up to the record. just sit there and play all day, with the baseline reflexes required, and you'll be able to do it eventually.

>>12014217
It's ok, 4chan is recruiting new jannies, surely they'll be an improvement over the current ones :^)

>>12014219
Themexicanrunner is legit. While I understand why would you distrust youtubers (Badabum, all those cheater competitive players, and so on) not everyone is like that, also, NES games have a huge community of autists that will detect inmediately if one of your subpixels is "off".

Speedrun cringe. He'll be a woman soon.

>>12014326
>hurr durr
Okay, dude. Whatever.
Buy an ad.

>>12014217
archive says the last time he was mentioned was over 3 years ago

>>12014354
you're not fooling anyone.

>>12014041 (OP)
>mexican
>speedrunner
In the trash it goes.

>>12014215
I made the thread and I'm a Gen X oldfag.

>>12014041 (OP)
700 games in 10 years doesn't really seem that hard, especially when most of them are short as fuck, and especially when it's your job. That's more than 5 days per game

>>12014373
And he's been playing NES games all his life so most of these games he can just breeze through.

>>12014364
very disingenuous

>>12014373
He did it in less than 3 years. Though he has added to the list over the years with other titles.

>>12014381
well they're mostly comments, not posts

Autism is one hell of a drug

>>12014146
A Games Done Quick run of a game you happen to know well with unusually informative narration can be really interesting. Once a large number of runs of any game at all have been digested down into a short dramatic documentary by Summoning Salt they become interesting and entertaining. Otherwise yeah it seems pretty strange. I guess it's just a way for young dorks to hang around in chatrooms. I can't understand ever participating in a super fast-paced chatroom like what the most popular Twitch streamers have; that seems truly insane and idiotic to me. But speedrunners will often have slow chatrooms I imagine. Could be comfy I guess, if you're a young person with nothing better to do.

>>12014217
You can do your own series of this type anytime and supplant him. Go for it. He actually accomplished something that's mildly-to-moderately impressive and moderately relevant to the board. This isn't some stupid random celebrity drama that does not directly involve games like that Billy/Karl spat.

>>12014231
What kind of spaz writes these things up?

Please, mods and jannies, PLEASE. Don't let /vr/ turn into /v/ 2.0 full of "retro" content creators. These fucking parasites have nothing to do with retro games.

test

>>12014542
low

Here are the top rated games(5/5) from the list, in case anyone was wondering what someone who played through and beat all of them thought:

Abadox
Adventure Island 2 and 3
Battletoads
Bayou Billy
Bomberman 2
Bucky O'Hare
Capcom's Gold Medal Challenge '92
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
Contra
Crash 'n the Boys: Street Challenge
Crystalis
Darkwing Duck
Double Dragon II and III
Dragon Warrior III and IV
Duck Hunt
Faxanadu
G.I. Joe: The Atlantis Factor
Goal!
Gremlins 2
Gun-nac
Jackal
Jurassic Park
Kirby's Adventure
Life Force
Little Nemo
Magician
Mega Man 4-6
Mighty Final Fight
Mission: Impossible
Mr. Gimmick
NES Open Tournament Golf
Ninja Gaiden 1 and 2
Nintendo World Cup
Pac-Man(both Namco and Tengen releases)
Punch-Out!!
Rad Racer 2
River City Ransom
Silver Surfer
Snake's Revenge
Solstice
StarTropics 1 and 2
Starship Hector
Street Fighter 2010
Super Off Road
SMB 1 and 3
TMNT 1-3
Tetris
The Lone Ranger
Wario's Woods
Willow
Zanac
Zelda 2

>>12014530
>Could be comfy I guess, if you're a young person with nothing better to do.
There was a streamer who was speedrunning at a convenient timezone where listening to his boring voice talking about boring things while resetting the same section of a game over and over was perfect for helping me sleep

>>12014041 (OP)
Op, i gotta ask. Are you actually familiar with the nes library? Because i just went through 80% of the entries on his site, and the win conditions were pretty much the bare minimum you would expect to "beat" the game. Is that just impressive to anyone who doesn't touch the nes library? I am not seeing anything that looks like it required an absurd time investment in, besides maybe Miracle Piano, and even then he just did what the product was designed for. I did like though the little reviews he did and how many were mostly positive. Reminded me of reviews from magazines in the 80s and early 90s.

>>12014541
I'm surprised we haven't gotten a /yt/ board yet, that would instantly solve the e-celeb problem.

>>12014568
>Abadox
stopped reading. game is fucking trash.

>Zelda 2 over Zelda
retard tier

>>12014568
>Pac-Man(both Namco and Tengen releases)
Ms. Pac-Man (Tengen) is so much better. Strange mazes add a lot more variety to the game, and it lets you customize whatever the hell you want.

>>12014041 (OP)
His mother passed away and he lives in Poland now. He just seems extremely depressed whenever he streams now. I guess it wasn't all champagne and balloons after the feat.

Now he just mostly has his channel playing replays with ads turned to max, goodwill destroyed.

The miracle piano episodes are a window into the depths of human misery

This guy is beating every n64 game

>>12014907
He sure looks like the guy who would beat every N64 game.

>>12014576
>I did like though the little reviews he did and how many were mostly positive.
Its pretty easy to be mostly positive when you have a healthy mindset on video games. The tribalistic default guy on /vr/ who will zealously defend one game but destroy another in the same series is a brand of mental illness and not normal.

>>12014907
And Spikevegeta is beating every SNES game. It's gonna take a while though, I don't think he's even halfway through and he started in 2023 I think.

>>12014568
And the inverse, the 6 games that scored the lowest score of 0.5/5:
The Lion King
Ghostbusters
Kick Off
Paperboy 2
Taboo: The Sixth Sense
Wayne Gretzky Hockey

>>12014140
It's sad how his fixation on Billy Mitchell basically imploded his career. His docu videos on other subjects were interesting, but as soon as he took on a personal beef with Mitchell, and absolutely once it was escalted to a legal matter, he should've stopped talking about him in any of his main channel's videos. Leave that shit for a secondary personal channel, social media, or just drop it altogether and resolve things without giving your viewers an apparently misleading blow by blow. Sure, Billy is a liar with a huge ego, but most people don't fucking loathe him to the point that they want him to hear him being shat on all the time or really care about the minutae of whatever irrelevant thing he's doing now, and Karl's fans only went along with it because they're his fans.

Yiikes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGy3sLIuexo

>>12014804
>The miracle piano episodes are a window into the depths of human misery
kek

>>12014907
>>12014970
What are their channels?

>>12015414
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL-5_l6zakY&list=PL-EYUGe-sEzHOR_ksYDfQWodcopU1dwvW

Someone help us

>>12015414
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrwJXOVKrLbIDAiT9b4Lkyz4dUV9sTbGr

Its really lame when people do challenges like this and don't do the Japanese games. I like the N64 one in this thread since he's actually doing all of them, not just the half that came out in North America. I find that a lot of the obscure, experimental games a challenge like this is meant to highlight tend to be Japanese only, so by arbitrarily excluding them you miss out on a lot of good stuff.

>>12014041 (OP)
You can beat games like smb, megamans and castlevanias in one single day, only the jrpgs are the problem

>>12014970
>Spikevegeta
Was that his name when he was q2 year old minecraft player, watching DBZ music videos with linkin park music?

Fuck, even vtubers are less cringe then these gaming youtubers.

>>12014591
because it would just turn into KF-lite and would draw even more unnecessary attention to the site

>>12016607
>KF-lite
Huh, haven't thought about it like that. Isn't there some altchan that's exactly that?

>>12014536
Fanboys with autism. You can tell from all the exaggerated subjective language in what's supposed to be an impartial report of facts.
>EVERYONE AGREES his first DOMINATION ERA was 2008
>he also RIPPED APART 007 NightFire
>DOMINATING Ben Southward
>WAVE OF DARKNESS, DarkLight93's COMPLETELY UNSTOPPABLE First Person Shooter DOMINATION ERA.

>>12014907
And he means all of them

>>12016584
>minecraft player
I don't think that's the correct generation to make references to Cowboy Bebop and DBZ, dude is older than that

>>12016659
It's gay enough when boomers do this for muh sportsball, zoomers doing this shit for e-celebs is the gayest thing imaginable.

>>12017121
the more things change the more they stay the same

>>12014125
>Adventures of Lolo 3 listed as the most difficult game
Is this guy serious?

>>12018270
I've beaten 370+ NES/FC/FDS games and Lolo 3 is one I gave up on because it was too hard.
At some point I was looking at solutions every 2 levels so I stopped playing because what's the point? And half the times the solutions were crazy hard to figure out by yourself because they were about using mechanics that were NEVER even hinted at before such as dodging the medusa statues needle attack which always seemed impossible but is actually possible in one instance but only if you're frame perfect.

Otherwise the other hardest game I've played (but not beaten) is Micro Machines but since it's not officially licensed I doubt the eceleb played it.

>>12018245
Except you can make the argument that the sportsball niggers are actually achieving something athletically. Not so much for the e-celeb nerds.

>>12015514
New batch of powertripping jeets incoming

>>12018340
Hopefully the sharty will dox them again.

>>12014907
It will be a pretty quick run then

>>12014125
>Adventure Island
>01hr 08min
This nigga fucks.

>>12015538
I don't imagine he'd have much fun with all of the NES detective games if he can't speak Japanese.

>>12018779
Que?

I watched the whole damn thing from beginning to end. I wasn't working during that time and I tuned in every day. He and his brother are really good musicians.

>>12018797
>most plausible beaner roleplay

>>12014041 (OP)
All the people trying to copy him but with later consoles are so hilarious. There probably aren't enough hours in a single lifetime to beat all the good PSX games, much less all of them.

>>12014907
This is funny in the other direction. There aren't even 300 officially licensed North American N64 games and the vast majority of them are fucking garbage.

>>12018270
>t. hasn't played Adventures of Lolo

>>12018838
your brown

>>12018381
>Meanwhile, manliest white speedrunners:

>>12018845
>meanwhile in latinx land

>>12018830
He's doing the Japanese games as well, so there's about 400. Actually playing the games doesn't take that long. Most of the effort comes from making pretty extensive video summaries and reviews of each of the games. Some of them are quite lengthy, too. His Super Robot Wars 64 video is two and a half hours long, for example.

>>12018845
>White
I see no white there

>>12018857
Respectable then.

Beaners absolutely cucked.

>>12018885
>No true whitesman

I love /pol/ shit on my /vr/!

>>12018925
your brown

>>12018927
His brown what?

>>12018927
My brown what?

>>12018932
your brown

>>12018936
youre are brown saar

>>12018942
The fact that you keep on giving me (You)s proves that you're a brown retard with poor self-esteem.

Delete anything that makes you look bad!

>>12017121
On one hand, actual athletes have feats actually worth praising. On the other hand, sportsball fans for the most part don't even play the sport they're fans of, they're like people who "beat" games by watching playthroughs on youtube. At most they will tell you they played when they were younger, few actually practice the sports they're fans of while a higher percentage of e-celebs fans actually play the games they're watching. Athletes are also a bunch of cheating steroid abusers. I don't even know which is worse.

>>12019016
You're a bot.

>>12019019
But the captcha told me I'm a human, I solved it

>>12019021
Wow, you found a unicycle. Epic.

>>12014051
He won

>>12020632
A battle but not the war

>>12014568
>Jurassic Park
Based and crichtonpilled

>>12014041 (OP)
Why do zoomers love keeping tards like this from having to get a job? This is strictly time investment. It isn't impressive. And the moment you start making direct comparisons between it and a layperson's enjoyment of games to try and flatter the guy, it gets even worse. Yeah, it's real 1337 and t3h h4rdc0r3 beating every NES game, sure. Tell me why I should give a fuck.

>>12022183
Mexican Runner has a normal job too (and wife and kids).
Get good