How San Andreas Speedrunners Saved 40 Minutes In Two Years

Recently San Andreas was completed in under three hours for the first time, today's video is going to break down how the community saved so much time, in just two short years.
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[@Screen511]

It's crazy how far speedruns have come. Just the other day I was watching Josh's video on his 6 hour 2013 WR run, and I remember watching that video back in 2013 thinking it was the most mind boggling thing I have ever seen. Fast forwards 10 years into the future.... Thanks for putting in the effort to document this, Ben. Cheers!

[@kurumilover880]

Joshimuz is sub 4 now btw

[@araigumakiruno]

the only GTA SA speedruner i love will and always will be Joshimuz, its nice

[@iliqn1234a]

bro, you brought me so many memories

[@chaserseven2886]

i appreciate the historical archive you are making sir!

[@sobakbolshoy879]

My brain got really scrambled after watching a new version of the run with all the skips and stuff, thanks for clarifying those confusing things

[@kirmy1]

Love these videos Ben! So in depth, but allows both old and new speedrunners to understand the intricacies of what is happening in an SA run.

[@danielmacpherson8487]

This was so perfectly timed. I rewatched your old SA vid and then Petrus' run yesterday and wondered wtf happened in those few years. Run was almost unrecognisable for long stretches of the game. Incredible feat to get the game done under 3 hours. I wonder if sub 2 will ever be possible?

[@andrybak]

I haven't been able to follow GTA speedruns in the last year, so this is a very nice way to get updates. Good job, Ben.

[@TriQuad]

amazing informative video. very fun seeing all the collective effort and the behind the scene stuff that has been used over the years !

[@Tempestelterna]

I just watched this video the other day and it’s so cool how you break it down! It answers a lot of the questions I had :) 🎉

[@MakHoles]

I remember speedruns being 3 hours 40 mins a second ago now they are 3 hours honestly it's amazing what the speedrunning community could do I have learned some strats myself to just save time while playing the SA story and also this is a very good video and it's very well done

[@NtQueryInformationProcess]

i absolutely love this kind of content, thank you for this video EBen

[@timsmith7279]

Your explanations with gta speed running strats is unmatched. Great video as always

[@rhodahaque]

Fantastic stuff. I wish there was more in the way of speedrun progression explained like this for SA. So much changed all at once.

[@stephen3293]

Would love to see more content like this. This was amazing

[@relewave]

this video is amazingly documented and the amount of research is astonishing! can't wait for iii's world record progression (if you're planning to do it some day)

[@englishben]

one day, big project!

[@gruby21376]

that airport purchase skip made me so fucking shocked lmao

[@brenoldt]

any% is so crazy. i remember watching 2018\19 runs, and then bam! everything broken again

[@fistingendakenny8781]

Eben is the man, we need more content

[@MillennialVintageGamer]

It still amazes me that after all these years prople keep finding new ways to beat the records. Even if you don't consider the change in the rules speedruners have kept breaking records

[@escapistsmusicstuff]

Great video, thank you for the explanations! Wish you also included how 3× or 8× duping works, as I think you've only explained regular 2× duping before. But I understand it might be too complicated. :P

[@phpmayan1319]

Its amazing to see how far the GTA speedrunning community have become in recent years

[@WeAreNotAIone]

I forgot you existed, my last recommended video by ypu was over 3 years ago, I made sure to subscribe this time.

[@georgemccrate420]

when i clicked this video, i was expecting to hear "hello, you absolute legends", but i wasn't disappointed

[@Rubokopter]

Great video as always 👍

[@DavidvanDeijk]

I was watching the run of petrus this week and wondering about the differences with joshimuz run. Thanks for the explainer

[@theps2guy561]

Been looking for a video like this for ages

[@aleksuks]

Dude spoiler alert 🤦🏽‍♂️ I can't believe Smoke would turn on CJ

[@BLET_55artem55]

Lad, saying this is like saying that Jesus resurrects or the whole Wonderland is just Alice's dream

[@aleksuks]

@@BLET_55artem55 Next he'll say Santa isn't real 🤦🏽‍♂️ yeah right buddy

[@southernbrain691]

​@@aleksukswhat were you expecting in a video about speedruns of a specific game

[@Plumber913]

Great video, Ben!

[@henrik1743]

I started watching Joshs Sunday runs in 2014 or so… used to do my homework while watching the runs 😂

[@SystemDV]

Love this type of vids!

[@IgorFGamerHD]

nice video bro, thanks for the explanations

[@mcod99]

Really good video Ben, just when I thought I knew alot of GTA SA speedrunning, i'm proven wrong.

[@mikehawkofficial]

very good explanations i didn't know these things and only watched without undestanding now i know more

[@Tastakrad]

Back then when Omegas 5:30 was the GOAT and now, about 10 years later we are sub 3h, amazing!

[@ItsTurtleHD]

ive never even tried speedrunning but god i love vids like this

[@The_Boomer_]

Howd i miss this in my sub feed? English Ben time, lets gooooooo

[@minirop]

Love those videos :D btw, is there somewhere some videos or articles that break down the shit out of those glitches? like a fully explained instapass inner workings with assembly, memory viewer and the likes?

[@englishben]

I'd recommend zazaza691's videos, as he goes into a lot of technical depth for a lot of GTA glitches/strats :)

[@minirop]

@@englishben thanks, mate! this is exactly what I'm looking for!

[@freedomgoddess]

english ben talking about finnish petrus beating turkish glomerius thank you for the video, ben

[@PoliPantev]

I was just rewatching the sa speedrun retrospective last night! Great stuff Can you do one on gta 3 tho

[@englishben]

I've already made a video on how GTA3 went under one hour. The WR history is in the works as well, just a huge project

[@PoliPantev]

@@englishben must have missed that one. thank you. keep up the good work!

[@noliflerebynoli1132]

que grande que sos bana, revolucionando el speedrunning

[@SiljCBcnr]

Very good video Sire!

[@taahaseois.8898]

Before watching this, I would guess that they just followed the damn train. Not completely sure though.

[@lumizera1700]

There is a trick that I don't know if it has MUCH use in a speed run, but if you jump diagonally, you can jump higher AND skip the long animation if you do it correctly, try for yourself and u will get what I mean I played for quite a while on a server on MTA called FFS where we had a mode called RUN, where it was bike racing and running, and this diagonal jump was fundamental to get some WR

[@pewdiepiezzzzz124]

great vid!

[@flxmn7218]

thanks sir e-ben for uptading me on sa speedrunning lore

[@TwistedTammer]

Still insane this happened so soon, ggs

[@strahinjastevic7480]

EBEN upload, nice.

[@StackoTra]

man, san andreas is really underrated game to speedrun

[@yngsmiley8308]

WOW GREAT VIDEO KEEEP UP THE GOOD WORK :)

[@theycallmedingus6823]

Excellent video.

[@alexhonix3125]

Hmm, after how much of a mess the early GTA games were skip wise they surely focused on making the more recent games less of a shitfest, right? also ggs to Petrus for being an insane gamer.

[@JJ-BT]

Interesting video, is there an more in-depth explanation of the race skip?

[@englishben]

I'd argue my explanation is about as in-depth as you'll get, considering it's straight from the game's code

[@JanErik.]

i love these kind of videos

[@vinayaks7994]

Just a question I had after I watched this......If any mission can be skipped if the required amount of missions are done then can't one just do a short mission over and over again until it skips to end of the line part 3?? Or is it like divided into segments so that if doing this glitch again and again cause only a certain chain of missions related to that mission skip??

[@englishben]

You can only skip missions in the same "chain" as the one you're duping, so not it's not possible. Furthermore as the video says, you can't mass-dupe missions aside from a very specific few circumstances

[@Varuct3394]

Petrus OP torille! 🎉🇫🇮

[@melgibsonsjacuzzi]

Thanks English Ben

[@christiantava442]

What's the latest skip runners are working on / developing? New skips in LV?

[@lostshadow828]

Literally in game buffer overflow

[@eroticspartan9600]

Just recently rewatched th WR progression video and asked about an addendum. I feel dumb for not re-checking your video feed first now.

[@JealotGaming]

This is really cool but at the same time I've started to feel like NMG is the cooler category for this game nowadays as the skips are just a bit much lmao I draw the line at almost exploding the van in Outrider, and not at holding a phone call for most of San Fierro so you can skip two missions

[@Geen-jv6ck]

That's incredible.

[@jasonvolkanov3123]

I’ve came along because of the algorithm so I don’t know anything about your content, but if you speedrun yourself, I’d definitely watch “Speedrun highlights” if you make them, similar to content Joshimuz makes.

[@englishben]

I have an entire playlist of them going back six years! Enjoy :) kzbin.info/aero/PLdAGbsSSkfKw1sa70EfUGvubg2nAK9tZC&si=Px4vEeu1qUEDdVv5

[@Obmelg]

I like Summoning Ben!

[@VioletGiraffe]

Great video, wish there were more explanations of how and why the glitches actually work, but I understand that would make for a very long video. P. S. Sorry Ben, but you don't sound very English :)

[@user-og4rn6vh2h]

oh man, this guy was extremely lucky to not get a crash when a lot of scripts are running at the same time, and not override each other

[@jasonblowie8012]

4:05 still playable 🗿

[@alexalekos]

wow glomerius was beaten

[@qoznyyy]

4:57 qoznyy is a... WHAT

[@thewaterlord27]

I remember the time when people would not do full game runs and now it’s under 3 hours.

[@elgato1721]

It seems you forgot to link the runner in the description

[@englishben]

fixed!

[@Jonyclik]

how on earth does English Ben have only 16k subscribers

[@haellm9192]

I wonder what time can lelreset set with these new strats, probably could've pulled something like 2:55:xx

[@Sunsetradi0]

Wonder how they found the air strip purchase glitch It's hilarious

[@azegyetlenczibi]

Best video

[@MegasXRL]

I wish there was a category for no glitches and skips *at all*

[@BLET_55artem55]

Isn't Glitchless just that tho?

[@MegasXRL]

@@BLET_55artem55no, they still do some kind of tricks to skip missions i think

[@BLET_55artem55]

@@MegasXRL the entire premise of that category is to pass the game without any glitches. The one you're talking about is NMG (no major glitches)

[@Rayer24]

Very interesting

[@lasdernas]

9:24 !rg

[@user-pb4vg2qh9p]

cool stuff

[@hypersan2318]

mf saying check this out and ad pops every time he says that

[@Fahel14]

Well, now could someone explain to me why Josh doesn't use any kind of FPS lock and just tortures himself trying to hit that frame-perfect 1 in 3 chance move? 😅

[@MadnessOwned]

0:53 GTA:SA runners using normal control schemes challenge (impossible)

[@ivgotballsofsteel4048]

The LS dupe while finicky should of never allowed the 3rd party FPS buffer, at that point its a TAS. I get that it makes it frustrating without it. However in any case the adoption of different leader board category's should of been implemented, its no wonder that some speedrunners ditched running it altogether. Just because its a difficult strat and RNG heavy should never of played apart in the decision making over the rules. Plenty of games have extremely hard strats, to the point that they are some what unviable but thats where the great times come from, luck has and allways will be a big part of some aspects of speedrunning.

[@Brassrain0su]

it's not really TAS. You could artificially lag your pc so much that the game drops to 3 fps anyway and thus get the same thing. This new rule makes it so that you are not putting your pc in any danger.

[@ivgotballsofsteel4048]

It is literally the definition, using a 3rd party software to lower the framrate to be able to have reaction time to get the inputs is damn near the same as playing the game at 10% speed so you can get better reaction times. Use of any 3rd party software to gain a upper hand makes it a TAS. @@Brassrain0su

[@red-d0t]

it is a TAS @@Brassrain0su

[@squeak5213]

neat video

[@Martin-uy9ks]

Suomi perkele

[@BigBruh47]

But why do they blow up ryders car?

[@MiJi_29]

I love the part that he blew himself up and won the race 😂

[@oux4422]

4:03 cuz the game is like 2 decades old

[@gamingadeldex]

cool vid

[@realcartoongirl]

but they use 3 party fps limiter

[@BLET_55artem55]

3:44 is the timestamp

[@scemmerjoke]

I think the category is going to get abandoned since sub 3 is achieved unless ofc sub 2 possible glitches 👀👀👀

[@jvc7777]

how do people have patience for this??

[@pelimies1818]

Suomi mainittu!

[@OmegaIL]

Hey, you are not summoning salt!

[@Dae52]

How and why is using an external tool to manipulate how a game runs legal to use?

[@BLET_55artem55]

3:45

[@MegasXRL]

Does the speedrunner actually have to beat monster 8 times? Or one that counts for 8?

[@englishben]

Just once, it counts as eight completions

[@MegasXRL]

@@englishbenthats awesome

[@willberry6434]

If y’all just applied to effort to school work you’d be going somewhere lmaoo

[@V3RM1LI0N]

Hi Ben can you make this video again but make it an hour longer and play music like Summoning salt pls thx love u . Gta6 soon brother

[@hupe5836]

SUOMI PERKELE

[@StommelenGames]

It'a kinda sad what happened to San Andreas speedrunning. Who would want watch Monster mission 8 times?

[@englishben]

You don't have to, as the mission is only completed once. The game just counts it as eight missions

[@StommelenGames]

@@englishben okay, I understood that part wrong

[@DopeEstonia]

Estonia (run)? OwO

[@eetuthereindeer6671]

You called the 25 fps so awful. Its not really even awful, its only awful if you're always playing at 60 and are used to it. 25 is just fine