It Took Sonic 2 Speedrunners 30 Years to Break The Game

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[@Abyssoft]

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[@FirstLast-dh8ks]

30 years later, you'll need keeps!

[@BoatSniper49]

KZbin Vanced and SponsorBlock, baby!

[@kwagar9810]

Nah

[@RianQuenlin]

In-vid sponsors are cringe

[@bfdileafyfan]

No

[@Brown95P]

I appreciate the use of debug mode to create playerless shots of the levels.

[@AvsJoe]

Agreed, it reminded me of fun establishing shots in films, it adds flavour and personality to the introduction of a sequence or topic

[@gabepesco]

Agreed! It's a nice touch. I kept thinking that they were some wild warp tas gameplay though. Maybe having chapter text over it would be helpful 🙂

[@Stwartistis]

You can do that in mania

[@DR---]

I thought it was annoying.

[@landkrabbis2718]

I love how the title makes you feel like its wierd to have an unbroken old game lol

[@jozimastar95]

stuff without game engines are way to solid

[@Null42x86]

Sonic is going way faster than sega intended him to be

[@vibinseal6416]

He isn't only faster than the speed of sound he is faster than the poor eyesight of sega

[@JoeyBaby69]

Was a pleasure to help out with this video! Sonic 2 is potentially hitting a new minute barrier soon (12:xx IGT) with all these RTA-Viable TAS strats. it's only a matter of time before that day comes. Just need most of these tricks strung together in one clean run. Great video Abyssoft!

[@JustMenoYT]

Nice

[@mahadkhan5172]

wow a big pro

[@JoshWiniberg]

And only a year after this message was posted the sum of non-TAS IRs is already 11:59. Crazy to think how fast strats are developing for this game.

[@shukterhousejive]

"RAM Storage" might be the single worst speedrunning trick name, it's like calling your trick the "Button Push Method" or some equally redundant name

[@eandis99]

its not a trick name its a technical term Lol

[@jacobizhda2450]

RAM isn't storage. It's secondary memory. Things are copied from registers to RAM. Storage is tertiary memory, or ROM flash in this case.

[@beesree39]

@@jacobizhda2450 it still stores

[@luckyducky7819]

​@@jacobizhda2450 Ram is 100% a type of storage. Its so similar that you can use Hard Drives and SSDs as extra RAM.

[@chrispo7610]

@@luckyducky7819 not actually how it works. Virtual RAM (the RAM on SSDs) is where the computer places memory in the RAM currently not in use when the RAM is full, in order to allocate space for needed data. When that data is needed it's moved back in but it is unusable while not in RAM

[@DBSMoonMaster]

Poor tails, his only speedtech is death

[@sumerhays]

for my set up you have to press right after releasing the spindash before pressing left. this makes you "speed cap." in sonic 2 if you hold forward while rolling off of a ledge it slows you down, which is necessary here otherwise you fall through the floor. thanks so much for covering this abyssoft! a 30 year old game having so many discoveries in just the last 2 years is unheard of and there is more to come

[@SpringySpring04]

It's amazing how people can break games with such crazy inputs on their controllers, I find it so shocking and awesome. Meanwhile I struggle for >30 minutes to do the rabbit-door glitch in Mario 64... I love speedrunning!!

[@huds601]

Really glad to see the Sonic 2 community, as well as Joey, eandis, Zax and Shore specifically getting the credit they deserve for such an incredible amount of progress made recently!

[@VOID_RYZE]

Abyssoft collab with summoning salt

[@BattleGh0stz]

Love this video, extremely well done and edited to extreme. (Also I like the syncing up at 8:16)

[@GMTP_Y420]

20 years to break it damn that shows how solid of a game sonic 2 is

[@StepBaum]

The quality of your videoediting improved sooo much. Really good video :)

[@FreddieFevens]

Your video production is so damn good! Fantastic job!

[@JesusRobledo23]

I’m so glad I stumbled upon this channel I’ve been watching all your videos! Great job! 👏🏼

[@kiersaltalt]

"Eggman you may have pissed on the moon but I have broken into the matrix and become moon and will piss on you instead."- Sonic 6/9/69

[@martymcfly88mph35]

Yo you put out such good content homie. Every video is a banger

[@guy_autordie]

When I was 9 or 10, a sunday, I woke up at 6:00 and start playing Sonic 2. With some pause, mostly involving eating (breakfast, lunch, tea break), I was finally at flying Fortress at 18:00. With 83 lives and 9 continues. I finally beat the game after something like 10 hours of gameplay.

[@PrincessYaura]

Absolutely love your videos!!!!! Keep it up

[@boomermcboom8609]

a sunny Sunday, a new Abyssoft video, life's good

[@Lady_Moonsong]

Oh hey, it's that Sega video you promised me, and it didn't disappoint! I'm a huge Sonic fangirl 💖

[@phillipcraig1120]

Sega: We have blast processing. Sonic: Hold my rings.

[@keiharris332]

0:47 Ah, the sonic we all know and love...

[@matthewhoward8171]

i'm surprised you only have 53k subs with how many of your vids have gotten 100k+ more views. honestly ur one of few youtubers who i look forward to seeing new vids in my inbox from. keep up the awesome work dude

[@jasongibson1225]

Mashed doing a bit where tails is on an level with Sonic like he usually does, to see his buddy ol' pal suddenly get haunted, corrupted, and going through walls in strange and terrifying ways

[@SampelMSM]

Man sonic really said "Gotta go fast"

[@sSynclare]

this was a treat to watch i forgot just how nostalgic this game is to me

[@dramallamaz]

Great video love all the technical aspects of speed running especially a game like Sonic! Would also love to learn what the intro song is! Tried looking it up but couldn't find it.

[@Abyssoft]

The Kraken Rises by novadrome, alternatively my season 2 intro

[@markmccall752]

I looked it up and it doesn't seem to exist 😥

[@dramallamaz]

@@markmccall752 took me forever to find but it's only found on their website under commissioned music. officialnovadrome.com/commissions

[@DoctorSwellman]

Sonic 2 speedruns are so cool. Glad to see you cover this 👌

[@Lady_Moonsong]

Oh hey you're my go-to JRPG channel o:

[@DrakodanSRL]

Awesome video, thank you

[@innocenthedgehog8367]

Really happy to see the Sonic 2 community getting the showcase it deserves. Nothing against the Mario speedruns, but it's time the Sonic ones had the same attention.

[@darkmagician4697]

Zips work like the clipping in the original Mario bros and happens do to the same thing.

[@nizeboigudboi1893]

16:21 why im always laughing when sonic suddenly glitches 😂😂

[@TrolleyMC]

nice, can't wait for the Sonic 3 video

[@noblewine4976]

This is why I love gaming between the 80's & 90's.

[@JayJay-gh7or]

Brilliant. Still to this day the best game ever made. I love seeing that people are still going hard body on this one. 11/10 would play again.

[@ultrairrelevantnobody1862]

I wouldn't call it the best game ever made, but it is fun.

[@Water971]

In sonic classic heroes wing fortress has a weird bug where you can clip through the fan as tails and discover an area

[@honord.1811]

He doesn’t say “Gotta Go Fast!” for nothing.

[@camwyn256]

I hope to see Lowbrow incorporate this into a skit

[@Nako3]

This is one of the best 1372 videos I have ever seen!

[@ProjectRedfoot]

That intro was just awesome

[@noneofyourbusiness4133]

0:07 **marketable plushie gaming** 😳😳

[@j.s.8780]

I love that Sonic looks PISSED whenever he isn't moving. Very thematic.👍

[@combinesoldier14]

Finally, I learned how to do sv_cheats 1

[@ElariaFlori]

Could you give a link to the song used in the intro? I went to all of Novadrome's links, but couldn't find it.

[@MackenziiRivers]

idk why but seeing sonic becoming a glitchy mess at 0:44 made me burst out laughing

[@KloWnV]

man went so fast he broke the fabric of reality

[@somaricraftbros6283]

Nut clip 😳

[@slimgrim3607]

its insane that the same year sonic 2 was broken was also the same year sonic 2 was released in theatres

[@TheMeditron]

Friend of summerhays, great to see him get a shoutout in one of your vids :)

[@takumifujiwara2073]

the spin dash trick is also a thing in sonic generations

[@TheXenith]

Speedrunners are just nightmares to SEGA

[@TheMillardWoTT]

I played so much of this game!

[@ajtv_ag]

That’s a real speed of sound

[@grimentity4959]

Tails: Sonic wtf are you doing?!?

[@loser528]

I remember accidently getting stuck in a wall in sonic 2 as a child and thothe it was the coolest shit ever

[@KloWnV]

sonic using his speed from the boost games

[@NeoJackBauer]

Nice video

[@meme_master2019]

Sonic figures out how to go mach 10 and fucking exsplodes

[@DFloyd84]

That plush doll is a really good speedrunner!

[@panopticpunk]

It's amazing an entire speedrunning niche spawned from Sumerhays Nut. I'm impressed. Edit: I would try this, but i don't think i can master the "fast zip" method. I'd probably just brute force it.

[@CAMSLAYER13]

You should give it a go, you never know

[@cooltaylor1015]

Gotta go FAST!

[@fireballferret8146]

Sonic 2, aww, that's... OH WAIT THAT IS THE ONE I GREW UP WITH!!!

[@Lim95]

You could say they were… “Up 2 it”

[@MINECRAFTERHARS]

Sonic 2006: it took new players 30 secs to get gltiched

[@seba2366]

what's great about Sonic 2 Speedruns is that the timer literally stops while pausing so you can pause buffer as much as you want

[@redstring1942]

I have accidentally done a screen warp before in this game but I didn’t say anything about it because I had no way to prove it

[@2001DJ]

Subbed

[@ShignBright]

When sonic goes too fast

[@jagergerg9771]

Cool video

[@Abyssoft]

Thanks

[@null_data]

8:13 what song is this???

[@Abyssoft]

Anomalie by Novadrome, it's in his 2020 mix

[@an0therdimensi0n99]

as a part of gen x gamers, i appreciate the video and title.

[@Rommythegeek]

I’m kinda lost in the tas/old strats/new strats with all those tricks and techs, makes it hard to see what really improved in the RTA runs. Maybe you could’ve take a bit more time at the beginning to show what a run actually looks like before diving into tricks. But I don’t know better and I really enjoyed the video, so I’ll just watch it twice. Great content.

[@dr_tal]

Is all the music by the same person on this video?or can we get a tracks used list?

[@Abyssoft]

It's all by novadrome

[@dr_tal]

@@Abyssoft snap wasn't expecting a reply that fast lol. Anyway to get a track list? The yt link in description is giving me issues when trying to open it in the app.

[@Abyssoft]

@@dr_tal he doesn't always upload the tracks he makes for me, his sound cloud or website are your best bets

[@dr_tal]

@@Abyssoft thanks I'll try there

[@hiiiiiiii4969]

when sonic uses his actual speed

[@arcticcircle9178]

What's the song used at 14:30? ~Red

[@Abyssoft]

That's my season 1 intro by novadrome

[@iTripleCrownedAmber]

I pre order sonic origins just few more days untill its playable I wonder if i can do any of these wraps or zips on the ps4

[@attackhelicopter9017]

They're probably gonna be fixed

[@ninethetwotailedfox]

Sonic the Hedgehog, so fast he can break reality.

[@GreenTheGrape]

Lore accurate sonic speed

[@alcoyot]

Nobody could have predicted speedrunning would have become such a legit subculture. But there’s something very fun and relaxing about it. And there will always need to be ways to bring fringe nerds together.

[@turbo8628]

Disagree. Speedrunning has been around for decades. It has always been a niche. The internet allows people to find and connect with like-minded people. It didn't need predicting, it was inevitable... and it is still a niche.

[@killthecat666]

I need the intro song name plewae

[@MightyReeN]

Can you just like.. . Do a whole speedrun guide for the classic sonic games. I wanna speedrun s3&k bit can't find any really decent guides

[@Abyssoft]

Try joining the classic sonic discord linked on the speedrun. com page

[@meepmeeepmeeeep]

plushie speedrunner :0

[@kelly7997]

Gotta go fast

[@korpen2858]

Damn, "if you're able to go past the left barrier you'll progress to the far right..." Powerfull.

[@MitchPiotrowski]

Gave this vid a like simply because of the messed up Sonic image.

[@ph43draaa]

Actual content starts at 2:10

[@paninjin]

Is it just me or is "level/ screen WRAP" much less intuitive than if it were a "level/ screen WARP" Like what are we wrapping?!

[@DaveMorley149]

Co-ordinates are always assumed to be positive, so when you send Sonic past the left edge of the level, the level co-ordinate underflows from zero to a high positive value instead of becoming negative. To put it another way, it's like the level is wrapped around a cylinder, putting the end of the level right next to the start of the level. For levels that infinitely scroll vertically, like Metropolis Zone Acts 2 and 3, it's a similar concept, except it's the screen that's wrapped around the cylinder so the top and bottom are next to each other.

[@TehAwesomer]

I watched this at 1.75x because I... gotta go fast.

[@darisucc7749]

rosa jumpscare

[@SantosCastellanos-vr1by]

I thought it was sonic, 2 speedrunners

[@GreatGloves]

Greetings from Finland! Poika tuli kotiin🏆

[@ben12355]

scor12e502c42550184.... yeah somethin is messed up with that score....

[@vibinseal6416]

When Sonic has achieved noclip levels of speed:

[@thelivingglitch2288]

The price for quantum tunneling is that can't think about what you're doing.

[@vibinseal6416]

@@thelivingglitch2288 Facts

[@AntonioNoack]

Start at 2:10 ^^

[@RAMPKORV]

NUT CLIP

[@padshardbank]

This isn't the sonic I grew up playing!

[@Thatonedrater]

Couldn’t you just go debug and find the sign post and use that

[@max-zo5ew]

I had sonic 2 not mario world also Fifa 94 MK2 NCAA football 94 road rash

[@ijre]

Thanks, Max.

[@timbomb374]

Gotta go fast huh?