[TAS] Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy - Any%

5 weeks in the making has led to this!
Thank you to everyone in the Jak and Daxter Speedrunning Discord, for helping me learn the mechanics of the game, and for putting up with me destroying their childhood.
Due to how bad the emulator's Savestates are with randomness, this is not a "true" TAS, rather it's a TAS of each segment, spliced together

[@ThaRixer]

Volcanic Crater and Lava Tube are so dope in this

[@spipsdew6157]

I love all the little bits of flair that are put in! the dancing to the lava tube music is such a mood

[@lbp_chessguy5640]

7:45 Klaww: *we fight now* Jak: nah *I'll pass*

[@trinichinee6426]

7:19 My worst nightmare when I was young. Good to see jak swim away for once

[@dallamawastaken]

awesome run, sat through the credits to help retention lol

[@theNeorax]

Did you take the big white eco from the cutscene to end the game? i didnt know this is even possible!

[@Snugggles]

Unfortunately not, the giant floating ball of Eco can't be interacted with. I did however hang around the area that the collectible White Eco is first spawned, making Jak interact with it as soon as possible

[@luispaucar9109]

4:19 literally burned Jak and daxter to a crisp

[@LegoSonic-p2f]

This is why we practice major skips before attempting to speedrun.

[@JohnSmith-gt4sy]

Saoms: Jak you gotta stop Gol and Maia Keira: I'm making chili in like 15 mins Jak: No really, that was absurd, good job!

[@sodemo88]

Been playing this game (not speedrunning) since I was like 12 and it came out, and I've never seen that upper lava tube area where you built up speed with blue eco.

[@Snugggles]

From memory, neither had I! It was only thanks to the Speedrunning Community that I even knew that it existed

[@dkemil]

I dont remember it either lol. Even after seeing plenty of speedruns.

[@lilmamagc]

sameee

[@HiImTylerr]

I just looked ans holy shit I have never seen that before in my life wtf. I watch alot of speedruns too which is crazy.

[@n00b614]

The ramp from Lava Tube over the door to Gol and Maia’s Citadel was actually insane. Beautiful TAS, what a great watch.

[@socalacura1338]

It's insane that the TAS "only" shaves off 1.5 minutes off of the current WR as of 8/8/22; tells you how insane the run by OutrageousJosh is

[@MikeGamePro]

Josh didn't have WR at that time. The_Stellar did

[@strawberrykais1424]

Whoa! Put in on ice, big guy..

[@blahpy]

I’ve already watched this like 6 times, such an amazing run!

[@kwisatzhaderach9591]

Every few years I dig up the trilogy for a run through. I can do a completionist run in about 4-5 hours. Every time I finish I still marvel at how enjoyable an experience it is and still holds up.

[@wickedishiccy7621]

I miss when games looked like this more often.

[@Sticky6Ft]

The splits for this must be unreal. Crazy Crater movement, wild Mt. Pass drunk cam, and other insane skips through the whole run *Awesome to see!*

[@zSwingMann37]

Now try to do the TAS of 100%

[@dkemil]

Id love to see it!

[@endaraa]

1:41 How did he pass that cutscene I was Never able to do that

[@Oshiish]

10:01 cha cha real smooth

[@Beanie_The_Thrower]

Absolute fucking gaming my man!

[@AlexisTheDragon]

4:00 why aren't u dying?

[@Snugggles]

For him to be classed as dead, Jak needs to either land on something solid to start his death animation, or fall into a death plane. When getting burned like that, Jak is supposed to locate the closest ground to snap to, but the entire ground is a damage zone, so there's no ground for him. The boxes do count however, and can cause this snap to happen, but by maneuvering a specific way when near them, you can avoid these checks from working fully. It's one of the hardest parts of the run for humans due to how precise you have to be.

[@papillon-dm8et]

Oh my god theres a skip found for that door in lava tube? Also by how much faster is it compared to just doing it normally?

[@zSwingMann37]

That's crazy!!

[@youpisuper]

How can you enter the lift in gol and maia’s citadel just like this ? Isn’t there a force field around it normally ? Great job by the way !

[@Snugggles]

Thank you! I'm unsure on what part you are on about exactly, so I'll explain a couple: -to enter the Citadel itself, there is a barrier in front of the door, that normally you have to activate the teleporter to lower. This TAS avoidd that by just jumping on top of the barrier and using it as a ramp into the next area -to enter the lift at the top, directly after the barrier jump mentioned before, the only requirement is to have broken the light in front of the door, so entering it is just a matter of breaking that light!

[@youpisuper]

@@Snugggles ah ok I thought that you had to free all the sages to do that

[@Snugggles]

@@youpisuper Yeah, Story-wise you have to, as you can't normally reach that area otherwise, so they didn't actually link the door to them, only to the light thing 😂

[@zeerpy6364]

God I miss these days of video games. loved this series so much

[@HiImTylerr]

This needs to happen again since the new World Record is 15:45.

[@jake6909]

16:45 I love how Kiera still gets some credit

[@Ox9707]

I feel like the credits took longer than the playthrough

[@MishapTrap]

One of those "oh I gotta see this" videos

[@40percentyt]

...Did you even manipulate the *sounds* on the zoomer at 11:27? I've never laughed so hard at such a stupid sound before

[@bobo577]

It’s the Hop Turn, it’s used to make sharp turns when you jump in the air.

[@Dante_Sparda_DMC]

I do love me some TASes

[@firelordvsgaming7258]

This is insane

[@rowenramnath2016]

Is this the cheat. My cuz told me he beat the game quick. 😮 i was like huh Im sure you did the cheat. Thats like 20 min cheating

[@Snugggles]

Not a cheat, but it isn't me playing, it's essentially a robot

[@Porcelain9319]

gg

[@JakSpeedruns]

Cheater

[@endaraa]

is he playing on ps4?

[@elise2848]

does anyone know the purpose of going backwards for a little bit when they get the zoomer in lava tube?

[@Snugggles]

Yeah! The very final jump above the door at the end isn't possible without Blue Eco, so Jak heads back to get the Blue Eco from earlier in the level in the shortcut.

[@elise2848]

@@Snugggles ahhhh i see thank you!

[@_heat03x_]

crazyy man gut gemacht we say in germany :))

[@ronaldofortnite]

Bravo, Dr Snug

[@avocadotoast6369]

Bro what the fuck

[@aidange2]

Holy moly this was great to watch

[@moistyonion2549]

Good work Jeffery

[@harleyva]

let's goooo

[@BenjaminGoodman]

When you want to play before school but only got 15 minutes

[@SlyCooperReloadCoded]

Was this made like the Sly 1 TAS or is this pre-recorded inputs and frame advance?

[@Snugggles]

It's the same way the Sly 1 TAS was done. This is each individual Segment recorded on its own and spliced together, each segment done with manually written inputs. Not quite by hand in the normal way, but not with pre-recorded inputs either.

[@Sanker1]

cool

[@EJ-ul5um]

amazingly only 80 seconds faster than current WR when writing this

[@jonlae]

what haver i just witnessed lol :D

[@LunchThyme]

So, uhhh ... plan on porting this to OpenGoal?

[@TheaussieNoonga]

now THIS is speedrunning

[@rowenramnath2016]

They call this cheat. My cousin did this. I borrowed him my jak and daxter. He told me he beat the game. just in two days. Meaning he did this. Lazy to play the story.

[@Snugggles]

Nah

[@dannyreising]

Tech so crazy

[@khfan4492]

I'm lost for words

[@Comicaal_]

Lava Tube was so exhilarating omg

[@ironbloodedalchemist]

Holy shit dude

[@Sestain]

I want to know what version of PCSX2 did you use, bios and game version

[@Snugggles]

This was done on PCSX2-RR 1.4.0 by xTVaser, American BIOS I believe, and on the NTSC-U Black Label copy of the game

[@Sestain]

@@Snugggles That was a fast response, thanks. I remember trying using it back in the day but it desynced too often that I gave up. Nowadays using a random nightly build from august 2022.

[@Snugggles]

@@Sestain no problem! I just happened to be checking at the time 😂yeah, from what I can tell, the nightly builds are doing quite well, fixing some of the desync issues, but they are lacking a few things that I find useful like allowing multiple inputs for one controller - or at least I can't figure it out

[@Sestain]

@@Snugggles I use a real controller to place inputs and for me it works just fine when pressing start and cross at the same time as an example. Hopefully latest nightly fixes desyncs or some of it (read changelogs and it seemed to fix somethings related to resetting/loading a state).

[@Draslow]

GG bro i love this game

[@Cats_928]

Isn't that a wr? 14min

[@Snugggles]

It is faster than anything on the Leaderboards right now, but this is not a person playing the game; This is a sequence of inputs recorded and replayed using Tools, like being able to advance the frames one at a time, to get inputs as perfect as I wanted them

[@TheSilvantor]

What's the point of 9:47?

[@Snugggles]

It's a trick called Idle Deload. I can't explain it as well as ThaRixer has done, so I'll link you to the point in the video that goes through these. kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2rHmXuMgZ15qNU

[@chandirby1444]

"good training boys, but that's nothing to the challenges that lie ahead." oh if only samos knew

[@lantern26]

clearly that's cheatin during the fire canyon

[@XerxesX.]

But he’s using cheats

[@jak_2]

The fuck did I just watch. That was crazy 😂

[@Lord.PussPuss]

This speedrun is impossible without channeling some dark eco, in addition to making a deal with an evil pagan deity or two. I’m afraid you must be on the dark side, I’m keeping my eye on you. I love the jak series and it’s interesting to see it played this way. Kudos. Even the rocks do not remember

[@edisinmedicine5512]

You just ran through my childhood in 15 mins