The idea is that you play a game in an emulator and use the tools they have such as savestates, the ability to rewind, and slow motion to play the game perfectly. While you're doing that, you record your controller inputs and play them back at full speed. Of course, there's a lot more to it than that, but that's the basic idea. If you want to, you can get really in the weeds with all the crazy stuff emulators let you do, but the nice thing about TASing is that it's only as complicated as you want it to be.

100% Speedruns don't require that one for a few reasons. The main one is that it didn't count for anything at launch, and that's when most speedruns of this game happened. Eventually, with the 1.1 update, they added an acknowledgement for it on the end results screen, where it says "+???". This was mainly added for non-steam players since they won't have achievements, and the developers wanted to reward those players for finding that room. The main issue with the +??? on the final results screen is that it will be there whether you visit the room or not, which you can see at the end of the video. There's no way to "un-find" that room without uninstalling the game, and so the speedrun rules weren't changed when that was added. The game considers true 100% to be when you get the kiss on the final results screen, and that doesn't require visiting the Twin Peaks room in z3a2, the secret armor shard in z7a1, or other similar rooms throughout the game.

@@RexColt I haven’t, but I did watch GoldenEye. It’s cool, but I prefer the game to the movie. I’m just not much of a movie-goer and I mainly grew up playing GoldenEye, Agent Under Fire, and Nightfire because they were popular games at the time.

@@oxfan9384 it’s very precise. If you stand on the thing the cable is attached to, then aim your sniper perfectly down the middle of the cable and hold forward perfectly, you’ll walk across. Jumping also helps, but there’s a chance you’ll slide off the side of the rail and grab on if you aren’t perfectly in the middle when you land.

It's called Gamepad Viewer. gamepadviewer.com/ Just be sure to enable Player 1 at the top, and you should be good to go.

No. Probably Im doing 3.14. I saw a couple of shortcuts you took that I dind´t

The only objective that's technically required is the one at the very end where you have to place the mines on the submarines, right before the boss fight. Everything else is just there to get you to that point.

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The part where I stack stuff at the beginning? Not really. It's just something I do for fun to pass the time while I wait for the door to unlock.

not to mention if there can be a mod of some sorts that pauses the timer when it loads it could be nice to save more time, ive seen other games have that sort of feature

@@rjames0820 actually, in the time since I’ve done this run, someone did make a timer that pauses during loading screens. I’ll use that in my next run. I do think it could be a few minutes faster, even without the loading screen pauses. I’m focusing on a custom map I’m working on, but I’ll get back to speedruns after that.

It's pretty easy once you know what to do. The initial setup is the main difference between using Ultimate Doom Builder for Doom vs. Selaco. First, you need to go to Selaco's game directory and start up Ultimate Selaco Builder. You can also just hit the Play button on Steam and select the level editor option. To get the game files in the editor, you need to navigate to your game folder, open Selaco.ipk3 in Windows Explorer or 7zip, take all the files in there, and put it in a folder inside your game directory. What that means is you end up with a folder, maybe called something like "resources" or "PK3 extract", and it has all the files from Selaco.ipk3 extracted to that directory. Then, when you load up Ultimate Selaco Builder, the only thing you need to do when starting a map is to add a resource, select the "from directory" tab, then add that folder as the directory. You don't need to add GZDoom as a resource or anything else. Only use the Selaco PK3 extract directory. After that, you're good to go. It should be pretty much exactly the same as Doom, except with Selaco's assets. When you want to upload your map to the Steam workshop, go to the game directory and run WorkshopUpload.exe. All the instructions show up on the screen after that. Let me know if you have any more questions, and I'd also recommend joining the Selaco discord, because they have a channel for mapping and modding, and all the developers are really active on there.

@@FitterSpace Thanks for the detailed response. Very helpful.

@@FitterSpace So close to success. I managed to get the textures into the project, but now the textures are all a solid grey color when attempting to apply them to a floor, wall, or ceiling.

@@daycampgames That means the resource you added didn't work. You need to make sure you took everything from Selaco.ipk3 and put it in a folder somewhere in your game directory. Then, when you're loading the map, make sure you add a resource, then go to the "from directory" tab, and select the entire folder you dropped the PK3 stuff in as that folder. After that, everything should show up.

@@FitterSpace Think I figured out my issue. I turned on Full Brightness in the view settings and the texture assets appeared. Neato.

Thanks! It was just a coincidence, but I love that it happened.

I took it down because it was outdated, and only included the demo level anyway. I decided not to make a 100% guide this time around since there are other people working on them.

Thanks! I plan to do speedruns on the harder difficulties, too, as well as 100% runs. I'll get to it one day. There's just so much you can do in this game, that it's hard to find time for speedruns.

I get it, didn't try easy diff and assumed you would get extra ammo and parts and trivialize most encounters, this was actually really impressive and enjoyable!

@@francesco3772 Thanks! I plan to do more Ensign speedruns over the next couple of days, because a couple of new skips have been found that speed things up a lot. I'm thinking sub 50 minutes should happen pretty soon. Once the dust settles, I'll move on to other categories.

Definitely. There's no way to save more than a minute from this level, unless something absolutely crazy gets found.

There are a couple of reasons. At the beginning, it's mostly for entertainment. But there are a few places like the two cars at 0:45 where I use them to force Zoe to drive closer to the left side of the road. That makes her turn that corner a little tighter, which saves time. I occasionally shoot people's tires to get them out of the way later, like the one at 1:49. What's interesting is that the cars in this game actually respawn later in the level. That means there are actually only a handful of cars in the driving levels, and the game just moves them when you drive far enough past them. I guess that was more efficient than actually having lots of cars driving around. By shooting the car's tires, you can change when they despawn, which can manipulate traffic later on.

@@FitterSpace when the game reuses cars, are things like blown tires preserved?

@@trekker105 They are! That's why sometimes you'll see civilian cars without tires, even if you didn't shoot them. The game just re-used a previous car that did get their tired popped.

@@FitterSpace Ah, I just remembered a bit in Aleckermit's old full game TAS where he says cars sometimes spawn in with tires missing, but made it sound like it was unknown why this would happen. I'm guessing this was discovered since then?

@@trekker105 That's right. At the time, it wasn't known that the game just recycled the same cars.

It was! That, and the cutscene where Bloch talks to Zoe. The cutscene skips save a few seconds, even though you have to wait a little while for the grenade to blow up.

@@FitterSpace Interesting that the trigger volume would be so short (vertically). Are most such triggers in this game like that?

That’s not bad! I’d recommend joining the speedrun discord if you’re interested in doing more AUF speedruns. For whatever reason, there aren’t very many people who speedrun this game on PS2. The link to the discord is on the leaderboard at www.speedrun.com/auf

If you stand on top of the concrete barriers, the explosion doesn't kill you. Whoever designed that part of the game basically made it where the trigger that kills you is only on the floor, so if you can stand somewhere above the floor, it won't kill you.