[TAS] I Wanna Be The Boshy W/Sonic in

Run time: 19:31
Re-Records:3777
Previous time: 26:55
Time saved: 7:24
Current Non-TAS Record (With Boshy) : 33:32 by witwix
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This is a tool assisted speed run of I Wanna Be The Boshy (Version 1.7.1) on Hardon-Mode difficulty with the character sonic. It was played frame by frame with save states using hourglass to complete it as fast as possible, using as many skips and glitches I could to save time. Some frames were lost, but it's only around 5-10 seconds total.
There is one section which is impossible for sonic to complete on hardon-mode, which is the cobrat riding section in mario desert. I've been told its possible to complete on average difficulty using a save through walls glitch, but since this run was on hardon-mode the save which is required does not exist. For this section I change to boshy to complete it then change back to sonic when it is finished.
Boss Room flickers - Caused by hourglass, I haven't found any ways to fix it.
Run Notes (By time)
Tutorial - Deaths here do not increase the death counter.
1:44 - By jumping under the cloud it allows me to skip the Kracko fight along with a section of the world. I tried to see if I could squeeze myself through the clouds below but I couldn't find any frames where sonic would fit.
2:13 - With King Dede you can start giving the input that he asked for on the same frame that he tells you the last command. This saves some time and creates a bug where his speech bubble is blank when he is supposed to say RIGHT!?
5:47 - If you have enough speed you can flip passed the second hole in the spike hole room if you flip on the last pixel possible.
5:53 - When the game is in VVVVVV mode your character goes through walls a very slight amount when changing gravity direction. Using this information I figured out that if you change the gravity and change area at the same frame you can get pushed into walls. With this glitch I get into the wall, then go through the next area change to fall out of the map. This allowed me to fall straight into the boss warp. You may be able to execute this glitch earlier in the room but this was the only spot I was able to make it work.
8:57 - This jump here skips the gradius section of the game, saving quite a bit of time.
12:11 - You can stand on a single pixel to the right of the spikes in the megaman area, this allowed me to jump on these to skip riding both of the green robots.
12:37 - This diagonal spike wall seen on the right side of the screen appears to possibly have a sub-pixel where sonic could stand and survive. I spent a couple hours trying to find a way to stand on it without dieing and was unable to. The closest I got was sonic standing but dieing on the same frame.
13:49 - If you kill two of the fire enemies on the same frame, one of them will disapear instead of splitting up.
13:56 - The boxes are moved in the direction that you have the highest speed at the time that you contact them. The spike at the beginning kills you if you try to push the block up by jumping on the same frame.
14:15 - If you push a block up using a jump you have enough speed to get on-top of the block. When this happens you slowly sink through it, but during this time it will push you through any objects it passes.
15:06 - If you hit this switch and do not die or reload from a save, you can pass the next red block area without hitting the next switch. This allows you to also finish the spike wall without hitting the switch at the end.
17:50 - Sonic jumps high enough that he can simply jump to the top of the tower, skipping the entire thing. It is also possible with boshy if you use save jumps.
18:37 - Sonic's amazing jumps allow him to skip the second phase. I kill solgryn before leaving this phase so that I don't have to do the gradius section.
19:32 - Solgryn is dead the instant he shoots his attack and his death animation is fast enough that the game continues to the ending before the attack reaches you.
Hourglass
To run I Wanna Be The Boshy w/hourglass you need to set the FPS to 50, threading to Allow, and disable your internet. You also need to be on Windows XP.
If you load a save state from a previous area (Areas being Worlds, Boss rooms, and special areas like WoW) the game will crash and you will lose some of your progress in the TAS.
In some cases going back to a save state causes display corruption. If this happens you can usually load the state, let it play until the corruption ends, then load the state again to fix it.
Credits
xwidghet - I TAS'd the entire speedrun.
DonYagamoth - He sent me lots of information about how I could improve my initial TAS. The turtle route is an example of something I figured out because he suggested that it might be possible to skip it.
Denferok - He said it'd be awesome if someone made an any% TAS with sonic, and I noticed it could be amazing, so I figured out how to TAS it and did it.

[@daborshy4089]

TAS is the best speedrunner of all time. He WRs on every damn game I look up.

[@ClashOfDuty]

you're not serious are you?

[@TheNewGuy5271]

EasyLemon its a meme

[@pootisgods]

Can’t tell if you’re joking

[@ArturoHardMusic]

hahahahah you're very funny!

[@UkiUkiki]

@@ClashOfDuty r/wooosh

[@linkmariokirby7373]

Go.

[@cubixthree3495]

Go. boing Go. boing Go.

[@iolecalvigioni6690]

CONFEEEESSSSSSS

[@robertgrays8790]

fast

[@wast-cc8wj]

No its success ​@@iolecalvigioni6690

[@xwidghet]

The TAS took around 20 hours, and I went back to save-states 3777 times.

[@UNKNOWN-bp8it]

I have a question that may seem slightly related to this: Can computers “learn” to make the perfect speedrun? Like... can a computer take past TASes, “learn” from them, and produce an even better TAS?

[@CrankyTomb]

@@UNKNOWN-bp8it I think so. Search Code Bullet and look for one of his videos that includes evolution. It is related to your question.

[@metal42]

​@@UNKNOWN-bp8itI am a TAS Bot and yes this is theoretically possible. I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically.

[@spouwnerring]

You forgot to pin your comment.

[@mishymoshy285]

he is not man... he is machine

[@Kphorio]

And sanic

[@-Raymundo]

obviusly :l

[@drunkexperiter738]

He is not man... He is hedgehog

[@CrazSN]

Mishy Moshy he is not a rat he said she's a hedgehog

[@thatoneguy9582]

Mishy Moshy _it literally is a machine though_

[@ThePokulos]

For a long time wanted to see entire Sonic speedrun of boshy. Well, it exceeded my expectations. That run was awesome.

[@pumpkinpiemassacre6799]

Me: Attempts to sneak into kitchen at 2 AM for a snack. The creaking staircase: 8:36

[@o2Tenka]

I keep watching this again and again and it keeps amazing me...

[@darkesau9964]

7:32 The Most Epic Battle Ever!!!

[@dm3y434]

Бедняга шусс

[@kirysha.]

NastChannel я думал что я тут один русский

[@Music.G.F.]

Ну, до Семёна ещё далеко всё-равно!!! xD))))

[@user-tf8wy7wm5x]

Аве

[@degradeus]

Шустрила курит в сторонке

[@helt5710]

Это робот ,а шусс-машина.

[@RallyFumo]

[GO INTENSIFIES]

[@Danthehed2031]

8:36 LET'S GOU!!!

[@RulerOfCakes]

HOW FOU!!!L

[@user-jm6bm6kh6z]

バッチコイ！

[@TheVXTR77]

ACHKAU!!

[@user-sv4um9bs4t]

-LET'S GO!!! -go

[@yelloow0411]

앗차가워~~!

[@thesibvan7312]

7:35 Sonic vs Sonic))

[@greenstarlover1]

Found you, faker!

[@CompositeSanta]

Awesome video! Also I was not expecting that catchy ending credits song lol. Took me by surprise :P

[@peterhunyadi3463]

This is just too good. I laughed at that SkeletonKing kill so hard

[@here-we-go-again1]

That is some good volume warnings right there mangs.

[@xwidghet]

There's a few frames between his spinning animation and standing animation where his feet are off the ground and you can simply walk under them or let him move over you.

[@Patashu]

This was a very impressive and amusing TAS :D I hope to see more categories/faster times in the future!

[@chair7728]

wow tas is such a good player he is best guy ive ever seen

[@user-iw3fe3mh3f]

Уже больше 10 раз пересмотрел...и не надоедает =)

[@joonah7316]

Send this to forsen.

[@lawlzerderp7136]

Sonic? LUL (stuck on Mario atm myself =P)

[@victikirby15]

Go! Go! Go! Go! (Repeat until run is over)

[@WorldofFood]

Damn son! Excellent job. Make this game look so easy! It took me ages to beat mario

[@DenCato]

TAS is a good friend of mine. He rocks!

[@yinan02]

I love how you decided not to kill any of the enemies in the mario fight

[@dawgd0g]

I love that credits song

[@Spong388]

I loved it, megamen part was so epic haha

[@xwidghet]

Thanks for letting me know.

[@xwidghet]

The video was not sped up, it's actually slightly slower than normal due to hourglass lag (the tool used to do the run frame by frame with save states). It's just that when you combine frame-perfect input accuracy with sonic's faster than normal running and higher jumps the game can be completed very quickly.

[@jay_cee583]

Very entertaining TAS, this must have been so much fun to make! How many frames long is it? I've been playing this game blind on stream for about a couple weeks now, and I have to say this might be the hardest and most addicting game I've ever played. IrelandofEndor is the guy who discovered the world 4 skip, and he says he found it by watching me play, because apparently I almost got it by accident in my blind playthrough. Go figure. =P

[@andre_601]

This is what I understand about this Speedrun so far: Go

[@woop6727]

This game took me 4000+ deaths to beat Castlevania, and this guy rips it to shreds. GO GO GO GOGOGOGOGO

[@RulerOfCakes]

lol it's taking me 10000+deaths to beat Sonic XD

[@sambeauchot6822]

So that proves that normal sonic is much much stronger than super sonic

[@turrrret]

Current Non-TAS World Record: 33:20 by witwix

[@pootisgods]

Turret now 30:43 by BBF_

[@thatoneguy9582]

Julian Rumpfinger that wasn’t on sonic though was it

[@mr.incognitoyt2235]

“I wanna be the g-“ Sonic: Gotta go fast!

[@SKScout]

I really do hate that spider, and if I ever go deaf not to it, I'm blaming it in the first place...

[@DyingToLive310]

We own one the greatest songs to ever be in a video game... what should we do with it? Make it strictly illegal for everyone to use or even play on a video! Fuck sharing amazing things with the world, we want money god damnit!

[@Templarfreak]

Wait, wut

[@xwidghet]

***** Random world has no audio because the UMG now owns Capcom-The Himalayas (8-bit Version) which is played in the duck tails game. (The video was blocked in all countries until the theme was removed)

[@Templarfreak]

xwidghet Oh...

[@Desticler]

+Artism Expert (Lv.64 Flamebaiter) Random World is Milon's Secret Castle AND Metal Gear Solid.

[@theorylocked]

nice TAS !

[@SleepyIceman6472]

7:32 Sonic fights himself

[@Arua728]

ソニックの駆け抜ける爽快感がたまらない

[@gagefarris]

6:16 wait... BIOLLANTE!?

[@xwidghet]

By delaying the start of the boss battle (When you press S to skip) even one frame the attacks that are used by random bosses change quite a bit. With missingno the best attacks would be to have a recover followed by wrap/splash. I was recently told that if you die after missingno dies the game still continues, so I may re-tas this section to try and defeat it in two-three attacks. I'm not sure if missingno can use the same attack multiple times, but I'll probably test it if I re-tas it.

[@xwidghet]

I wanted to have the run be sonic only, but because the snake section is literally impossible for him I had to do one character change to complete the run. But, the current version of hourglass does not support mouse input and it will not allow you to do it yourself when the run is being played back. This makes character changes impossible to tas, along with disabling the use of a saving through walls glitch. To complete the run I had to do the character changes non-tas, and splice them in.

[@Thy_Guardian]

That TAS dude is getting every WR record, he's so impressive. It's almost like he's a bot.

[@iliasG3210]

Cant believe we have gotten so far that there is a TAS without sonic that is 22:22 like damn

[@viewtifulday]

That ending credits theme is legit :)

[@Superkidra]

Please consider adding the volume warnings to the title, as some players don't support annotations! Great run, BTW.

[@RedLios]

I wanna be the Sonic

[@ahbeef]

GO!

[@Visleaf]

Good TAS.

[@shotgotit_]

The "reasonable volume spider" warnings at the start hahaha

[@ieatgarbage8771]

Run like the wind!

[@Huligune]

Чувак ты просто бог!

[@SquallEvoker]

As far as TAS's go, this one, while it looks impressive, is actually poorly optimized. Could have shaved off a lot of frames by manipulating the RNG on Missingno, both in spawning him and especially his attacks. Also could have shaved frames using the world 4 save skip trick, as well as the Ganon dev button to freeze him in place. Also, if dying isn't an issue for the run, if you had died to Biollante, it would have skipped the tune at the end and save more time. Probably could have made a sub 19 run with those skips. I was impressed by the phase 2 SolGryn skip though, and overall it was a good run. Kudos for doing it and putting it up on the KZbins for us to enjoy.

[@SquallEvoker]

+SquallEvoker As an edit, it's not dying to Biollante, you just have to mute the sound.

[@YaelOG1]

*Uploaded 7 years ago*

[@TiagoToro]

Amazing!!!

[@penguindood8315]

The Ultimate Stand-Off 7:33

[@liquidlizerd738]

Incredible

[@the__wolf5087]

GOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGo

[@ORLY911]

6:10 Sonic Vs. Biollante...now I have seen everything.

[@OmegaIL]

Dude, u have to recreate this run with new-found tech. Unless it was already found and Sonic can't do it and I don't know stuff. People are flipping about recent 22 run, we need this new run 😃

[@-Raymundo]

SO LEGIT

[@GamerLKP636]

New WR of 34:09 by Kalemandu (Non-TAS) www.twitch.tv/kalemandu/c/3716455

[@VanguardRaven]

Final boss music is Megalith Agnus Dei, from Ace Combat 4.

[@MrSideeXD3]

Damn TAS is a god.

[@canmydogget100subscribers2]

@/\///\/_//\ r/whoosh, that's the fucking joke.

[@todbot1]

Even knowing it was a TAS, you not using save points is incredibly nerve-wracking.

[@thicc_salad]

TY for volume warning ;)

[@EnterAliasHere]

GO! GO! GO! GO! GO! GO! GO! GO! GO! GO! GO! GO!

[@Punchyzen]

Go! Go! Go! LET'S GO!

[@notsu]

*Checking for updates...*

[@Madgod_Rando]

Does Sonic normally jump higher or is something being done in the tas to make him do that? Also what did you do at 5:54, that was crazy lol.

[@xwidghet]

Sonic jumps quite a bit higher than boshy, and also runs faster. At 5:54 there is a pixel where if you jump (Flip gravity) it will do a screen transition on the same frame while sonic is touching the ceiling without being killed by the spike. When this happens you are pushed into the block on the next screen which allows you to exit the maze at an "undefined" position. This causes the game to do a screen transition without changing your current position, allowing you to fall out of the maze. E.G. You are entering the previous screen at X:0 Y:25, and instead of doing a screen transition + Teleport to a flipped X/Y coordinate like usual, it only does a screen transition since the position you are entering from is not defined. This leaves you at previous screen at X:0 Y:25, rather than moving the X coordinate to the right side of the screen like usual. This is my understanding at least, I haven't asked solgryn about it.

[@bikerace4lifebananamaster943]

So impressive...

[@antonionobre4521]

Gota go fast!

[@Amanimi]

nice work sir, as someone who runs and watches regular runs i found this very impressive~ :D these are quite a lot of sidenotes as to how you can even try to TAS this game, so no wonder we haven't seen this for a good while :P may i ask, did you figure out anything about how rng works in this game? i mean, at least for missingno it would definitely better to manipulate him into using the same attack over and over again (splash would be best damage/time i think) but it seems that isn't possible.

[@MiniMaster-ux7qn]

I like the part where he said "go"

[@floatinghat6499]

What's the song after the megaman fight? Not the metal man theme but the little song that plays before the next stage

[@xwidghet]

When I tried it the bullets hit the object that he is sitting in, so it doesn't seem to work anymore.

[@marty7636]

INSANITY...

[@Gamer-zg2wb]

Take a shot everytime he says "Go!"... Good luck.

[@gerardbelanger2772]

sonic vs sonic be like tas sonic: you might know everything that I'm going to do but that won't help you because I know everything that you're going to do! STRANGE ISINT IT?!

[@phase623]

GO

[@Ninetails2000]

11:17-The nope level is strong here. XP

[@FireHunter258]

Gonna go fast! Veeeeery fast!

[@CubemasterXD]

How did you un-rng the run so the TAS would work every time?

[@sakura368]

"go!" intensifies

[@Jfrost9101]

I'm surprised you didn't go back and redo that MissingNo. That was an atrocity of a fight, four of his worst attacks in one fight and none of his three good ones.

[@xwidghet]

Biollante skip was fixed in 1.7. I haven't heard of ganon skip though, do you have any information about it?

[@steroidpigeon]

LET'S GO

[@sorachii8932]

OMG AWSUM!!

[@hudsonz1233]

Go!

[@absoluteegoza5342]

Go go go...ok strang thing

[@greenspartanligado]

what is the name of the duck tales theme that is used on this game??

[@pjshwaa]

Missingno says 'no' when he dies. lol

[@Snip216]

That dang spider >_

[@samueljks]

holy SHIET

[@RaceBandit]

Sorry if a comment already answered this years ago, but is the problem with W11 a bad interaction with the Cobrat?

[@xwidghet]

Yes, when using Sonic the Cobrat doesn't behave correctly making the segment impossible without a glitch. The glitch involves grabbing the window to make the game lag, and using that to shoot bullets through blocks to save jump. However, Hourglass doesn't support this so I was unable to progress without switching to Boshy.

[@AadstaPinwheel]

13:10 Ultra Instinct Sonic

[@xwidghet]

Yes, 1 sonic jump is nearly the same height as boshy's double jump.

[@InvisibleGunslinger1]

I do apologize for the Missingno Shield, without that, this could have easily been under 19 minutes.

[@xwidghet]

You need to be on Windows XP, or else the game will not start with hourglass. I have details about running boshy in hourglass and the problems you may run into at the bottom of the video description.

[@halmerthecat929]

wait a minute is classic sonic the charwter you playing fights mordern sonic?

[@skywolfgiannos7757]

1:47 that Shoop Da Whoop sound caught me off gaurd