A legendary game like Gunstar Heroes has had its place in GDQ history since the days of the classic years of the event. While Treasure's inaugural release has seen several runners, my submission for the game is through the 3D Classics port done by M2 for Nintendo 3DS. Presenting extra modes for extra ways to replay the game, the most notable is Gunslinger, which grants the player more freedom on the fly! Let's see this classic run and gun have its lesser-known mode a chance in the spotlight!Status: Pending Any% Gunslinger (Easy) 00:35:00 Status: Pending Any% (Easy) 00:37:00 3DS TempestMask1000 Blaster Master Zero It's been six or so years since Blaster Master Zero saw its first action at GDQ, but only a fraction of the experience was on display. Since then, the game received two sequels from Inti Creates and Sunsoft to round out the "Jason Saga." As such, I think it's only fair that Jason himself gets some time to shine. Let's bring back this sequel to the JP Famicom game to blast some mutants alongside that of the US game! I'm submitting solo and co-op with SoaringSloth (or davidtki if applicable).Status: Pending Any% 01:00:00 Status: Pending Jason Any% Co-op 00:57:00 Status: Pending Unlimited Mode (Any%) 00:16:00 Status: Pending Unlimited Mode (Best Ending) 01:50:00 PC Kosmic Super Mario Bros. Randomizer The Super Mario Bros. randomizer generates completely new levels we've never seen before. SMB1 is usually a very solved game, but let's prove our skills by sight reading and reacting to everything on the fly!

There are many great possible donation incentives for this, like a bid war for which custom powerup will be included, and a showcase of the BRUTAL difficulty setting after the initial run.

Status: Pending 20 Levels 00:25:00 NES a_variety_pack Bayonetta 2 Bayonetta 2, the middle child of the franchise, improves upon the fast-paced and cataclysmic fight mechanics of the original. Playing as Rosa, the player deals 3x more damage with the ostensible and often negligible drawback of also receiving 3x more damage. This incredible buff allows for even the strongest-looking bosses to be eviscerated in mere seconds; although it may seem incomprehensibly fast, all fights are neatly comprised of a few staple attacks used in regularly unique strings.Status: Pending Any% Rosa (Easy) 1:20:00 Status: Pending Any% Rosa (Infinite Climax) 1:45:00 Nintendo Switch Allegro Star Fox Command A strategic take on the Star Fox formula. This run consists of quickly drawing out flight paths to intercept enemies and shoot them down in all-range mode, with an end goal of eliminating all enemies and bases in each mission. Each mission is unique with differing strategies in intercepting enemies on a set path or ones reliant on RNG spawns. Did I mention there is a boss that is a giant enemy crab?Status: Pending Emperor Anglar (NG Any%) 00:40:00 Nintendo 3DS BulbasaurRepresent Plants vs Zombies All Puzzles is an action-packed and intense run, requiring in-depth knowledge of the levels and quick thinking to make fast decisions with very little breathing room, and even involves playing as the zombies!

The runner needs to analyse the randomly generated layout for each level while simultaneously executing their in-the-moment plan at a breakneck pace.

This run is an exhilarating, short showcase of decision-making, mechanical ability, in-depth knowledge of the game, and adaptation to RNG.

Status: Pending All Puzzles 00:13:00 PC MechanicalSnail Solar Ash Solar Ash is the 2nd game from indie studio Heart Machine, creators of Hyper Light Drifter. Solar Ash inherits their fast-paced neon aesthetic, this time in a gorgeous 3D sci-fi platformer. This run has a focus on fluid movement, maintaining ludicrous speed gained by stacking boosts, and exploiting the game's 3D gravity fields. This will be a True Ending Restricted race with the top 2 controller runners, Talo and Mechanical_Snail, featuring some newer routing and tricks never shown at GDQ!Status: Pending True Ending (Restricted) 2-Player Relay 01:15:00 Status: Pending True Ending (Restricted) 2-Player Race 01:15:00 PC PARTY MAN X Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 THPS2 is a perfect sequel, taking what was good about its predecessor and improving upon it. Among other things, the game adds more goals in each level (including cash collectibles), and in this run we're going to complete all of them! All goals & golds serves as a de facto 100% category, where we fully complete the game as one skater. This category has seen a lot of activity over the last year, with the world record improving by a bit over a minute, so now's the time for this game to shine.Status: Pending All Goals & Golds 00:14:00 PC BeamQueenSol Kirby Fighters 2 Kirby Fighters 2 continues asking the question of "What if Kirby was a platform fighter" by adding a proper Story Mode where Kirby and a buddy storm an ever larger tower with rougelite elements. The climbs offer some rougelite elements, and the run sports some strats and abilities not often seen elsewhere in the series, be it cutting through with Sword, smashing our way through with Hammer, or Chapter 5 where Fighter gets one of its biggest chances to shine as Kirby snowballs his way to the top.Status: Pending Story Mode 02:15:00 Nintendo Switch Talo Solar Ash Solar Ash is the 2nd game from indie studio Heart Machine, creators of Hyper Light Drifter. Solar Ash inherits their fast-paced neon aesthetic, this time in a gorgeous 3D sci-fi platformer. This run has a focus on fluid movement, maintaining ludicrous speed gained by stacking boosts, and exploiting the game's 3D gravity fields. This will be a True Ending Restricted race between the top 2 controller runners, Talo and Mechanical_Snail, featuring some newer routing and tricks never shown at GDQ! Status: Pending True Ending (Restricted) 2 Player Relay 01:15:00 Status: Pending True Ending (Restricted) 2 Player Race 01:15:00 PC BeamQueenSol Kirby: Squeak Squad Kirby had his cake stolen and he's decided to speed through and make it Dream Land's problem. The run sports Wheel Kirby in one of its best forms in the series, letting Kirby speed through the stages and practically fly through them too. The inventory management with Kirby's stomach gets used constantly throughout as well, allowing us to carry other abilities for other strats along the way, including invincible candy in the only time the series has let us carry it around!Status: Pending Any% 00:50:00 Wii U SinDarkFatez Scooby-Doo! Unmasked Scooby-Doo! Unmasked is a action adventure platform game where Scooby and the Mystery Gang must stop the creepy costumed characters, unmask the truth and prove Jed's innocence. All Levels showcases many sequence breaks throughout the 3 Unique Worlds while using fast movement, precise tricks, collecting both clues and mubber to solve the mystery.Status: Pending All Levels 00:45:00 Nintendo Wii PARTY MAN X Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1, 2, 3, and 4 This year will mark Tony Hawk's Pro Skater's 25th anniversary, so it's as good a time as any to celebrate the series by playing as much of it as we can! In this run, I'll make my way through the first four games of the series, with each game's category that more or less complete the game for one skater. Each game in the series has its own identity as a run and presents unique challenges, and when run in sequence, they also present the difficulty of adjusting to each game's mechanicsStatus: Pending 100% (1), All Goals & Golds (2, 3), Any% (4) 01:16:00 N64 (1), PC (2, 3, 4) dragonz Wii Fit U Wii Fit U really has the best of both worlds: super tight and precise execution, and some of the most gimmicky controllers you can find in a speedgame.

This category has me completing all beginner difficulties of the non-autoscroller games as quickly as possible, which involves precise body movements that can really have you working up a sweat by the end of it.

No cheating either! I have to control the games as intended, which means it's all up to my balance to keep myself from falling over.

Status: Pending All Beginner Categories (Intentional) 00:25:00 Wii U BeamQueenSol Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land Nightmare in Dream Land's the game to introduce alternate character modes to the series, starting with one that lets players control Meta Knight. With different physics, speed and only his sword to fight with, Meta Knight manages to do things a good bit faster than Kirby can and can even 100% the game thanks to his sword working on every puzzle in the game. It's a harder run overall, but a very satisfying one to both perform and watch.Status: Pending Meta Knightmare 100% 00:38:00 Wii U BeamQueenSol Kirby Star Allies "Guest Stars ???? Star Allies Go!" is a side mode from Star Allies that lets you play a shortened version of the main campaign as any given enemy or dream friend, with most of the latter sporting unique parts based on their original games! They all also offer different strats to move around and fight, from Adeleine's drawings and paint to Gooey and the Dream Land 2 friends taking after their respective abilities, to Daroach dashing around and using the Squeaks to his advantage.Status: Pending Guest Stars - Daroach 00:50:00 Status: Pending Guest Stars - Rick & Kine & Coo 00:50:00 Status: Pending Guest Stars - Gooey 00:50:00 Status: Pending Guest Stars - Adeleine & Ribbon 00:50:00 Nintendo Switch juh0 Remothered: Tormented Fathers "Remothered: Tormented Fathers is the pure and realistic survival horror videogame." Real Steam description of the game. BUT...it's a spinoff to its spiritual successor, Clock Tower. Playing as a lady who tries to uncover a mystery of a missing girl, her mission is to get in, intrude a bunch of people in the house and escape before any one of them find and kill her. You can clipping an old man to a door and skating around the house by standing still!Status: Pending any% 00:38:00 Status: Pending 100% 00:40:00 PC yoshipro Cloning Clyde Silly platformer with cloning mechanics to have multiple players on the screen and some animal/human/object hybrids that change how you platform. Charming I think yeaStatus: Pending Any% 00:40:00 PC Ppotdot1 Mario Tennis (GBC) Take on the role of a new student at Tennis Academy in this Mario sports RPG title! A comfy yet action packed run with tense matches (and some walls). The legendary tennis player Mario is waiting... Who will rise up the ranks to challenge him?Status: Pending Any% Singles 2:00:00 Game Boy Color Ppotdot1 Mega Man Day in the Limelight 2 In this fanmade reimagining of MM3, Dr. Wily has unleashed a virus that incapacitates Mega Man while throwing the world into chaos. Dr. Light reprograms some of Dr. Wily's old robots that are immune to the virus, thus the robot masters from MM2 get their day in the limelight! Featuring redesigned stages and boss fights, Quick Man and friends take on Dr. Wily's schemes to save the day in this fast and fun take on the Mega Man franchise. Status: Pending Any% 00:55:00 PC Nanoferret Rain World The Monk is a peaceful, but weak character that allows you to move through the world with relative ease. Though easier among the base game slugcats, Monk still must dodge and sneak past hard to kill enemies to achieve their goal of enlightenment and finding lost family. They will climb to the top of the world to meet the dying god/supercomputer Five Pebbles, before digging into the darkest depths where memory and sound rule to follow their missing sibling's footsteps and reach the void sea.Status: Pending Monk Pebbles% 00:45:00 PC FFR Pro 21 Pokemon Puzzle League Pokemon Puzzle League is a puzzle game on the N64 where you swap blocks horizontally to make horizontal or vertical matches and chains of 3 or more of the same color. The goal of the 1P Stadium mode is to make combos and chains to send garbage blocks to your AI opponent to try to top their stack off and force them to run out of stop time and lose.Status: Pending 1P Stadium (Super Hard) Race 00:40:00 Status: Pending 1P Stadium (Easy - Super Hard) Race 01:30:00 Status: Pending 1P Stadium (Hard, 2P1C) 00:15:00 Status: Pending 1P Stadium (Easy - Hard, 2P1C) 00:35:00 WiiVC Distro Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Want to see a stealth game done fast?

Splinter Cell is a stealth game but the speedrun has its very own interpretation of the word 'stealth', which allows for a very entertaining watching experience for people who are familiar with the series and even those who are not.

In this speedrun you will see a lot of AI manipulation, precise movement, a bit of out of bounds, some skips, and maybe even a bit of stealth?

Note: German is slightly faster but I would run it in English at GDQ.

Status: Pending any% 01:00:00 PC zolaa Grand Theft Auto: Tightened Thrice Tightened Thrice is a Kaizo Mod for GTA III. It aims to play with speedrunners' habits and muscle memory. Almost all content of the game has been "tightened" - from regular missions to collectables. All Off-Road Missions aims to beat all offroad missions (collecting checkpoints in gimmicky vehicles) from a clean Any% save breaking out of the first mission and then completing all (4) off-road missions throughout the three islands - one by one.Status: Pending All Off-Road Missions 00:25:00 PC Distro Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow Pandora Tomorrow is the second game in the Splinter Cell series.

Pandora Tomorrow is the fastest Splinter Cell main series speedrun thanks to some big skips. Some of those skips are quite new. Besides some cool skips you will see a lot of fast equipment management and a lot of quick shots in this speedrun.

Since this is a stealth game, we make sure to hide bodies by exploiting a quicksave/quickload glitch, which bypasses the body checks.

Status: Pending any% 00:45:00 PC Distro Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction The most broken main series Splinter Cell speedrun! In this game, super spy Sam Fisher shows off all his years of experience by clipping through walls by either rolling through them or taking cover through them. Fisher is a very busy man so he skips cutscenes related to his daughter by going out of bounds and upwarping into a checkpoint. And that is already the very first thing happening in the run! Visually impressive skips just keep happening back to back in parts of this speedrun.Status: Pending any% 01:00:00 PC Distro Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist This Splinter Cell speedrun has a lot of run and gunning but also some visually impressive skips. Grenade clipping through walls, going out of bounds and hitting checkpoints from there, and using sticky cameras to drop into places where you are not supposed to be. You can also run on water at one point! Blacklist offers a nice and fun speedrun for people who love both action and glitches/skips.Status: Pending any% (All Campaign Missions) 01:00:00 PC FawkesRocks Sonic CD Restored Sonic CD Restored is a fan remaster of the 2011 version of Sonic CD, bringing route restorations from the 1993 release and dozens of new features, including new characters like Amy! Beat The Game is like Any% NMG, lacking glitches yet having that sonic speed you'd expect. Amy is a custom character featuring a double jump. This run exemplifies that even the "easy" Amy run can still be highly entertaining, as has been seen with its success at other events like Hotfix or NYNPB by NoGA Status: Pending Beat the Game (Amy) 00:30:00 PC Hebegoin DOOM (SNES) DOOM for the SNES is a port of the DOS classic for the 16-bit home console. The run is rather silly, being one of the worst home ports, yet there are plenty of precise strategies needing good timing, forethought, and practiced movement due to the lack of circle strafing and high amount of input delay. The full game is played on the easiest difficulty in order to keep the framerate as high as it can be, despite this, it is still a very difficult and intense run, while being a technical marvel.Status: Pending Episode 1-3 (ITYTD) 00:25:00 SNES Hebegoin Super Monkey Ball 2 Super Monkey Ball 2 is a classic speed game, involving precise movement, pause buffer strategies, and quick reactionary changes on the fly. The run is a visual showcase, and very easy to understand, and has a reputation for being fun to watch, silly, and very engaging. Story Mode All Levels is exactly what it sounds like, every level of the Story Mode of the game.Status: Pending Story Mode All Levels 00:45:00 Gamecube hamatet SPLATTERHOUSE Splatterhouse is a retro action game where you perform a variety of operations using a limited number of buttons: up, down, left, right, jump, and attack buttons, and use the power of Terror-mask to rescue Rick's girlfriend Jennifer. I will use fastest techniques to defeat even difficult bosses. Status: Pending Windows PC any% 00:15:00 PC Gehis514 Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus All Keys is a category in which you must collect the key at the end of every level before beating Clockwerk at the end of the game. This allows for a good demonstration of every level and what tricks can be done to get to the end of them in a variety of fun ways. A majority of the levels are brief and easy to follow, so there will hardly ever be a dull momentStatus: Pending All Keys 01:10:00 Playstation 3 ripchip_ Star Wars: Dark Forces Dark Forces is a fast pace fps game and the All Secrets category showcases a combination of high speed, explosive boosting. careful routing, and unique exploits not normally found in any%. This category showcases more of the level of depth of the games level design and is high octane from start to finish. The Force Engine port also allows the run a little more marathon safety with its features.Status: Pending All Secrets (TFE) 00:38:00 PC ripchip_ Rise of the Triad: Ludcrious Edition Rise of the Triad is a wild game filled with dangerous obstacles, a ton of enemies, and a wide assortment of weapons and power ups like being able to turn into a dog. The run involves a lot of on the fly decision making and improvising due to enemy rng, but in its current state is faster than ever and has a lot of level shortcuts and boss strats. As someone who has run this for years I know a variety of strats and how to handle most anything the game the throws at you.Status: Pending Any% Dark War 00:48:00 PC hamatet Snake's Revenge It is a sequel to Metal Gear (NES version) and the work that led to the creation of Metal Gear 2 (MSX version). This is a highly difficult game that combines two-dimensional action and side-scrolling action, and you must advance without being spotted by enemies. Status: Pending any% 00:50:00 PC hamatet DEATH STRANDING This is a strand game with the theme of "connection" released in 2019 by Kojima Productions, led by director Kojima, famous for "Metal Gear Solid." The main character, Sam, is set in the North American continent, which has been destroyed by the great disaster known as Death Stranding, and through delivery, he connects separated and isolated places and people's hearts.Status: Pending any% 04:45:00 PC 000aj Pokémon Trading Card Game This run includes a lot of fast menuing, AI manipulation, quick thinking and adapting to RNG, as well as catchy music. While the game follows a formula very similar to main-line Pokémon games in collecting 8 badges and battling an Elite Four, the openness of the game allows for a good amount of freedom in routing. This variance in routing makes races more interesting by showing off the difference in routes between runners. A race would be done together with pinecone606 and ToroniteStatus: Pending any% Glitchless 1:05:00 Status: Pending any% Glitchless race 1:05:00 Nintendo Switch Virtual Console hamatet SPLATTERHOUSE(2010) This is a reboot version of Splatterhouse, which was released in the arcade version in 1988. The game has evolved from a 2D side-scrolling action to a 3D polygonal action, complementing the story and elements of the three classic versions. Status: Pending any% 02:55:00 PS3 tridenttail Diddy Kong Racing While 100% has been shown a handful of times at GDQ, its more challenging counterpart, Adventure 2 100%, has never been shown. All the tracks are mirrored making for a brain-bending experience, the CPUs are much more aggressive, and the coin challenges are frankly rude. Since the last 100% showcase, there have also been a few slight optimizations that have been implemented. If DKR is fortunate to make the cut, I can guarantee a fun, exciting, and novel showcase.Status: Pending Adventure 2 100% 01:50:00 Nintendo 64 Eternal Red Gamer Cookie Cutter A new metroidvania with amazing art style, animations, and action. This is an awesome new indie game that does not get a lot of attention and the world needs to see how fun this game is.Status: Pending Any% 01:30:00 PC Maxylobes Army of Two A title that stood tall among many popular 3rd person shooters on the 7th gen consoles. Since picking this game up, I have implemented new strategies involving AI manipulation, checkpoint exploits, and two new skips in missions 3 and 5, which are the first out of bounds skips in the game's history. It's a very engaging run, with silly AI shenanigans, fun ragdoll physics, and comedic 2000's dialogue that has either aged like fine wine, or like milk. All aboard the Xbox 360 Nostalgia Express.Status: Pending Any% NG+ 1:45:00 Xbox One FFR Pro 21 Pokemon Puzzle Challenge It's been 10 years since Pokemon Puzzle Challenge last appeared at SGDQ 2014. Since then, the community has expanded greatly and players have gotten exceptionally better at the series. Challenge mode is where the AI is represented by a health meter and you have to do combos and chains to try to deplete it. Just like in the real Pokemon game, once you get your opponent's Pokemon down to 0 HP, you win.Status: Pending Challenge (Easy - Intense) 00:55:00 Status: Pending Challenge (Intense) 00:25:00 GBC Mechalink Golgo-13: Top Secret Episode Golgo-13: TSE is a classic ambitious NES game with kuso roots, starting with a door maze, rough translations, bad checkpointing, numerous play modes, high difficulty, and an undocumented continue system that only gives you 52 continues! As a speedrun it's mostly by the numbers as long as you execute well, but mistakes can vary from not costly to extremely depending on what checkpoint you're on, and managing that is part of the play.Status: Pending Any% 01:10:00 NES Mechalink The Running Man The Running Man for Amiga is a treat of Amiga-style licensed gaming, including voice acted iconic lines from Richard Dawson and Arnold Schwarzenegger. The game itself is fairly difficult, with nonsense dogs showing up, and a minigame between levels for health restoration. A marathon run would best be served by having backups, and since Virtual Machines for Amiga are rock solid, it's easy to get a full memory savestate. Status: Pending Any% 00:25:00 Amiga Mechalink Golgo-13: The Mafat Conspiracy The lesser known, but technically superior, Golgo-13 game on NES, it takes some more recognizable elements from other NES games to create a less ideosyncratic main game, but continues pushing boundaries with a rad racer segment, sniping with wind, escape sequences, more 3D mazing, and Tecmo Theater style story.Status: Pending Any% 00:40:00 NES Sweenerdog Diddy Kong Racing Diddy Kong Racing is an absolute classic. It is both a beloved favorite amongst fans of the N64 era, and a brilliant speed game that is stuffed to brim with interesting tech, glitches, and a wide variety of categories that offer fun and interesting challenges. The DKR Community recently added tons of these new categories, and we're hoping to show them off in this year's GDQ! From Adventure Mode, to Magic Cheat Codes and Glitchless runs, we've got it all.Status: Pending T.T. Amulet 00:32:00 Status: Pending Any% Glitchless 2:00:00 Status: Pending All Bosses 00:11:00 Status: Pending All Trophy Races Magic Codes 0:26:00 Nintendo 64 Mechalink Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style Shaolin Style (or Taste the Pain) is a game with a strange history, and a strange existence. It has a custom controller, it involves the Wu-Tang Clan's 'kung-fu-sonas', it's bloody, it can use the PSX multitap for 4 player 3D fighting, and it has an extremely high difficulty for its story mode. This makes it so that I only have 2 chars I can reliably beat the game with!

36 Chambers is the 100% category, involving getting all 36 per-character achievements in one sitting/run.

Status: Pending 36 Chambers - Masta Killa 00:18:00 Status: Pending Any% - Masta Killa 00:12:00 Status: Pending Any% - Method Man 00:12:00 Status: Pending 36 Chambers - Method Man 00:22:00 PS2 Hinamega EASTWARD One day, John, a miner who lives underground, meets Sam deep in a cave. This is an action RPG with a downward view, where Sam adventures to see the view on the ground that he saw one day. Walk through walls, through doors, and through the sky to save the world.

Start at NewGame, timer starts when the HP of the last boss is reduced to 0. All bugs are tolerated.

Status: Pending Any% FGS 03:05:00 PC SeraVenza Fable: The Lost Chapters As featured in Flame Fatales 2023, the Fable TLC 100% speedrun and its expansive checklist of quests to complete, unique items and legendary weapons to loot, mystical sentient doors with pocket dimensions to plunder, among other things are looking to make a return this SGDQ in a showcase of clever routing and intimate game knowledge that makes you come for the early-mid 2000s nostalgia and stay for all the ways the run will (probably) subvert your expectations over the course of 3 hours!Status: Pending 100% 3:05:00 PC Cubsrule21 Sunset Overdrive A combination of Jet Set Radio Future and Call of Duty: Zombies, Sunset Overdrive is a 3rd person shooter where you try to survive a mutant apocalypse caused by an energy drink. Try to survive and find your way out of Sunset City, while combating the evil Fizzco Corp. hell-bent on covering everything to save their stock prices! A mostly glitchless experience shows a high degree of combat and movement skill, while hilarity abounds as a non-existent fourth wall leads to shenanigans and fun!Status: Pending any% Classic 3:25:00 PC Kuro* Flushed Away We saw A Bug's Life in AGDQ 2024, so it's only natural to follow it up with another licensed game of an animated children's movie and see a rat's life after getting flushed down the toilet in Flushed Away!

With a surprisingly deep level of technical skill, this speedrun takes advantage of everything: frame perfect tricks, out of bounds, death warps, developer exits, sequence breaks, and all the clean movement one can expect from some rats to put a stop to The Amphibian Dawn in record time!

Status: Pending Any% 00:45:00 GameCube Kuro* Sonic and the Secret Rings Fated into obscurity due to heavily focused motion control scheme on sideways Wiimote and devious autorunning level design, Secret Rings is an oft forgotten entry in the Sonic series.

HOWEVER, it's a spectacle to see played at top level. Most people have never seen the slick execution of this speedrun. The Arabian Nights setting is gorgeous and accompanied with a banger soundtrack.

Incentive to trigger the 9 secret Big the Cat cameos present within Any% (performed in submission video).

Status: Pending Any% 01:45:00 Wii LP3Cinema El Paso Elsewhere You play as James Savage an ex-pill addict in a Max Payne style shooter, who is trying to stop his ex-girlfriend Draculae from destroying the world. All set in a motel in El Paso Texas that slowly turns into anything but a motel. The category consists of beating all 50 levels as fast possible, by any means necessary. Glitches and skips are plentiful in this fast paced exhilarating run! Status: Pending Any % 01:40:00 PC Furyful Fawful Diablo IV Proposed is a Co-op run of Diablo IV with CarlSagan42, DanTheVP, FuryfulFawful, and Teruokun. D4 hasn’t been seen at GDQ, and this submission offers an intense challenge that’s exciting for runners and viewers. It has the same action you’d get in a solo run, while adding unique routing and 4 player perspectives. D4’s randomness means players must adapt and coordinate at all times, especially on the hardcore difficulty. Despite permadeath, potions and backup characters make the run marathon safe.Status: Pending 4-player Co-op - Hardcore Campaign 4:00:00 PC JosephJoestar316 Winback: Covert Operations Terrorists known as the Crying Lions have taken over an underground facility in control of the GULF satellite superweapon. Its up to Jean-Luc Cougar and his allies in SCAT to save the day. Newer skips were found that skip key sections of the game including an elevator skip going from stage 25 to 30 made possible with the rocket launcher glitch. This also includes an out of bounds glitch that I found recently for easier access to load into the final stage 31.Status: Pending Easy any% 01:00:00 Nintendo Switch Sunbrojade Overcooked 2! Have you ever wanted to play Overcooked 2! but didnt want to wait for that pesky forced timer to end but you hit 3 stars minutes ago? Look no further than Overcooked 2! modded. Using a mod created by Toasterparty you can now dictate when the level can end by hitting a certain number of points (stars) in the level. Trio of chef's Sunbrojade, PeaceEgg and RUBIEHART are ready to stop the unbread for good.Status: Pending Any% Modded (Trios) 01:40:00 PC Tonkotsu Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam is the only game in the series that can be beaten within an hour. The key is the Instant Battle Glitch (IBG), which allows us to finish any battle instantly under certain conditions. No IBG, on the other hand, is a more strategic category with thrilling boss fights. Since the walls in this game are paper thin, we are able to clip through them to skip the majority of the cutscenes as well.Status: Pending Any% 01:00:00 Status: Pending Any% No IBG 01:55:00 3DS vanni_van Neutopia II Remember what I said in my other submission about GDQ fans loving classic Zelda games? Same thing applies here to Neutopia II, but this game takes it up a notch over its predecessor in several ways: more fluid combat, a much larger array of weapons, and even diagonal movement! In contrast to the run of the first Neutopia, boss RNG in this game can be downright horrendous, so if you want the viewers to see a runner get trolled super hard, then I suggest that you put this game on the schedule.Status: Pending 100% 01:20:00 TurboGrafx-16 Mitchriz Sekiro GOTY for 2019 and almost beat ER in a bid-war, this Shinobi game is a very fast paced "souls-like" game. Quick movement in all 3 dimensions using the grappling hook and parry-based back-and-forth combat. The Any% run literally swims through the game, while the Hitless route uses no glitches, and requires extreme combat precision (but is surprisingly consistent). Or by simply banning the "airswim" glitch, the entire route gets changed, and includes many glitches not shown at GDQ before. Status: Pending Randomizer 2:00:00 Status: Pending Shura No Airswim 00:30:00 Status: Pending Any% 00:27:00 Status: Pending Hitless Any% 0:40:00 PC Blackbeltginganinja Mirror's Edge Mirror's Edge is THE first-person parkour platformer, shaping every subsequent game in the genre. And it's also a flashy speedrun - saving minutes with OOB skips, using momentum to get up to freeway speeds, and a mini-encyclopedia of techniques to explain on commentary. Alternatively, Glitchless and Inbounds provide a more "intended" experience, while still dazzling audiences with slick parkour style. After 10 years of running this game, I'd love to bring Mirror's Edge back to the big stage.Status: Pending Glitchless 00:53:00 Status: Pending Any% 00:40:00 Status: Pending Inbounds 00:45:00 PC Mitchriz Kannagi Usagi Kannagi Usagi is a free-to-play game that is heavily inspired by Sekiro, with nearly identical deflects and dodge-counters. The entire game is a boss rush of 8 unique bosses with interesting movesets. While casually it isn't that much of a challenge compared to others in the Souls/Sekiro genre, the speedrun requires very fast reactions and precise inputs to get optimal damage, because you can often squeeze in an attack between the enemy's with just a single frame to spare. Status: Pending All Targets 00:15:00 PC JosephJoestar316 Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater Metal Gear Solid 3 has come a long way over 20 years from being released on the PS2 in 2004, remastered for the PS3 in 2011, and revitalized for modern gen consoles last fall as part of the Master Collection. I will be running MGS3 on the PS5 as it has the fastest loads and runs at a steady 60 fps. This will also be ran on the highest difficulty European Extreme on a NG+ attempting the FoxHound rank requiring 0 kills, alerts, continues, and life med recovery.Status: Pending European Extreme NG+ 01:10:00 PS5 Blackbeltginganinja Bee Movie Game I'll level with you: Bee Movie Game is a silly run. It is not "cool" or "lit" or "pollen-jock approved." It's a bunch of mini-games loosely connecting a series of missions. The missions themselves are surprisingly neat - lots of flailing your camera around, and even a few OOB skips. The mini-games are mostly a meme. I've always been a theatre guy (I've been in a few dozen local productions) so I've spiced up these sections in marathon with a bit of theatricality. The vibes are sweet like honey!Status: Pending Any% 02:20:00 PC JosephJoestar316 Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Set many years after the Big-Shell incident of MGS2, Snake once again returns to the battlefield. However, he has aged drastically due to his genetic cloning background. I will attempt a Big Boss rank run on the highest difficulty "The Boss Extreme" requiring no alerts, kills, continues, and no healing items. This run will use a NG+ file that carries over items like the Rail Gun, MGL-140 grenade launcher, Big Boss face camo, and the Solar Gun.Status: Pending Extreme NG+ 02:00:00 PS3 irukan ane-san This belt-scroll action game is set in Japan in a slightly earlier era and tells the story of a young girl who sets out on the same evil path to find her missing sister. Notable features of the game include background music that would make Japanese people go crazy if they heard it, and a game balance that allows the player to fall down after taking only two damage in the early stages of the game.Status: Pending Any%(TG-16) 00:19:00 Status: Pending Any%(Mesen) 00:17:00 TG-16 Blackbeltginganinja Disneyland Adventures Some speedruns (including other ones I've submitted) are known for being intense and flashy - other speedruns are known for being just plain wholesome. Disneyland Adventures is firmly the latter. It's basically a Disneyland walking sim. There's ample opportunity to goof around, explain the (surprisingly intricate) details of the route, and throw around Disney trivia. All Autographs is the dominate category in this game - meaning we'll meet every single Disneyland mascot!Status: Pending All Autographs 01:20:00 PC Nitrofski Spyro: Year of the Dragon A 3D platformer collect-athon from the late PS1 era. As the third game of its trilogy, this game builds onto the mechanics of its predecessors and adds onto it with a plethora of minigames and a handful of new controllable characters. 117% is the full completion category: collect every egg and gem in the game to reach the secret second ending. The run features many platforming tricks and exploits. Notable video timestamps: 00:12:45, 00:17:08, 00:54:10, 1:47:40, 2:05:45, 2:20:00 (monkey controls)Status: Pending 117% 3:00:00 PlayStation CZR Super Mario 64 16 Star Drum v Blindfolded Race (CZR v Bubzia) A race with a unique challenge on both ends. We have a similar time, a minute handicap would make for an even race! I suggest a best out of 3.Status: Pending 16 Star Drum v Blindfolded Race 01:20:00 Nintendo 64 irukan Anodyne A story of a slightly strange world. But you won't find one of those things in this RTA. The goal is the same, but the glitches between Classic and Remaster are different and make for a different kind of fun.Status: Pending Any% (Classic) 00:05:00 Status: Pending Any% (Remaster) 00:06:00 Status: Pending Any% (Classic&Remaster) 00:13:00 PC irukan a tiny Sticker Tale Very cute world puzzle game. A donkey that uses stickers to control not only objects, but also people and even the weather, goes in search of his father as fast as possible! In All Stickers you will not find your father, but you can see all the stickers.Status: Pending Any% 00:09:00 Status: Pending All Stickers 00:26:00 PC Pearstrike Kirby Air Ride Submitting 5 Hot Dogs as a race with BlueKandy. The new route focuses on staying in the main city, breaking the star pole and then resetting the game to reload the star pole and initial items that spawn in the city when you start the game. This makes the run consistent while still random and exciting. This route also showcases good city trial movement and strats like the star pole bomb jump.Status: Pending 5 Hot Dogs% (Race) 00:20:00 Nintendo Wii Mitchriz Amok Runner This game has a very storied history as a speedrun game. It suddenly burst into popularity through Moist Critikal's first speedrun bounty, bringing hundreds of runners. By the end, the inconsistent launches left a sour taste in many runners mouths, so a restricted category was created that bans those inconsistent launches. It is a very comfy and consistent run, with very fun and silly voice lines throughout. Status: Pending Any% Restricted 00:35:00 PC Darkwing Duck The Goonies II Hi, I'm Darkwing Duck. You may remember me from such GDQ speedruns as Rygar: The Road to Four-note Dungeon and Kid Icarus: From annoying kid to less annoying kid.

Goonies II is a platforming and menuing game with fun and understandable glitches to exploit to beat the game faster. Probably the best game in the NES library that's tied to a movie reference (at least in my opinion). This would be the no OoB category. Game has never been featured at GDQ NOT in race format.

Status: Pending any% No OoB 00:19:00 NES FailedUplink The Quarry The Quarry is a horror werewolf adventure smash full of QTEs and speed walking. It's got everything from Ted Raimi to Detective Pikachu's Son. Rough Night is the best category because you have to make sure everyone lives. Status: Pending Rough Night 05:45:00 PC Darkwing Duck Clu Clu Land Hi, I'm Darkwing Duck. You may remember me from such short GDQ runs as Super Dodge Ball: Balls Thrown Quick and River City Ransom: Balls Kicked Quick.

Clu Clu Land is an original NES black box games, the original library of the console. It's an arcade style game that does not have a true ending like many early games. 2 top cats submitted The first is one loop. The game has sever colored stages followed by a bonus stage and then loops. Second is all stages. Each stage has 4 patterns.

Status: Pending All possible stages 00:16:00 Status: Pending 1 loop 00:07:00 NES RbdJellyfish LittleBigPlanet 2 (Submitting with FireThieff.) LBP2 is a physics-based puzzle platformer with a focus on playfulness and creativity. The run is a mix of high skill movement utilizing gadgets to cooperatively boost and elevate one another, as well as some large interesting sequence breaks. While the game infamously has a few long autoscrollers, a few recent discoveries have led to most of them being completely skipped in creative ways, making for a much improved run since it last appeared in a GDQ marathon.Status: Pending Co-op NG+ 2 players 01:30:00 Playstation 3 Gnydsmelt Dead Beacon Dead Beacon is an comfy indie survival horror game released by solo-dev Seliani. You are shipwrecked and wake up on a mysterious island!

The game consist of you collectin a bunch of keys, fighting monters/paintings, bad doggos + some boss fights.

This category features a nice glitch where you can break the puzzle room in a funny way!

Game is very similar to Nightmare of Decay.

Status: Pending Any% Journey 00:21:00 PC Azurillkirby Shadow the Hedgehog An often overlooked game of the Adventure era of Sonic, Shadow the Hedgehog plays like a 3D Sonic, but with guns. Shadow is a very fluid speedgame where you have to balance speed with killing enemies.

The category Only Dark/Normal/Hero Missions goes through 3 of the many routes possible in the game, each doing only dark, normal, and hero, respectively. This shows a wide variety of missions available in the game.

Relay with dreamsyntax (Dark), Azurillkirby (Normal), and BlazinZzetti (Hero).

Status: Pending Only Dark/Normal/Hero Missions Glitchless Relay 01:20:00 Nintendo Wii Gnydsmelt Nightmare of Decay Nightmare of Decay is a horror game that released in May of 2022. The game is an homage to classic horror games such as Resident Evil, Silent Hill + a spice of Amnesia.

It's a game that does not take itself too seriously but it's still a great game!

We try to avoid as many zombies as possible by juking and pray that the rng is kind enough to give the cultists bad aim.

The game also features the bunny from Monty Python and the Holy Grail (!)

Any% Hard is really intense!

Status: Pending Any% Hard 00:16:00 PC Gnydsmelt Fears to Fathom - Norwood Hitchhike Fears to Fathom - Norwood Hitchike is Part II of (currently 4 total episodes)

It's a standalone game where you play a character that is traveling on the road late at night. Stuff happens and everything goes wrong!

The run consists of you to go out of bounds with your car, drink a bunch of cola to get immense speed + you have to hold your breath (don't speak) during a certain section in the game - if you don't = you lose!

It's a great short and comfy little speedrun horror game!

Status: Pending Survival Any% 00:14:00 PC BlazinZzetti Shadow the Hedgehog An often overlooked game of the Adventure era of Sonic, Shadow the Hedgehog plays like a 3D Sonic, but with guns. Shadow is a very fluid speedgame where you have to balance speed with killing enemies.

The category Only Dark/Normal/Hero Missions goes through 3 of the many routes possible in the game, each doing only dark, normal, and hero, respectively. This shows a wide variety of missions available in the game.

Relay with dreamsyntax (Dark), Azurillkirby (Normal), and BlazinZzetti (Hero)

Status: Pending Only Dark/Normal/Hero Missions Glitchless Relay 1:20:00 Wii Savac Sonic Adventure 2: Battle All Stories is hardly recognizable as a category since it was last shown at AGDQ 2015. With two top players at the helm it's time to hear Live and Learn on the main stage again!

This run is a showcase of everything that makes this game great and allows us to show off many never before seen strats to the GDQ Audience. Dawn will be doing Hero Story, Savac will be doing Dark, and we will tag team the Last Story portion.

Submitting with DawnSR.

Status: Pending All Stories Relay 1:35:00 PC Andrea Ritsu Jurassic: The Hunted Jurassic: The Hunted is a game with a b-movie action take on the dinosaur FPS genre. It's generally considered a pretty lousy game, but makes for a pretty fun run, especially if one enjoys dinosaurs and pointing out the various inaccuracies in how they're depicted - which we personally *love* to do.

The submitted category video is the WR that we claimed in June 2021.

Status: Pending any% 01:10:00 PlayStation 3 Gnydsmelt Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) Yes. The game of ALL time! On PSTRIPLE!

Yes, I am submitting the worst version of the game (PS3) which has horrible loading times, more glitches and jankiness that spice up the run.

In Shadow's story we play as the cool hedgehog Shadow that no one can stop! We go out of bounds, glitch through doors, buy a bunch of stuff to simply GO FAST.

It's Sonic, it's good. It's Shadow but still Sonic. YES

Status: Pending Shadow's Story 00:59:00 PC organMike Ultima II: Revenge of the Enchantress! Ultima II is the era-spanning sequel to the first Ultima game, programmed by Richard Garriott. It's a royal mess of a game, with cryptic, obtuse clues, dead-ends, bad mechanics, weird RNG, and endless grind. The story: Minax the Enchantress, angry at the loss of her mentor and lover Mondain in the first Ultima game, messes with time magic and attacks Earth, meddling in the course of history and setting off a nuclear apocalypse in the near future, and we're tasked to stop her.Status: Pending Any% 00:30:00 PC via DOSBox organMike Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness Ultima is a forty-year-old RPG that takes us to all corners of Sosaria and even into deep space! Originally assembled in 1981 by Richard Garriott, a.k.a. Lord British, remade for MS-DOS in 1986 (the version submitted), the game combines top-down RPG elements with first-person dungeon crawl and real-time space battle in a truly epic contest against ancient evil. One of the pioneers of computer role-playing games and the origin of a long-running series that includes one of the first MMORPGs ever.Status: Pending Any% 00:30:00 Status: Pending All Quests, All Aliens 00:40:00 PC via DOSBox organMike Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar is where the Ultima series really comes into its own, and familiar features of the series going forward - namely the philosophy of the Eight Virtues and the existence of the Avatar - become established. More even than the previous trilogy, Ultima IV is open-world, with a massive quest across a huge world with multiple goals that can be accomplished in many different directions. There's no Big Bad to conquer at the end, only the evil within your own soul.Status: Pending Any% No Major Glitches 01:10:00 Status: Pending Paragon 100% No Major Glitches 01:20:00 Status: Pending Task Randomizer 100% 02:30:00 PC via DOSBox organMike The Bard's Tale Trilogy (2018) A 1980s Roster RPG, with updated graphics and mechanics, a party of up-to-seven player-created characters roam about in first-person view trying to solve the world's problems. The party roams the beseiged city of Skara Brae to break the spell of the evil wizard Mangar. We then go to free the Six Cities on the Plains from Lagoth Zanta by rebuilding the Sceptre. Finally we return to the ruins of Skara Brae and travel through time and space to challenge the Mad God Tarjan and save all of reality! Status: Pending Tales of the Unknown Any% Modern Mode 1:10:00 Status: Pending Any% Full Trilogy 04:15:00 Status: Pending Tales of the Unknown Any% Legacy Mode 01:30:00 PC hotpoppah Dead Rising 2 The All Missions category for Dead Rising 2 is a longer category where all survivors are rescued and all bosses are defeated. NG+ is a much more relaxed version because it runs on a save file that is already level maxed, limiting the opportunity for game overs and generally running at a much faster pace than the NG category. NG+ also has access to skips that NG can't utilize. There are also two sections involving Poker that are very RNG heavy, but is always a crowd pleaser nonetheless.Status: Pending NG+ All Missions 3:30:00 Windows dreamsyntax Shadow the Hedgehog An often overlooked game of the Adventure era of Sonic, Shadow the Hedgehog plays like a 3D Sonic, but with guns. Shadow is a very fluid speedgame where you have to balance speed with killing enemies.

The category Only Dark/Normal/Hero Missions goes through 3 of the many routes possible in the game, each doing only dark, normal, and hero, respectively. This shows a wide variety of missions available in the game.

Relay with dreamsyntax (Dark), Azurillkirby (Normal), and BlazinZzetti (Hero)

Status: Pending Only Dark/Normal/Hero Missions Glitchless Relay 01:20:00 Nintendo Wii Will-E DAEMON X MACHINA DAEMON X MACHINA is third person mech shooter. In this game, players board a robot called Arsenal and fight. Players can choose and take equipment from enemy meck that beaten. Therefore, in order to proceed advantageously in the second half, you must acquire the necessary equipment in the first half. in 2024,Suddenly, glitches that are useful for speedrunning are being pioneered, and the community is thriving.Status: Pending Any% -PC 2:30:00 PC Master Roxas Sonic Frontiers Sonic Frontiers was shown last year and it was any%. So what if we did EVERYTHING instead and basically 100%d the game? Getting all the trackable in-game gold medals that Update 2 added. That means collecting every single memory token, defeating every guardian, doing every cyberspace level completely, and more! This run is full of nonstop movement perfected collectible routing showing the full experience of Sonic Frontiers in its entirety! A great run for an overnight segment!Status: Pending All Gold Medals 6:30:00 Playstation 5/Xbox Series X/PC Peace Egg Pac-Land Pac-Land is a deceptively mean platformer. Don't let the adorable graphics and catchy music fool you! It practically requires turbo controls that make movement less consistent, and combined with enemy placement RNG that pops up very suddenly, good instinct, execution, and trust in what Pac-Man will do is needed for a solid time. Every run is full of wonderfully tense moments. I would love to race this alongside FlannelKat, Alys Rujasu, and davidtki.Status: Pending 8 Trips (The Whole Dang Game) 00:32:00 TG-16 Bobbeigh Resident Evil: Deadly Silence Released as a 10-year anniversary celebration to the original release of Resident Evil! The DS edition features a plethora of quality-of-life changes to the experience, including a revamped menu (with touch-control functionality) and the ability to skip cutscenes and door transitions! These features cut downtime by a ton, as we're nearly 100% locked into gameplay! With two characters and many modes, a lot of donation incentive potential (and fun) to be had here!Status: Pending Jill (Classic, Bad Ending) 00:35:00 Nintendo DS SpacebarS Toy Commander A Classic SEGA Dreamcast game, where players complete unique missions by controlling toys (usually in the form of vehicles). Missions can be anything from: boiling eggs, exploding pianos, defeating godzilla, crazy trains, aliens, pirates & many more. Unlock new bosses & areas themed around the various household areas using toy soldiers, pencils, erasers, tacks, tricks, clips, glitches & even deodorant to take down the final boss Huggy Bear, and become the Toy Commander!Status: Pending Any% 00:35:00 Status: Pending 100% 01:30:00 Dreamcast SpacebarS Lethal Company In this popular co-op horror game, we are contracted workers for the Company! Our job is to collect scrap from abandoned moons to meet the Company's profit quota (Or else). We can use the cash we earn to travel to new moons with higher risks and rewards!

Our goal in this Speedrun is to meet 6 quotas as fast as possible using various glitches such as ship clip, item drop tech, & apparatus clip (This is a Co-op submission with SpacebarS and ThundaSurge)

Status: Pending 6 Quota 2 Employees Glitched 00:55:00 PC Bobbeigh Castlevania: Symphony of the Night The glass cannon Belmont takes center stage in this All Bosses performance! Richter is an additional playable character that can perform a myriad of abilities, including the powerful Item Crash reminiscent of classic ‘Vania titles! Strength and speed come at a cost as his defenses are paper-thin, leaving VERY LITTLE room for error! Nearly nonstop action performed on an arcade-style controller, the Snack Box Micro!Status: Pending All Bosses (Richter) 00:30:00 Xbox Series S Pcol QT This game is a cute parody of the horror game released on PS4 called PT that was a showcase of a potential new Silent Hill game that ended up getting canceled. In QT, there are 3 different levels full of different cute and colorful characters and tons of different things to interact with. I will be going through each of the levels as fast as possible and collecting all of the in game achievements aside from the ones that are glitched.Status: Pending Full Game - All Achievements 00:30:00 PC Bobbeigh Castlevania: Rondo of Blood In an instance where whip-wielders can’t get it done, it’s time to call in the magical girl! Maria VERY QUICKLY rolls through her competition with the help of her animal friends and the hefty Guardian Knickle ability! Classic ‘Vania with a cute twist, also full of play forming and glitches like walking on water! Precise platforming and execution made possible with the arcade-style controller, the Snack Box Micro!Status: Pending Maria Only 00:18:00 PS4 NachoTheAdventurer Sonic Heroes A 3D Action Platforming game where we control 3 characters at the same time! Using Speed Formation to Blast through the levels, Fly formation to get higher and Power formation to destroy all the enemies We're gonna be playing as Team Sonic, alongside Sonic, Tails and Knuckles to complete all the stages as fast as possible On the PC version we have exclusive tech, known as the wall bounces and the famous, Ultra Glide where we can skip huge chunks of the level Status: Pending Team Sonic (Unrestricted) 01:05:00 PC SCXCR Yoshi's Safari Yoshi's Safari is a joyful SuperScope-fueled romp through Jewelry Land where Mario blasts everything that moves. Uses an extra controller to save a bit of time pathing through stages. Run involves using gates to shorten levels, a fair bit of RNG, and a lot of precision shooting, as well as a particular level order to maximize weapon power and defeat mini-bosses faster.

Note: Possible incentive demonstrated during the video.

Status: Pending Any% Hard Mode 00:46:00 SNES Mods4Ever Deus Ex Randomizer Deus Ex is a game all about emergent gameplay, giving you many viable approaches to different situations. The Randomizer cranks this to 11! It takes everything and shuffles it all around to make it like a new game every time but with the same great story. The goal is to increase the replayability and strategy. In the Hard Glitchless speedrun, you have to really think on your feet to get out of tough situations sometimes, and every run is different!Status: Pending Hard Glitchless 2:40:00 PC NachoTheAdventurer Battleblock Theater 2D Platformer game with cats, you and your friends arrived to a weird island with cats and took over the best of the friends, Hatty, you must recuse him, but the cats got you captive as well, complete the stages by collecting 3 gems in every stage or find the secret exit. Gonna be playing the Any% No Level Skips (Weaponless) category Complete all the main levels without skipping any of them, and don't use weapons, not using them doesn't mean we have to play intendedStatus: Pending Any% No Level Skips (Weaponless) 01:55:00 PC FocusSight Mega Man X7 Mega Man X7 is largely considered the black sheep of the MMX series, yet in spite of its 2D/3D hybrid style, speedruns of the game still have the same movement-focused speedrun style that a lot of the other titles maintain. New Game is a fair bit more tactical than its NG+ counterpart, since we use just Zero and Axl for the entirety of the run, have to collect certain Reploids for chip parts, and need to pay attention to a lower, more susceptible health bar.

Race w/ Ppotdot1 & peterafro OR solo

Status: Pending Any% (NG) 01:04:00 PC OboeMasterOzzy Splatoon 3 Side Order Instead of precisely navigating a series of obstacle courses with a meticulously crafted route, Splatoon 3's new DLC campaign opts for an intensive race up 30 different layers of the Order Spire.

Each floor offers 3 random levels for the player to choose from, all ranging in different challenges and rewards, creating a nerve racking speedrun that tests the player's Splatoon skills, wits and quick thinking.

No two runs are the same and every run is a different experience.

Status: Pending Any% 1:10:00 Nintendo Switch TonesBalones Splatoon 3: Side Order Splatoon 3: Side Order is a roguelite expansion that follows the ending of Splatoon 2's Final Splatfest. There are 30 stories of the tower, and each level you complete will reward you with upgrades. Unlike other Splatoon speedruns, the set of levels is random every time. Players are forced to think quickly and choose the fastest path to the top.

NG+ allows all permanent upgrades (Marina's Hacks), so it is a relatively safe and consistent category. The only requirement is to beat Floor 30.

Status: Pending NG+ (Marie's Palette) 00:30:00 Nintendo Switch Nick Astalos Sly Cooper And The Thievius Raccoonus Sly Cooper is a 2001 PS2 platformer game. For any%, we have to defeat Clockwerk by first getting through 5 worlds. Worlds 1, 2, and 4 have skips to go straight to the world boss. World 3 doesn't have a skip and requires completing 3 optimized minigames, and 3 platforming levels with skips. The World 5 levels are accessed linearly with more skips and optimization. I've been running this for about 9 months and would be honored to show the world how cool this popular cult classic can be speedran!Status: Pending any% 00:50:00 PS3 (Backwards Compatible) hh4hooch Whirl Tour Over the course of the run you play through 6 races and 7 maps in a "Tony Hawk Pro-Skater"-like game where the two players ride on scooters instead of skate boards. It plays much like THPS, each level has a set number of objectives, however each is paired with two bosses and a race.

The game has not been featured in GDQ but its predecessor "Razor Freestyle Scooter" has been. This game is more polished and more eccentric. Its a fun quick run with a humorous story.

My Co-Op partner is @bbforky

Status: Pending Any% Co-op 00:23:00 Nintendo Gamecube Burnt_Bowser Middle-Earth Shadow of War Shadow of War features 3 distinct characters and stories that all utilize the nemesis system's unique enemy generation to create memorable moments between runs. Each category demands on the fly decision making and adaptability, allowing for suspenseful moments and fast combat exploits, amidst the free roam world movement options.Status: Pending Any% 3:30:00 Status: Pending Blade of Galadriel Any% 00:45:00 Status: Pending Desolation of Mordor Any% 00:55:00 Status: Pending Blade of Galadriel 100% 1:30:00 PC Fabby Mario Kart 8 Deluxe This is a 6-person relay submission to run through all 96 tracks for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on 200cc with no items. We will each be running through one of the 16 track categories on the main leaderboard, with my submission being for the Bonus Tracks segment.

It's been a couple of years since Mario Kart 8 Deluxe was featured at GDQ, and half of the tracks have never been showcased before on 200cc, which is the fastest game mode and introduces new strategies and shortcuts.

Status: Pending 200cc 96 Tracks No Items 03:00:00 Nintendo Switch SpacebarS Sonic Adventure DX An ancient evil lurking within the Master Emerald has been unleashed from its slumber by the devious Dr. Eggman and is on the verge of becoming the ultimate monster using the 7 Chaos Emeralds. As Knuckles, we must use a series of glitches, clips & tricks to obtain all the pieces of the master emerald & put a stop to Chaos!Status: Pending Knuckle's Story 00:15:00 PC AColdOne Old School Runescape This speedrun showcases the first raid dungeon released in Old School Runescape, known as the Chambers of Xeric, released in January of 2017.

The category is a Challenge Mode Solo, the harder variant of the typical raid dungeon. This run will showcase some of the basics of combat in the game many of us remember from the mid 2000s, and some interesting tricks which make the raid much faster to complete compared to conventional means.

Status: Pending Chambers of Xeric CM Solo 00:35:00 PC shox StarCraft: Brood War The Brood War Terran campaign revolves around the player, playing as the United Earth Directorate, overthrowing the Terran Dominion. These 8 missions are known for requiring massive armies to overcome the opponents' defenses; however, the speed run utilizes cheeky strategies to bypass this.Status: Pending Terran Campaign Any% 00:39:00 PC daspharaoh Final Fantasy XIII-2 Final Fantasy meets Pokémon in this fast paced JRPG. As Serah and Noel we will cross time and space not to save the world, but to save the future. To assist them, we will capture several monsters, one of which is both the strongest monster in the game and also extremely cute. In this category we are aiming to beat the game as fast as possible, utilizing a mod that changes the drop rate of two of the monsters we will capture to 100%, in order to make it more marathon friendly.Status: Pending Any% Drop Mod 2:45:00 PC LinkaMeister Super Metroid: Ascent This is a romhack of Super Metroid. It is one of the best hacks out there. It has a completely new map divided into 3 zones. There are custom tiles, palettes and music that makes the hack visually and musically different and amazing. There are also some new items added. At the end of every zone is a point of no return. The 100% speedrun is fast paced filled with amazing tricks and great movement. This hack compared to Super Metroid vanilla is a completely different experience and not the same.Status: Pending 100% 01:12:00 SNES daspharaoh Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII The final entry in the series, in this game we must save as many souls as we can before the world ends in 13 days, to usher them into the new world created by the God of Light, Bhunivelze, which we are totally not going to kill by the end of the game. Submitting as a bidwar between the completionist category, which completes all the games sidequests and the two superbosses in Hard Mode, and as a New Game Randomizer for extra Chaos.Status: Pending NG+ DASH 6:30:00 Status: Pending Randomizer 6:30:00 PC LinkaMeister Gods Originally an old Atari ST and Amiga game ported to the SNES. This version plays in 60hz and is also sped up. The story is about the gods looking for someone who can take back the citadel from the guardians and whoever does that gets one wish. The main character's wish is to live among the gods and the gods hope that he can't do it. In this run we are going to prove the gods wrong.Status: Pending Any% (SNES) 00:24:00 SNES LinkaMeister Metroid: Spooky Mission 2 This is a Metroid: Zero Mission romhack and is the sequel to the bad ending of the fir Spooky Mission romhack. This hack is made multiple people. This hack is huge. Everything looks completely different and music is also new. There are even some new bosses added into the hack that look pretty familiar.Status: Pending 100% 01:35:00 GBA daspharaoh Sonic and the Secret Rings Sonic with RPG elements, in this game you need to unlock levels to progress. Therefore, if you have to do certain stages, you have to load a save, and if you have to load a save, you can load any save, including one with a level 99 Sonic, all the speed passives unlocked and a need to go fast that cannot be matched anywhere else in the franchise.Status: Pending All "Go for the Goal" stages 00:25:00 Nintendo Wii Torsinn Lonely Mountains: Downhill Casually this is a chill game where you go biking in the mountains, but it becomes a hard speedrun where every tree, every rock, every bridge can kill you. And it has some cool tricks abusing the checkpoints mechanics! The category consists on beating the 16 original tracks with everything already unlocked. Just like in submission video we can have an incentive to make it a 20 tracks speedrun.Status: Pending 16 Tracks NG+ 00:32:00 PC JTaddles Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee Diploma is a co-op run where the objective is to get all 150 Pokémon in each Let's Go game, and obtain the Diploma. Each player has their own route and catches to take care of, while planning trades and some catches with the other player. For the controller swap, we will switch controllers and play the other person's game/route based on a TBD donation milestone (every $1k, $5k, or $10K donated). Status: Pending Diploma (Co-op controller swap) 05:15:00 Nintendo Switch Kirthar Cuphead DLC + Base Game

Any%: Beat the last bosses of both the DLC and the base game from a fresh savefile. The cool part about this is that we can make use of the DLC character, Ms Chalice, on the bosses in the base game which lets us make use of some spicier strats than just base game Any%!

Low%: Like Any% but with the least amount of completion possible. This means we can't do/get anything that's optional and will have to use only the starter weapon throughout the run.

Status: Pending DLC + Base Game Any% 00:47:00 Status: Pending DLC + Base Game Low% 00:52:00 PC daspharaoh Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness One of the few Pokémon games where your starter is an Eevee, we will have the option of finishing the game with a Gen 3 eeveelution and a Hoenn Pokémon, or completing a bunch of puzzles centered around several battle strategies and tricks, where RNG reigns supreme.Status: Pending Any% Starter Bidwar 5:45:00 Status: Pending Battle CD RTA 3:00:00 Nintendo Gamecube Kirthar Blazing Chrome Blazing Chrome is a run 'n gun type of game made with inspiration from classics such as Contra and Metal Slug. Just like in those games, you die in one hit and can lose your equipped weapon and power-ups, so deaths can be very punishing in this butt-clenching speedrun. Arcade Mode is the story mode of this game, so this is basically just Any%. It's played on the Normal difficulty, and we play as a Gun character which is your standard run 'n gun character.Status: Pending Arcade Mode (Normal) - Gun 00:30:00 PC Tayman Pokemon Puzzle League Pokemon Puzzle League is a match three puzzle game where we battle through opponents from the Pokemon anime. Very fast-paced, high-skill run. Joint submission between FFRPro21 and myself. For the two player one controller catagories, we do not have a specific video of this, but we are both top-tier runners of the game, and have practiced together in person at previous GDQs. Videos for the 2P1C submissions are of my personal hard run time. Easy-Super Hard video is FFRPro's run.Status: Pending 1P Stadium (Super Hard Race) 00:40:00 Status: Pending Two Players One Controller (Hard Mode) 00:15:00 Status: Pending Two Players One Controller (Easy-Hard Mode) 00:35:00 Status: Pending 1P Stadium (Easy-Super Hard Race) 01:30:00 Nintendo 64 Ppotdot1 Mega Man X7 This Mega Man differentiates itself from others in the series with both 2d and 3d segments, the ability to swap between two characters at any time during stages, and the introduction of a new protagonist, Axl! New Game uses Zero and Axl with tense platforming and health management and is the more difficult of the two categories, while New Game Plus utilizes X's and Zero's unique strengths to mow through Red Alert and their mysterious "Professor".

Would be happy to race with Focus or Peterafro.

Status: Pending Any% New Game 1:04:00 Status: Pending Any% New Game Plus 1:00:00 PC (Steam) Kosmic Multiple Classic Mario Games The Super Marihour Challenge is an awesome example of a multi-game run. It shows the true power of speedrunners, as we beat 6 very popular Mario games, in just 1 hour. Status: Pending Super Marihour 01:05:00 NES / SNES / N64 Kirthar Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow (or Donald in Maui Mallard, as it was marketed in Europe) was first released on Genesis. The PC port is essentially a polished version of the Genesis game, and is a bit different when it comes to level design and gameplay compared to the SNES version which came later. It's an action platformer which has its fair share of clips, zips, and other skips, along with questionable hitboxes and jankiness in general.Status: Pending Any% (Normal/Hard) 00:22:00 PC DirectorMusic Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow is a bit lesser-known sibling of the first game, in which you see Sam Fisher return, and save the world in a groundbreaking pace (under an hour!) As you follow Sam's adventures, you will see level-skipping out-of-bounds, T-posing enemies, spectacular shooting action and, of course, a sprinkle of AI manipulation. Don't blink and you won't miss it!Status: Pending Any% 00:48:00 PC SawaYoshi Hollow Knight Hollow Knight is a 2D indie metroidvania game from 2017, where the Knight explores Hallownest in a journey to defeat the Infection. True Ending obtains the Void Heart and eradicates the root of the Infection, whether it be glitchless stylish action on an earlier patch, the latest patch, or with mind-boggling game-breaking glitches. 112% collects everything in the game and beats a final boss rush in the Pantheon of Hallownest. No matter what gets accepted, Hollow Knight will never disappoint.Status: Pending True Ending No Major Glitches 1:25:00 Status: Pending True Ending 1.4+ NMG 1:25:00 Status: Pending True Ending No Main Menu Storage 0:40:00 Status: Pending 112% All Pantheon Bosses No Major Glitches 3:55:00 PC SawaYoshi Hollow Knight 2P1C speedruns are all the rage recently - why not change the pace with 1 keyboard and HALF a player?

Hollow Knight is a 2D indie metroidvania game from 2017, where the Knight explores Hallownest in a journey to defeat the Infection. What you've never seen is a speedrun of this game with only one hand. Of course, boss fights and movement are much, much more complex with five less fingers to work with, and a new route must be built to accomodate for the use of only 5 fingers (and one palm).

Status: Pending One Hand Any% 0:55:00 PC Zeikier Star Renegades Star Renegades is a Tactical RPG (The R stands for "roguelite!") about managing the loot drops you get and manipulating turn order to your advantage. The run offers on-the-fly adapting and snappy mechanical efficiency.

For this category, we start a fresh save file and defeat all the main Officer enemies as well as the mercenary factions on our way to the final boss of the first loop. A slightly chaotic but thrilling romp!

Status: Pending New Save File - All Officers 02:00:00 PC SawaYoshi Salt and Sanctuary Roll dodging, skill trees, extreme difficulty - Salt and Sanctuary has everything to be called a soulslike game. Combined with the unique perspective and blistering combat that only a 2D action game can deliver, this game and run will knock everyone's socks off, including the runner's own. Any% NMG is the most popular category in speedrunning, and restricts the use of most glitches to provide the most true-to-the-genre action gameplay that Salt and Sanctuary is known for.Status: Pending Any% No Major Glitches 0:25:00 PC ThomasPatrickWX Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee is the first Pokemon game to be released for Nintendo Switch with catching mechanics that are familiar to those who've played Pokemon GO.

Any% NMS requires the player to obtain 50 different Pokemon to complete. This makes each attempt unique with some on-the-fly routing decisions.

Diploma is a 2-player Catch 'em All, where we will local trade with each other to complete the PokeDex. Submitting Diploma as a co-op with JokerSleeps

Status: Pending Any% No Mount Skips 3:10:00 Status: Pending Diploma 5:15:00 Nintendo Switch randalleatscheese Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee Diploma is a co-op run where the objective is to get all 150 Pokemon in each Let's Go game, and obtain the Diploma. Each player has their own route and catches to take care of, while planning trades and some catches with the other player. For the controller swap, we will switch controllers and play the other player's game/route based on a TBD donation milestone (every $1k, $5k, or $10k donated)Status: Pending Diploma (Co-op controller swap) 5:15:00 Nintendo Switch swordsmankirby Virtual Boy Wario Land VBWL, widely considered to be the finest game on the VB library, exploits the console's 3D capabilities by having Wario bounce between the foreground and background. Like in the original Wario Land, Wario is powered up by various hats that allow him to crash through obstacles and fly through stages. The 100% category requires picking up all of the treasures and features more varied use of Wario's hats.Status: Pending 100% 00:25:00 Status: Pending Any% 00:22:00 Virtual Boy Zeikier Rolling Thunder 3 Rolling Thunder 3 is a side-scrolling cover shooter from the dark recesses of the Genesis library. We carefully select the right weapons for each level and manipulate enemy behavior to control our path to victory.

All Bosses takes us through the normal game and its vehicle levels, while Any% takes us through the bonus stages. The run is tight, precise, and a nice bite-sized burst of retro energy!

Status: Pending Any% 00:15:00 Status: Pending All Bosses 00:20:00 Sega Genesis pinecone606 Pokémon Trading Card Game This beloved Pokemon spinoff is a challenging and dynamic speedrun. The fast interface and minimal cutscenes keep the run focused on the action. High variance in possible duel outcomes requires runners to quickly adapt to unique situations on-the-fly. Interesting exploits to manipulate RNG and abuse save mechanics allow for high-skill, on-the-fly timesaves. Traditionally run using the Charmander deck, developments of alternate routes have made all 3 starter decks viable for a speedrun.Status: Pending Any% Glitchless (Bulbasaur & Friends) 01:05:00 Status: Pending Any% Glitchless Race (All 3 Starting Decks) 01:05:00 Nintendo Switch (NSO VC) Tibs Super Mario Galaxy Time starts on "Play this File" and ends after the grand star in Galaxy Reactor. Over the past few years, a surge of new skips were made possible through 2P player mode, allowing you to perform double jump by velcroing two sets of joycons together. Recently, a theoretical 8-year old skip in Good Egg 2 was proven to be possible via crystal floating, a very precise strat that allows you to flip gravity fields. These new skips and strats would make for an entertaining and thrilling run.Status: Pending Any% Luigi 1 Player, 2 Controllers 2:20:00 Nintendo Switch ThomasPatrickWX Pokémon Sword/Shield Sword & Shield is the first Pokemon game to feature an open world area known as the "Wild Area", which was then expanded to both DLC areas. A variety of different Pokemon can be caught here which has opened up countless opportunities to decide which is best to use for the speedruns.

Any% is just the beating the base game, although the routes are different depending on if you play Sword or Shield.

Tower of Two Fists completes just the first DLC area, though you visit both in the route.

Status: Pending Any% 4:20:00 Status: Pending Tower of Two Fists [Get Urshifu] 1:35:00 Nintendo Switch NallyQ Dead Rising 4 Frank West is back at it again, this time in modern day Willamette. Maybe Frank's changed a little bit, but the zombies sure haven't. Dead Rising 4 is a festive addition to the Dead Rising series. It features combat mechanic skips, specific skill tree builds, and a little bit of off-roading in the snowy fields of the city. We use a little bit of money routing to obtain specific weapons and bulldoze our way through the main story missions.Status: Pending Story Mode NG 2:00:00 PC DirectorMusic Freedom Fighters The world is under attack by a scary military force, but it is up to you to stop the invaders and do it in such a time, that it takes longer to eat your meal at a fast food joint than this speedy adventure! Watch as Chris, a freedom fighter, goes full bravado and speedruns through the streets of New York, and saves the world with his superb jumping skills. Oh, and you can teleport around the world via the sewers! Don't try that!Status: Pending Any% 00:40:00 PC NallyQ Rat Cage A Little Nightmares-like puzzle platformer where you play as a rat who chooses to be a menace by breaking into a building solely to break back out. This run features a few platforming skips and a new blind section where you platform through the darkness.Status: Pending Any% 00:18:00 PC ThomasPatrickWX Pokémon Violet Scarlet and Violet versions are now fully open-world games. Effectively, the entire game is one big Wild Area. The speedrun will take advantage of having access to basically any Pokemon or any items we want before blitzing and completely all of our objectives.

Treasure Hunt is the category that completes all 3 of our companions' storylines.

The Teal Mask is the completion of the first DLC area where we will ignore the main game and go straight there.

Status: Pending Treasure Hunt 4:05:00 Status: Pending Teal Mask 1:55:00 Nintendo Switch Iceblue Super Mario RPG Remake This long-awaited HD remake of the beloved SNES classic makes for an entirely different (and faster!) speedrun than its counterpart, in no small part due to the addition of several new battle mechanics, as well as quicker and more fluid animations. An incredibly accessible and fun, yet challenging speedgame that not only keeps all of the original's charm but breathes new life into the Mario RPG genre!

Can be offered as a coop run or a race!

Status: Pending Normal RTA 02:45:00 Nintendo Switch JankPickle Super Mario World The Kaizo SMW community is back and better than ever! We assembled some of the best level makers, artists, musicians, and coders (including some surprises) to make mind-blowing levels exclusively for SGDQ. Racers will work as a team (4v4) to speedrun these levels despite having never seen them before. Estimate is flexible; we can add and drop levels to fit the schedule. Submitting with GlitchCat7, shovda, Thabeast721, YouFailMe, juzcook, TheJavabrew, Shoujo, and MarkAlarm (JankPickle as backup)Status: Pending Kaizo Relay Race 02:00:00 SNES JankPickle LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game (GBA) Submitting as a race with LaserTrap_ This is an isometric version of the PC game with all sorts of strange clips, it's a charming kind of bad game. It has a bunch of mechanics not seen in other lego games, deaths are more punishing, speed powerups, and a meter for special abilities. Almost every boss has a cheese stratStatus: Pending All Episodes 00:47:00 Game Boy Player MachWing Pokemon Sapphire In this category we run through the Pokemon Sapphire story using a new route used in WR runs, that now includes an Abra! This run is filled with exciting execution and fights, as we run through the game with the Mudkip Line before swapping to Kyogre to help us finish off the runStatus: Pending Any% Glitchless 2:15:00 Gamecube Ppotdot1 Wizards and Warriors 3: Kuros: Visions of Power The third installment of Wizards & Warriors on the NES has the knight Kuros return right where he left off, chasing down the evil wizard Malkil to the town of Piedup. There he becomes a thief and breaks into people's homes, promises to marry three princesses (and a dragon?) for their jewelry, and finally levitates menacingly at the burger king to make him explode. Just a normal day for a knight, right?

Would be happy to race this with Terrex or other submitters.

Status: Pending any% 00:25:00 NES MachWing Pokemon Leafgreen In this run we get through the game using a glitch just discovered last year, the first of its kind in Leafgreen, in order to glitch into the Hall of Fame and beat the game half an hour earlier than intended, using some rarely seen pokemon in a speedrun along the way.Status: Pending Any% Glitched 1:35:00 Gamecube Froob Attack on Titan The original Attack on Titan (named A.O.T in Europe due to legalities) a 3D action game with spiderman-esque movement.

The run covers up until the end of Season 1 of the anime with the Female Titan fight. This run requires optimal use of replenishing gas and blade mechanics, good use of character skills and optimal aiming at Titan body parts.

There is a lot of speedtech such as a 10 minute boss fight skip whilst avoiding a softlock and skipping multiple parts of different missions

Status: Pending Any% (Female Titan) 01:40:00 PC JankPickle LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game (PC) The PC version of Lego Star Wars from 2005 features the prequel trilogy. Featuring 1P2C movement, interesting out of bounds movement, and flying yoda. Recently lag abuse was unbanned so i'll be implementing new strats.Status: Pending any% 01:08:00 PC DeathTropes Silent Hill Silent Hill is a 1999 survival horror game developed by Team Silent, a group in Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo and published by Konami. The first installment in the video game series Silent Hill, the game was released exclusively for the PlayStation. Silent Hill uses a third-person view, with real-time rendering of 3D environments. Status: Pending New Game Easy 00:55:00 Status: Pending New Game All Bosses 00:58:00 Playstation 2 brassbeat Peggle Deluxe Peggle Deluxe is a game about shooting balls in a pachinko board. After last year's successful showing, I have opted to submit a few challenging categories: NG+ is a faster paced version of adventure mode where we get to use the strongest strats on every level. Extreme Grand Master is the game's 100% category, requiring us to beat all of the challenges and full clear all the levels. Thankfully, we can do a bit of task overlapping to ease the workload a bit.Status: Pending Extreme Grand Master 4:45:00 Status: Pending NG+ race w/ HeliosWx 0:55:00 PC Porkchop44 Pokemon Emerald Rogue Pokemon roguelike, played on normal difficulty with the only setting changes being at the title menu. Objective is to beat the second champion. Game involves a lot of quick risk/reward decision making and a lot of adaptation based on what routes, pokemon, and items the game makes available. Game goes through many pokemon usually as there is perma death. Fun run that requires use of safety saves to be marathon friendly, as a team wipe is game over. Safety saves will be created for each gym/elite4Status: Pending New Game % 2:10:00 GBA via Ez Flash Porkchop44 AEW Fight Forever Silly wrestling game. Category involves completing all scenarios in the Road to Elite story mode. Time starts when character is selected, time stops upon "All scenarios completed" message. Game involves utilizing rules and story mechanics or progress quickly, as well as min maxing matches for quick finishes to progress a silly story mode that covers all majors PPVs. Game has a lot of potential for silly stage antics and bits. Status: Pending Road to Elite Easy% 0:45:00 PC LinkaMeister Junkoid This is a romhack of the original Metroid. This one completely makes the whole game different. Everything looks new and fresh. The bosses and enemies look different. Even the main character looks different and is called Junko. The story is that Junko is afflicted by perpetual nightmares and is determined to defeat the manifestations of her dreams, the serpent trickster Asmodeus.Status: Pending 100% 00:36:00 NES GaryJGames Pokemon: Infinite Fusions Pokemon: Infinite Fusions has hit the internet by storm as THE most infamous Pokemon fangame. With over 200,000 unique fusions, options for speedruns are truly limitless. Each runner has honed their own routes and have continued to optimize and grow, so it would be an honor for us to represent the Pokemon Fangame community on the big stage.

Submitting Both Solo run and Races for Any% and Any% Alt main, along with "Beat Gold" which runs through both Kanto and Johto.

Status: Pending Alt Main Any% Solo/Race 1:20:00 Status: Pending Any% 5.0 vs. 5.1 Race 1:25:00 Status: Pending Beat Gold 5.0 1:55:00 Status: Pending Any% 5.0 1:25:00 PC LinkaMeister Hello Kitty: Roller Rescue The story of this game is that either Hello Kitty or Bad Badtz-Maru is saving Sanrio from the evil block army that's invading. Going through each stage defeating blocks and cylinders. It's a cutesy game.Status: Pending Any% (Hello Kitty) 00:37:00 Status: Pending Any% (Bad Badtz-Maru) 00:37:00 GameCube JSR_ Parappa the Rapper (Submitted as all cutscenes, as well as any%. The cutscenes are as iconic as the raps, and despite the added time, would make this run get a lot more hype).

Boy, I would love to be able to get on stage at SGDQ and rap like my life depends on it. And I could do so with now-iconic and fun rap songs sang by the wonderful characters of this cult classic PS1 title.

But how could I possibly do this on the big stage? I'll be all nervous... I KNOW! I GOTTA BELIEVE!

Status: Pending Any% All Cutscenes 0:45:00 Status: Pending Any% 0:25:00 Sony PlayStation 1 AstrasEvolution Undertale Yellow Undertale Yellow is a fan-made prequel to Undertale that exists as a game that wears its inspiration on it's shoulder. From the colorful cast of characters to the fantastic musical score, Yellow is the perfect love letter to the indie darling its built upon. Now let's try snapping the game in half! Through the power of the game's version of the Punch Card, we can skip entire portions of the game with ease while creating a breakneck pace that makes even Undertale blush.Status: Pending Justice 1:13:00 Status: Pending Neutral 1:05:00 Status: Pending True Pacifist 1:17:00 PC TheSoundDefense Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles This speedrun has a heavy emphasis on glitches, with lots of zips that completely bypass stages in lots of different and entertaining ways. No two stages are broken the same way.

This run collects all 14 Chaos/Super Emeralds, and the Special Stages are as wild and entertaining as the rest of the game, with glitches, jumping through red spheres, and even playing backwards!

Submitting as a bid war between Sonic and Tails.

Status: Pending All Emeralds (Tails) 01:00:00 Status: Pending All Emeralds (Sonic) 01:00:00 Analogue Mega SG DanTheVP Terra Nil Explore the world of Terra Nil as this run transforms wastelands into thriving ecosystems. This top down builder is a unique take on the genre and the speedrun offers an equally unique experience.

Through 4 stages we unlock tech, create diverse biomes, and establish habits for various species. To top it off, we extract everything and leave the thriving paradise.

The speedrun takes this cozy builder and turns it into a fast pace RTS game and it's progression is easy to follow for new viewers.

Status: Pending Any%, Standard 00:38:00 PC AstrasEvolution Deltarune Deltarune is the next step in Toby Fox's legacy of creations! While the game is only partially complete, the first chapter of the game has stood as the most competitive section the game has to offer! Between tight encounter skips and engaging boss fights, there is no shortage of fun to be had in Chapter 1! Between the fast paced gameplay and fantastic musical score, the Ch1 run is a short but sweet run for anyone to enjoy!Status: Pending Chapter 1 Any% 00:28:00 Status: Pending Chapter 1 All Bosses 00:33:00 PC GaryJGames Code Lyoko: Quest for Infinity Code Lyoko is a cult-classic cartoon from the early 2000s. Remember that weird show with the big foreheads about fighting in cyber space? Yeah, that's Code Lyoko. QFI is a 3D platformer riddled with wacky glitches and satisfying movement. Wanna clip through walls? Wanna float through midair out of nowhere? You ever wanna just go over any wall in your way? Wanna learn to moonwalk??? Yeah, we got that and then some. This game means a lot to me and I would love to show off the game I love so much.Status: Pending 100% 2:00:00 Status: Pending Any% 1:25:00 Nintendo Wii podgy713 Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix KH2FM is an action JRPG focused on fight optimization. As we gain more tools in the form of magic, summons, drive forms, and abilities, the fights get increasingly more complex, which makes for a spectacle for both the runner and the viewer. Since my showcase in Hotfix, we have added more route changes that I would love to show off on the big stage. The goal of Any% is to complete the game as quickly as possible doing only required worlds. Willing do it this as a race.Status: Pending Any% Beginner 2:26:00 PC Cixah Balatro Balatro is a rogue-like poker hand game where you want to meet the final point total of each round before running out of playable hands. Through different jokers and other means we modify our chip stack and multiplier in order to score high enough chip counts quickly. In skipless, we must play all 24 rounds per deck limiting us from accepting the blind rewards that skipping provides. Status: Pending 3 Deck Random Seed, Skipless 00:45:00 PC bradderfield Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters Power Fighters is the sequel arcade Fighter/Boss Rush Mega Man: The Power Battle.

The All Bosses Category will showcase all three of the different routes back to back, fighting every Robot Master, Castle Boss, and Wily Machine. Each route has different bosses, different weapons, and different strategies to finish each fight quickly. The game is heavily reliant on RNG regarding Boss Pattern, power ups, and recovery items.

Status: Pending Solo - All Bosses 00:25:00 PC mashy The Legend of Zelda: Oracles Randomizer Oracles randomizer has seen a lot of improvements over the last few months with additions of linked items and the ability to customize how many essences are required to beat the game. This also allows for more variation in routes than doing all dungeons. Ages has more focus on puzzles and time travel mechanics, while Seasons has a larger focus on combat and changing the seasons. Both games will use shuffled dungeon entrances and Seasons will included shuffled Subrosia portals.Status: Pending Ages (5 Essence) 1:50:00 Status: Pending Seasons (5 Essence) 1:50:00 Gamecube (GBI) JCR Super Paper Mario Super Paper Mario Any% might be 4 hours, but it is a very entertaining watch. We can gain infinite height, clip through any wall in the game, open doors early and so much more. While we can't skip entire chapters, we can skip massive portions of multiple levels, as well as skip collecting certain pixls. With our community continuing to grow, this game's passionate fan base would love to see Super Paper Mario make it's first appearance at GDQ!Status: Pending Any% 04:05:00 Wii U Sathdresh Star Trek DS9: Crossroads of Time Follow Captain Sisko as he leaps his way to victory in this deviously underrated title from Novotrade. The music alone should warrant a GDQ appearance. The platforming is extremely deceptive and it's action packed through out the whole run. This would be a fun showcase for GDQ! Be it solo or as part of a Star Trek/Sci-Fi blockStatus: Pending Any% (SNES) 00:36:00 SNES selcouthmind The Sims 4 The Sims 4 contains a secret aspiration: Grilled Cheese. To complete this aspiration, we'll be making a lot of grilled cheese sandwiches, talking to everyone we see about grilled cheese sandwiches, summoning the Grim Reaper, and travelling to space. Confused about those last two things? That's alright! Just embrace the grilled cheese!Status: Pending Aspiration Grilled Cheese (With Expansions) 00:12:00 PC GaryJGames Splat the Blob! Splat the Blob is a courageous blob set on an adventure! Oh, and he kinda can fly??? But only when he really sets his mind to it. Quite the quirky game ready for Silly Block, this game is a must-add to the marathon.

"Yeeeaah..*claps* woOOOoo"

Status: Pending Any% 0:10:00 PC ThePackle Tony Hawk's Project 8 THP8 was previously shown at AGDQ 2020. 100% is, arguably, the most difficult category in the entire THPS franchise. The objective is to complete over 100 goals on sick, get all 283 gaps, all 36 spot tokens, and complete all pro challenges. It is a grueling, difficult ~2.5 hr+ long speedrun featuring a lot of tech, movement options, crazy cheeses, and even crazier tricks. This takes the Rank 1 speedrun shown on Game Masters to the maximum.Status: Pending 100% 2:45:00 Xbox 360 Seckswrecks Astra And The New Constellation Pico 8 2D platformer with sliding and gliding to zip quickly through 15 levels.Status: Pending Any% 00:15:00 PC FI3RY Devil May Cry DMC requires a good combination of Movement and Combat Skills, is a relatively short run, and we have found quite a few new strats/route changes to make DMC much faster in all categories in the last few months. Any%'s big change is Early Vortex at Mission 6, making Mission 6-11 much faster now. Both Categories now have better buy routes, more vortexing even past m11, minor timesaves for bosses, optimal movement, consistent combat, and a lil bit of new tech.Status: Pending Any% Race 00:43:00 Status: Pending Any% 00:42:00 Status: Pending All Collectibles Race 01:07:00 Status: Pending All Collectibles 01:07:00 PC(Solo)/Xbox One(Race) GaryJGames The Way Remastered The Way Remastered is a 2D Exploration Platformer with a compelling story and great puzzle-platforming gameplay. However our amazing community has cracked this game wide open. Hovering through walls, fazing through floors and manipulating time and space just to save our wife on a never-explored planet. Any% is full of fast paced platforming and glitches right from the start, with never a dull moment, but plenty of wackiness to go around. Status: Pending Any% 0:55:00 Nintendo Switch Jaxler The Spongebob Squarepants Movie This is a 3D platformer-collectathon from the same team that made Battle for Bikini Bottom. Every glitch in this game's toolkit is either flashy or hilarious to watch. Bash boosting, reverse slide jumps, lag buffer token warps, and the new Rub a Dub skip are incredibly precise and impressive to watch, while guitar gliding, invisible crate proxies, and memory corruption are goofy to watch live and let us break the game in ridiculous ways. Happy to do this solo or as a race w/ BubbleBass. Status: Pending No Pause Storage 1:15:00 Xbox JSR_ EarthBound PK Scramble is a dynamic randomizer taking the JRPG community by storm! Lylovir & I will be in full Jeff & Ness cosplay. This item rando has 3 win conditions, which can lead to comeback victories and surprise twists! In addition, we'll be playing "Snake Tag", a dangerous variant where we'll be forever stalked by an angry snek who wipes our party if we're caught! You can read more about the flags & format here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15ogsItkM84wbeCk9NUyesS7yVUR_jxkTRRBAVBs8JSA/edit?uStatus: Pending "PK Scramble" + Snake Tag 2 player race vs Lylovir 1:35:00 Status: Pending "PK Scramble" 2 player race vs Lylovir 1:10:00 Super Nintendo Entertainment System Lylovir EarthBound PK Scramble is a dynamic randomizer taking the JRPG community by storm! JSR_ & I will be in full Ness & Jeff cosplay. This item rando has 3 win conditions, which can lead to comeback victories and surprise twists! In addition, we'll be playing "Snake Tag", a dangerous variant where we'll be forever stalked by an angry snek who wipes our party if we're caught! You can read more about the flags & format here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15ogsItkM84wbeCk9NUyesS7yVUR_jxkTRRBAVBs8JSAStatus: Pending "PK Scramble" + Snake Tag 2-Player Race vs. JSR_ 1:35:00 Status: Pending "PK Scramble" 2-Player Race vs. JSR_ 1:10:00 SNES Torsinn Rayman 2: The Great Escape This speedrun changed a lot since Glackum showcased it at AGDQ2019! We still use NOMOVIES cheatcode to skip cutscenes, but now we have even more unique, very usual glitches, including a huge skip to save about 10min. For a marathon, it has a great balance between action packed levels and a few slow gameplay sections to read donations.Status: Pending Any% 1:07:00 PC TurtleRun Pit People Pit People is a zany turn-based tactics game from The Behemoth. The speedrun is a rollercoaster ride of different battles, maps, and events that the runner must react to and strategize around on the fly. RNG controls almost everything in this game, from the overworld to who your units attack to how many enemies are on each map. It takes a lot of quick thinking and clever strategies to control the chaos while still hitting each map's end goal. Any% is 15 maps and 7 chapters of silly, chaotic fun.Status: Pending Any% 1:17:00 PC FFR Pro 21 Magical Drop VI Magical Drop VI is the latest entry into the main series of games released 11 years after the 5th game. Story mode takes you on an adventure through Magical Land where the leader World has let the vast land fall into chaos, and so you the player must help World find a co-leader to rule over Magical Land along side her. There are multiple different paths that you can take, each path having a different ending that you'll get to see.Status: Pending Story (Hard, Black Pierrot Path) 00:20:00 Status: Pending Story (Hard, Hanged Man Path) 00:18:00 Status: Pending Story (Hard, Wheel of Fortune - Sun Path) 00:22:00 Status: Pending Story (Hard, Wheel of Fortune - Moon Path) 00:21:00 Nintendo Switch blackheartwings Stardew Valley A farming sim Stardew Valley is a unique speedgame with appeal for both casual and challenge runners; the 1.6 update has again put Stardew in the forefront of indie gaming. These runs use older versions of the game, but they have yet to be featured on the GDQ stage!

4P Mines120 Relay and 4P Seeded Community Center Restoration will be run by atwentysomethingloser, blackheartwings (me), Terpretor, and theValiantSun

2P Fishtank Vanilla will be run by hyperionskies and blackheartwings (me)

Status: Pending 4P Mines120 Relay 01:30:00 Status: Pending 4P Seeded Community Center Restoration 01:40:00 Status: Pending 2P Fishtank% Vanilla 01:45:00 PC 360Chrism Pokemon Red/Blue Randomizer With Archipelago you turn this Randomizer into a Multiworld Rando! Pokemon, Moves and EVERY item including Key Items and Badges are fully randomized. Whenever 1 player picks up an item it can be an item from any of the 2 players! The goal is to work together and figure out the fastest route with the items given and beat both Red's and Blue's Champion after obtaining 8 Badges each.

Co-op with Shenanagans

Status: Pending Archipelago 02:15:00 PC JSR_ Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon Gee... it sure is boring around here! Well, it's time to change that! JSR is GUARANTEED to get laughs and donos alike, with this wonderful top-level speedrun of this game. Dismissed often due to its' cheesy cutscenes (which we will watch every second of!), this game is more 'so bad, it's good', and the music will have chat dancing throughout the run! If you think you've seen this game before, you ain't seen nothin' yet! Status: Pending All Cutscenes 1:00:00 Philips CD-i GaryJGames Spectrobes: Origins Okay, this one is a long shot, and I doubt this game would ever get into a GDQ, but dang do I love this game. Spectrobes was Disney's attempt to mimic the creature-collecting formula of pokemon and, through all 3 games, they succeeded pretty well. Doomed to the graveyard shift I may, but I'd love to show off this run full of tight battles.Status: Pending Any% 5:30:00 Nintendo Wii StahlbolzenSC2 Mega Man X1-3 Trifecta Playing MMX1-3 100% back to back.

100% means collecting all upgrades, items and secret techs for all three games.

Status: Pending 100% Trifecta 2:20:00 SNES Claris Sonic Mania Plus Not shown off in over 5 years, Encore Mode has had many major changes since its original showing. New tricks include several new boss skips, level wraps, death cancels that break collision, and controlling yourself on the pause menu. All Emeralds differentiates the run even more, with Super forms allowing for even more skips while also showing the significantly harder Encore special stages completed far faster than intended.Status: Pending Encore Mode All Emeralds 00:45:00 PC Pearstrike Pokemon Pinball Petit This is the Pokemon Channel version of the Pokemon Pinball game that came out on the Pokemon Mini system. In this 100% category we complete all 10 levels with Diglett and only 9 with Pikachu because you can only play level 10 with Diglett. We will be playing most of the levels twice but they are completely different based on which characters you use. We use setups to get the pokeball in the hole on the first or second hit. We also manipulate the spawns to avoid obstacles. Fun little run.Status: Pending Quest Mode 100% 00:11:00 Nintendo Wii Lilac Vrt Olligoci Chiki's Chase Chiki's Chase is a fast paced endless runner roguelike where you are one of four cute creatures with unique abilities! All of the terrain, shops, and items are all randomly generated, so I have to be able to route on the fly, on top of quick thinking which provides excitement!

This was a surprise hit at the last event, with good engagement in a bid war between all the characters, or a Hat Bid for All Characters.

Status: Pending 7500m Run 00:21:00 Status: Pending All Characters 00:46:00 iOS Faust4712 Shinobi Legions The Good: The last entry in SEGA’s Shinobi Series of the 90’s, this game culminates every great aspect of the Shinobi games that came before it.

The Bad: Trying to experiment with the ever growing “MoCap” style of video games, the game shows why this style maybe wasn’t the best the industry had to offer.

The Ugly: Some of the best cutscenes you will ever see, with a great Ninja B-Movie plot, delivered in mid 90’s glorious FMV stylings.

Submitting for silly block because of the cutscenes.

Status: Pending Any% Cutscenes 00:50:00 Sega Saturn StahlbolzenSC2 Rockman World 1-5 Playing all the megaman gameboy releases back to back. Every game is played under any% rules. Status: Pending any% 2:55:00 Super Gameboy2 Char_bunny Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS Mario mechanics gone mad - each level highlights something different, including every flying powerup, springs in all directions, koopa clown cars, and more. Includes classic throwback levels as well as absolute chaos, making for a fun and varied run. Did very well at Flame Fatales 2021, raising nearly 2K on just the save/kill Yoshi incentive on day 1 :) Would be a dream to show this off at the event <3 Video description includes highlight timestamps.Status: Pending Super Mario Challenge - Any% 01:58:00 New Nintendo 3DS JSR_ Ken Griffey, Jr. Presents Major League Baseball He's back! Peanut Butter, the Shiba Inu, is bringing an all-new controller to SGDQ... & this year, he's joining the event LIVE and IN-PERSON (In doge?)! PB will play Ken Griffey on SNES, complete with customizable player names (great for dono incentives and fun laughs!), As a bonus, I'll be heading a campaign to get The Kid himself, Ken Griffey Jr., to join the run in-person (no promises on this) There is no more patriotic way to celebrate July 4th than watching a doge play America's Pastime!Status: Pending Win A Game 0:30:00 Status: Pending Lose A Game 0:30:00 Super Nintendo Entertainment System StahlbolzenSC2 Rockman World 4 Rockman World 4 is the 4th release for the gameboy.

In this game you fight 4 robotmasters from MM4 and 4 from MM5.

Just like in every Rockman World game, this one has its unique "megaman killer" named Ballade

Status: Pending any% 0:55:00 Supergameboy 2 Brossentia Aliens: Alien 2 Before Final Fantasy, Square made a game based on Aliens? And the NES version was never released?! And it's actually GOOD?!?

The game's a fairly standard platformer, but since it was never finished, it has some amazing glitches, specifically with clips and zips. Many of these tricks can end with death, especially the zips - do them wrong, and you get stuck above the ceiling, and death is the only way out. Lots of risky moves with huge time saves.

Status: Pending any% 00:12:00 NES Faust4712 The Punisher A gritty beat ‘em up port of the 90’s arcade game by Capcom. The Punisher, is by no means…an easy game. The notoriety of this game is still felt by players.There are a lot of stacking enemy strats as well as weapon rng manipulation strats to help alleviate the constant damage sponge enemies the game throws at us. We will be running as Nick Fury due to faster/more powerful attacks to take down Kingpin. Run starts at 5:00min mark. Status: Pending Any% Normal 00:40:00 Status: Pending Any% Hard 00:55:00 SEGA Genesis micromads Sea of Thieves In this speedrun, our goal is to attempt to rescue Captain Jack Sparrow from demise! This 'Tall Tale' run requires us to navigate our way to him using platform skips, sword lunges that propel you through the air with great speed, combat with malicious ocean creatures and shoot ourselves our of cannons.

In this co-op speedrun, SquareMeylix and I split the tasks to get to the goal as fast as possible as one crew.

Co-op submission with SquareMeylix

Status: Pending A Pirate's Life any% 00:40:00 PC StahlbolzenSC2 Rockman World 5 This is the 5th and final release of the Rockman World series for the gameboy.

Unlike the other 4, this game does not have a mix of robotmasters from NES games. Instead you have a complete unique set of robots and stage themes.

This game also has a complete story which get told in cutscenes throughout the game.

RW5 is also one of only a few games that got the SGB enhancement. This means every stage has its own set of colors.

Status: Pending any% 0:55:00 Supergameboy 2 AnAnonymousSource LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga This game has received heightened attention recently thanks to a Summoning Salt video that highlighted the game's uniquely intricate 1 player 2 controller strats and variety of skips. Free Play is the faster-paced and more broken counterpart to the any% category featured in that video. With no cutscenes (meaning no copyrighted music!), faster movement, and free play-exclusive tech, this run breaks the game completely open and flies through all 36 levels in just over an hour. Status: Pending Free Play 01:13:00 PC micromads Sea of Thieves A sweat-inducing speedrun guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat. In this run you must navigate the flood tunnels of Captain Flameheart's lair, traverse all three passages and the final gauntlet filled to the brim with pits of lava, spikes and sawblade booby traps. Sword lunges which convert weapon momentum into a long distance jump, platform skips, and firebomb trickshots are all used to traverse this run quickly.

Race against SquareMeylix

Status: Pending Heart of Fire Gauntlet 00:20:00 PC Shenanagans Pokemon Emerald Randomizer This randomizer not only randomizes all battles & wild encounters, but also shuffles all entrances in the game! Every door, staircase, & ladder leads to somewhere random! The goal is to find & complete all 8 gyms, elite 4 members, & finish on champion. I will be playing cooperatively w/ 360Chrism, adef, & Keizaron, splitting up & covering different parts of the map simultaneously. This run is cooperative chaos at its finest.Status: Pending Map Randomizer Co-op 2:00:00 Gamecube (Game Boy Player) Brossentia Escape: The Curse of the Temple This board game was MADE to speedrun - with a strict 10-minute time limit, players have to explore a randomly generated temple, collect the treasures, and deal with hectic curses, all to escape the temple before the time runs out. Players all play at the same time, but luckily, we have the skilled Cartridgeblowers to commentate.

The runners are Baidol, dowolf, Ritzblues, and myself.

The longer categories add more rules for each game round, so if we have the four-round category, expect CHAOS.

Status: Pending Five Rounds 01:00:00 Status: Pending Four Rounds 00:50:00 Status: Pending Three Rounds 00:40:00 Status: Pending Two Rounds` 00:30:00 Tabletop CG Footloose Bionicle Heroes Any% speedrun of Bionicle Heroes. Status: Pending Any% 3:10:00 PC Sathdresh Bokosuka Wars This title is pretty awful even for Awful Block. I would like to challenge GDQ to a race of Bokosuka Wars! There's 180 enemy units between you and your kingdom and every encounter is essentially a coin toss. Bokosuka Wars is considered a Japanese classic and highly regarded but you'll see why this this is being submitted for Awful Block as a race between a GDQ staff member or as a solo run.Status: Pending Any% race 00:20:00 Status: Pending Any% 00:20:00 NES Awesome Lars Man Catherine: Full Body Catherine: Full Body is a quirky, fast-paced puzzle game by Atlus wherein you control our hero Vincent Brooks as he stacks blocks to climb his way out of his nightmares. The “Remix” includes the addition of Tetris-style blocks to add visual and technical differences to the run.

The Rin route adds new endgame levels and a new romantic choice for our hero.

Status: Pending Arrange/Remix Classic ending 01:20:00 Status: Pending Rin Route 01:40:00 Nintendo Switch DanTheEnigma Onimusha: Warlords Onimusha is a Capcom game originally released early in the PS2's lifespan and plays closer Resident Evil (tank controls) with more of an emphasis on action rather than horror. Normal Mode is the default game difficulty, and thus is the mode everyone is familiar with if they've played this game.Status: Pending Normal Mode - Any% 01:20:00 PC SinDarkFatez Bomb Rush Cyberfunk Bomb Rush Cyberfunk is a indie action-adventure platforming video game inspired by the Jet Set Radio series. The main goal of All Graffiti is to unlock the Old Head character which will showcase a run full of tight graffiti routing during Score and Crew battles and a lot of zips to traverse through the 5 boroughs of New Amsterdam. All Polo Pictures is a category extension where we find and take pictures of the fun and loveable Polo.Status: Pending All Graffiti 02:10:00 Status: Pending All Polo Pictures 00:30:00 PC Rayquaza911 Alwa's Awakening NES Classic metroidvania NES Homebrew of the PC version from 2017. Adds extra areas and boss fights. A high quality NES game that would certainly outclass many older games if released back in the day. Gameplay wise it's a simple platformer and there are some puzzle elements added. The music is also incredible. Other Alwa games have been featured before, this is the only one left.

This category shows most of the game, using assist mode to respawn in the same screen if a death is taken.

Status: Pending Any% - Glitchless 00:37:00 NES Shenanagans Pokemon Blue + Red Randomizer With Archipelago you turn this Randomizer into a Multiworld Rando! Pokemon, Moves and EVERY item including Key Items and Badges are fully randomized. Whenever 1 player picks up an item it can be an item from any of the 2 players! The goal is to work together and figure out the fastest route with the items given and beat both Red's and Blue's Champion after obtaining 8 Badges each.

Co-op with 360Chrism

Status: Pending Archipelago Coop Any% 2:15:00 PC aliceatwonderlandgames Corpse Party This game is a classic horror staple. It's been a cult classic in both Japan and the US for decades and has been remastered or ported more times than I can count. It's an RPG that involves optimized routing, spooky jump scares and some really silly glitches with textboxes and cutscenes. It also has one of the rare instances of queer representation in the early 2000s, which is always a major bonus!Status: Pending Any% All Chapters 00:45:00 PC dowolf Escape: The Curse of the Temple In Escape, we play as adventurers trapped in a tomb collapsing around us. Our only hope is to explore through the randomly generated temple, place gems on the pedestals we find within, and then make it out before the gong gongs. With the expansions, we further add treasures and curses and more that help and hinder us along the way. Each game takes <10 minutes; the estimate includes explanations.

Submitting as coop with Brossentia, Baidol, and Ritzblues, and with Cartridgeblowers as commentary.

Status: Pending Two Rounds 00:30:00 Status: Pending Three Rounds 00:40:00 Status: Pending Four Rounds 00:50:00 Status: Pending Five Rounds 01:00:00 Tabletop Skybilz The Adventures of Cookie and Cream Cookie & Cream is a cute cooperative puzzle-platformer by From Software where players are (mostly) locked to their respective sides of the screen, and obstacles encountered can be solved through teamwork. The speedrun attempts to subvert that as often as possible, leaving players to fend for themselves in a race to the finish line to complete each level using tricky jumps and sequence breaks. The run is filled with varied levels full of fun gimmicks that are sure to keep the run interesting.Status: Pending any% Coop with authorblues 01:10:00 Playstation 2 allison8bit Have a Nice Death Have a Nice Death is a 2D Action Roguelike where you play as Death on the edge of burnout. His top execs, the Sorrows, are running rampant on Earth, leaving him buried in paperwork. In HaND, we make our way through departments to try to reduce the amount of death brought by the Sorrows. Will we finally get our vacation or burnout?

Fresh File is a run where we start a brand new file and clear the very first run. This gives time to explain the basics, but showcase a difficult, underpowered run.

Status: Pending Fresh File 00:28:00 PC Uncle Slam Dodo Peak Q*Bert + Frogger + Extinct birbs

In Dodo Peak, you play as a mother dodo who tries to get all her babies back to their home. With every baby you collect per level, your hitbox gets longer, meaning each level gets more dangerous the more progress you make. Cycles can be manipulated to our advantage by immediately resetting certain levels, and eating speed power-ups, while faster, requires MUCH tighter movement, resulting in a high skill ceiling which is a delight to see in action.

Status: Pending All Levels, NG+ 00:29:00 PC swordsmankirby Dandy & Randy DX Dandy and Randy is an indie game inspired by SNES top-down adventure games, especially Goof Troop. The hookshot item, which is picked up around halfway through the run, enables several useful glitches. The co-op run takes full advantage of this item to skip certain tedious boss fights in the run. Co-op with Bbforky.Status: Pending Co-op (Normal) 00:28:00 PC SatoriEarth Shadow of the Tomb Raider The most recent entry in the TR franchise, Shadow's No Major Glitches route features an an action filled run with strategic combat, plenty of platforming skips, as well as several large OOB skips that are all achieved without glitches. That's right we use intended game mechanics of jumps and scrambles in unintended ways to scale the environment and get outside the playable area skipping entire sections and chapters of the game

large skips occur @ 39:28, 44:54, 1:25:45, 1:27:04, 1:35:54, 1:47:56

Status: Pending NMG 02:10:00 Playstation 5 Sathdresh Jurassic Park Jurassic Park for the Game Boy is a fun speedrun to showcase. The movement is fluid and intuitive. The combat can be a bit wonky but there's awesome despawn techniques used throughout the run that makes up for that. Plus, the world can finally know what happens after you encounter the T-Rex! This would work great as part of a Jurassic Park block or alone.Status: Pending Any% 00:38:00 Game Boy JKNEF7 Battletoads & Double Dragon SNES Battletoads & Double Dragon SNES is a remake of the NES classic game of the same name. It features side scrolling gameplay, and a level similar to the classic arcade game Asteroids. Status: Pending Any% 00:20:00 Super Nintendo ChurchnSarge The Grinch It's a collect-a-thon based on the 2001 movie. Status: Pending any% 0:45:00 PC arkthunder_ Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate MH3U is a hunting action game released in 2011. Starting from new data, Speedrun is a single player mode until you defeat the last boss "Ceadeus". Speedrun features: Normally, in order to defeat a monster, you need to spend time creating weapons. However, in this speedrun, you use ACE. By loading data that is not originally a weapon as a weapon, the player defeats monsters one after another in a very unique way. The route is even more optimized than the run shown at RTA in Japan Winter 2023.Status: Pending Ceadeus: Any% 02:00:00 Nintendo 3DS authorblues The Adventures of Cookie & Cream Cookie & Cream is a cute cooperative puzzle-platformer by From Software where players are (mostly) locked to their respective sides of the screen, and obstacles encountered can be solved through teamwork. The speedrun attempts to subvert that as often as possible, leaving players to fend for themselves in a race to the finish line to complete each level using tricky jumps and sequence breaks. The run is filled with varied levels full of fun gimmicks that are sure to keep the run interesting.Status: Pending Any% Coop with Skybilz 01:10:00 PS2 SatoriEarth Shadow of the Tomb Raider Shadow featured the most complex and intricate tombs out of the survivor TR trilogy. In this run we take on ALL 16 of them in one go (7 DLC tombs, 9 main game) featuring some crafty platforming, some unintended skips, and even some combat in one. This run really shows why Lara is a seasoned Tomb Raider.Status: Pending All optional tombs 01:35:00 Playstation 5 NervyDestroyer Halo 3 One of the greatest games of all time, now with 4x the speed! Played on Legendary difficulty, 4p co-op features all of the sick movement and physics launches you'd expect from Halo 3, plus several co-op exclusive glitches, teleports, and OOB segments. With 4 world class runners, the biggest sell for this run is the commentary, comradery, & teamwork on display... or how it often devolves into laughter and pandemonium as we race each other in Warthogs or argue who gets to hold the Gravity Hammer.Status: Pending 4p Co-op Legendary 01:20:00 PC Mantodea Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando Ratchet and Clank: Going commando is the sequel game that changed the series forever and the speedrun takes all these changes and snaps them in half. With some mind blowing tech and just enough in bounds gameplay to keep things understandable Ratchet 2 is a treat to watchStatus: Pending All platinum bolts 1:10:00 Status: Pending PBSPI (100%) 3:20:00 Playstation 2 SatoriEarth Rise of the Tomb Raider A short trippy (quite literally) DLC for Rise of the Tomb Raider, Baba Yaga features some of the trademark platforming skips of the survivor trilogy as well as demonstrates the brokenly OP combat of the poison arrows Status: Pending Baba Yaga - Glitchless, Console 00:23:00 Playstation 5 Sathdresh Majou Densetsu II: Daimashikyou Galious Knightmare II: The Maze of Galious has been the inspiration for some extremely big franchises and numerous fan games since its release. Castlevania 2, Goonies 2, La Mulana have all credited this game with their design choices. The platforming can be brutal as the speedrun relies on some very clever damage boosting. There are very marathon safe additions to this route to allow for minimal time loss and quick completionsStatus: Pending Any% 00:40:00 NES eddaket Nexomon Nexomon is a monster collecting RPG with a ton of great potential. Ventra% is a run that encompasses the first 'Act' of the game, and would allow us to showcase much of what the game has to offer. The run involves handling an interesting and fast paced battle system, and has all the goodies of other RPG runs like balancing risk and decision making. This game is a hidden gem within the genre, and would make for a great showcase!Status: Pending Ventra% 01:25:00 PC adef Halo 3 One of the greatest games of all time, now with 4x the speed! Played on Legendary difficulty, 4p co-op features all of the sick movement and physics launches you'd expect from Halo 3, plus several co-op exclusive glitches, teleports, and OOB segments. With 4 world class runners, the biggest sell for this run is the commentary, comradery, & teamwork on display... or how it often devolves into laughter and pandemonium as we race each other in Warthogs or argue who gets to hold the Gravity Hammer.Status: Pending 4p Co-op Legendary 01:20:00 PC Baidol Escape: The Curse of the Temple Does the possibility of hearing twenty dice being rolled constantly and simultaneously fill you with excitement? This game is for you! With a strict 10-minute time limit, the players must explore and escape a randomly generated temple by working together to offer gems, cleanse curses, and keep each other alive. Each run can be customized with a number expansions to spice things up.

This is a 4-player coop run with myself, brossentia, dowolf, and Ritzblues with Cartridgeblowers on commentary.

Status: Pending Five Rounds 01:00:00 Status: Pending Four Rounds 00:50:00 Status: Pending Three Rounds 00:40:00 Status: Pending Two Rounds 00:30:00 Tabletop Bathinjan Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot A sure-fire crowd pleaser! This edge-of-your-seat run showcases the heart-pounding thrill of the Trunks Warrior of Hope DLC; Experience heartbreak, intense battles, and a mandatory fishing game as the future's mysterious hero races against time to save the Earth from its impending fate, struggling to keep hope alive.Status: Pending Trunks WoH DLC (No SS) 1:15:00 PC CZR Super Mario 64 Beating Super Mario 64 on real hardware by using only drum controls!

I have done a 16 Star drum% Run at AGDQ24!

Status: Pending 70 Star Drum% 01:30:00 N64 Bathinjan Lethal Company "Make sure you return from the lobby and get ready to stand up and point as essential assets Bathinjan and NicholeGoodnight collect quotas for the Company in this great speedrun promising math, mirth, and maybe a few honkin' horns!"Status: Pending Any% Glitchless 2 Employee 3 Quota 0:30:00 PC eddaket Donkey Kong 64 Imagine the collectathon with the most collectibles. Then imagine those collectibles, moves, Keys, and Kongs being randomized together. Add on top of that one of the most robust hint systems that allows for intense logic and puzzle solving and you have the masterpiece that is Donkey Kong 64 Randomizer!Status: Pending Item Randomizer 02:15:00 Nintendo 64 aliceatwonderlandgames Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus A classic 3D platformer from the PS2 era, this game needs no proper introduction. Instead I'll talk about how amazing coinless 100% is. The run is a labor of love from the entire community and continues to evolve over the past 2 years at an alarming rate. It's almost as low of a time as normal 100%, but involves many cool glitches and tricks that make the run a unique run and an edge of your seat watch the entire time. This is the year! Coindo is getting in! Status: Pending Coinless 100% 2:30:00 Status: Pending Any% 00:40:00 Status: Pending All Keys 1:10:00 Status: Pending All Vaults 1:20:00 PS3 emeraldaly Mulaka You've seen this run before, even on the channel at Flame Fatales, Hotfix, and a previous Backup selection for SGDQ 2021. But I still hope and wish there will someday, and someday soon, be a place for it in the indie block. It has everything going for it, most ofall really cool glitches even a brand new viewer can enjoy. Let's find (hopefully a good deal less than) 32 minutes to let this hidden gem shine! Submission run is freshly performed to demonstrate continued proficiency with the game.Status: Pending any% 00:32:00 PC Glitchedd Kingdom Hearts The original, non-Final Mix release of Kingdom Hearts, only ever released on PS2. Never before seen in a major marathon, it features totally different game balance and AI to its Final Mix counterpart, resulting in run that makes heavy use of extremely powerful Limit attacks, on-the-fly routing and adaptation. The all-new Cutscene Remover allows the game to be showcased without the usual unskippable cutscenes bogging down the pace, and makes for a much smoother, action packed viewer experience. Status: Pending Any% Normal (Cutscene Remover) 3:05:00 PlayStation 2 Terpretor Stardew Valley The farming simulation game that is sweeping the internet, Stardew Valley makes for a unique speedgame that delights both casual and challenge runners alike. With the 1.6 update, the game is once again in the forefront of indie gaming. While both of these runs feature older versions of the game, they have yet to be featured on the GDQ stage!

Submitting both categories with atwentysomethingloser, blackheartwings, Terpretor, theValiantSun

Status: Pending 4P Mines120 Relay 01:30:00 Status: Pending 4P Seeded Community Center Restoration 01:40:00 PC Rastats TrackMania Sunrise TrackMania Sunrise is the second installment of the TrackMania arcade racing game series. It introduces the Puzzle mode where you need to complete tracks in the editor with a selected amount and types of blocks, and then drive a fast time on the resulting track. There's also the Stunts mode with a dedicated system for various stunts and a lot of halfpipes and other ramps to jump from. Any% requires silver medal on all tracks and gold medal on at least 3 tracks.Status: Pending Puzzle + Stunts (Any%) 00:47:00 Status: Pending Puzzle (Any%) 00:25:00 PC Rastats Geometry Dash Geometry Dash is a side-scrolling music platforming game known for its simplistic but addictive gameplay where you goal is to finish levels by avoiding all obstacles. One input is needed to play the regular sidescrolling levels, the game offering several gamemodes. The 2.2 update from December 2023 introduced platformer levels with 3 inputs (left-right-jump) and a more complete level editor that led the community to build insane levels, with some of them reproducing other well known games.Status: Pending Community Levels Showcase 00:50:00 PC dowolf Korokoro Post Nin Korokoro Post Nin is a game that truly embodies the spirit of "The enemy gate is down." Or rather, "The enemy mailbox is down." The game almost feels like a 2D Monkey Ball; the only thing we can control is the rotation of the game world. However, we don't just fall through the world; if we hit a slope, we zip straight down, blasting through enemies on the way. Keeping the angle just right as you wind your way through levels is the best.

Submitting as a race with Ritzblues and Caneofpacci.

Status: Pending Any% 00:30:00 PSX Spirialis Celeste Monika's D-Sides are the most-downloaded Celeste custom map pack with the exception of community-wide collabs, featuring more difficult maps themed after Celeste's base-game maps. The map pack culminates in Final Goodbye - a sprawling map more difficult and longer than the rest of the pack combined. This map is loosely based on Farewell, but includes a summit section calling back to every other chapter, as well as creative new ideas such as a blind checkpoint and a puzzle checkpoint.Status: Pending Monika's D-Sides: Final Goodbye 02:00:00 PC peaches Blast Corps Rare's vehicular action/collectathon about blowing up every building in the way of a runaway nuclear carrier, back on some radars after a Switch re-release just last month. The any% run hits the credits by clearing all the carrier paths and finding all the hidden scientists, showcasing lots of tight maneuvering with a variety of vehicles and featuring a few visually interesting OOB clips that cut out chunks of traversal -- leaving just the action. Open to racing! Status: Pending Any% 00:30:00 Nintendo 64 Glitchedd Dark Cloud A cult classic PlayStation Exclusive, Dark Cloud is a dungeon crawling rogue like RPG with city-building elements. The goal of Any% is to collect the required items to build the item shop within the first 7 floors of the first dungeon. In the shop, I execute a complex menu overflow glitch to re-write code in the game to warp to the credits. Enemy and item spawns, key drops for progression, and dungeon map generation are all random, demanding immense game knowledge and adaptation from the player.Status: Pending Any% 00:40:00 PlayStation 2 BystanderTim Super Buff HD It’s the year 20202020. Buff dudes have turned on society. It’s our job to stop them!

This indie boomer shooter looks like it was pulled straight out of a doodle for a comic book, and comes with insanely satisfying movement and combat, let alone for a game this silly. We’ll rocket jump, double jump, dash, and…skate ON enemies? to complete these 17 levels and defeat the buff dudes.

Submitting solo or as a race with ZZRules21

Incentive to watch intro and outro cutscenes, covered in submission

Status: Pending Any% 00:25:00 PC Emerldd Penny's Big Breakaway Penny's Big Breakaway is a breath of fresh air to the 3D Platformer genre!

She uses her magical yo-yo to swing and ride through vibrant worlds in the blink of an eye. This run has tons of fast paced movement, precision platforming, large world skips, and much more!

This game was made with speedrunning in mind and its mesmerizing combo system makes it a run to behold.

Status: Pending Any% Restricted 01:30:00 PC adef Elden Ring Randomizer With all 165 bosses shuffled & every item pickup randomized, this rando creates a new & very difficult run every single time. No two runs use the same build, given the randomized items, so you must get creative, quickly building a character that can take on any situation. These settings guarantee key items quickly, meaning less time scouring for items in the open world, focusing the run more on the plethora of difficult random fights. Actual SGDQ seed would be vetted by another player.Status: Pending any% 02:40:00 PC Dashey10 WarioWare: Smooth Moves WarioWare Smooth Moves is the fifth game in the micro games series. What makes this one different from the rest is has... MOTION CONTROLS! What's worse, it's EARLY WII MOTION CONTROLS!!! Any% consists of soft resetting between cutscenes to achieve optimal timing, knowing when to lose on purpose, and the most important thing every speedrunner enjoys, RNG! Let's dust off the Wii Console and show off some Smooth Moves like it's the mid 2000's!Status: Pending Any% 00:51:00 Nintendo Wii Ace Delusional The Outlast Trials Set in the era of the Cold War, human guinea pigs are involuntarily recruited by the good folks at the Murkoff Corporation to test advanced methods of brainwashing and mind control. In a world of distrust, fear, and violence, your morals will be challenged, your endurance tested, and your sanity crushed. All Main Trials will go through each location in the game, showcase the main story along with it; while All Trials will add on the MK-Challenges. This is a duo run with Demoxide.Status: Pending Program Genesis - All Trials 02:00:00 Status: Pending Program Genesis - All Main Trials 01:00:00 PC Glan The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past ALTTP's glitched categories have all seen massive reroutes over the past few years. All of them are quite difficult runs filled with gamebreaking tech, but Swordless is arguably the hardest one. Swordless completes all of the dungeons without ever collecting a sword, and is arguably the hardest glitched run. Not having a sword necessitates many alternate glitch setups, and also forces much more difficult and tense combat, using unique strategies and creative item use. Status: Pending All Dungeons (Swordless) 01:00:00 SNES Sathdresh Murder House Murder House places you in the shoes of Emma, a newly minted intern at the local news agency. You and your team are reporting on the slayings of the notorious serial killer the Easter Ripper. As soon as you arrive things start to seem a bit out of place. This run has some fun movement tech and options that can be enabled for donation incentives.Status: Pending Any% 00:18:00 Status: Pending 100% 00:30:00 Status: Pending Any% No Guns 00:23:00 PC Bluekandy Kirby Air Ride In KAR, City Trial is the FFA mode governed by RNG on an open map. It has a checklist of static goals to achieve in both the city itself and complementary stadium games. The run requires 4 controllers, with some strategies needing 2-3 controllers in use simultaneously.

Thus, reactive routing and optimization leads to every attempt of City Trial Any% being uniquely improvised in unlocking the credits at 100/120 checkboxes. This goal is completable within 30 minutes of the estimate at 3 std dev.

Status: Pending City Trial Any% 01:20:00 Status: Pending 5 Hot Dogs Race w/ Pearstrike 00:20:00 Nintendo Wii Sabuline Horizon Siege of Avalon: Anthology Siege of Avalon is an Action RPG from the early 2000s with a heavy focus on story. This is the first time the game has ever been submitted to any marathon as far as I'm aware. The run is pretty consistent, with multiple types of autosaves along with many backup strats, and the route is full of both major skips and minor optimizations.Status: Pending any% 00:50:00 PC peaches Armored Core: Project Phantasma Third person mech shooter on the PS1 with lots of crunchy polygonal explosions and a bangin soundtrack. The run has seen several mech build, level route, and sequence break optimizations since PMCTrilogy's awesome run from AGDQ '23 just after AC6 was announced -- with AC6's continued popularity post-launch it could pair well to show viewers how the series has evolved. Status: Pending Any% 00:35:00 PS2 (FDS) pro_hybrid Kirby's Return to Dreamland: Deluxe Kirby's Return to Dreamland: Deluxe is a 2023 remake of the 2011 classic, which has not been featured at a GDQ since 2013. This remake introduces some changes to movement mechanics, more ability roulette mixing, and two new abilities in Sand and Mecha, each of which has their own uses in the speedrun. The 100% category involves getting all Collectibles and beating the Ability Challenges, and this run showcases just how diverse and interesting the routing can be for Modern Kirby games!Status: Pending 100% Restriced (1P and No Amiibo) 3:00:00 Nintendo Switch (Digital) BystanderTim Birds Aren't Real: The Game (Submission for Silly Games Done Quick)

This is an indie game and student project about the government stopping a local town from spilling the beans on the fact that birds are just government robots.

We'll stop them from spilling the secrets by swiftly doing real bird things, like popping balloons, dropping bottles on people's heads, and pooping on them so we can use our internal camera to secretly profile and steal their information.

Real bird things.

Status: Pending Any% 00:12:00 PC Helix Super Monkey Ball Deluxe in SMB2 This is a mod of SMB2 that acts as a port of Deluxe for GCN/Wii, allowing greater accessibility & use of the GCN controller, leading to the highest optimization Deluxe has ever seen! These stages have had many developments since this mod's release, including unique & impressive pause strats that are nearly impossible to perform originally.

Ultimate is one of the most prestigious categories in the Monkey Ball series, featuring almost every level from SMB1 & 2, plus some exclusives!

Status: Pending Ultimate 01:20:00 Wii McHooper Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex The Wrath of Cortex is unique amongst the Crash games as it is the only 6th-generation "classic" Crash game, and thus heavily borrows its gameplay formula from the previous two mainline games; Crash 2, and especially Crash 3. TWoC offers unique tricks and movement not seen in the previous two games which helps in collecting the game's main items -- crystals and gems. The game also features a variety of unique vehicles which add a layer of spectacle and skill to the run.Status: Pending 106% 2:45:00 PlayStation 2 seldomseenkid WHAT THE GOLF? WHAT THE GOLF? is a comedy golf game made by and for people who don't like golf. Both the main campaign and free DLC episodes are fast-paced runs marked with navigating obstacle courses to complete holes, each one requiring a combination of precise shots and clever strategies, ending with a witty one-liner. The Among Golf episode is full of levels inspired by the hit social deduction game Among Us.Status: Pending Among Golf - any% 00:10:00 PC McHooper Pepsiman Pepsiman is a fast-paced auto-runner game that heavily emphasizes raw skill, memorization and humorous deaths. Any% features a plethora of tricks and fast reactions in order to keep the speed going while avoiding the main collectible of the game for even more time save. It's also the fastest category, and is over before you know it. There's also a donation incentive to play any% while watching all the cutscenes, as they're quite hilarious to watch in a marathon.Status: Pending Any% 00:22:00 PlayStation 2 Dashey10 Sayonara Wild Hearts Sayonara Wild Hearts is a pop rhythm Album Arcade game. We play as a heartbroken woman that fights with anger and depression who comes out at the end. The game has a cult following with the LGBT community for it's visuals and theme.

In All Gold Ranks, we are going to beat all 23 levels in the highest rank possible in New Game.

High Score Demonstration is playing All Levels in Album Arcade, which totals up all your points at the end of the run. We are aiming for at least 1,250,000 points.

Status: Pending All Gold Ranks 00:46:00 Status: Pending High Score Demonstration 00:46:00 PC Demoxide The Outlast Trials Set in the era of the Cold War, human guinea pigs are involuntarily recruited by the good folks at the Murkoff Corporation to test advanced methods of brainwashing and mind control. In a world of distrust, fear, and violence, your morals will be challenged, your endurance tested, and your sanity crushed. All Main Trials will go through each location in the game, showcase the main story along with it, while All Trials will add on the MK-Challenges. This is a duo run with AceDelusional.Status: Pending Program Genesis - All Main Trials 01:00:00 Status: Pending Program Genesis - All Trials 02:00:00 PC CountGooby Shaqfecta Welcome to the Shaqfecta, where we play three Shaq Fu games back to back. It's all the Shaq Fu you never wanted and more.Status: Pending Story Mode Easy 00:30:00 SNES, Genesis, Gameboy RamboRachel Planet of the Apes This is a GDQ debut speedrun, with never before seen skips and techniques by the current world record holder. Despite the dated graphics and controls, each level is it's own bite-sized run, all of which are linked together into a unique story based on the original books and movies from the 1960s. We will see new and familiar faces from the already established lore, and we'll be able to theorize about how this story plays a part in the timeline, as well as the upcoming movie release this summer! Status: Pending Any% 01:50:00 PS1 McHooper McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure MTLA is a fun and friendly game about Ronald McDonald's quest to find a mysterious treasure hinted by a piece of map he finds. The game features colorful graphics, fun and bouncy music and has surprisingly optimized gameplay for not having too much in technical movement. Not much else to say other than it's short, it's fun, it's for everyone!Status: Pending Beginner 00:22:00 Sega Genesis seldomseenkid NCAA Football 2005 Previously seen on the Awfully Silly Hotfix show, this entry in EA Sports' annual licensed college football series is eyeing a spot on speedrunning's biggest stage. Saving time in this run involves running around aimlessly while avoiding opponents at all costs and, believe it or not, not skipping cutscenes when they appear, as the game clock runs while they play but the play clock doesn't. These seemingly counterintuitive strategies would make this game right at home in an awful/silly block.Status: Pending Exhibition 1-Player 00:28:00 Wii Glitchedd Hunter x Hunter: Ryumyaku no Saidan An all original story based in the world of the Hunter x Hunter anime. HxH is a top-down action adventure RPG with a great soundtrack and charming early PS2 aesthetic. We play as Killua with Gon as our ally as we try to stop Zegin, an evil examiner from the Hunter exams, from summoning the Dragon Vein, an infinite source of aura and power. This game has intriguing mechanics, such as gaining stats based on attacks landed in combat, and controlling two characters at once with each analog stick. Status: Pending Any% 00:38:00 PlayStation 2 pro_hybrid Kirby's Return to Dreamland Kirby's Return to Dreamland hasn't been seen at a GDQ since 2013 and a LOT has changed in eleven years. Multiplayer strategies are now allowed and 2 to 4 controllers can be used at once to complete levels faster. Wing Zips were discovered and can be used to skip certain sections or puzzles. And boss battles with 4-player strategies are lightning fast! All of this has pushed the World Record down by 24 minutes, and this run will show just how far RTDL has developed as a speedrun during this time.Status: Pending 100% 2P+ 2:45:00 Nintendo Wii U (Digital) RbdJellyfish LittleBigPlanet (Submitting with tasryse) LittleBigPlanet is a platformer with simple gameplay yet an incredibly high skill ceiling, with physics-based movement tech and interesting sequence breaks. The any% no-overlord route being devoid of RNG yet full of risk-reward tradeoffs, combined with the fact that tasryse and I are two of the top runners in the game, should make for a really exciting and competitive race!Status: Pending any% no-overlord race 00:55:00 Playstation 3 Dashey10 Pepsiman I scream Pepsi, you scream Pepsi, we all scream for PEPSIMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!! The most influential mascot from the 90's has their own video game and they're making a special trip to the Sony PlayStation!

Any% will focus on getting to the end of each stage as fast as possible, which includes showing off new glitches.

Cutscenes% is the same as Any% except this time we will be watching some silly FMV cutscenes from our favorite celebrity, Mike Butters!

Status: Pending Any% 00:24:00 Status: Pending Cutscenes% 00:28:00 PlayStation 2 LRock617 Haunted Castle The Castlevania that time forgot! Few know of this limited arcade remake release of the original Konami classic, and those who do know of it know of its brutally unfair difficult. Thankfully, the speedrun lets us shortcut a lot of that thanks to the trusty stopwatch, which is at its strongest ever in the franchise. I will be submitting this run for play of the Arcade Archives version on the Playstation 4, and though the submission video is an emulated run, there are no gameplay differences.Status: Pending 1CC Attempt 00:15:00 Playstation 4 LRock617 The Simpsons Arcade Game Having last been featured at SGDQ 2020, aka the first online GDQ, this classic brawler deserves to be featured for the first time in-person since AGDQ 2016. The run is upheld by the golden standard of "Japanese Version = Good" and I will once again be offering a character bid war as donation incentive. Bidders can choose for their favorite of Marge, Homer, Bart, and Lisa, as all 4 characters play fundamentally the same and won't change the run in any way. WOO-HOO!!Status: Pending Any% Normal 00:20:00 Playstation 3 seldomseenkid Project + This popular mod of Super Smash Bros. Brawl boasts expressive movement, quick decision-making, and a variety of single player and co-op modes beyond fighting your friends. Speedruns of the event modes demand precise execution, adapting to/mitigating RNG, and, in co-op events, concise communication from both runners throughout. A combination of flashy strategies and frequent random items make for a dynamic viewing experience and one of the most entertaining fighting game speedruns you'll find.Status: Pending All Co-Op Events (w/ Helix) 00:20:00 Status: Pending All Solo Events 00:35:00 Wii McHooper Crash Nitro Kart Crash Nitro Kart is the second game in the Crash Bandicoot racing series, and while not as popular as Crash Team Racing, it does have its own unique exploits and skips to take advantage of during the run. The run features tons of track exploits and shortcuts to cut down on time, multiple playable characters and even a completely unusable glitch that can be shown at the end of the run.

In the video, check timestamps at: 16:56 & 18:32

Status: Pending Any% 00:55:00 Original Xbox TheKingsPride Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity Prepare to save Hyrule with the power of Hope, Light, and this Bird I just found in this alternate timeline prequel to Breath of the Wild. This run is a fast paced, action-packed, dynamic rollercoaster ride through 20 missions using 7 different iconic Zelda characters. This incredible Zelda Warriors title has never been shown off at a GDQ, meaning we're well overdue to complete the trilogy and show the speedrunning world how Princess Zelda can save the world while riding a motorcycle.Status: Pending Any% NG+ No Divine Beasts 2:25:00 Nintendo Switch Cane KoroKoro Post Nin The original space, mail delivery game.

Solo or Race w/ Ritzblues783 & Dowolf

Status: Pending Any% 00:27:00 NTSC-J PS2 zzrules21 MLB Power Pros 2008 When you think “sports video game” what is the first genre to come to your head? If you thought “Cutesy Dating/Life Sim” then you’d be correct! Japan’s beloved baseball series made a short appearance in the US, in 2007 and 2008, and with it brought its staple Success mode Join the Green Apples AA team and work your way to the MLB impressing the scouts (and the ladies) on your path to the pros. Status: Pending Success Mode Fielder 00:25:00 Wii SquareMeylix Sea of Thieves In this run you must navigate and swim through the flooded under-ocean tunnels through the ever-loved NPC Captain Flameheart's lair, traversing all three passages and the final gauntlet filled to the brim with pits of lava, spikes, and sawblades booby traps. The ever-difficult sword lunge mechanic of Sea of Thieves converts the weapon into momentum-based movement to aid in trick shotting over long distance jumps. Race against MicroMadsStatus: Pending Heart of Fire Gauntlet 00:20:00 PC Beckski93 Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft The old classic game that we all know and love has had a glow-up. Lara is still up to her old tricks though. The glitched run features some fascinating skips that allow us to skip through large portions of levels in style. We can do most of the same tricks from the original just with new setups, plus some new ones.

Glitchless is a feat of endurance as death awaits around every corner if Lara isn't careful. Platforming sequences are intense and there are some cool tricks to show off as well.

Status: Pending Tomb Raider I Glitched Any% 01:15:00 Status: Pending Tomb Raider I Glitchless Any% 01:50:00 PC plywood Zone of the Enders High Speed Robot Action, in our solar system? It's more likely than you think!

Join Leo Stenbuck, a frightened teenager turned mecha pilot, as he slashes, dashes and blasts his way out of his war torn space colony. Featuring combat that requires improvisation and twitch adjustment, this brawler has sci-fi style.

In Any%, we rush out of the colony, but in 100% we save our fellow colonists and collect all special weapons. 100% allows for interesting strategies due to weapon collection!

Status: Pending Any% Easy 00:23:00 Status: Pending 100% Easy 00:33:00 Status: Pending Any% Very Hard 00:28:00 Xbox Series X Slayur Left 4 Dead 2 L4D2 requires skill, coordination, creativity, and improvisation. The game has a variety of campaigns, and difficulty levels, offering a lot of replay value and potential for different strategies. The Main Campaigns category features the 5 campaigns that launched with the game on release and has all of the original skips & tricks from 2009. The other runners are aciidz, RsKiller, and Uncultivated.Status: Pending Main Campaigns Co-op 00:50:00 PC Keeanolookalike Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age The newest installment of the mainline Dragon Quest games. Set in the land of Erdrea, our hero sets out on a quest to learn of his past and save the world from an evil that has fell across the land. Unlike older titles, this run has a higher focus on movement and strategy, along with a few neat glitches, to speed through the game.Status: Pending Any% 4:30:00 PC SquareMeylix Sea of Thieves In this speedrun, our goal is to attempt to rescue Captain Jack Sparrow from demise! This 'Tall Tale' run requires us to navigate our way to him using platform skips, sword lunges that propel you through the air with great speed, combat with malicious ocean creatures and shoot ourselves our of cannons. In this co-op speedrun, Micromads and I split the tasks to get to the goal as fast as possible as one crew. Co-op submission with MicromadsStatus: Pending A Pirate's Life any% 00:40:00 PC SushiKishi Live A Live Remake If you're going to showcase a longer turn-based RPG in a marathon, it needs more than just good gameplay. It better be pretty to watch and have a soundtrack to match to keep people watching. You'll never do better than the HD-2D stylings of Live A Live, backed with a gorgeous soundtrack scored by the incomporable Yoko Shiumomura. With over a half-dozen distinct settings to explore, there's something for fans of all genres, and technical combat strategies pair plenty of substance with form.Status: Pending Good Ending 04:45:00 Nintendo Switch Helix Super Monkey Ball Deluxe Deluxe is sort of the odd one out when it comes to the original Monkey Ball games, but make no mistake- its speedruns are still extremely entertaining. My submitted category is unique in that only half of the given stages must be completed, making it a very fast-paced category where routing is also extremely important. Also of note: I am a former WR holder of my submitted category, recently taking down an 8-year old record.Status: Pending Story Mode Any% 0:28:00 Xbox Plyd Sports Story Since it's release in 2022, Sports Story has become one of the most broken speedruns ever. While even banning the games most powerful glitch, we show off countless different strategies to completely blow this game open. We also use an unintended glitch to be able to control 3 players all at the same time using 3 different controllers to save up to 10 minutes compared to the 1 controller category. Status: Pending Any% No File Flip (2+ Controllers) 1:02:00 Nintendo Switch Cane I.Q Final This run aims to achieve the Final ending as quickly as possible. This is done by scoring an I.Q of 500 and then game overing to skip to the Tecktonics phase. Once there, you must survive a series of the largest, and hardest puzzles in the game to transcend to a new plane of existence. Status: Pending Final Ending (Any%) 00:25:00 NTSC-J PS2 seldomseenkid Saints Row: The Third Grand Theft Auto but sillier. The street-gang-turned-media conglomerate Third Street Saints take their hijinks to the city of Steelport. In this DLC side story, The Trouble with Clones, they help their biggest fan stop a clone of their late friend from terrorizing the city using the power of music, love, a bee gun, and a superpower-granting energy drink.Status: Pending The Trouble with Clones (DLC) 1:05:00 Nintendo Switch plywood Steel Battalion 33 buttons, 5 switches, 3 pedals, 2 joysticks, and 1 speedrunner. This mecha simulator takes the word 'controller' to an absurd level. Operating the table-sized controls is a sight to see; not to mention the intense mecha combat in game!

The mechanical complexity of the game lends itself to interesting strategies of AI manipulation, avoiding rolling over in the massive vertical tank, and proper management of ammo, fuel and health.

Also, you can grab cows with a dedicated crane button. MOO!

Status: Pending Campaign 2080 NG 00:55:00 Status: Pending Campaign 2080 NG+ 00:44:00 Xbox PimpUigi Sonic CD Restored Sonic CD Restored is a fan-remaster that I developed. It restores the glitchless Sega CD version's speedrun routes back into the game for a faster more accurate gameplay experience. Sonic CD is the fastest Classic Sonic game, so I've always wanted to show that Glitchless Sonic can keep pace with Glitched or Tails categories. CD has never been ran glitchless with Sonic at GDQ. I've been speedrunning CD since 2008. I have the Any% WR of 10:47.32 and it would be an honor to be the one to run it.Status: Pending Amy - All Time Stones 00:30:00 Status: Pending Sonic - Beat The Game 00:25:00 PC BystanderTim City Bus Driver Simulator (Silly Games Done Quick Submission)

City Bus Driver Simulator is a silly little mobile port where you drive a bus around to pick up and drop off passengers. What isn't so simple is avoiding the rest of the vehicles on the road that have no desire whatsoever to avoid hitting you.

Any% completes all 10 levels in order

Random Level Order rolls a D10 and dictates the order that we complete the levels in.

Submitting solo, or as a race with SeaAverage

Status: Pending Any% 00:30:00 Status: Pending Any% - Random Level Order 00:30:00 PC nucular The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim to be read in the voice of the one who summons salts To see the first world record in this category, we have to go back to 2015, when a user by the name of knifechamber uploaded this video. A time of 1 hour, 28 minutes, and 8 seconds. The video exploded in popularity on Youtube. Players were thrilled to see such a beloved game torn to shreds on the hardest difficulty. Years later, one runner named nucular would pick up the category, and what nucular did to Skyrim legendary glitchless was *this*.Status: Pending Glitchless Main Quest (Legendary) 1:25:00 PC Raelcun Chrono Cross: radical dreamers edition Chrono Cross is the "sequel" to Chrono Trigger. It is a vast jRPG that features the same enemy dodging mechanics as the prior game. With a lot of bosses, not a lot of downtime, and fast forward adding difficulty to the run, this has been a popular run on many other marathons including rpg limit break.Status: Pending Fast forward good ending 4:10:00 PC Helix Super Monkey Ball 2 Super Monkey Ball 2 is the most popular game in the franchise, but Story Mode 999 Bananas Any% is almost never seen, and is secretly one of the coolest categories in the game. Use of the stage skip glitch is allowed- we even duplicate a stage in world 3 (which is only useful in this category)- but we must also max out the banana counter at 999. This results in a very fast-paced, strat-dense run, with impressive banana collection and sometimes on-the-fly routing!Status: Pending Story Mode 999 Bananas Any% 00:33:00 Wii plywood Metal Gear Acid 2 The legendary Solid Snake is a man of many talents - stealth, espionage, and he plays a MEAN game of cards! In this tactical card-based RPG, we set up an RNG manipulation that eventually ends partway into the speedrun. This means we must rely on our wits to complete the game!

Luckily for us, NG+ offers the best cards in the game, allowing for efficient movement and boss fights. Watch as Solid Snake and his partner Venus sneak their way by playing cards of soldiers in their underwear!

Status: Pending Any% NG+ 01:23:00 PSP Dan Salvato Yoshi's Story I've been speedrunning Yoshi's Story exclusively for 11 years. All Melons is the "100%" category of the game that is unmatched in its ruthlessness. To execute, it requires a second-nature understanding of Yoshi's many action states and physics quirks. Some levels are pure execution, while others have major skips made possible by manipulating Yoshi's physics beyond Nintendo's intentions. Let's share the love, passion, and Super Happiness with everyone!Status: Pending All Melons 01:45:00 Wii VC plywood Metal Gear Solid Mobile The power of late 2000s mobile phones is on full display! An interesting blend of Metal Gear Solid 1 and 2, Mobile is one of the fastest games in the series. This is thanks to an exciting glitch I discovered! Snake turns into a zombie to avoid the hard work of backtracking for a missile launcher...you know, just another average day for a secret agent.

Watch as we avoid hand cramps on a Nokia N95 and save the world yet again from Metal Gear!

Status: Pending Any% NG 00:24:00 N-Gage CarcinogenSDA Alone in the Dark (1991) Alone in the Dark gained recognition by the Guinness Book of World Records as the very first survival horror game. Resident Evil coined the genre, but AitD invented it.

My route is a Glitchless No Damage route. While there are a few skips that make the run around a minute faster, I want to show that a solid consistency route can still be very strong. There's a lot of small actions to describe that go at a breathless pace. Quite literally.

I'll donate $50 for every hit I end up taking.

Status: Pending any% Glitchless No Damage attempt 00:20:00 PC (DOSBox) TheShadedMaster Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair Yooka and Laylee are back for another crack at the Impossible Lair! This wacky duo thought they had too much help last time for SGDQ2022, so they're back for a death-defying run! Any%, or the Golden Run, requires perfect movement through a gauntlet of sawblades and pits. But avoiding damage shouldn't get in the way of blistering speed tricks. After all, the less time in the Lair means less time to get hit.Status: Pending Any% 00:30:00 PC Toronite Pokémon Trading Card Game It's Pokémon but as a children's trading card game! This wonderful throwback has had new life over the past year as a high-paced speedrunning game has been optimized thanks to its fast interface, RNG manipulation, exploitation of AI behavior and evolution of a runner's ability to make split-second decisions in order to achieve victory! With 3 viable starting deck options, every run is a mystery with plenty of action all throughout! If accepted as a race, it would be with Pinecone606 and 000aj.Status: Pending Any% Glitchless (Bulbasaur & Friends) 01:05:00 Status: Pending Any% Glitchless Race (All 3 Starting Decks) 01:05:00 Nintendo Switch (NSO VC) aliceatwonderlandgames Gal Gun This game has been famous and very infamous in the gaming scene for a while now. It is a rail shooter that satirizes the harem genre of anime and games. It does so with ridiculous plots, jokes and situations that are everywhere through this unique and chaotic shooter using hearts as ammunition. We have to make it to the end of the day to confess our love to our one true partner! I put a lot of work into routing and taking the world record sweep for this game and would love to enjoy it with y'allStatus: Pending Maya Ending 00:50:00 Status: Pending Sisters Ending 00:55:00 Status: Pending Shinobu Ending 00:53:00 Status: Pending Aoi Ending 00:20:00 PC aliceatwonderlandgames Touhou 7: Perfect Cherry Blossom Who doesn't want to watch this mesmerizingly gorgeous bullet hell? This is one of the most important Touhou games from the golden era of releases with beautiful patterns, fantastic music, and incredible difficulty to keep audiences on the edge of their seat the whole time. Not only is this very hard, it must be done in a single clear without using a continue. The speedrun aspect adds dancing right on the edge of our lives to replenish bombs and clear fights fast.Status: Pending Normal 1CC 00:30:00 Status: Pending Hard 1CC 00:35:00 PC 2dos Donkey Kong 64 Randomizer I made this mod :)

DK64 except moves/items/kongs/etc are randomized amongst each other! Quality of life settings such as tag anywhere are added for a seamless experience and much faster gameplay than the vanilla game.

Status: Pending Standard Randomizer Settings 01:45:00 Wii U VC Proto_Sonic Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers A very quick and easy game to run, the player will maneuver through player select screens, spam light attacks to "spin to win" with the Black Ranger, and hopefully pull of the hidden super move to take boss health down to less than 50% in the any percent run. In any%, the level can be taken down to level 1, where most bosses will not attack or will be predictable. Status: Pending any% 00:07:00 SEGA Genesis Raelcun Crimzon Clover: World EXplosion Crimzon Clover is one of the highest regarded indie published shmups of all time. With the newer World Explosion release it includes a new arrange mode that replaces the hyper meter with a gradius style power up meter. This adds a new dimension of strategy to a tough game that features no slow down and a high pace of play.

This submission is not a speedrun it is an attempt at 1cc while showing off high scoring showcases. Arrange mode also prevents milking bosses indefinitely by giving them time

Status: Pending Arrange original 0:45:00 PC Helix Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania Banana Mania was a hit at AGDQ 2022, but only SMB2 stages were shown.

SMB1 stages are a different style, more simple in concept, but often harder in execution, with thin bridges and timing-based obstacles.

DX Mode plays only stages exclusive to SMB Deluxe, which are unique and rarely seen.

All Special Modes plays the 5 modes unique to Banana Mania, all with their own spin on the usual gameplay!

Status: Pending All Special Modes 01:00:00 Status: Pending DX Mode 00:22:00 Status: Pending SMB1 Marathon 00:32:00 PC Proto_Sonic Sonic Origins In anniversary mode of Sonic Origins, runners can pick their character of choice to go through each game in a 16:9 aspect ratio. This run will have Knuckles go through Sonic 1 with the spindash and glide equipped. Using Knuckles will have players skip certain areas, while also having Knuckles going to areas that are accessible to him. Status: Pending Knuckles Beat the Game 00:32:00 Nintendo Switch Verallix Phantasy Star Online Episode 1&2 The almost-an-mmorpg known for ludicrous rare drop rates and immense time requirements for hitting max level reduced to a simple goal: clear the first difficulty with a new character.

Glitchless HUcast gets to run through the game relatively unimpeded by the wealth of RNG that the game will throw at you. Focusing mostly on simple and direct ways to introduce the local (hostile) wildlife to whatever weapons the game was kind enough to give you.

Status: Pending Episode 1 Glitchless (HUcast) 2:20:00 Gamecube MegaPatches Aggelos Aggelos is a Wonderboy inspired metroidvania with a lot of fun platforming and cool powerups that allow for interesting movement tech. The speedrun has not been seen at a GDQ and Any% Glitchless is a good category to show what the game has to offer. Possible commentator: "Glan"Status: Pending any% glitchless 1:25:00 PC casualspeedrun SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs SOCOM is a stealth shooter simulator survival horror permadeath randomizer puzzle game, with some wicked platforming too. Remembered fondly by early 2000s gamers for being Counterstrike on console, SOCOM's single player campaign boasts a dynamic speedrun rich with non-stop action and some really funny looking glitches. Ex: climbing up ledges while crouching sends you somersaulting at lightspeed through walls, mountains, everything until you arrive at a set location in the level.Status: Pending Any% 00:58:00 Status: Pending 100% 01:45:00 PlayStation 2 aliceatwonderlandgames Rule of Rose This game is an infamously rare love story to queer trauma through a horror lens. We play as Jennifer analyzing her trauma she experienced as a kid now as an adult. It's Silent Hill-esque story telling and combat mixed with storybook inspired storytelling, gorgeous music and visuals and sapphic representation throughout. It's all tied together with a neat little bow of atmospheric horror and dark themes that make it a wonderful watch through and through. Status: Pending Any% True Ending 2:45:00 PS2 MrPupG Choujin Sentai Jetman Fun fast pace game the some of them haven't heard of and it's a JP power ranger Status: Pending Any% 00:15:00 NES Proto_Sonic Power Rangers Zeo- Full Tilt Pinball Is it awful? Is it silly? Maybe it's pinball! The Power Rangers did have a pinball game that came out on the PlayStation. This run will be on Easy Mode, which will end the game against Prince Sprocket. The runner will need to play some pinball to get megazord pieces, fight monsters from the Machine Empire, and save the world, one country at a time. The screen will shake when the board is tilted and against Prince Sprocket, so a motion sickness warning is necessary.Status: Pending Easy Mode 00:35:00 PlayStation Helix Project + This mod of Super Smash Bros. Brawl drastically changes the game's movement and makes it significantly faster-paced and more satisfying to master. Bawl's event mode still exists in this mod, and makes for unique, exciting runs that require quick decision making! I can play the solo events, the co-op events by myself (with 2 controllers), or the co-op events with seldomseenkid.Status: Pending All Events 00:35:00 Status: Pending All Co-op Events (1P2C) 00:25:00 Status: Pending All Co-op Events (w/ seldomseenkid) 00:20:00 Wii SoaringSloth Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts is the third entry in the series, and offers a different take to the average 3D platformer! Following a mission based structure, Any% revolves around rushing all the late game parts early so we can blitz through the majority of the game. With over 30 custom vehicles used throughout the run, each mission showcases how the player can break L.O.G.'s many challenges.Status: Pending Any% 1:45:00 Xbox Series X Ritzblues Escape: The Curse of the Temple *GONG* ESCAPE!

Escape is a tabletop game where players use rapid-fire dice rolling to break a curse and escape a collapsing temple, all in under 10 minutes. Players use dice to explore, move, break curses, free friends, place gems, find treasures, and eventually escape from the temple.

Submitting as coop with dowolf, Brossentia, and Baidol.

Estimates includes time for rules explanations between rounds.

Status: Pending Two Rounds 00:30:00 Status: Pending Three Rounds 00:40:00 Status: Pending Four Rounds 00:50:00 Status: Pending Five Rounds 01:00:00 Tabletop Bbforky Dandy & Randy DX Dandy and Randy is an indie game inspired by SNES top-down adventure games, especially Goof Troop. The hookshot item, which is picked up around halfway through the run, enables several useful glitches. The co-op run takes full advantage of this item to skip certain tedious boss fights in the run. Co-op with swordsmankirby.Status: Pending Co-op Normal 00:28:00 PC MetalGlennSolid UnMetal Jesse Fox isn't an assassin, in fact he isn't even military. Yet, after being wrongfully arrested and in spectacular fashion he manages to take on an entire army of Mikes, helicopters, nuclear subs and... *checks notes* a giant sewer monster? In Any% Easy Jesse shows how even the lower difficulty of a game can be not only a cool showcase but also shows how optimization and skill makes lower difficulties their own special challenge.Status: Pending Any% Easy 0:50:00 PC Tft Death's Door Death's Door is an indie souls-like ARPG with zelda-like elements, last at AGDQ 2022 for unrestricted. In restricted, we take out the major glitches for a more traditional runthrough of the game. This category features precise movement and highly choreographed fights, as well as a few isometric tricks to keep people on their toes.

While filled with exciting moments, the run has a few calmer sections and may work better as a late night, chill run.

Also: plenty of ORRRBS.

Status: Pending any% restricted 01:21:00 PC Proto_Sonic Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue In the any% run of PR:LR, the code ULTIMATE can be used to unlock the Titanium Ranger to use in this easy mode run of the game. To save the Earth from the evils of Queen Bansheera and her minions, the Titanium Ranger must go through various stages, avoid a fair of battlings, stun lock bosses, and collect items and save citizens. The Titanium Ranger is used for his high strength and defense, as well as his special move which clears the screen of enemies.Status: Pending any% easy 00:30:00 PlayStation Proto_Sonic Power Rangers Time Force In this run, the runner will not collect any artifacts within the level. The runner will use the Red Ranger to run across time and space to preserve time, defeat Ransik and his underlings, while also learning special moves, such as the ground thump and tornado spin. These moves are extremely useful in boss fights to lower the health of bosses in a quick manner. Zord battles come in a variety of modes (Red, Blue, and Shadow).Status: Pending any% 00:45:00 PlayStation Starwin Blue Stinger Blue Stinger is an action/adventure/survival horror game for the Dreamcast. This game centers around main protagonists Eliot, and Dogs as they try to survive the horrors of Dinosaur Island. The run is the standard survival horror affair with its menuing optimization, precise movement, and item management. The game shares a lot the original Resident Evil's charm with its goofy dialogue, over exaggerated body movement, and overtop music making it an entertaining experience for everyone.Status: Pending New Game 02:30:00 Dreamcast auraace Sonic Heroes Sonic Heroes is a speedgame jam packed with fluid movement and entertaining skips.

Team Sonic is the main category and contains the fastest movement and some of the most broken skips the series has to offer.

Would be bid war between LTS (No Major Glitches) and unrestricted or an LTS run with an incentive to upgrade to unrestricted

Status: Pending Team Sonic Unresticted 01:00:00 Status: Pending Team Sonic LTS 1:05:00 Xbox 360 okNia_ PlateUp! PlateUp! is a rogue-like kitchen simulator. Every day, you are given items or cards to expand your shop, equipment, or menu. But be warned: if even a single customer is left unattended, your entire shop is shut down. Can you keep the restaurant open for the 15 days necessary to franchise? Or will a single Yelp review cause everything to come crashing down?Status: Pending Any% - Set Seed, Coffee, Solo 00:20:00 PC Zoo Halo 2 In the Halo 2 Legendary speedrun, we overcome formidable enemies, relentless AI, and unforgiving checkpoints while utilizing various techniques and exploits to navigate through levels swiftly and efficiently. These include grenade jumps, sword flying, and exploiting glitches to bypass obstacles and minimize time spent in combat. The speedrun is very exciting to watch, with its intense firefights, daring maneuvers, and narrow escapes packing as much tension into the run as possible. Status: Pending Legendary 01:30:00 PC Ritzblues Korokoro Post Nin Shinbun! Korokoro Post Nin is what you get when you mix Paper Boy, Sonic the Hedgehog Special Stages, and anime tropes together. This PS1 gem offers a unique "twist" on arcade platformers.

Tight execution is crucial for avoiding hostile vending machines, watermelons, wolf men, and death orbs.

Submitting as solo or a race against dowolf and CaneofPacci

Status: Pending Any% 00:30:00 Playstation Oatsngoats Super Metroid Any% (PRKD) has been optimized since it's last GDQ appearance. This would make for a great race!Status: Pending Any% 00:43:00 SNES Bbforky Whirl Tour Whirl Tour is a Tony Hawk inspired scooter game where you must free your bandmates by completing various objectives in 8 total levels. The objectives have a wide range of score-based challenges, race levels, and even some boss fights. The co-op run saves several minutes since objectives only need to be completed by a single person, making for unique routes for both. Race levels make use of unique speed mechanics on slopes that can indefinitely increase when a manual persists. Co-op with hh4hoochStatus: Pending Any% Co-op 00:23:00 Gamecube Bbforky Dumpy & Bumpy Dumpy and Bumpy is an indie game that consists of 80 puzzle rooms in quick succession. With two players, not only can most solutions be parallelized, but unintended strats arise from the fact that only one player needs to survive each room, and the mechanic where players are able to throw each other. Co-op with swordsmankirbyStatus: Pending Co-op 0:25:00 PC Ritzblues Tarzan VR Tarzan save Jane from "Bad Men". Tarzan go fast by swinging from vines, ignoring captured apes, eating strange vision quest flower, playing Minecraft, summoning Unity animal assets, and clipping out of jungle. Tarzan ⚾PLAY BALL! ⚾PLAY BALL! ⚾PLAY BALL! Tarzan game's most recent update - "better graphics" and "worse gameplay". Gorilla Tag popular VR Game, so now Tarzan have play too, but only while swimming. Vine physics make Tarzan feel like George of the Jungle.Status: Pending Any% 00:25:00 Quest 2 Ritzblues Cactus Cowboy Land VR YEEE HAW! 🌵🤠 Cactus Cowboy's here for a "root"in' tootin rescue mission! Developed during the early COVID lockdown, Cactus Cowboy Land VR (Corona Quarantine Edition) is the first of a series of free FPS VR games on SideQuest. This first entry of the series places a heavy emphasis on precision platforming in its design. The speedrun utilizes several out-of-bounds movements, trigger dodging, and floor clipping to save time, skip entire segments, and even boss fights.Status: Pending Any% 00:35:00 Quest 2 Umari0 Super Mario World It's been 10 years since the last time Lunar Dragon was showcased at SGDQ by the legendary Suidt. I'm down to come back from the dead to show off how sick and optimized this category and the game is now. I'll be all drugged up on gamer juice (prescribed medication) while attempting to show off the peak of what's possible, providing radically entertaining commentary with my excellent co-commentator rezephae (she doesn't know that she's been enlisted yet). 1 in a million shot let's do it bryonatoStatus: Pending Lunar Dragon 1:40:00 SNES infinitemystery Prison City Prison city is a retro platformer inspired by powerblade, shatterhand and other games. Hal Bruzer is called out of retirement by the chief to stop what's going on in the mega prison. Hal uses chakrams(spinning blades) which can be powered up via symbols and grenades against enemies while looking for a contact that has a keycard to reach the warden's lair. Hal also can slide jump as well. One of the warden's to defeat is based loosely on pong(ex 4:49 - 5:20). Status: Pending normal mode (easy) any% 00:45:00 nintendo switch SoaringSloth Pizza Tower Despite being showcased last SGDQ, Pizza Tower recently got a major update and now features the Noise (Floor 3's boss) as a playable character! His moveset drastically differs from Peppino's and changes the way how every stage is played. Any% showcases how we can abuse his broken kit throughout the speedrun you've come to love.

(Submitting as a race with Jade)

Status: Pending Noise Any% No Major Glitches 1:25:00 PC CosmykTheDolfyn Shin Samurai Jazz This is an incredibly fast paced, diet-kaizo 2D platformer made by a solo dev. The music always gets great reactions in marathons as well. Movement is very quick and visually impressive as we use air dashes and double jumps to glide around spikes and waves of enemies quickly. This is also a great silly block addition, part of the story is fooling a government worker by putting a hamburger in a different restaurant's bag so that they give us the keys to a shopping mall to kill the yokai inside.Status: Pending Beat The Game 00:30:00 PC swordsmankirby Dumpy & Bumpy Dumpy and Bumpy is an indie game that consists of 80 puzzle rooms in quick succession. With two players, not only can most solutions be parallelized, but unintended strats arise from the fact that only one player needs to survive each room, and the mechanic where players are able to throw each other. Co-op with Bbforky.Status: Pending Co-op 00:25:00 PC limy Bomb Rush Cyberfunk Movement+ is a movement system mod for BRC that completely redoes the movement and speed in the game. Many of the speed caps are raised or removed, there's new tech, and even new skips and routes through stages. The downside of this mod, however, is that the walls can no longer be clipped through with zips like vanilla, but there are alternatives everywhere. Any% is a completely different run now, and All Collectibles is a showcase of weird routes and strats exclusive to it!Status: Pending Movement+ Any% 0:47:00 Status: Pending Movement+ All Collectibles 1:35:00 Status: Pending Co-Op Blackout Bingo (w/ shovelclaws) 0:25:00 PC ARC Super Metroid The last time any% was featured at a mainline GDQ event the World Record was a 42:10, and it was many many years ago. The record has dropped considerably since then, and there are a lot of strategies and intricacies that I think would be great to showcase. It would also be great as a race!Status: Pending Any% 00:45:00 Super Nintendo CosmykTheDolfyn Comit The Astrodian Play as an asteroid that looks like a flying poo with a jet pack as we pinball our way around levels with our overpowered air dash. Gaze upon the wonders of bosses that are bouncing circles, circles with spikes, circles with fists, circles with boots and blocked out circles. We also go out of bounds quite a bit. Silly game submission, if that wasn't clear.Status: Pending Any% 00:30:00 PC Ritzblues Super Back to the Future II Great Scott! The best Back to the Future console game... done quick! This silly Japan-only platformer speedrun features ice physics, lag reduction, and auto-scroller skips that make for an impressive spectacle! Watch Marty hoverboard through iconic Hill Valley future, alternate present, and past while battling iconic foes, such as cops with huge guns, drunken acrobats, Ryu cosplayers, and demon balloons! Status: Pending Any% 00:40:00 Super Famicom JSR_ Mission: Impossible Your mission, if you choose to accept this run, is to help Secret Agent JSR_ infiltrate SGDQ with this exciting run full of tough platforming, intense shootouts, and fun gadgetry! This sleeper game is a great speedrun, with tons of memeable moments and some tough sections, all of which are (relatively) marathon safe!Status: Pending N64 Possible% 1:10:00 Nintendo 64 AeonFrodo Xenoblade Chronicles 3 ~ Future Redeemed The DLC campaign of Xenoblade Chronicles 3 taking place thousands of years before the main game. This game is a massive love letter to the Xenoblade Chronicles series, with some nods to XenoSaga and Gears. There's unintentional skips on some forced battles, cool fight strategies taking advantage of the Unity Combo system and a food buff to avoid a tedious level up grind, making the party endgame ready halfway through the game.Status: Pending Any% Normal 2:00:00 Status: Pending Any% Easy 1:45:00 Nintendo Switch Dmt_Goobz Super Monkey Ball 2. Super Monkey Ball 2 is a game in which a monkey in a ball, rolls around various obstacle courses in order to go through a goal. The game is well known for its visually impressive trick shots, as well as its difficult and precise movement. (Examples: 4-9, 7-9, 4-6)

In the Story Mode All Levels category (SMAL), there is heavy use of a technique called "pause buffering". This strategy allows for the completion of tas-like strategies in real-time. Examples include stages 1-10, 9-6, and 2-8.

Status: Pending Story Mode All Levels 00:35:00 Nintendo Wii spikevegeta Chrono Cross Co-op Relay with Zic3 and Eddaket.

A beloved PS1 classic never seen in a mainline GDQ is reborn with the Radical Dreamers Edition, bringing additions like autosaves and updated visuals. There's always something to be looking out for, adapting on the fly to enemy attacks, managing stamina and counting enemy turns. And with CC's unique ability to flee from any fight, there's marathon safety to the run.

Estimate is a time that the three of us agree we can realistically complete the run.

Status: Pending any% Good Ending Co-op Relay 06:30:00 PC infinitemystery bonk 3: bonks big adventure Bonk, our favorite hard headed caveboy is back to once again stop King Drool the Third who has stolen half of the moon. Bonk covers great distance when spinning while in mid air. Bonk consumes food for health and to become temporarily invincible. New this time around are red/blue candies that shrink and enlarge bonk(ex 2:30 and 31:01). Be careful though bonk, many enemies have used the candies as well. Status: Pending any% 00:40:00 pc engine/tg-16 Cane Frogger: He's Back! It's Frogger, except in 3D, and there's new biomes, and those biomes are surprisingly more fun than playing in the street and getting hit by cars.Status: Pending Any% 00:16:00 Status: Pending All Gold Frogs 00:36:00 PS2 CosmykTheDolfyn Super Puyo Puyo Tsuu Remix This is a Puyo Puyo speedrun that I have been practicing for nearly 10 years and have thousands of attempts and hours in. This mode is unique as compared to other Puyo speedruns as it is always 5 color, making chains harder, always on the hardest difficulty and the speed increases between each level for 33 levels straight. This causes the drop speed to glitch out and holding down slows the pieces instead. The speed gets that intense, and I have 1CC'ed this under 30 minutes. Higher estimate.Status: Pending Rally Mode 00:40:00 Super Famicom AstroTheLast Embr Embr is a firefighting indie game where you work together under an independent firefighting company to do tasks such as saving people, salvaging items, or even destroying buildings yourself. In Any% Co-Op Unlocked Equipment, we team up with all equipment already unlocked in order to speed through the game as quick as possible. With items like the jetpack hose, grappling hook, and axe dash there is a lot of fun movement and a lot of room to get creative.Status: Pending Any% Co-op Unlocked Equipment 00:35:00 PC Darkwing Duck Gyruss Hi, I'm Darkwing Duck. You may remember me from such classic GDQ speedruns as StarTropics: Th Unnecessary Capital Letter and Spelunker: Yes, He Does Die That Fast.

Gyruss is a classic arcade shoot 'em up that is unique from it's contemporary games like Defender and Galaga in that it's neither horizontal or vertical. It's cylindrical. Proves a unique perspective on the shooter genre. This NES version is probably the cleanest and contains a definite ending.

Status: Pending any% 00:29:00 NES BIGHONKINBURGER Old School RuneScape With over 100k Consistent players, OSRS is a rerelease of the original 2004 MMO, and now updated to maintain it's "Old School" Aesthetic. This dives into two medium length quests, Dragon Slayer and Beneath Cursed Sands. Dragon Slayer is an icon classic quest, filled with mid aughts jank. Beneath Cursed Sands is a more modern quest, focused on combat and resource management (and jank)Status: Pending Dragon Slayer 00:21:00 Status: Pending Beneath Cursed Sands 00:30:00 PC CosmykTheDolfyn The Next Penelope: Race To Oddyseus An incredibly flashy top down racer that is nails-bitingly difficult. To beat this game, we have to gain powerups from various worlds Mega-Man style. While racing, using boosts drains our health just like in F-Zero, while in the SHMUP boss fights shooting our guns also drains our health. As a result, being a bad aim or getting hit results in a quick death. I have played this game in many marathons over the years and have practiced the commentary to be able to deliver despite the technicality.Status: Pending Any% 00:28:00 PC spikevegeta The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Twilight Princess Randomizer has been out for a while now and as expected the Clawshots, Gale Boomerang, Spinner, and more have been randomly strewn across Hyrule and it's up to us to find them all as fast as possible.

Submitting as a co-op w/Gymnast to make for an overall more consistent run as we can split up areas of the maps to share info. If solo is desired, I would move to the commentary couch.

Status: Pending Co-op Randomizer 02:45:00 Nintendo Wii CosmykTheDolfyn Mountain Taxi Driver Is bad shovelware.Status: Pending Beat The Game 00:12:00 PC spikevegeta Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze One of the greatest 2D platformers of all time is back after celebrating it's 10 year anniversary this year! A perfect vibe for SGDQ, this time we'd showcase it's best category, All Stages, where we take down (you guessed it) ALL of the stages, including the infamous and incredibly difficult K stages where death is around every corner. Luckily, I've played this game a lot, so death SHOULDN'T be around every corner, and left behind will be gorgeous platforming and one of the greatest OST's ever.Status: Pending Original Mode, All Stages 02:40:00 Nintendo Switch BIGHONKINBURGER Baby Coyote An indie game on steam, strung together with brittle code that's easy to manipulate, Baby Coyote kicks ass. It's a fun romp in MSPaint, and manages to adapt as a speed game as the developer started solving skips and problems that allow runners to break early levels. No worries! There's still tons of breaks. Full game is th whole game, Soft Lock goes to a natural end point where the game generally becomes unbeatable. Both runs share a VoD since the routes are identicalStatus: Pending full game% 00:30:00 Status: Pending Soft Lock% 00:25:00 PC AeonFrodo Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories The followup to Kingdom Hearts that uses a card game-like combat system as its main mechanic. Riku's Story uses pre-built decks to defeat bosses which change each world, sometimes the decks are amazing while some are completely horrible. With the variety of decks and bosses, this requires the player to have an understanding of how they work and how to pilot them optimally. Fights throughout the game require mastery of both of Riku's forms, as they have access to different types of attacks.Status: Pending Riku's Story 1:30:00 Game Boy Player AstroTheLast Stardew Valley Stardew Valley is a farming sim where you move into your Grandpa's old farmhouse in Pelican Town, a small village. In Mines 50 Glitchless, it's a mad dash to get to floor 50 of the mines as quick as you can. It has a lot of hitting rocks, killing enemies, and a TON of luck. For the NDE runs, all glitches are allowed except for Dialogue Expansion, which creates a mix of a run where you use glitches and normal strategies in tandem. Each run has the goal of completing part of the community center.Status: Pending Mines 50 00:35:00 Status: Pending Crafts Room NDE 00:15:00 Status: Pending Boiler Room NDE 00:15:00 Status: Pending Vault NDE 00:10:00 PC Slurpeeninja MegaMan Unlimited MegaMan Unlimited is an excellent Mega Man fan game! The game is very challenging with long stages and difficult checkpoints. The Any% Buster Only run strives to overcome these challenges while making it through the game using only the Mega Buster for as much of the game as is possible! I would be playing on the 1.1.0SR version.Status: Pending Any%, Buster Only 01:15:00 PC BubbleBass The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie This is a 3D platformer-collectathon from the same team that made Battle for Bikini Bottom. Every glitch in this game's toolkit is either flashy or hilarious to watch. Bash boosting, reverse slide jumps, lag buffer token warps, and the new Rub a Dub skip are incredibly precise and impressive to watch, while guitar gliding, invisible crate proxies, and memory corruption are goofy to watch live and let us break the game in ridiculous ways. Race w/ JaxlerStatus: Pending No Pause Storage Race 01:15:00 Xbox 360 Dmt_Goobz Super Monkey Ball Gaiden Super Monkey Ball Gaiden is a fangame off of the game called "Super Monkey Ball 2" The game is a significant increase in difficulty from its original release. The fangame is also well known for its long-style gauntlet stages such as 2-10, 9-7, and 10-10, leading to either fast and difficult movement optimizations or long and flashy skips.

This run would do well with having Namb0's Gaiden master run go along as a bonus incentive.

Status: Pending Super Monkey Ball Gaiden 00:40:00 Nintendo Wii Cypherin The Amazing Spider-Man vs. The Kingpin Hey true believers! Spider-Man takes on the Kingpin & members of his infamous rogues gallery to save New York and his love! Never appearing at a GDQ event before, this run utilizes some optimized web swinging & boss quick kills to get through a game well known for its difficulty on the Sega Genesis. Status: Pending Normal Warpless (Gen/MD) 00:12:00 Sega Genesis Slurpeeninja Mega Man 10 As with Mega Man 9, Mega Man 10 sought to revitalize the series by tapping into it's 8-bit roots! However, unlike 9, 10 added improvements by way of being able to quick switch weapons at any time, thus creating new strategies and opportunities for Mega Man to go fast!Status: Pending Any% 00:40:00 Wii Shockwve Minecraft Dungeons We all love randomizers right? Well the Tower is Minecraft Dungeons is a weekly set random run that can be done for loot! Each week has a random amount of rooms and gear at each floor that must be used to clear the run.

Since the Tower resets on Sundays, a blind run of this can be done at the event without any prior knowledge.

Minecraft Dungeons is a Dungeon Crawler like Diablo game that sees no classes but instead has you use random artifacts as your abilities.

Status: Pending Normal Tower 00:30:00 Status: Pending Blind Tower 00:35:00 PC JaredWeakStrike Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix 1 Hour Challenge is a KH2FM Randomizer category where the goal is to get the highest amount of points in 1 hour loadless time. Players gain points from killing bosses and picking up important checks. This run showcases many things such as Boss/Enemy randomizer, where superbosses can appear outside of their home arenas. Showcases of this run are demonstrated at at 20:42 (DoubleADewi), 27:51 (JaredWeakstrike), 31:47 (JaredWeakstrike), and 1:00:42 (DoubleADewi). Status: Pending Randomizer 1 Hour Challenge 1:10:00 PC Seawalker777 Star Trucker Star Trucker finished near the top of Steam NextFest. If you like big rigs and space, you will probably like big rigs hauling...cargo IN space. Demo% takes the player through the main mechanics of the game. Four deliveries take you through different systems all while learning to not lose power, gravity, heat, and even oxygen. Avoid the space junk or patch your hull from damage. Not just a behind the wheel sim. Make sure to put your space suit on for those space walks!Status: Pending Demo% 00:58:00 PC OHMACS Hrot A zany and high speed indie boomer shooter set in the Czech republic. Extremely strange and charming and even educational; the run features plenty of FPS speedrunning staples like rocket jumps and wall clips and features evil gymnastics equipment and newts from outer space. It's really a fun and crazy run.Status: Pending Any% (All Episodes) 1:00:00 Status: Pending Any% (all episodes) 1:00:00 PC DoubleADewi Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix Submitting as a race with JaredWeakStrike

1 Hour Challenge is a special category where the goal is to get the highest amount of points in 1 hour loadless time. Players gain points from killing bosses and picking up important checks. This run showcases many things such as Boss/Enemy randomizer, where superbosses can appear outside of their home arenas. Showcases of this run are demonstrated at at 20:42 (DoubleADewi), 27:51 (JaredWeakstrike), 31:47 (JaredWeakstrike), and 1:00:42 (DoubleADewi).

Status: Pending Randomizer 1 Hour Challenge 1:10:00 PC infinitemystery Mega Man 4 voyage: blue version A megaman rom hack that quite a bit different from the original game. Features different stage layouts, gimmicks (0:43), original soundtrack, new ai patterns (ex: 1:38) and newer uses for some weapons (ex. 6:33, 15:20) once obtained from the robot masters. While Dr. Cossack isn't around, there are plenty of other robots to keep us busy(lots of familiar faces and some surprises).Status: Pending any% 01:05:00 NES AeonFrodo Fire Emblem: Three Houses Three Houses is one of the stronger entries in the Fire Emblem series, featuring many different routes with different storylines. This DLC campaign follows the secret 4th house, the Ashen Wolves house. The run overcomes the limited access to characters, classes and abilities using incredible strategies and taking advantage of the new classes the students of the Ashen Wolves house have. This run also makes nearly the entire cast have their moment to shine.Status: Pending Cindered Shadows/Ashen Wolves 0:35:00 Nintendo Switch melmelmel1997 Stardew Valley Stardew Valley is an open-ended country-life RPG! You’ve inherited your grandfather’s old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home? It won’t be easy. Ever since Joja Corporation came to town, the old ways of life have all but disappeared. With a little dedication, you might just be the one to restore Stardew Valley to greatness!Status: Pending Marriage % Penny 01:05:00 Status: Pending Marriage % Harvey - Race with Pr1nc3ssshortcake 01:30:00 Status: Pending Restoration % - Co-Op with Pr1nc3ssshortcake 03:20:00 PC BigBeaz Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones Comedy and carnage ensues as two bros beat down baddies with a barrage of blows in this classic beat em up focused on sibling savagery as we set out to save Marion midst a mass of merciless maniacs!

This is a co-op run with Cypherin

Status: Pending Any% 2 Player A 00:27:00 NES Cypherin Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones Comedy and carnage ensues as two bros beat down baddies with a barrage of blows in this classic beat em up, focused on sibling savagery as we set out to save Marion midst a mass of merciless maniacs!

This is a co-op run with BigBeaz.

Status: Pending Any% 2-Player A 00:27:00 NES Mageius Chō Jikū Yōsai Macross (PS2) Do you remember love? The game is based off the Macross anime franchise. Has a lot aerial combat using our transforming Valkyrie in order to help protect the world, fight for the future and of course it wouldn't be Macross without love. The run involves a lot of optimization and improvisation for combat. Franchise is finally coming to the West later this year and has a brand new game that's getting localized worldwide for the first time as well.Status: Pending Prometheus storyline 01:30:00 Status: Pending ARMD storyline 01:05:00 Status: Pending Both Storylines 02:25:00 Playstation 2 Dmt_Goobz Super Monkey Ball Deluxe in SMB2 Super Monkey Ball Deluxe in SMB2 Is a fan game designed to be a port of Super Monkey Ball Deluxe onto a Nintendo Wii. This game allows for more precise controls and is much more accessible than the original game.

In the category Ultimate All levels Pauseless, A collection of 300 stages will be played, without the use of "pause strats". This limitation makes for incredibly interesting strategies such as stages Advanced Extra 11, Expert Extra 9, and Advanced 43.

Status: Pending Ultimate All Levels Pauseless 1:30:00 Nintendo Wii SushiKishi Too Fast RPG Are you a speedrun marathon games committee member? Do you love RPGs, but know they take up too much time on the schedule to accept more of your favorite genre? Then this is the game for you! In a world with a need for speed, the Queen is stuck moving at a mere human's pace! It's up to our supersonic party of heroes to defeat the Evil Dark Lord in a short and sweet adventure that's anything but ordinary.

100% must continue from Any%, hence the single VOD submission where Any% ends at 12:40.

Status: Pending Any% 00:15:00 Status: Pending 100% 00:20:00 PC ShinyZeni Super Metroid Any% Race with ARealCutie, Oats, anyone else applicable.Status: Pending Any% 00:45:00 Super Nintendo SushiKishi Invaligate Your Aid! Some games are hard. Some games intentionally make it hard for you to even play with their offbeat controls, like QWOP or Getting Over It.

Some games actively don't want to be played.

Rei and Fazey's story really isn't any of your business, but should you try to help, you'll be forced to deal with the game force-quitting itself, timed computer shutdowns, one or two entirely different games on TOP of Invaligate Your Aid, and plenty more. Runner's discretion is advised.

Status: Pending All Endings 00:17:00 Status: Pending Main Story 00:15:00 PC AeonFrodo Code Lyoko (DS) Based off the French animated TV show, this game follows through select episodes from Seasons 1 and 2, and the 1st episode of Season 3. The game switches between the main screens, one for Earth and one for Lyoko. While Earth sections have funny movement tech, The latter is where most of the action happens, as the Lyoko Warriors can glitch through barriers, skip parts of levels and despawn enemies, all of this achieved without a dedicated jump button.Status: Pending Any% 2:15:00 New Nintendo 2DS SushiKishi The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening While the remake provides a unique and modern twist on a beloved entry in the series, pushing the rewind button beyond even the Game Boy Color remake all the way back to the original allows for huge variety of glitches, wrong warps, and out-of-bounds play. Every item will be grabbed from its original location, but getting there will involve Screen Warps, Super Jumps, and at least one bomb-related glitch as is required for Zelda speedruns. A three-heart challenge incentive ramps up the challenge!Status: Pending 100% Reverse Boss Order 01:00:00 GameCube via GBI Kusomushi_Buxter Battletoads & Double Dragon It is a 2D side-scrolling action game released in 1993. (Developed by Rare, known for the Super Donkey Kong series, etc.) This RTA pursues how to quickly and stylishly SMASH enemies that appear one after another, with high-quality BGM/SE created by David Wise and creative and humorous production throughout. It has a lively finish that is very worth watching and listening to. Although it is a little-known work, it is without a doubt the highest level of perfection in retro games, so I would be haStatus: Pending any% Toad 00:30:00 NES Mageius Wing of Darkness A short but hidden gem of a game. This 3D mech combat style game tells the story of Klara and her friend Erika. Lot's of fast-paced combat, quick dodging using optimal loadouts boosting, enemy despawning, death defying battles and more. You'll be wishing for more as you enjoy everything the game has to offer. If you like mech style games you'll probably enjoy everything that's used in this one.Status: Pending Any% NMG (Paradoxical) 01:10:00 Status: Pending Any% (Paradoxical) 00:50:00 Nintendo Switch Cypherin Shinobi Shinobi is a highly nostalgic 3-D action-adventure game known to be stylish, as well as notoriously difficult. Out the gate with speedrunning in mind, the game's design involves the player beating levels as quickly as possible before their sword devours their soul. Last seen on the GDQ stage at Unapologetically Black and Fast 2023, and even farther back in 2012 by UltraJMan, this run in particular will show Moritsune, the main character's (Hotsuma) brother.Status: Pending Moritsune Any% Normal 01:05:00 Playstation 2 shox StarCraft The StarCraft Terran campaign has the player work with Jim Raynor to assist, and later oppose, the Terran Dominion. While this is the first campaign in all of StarCraft, it does not lead to an easy run as missions 5-10 are all very hard in the speed run setting with 8 and 9 being some of the most multitask intensive missions in all campaigns. Note that mission 3 is hard-coded to take about 20 minutes - this time can be filled with some creativity if desired.Status: Pending Terran Campaign Any% 01:05:00 PC Shockwve Epistory: Typing Chronicles An isometric typing game involving a high level of typing skill to execute. This run involves taking combos into places that seemingly weren't meant to in order to bypass all side content to complete the game.

Some sections require typing speeds faster than 80 WPM.

Status: Pending Any% Adaptive 00:55:00 PC Iceplug Alias Alias the video game based off of the show from 2002 of the same name. In this run: """""""Stealth""""""" (exactly four of those are air quotes) Rolling and jumping up stairs because the main character climbs stairs too articulately otherwise. Jumping final boss in dark alleyway in the penultimate stage to reconfigure her AI Wireless DNA download! Rolling on the floor in an S-pattern to despawn cinematic. Killing dudes with mindcontrol lasers. Backup saves incase vital cinematics don't loadStatus: Pending PC 01:40:00 PC Mageius Robotech The Macross Saga HD Edition Based on part 1 of Robotech. It's got lot of action across 10 missions in this side scroller Shmup. The game has some RPG elements as well as managing movement health, damage abuse exp routing and more. Come relive the first part of the old show and have fun with this very exciting run. Since GDQ HOTFIX run I've that is to do something interesting, beat the game 1 handed on a switch joy-con for thechallenge of it. So you just got to see a Shmup beaten with 1 hand.Status: Pending New Game (Roy) 00:42:00 Status: Pending New Game (Roy 1 handed) 00:43:00 Status: Pending New Game (Rick) 00:42:00 Status: Pending New Game (Rick 1 handed) 00:43:00 Nintendo Switch Slurpeeninja Trauma Center: Second Opinion Ridiculous anime surgery done fast! Patient ate too many Doritos!? No problem! There's a bomb that needs defusal at your medical conference?? Got it covered! Something swimming around in there? We'll laser it out before lunch break! Status: Pending Any%, Normal 01:35:00 Wii quo New Pokémon Snap Are you looking for a run with technical depth in routing point requirments for progression? Or maybe the coziest run you've ever witnessed, filled to the brim with personality and adorable Pokémon? Both these things can coexist, and create the any% run for New Snap, where you travel through 21 vibrant courses filled with Pokémon, with the need to collect pictures to score points for further game progression. It really is a run that has a little something for everyoneStatus: Pending any% 2:50:00 Nintendo Switch JulsJewels Stardew Valley Stardew Valley just got a 1.6 update and Skull Cavern 100 is a run that has a new route with the update. Dive into the challenge mines to show case skill, execution and a bit of luck. Possibility of WR is real. Good incentives available. This route has good uptime with excitement and good downtime to read donations. The Stardew community always shows up at events. 4 Player with Lichatton, Terpretor and Piano_Addict.Status: Pending Skull Carverns 100 Glitchless 4 player 00:55:00 PC Lichatton Stardew Valley Stardew Valley just got a 1.6 update and the category Skull Caverns 100 is a run that has a new route with the update. Dive into the challenge mines to show case skill, execution and a bit of luck. Possibility of WR is real. Good incentives available. This route has good uptime with excitement and good downtime to read donations. 4 Player with JulsJewels, Terpretor and Piano_Addict.Status: Pending Skull Caverns 100 Glitchless Multiplayer 00:55:00 PC casualspeedrun Fallout Anthology The intrinsically bugged out and broken nature of the Fallout series begs the question: is a 'glitchless' speedrun of the Fallout Anthology even possible? The answer is a semi-firm maybe. The Fallout Anthology was last seen in a legendary showcase at AGDQ 2020, but the Fallout games are yet to be shown in their glitchless forms at a GDQ main event. With rumors of a new Fallout game on the way, the time is just right to see Anthology run once more before the Fallout family gets even bigger.Status: Pending Glitchless (Main Series) 04:10:00 PC aciidz Left 4 Dead 2 L4D2 co-op requires skill, coordination, creativity, and improvisation. The game has a variety of campaigns, and difficulty levels, offering a lot of replay value and potential for different strategies. The Main Campaigns category features the 5 campaigns that launched with the game on release and has all of the original skips & tricks from 2009. The other runners are RsKiller, Slayur, and Uncultivated.Status: Pending Main Campaigns Co-op 00:50:00 PC Piano_Addict Stardew Valley Stardew Valley just got a 1.6 update and the category Skull Cavern 100 is a run that has a new route with the update. Dive into the challenge mines to show case skill, execution and a bit of luck. Possibility of WR is real. Good incentives available. This route has good uptime with excitement and good downtime to read donations. This is a 4 player run with myself, Lichatton, Terpretor and JulsJewels.Status: Pending Skull Caverns 100 Glitchless Multiplayer 00:55:00 PC melmelmel1997 Phasmophobia Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to Mel (melmelmel1997) and I to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at our disposal in order to gather as much evidence as we can.Status: Pending Any% Small Maps (Professional) w/ pr1nc3ssshortcak 00:45:00 PC Mageius MACROSS Shooting Insight The lastest Macross franchise game and the 1st ever to be released worldwide. It's a hybrid Shmup with vertical, side scrolling and top down 360° levels. The amazing music of the franchise takes center stage in this game as the game is a celebration over 40 years of the franchise's history. Basically it's finally coming to the west you'll see all the skills of a shmup run on display here while enjoying some great music from throughout the various series of the franchise.Status: Pending Shin (Nard DLC) 01:10:00 Status: Pending Shin (Nard no DLC) 01:10:00 Status: Pending Shin (Normal no DLC) 01:05:00 Status: Pending Shin (Normal DLC) 01:05:00 Nintendo Switch TempestMask1000 Curse Crackers: For Whom the Belle Toils This spectacular indie platformer by Colorgrave harkens back to the days of the Game Boy Color and games just like it. Featuring an acrobatic heroine formerly from a traveling troupe, as well as her bunny girl scythe-carrying rival, there's many ways to play this epic game that features quite a bit of extra content to keep the adventure going. While this has seen recent action through Frost Fatales, I wish to showcase what has yet to be seen on the GDQ channel.Status: Pending Any% Cannonless (Bonnie Mode) 00:45:00 Status: Pending Any% No Cactus (Bonnie Mode) 00:25:00 Status: Pending Any% (Bonnie Mode) 00:13:00 Status: Pending Any% Cannonless (Belle Mode) 00:45:00 PC casualspeedrun Siren Siren is the brainchild born of the Silent Hill dev team's desire for a more challenging and 'pure' horror experience; a game that resembles your standard Silent Hill survival horror sandwich, complete with wildly unhinged characters and even aliens, but with the crusts cut off and doused in five-alarm hot sauce. We also slice diagonal as you get more sandwich that way. Status: Pending Any% 01:05:00 PlayStation 3 HeliosWx_ Peggle Deluxe Peggle Deluxe is a charming Pachinko-styled PopCap game originally made for scoring points, boasting some wild and unique speedrun categories.

NG+ lets you select your own powerups for a strong, fast-paced full game playthrough. Scott% utilizes a built-in cheat code to play the game at 4x speed for a blazing fast full game run. Any% was successfully showcased at SGDQ 2023 as the game's frontline category, now featuring new strategies and a faster baseline time after a year of improvement.

Status: Pending Any% 01:00:00 Status: Pending Scott% 00:30:00 Status: Pending 2-Player NG+ Race w/ brassbeat 00:55:00 PC Tonkotsu Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest Donkey Kong Country 2 is a great 2D platformer with some cool tricks. Any% BARRALAX is hard mode Any% without DK barrels, where "BARRALAX" is the name of an in-game cheat code. Any% No Team-up does not allow the use of team-up mechanics of the game, which makes some wrong warps and skips unavailable. Both runs show off a lot of unique movements and tricks not usually shown in the other categories of DKC2.Status: Pending Any% 00:45:00 Status: Pending Any% BARRALAX 00:45:00 Status: Pending Any% No Team-up 00:45:00 SNES TempestMask1000 Dragonball Evolution As SGDQ is known for its block of silliness, what's funnier than showcasing a game people more than likely didn't know existed for the most part? Dragonball Evolution is the final Budokai game on PSP. It hosted characters from the universally panned live-action film and was released before its source did, oddly deviating in small ways. It's not a traditional speed game. But, aside from being finishable in under 30 minutes, it is part of what saved Dragon Ball. Thank you, Akira Toriyama.Status: Pending Any% Story 00:25:00 PSP HeliosWx_ Peggle Extreme Peggle Extreme is a short, official spin-off of the popular Pachinko-styled PopCap Peggle series, themed to Valve titles Half-Life: Episode 2, Team Fortress 2, and Portal.

The Extreme Grand Master (EGM) run is this game's 100% category, requiring all challenges to be beaten alongside full clearing every level. With only 10 levels and 5 challenges though, this run showcases the 100% playstyle of Peggle speedrunning in a compact runtime--making for a great race setting!

Status: Pending 2-Player EGM Race w/ Britsha 00:35:00 PC SushiKishi 8-color Star Guardians+ This indie RPG is a parody of the Super Sentai/Power Ranger genre featuring an all-female, all-queer cast of protagonists. The retro-style presentation us backed with an excellent soundtrack, making for a fun viewer experience even for those who might otherwise pass on watching turn-based RPGs. Each guardian has her own set of distinct, unique abilities, requiring you to use your toolkit expertly with little room for errors and wasted turns, as getting off-schedule can be very dangerous.Status: Pending Story Mode 01:00:00 PC Uncultivated Left 4 Dead 2 L4D2 co-op requires skill, coordination, creativity, and improvisation. The game has a variety of campaigns, and difficulty levels, offering a lot of replay value and potential for different strategies. The Main Campaigns category features the 5 campaigns that launched with the game on release and has all of the original skips & tricks from 2009. The other runners are aciidz, RsKiller, and Slayur.Status: Pending Main Campaigns Co-op 00:50:00 PC puwexil The Final Fantasy Legend The first entry in Square's SaGa series (the first 3 games of which had their English releases renamed to Final Fantasy Legend to boost sales). This short & sweet RPG run eschews the broken Saw insta-death skill and showcases other aspects of the game's unconventional battle/advancement systems, using a variety of party builds & strategies for fast boss fights with minimal grinding/farming.Status: Pending Any% No Saw Skill 1:20:00 SNES (SGB2) Distro Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent This game offers a healthy mix of action, minigames, and glitches/skips. NSA super spy Sam Fisher infiltrates a terrorist organization named John Brown's Army (JBA) as a double agent where he has to make difficult choices that gain or lose him trust with the NSA or the JBA. However, how morally sound are Fisher's decisions when his sole goal is to go fast?

V1 is the PC/Xbox 360/PS3 version of the game, which is very different from V2 (GCN, Wii, Xbox, PS2).

Status: Pending any% v1 01:25:00 PC iWannaSeeCeCe Psychopomp When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like chicky nugs. Don’t worry, The King of All Dogs assures us there is a plan to everything. Except speedrunners having to crab-walk the whole time, that was a mistake, but the dev said it was too funny to patch out. A first-person indie horror game about a world where everything is clearly normal and fine.Status: Pending Any% 00:23:00 PC britsha Peggle: World of Warcraft Edition This is a 100% speedrun for Peggle: WoW Edition, the WoW-themed spin-off in Peggle, a game series where you shoot balls into pachinko-inspired levels.

In Any%, the only goal is to clear the 25 oranges on each level, however, the 100% category requires runners to fully clear all boards, achieve set scores on every level, and beat 10 tough challenges. A great showcase of various strategies and playstyles.

This was done as a 1v1 race between me and PoetryStud, with SatanHerself on commentary.

Status: Pending 100% Maximum 2-Person Race 1:00:00 PC Mageius Robotech The Macross Saga This is the GBA game based off of the first part of the Robotech franchise. It's a side scrolling shooter that's basically a short but interesting run. Lag reduction, experience routing, health management and a lot more. It's a shorter run but pretty constant for a speedrun. Each character has their own unique stats which effects how each plays Bid war for character choice as well. Status: Pending Any% New Game Rick 00:36:00 Status: Pending Any% New Game Roy 00:36:00 Status: Pending Any% New Game Max 00:36:00 Status: Pending Any% New Game Miriya (Power armor) 00:36:00 Gameboy Advance TempestMask1000 Castlevania Legends As the final Game Boy game of the Castlevania series, Legends intended to be the entry that marked the first Belmont crucial to the clan's history, plus the only known playable female Belmont protagonist of the franchise, Sonia Belmont. While Koji Igarashi deemed the game non-canon, it still holds a candle in the hearts of enough fans. And the gameplay itself is solid enough! Featuring supernatural whip action, chicken from candles, and much more, witness this forgotten tale of Castlevania!Status: Pending Any% (Standard Mode) 00:33:00 Status: Pending Any% (Light Mode) 00:35:00 Status: Pending 100% (Standard Mode) 00:45:00 Switch giygasblues qomp What if you play Pong and you were the ball and you left the room with two paddles. With lo-fi beats. That's qomp. Super chill vibes. Super cool game.Status: Pending 100% 00:37:00 PC giygasblues Smart Ball I'm smart and I'm a ball. This game is cute too like kirby.Status: Pending Any% 00:20:00 SNES giygasblues Neo Contra Super safe run with co-op. This Contra is actually cool and has a talking dog for one of the bosses. And Jaguar slices the planet in half. All canon.Status: Pending Ng+ co-op 00:14:00 PS2 britsha Peggle Extreme Peggle Extreme is a short official spin-off of the Pachinko-inspired game series, Peggle, containing 10 levels themed around the Valve titles Half-Life, Team Fortress 2 and Portal. The charm and quirkiness of this fun crossover could make for a good candidate for silly block.

The 100% (Extreme Grand Master) run of this game requires runners to fully clear boards on all levels, as well as beat 5 challenges. This a great way to showcase Peggle's harder playstyles in a nice, bite-sized run.

Status: Pending 100% (EGM) 2-Player Race (w/ HeliosWx) 00:35:00 PC Madtaz64 Sonic Battle An underrated Isometric fighting game and one of the Sonic's finest spinoffs, the game features a varied combat system with multiple special attack combinations, and a great story to boot. The newest member of this game, Emerl, is a fully customizable fighter that can use any of the rest of the casts' moves plus some even better ones too! The categories I'm submitting fully utilize the large library of moves available at Emerl's disposal to make easy work of enemies. Also as a potential bidwar.Status: Pending Knuckles Story (Upgraded Emerl) 00:30:00 Status: Pending Rouge Story (Upgraded Emerl) 00:30:00 Status: Pending Cream Story (Upgraded Emerl) 00:30:00 Game Boy Interface giygasblues Slime-san Slime-san is the game the devs, Fabriz, made before Demon Turf. It's a single-screen platformer featuring the titular Slime-san. It's a super cute game and each set of rooms features a new mechanic. BK is a standalone DLC that is more digestible than the 1+ hour run and has a cute submarine.Status: Pending BK_any% 00:36:00 PC Mr.Keating Kung Fu Panda (Wii) Its MOVIE NIGHT!

The new KFP movie just launched, but what if you can't get out of the house to see it? What if you wanna catch up on the story before seeing the real deal? Have I got the game for you. Kung Fu Panda (Wii) follows the story of the original movie...with significantly worse visuals and voice acting. But you get what you pay for. Shashabooey! Follow Po as he clips through mountains and abandons countless innocent civilians on his quest to become Dragon Warrior. SkadoosH!

Status: Pending Any% 1:28:00 WiiU freeland Castlevania II: Simon's Quest Castlevania II: Simon's Quest is the second of the NES trilogy, offering an open-area game with different routes and categories. I will be submitting the Any%, Any% Glitchless, and Any% No Wrong Warp Routes for the event. All the categories will be submitted separately but could also serve as a donation incentive to upgrade the run to Any%.Status: Pending Any% 00:40:00 Status: Pending Any% Glitchless 00:40:00 Status: Pending Any% No Wrong Warp 00:40:00 NES Ozmourn Lightmatter Lightmatter is a unique, Portal-inspired puzzle platformer with a twist as the player escapes an abandoned science facility... touching the shadows will kill you. Any% NMG highlights a huge array of skips in nearly every level, as well as minor glitches allowed in this category. This run is a highly optimized, keep-you-on-your-toes run that shows constant strats that skip over entire puzzles and abuse game mechanics and props in incredible ways that allow for a fun run to watch and perform.Status: Pending Any% NMG 00:50:00 PC Madtaz64 Super Smash Bros. Ultimate It's Smash! The runs I submitted run thru the many DLC Spirit Boards that you can play after buying the DLC fighters that accompany them. The Spirits mechanic is really deep and interesting to showcase how they aid you during the run, and the spirit battles are varied and a really cool representation of each spirit the battle represents.

I put in 1 run in the bid war but I can do any, and the Fighter Pass 1 NG run is all 5 of the Spirit Boards from the first pass back to back from a fresh fil

Status: Pending Single DLC Spirit Board NG Bid War (11 Choices) 00:20:00 Status: Pending DLC Spirit Boards: Fighter Pass 1 NG 00:45:00 Nintendo Switch Madtaz64 Wonder Boy: Asha in Monster World Monster World IV, a previously Japanese only Genesis game, finally released internationally about 10 years ago. This is the remake of that game remade in full 2.5D, with improved movement and Quality of Life additions, and a remixed soundtrack! In this category you access a secret merchant right after the first dungeon that lets you buy the most powerful gear in the game, allowing you to one shot most enemies, kill bosses within minutes, and tank most hits with ease!Status: Pending Beat the Game 01:30:00 Nintendo Switch scooterulez Starlink: Battle For Atlas Starlink came out during the late "Toys-2-Life" craze and my runs use the toys that came with it. The goal of the game is to defeat a galactic warlord, while the gameplay is space dogfights and base building. So far I am the only dedicated runner in America, while Canadian runner FireFoXz runs it a couple of times for their country's version of AGDQ(NoResetSpeedrun). This game also can be done in co-op, as there is a lot more time saves with sequence breaks and damage output, solo is rough.Status: Pending any% Deluxe Solo 02:10:00 Playstation 4 selcouthmind Slime Rancher Slime Rancher is a cute and colorful indie exploration adventure game. This run uses a widely accepted mod to make the game multiplayer. Glitchless still allows for several interesting physics-based skips, while 2P speeds up some of the slower parts of the run by dividing up tasks and taking advantage of features of the mod.

Submitted as co-op run with Ozmourn.

Status: Pending Any% Glitchless 2P 00:20:00 PC Cloudmark Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly Fatal Frame 2 a return of the pinnacle of horror. A unique horror game combining first and third person perspectives. The camera play sets the series apart and provides a truly distinctive experience. This run combines extremely efficient movement and a true understanding of the camera combat. All while facing unique ghosts and trying to overcome the ritual in the Lost Village. This survival horror title itself apart from more popular franchises with its distinct rural Japanese location. Status: Pending NG Any% 01:45:00 Playstation 3 Obiyo Diddy Kong Racing Diddy Kong Racing is the perfect racing game speedrun, very fast pace, good balance of glitch vs tech, little downtime, frame perfect tricks, banger ost, very nostalgic to alot of people and very different than the casual experience.

While Any% showcases some trick unique to the category to beat it really fast, 100% is able to dive into what the game has to offer and what makes it special to speedrun.

Status: Pending 100% 1:50:00 Status: Pending Any% 0:47:00 Nintendo 64 Cloudmark White Day: A Labyrinth Named School White Day is a unique Korean horror dating sim! In this run we will be bringing together the best of both genres. There will be a showcase of tight movement and complete understanding of enemy and ghost behaviors. We do this all while trying to woo one of the main heroines!One side will show all the optional ghosts and more lore into the haunting of the school, or we can see taking advantage of the punishing ai! Come watch as we brave the horrors of this haunted school all for the sake of love! Status: Pending 100% Ghosts 00:55:00 Status: Pending NG+ Any% 00:35:00 PC Froob Granblue Fantasy: Relink Granblue Fantasy: Relink is a 3D action RPG based on the hyper popular franchise of the same name. It includes a whole bunch of fan favourite characters in a brand new storyline

Granblue Fantasy: Relinks speedrun makes use of multiple characters to go fast in it's early game, but a lot of use of Vaseraga for hyper damage and super fast movement. A lot of the run is about implimenting correct combat strategies to make sure we don't see extra boss phases and optimal fighting.

Status: Pending Any% 03:30:00 PC Obiyo Diddy Kong Racing Randomizer The same good old DKR except this time, loading zones, balloons, amount of laps, vehicles, normal vs mirrior mode are completly random! On top of that, there is random magic codes which affect different aspect of gameplay which will be randomly applied on a track by track basis. Couple that with glitches being enabled in logic it creates a fantastic showcase of pure speed and glitches while listening to the masterpiece that is the DKR ost.

This is a submission for a race vs sweenerdog

Status: Pending 100% 02:05:00 Nintendo 64 Froob Grief Syndrome Grief Syndrome is an indie doujin 2D action platformer based on the Madoka Magica anime series. It features multiple playable characters all with their own combat and movement tech (or lack thereof for the faster character!)

All Characters is a run showcasing every single character and their strengths whilst also showing off the games only OoB that leads to a quick death and an optional Superboss

Any% Character bidwar would be a 6 character bidwar for whose Any% campaign I run at the event.

Status: Pending All Characters% 00:32:00 Status: Pending Any% Character Bidwar 00:36:00 PC WaifuRuns Resident Evil 4 ULTIMATE RANDOMIZER is a mod that swaps out the players inventory, every enemy in the game, some bosses, and the merchants wears, creating a truly unique experience. In addition it also randomizes the player character in every room, hunk, krauser, wesker, and ada all with their own special abilities and drawbacks. Pure chaos allowing for a unique showcase of mod exclusive speedrun skips and strategies.

No Merchant is brutally difficult. A true showcase of skill made consistent by new strategies

Status: Pending Krauser% 01:25:00 Status: Pending Ultimate Randomizer 02:45:00 Status: Pending No Merchant Professional 01:55:00 Status: Pending New Game Professional 01:35:00 PC kasayev Yooka-Laylee Yooka-Laylee is the spiritual successor for the Banjo games. It's a 3d platformer where we grab pagies inside the levels in order to reach the final boss, the pagies being similar to the jiggies in Banjo. It features all the good speedrun stuff like sequence breaking glitches, a lot of movement options, a snake wearing shorts, and Vendi. For 100 pagies, we aim to grab the fastest 100 pagies available in order to open the elevator that goes to the final boss.Status: Pending 100 Pagies 02:10:00 Status: Pending 100% 04:10:00 PC Froob Deadly Premonition Clear as a crisp spring morning! It's the cult classic 3rd person action adventure zombie(?) shooter - Deadly Premonition featuring the worlds most charismatic protaganist Francis York Morgan!

Join a run of bewilderment with multiple bits of speedtech including smoking to get people to pick us up instead of walking, running away from the ghost of a dead murder victim to teleport, zipping up stairs in our car and the GIANT skip Chapter 12 Out of Bounds tech!

Status: Pending Any% [Console] 03:15:00 Nintendo Switch frozenspade Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge This is a Point and Click game where you must Lie, Cheat, Steal and otherwise Pirate your way through this Classic Adventure. As a speedrun it features all the classics of good speedgames: movement tech, skips, tricks, glitches, execution and a dash of RNG to keep it interesting. During AGDQ 2024, fellow speedrunner thewoofs had a Bid War to run either Monkey Island 1 OR Monkey Island 2. Monkey Island 1 ended up winning, so it seems like a great time to show off Monkey Island 2 this event.Status: Pending any% (ScummVM) 00:34:00 PC (ScummVM) dowolf SNOLF Robo Blast 2 Imagine 3D sonic, but with golf controls! Sonic Robo Blast 2 is an absolutely brilliant Sonic fangame made in the Doom engine, with stupendous 3D level design that's just perfect to turn into an 18-hole golf course. Features constant switching between pixel-perfect shots into windows three hundred yards away and frantic rapid-fire snolfs at a bunnyhopping boss. Carefully planned shots over lava alternating with panicky rushed shots when we fall in the lava anyways. And a bit of drowning music 2.Status: Pending Any% 01:15:00 PC GTAce Extra Mario Bros. This is an incredible ROM hack of the original Super Mario Bros., heavily inspired by the classic Metroid games. It features level design very similar to Metroid and also custom powerups that you need to collect in order to progress through the game. You're suppose to explore the world and collect keys to unlock the final boss, but the speedrun skips all of this with the help of glitches unique to this hack. Both the hack and the run are awesome, and I hope more people get to see it.Status: Pending Any% 00:10:00 NES dowolf Snolf 3 & Knolf Imagine classic Sonic, but with golf controls. Now imagine *hyper* Sonic, but with golf controls. Because that is what we have here in this game: the classic Snolf experience we all know and love, but with the added bonus of being able to air dash. This added level of control massively opens up our options, allowing us to smoothly transition from shot to dash to shots so fast, you'd almost think we're playing a normal game. No Coordinate Warp is the main category, but Coordinate Warps are silly.Status: Pending Any% 1:10:00 Status: Pending Any% No Coordinate Warp 1:35:00 Genesis Mini Lady Mel Skator Gator 3D Skator Gator 3D is a short, cartoony platformer about a gator trying to retrieve the stolen deed to his swamp. This game has been ran at previous GDQ events, and is a notable hit with at least the Frame Fatales speedrunning community. Even since Frost Fatales, new tech has been introduced and the run has been changed slightly. Plus, the devs have added a delightful easter egg for runners. Makes a nice fit for a quick hit game with cozy, feel-good vibes.Status: Pending any% 00:15:00 Status: Pending any% Race 00:15:00 PC AdeptCS Splatoon 3: Side Order Side Order is the byproduct of mixing classic elements of Nintendo's movement shooter franchise, Splatoon, with typical roguelite gameplay. Early community discoveries found ways to turn the game structure on its head though easily manipulatable RNG, which created highly optimized and extremely consistent runs. The result is a high-powered, fast-paced showcase showing the fullest potential of the charger kit.Status: Pending NG+ (Marie's Palette) 00:30:00 Nintendo Switch MrPupG Kamen no Ninja: Akakage Not many knows this game but it start to be known slowly that I ran this from Best of NES marathon. IT's a fun game and interesting thing that is similar to Puss the boot and Puss the boots skin off the Akakage game.Status: Pending Any% 00:12:00 NES WaifuRuns Devil May Cry Trilogy The entire PS2 Devil May Cry catalogue in under 3 hours. This showcases 3 completely but equally fantastic speedruns chronicling the mechanical progression of one of gaming's greatest series. From the economic routing of dmc1, to the high risk high reward of dmc2, and finally the epic display of pure apm in dmc3. Something for everyone and all under 3 hours including game swapping and set up time. Status: Pending Trilogy 03:00:00 PC WaifuRuns Devil May Cry 2 The only DMC game never before showcased at a GDQ... is actually a pretty sick speedrun.

DMC2 turns the audiences expectation on its head exploiting tons of mechanics that regular players would never even know about, everything from manipulations to get up to 10X currency, to even an unlimited godlike power that can only be unlocked by having low health. The entire run is an edge of your seat experience where the player can die at any moment, but in exchange does massive damage.

Status: Pending Any% 01:00:00 PC Allegro The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary A multiplayer-centric take on Zelda....played by one player? In this version of the GBA classic, a single player mode was added and provides a unique take on the intended multiplayer experience. With randomized dungeon layouts as well....who knows what can happen?Status: Pending Any% DSi Solo 00:30:00 Nintendo 3DS WaifuRuns Devil May Cry 3 The greatest action game ever made, back again now with its first out of bounds skip, and even more high input mayhem. The run has gone down over 10 minutes since its last showing.

CAKE Collect All Kill Everything - In this new category we see everything DMC3 has to offer, opting to collect every item in the game and kill every boss, including the boss rush at the end of the game. A true showcase of everything in the best action game ever made.

Status: Pending CAKE 01:40:00 Status: Pending Any% 1:10:00 PC shovelclaws Sephonie Sephonie is a parkour platformer and arcade puzzler about a team of researchers exploring an island. Using ONYX, they're tasked with saving the world from NULL, the island's diseased core. Using its fluid platforming, Sephonie features many massive skips. While a curve-ball, mastering the Link puzzles (and hoping for good RNG) lets us speed through them. This game is an obscure gem that will link ;] with the GDQ audience! Any%: 1:12, 5:27, 15:09-19:19, 21:04, 33:57-37:27 All Species: 22:28-39:13Status: Pending All Species 1:05:00 Status: Pending Any% 0:47:00 PC WaifuRuns Devil May Cry The progenitor of action games is back with all new categories, strategies, and ideas. We have everything you could possibly want, brutal difficulty, 100% completion, and even restricted runs.

No Items is a new category that shows just how much skill expression the game has to offer when you don't cheese it, creating a much more relatable and enjoyable viewing experience than a normal any% speedrun. DMD is just hard. AC shows the entire game.

Status: Pending Normal All Collectables 01:10:00 Status: Pending Dante Must Die 01:15:00 Status: Pending Any% No Items 00:55:00 Status: Pending Any% 00:45:00 PC DoubleADewi Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix Boss Hunter is a special category using the randomizer for kh2fm. With randomized bosses you must adapt to bosses in arenas different to their home as well as their health being different. Fighting Sephiroth in Land of Dragons can be quite the change. Attached is a GDQ Hotfix run of the same category. Check out 1:04:02 for an insane fight of Terra/Lingering Will in Barbossa's arena!Status: Pending Randomizer Boss Hunter 2:25:00 PC Allegro Wild Woody He's a goofy pencil with attitude! This largely forgotten, janky, and weird platformer from the 90's is the perfect concoction for the Silly Games block! Woody will traverse 6 different worlds after the curse of a totem pole splits the universe into pieces.....all while bopping to an absolutely quirky soundtrack composed by a former Guns n' Roses guitarist. Yup....this is peak 90's gaming. Status: Pending Beat the Game 0:28:00 Sega CD dowolf The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero Trails from Zero, which is either the fourth, seventh, or gazillionth game in the series (don't think about it), starts with our newly minted team of cops being tasked to clean out the sewers. This is beneath us, so we immediately clip out of bounds, gain over forty levels in one fight, and take out the mafia, sending us straight to the final chapter. It's a route so blisteringly fast that the final boss won't know that hits him.

Submitting as backup to ChampionBeef.

Status: Pending Any% Turbo 00:45:00 PC Gelly The Talos Principle II The Talos Principle 2 is a puzzle-adventure video game developed by Croteam as a sequel to The Talos Principle (2014). With glitches abound, this category takes advantage of a glitch-lite version of any%, where photomode and launching is banned and the game is dependent on a lot more parkour, items, and the like to skip as much as possible. From using single cubes to skip eight puzzles to building bridges on the same frame we swap them to skip four, there's a wide variety to keep the run compellStatus: Pending NPNL 1:30:00 PC a_variety_pack BioShock Infinite At GDQ events, BioShock Infinite has typically been shown off in its PC format, utilizing the game's frame advantages and gear potential to perform extra tricks. Not only, however, does the One-Handed category give a good reason to perform the run on the hitherto unseen console version (with variations on classic skips), but it completes the game only with the use of one hand, a significant challenge run. Status: Pending One-Handed 2:20:00 Nintendo Switch Obiyo Donkey Kong 64 item randomizer is the standard settings used for races in the community. It shuffles every collectible's location with the pool of items that are included. The randomizer also features tons of QoL improvemet such as tag anywhere, faster boss, shorter/removed cutscene and so much more. The goal is to collect every move needed to be able to reach K Rool and defeat him!

The NSAK variant (No Style All Keys) Has a few differences, the main one being the win condition: acquire all keys!

Status: Pending Item Randomizer 1:50:00 Status: Pending Item Randomizer: NSAK 2:05:00 Nintendo 64 (Emulator) vanni_van Neutopia GDQ fans love classic Zelda games, right? Of course they do. Neutopia is very similar to the original Legend of Zelda, only this has the awesome processing power of the TurboGrafx-16! This means vibrant enemy sprites and a soundtrack that will have you bobbing your head. The run itself is highlighted by boss RNG manipulation, as well as navigating numerous sections of the game in complete darkness. A crowd-pleaser to the last.Status: Pending 100% 01:00:00 TurboGrafx-16 JohnnyGo Mega Man X4 Mega Man X4 is the first entry in the X series for the playstation, and also the first to feature Zero as a fully playable character. It's a side scrolling platformer where stages can be completed in any order. You gain additional weapons/abilities by killing bosses which allow you to more fully explore the stages in the game. The X speedrun makes use of tight platforming, optimized movements and strategies on bosses, two minor skips, and a two quick kills. For 100% we collect everything.Status: Pending X 100% 0:48:00 PlayStation 2 Mitchriz Lies of P Lies of P is a masterpiece of a Souls-like experience, telling a dark and twisted version of the Pinocchio story and having brutally precise and demanding boss fights. The Any% Glitchless WR has been shortened by about 10 minutes recently due to a new update to the game introducing a new weapon. The weapon is very flashy and relies on perfectly countering enemy attacks. There has been an intense back-and-forth battle for the WR recently, and it will continue to drop in the coming weeks. Status: Pending Any% Glitchless 1:50:00 PC Tonkotsu Mario & Luigi: Dream Team Mario & Luigi: Dream Team features tons of out of bounds clips and other weird glitches, allowing you to skip pretty much everything past the one hour mark. The Driftwood Shore Skip found in 2021 and some optimization we added last year to a boss fight have lowered the record significantly. With scary fights near the end and tons of softlock potentials that we must avoid, this run is quite tense and exciting.Status: Pending Any% 03:20:00 3DS Ehseezed Crypt of the Necrodancer: Synchrony We want to show off the new Crypt of the Necrodancer DLC that allows for much safer runs.

there is also an arena mode as well as a weekly mod showcase that would be fun to show off as an incentive for the run

I will be running with Rawsome1234

Status: Pending All Zones Speedrun Melody 2P 00:20:00 PC Blackbeltginganinja Bugsnax Bugsnax captivated audiences from the moment the first trailer launched - a weird, charming game about capturing cute lil' guys (and also friendship). The Any% speedrun does very little of that, with a huge easy-to-understand platforming skip that brings you right to the end. Alternatively, No Major Glitches forbids this skip, and lets the audience enjoy more of the wacky cast and the Bugsnax-catching shenanigans.Status: Pending Any% 00:19:00 Status: Pending No Major Glitches 01:15:00 PC rawsome1234 Crypt of the Necrodancer: Syncrony We want to show off the new Crypt of the Necrodancer DLC that allows for much safer runs there is also an arena mode as well as a weekly mod showcase that would be fun to show off as an incentive for the run.

I will be running with Ehseezed

Status: Pending All Zones Speedrun Melody 2P 00:20:00 PC Mitchriz Elden Ring GOTY 2022 with the DLC releasing right before SGDQ, you don't need me to sing the game's praises, but I will anyway. A vast expansive world and challenging combat that makes the exploration feel all the more rewarding when you find a good piece of equipment. However, in Any% we're flying on our horse and warping our way to the end of the game, then using the "chainsaw" glitch to kill bosses in record time. If possible, I would love to find a way to add some donation incentive within the DLC. Status: Pending Any% 00:35:00 PC cinderkit5 Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus Sly 1 is a great platformer that's been showcased before. The any% category has changed and new game breaking skips have been discovered since the last time it was shown at a mainstage GDQ, 4 years ago. I'd love the opportunity to show off this game and category. I will timestamp below a few of the exciting and difficult tricks for your viewing pleasure.

17:31 - fish skip 29:46 - sly goes flying! 30:55 - new world 4 skip

Thanks for your consideration.

Status: Pending Any% 00:41:00 PS3 Mellowrino Barbie: Explorer Barbie Explorer as a game is a funny mix between Crash Bandicoot and Tomb Raider. The silliness of it definitely makes up for the lack of high quality assets as Barbie commenting throughout the game is hilarious on it's own already. As far as I know the game hasn't been shown in a GDQ event yet and since it gained some traction on YouTube as well it would fit as a "oh I remember this silly game" type in contrast to the more serious in tone ones!Status: Pending Any% 01:00:00 PC Nitrofski WARP A 2.5D top-down platforming puzzle game where the player controls a likeable Orange alien attempting to escape a research facility. Along the way, the player collects new powers, unlocking more of the facility and enabling numerous sequence breaks and routing opportunities. In any%, we collect just enough to enable us to escape with exploits. Video timestamps: 03:50, 05:30, 08:00, 13:20 In 100%, we collect every grub and destroy every film canister. Video timestamps: all movement after 34:55Status: Pending any% 00:20:00 Status: Pending 100% 1:00:00 PC FireThieff LittleBigPlanet 2 (Submitting with RbdJellyfish.) LBP2 is a physics-based puzzle platformer with a focus on playfulness and creativity. The run is a mix of high skill movement utilizing gadgets to cooperatively boost and elevate one another, as well as some large interesting sequence breaks. While the game infamously has a few long autoscrollers, a few recent discoveries have led to most of them being completely skipped in creative ways, making for a much improved run since it last appeared in a GDQ marathon.Status: Pending Co-op NG+ 2 players 01:30:00 PlayStation 3 dijonketchup Fire 'n Ice Fire 'n Ice (or Solomon's Key 2 if you're from Japan/Europe) is a delightful puzzle platformer that tasks novice wizard Dana with using ice magic to defeat the flames of the evil wizard Druidle. This run plays through all 10 worlds, solving more and more complicated puzzles with blazing speed. The sheer ability to solve such mind bending puzzles so fast is generally a treat for the audience, even if they're not familiar with the game.Status: Pending any% 01:25:00 Nintendo Switch Gnydsmelt Lake Haven Lake Haven is an "modern" old school 3rd person horror game with tank controls.

The run is short and sweet and has a very comfy but eerie vibe.

It has a Silent Hill-esque vibe about it that I love.

Cool game.

Status: Pending Any% 00:12:00 PC organMike Ultima III: Exodus Ultima III: Exodus sends us back to Sosaria to deal with the unholy spawn of Mondain and Minax, the demonic Exodus, whose castle appeared on a mysterious island of fire and heralded the approach of waves of evil monsters to threaten the land. The Stranger who defeated the other great evils is back, and for the first time, they're not alone. Four Companions will delve the dungeons, mark themselves, find strange exotic equipment, and wield powerful magics to defeat the evil Exodus in his lair!Status: Pending Any% 00:40:00 PC via DOSBox RsKiller Left 4 Dead 2 L4D2 co-op requires skill, coordination, creativity, and improvisation. The game has a variety of campaigns, and difficulty levels, offering a lot of replay value and potential for different strategies. The Main Campaigns category features the 5 campaigns that launched with the game on release and has all of the original skips & tricks from 2009. The other runners are aciidz, Slayur, and Uncultivated.Status: Pending Main Campaigns Co-op 00:50:00 PC coyne Helldivers 2 This is a video I made a couple weeks after launch that I intended to be informative and also entertaining..! It's a tight run-time with PiP edits trying to cram too much info into a short time haha. There is time early in the run where a glitch is set up by entering, exiting, and re-entering the tutorial; there is an opening cutscene, unskippable; no other downtime. If chosen, I will develop performances for this run that lean more comedic or more informative that appreciate the time.Status: Pending Tutorial No-OoB 00:06:00 PC Iceblue The Legend of Zelda With the successful Legend of Zelda run at AGDQ, I thought to myself, what if we played the game, but in a very charming and silly way?

Introducing - The Legend of Zelda with a twist! Instead of traditional controls, Link has to explore Hyrule while ROLLING. You heard me. This game features the use of the gyro controls of the Switch Pro Controller to fully control Link as he rolls through Hyrule collecting the 8 Triforce pieces to defeat Gannon and save Princess Zelda.

Silly block submission!

Status: Pending Tilt & Tumble 100% 00:45:00 Status: Pending Tilt & Tumble any% 00:37:00 PC tasrhys LittleBigPlanet (Submitting with RBDJellyfish) LittleBigPlanet is a platformer with simple gameplay yet an incredibly high skill ceiling, with physics-based movement tech and interesting sequence breaks. The any% no-overlord route being devoid of RNG yet full of risk-reward tradeoffs, combined with the fact that RBDJellyfish and I are two of the top runners in the game, should make for a really exciting and competitive race!Status: Pending any% no-overlord race 00:55:00 Playstation 3 Terpretor Stardew Valley Stardew Valley just got a 1.6 update and the category Skull Cavern 100 is a run that has a new route with the update. Dive into the challenge mines to show case skill, execution and a bit of luck. Possibility of WR is real. Good incentives available. This route has good uptime with excitement and good downtime to read donations. This is a 4 player run with myself, Lichatton, Piano_Addict and JulsJewels.Status: Pending Skull Caverns 100 Glitchless Multiplayer 00:55:00 PC Pr1nc3ssShortcake Stardew Valley We've inherited our grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, we set out to begin our new life. Can we learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home? Me and my speedrunning best friend, Mel, are here to find out!Status: Pending Marriage% Race 1:30:00 Status: Pending Restoration% 3:20:00 PC Pr1nc3ssShortcake Phasmophobia Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to Mel (melmelmel1997) and I to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at our disposal in order to gather as much evidence as we can. Status: Pending any% small maps (professional) 00:45:00 PC tasrhys LittleBigPlanet LittleBigPlanet is a platformer with simple gameplay yet an incredibly high skill ceiling, with physics-based movement tech and interesting sequence breaks. The all levels category being devoid of RNG yet full of risk-reward tradeoffs. All levels in the game are completed, including minigames/side levels.Status: Pending all levels 01:20:00 Playstation 3 Tonkotsu Mario vs. Donkey Kong Mario vs. Donkey Kong for the Nintendo Switch is a remake of the GBA game with the same name featuring the new worlds. This run is full of tight jumps to skip puzzles/make it to fast cycles. 1 Player Co-op, a.k.a. 1P2C, is an even more challenging category, where Mario and Toad assist each other for various shortcuts that are undoable in a solo (casual/classic) mode. Submitting as a potential race.Status: Pending Any% Classic 01:20:00 Status: Pending Any% 1 Player Co-op 01:20:00 Status: Pending Any%+ Classic 02:15:00 Nintendo Switch britsha Peggle Nights Peggle Nights is the follow up to Peggle Deluxe, a PopCap game where you shoot balls into pachinko-inspired boards. The goal of Peggle Any% is to clear the 25 orange pegs on each board, with board layouts staying consistent but the peg colours being randomised, requiring a lot of quick thinking and adaptive strategy.

Nights ups the difficulty of its predecessor Deluxe with it's own new 60 levels of even more challenging boards, making for a very exciting run to see completed.

Status: Pending Any% 1:07:00 PC Ozmourn Gunbrella Gunbrella is a gritty noir action adventure game where the player's weapon and movement method is a gun that's also an umbrella.

Any% has major glitches such as skipping over half the game by abusing uncapped backwards speed to clip through doors and move through typically blocked screens. This run spotlights amazing fluid movement and combat with high octane boss fights, quick kills, manipulations, and sequence breaking, being highly engaging for audiences.

Offered solo OR as a race w/ Zic3

Status: Pending Any% 1:00:00 Status: Pending Any% (Race) 1:05:00 Status: Pending All Hearts 1:28:00 PC casualspeedrun Manny's My experience at Manny's was incredible! I had the Manny nugget combo meal with a diet Dr. Manny, and I can't wait to come back and try the Triple Manny Burger! Convenient location, perfect for the silly block. Staff went above and beyond. Status: Pending All Endings 00:19:00 PC freeland Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse has four unique character routes, but for this marathon I'm submitting just the Trevor Only route. It's been about 7 years since this route was showcased (SGDQ 2017), so there are some new skips and optimizations found that have improved the time well into the 28:XX range. Status: Pending Trevor Only 00:35:00 NES Ozmourn Jazzpunk Jazzpunk is an absurd satirical game where the player is an undercover agent sent on various missions. In Special Agent, the runner performs several ridiculous tasks to unlock all achievements, like robbing a bank, the iconic wedding quake, and consuming vast quantities of jelly to fulfill ethical responsibilities, and that's just 3 out of nearly 30 achievements this run gets. This run also has new save/load and out of bounds glitches that have been implemented since its last showing at SGDQ2021Status: Pending Special Agent 00:40:00 PC emeraldaly Ass The oozing-with-style 2.5D Chronicles subseries is the perfect way for the massive Assassin's Creed franchise to make its debut on the big stage. Though the game tries to emphasize stealth to a greater degree than its open world big brothers, "Assassin's Creed Mark of the Ninja" as I've seen it called is a blisteringly fast romp with some really fun movement tricks and some full-blown glitches to boot. And best of all? No tailing or eavesdropping ;)Status: Pending Plus any% 01:10:00 PC freeland Castlevania II: Simon's Quest Randomizer A fun randomizer of Simon's Quest that adds quality of life fixes to the original game. The rando also has different game modes, presets, and patches that creates a unique playing experience each time around. For this submission I will be playing a seed under the Standard Preset, including the custom text option.Status: Pending Standard Preset 01:05:00 NES Ozmourn Slime Rancher Slime Rancher is a cute and colorful indie exploration adventure game. This run uses a widely accepted mod to make the game multiplayer. Glitchless still allows for several interesting physics-based skips, while in 2P we speed up some of the slower parts of the run by dividing up tasks and taking advantage of features of the multiplayer mod, such as speeding up cycles for plort and fruit production or abusing functionally infinite stamina.

Submitted as co-op run with selcouthmind.

Status: Pending Any% Glitchless 2P 00:20:00 PC casualspeedrun Atama Atama is a fast paced first person horror game that sees the defenseless player character taking careful and precise pathing to run from and dodge giant floating heads in an abandoned village in the remote countryside of Japan. We collect all 8 coins to unlock the 'real' heirloom and complete the good ending, breaking the curse and freeing the village. Status: Pending All Coins 00:19:00 PC Ozmourn Stonefly Stonefly is an amazing indie game involving a girl named Annika on a trip to recover her father's stolen mech where she discovers many friends to help her with her journey. This run is full of reacting on the fly to the RNG and enemy behavior that the game gives you, and is filled with a several major skips that avoid long enemy encounters, as well as glitches and bugs we take advantage of to skip sequences and dupe resources. This run is engaging for runners and audiences alike!Status: Pending Any% 1:00:00 PC Shemp Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Remastered U2 any% is a blast to watch because this game's movement tech is so goofy. A lot of the run is watching Nate slide up into the air, air walk across huge gaps, zipping across invisible bridges, blowing yourself up to get out of an airwalk, etc. This game is also a great game for donation incentives! It's pretty common for people to donate towards a costume they want for the run during each marathon it's showcased. Status: Pending Any% 02:20:00 PlayStation 4 Shemp Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage The goal for Spyro 2 is to collect all 14 Talismans at the end of each level for the first 2 Homeworlds. At the last homeworld, you're intended to collect Orbs to get into the final boss. For the run, I will be utilizing a bug known as the 'Double Jump' which will allow us to showcase all types of different routes for collecting gems and reaching the end of each level! Once we get to the end, I will be showcasing multiple out-of-bounds tricks to get into the very last section to beat the boss!Status: Pending 14 Talisman 00:40:00 PlayStation 2 Shemp Spyro: Year of the Dragon With Spyro 3, this run will involve us running all around every level to collect 100 dragon eggs so we can enter the final boss! This category is a lot of fun to watch because there is constant movement through every single section. There will also be plenty of times for donations to be read out since we'll be blasting through a few long stretches of level!Status: Pending 100 Egg 01:20:00 PlayStation 2 eddaket Pokémon Scarlet/Violet Scarlet/Violet was shown off last year with the Victory Road story line, but there are 3 other stories to see as well! Path of Legends follows the Legendary Titan story, where we blitz through the five Titans in under an hour. Starfall Street shows off the Team Star story, where we assemble a team of Pokemon to assault the evil team bases in the Star Barrage mechanic that was introduced. The Teal Mask is the new DLC story, where we travel to a new region and see the story that unfolds thereStatus: Pending Path of Legends 01:05:00 Status: Pending Starfall Street 01:40:00 Status: Pending The Teal Mask 01:55:00 Nintendo Switch Crisisaurus Pokémon Scarlet Pokémon Scarlet is the most recent Pokémon game in the series, and recently the DLC added a new story divided into two parts.

Part 1 is the Teal Mask, where we head to Kitakami on a school trip, meet 2 interesting siblings, befriend a legendary pokemon and battle 3 powerful legendary Pokémon.

Part 2 is the Indigo Disk, where we head to Blueberry Academy to tackle a new elite 4 and become champion of the School. This part is entirely double fights, giving a new challenge to the game.

Status: Pending Teal Mask 1:55:00 Status: Pending Indigo Disk (Segment) 2:15:00 Nintendo Switch eddaket Pokémon Sword/Shield Tower of Two Fists is a category that involves beating the main Isle of Armor DLC story line, and has two potential endings: one where you fulfill the main goal and get the Legendary Pokemon Urshifu, and one where you... don't

The run can be done either as a bidwar, or incentive extension and either way you take it, is a great show of one of the shorter and more beginner friendly Pokemon categories, with some really interesting twists and turns along the way

Status: Pending Tower of Two Fists (Get Urshifu) 01:35:00 Status: Pending Tower of Two Fists (Don't Get Urshifu) 01:25:00 Nintendo Switch BlazinZzetti Amazing Island Save an island from demons using randomly generated Pokemon to complete Mario Party style minigames.

This is a rather straight forward game with fun music and silly designs. Each minigame has it's own strategies to keep the run going fast. There is a slight amount of down time as well, so it can be a good game for getting donations read and pushing to get incentives or bonus games met.

Status: Pending Any% 1:30:00 Wii swordsmankirby Kirby's Adventure Kirby's Adventure is the game that introduced the copy mechanic to the series. Since the last time No Major Glitches (which effectively only allows for out-of-bounds glitches) has been at a GDQ, both categories have benefited from significantly harder routes, usually in the form of additional "mixes," that save about a minute each. Status: Pending 100% No Major Glitches 00:52:00 Status: Pending Any% No Major Glitches 00:47:00 NES roromaniac8 Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix Randomizer (Battleships Welcome to the first ever iteration of battleships in the Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix randomizer!

A bunch of bosses, progression events, and collectibles are arranged in a grid with random ships placed on the board. The objective is to sink all of the ships! This grid comes with autotracking and will eventually be available for everyone to try!

The run is played on critical difficulty with all of the superbosses included, so the seeds have potential to get crazy!

Status: Pending KH2FM Rando Battleships (Sink all Ships) 2:15:00 PC JokerSleeps Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee is the first Pokémon game to be released for Nintendo Switch with catching mechanics that are familiar to those who've played Pokémon GO.

All Obtainable Pokémon is a Catch 'em All category where we obtain all the possible Pokémon (135) in a single game. This category let's us shows off the entire region of Kanto.

Diploma is a 2-player Catch 'em All, where we will local trade with each other to complete the PokéDex. Submitting Diploma as a co-op with ThomasPatrickWX

Status: Pending Diploma 05:15:00 Status: Pending All Obtainable Pokémon 05:45:00 Nintendo Switch ThomasPatrickWX Pokémon Legends Arceus Legends Arceus is a Pokemon game unlike any we've ever seen. It takes place completely in the over-world including the battling and catching. In order to progress the game, you need to complete a variety of PokeDex research tasks which includes catching multiple Pokemon, feeding them, seeing specific moves, evolving them, and more! Unlike the All Lords category, Any% will go through the endgame where we have to fight both the legendary Dialga and Palkia.Status: Pending Any% 4:05:00 Nintendo Switch DirectorMusic Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory Everybody's favorite Splinter Cell game, Chaos Theory takes Sam around the world to save it from destruction, once again in a breathtaking pace. Watch as Sam performs precise tricks, uses clever AI manipulation, explores interesting surroundings and, most importantly, does all that in about an hour! Oh, and of course, this game features an amazing sense of humor. Something like calling this run a "fast and funny-ous" type of thing. Status: Pending Any% 01:00:00 Status: Pending Any% (No Alarms) 01:10:00 PC NallyQ Dead Rising 3 Come join Nick and Dick's adventures through the city of Los Perdidos! This run features not only level grinding through creating combo weapons to mow down zombies but also set roles for each co-op character. While one co-op partner is starting a mission, the other can route out experience on the way to said mission, and by sticking to roles we can manipulate boss fights to our advantage. Submitting as a co-op run with Ecdycis.Status: Pending TimeSkip NG Co-op Ending S 1:50:00 PC PetresInc Plants Vs. Zombies "PvZ is a uniquely rapid-fire, Real-Time-Strategy RUSH of a tower defense speedrun thanks to a critical mechanic: The 50% rule- that dictates that once half of the HP of a wave of enemies is defeated, the next wave spawns INSTANTLY. Runs of PvZ involve efficiently gathering resources, multitasking killing zombies quickly while not getting overrun by the accelerated spawns. Any% notably has a plant unlocking system which is easy to follow for viewers as the run steadily increases in complexity.Status: Pending Any% 03:30:00 Status: Pending NG+ Shopless 05:20:00 Status: Pending 100% 08:00:00 PC GTAce All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros. This game is a very interesting piece of both Nintendo and Mario history. This is essentially an official ROM hack of SMB, featuring modified levels from both that and the Lost Levels. It features some unique characters and enemies as well, as this was developed as a collaboration with a Japanese radio show. This game has never been shown off on the GDQ stage, and most people pry have never seen or heard of this Mario game before.

Submitting All Stages as a donation incentive. Adds 16 levels.

Status: Pending Warpless 00:25:00 Status: Pending All Stages 00:40:00 FDS ninten866 Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix The Gold Crown Speedrun is doing all the best content in kh2. It has all worlds, all superbosses, and the post game dungeon, all on the hardest difficulty. It will be a first for GDQ as the optional content hasn't been shown off yet, and this run really deep dives into all the great combat in the game. Both any% and gold crown skip all the gummi missions and credits removing most of the downtime. Any% has had a ton of new things added to the run and would be great to show off the PC version.Status: Pending Critical Gold Crown (PC Modded NMS) 4:40:00 Status: Pending Critical Any% (PC Modded) 02:35:00 Status: Pending LVL 1 critical Any% (PC Modded) 02:45:00 Status: Pending Beginner Any% (PC Modded) 02:30:00 PC GTAce Super Mario Bros. The Any% run of Super Mario Bros. hasn't been shown off at GDQ in a long time, and has come so far since its last appearance. Top runners today have amazing consistency in marathon/race situations, and I'm confident I could crank out a run in under 5 minutes live on the stage. This is a feat that has never been done before at GDQ. Even if a mistake is made, I could instead go for some of the sick frame-perfect tricks and show off, while still not being even a minute slower.Status: Pending Any% 00:06:00 NES Allegro Sonic Adventure DX Big the Cat is back! And now there is more than just catching the frog this time. In this run, we will be catching fish of all shapes and sizes and will be obtaining every unique emblem to the big purple cat himself. This run also includes a unique death abuse glitch that only Big can take advantage of and will be a huge centerpiece of the run. Also submitting Big's Story as a nice appetizer-sized run or as a run that can be upgraded to Big EmblemsStatus: Pending Big Emblems 00:28:00 Status: Pending Big's Story 0:08:00 PC DawnSR Sonic Adventure 2: Battle All Stories is hardly recognizable as a category since it was last shown at AGDQ 2015. With two top players at the helm it's time to hear Live and Learn on the main stage again!

This run is a showcase of everything that makes this game great and allows us to show off many never before seen strats to the GDQ Audience. Dawn will be doing Hero Story, Savac will be doing Dark, and we will tag team the Last Story portion.

Submitting with Savac.

Status: Pending All Stories Relay 1:35:00 PC lungfish3000 Super Mario World Over the years, the Kaizo SMW community has crafted some of the most difficult boss fights ever seen in gaming. Between a precise bullet hell long thought to be impossible, fire and hammers flying around with no rhyme or reason, and lightning raining down without end, each of these boss fights have taken the best of players dozens of hours to beat once. Now, they can each be beaten in under 10 minutes, consistently, on a whim. Submitting as a co-op showcase with tjb0607 and MarkAlarm.Status: Pending Custom Boss Showcase 0:30:00 Super Nintendo Spirialis Void Stranger Void Stranger is a Sokoban-style puzzle game that allows the player to pick up and place tiles, with tons of meta-puzzles to solve and secrets to find. This run features very fast movement, clever use of secrets to warp around the dungeon, boss fights, beautiful cutscenes and a shmup mission. This category plays as the "hard mode" character with unique, more difficult puzzles. Possible donation incentives for the very difficult CIF fight and/or 0stRanger IF shmup mode.Status: Pending True Ending (Lillie, No Special Brands) 00:35:00 PC Nichole Goodnight Phasmophobia Ghosts, ORBS, and RNG - Oh My! Tag along with Bathinjan and me as we race through Nightmare difficulty in the game, trying to correctly guess the ghost types using only two pieces of evidence. This run incorporates our sluethiest speedrunning tactics to sort out the ghost type. An exciting, engaging, and entertaining run to watch for those who love all things horror!Status: Pending Small Maps Any% Nightmare Duo 01:00:00 PC Nichole Goodnight Haven Haven is a charming game about a couple in love on the run from their home planet and its' dystopian society. Full of movement tech and precision, this game is a joy to play, listen to, and watch.

Come on a journey with me as we adventure on Source and try to navigate our way through the story of Yu and Kay.

Status: Pending Any% Good Ending 00:55:00 PC 1davidj Kirby Air Ride The main category for KAR: complete all 9 Air Ride mode tracks in Time Attack. This run primarily uses Wheelie Scooter, which uses several intended and unintended tricks for huge speed. Among these are a cool feature of Time Attack, where killing enemies grants a significant speed boost, resulting in unique-per-lap routing to kill enemies. Unintended tricks include the Scooter’s spindash trick, which zips the vehicle along walls at up to 5x the vehicle's top speed. Possible race with pearstrike.Status: Pending Air Ride All Tracks (Race) 0:21:00 Nintendo Wii Zic3 Chrono Cross: Radical Dreamers Edition Co-op Relay with SpikeVegeta and Eddaket.

A beloved PS1 classic never seen in a mainline GDQ is reborn with the Radical Dreamers Edition, bringing additions like autosaves and updated visuals. There's always something to be looking out for, adapting on the fly to enemy attacks, managing stamina and counting enemy turns. And with CC's unique ability to flee from any fight, there's marathon safety to the run.

Estimate is a time that the three of us agree we can realistically complete the run.

Status: Pending Any% Co-op Relay 06:30:00 PC Bathinjan Phasmophobia Ghosts, ORBS, and RNG - Oh My! Tag along with me and NicholeGoodnight as we race through Nightmare difficulty, trying to correctly guess the ghost types using only two pieces of evidence. This run incorporates our sluethiest speedrunning tactics to sort out the ghost type. An exciting, engaging, and entertaining run to watch for those who love all things horror!Status: Pending Small Maps Any% Nightmare Duo 1:00:00 PC Zic3 Gunbrella A gun mixed with an umbrella?! Gunbrella is an indie game that delivers celeste-like satisfying movement and some really fun skips using sawblades to gain a hilarious amount of speed. Run, jump, and skip through walls in this 2D shooter/platformer!

Submitting as a solo run or a race with Ozmourn!

Status: Pending Any% 01:05:00 Status: Pending Any% Race w/ Ozmourn 01:05:00 PC davidtki Blaster Master 2 This is without a doubt the best Blaster Master game on Genesis.Status: Pending Any% 00:45:00 Genesis Bathinjan Yume Nikki An RPG-maker legend and cult classic, this run will showcase the bizarre and stunning world of Kikiyama's Yume Nikki as we utilize challenging speed glitches to navigate the Nexus and grab all 24 effects at a truly lightning pace.Status: Pending Any% JP & Steam 0:20:00 PC srd_27 Hearthstone: League of Explorers One of the classic PvE modes in Hearthstone, a very memorable single-player adventure that was released back in 2015 when Hearthstone was still very popular.

The Heroic mode is a mode that was intended to be very difficult, but it will be made consistent and fast with very creative and unique strategies. There will be a lot of fun moments for Hearthstone fans to share among the Hearthstone community.

Status: Pending Heroic 01:00:00 PC dreaded_ Hello Kitty Roller Rescue Block-O always dreamt of conquering the universe, but his attempts always ended in failure, and was mocked by others in his galaxy. With Earth as his next target, he sets the goal of turning Earth into a perfect cube. How boring life would be if everything, including ourselves, were turned into blocks! Kitty! It's time to pick up your magic wand, save your friends, and drive the clumsy Block Battalion away from Earth!Status: Pending Any% 00:37:00 Gamecube Toneko Hundred Fires: The Rising of Red Star Episodes 1-3 Hundred Fire is an action, stealth and infiltration game that takes key elements from Metal Gear Solid 1, 2, and 3 and adding its own twist. The story revolves around Montenegro losing his family only to be scouted by a ghostly JFK to infiltrate an enemy base to take out the Japanese Developer. The run itself is skill and reaction based with at least one Out of Bounds trick that is done intentionally while avoid or taking out enemies. Sadly I skip the long ladder climb that has its own song.Status: Pending Any% Trilogy% 00:45:00 PC koma Halo 4 Halo 4 is a FPS game released in 2012 and had a showing in this marathon in 2016. The category that’s being submitted is the on the legendary difficulty, which is the hardest difficulty without any modifiers. Makes the run a one mistake and you die because of the amount of things that you have to keep in mind. From the difficult Skips,combat,movement and more. This run is a must watch for any fans of fps and oob fans. Will be ran on PC which makes kbm and more precision possible than controller.Status: Pending Legendary Fullgame 1:25:00 PC Bathinjan Yuppie Psycho First day on the job got you down? Signed your work contract without reading it? Promoted to Employee of the Month by a horse? Join us for the strange and bizarre world of Yuppie Psycho as we dodge murderous employees, make eccentric friends in strange places, and try to get fired as fast as possible - y'know, perfectly normal corporate job things.Status: Pending Any% Glitchless (Executive Edition) 1:20:00 PC Utsu Solar Ash Solar Ash is a 3D movement platformer developed by Heart Machine. The main gameplay loop of this run consists of skating movement, as well as fighting enormous bosses. The main strats that will be seen is a triple jump, the ability to launch ourselves at high speed, and minor out of bounds clipping. The 100% category as well includes the need to complete 3 NPC side quests, and collect several voidrunner caches, which drastically alter the routes taken in comparison to an Any% run.Status: Pending 100% Restricted 01:30:00 PC Nichole Goodnight Lethal Company It’s time to be a great asset as Bathinjan and Nichole ASSURE to make quick work of The Company’s quotas with minimal exposure to heat-seeking turrets.

Probably.

Lethal Company is a fast paced speedrun with on the fly routing, air horns, and math! What more could you want!

Status: Pending 2 players 3 quota 00:30:00 PC Tonkotsu Donkey Kong Country 3 Donkey Kong Country 3 for the GBA is an enhanced remake of the SNES classic featuring a full new world on top of the SNES version. While the original is relatively glitch free, the GBA remake is packed with major glitches, especially in the new world Pacifica. Glitches include out of bound clips, a frame perfect zip and a frame perfect timestop mechanic that allows us to warp within levels. This and more makes DKC3 GBA a great showcase! Submitting as a potential race.Status: Pending Any% 00:55:00 Game Boy Player Mkwiifreak Pico Park PICO PARK is a multiplayer co-op game created by Teco. All players play as colored cats and work together to complete a series of platform and puzzle levels. With online support for up to 8 players, PICO PARK gives a unique, and perhaps chaotic, speedrunning experience for the GDQ stage.

Submitting 2P with Stripe, 3P adds Danny, 4P adds erupt, 8P adds Nathan, Jiro, Goofy, and Winbag.

Status: Pending Multiplayer - 2 Player 00:26:00 Status: Pending Multiplayer - 3 Player 00:26:00 Status: Pending Multiplayer - 4 Player 00:28:00 Status: Pending Multiplayer - 8 Player 00:40:00 PC Pessilist Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Final Mix HD Gaining no experience in a rpg on the hardest difficulty is advantageous for keyblade wielders Terra, Ventus, and Aqua. Watch Terra use boss and ability behavior in creative ways to survive (see Bid 8:20), use your friends as your power as Ventus (see Bid 1:34:05), or be an OP magic ballerina as Aqua (see Bid 1:58:43). Can have character bid wars or secret bosses as incentives. Or, watch Ven beat the game without needing to open the menu (so no new commands/weapons) on the easiest difficulty. Status: Pending Critical/Level 1 All Stories 03:05:00 Status: Pending Critical/Level 1 Any% Character Bid War 01:00:00 Status: Pending Aqua Critical/Level 1 Any% 00:50:00 Status: Pending Ventus No Menu Any% 01:10:00 PS5 bramhallthefifth Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana Ys VIII is a beloved 3D action RPG that is absolutely silly with glitches. With out-of-bounds tricks, instant boss kills, infinite jumps and much more, speedruns are a sight to behold and will be a completely new viewing experience to anyone who played through the game casually.Status: Pending All Story Bosses 01:40:00 PC Bedwablackburn Lords of Exile A retro Castlevania Style game created by a single developer, with a set of wonderful retro and modern retro music composers. This game is visually appealing and an auditory delight.Status: Pending Speedrun% Lyria 00:40:00 PC tapioca Yakuza 3 Yakuza's beach episode. Honestly comfy as hell (hell is comfy) with a very clever route that collects items and sells them across the entire game to fuel Kiryu's ambitions of becoming the greatest casino cheater of all time. Every last yen, bullet, and bat swing is accounted for. I will show the world that Yakuza 3 is Good, Actually.Status: Pending any% 02:10:00 PS4 PoetryStud Peggle: World of Warcraft Edition This is a 100% speedrun for Peggle: World of Warcraft Edition, the WoW-themed spin-off in the Peggle series.

The run involves fully clearing and ace-scoring all 10 levels in the game, and then completing all 10 of the challenges as well.

The run has quite a few difficult challenges, so there can be a bit of variance, and it challenges runners to use a variety of playstyles.

This was done as a 2-player race between myself and Britsha.

Status: Pending 100% (Maximum) 2-player Race 01:00:00 PC tapioca Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name The newest [ and shortest ;) ] yakuza action game. Features satisfying juggle combos, meticulous heat management, and maybe the most powerful weapon in the whole series: a cigarette. That + glass cannon gear + every attack upgrade + ROCKET BOOTS turns Kiryu into an absolute monster. Dragon Engine + taxi anywhere removes nearly all the typical downtime for these games, making for a great run.Status: Pending any% 01:30:00 PC bdonp Blender Bros This game has that dog in it. No really, Blender is the name of the dog. Before the age of "skibidi rizzlers" there were true real 2D platformers. There was also Blender Bros. With a mix of platforming, difficult boss fighting, and racing(?), Blender Bros is certainly one of the games of all timeStatus: Pending Any% 00:28:00 PC (Steam) sharkhat87 Outlast 2 Outlast 2 kills you if you skip any checkpoints. No Checkpoint Killing is a category where we disable this feature in the config files, allowing us to skip huge chunks of the game with lots of out of bounds glitches. Walls are merely a suggestion, and with the cutscene skip mod, we bypass all the more slowly paced sections of the run.Status: Pending No Checkpoint Killing (Cutscene Skip) 00:45:00 PC Sevadra Celeste Strawberry Jam is a gigantic Celeste Custom Level pack worked on over the course of several years by hundreds of members of the community. The Beginner Lobby was run at AGDQ2024, and showcased many fast and clever ways to clear the easiest levels in the pack. In the Intermediate Lobby, the difficulty constraints are stepped up a notch, but there are still plenty of creative ways for Madeline to navigate and break the unique courses put forward by the community! Status: Pending Strawberry Jam Intermediate Lobby 1:00:00 PC sharkhat87 Alien: Isolation In All Missions CC + FPS, we get to see one of the only categories for this game with extensive OOB skips, and it is the fastest All Missions run. CC stands for crouch clipping, and FPS in the name refers to using low FPS to allow us to hover mid-air and clip through thicker walls.Status: Pending All Missions CC + FPS 01:45:00 PC PoetryStud Peggle Nights This run is a NG+ race for Peggle Nights, the direct sequel to Peggle Deluxe.

NG+ involves beating the game in a full run, except on a completed save file, where you already have access to the entire roster of characters and their powers, meaning you can always use the best master.

This is generally the quickest full-game run of the game, and this submission was done as a race.

Status: Pending NG+ 2-Player Race 01:12:00 PC sharkhat87 The Evil Within This game has completely transformed in the past few years with a new glitch that allows us to launch Sebastian into the air extremely quickly. Expect many OOB sequence breaks and tricks, with a good amount of combat mixed in.Status: Pending NG+ (Casual) 02:35:00 PC sharkhat87 The Callisto Protocol In The Callisto Protocol, Jacob will hover, launch, and blast his way through Black Iron Prison, with a good variety of glitches and OOB tricks. Many quality-of-life improvements, including cutscene skips, have cut out a significant amount of downtime from this run.Status: Pending Any% 01:35:00 PC Pearstrike Ribbit King This run would work well in a silly Japanese game block. All Courses takes us through 20 different frolf levels over 5 different worlds. There are 4 different spawns per hole which requires the runners to know 100 different strats/routes and to be able to instantly react to their spawns. This aspect adds RNG to the run while maintaining the execution and knowledge needed to run this game at a high level. We also have set items per world and knowing when to use them adds to the runs difficulty. Status: Pending All Courses 00:21:00 Nintendo Wii Pessilist Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered Getting launched at mach speeds across NYC using PS5 share features (see NG+ 10:35), webbing through walls into a lack of material matter (see NG+ 4:52), beating bosses in a couple hits, and having literally invincible friends in insta-fail stealth scenarios (see NG+ 1:17:30) can all be seen in this full story run through Spidy's rogues gallery where landlords are a bigger threat than the laws of physics. Hit incentives for ultimate difficulty or don't play on NG+ for thugs to start disagreeing.Status: Pending NG+ 03:00:00 Status: Pending NG+ Ultimate Difficulty 03:12:00 Status: Pending Any% 03:25:00 Status: Pending Any% Ultimate Difficulty 03:35:00 PS5 tapioca Yakuza 2 An intense run from start to finish. 18 years later and sega still cant top this one tbqhStatus: Pending any% 02:15:00 PS3 sharkhat87 Dead Space 2 Hardcore is Dead Space 2’s hardest difficulty, and besides harder enemies and less resources, it features no checkpoints and 3 saves. This significantly alters our route through the game and allows us to show off unique tricks and skips. Many new glitches have been found since this game was featured at AGDQ 2022.Status: Pending Any% (Hardcore) 01:30:00 PC SatanHerself Peggle Nights Peggle Nights is a pachinko-inspired PopCap classic looking for a first-ever main GDQ run. Consistent maps but random peg colors mean improvisation-heavy gameplay that leads to many nail-biting, satisfying and hype moments. Nights is very hard and going fast takes skill!

Any% includes every level and master power. NG+ allows the player to use any power, and Random Master Only randomizes the power each level! Submitting Any% (could be backup for Britsha) and RMO solo and NG+ race with PoetryStud

Status: Pending Any% 01:19:00 Status: Pending NG+ 2-player race 01:12:00 Status: Pending RMO 01:25:00 PC Pearstrike Beyblade: Super Tournament Battle Definitely a Silly GDQ submission. This is a Beyblade game where you knock the opponent out of the stadium and make your way through the tournament bracket. We do this by building up the meter and then using a super move to knock the CPU out of the opening in the arena. Getting these outs comes down to precise timing. The run has some cool strats like early outs and consistent setups for building up the meter.Status: Pending Any% 00:17:00 Nintendo Wii Hectique Spelunky All Journal Entries is the 100% of the Spelunky series! During the run, everything the game has to offer will be shown off, including all of its special level variants, the secret Hell run, and a wide variety of items, enemies, and minibosses. All Journal Entries has been a fan favorite for Spelunky enthusiasts for years, and with a new exploit to skip directly into Hell, it's better than ever to showcase at a major speedrun marathon.Status: Pending All Journal Entries 00:50:00 PC Pessilist Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth In a side quest that is nothing like Pokemon, Ichiban becomes the very best by using tickets to recruit random men who attack with elemental affiliations to battle for him in 6v6 turn based matches. Watch the runner deal with rng draws to determine the team of sujimon that can defeat the Discreet Four, summon crayfish allies, and collect four gym badges on our way to becoming a sujimon master, if enemies 20 levels above us because we weren't supposed to do side stuff this early don't stop us. Status: Pending Sujimon Master 03:00:00 PC Pearstrike Kirby Air Ride Submitting Air Ride All Tracks as a race with 1Davidj. It's been 8 years since this category was shown off at a GDQ. Since then we've incorporated a lot of little optimizations which make the run look even faster and more hectic. Go with David for just a solo run.

Top Ride All Tracks is a run that's all about movement. It's more like a traditional kart racer run with tight routes and lines. We also take advantage of the non-random item drops to speed up. This run could be a fun bonus incentive.

Status: Pending Air Ride All Tracks (Race) 00:21:00 Status: Pending Top Ride All Tracks 00:07:00 Nintendo Wii Sean Smith FOREWARNED You can describe Forewarned(2021) as "If Phasmophobia watched The Mummy & Indiana Jones on repeat." It's a ghost investigation game, but with some fun - and deadly - twists along the way.

I will be running with happybythree, blondkayvon and jaypeg_exe! Join us as we sprint our way through 9 maps of mazes, traps, and ancient vengeful spirits. No map is ever the same twice, so this involves lots of communication, teamwork, and quick thinking to get the info we need and escape.

Status: Pending any% 4 person co-op 00:55:00 PC Sean Smith Golf It You've seen Golf It. Now, what if you could never go into the correct hole for the hole you're on? And what if you could jump? For 3 courses?

Wrong Hole Only race is not a traditional category of this game, but it takes the game's silliness up about 30 notches. With my co-racers blondkayvon and jaypeg_exe, you'll see us drive the ball halfway across the map, through trees, or into pitch blackness to reach any hole but the one we're supposed to be on. It's a golfing good time.

Status: Pending Wrong Hole Only Race 00:30:00 PC Ecdycis Siren: Blood Curse Siren Blood Curse is the PS3 Remake of the original game and is best described as the Netflix version of Siren. The game is hilarious and uses a chapter system for its levels allowing us to breeze through. Every chapter has you playing different characters using a variety of strats to immediately beat their levels by: Damage Abusing, AI Manipping, Launching a little girl 80 feet in the air and more! We can have a donation incentive for the absolutely silly metal ending.Status: Pending Any% 00:50:00 PS3 Ecdycis Lollipop Chainsaw A hack and slash zombie game that has you playing as a poppy cheerleader carrying around your boyfriends head as you chainsaw your enemies! In addition to killing enemies as quickly as possible there are game breaking glitches allowing us to skip fights by going Out of Bounds. Some minor and others skipping entire levels. Did I mention we get to FIGHT ZOMBIE ELVIS? A perfect feature before the remake comes out.

We can mute in game music upon request

Status: Pending New Game+ Any% 2:30:00 Status: Pending New Game Any% 2:35:00 Xbox 360 Ecdycis Dead Rising 3 After Dead Rising 1 and 2, 3 is the next step and this one really kicks it up a notch. Zombies have infested Los Angeles so we trade our skateboard in for cars. We play on the hardest difficulty to save 1 hour of time and really show how difficult the games bosses can be TimeSkip is a mod that skips waiting on Normal mode and features the main story missions, this is Co-op with NallyQ SUDR3ARHEEX+α is a silly DLC that turns Dead Rising into Sonic the Hedgehog... I'm not kidding Status: Pending All Bosses Nightmare New Game 2:50:00 Status: Pending TimeSkip New Game Co-op 1:50:00 Status: Pending SUDR3ARHEEX+α NG+ 1:05:00 PC Vysuals Halo 3 On the surface Halo 3 is an FPS game, but for the speedrun it's really a game about physics and momentum. Using the Gravity Hammer and Deployable Covers to do tricks to traverse massive areas in seconds really makes this run feel like non-stop action. Even better is the Co-op speedrun allows us to try flashy risky tricks throughout while the other members do backups, making this run very marathon safe. This will be with Vysuals, Spilled OJ, Domerocked, MrSir.Status: Pending Easy Co-op 1:15:00 PC eddaket Chrono Cross: Radical Dreamers Edition Co-op Relay with SpikeVegeta and Zic3

A beloved PS1 classic never seen in a mainline GDQ is reborn with the Radical Dreamers Edition, bringing additions like autosaves and updated visuals. There's always something to be looking out for, adapting on the fly to enemy attacks, managing stamina and counting enemy turns. And with CC's unique ability to flee from any fight, there's marathon safety to the run.

Estimate is a time that the three of us agree we can realistically complete the run.

Status: Pending Good Ending Co-op Relay 06:30:00 PC Spilled OJ Halo 3 On the surface Halo 3 is an FPS game, but for the speedrun it's really a game about physics and momentum. Using the Gravity Hammer and Deployable Covers to do tricks to traverse massive areas in seconds really makes this run feel like non-stop action. Even better is the Co-op speedrun allows us to try flashy risky tricks throughout while the other members do backups, making this run very marathon safe. This run would be done with Vysuals, Spilled OJ, Domerocked, and Mrsir71Status: Pending Easy Co-op 1:15:00 PC MrSir71 Halo 3: MCC On the surface Halo 3 is an FPS game, but for the speedrun it's really a game about physics and momentum. Using the Gravity Hammer and Deployable Covers to do tricks to traverse massive areas in seconds really makes this run feel like non-stop action. Even better is the Co-op speedrun allows us to try flashy risky tricks throughout while the other members do backups, making this run very marathon safe. This will be with Vysuals, Spilled OJ, Domerocked, MrSir.Status: Pending Easy Coop 1:15:00 PC Ecdycis The Tairyou Jigoku Imagine Alice in Wonderland but the rabbit stole your cellphone and hired an army of bugs, rats, and other vermin to ruin your day so you vow to stomp on them to death because it's the only answer to get back your phone addiction. The Tairyou Jigoku is as silly as it sounds and is a hidden gem of the Simple 2000 series of Japanese exclusive games. It would be a perfect Silly block submission.Status: Pending Any% 00:45:00 PS2 DomeRocked Halo 3 On the surface Halo 3 is an FPS game, but for the speedrun it's really a game about physics and momentum. Using the Gravity Hammer and Deployable Covers to do tricks to traverse massive areas in seconds really makes this run feel like non-stop action. Even better is the Co-op speedrun allows us to try flashy risky tricks throughout while the other members do backups, making this run very marathon safe. This will be with Vysuals, Spilled OJ, Domerocked, MrSir.Status: Pending Easy Co-op 01:15:00 PC Ecdycis Clock Tower 3 Imagine a Sailor Moon horror game where you are chased by the worlds goofiest stalkers who immediately ignite on fire if you throw water on them. Each chapter you decide you've had enough so you literally use an anime Spirit Bomb to send them to the shadow realm. Clock Tower 3 is the perfect blend of horror and silly and will allow GDQ viewers to channel their energy to help defeat this games villains!Status: Pending Any% 1:25:00 PS2 Darkwing Duck Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom Hi, I'm Darkwing Duck, you may remember me from such pun filled GDQ runs as Rygar: Ry ask Rygar and EVO Search for Eden: Shark Ridin' Laser Sharks.

With that title, characters like Sir Cucumber and places like the Zucchini Mountains, the vegetable is set for wackiness and fun in this menu based puzzle adventure. Also...there's Percy the Persimmon. (boo!) This game is an experience, and marathon play will act toward the silliness, which is why the estimate is a bit longer than usual.

Status: Pending any% 00:50:00 NES gocubbies Yu-gi-oh: Forbidden Memories! Runners try to help as by playing both the Pharoah of ancient times and Yugi Moto in modern day by defeating a vast array of characters by the only way they know how: DUELING! By using monster cards, magics, traps, equips and more we fight our way to the top and try to save the world from the scheming of the visier Heishin (not Jafar) and his minions, in part from the 15 cards they give us upon victory.Status: Pending 15-Card Randomizer 2:45:00 Playstation 1 shovelclaws Bomb Rush Cyberfunk BRC features over 150 collectibles to get while sprayin' graffiti and dodging cops in the six boroughs of New Amsterdam.

With the Bingo Mod, we can turn BRC into a true open world, removing all story restrictions. Shuffling a board of 25 goals, bingo turns into an expressive routing challenge. Combined with the broken movement of both the vanilla game and Movement Plus, any goal becomes a unique challenge!

BRC bingo is a fantastic mini-showcase of the amazing modding scene behind this game!

Status: Pending Co-op Blackout Bingo (w/ limy) 0:25:00 PC starsmiley OMORI OMORI is a psychological horror RPG that showcases a triangle-based battle system, hand-drawn art, an excellent OST, and tons of game-breaking glitches. From being able to skip entire cutscenes and areas of the game using tag-stepping and touchscreen glitches to being able to warp to the debug room to the end of the game in less than an hour, this game has it all. It will also likely make you cry.Status: Pending Any% Unrestricted 1:00:00 Status: Pending Secret Ending (No Save Warp) 4:00:00 PC Chronos_R Baldur's Gate 3 Baldur's Gate 3 has received many updates over the past few months, one of which includes Honour Mode, a challenge for even the most experienced players. Run on the current patch of the game, this glitchless run will showcase a unique approach to this game's many mechanics that very few people have seen or even know about. With new developments that have occurred in recently, this route now has a lot more marathon safety and is truly "explosive".Status: Pending Honour Mode Glitchless 01:00:00 PC Darkwing Duck Micro Machines Hi, I'm Darkwing Duck. You may remember me from such SNES GDQ runs as EVO: Search for Eden: Two colons in the Title and Tetris Attack: No, I didn't lose in Stage 1, YOU lost in Stage 1.

Micro Machines are a toy from the 80s and 90s made into a racing game! You play as these small vehicles in all sorts of real world courses, like the bedroom, kitchen table and the bathtub! There are 25 courses you play through.

Status: Pending any% 01:15:00 SNES DirectorMusic Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Step inside the shoes of Sam Fisher, a special agent who's trying to save the world… in one hour! This run wrecks everything you know about stealth — flashy action gameplay, some out-of-bounds maneuvers and AI manipulation. Sam will keep you on your toes!Status: Pending Any% 01:00:00 PC Chronos_R Halo 3 One of the greatest games of all time, now with 4x the speed! Played on Legendary difficulty, 4p co-op features all of the sick movement and physics launches you'd expect from Halo 3, plus several co-op exclusive glitches, teleports, and OOB segments. With 4 world class runners, the biggest sell for this run is the commentary, comradery, & teamwork on display... or how it often devolves into laughter and pandemonium as we race each other in Warthogs or argue who gets to hold the Gravity Hammer.Status: Pending 4p Co-op Legendary 1:20:00 PC Epiphane Satisfactory Satisfactory is an automation/factory building game set on the alien planet of MASSAGE-2(A-B)b that features highly optimized and chaotic factories alongside exploration and combat. An automation game does not follow the typical flow of many other speed games, so every single run is different and you will see a complex interplay of crazy factories, quick improvisation, and intense, high-speed recalculation over hours.

We've seen the first and second packages at GDQ, time for the third!

Status: Pending Package% 00:20:00 Status: Pending 2Package% 1:00:00 Status: Pending 3Package% 04:00:00 PC DanTheVP Lords of Exile Lords of Exile is a 2d action platformer with 8 levels that offer a classic experience, challenging level design, and set piece boss fights. The Lyria character can run, double jump, and throw daggers, which makes her the fastest playable character. Checkpoints & instant restarts balance the punishing difficulty presented by many instant death obstacles. With retro aesthetics and the speed of a modern platformer, this game makes for a great speedrun showcase.Status: Pending Any%, Lyria 00:34:00 PC Kirthar Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider A retro-style action platformer with similarities to the Shinobi games and some Mega Man-esque game mechanics. There's a lot of focus on fluid movement and good platforming while also optimally using the powers/weapons you get from the bosses at the end of every stage. Oh, and the soundtrack slaps all the way through.Status: Pending Beat the Game 00:40:00 PC gocubbies Crash Bash Runners do their best to conquer the challenges in this Mario Party-inspired set of minigames. All the while trying their best to avoid failing and dealing with the tricky trophy gem and crystal challenges that can turn a run from good to bad in moments!

Run incentives: Space Bash Crystal (No Movement) N Ballism Crystal Sky Balls Crystal Pogo Padlock Crystal

Status: Pending Any% (No MM) 2:30:00 Playstation 1 shovelclaws Lil Gator Game Gator is back to strike cute into the hearts of all that oppose him in 100% - where we befriend all of the island's inhabitants and destroy all the monsters that have invaded! 100% is a free-flowing category about clean movement and traversing the island in post-game to clear out all of the enemies. Based on a modified All Friends route, we'll use shurikens, shield-surfing, and more! This category is one of my favorites to run, and has been a passion project of mine over the past year.Status: Pending 100% 1:05:00 Status: Pending All Friends 0:27:00 PC bryonato Halo 3 One of the greatest games of all time, now with 4x the speed! Played on Legendary difficulty, 4p co-op features all of the sick movement and physics launches you'd expect from Halo 3, plus several co-op exclusive glitches, teleports, and OOB segments. With 4 world class runners, the biggest sell for this run is the commentary, comradery, & teamwork on display... or how it often devolves into laughter and pandemonium as we race each other in Warthogs or argue who gets to hold the Gravity Hammer.Status: Pending 4p Co-op Legendary 1:20:00 PC monkeysmb Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed is a goofy movie game that actually has quite the intricate movement. There are plenty of precise jumps and damage boosts, as well as cycle skips on many of the bosses.Status: Pending Any% 00:35:00 Gameboy Player Goofy PICO PARK PICO PARK is a multiplayer co-op game created by Teco. All players play as colored cats and work together to complete a series of platform and puzzle levels. With online support for up to 8 players, PICO PARK gives a unique, and perhaps chaotic, speedrunning experience for the GDQ stage. Submitting with Stripe, Mkwiifreak, Danny, erupt, Nathan, Jiro, and Winbag.Status: Pending Multiplayer - 8 Player 00:40:00 PC monkeysmb Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg is a quirky and engaging platformer, filled with plenty of interesting tricks and silly movement. In the All Levels category, this is pushed even further, with plenty of unique strategies that are not seen in the any% run. Any% is a race to collect the fastest 25 emblems in the run while defeating the required bosses to reach the end.Status: Pending All Levels 2:50:00 Status: Pending Any% 1:12:00 Nintendo Wii Headbob Pokémon X/Y Welcome to Kalos! With the highly anticipated Pokémon Legends Z-A releasing next year, I think it makes sense to take it back to see where it all began: the land of mega evolution, red-haired villains and too many rivals! The Any% route for this game is quite intriguing, showcasing a whopping 4 different main Pokémon used in succession throughout the run - more than any other current main-series Pokémon run. I hope to be able to show this awesome run off!Status: Pending Any% 4:00:00 Nintendo 3DS ref0417 Slime morimori syogeki no sippodan Before rocket Slime. We present the first work of the Slime Morimori series, which has not yet been widely spread abroad. This game has been talked about from time to time overseas and is a speed run with 100% action elements. The slime collection is set at 72 slimes, and it will be a very smooth and clean piece of work.Status: Pending Any% 1:40:00 GBA monkeysmb Super Monkey Ball 2 Super Monkey Ball 2 is a speedrunning marathon classic; it's visually impressive and an easy to understand run. The fastest strategies often require the use of pause buffering to achieve desired inputs, but this run bans the use of pauses to limit the player to only the movement of the monkey. This opens the door to different strategies, some of which are much more difficult than their paused counterparts.Status: Pending Story Mode All Levels Pauseless 00:38:00 Nintendo Wii ref0417 DK:jungle Climber There are no glitches in this game and it is a game that reflects your abilities well. It is one of the most difficult games in the Donkey Kong series, and it has an instant death system that takes damage, and I submit that it is a spectacular action game that requires fine movement precision.Status: Pending Any% 00:55:00 DS monkeysmb Metroid Fusion Metroid Fusion is filled with heavily refined movement and boss fight strategies. Any% really pushes the game in terms of solid resource management and survival skills while plowing forwards through the game. 100%, on the other hand, really pushes the game's movement to the limit with precise speed booster techniques and other tricks to create a very movement intensive run.Status: Pending 100% 1:45:00 Status: Pending Any% 1:20:00 Gameboy Player ref0417 mario&luigi:Dream Team The first hour of the game is dedicated to mashing and from the middle of the game, the game is played with glitches. It is as if the sky and the sea were the earth. In the last half of the game, you fight bosses, fight the last boss, and have a minimum number of battles. Let us show you the new Dream Team that has found the optimal route.Status: Pending Any% 3:20:00 3DS ref0417 mario&luigi:Partners In Time Glitches, blindfolded sections, and boss action are all required in this game.Speedrun is considered the hardest in the MaL series, but last year I found a route that was almost 10 minutes shorter and achieved Sub236 to Sub226 for me. I would like to present the results of that research here.Status: Pending Any% 02:40:00 Status: Pending All Bosses 3:40:00 DS ref0417 Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime The game has only a few glitches, but aims at the ability to quickly calculate the damage and the shortest route to win. The 100Slime% category is for those who can save all slimes at 100% in this game.Status: Pending Any% 2:10:00 Status: Pending 100Slime 3:05:00 DS Drakodan Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django Action-RPG that uniquely uses real solar energy to power ingame mechanics. Can't play outdoors, so a source of UV radiation is required to play this game on real hardware, such as a UV flashlight! Playing on a DS allows greater control of the solar level by physically moving the system as and when needed for variable levels. Having maxed sunlight is not intended to be consistently possible and makes certain mechanics/interactions such as dashing MUCH faster.Status: Pending Any% 02:15:00 DS Azurillkirby Shadow the Hedgehog SX: Speedrunner's Cut An often overlooked game of the Adventure era of Sonic, Shadow the Hedgehog plays like a 3D Sonic, but with guns. Shadow is a very fluid speedgame where you have to balance speed with killing enemies.

The new SX mod, designed for speedrunning, has given more popularity to this speedgame, fixing the In-Game Timer and adding small conveniences without changing level design.

Neutral Glitchless is the most popular category of the game, with a great mix of different types of missions and levels.

Status: Pending Neutral Glitchless 00:24:00 Nintendo Wii allison8bit Birds Aren't Real: The Game Birds Aren't Real. They used to be. Until the U.S. Government replaced them with drone replicas designed to spy on the American public.

Based on the real-life satirical conspiracy theory, Birds Aren't Real: The Game takes us through a handful of missions to cause mayhem, fight propaganda, and spy on civilians as a government bird drone.

This is a very silly and short game, but might be perfect for SGDQ's Silly Game block!

Status: Pending Any% 00:09:00 PC allison8bit Crossroad OS WELCOME... PREPARING SETUP SETUP IS READING DATA... SETUP IS INSTALLING OS !INTERFERANCE DETECTED! MANUAL OVERRIDE REQUIRED

Crossroad OS is a short and mysterious puzzle game set in a mysterious operating system. Join me as I playthrough the game, showcasing various puzzles at blazing speeds, and delve into the lore of this mysterious yet exciting indie title!

This run is being submit as either a solo run OR as a race with juh0, which includes a Legacy patch vs Current patch race!

Status: Pending Any% 00:15:00 Status: Pending Any% Race vs juh0 00:18:00 PC WaveWarrior Pokémon Emerald Pokémon Emerald Any% Glitchless involves beating the game as fast as possible, without using any glitches like credits warps or item duplication, but allowing RNG manipulation. Emerald has fast paced and technical movement with the Mach Bike, and many complex fights. Through RNG manipulation, we even catch a full health legendary pokémon with a standard poké ball!Status: Pending Any% Glitchless 02:50:00 GameCube (Game Boy Player) siddflippy Hollow Knight Welcome to Spore Shroom Hollow Knight any%! In the last year, the any% category has seen a number of new reroutes and updates including collecting new relics and difficult skips. This run includes picking up a different charm for the final boss, plenty of fast movement, boss fights, and hard tricks that are a joy to practice, learn, and watch! Huge shoutouts to the community for continuing to work on the game, especially the mods and all my dear friends - too many to list by name :) Status: Pending Any% 1.4.3.2+ NMG 00:45:00 PC Argick Sonic Robo Blast 2 Sonic fangame that is absolutely phenomenal to speedrun. The movement is responsive & the speed you build and attempt to hold is significant. Friction on the ground is our worst enemy so we will spend much of the game bunny hopping and using slopes and other speed tech to our advantage.

Special stages are NiGHTS inspired, routed for speed and Super Sonic changes the game even more with a unique gliding skill and increased speed.

Bosses are no pushover and pose a real threat, especially Fang!

Status: Pending Sonic - All Emeralds 00:40:00 PC WaveWarrior Pokémon FireRed/LeafGreen Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen are remakes of the classic Red and Blue games for the more advanced Game Boy Advance hardware. Elite Four Round 2 is a category where we must not only beat the game, but also unlock and defeat the more powerful Elite Four at the end of the postgame. This requires completing the Sevii Island side quests and efficiently catching 60 unique pokémon to unlock the National Dex, something that requires complex decision making and on-the-fly routing.Status: Pending Elite Four Round 2 03:50:00 GameCube (Game Boy Player) Orcastraw Multiplication Duck You are a duck. You do multiplication. Every movement you make is timed, and every problem you solve must be solved fast and to a T, or the game may KO you due to a timeout. Spikes, dogs, bugs, and other such foes all stand in the way of your math success, and increasingly esoteric platforming challenges for a children's learning game all culminate to create a bizarre and funny platformer.Status: Pending Any% 00:15:00 Windows ICED Rain World: Downpour Saint is the pacifist Slugcat of the far future where the rain has turned to snow. Without the ability to properly defend yourself the run relies on Saints grapple ability to move quickly through the world. Their goal is to meet all of the Echos throughout the world. This allows them to gain the power of flight and an ascension attack. After killing the two gods of the region they leave to learn the mysteries of the void and ascension in Rubicon. This category features the end of the seriesStatus: Pending Saint - Story 1:15:00 PC Curtissimo41 Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards Kirby 64 100% is a well-known speedrun at GDQ events. The last time we got to see it at a main GDQ was 5 years ago at SGDQ 2019. In that time, there have been 2 big changes made to the run: First, is that we now play on Nintendo Switch, which saves around 22.5s over the previous fastest version in loading times alone. Second, there is now a full-game RNG manipulation that makes the run over a minute faster. There is so much new stuff to explain, and I would love to show it off!Status: Pending 100% 1:10:00 Nintendo Switch Space Coast Gaming Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons A love letter to the Double Dragon series, this 2023 release contains a serious set of beat’em up moves, characters, and replayability. This will be a co-op (/w spacecoastgmaing) out-of-bounds run w/ all bosses (true ending). Each player controls two characters that can be swapped when the Special Meter is full. This character swap is also used in the speedrun to bypass spawn checkpoints and cutscenes. Both players will use Marian as one character, but the second character is up to donations!Status: Pending All bosses % (Co-op) Normal OOBS 00:35:00 PC Space Coast Gaming Sunset Riders Yeehaw! Sunset Riders is a beloved run 'n gun for the SNES, where the stakes are high and one hit means death and loss of powerups. The run focuses on quick levels and boss kills, requiring pixel-perfect damage distances from bosses, despawning enemy weapons, and careful timing. 2P difficulty and boss HP increase from the standard 1P difficulty. Jaek will play a pistol wielder , and spacecoastgaming will select his character based on donation. See YT video description for run highlights.Status: Pending All Bosses % (Co-op) Normal OOBS 00:35:00 SNES 6kirigiri9 Lord Of The Rings: Gollum Take a journey with smeagol and gollum in their solo journey. Being the best game of 2023, it has a lot of fun features in the speedrun such as out of bounds movement, npc manipulation, level skips, and milk??? That being said, the run does include downtime for donations and commentary shenanigans, and an option at the end to save/kill a bird, possible incentive?Status: Pending Any% 03:10:00 PC PS5 Xbox hatkirby Manifold Garden Manifold Garden is a first person 3D puzzle game where you traverse MC Escher style architecture by changing your field of gravity (like a 3D version of VVVVVV) while solving puzzles involving moving cubes around. Falling is the fastest way to move, so we do a lot of it, which I believe makes the run feel fast paced and fun to watch.

The game has been shown a couple of times, but never with the No Wall Clip categories, which include more of the game and weirder, more varied tricks and glitches.

Status: Pending Any% Standard Ending (No Wall Clips) 00:23:00 Status: Pending All God Cubes (No Wall Clips) 00:39:00 PC gymnast86 The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Tears of the Kingdom continues the Zelda speedrun fun of high-speed movement and wacky glitches in our effort to beat all of the dungeons. Viewers are treated to the unique experience of taking down Hyrule's biggest baddies using eight Master Swords, some janky Autobuild glitches, and enough Pocket Rockets to last a lifetime.

Put simply, the run is cool to watch and fun to perform.

Status: Pending All Dungeons 3:00:00 Nintendo Switch sharif Who Shot Johnny Rock? By far the most accessible, and best looking, port of the famous FMV noir shooter. Shoot absolutely everything, including bombs, dynamite, safes, priceless art, and of course other people, in order to solve the mystery of which local small business owner shot Johnny Rock. The cutscenes are skippable, but why would we skip cutscenes this good? Ace is the harder of the two difficulties, it's less impressive than it sounds. Yes, I would be playing this on a DVD player with a DVD remote.Status: Pending Ace Difficulty 00:30:00 DVD NoHeadZedd Snow Brothers How do you stay cool at SGDQ? Make lots of snowballs as fast as possible, and that's what will happen in the Snow Brothers NES speedrun.

A puzzle platformer similar to Bubble Bobble, but faster, this speedrun showcases a rare title and wildly optimized movement, throws, kicks, and jumps across all 50 stages.

Snow Brothers features catchy music and is ready for it's debut at SGDQ 2024!!!

Status: Pending All Stages 1 Player 00:20:00 Status: Pending All stages 2 Players 00:20:00 NES NoHeadZedd Snow Bros Jr Snow Bros Jr is ready for it's debut in the awful games block. This puzzle platformer showcases optimized routing and movements in this very janky and clunky game.

Frog with cannons - check Birds - check Troll with no legs? - check Fight the sun as a snowman....yes please!

This game has a catchy little soundtrack and feels slow, which makes any mistake feel even worse!

Status: Pending All Stages US 00:35:00 Gameboy gymnast86 The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D No Wrong Warp and All Fairy Rewards show off the best of MM3D speedrunning (in my opinion). A lot of cool glitches and routing go into making these runs as fun as they are and either would be a great showcase that has never been seen on the GDQ stage.Status: Pending No Wrong Warp 1:50:00 Status: Pending All Fairy Rewards 2:30:00 Nintendo 3DS enbyzee Brink Co-op submission with j0kerr and RamboRachel

Brink is a 2010 team-based first-person shooter with teams fighting for control of the Ark, a series of floating islands hosting the remnants of humanity. As Ark Security we complete objectives in the missions while utilizing teamwork and constant communication in order to preserve order in the Ark. We will make use of all 4 available classes to repair, hack, heal, and destroy, all to keep the Ark safe from contact with the outside world.

Status: Pending Any% Security Co-op 00:45:00 PC Lizstar Tall: Twins Tower Two cute animals build a tower to the sky. A mesmerizing, short but sweet run. Now with Elephant you can vote for for an incentive!Status: Pending Normal 00:15:00 PS1 enbyzee Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis is a point and click game for MSDOS where you play as, well, Indiana Jones! "Discover" artifacts, solve puzzles, and punch nazis! The game has three distinct paths the player can choose from: wits, team, and fists, and each path is distinctly different!Status: Pending Fists Path (Saveless) 00:45:00 PC enbyzee GYLT GYLT was originally released exclusively on the Google Stadia in 2019 but has since received a much wider release on most platforms in early 2023. It is a stealth horror game set in an alternate nightmare realm. Sally's cousin, Emily, has gone missing and it's up to Sally to find her. Roughly 5 minutes of time save has been found since my Frost Fatales 2024 run!Status: Pending Any% 01:05:00 PC DannyGG PICO PARK PICO PARK is a multiplayer co-op game created by Teco. All players play as colored cats and work together to complete a series of platform and puzzle levels. With online support for up to 8 players, PICO PARK gives a unique, and perhaps chaotic, speedrunning experience for the GDQ stage. Submitting 3P with stripe and Mkwiifreak, 4P adds erupt, 8P adds Nathan, Jiro, Goofy, and Winbag.Status: Pending Multiplayer - 8 Player 00:40:00 Status: Pending Multiplayer - 4 Player 00:28:00 Status: Pending Multiplayer - 3 Player 00:26:00 PC tbcr Spindizy Worlds This game shows the adventures of a ship named G.E.R.A.L.D as it attempts to map out and collect energy jewels from the 30 planets that make up the titular Spindizzy Worlds. While doing this, G.E.R.A.L.D will navigate a perilous isometric landscape, perform sick jumps, attempt to avoid the (adorable) alien lifeforms and solve puzzles in somewhat unusual ways.

The runs submitted pertain to the only home console release, the SNES/SFC version.

Status: Pending Easydizzy - Advanced 00:15:00 Status: Pending Spindizzy - Advanced 01:05:00 Status: Pending All Clusters - Advanced 01:20:00 SNES/SFC iid01 Pikmin 2 This AI action game was released by Nintendo in 2004 and is a sequel to the first Pikmin game. With the help of Pikmin, we will collect all 201 treasures. Random terrain of the caves, placement of the treasures, and spray lucks will greatly affect completion time. Please pray for good RNG in marathon.Status: Pending All Treasures 04:00:00 Nintendo Gamecube Derek_MK Bionicle: Mata Nui Online Game A great follow-up to my Bionicle GBA run at AGDQ 2024, but now with more lore, more exciting cutscenes, and more Bionicle Nostalgia.

MNOG is a point-and-click-adventure Flash game that was available on the Bionicle website since the beginning of the franchise in 2001, and is potentially the single most iconic piece of Bionicle media. If any viewers are Bionicle fans, they will likely recognize this game.

Submitting as Any% with an incentive to upgrade to All Cutscenes - Video covers both

Status: Pending Any% 00:45:00 Flash Sayuri Sonic Forces Last showcased at AGDQ 2019 via normal Any%, Sonic Forces speedrunning has seen optimizations never previously showcased! NG+ is a newer way to run the game without cutscenes to skip or equipment to unlock first. Everything is obtained from the start, meaning exclusive skips, faster bosses, and a faster run overall!

Any% No Rental is Any% with no Rental Avatars allowed, meaning level routing that takes advantage of the default Wispons the game starts you with, meaning every second saved counts.

Status: Pending NG+ Story Stages 00:53:00 Status: Pending Any% No Rental 01:03:00 PC BluMagma7 Pokemon Sapphire The third generation of Pokemon games has seen significant speedrunning development over the past few months, including the split into Any% and Glitchless categories for FRLG and Ruby/Sapphire. The discovery of the Mail Glitch has completely changed the route to feature glitchy and new movement, along with a new main Pokemon! Unlike other glitched categories, this run does not feature any credits warps, so viewers get to enjoy the entirety of the game.Status: Pending Any% 2:00:00 Game Boy Advance Anankoz Donkey Kong Country 3 Donkey Kong Country 3 for the GBA is an enhanced remake of the SNES classic featuring a full new world on top of the SNES version.

While the original is relatively glitch free, the GBA remake is packed with major glitches, especially in the new world Pacifica. Glitches include out of bound clips, a frame perfect zip and a frame perfect timestop mechanic that allows us to warp within levels. This and more makes DKC3 GBA a great showcase!

Submitting as a potential race with Tonkotsu.

Status: Pending Any% 00:55:00 Game Boy Player gymnast86 The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D Ocarina of Time 3D 100% is my favorite speedrun category. Everything about it is cool. Wrong Warps? Check. Glitch that allows you to jump super high? Check. Fun movement glitches? Check. Cool routing? Check. Been shown at GDQ before? Che-Oh...Not Check.

Looks like we might have to fix that last one.

Status: Pending 100% 4:35:00 Nintendo 3DS Slyton My Friendly Neighborhood An Indie Horror Game made by 2 brothers that gives you the feeling of playing Resident Evil, Poppy Playtime, and Garten of Banban all at the same time! MFN is the perfect start or end to the horror block and with resource management, precise aiming, and near frame perfect tricks.

Since the games release last summer, every catagory has evolved immensely. Any% skips 50% of the game, NMG requiring every shot to matter, and CEO% being the 100% route of the game. You'll love it in the Neighorhood!

Status: Pending No Major Glitches 0:31:00 Status: Pending CEO% 0:38:00 Status: Pending Any% 0:19:00 PC enbyzee A Juggler's Tale Play as Abby, a puppet who's been forced to perform for the circus. Help her escape the circus and break free of the narrator's control! Abby's strings interact with the environment to allow for some neat puzzles while she traverses this absolutely gorgeous world. Status: Pending Any% Glitchless 00:52:00 PC tbcr Rise of the Triad Rise of the Triad is a game that's limit pushing of the Wolfenstein 3D engine allows for ludicrous (heh) gameplay both in a casual and speedrunning aspect. For instance, in the run alone we have Random Powerup and boss manipulation, proper rocket jumping, potential godmode jumping and even sometimes admirable restraint(don't worry, this makes sense in action).

I have grouped the DOS and recent Ludicrous Edition in the same submission as the route is essentially the same minus some minor things.

Status: Pending Dark War - MSDOS 00:50:00 Status: Pending Dark War - Ludicrous (Original Settings) 00:50:00 PC tbcr Marathon The 1st game in the original trilogy, this details the attack on the colony ship by the Pfhor and the attempts to fight back.

This game is the odd one out of the three as its more linear level design, different grenade physics, objective behaviors and (some) weapon behaviors make the strategies done and pacing differ from the other two games.

As it's celebrating it's 30th anniversary this year (along with ROTT), it only made sense to submit this (to be fair, was going to do this regardless).

Status: Pending Kindergarten 00:35:00 PC LeRemiii Heave Ho Couch co-op run with Evandar.

Heave Ho is a party game developed in 2019 by Le Cartel studio. You play as ball-shaped characters with 2 arms that you can control with a single joystick, and 2 hands that you can close using your controller bumpers.

The game is designed to be chaotic and hard to control, making it fun and impressive to master. Expect a lot of advanced strats tweaking the game's physics and taking advantage of the co-op mode.

Oh and btw farting is an actual speedrun tech.

Status: Pending Coop (Normal Levels) 00:30:00 PC Evandar Heave Ho Couch co-op run with LeRemiii.

Heave Ho is a party game developed in 2019 by Le Cartel studio. You play as ball-shaped characters with 2 arms that you can control with a single joystick, and 2 hands that you can close using your controller bumpers.

The game is designed to be chaotic and hard to control, making it fun and impressive to master. Expect a lot of advanced strats tweaking the game's physics and taking advantage of the coop mode.

Oh and btw farting is an actual speedrun tech.

Status: Pending Coop (Normal Levels) 0:30:00 PC legoerofeggos Okami HD Okami is a beautiful PS2 adventure game that has had its visuals turn even more stunning in HD. It features the wolf goddess Amaterasu using her celestial brush that allows us to draw on the world - and perform some glitches.

The New Game Any% run skips much of the game with different platforming tricks and glitches, while the New Game All Brushes run paints a more complete picture, though much of the game is still skipped or done out of order.

Status: Pending New Game Any% 2:00:00 Status: Pending New Game All Brushes 3:10:00 Nintendo Switch soulmass218 ABZÛ In ABZÛ, the player takes on the role of a diver in a vast ocean. As the game progresses, the diver unlocks new areas and pursues the secrets of the ocean's wildlife. ABZÛ features fluid freedom of underwater movement and spectacular visual set-pieces.Status: Pending Any% Glitchless Blue Suit 00:39:00 PS5 soulmass218 The Mooseman The Mooseman is a 2D side-scrolling adventure inspired by games like Limbo and Inside. Its story and aesthetic are based on the folklore of the indigenous Komi of Russia, as well as other Finno-Ugric peoples, and is an attempt at artistic reconstruction of their shared mythology. The Mooseman has never been featured at any speedrun event. Any% shows off optimizations and skips not seen in a casual playthrough.Status: Pending Any% 00:38:00 PS5 juh0 Crossroad OS The Witness but HORROR! Explore the mysterious operating system Crossʀoad OS. Speed through corridors and do puzzles fast! Clippy makes an appearance to spook the gamers. Also HORSE!!! I will be submitting 2 catagories. A solo any% and a race with allison8bit's Current patch to showcase both patches' speedrun potentials.Status: Pending any% 00:18:00 Status: Pending any% Race (Legacy Patch vs Current Patch) 0:18:00 PC Jakkals Super Mario Bros. Wonder I completed world 1 in the fastest time possible whilst blindfolded Status: Pending World 1 Blindfolded 00:30:00 Nintendo Switch Jakkals Mario Kart 64 i completed the fastest lap on each track on mario kart 64 blindfoldedStatus: Pending All Tracks Flap Blindfolded 00:30:00 Nintendo Switch soulmass218 Neon Beats Neon Beats is a rhythm platformer featuring simple, yet striking visuals and a thumping synth soundtrack. The music is synced with the action on the screen, making for a satisfying audiovisual experience. Any%+DLC shows off the full base game and all DLC levels.Status: Pending Any%+DLC Glitchless 00:22:00 PC Jakkals Wii Sports i completed 9 holes of golf in the fastest time possible whilst blindfolded Status: Pending 9 Holes Golf Blindfolded 00:10:00 Wii Bluekandy Animal Crossing: City Folk The Golden Net category is simple in objective—unlock the golden net by catching one of every bug—but rich in strategy for an unassuming speedrunning game. From a new-game save: manipulating optimal dates and times, weather conditions, town layouts and features while maintaining a mental checklist of what bugs to catch as well as mastering catching strategies requires a unique and developed skillset in approaching every attempt. Submitting as a race with Drewpag.Status: Pending Golden Net 02:35:00 Nintendo Wii pqRachel Pseudoregalia Pseudoregalia has had a new update since it got run last at GDQ. Depending on the category you collect abilities, upgrades, beat time trials, and then defeat the boss. Of the categories I submitted, I feel like a 100% race would be the most fun because I think a few other runners also submitted that, and Pseudoregalia 100% hasn't been done at GDQ as far as I know. I'm the current WR holder for All Abilities on the current patch but the other runners are much faster than me at 100%.Status: Pending 100% (No Out of Bounds) 0:55:00 Status: Pending All Abilities (No Out of Bounds) 0:25:00 Status: Pending 100% Race 0:55:00 PC Bluekandy Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour Toadstool Tour's All Birdie Badges run involves getting a birdie or better on every tournament hole of the main six courses. It is marathon-safe in that if you make a mistake and miss the birdie, you may save and continue to restart the hole from the tee. This loses a fair amount of time, so careful yet fast gameplay is necessary. Speedrunning this category is about deep memorization of each course and consistent quick improvisation with each shot, making every run of it uniquely difficult.Status: Pending All Birdie Badges 01:05:00 Nintendo Wii Bluekandy Mario Golf: Super Rush Super Rush has 11 courses of various styles: traditional, obstacle-heavy, short-course, interconnected and fantasy. These can be done in any order and require a mastery of the available shot-making mechanics—as well as different characters' special shots—to weave through with accuracy and precision. There are iterative patterns for the shot's deviation, making the game nearly fully predictable after tons of practice; thus, a run with no mistakes is extremely difficult but entirely possible.Status: Pending All Courses 01:25:00 Nintendo Switch danejerus Bartender Hustle Okay look. This game is a meme. It's barely a speedrun. We pour drinks and use an autoclicker to skip all of the dialogue. A lot of the run will be me and the couch making fun of the laughably bad cocktail recipes they included. Really, I'm only submitting this because DECosmic told me to. Yes, I'm calling him out by name. Why, Cosmic, do you make me do this?Status: Pending Story Mode 1:25:00 PC tbcr Killing Time Killing Time is a remake of a FMV FPS title originally released for the 3DO. An archeologist attempts to rid a New England island of supernatural forces brought on by water clocks.

I don't know why, but I seem to have an affinity to gravitate towards games with overpowered mouse strafing. Couple with this a large map, a collect-a-thon and some interesting ways to work around obstacles and traps, there is plenty of chances to zoom through our mission.

Macintosh Version.

Status: Pending Good Ending 00:40:00 Macintosh tbcr Terminator: SkyNET Terminator SkyNET is a 1996 standalone expansion to Future Shock which was released the year prior. This game sliding mechanic can be a ...bit... overpowered when used with the mouse, resulting in being able to phase through walls. This doesn't make it a complete cakewalk through, there is still objectives to complete and terminators to destroy.

I am mainly submitting this as a runback attempt after my SGDQ 2020 run went considerably over estimate.

Status: Pending any% 00:18:00 MSDOS killingpepsi Toree 2 Your ice cream has been stolen! Again!! Playing as the Ramen Bowl named Tasty, you run much faster than the main character Toree, allowing you to traverse stages in more unique ways. This combined with a menu glitch to skip stage-end animations and a boss exploit to stack multiple attack cycles saves just over a minute over the whole run. Through our journey through the games 9 levels, we learn the importance of sharing our ice cream with those who may need it the most. Status: Pending Any% Tasty 00:10:00 PC zzrules21 Super Buff HD It’s the year 20202020. Buff dudes have turned on society. It’s our job to stop them This indie boomer shooter looks like it was pulled straight out of a doodle for a comic book, and comes with insanely satisfying movement and combat, let alone for a game this silly. We’ll rocket jump, double jump, dash, and…skate ON enemies?? to complete these 17 levels and defeat the buff dudes Submitting solo or as a race with BystanderTim Incentive to watch intro and outro cutscenes, covered in submissionStatus: Pending Any% 00:25:00 PC Ace Delusional Rocket Racing From the developers of Rocket League comes Rocket Racing, a supersonic arcade racer that lets you drift, fly, and boost with your friends through an ever-growing selection of tracks.

In this run, we will play through all 10 Expert Tracks that are in the game. These are the hardest of them all and push the player to the limits.

Status: Pending Expert Tracks 00:45:00 PC Dynomation Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore Its the new game based heavily on the original Zelda CDi games (Faces of Evil/Wand of Gamelon), featuring voice actors from the original games.This is a very new game coming out in Feb 2024, and the small community of runners has been routing hard since. Its a simple platformer with some pretty tight jumps (2-3 frames) and control, and some tricky mechanics to move and kill enemies and bosses faster. You also get a brief second of some of the characters before we skip the cutscenes. Status: Pending any% casual difficulty 00:18:00 Status: Pending 100% casual difficulty 00:43:00 PC Freefall Yohane the Parhelion: Blaze in the DEEPBLUE Based off of popular anime series Love Live!, Yohane the Parhelion is a new 2D Metroidvania style platformer that follows the protagonist Yohane through a monster-infested dungeon to save her friends and escape.

This run includes tight movement, weapon crafting, item routing, powerup collecting, and much more. It has been optimized greatly over the past few months!

Status: Pending Any% 00:50:00 PC Freefall Sonic Heroes Sonic Heroes is a 2003 platformer that has mind-blowing skips that allow it to beaten in ways never before seen by most of it's player base. On top of that, the speed and movement that it allows for is amazing to watch unfold.

In Team Rose we complete the game using Amy Rose, Cream the Rabbit, and Big the Cat! This is the fastest category the game has to offer.

Status: Pending Team Rose 00:40:00 Nintendo Wii LaurieDBunnykins Hylics 2 Hylics 2 is a weird and wonderful turn-based RPG made by Mason Lindroth. The game features a very trippy and beautiful visual style as well as a fluid combat system with many things to keep track of. In the speedrun we push the game to its limits, from jumping in midair, to storing pause menus to skip cutscenes, to beating bosses wildly underpowered thanks to multiple strong status effects and gear pieces. All TVs is the game's collectathon category, showing off many sidequests and secret areas.Status: Pending All TVs 00:45:00 Status: Pending Any% 00:33:00 PC marathonman Ratchet & Clank Ratchet & Clank is an early fan favorite for the Playstation 2 with a focus on weapons and gadgets, and an emphasis on exploration. Known for vibrant visuals and creative combat, the game would go on to launch a beloved franchises and one of Playstation's most iconic mascots. As a speedrun, this is all paired with a technical, high octane movement system with numerous options for maneuvering around each area making for a very exciting watch.Status: Pending NG+ 00:23:00 Status: Pending All Gold Bolts 01:00:00 Status: Pending Any% 00:35:00 Status: Pending Any% All Missions 01:00:00 Playstation 3 marathonman Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando is the second game in the Ratchet & Clank series and introduces many iconic gameplay traits to the series, including a unique weapon and health upgrading system, unlockable armor, space combat and more, building upon an already winning formula balancing exploration and combat. Status: Pending NG+ No IMG 00:30:00 Status: Pending Any% 00:55:00 Status: Pending NG+ 00:10:00 Playstation 2 marathonman Ratchet: Deadlocked Ratchet: Deadlocked is the final Ratchet game released for the Playstation 2, and features a much darker and grittier tone than previous games. Deadlocked doubles down on the fast and frenetic arena combat seen in previous games and forgoes most of the exploration that defined the earlier games. As a speedrun, movement and speed are on full display with the charge boots and momemtum storage still being a dominant thread. Status: Pending NG+ No LC 01:00:00 Playstation 3 LaurieDBunnykins Celeste 64: Fragments of the Mountain One of the best speedgames of all time jumps into 3D! Celeste 64 is a one-week project by the Celeste team made to celebrate the game's 6th anniversary with a recreation of the original game's first level, Forsaken City, in a loving homage to the 64-bit era! The game features 30 berries, which we aim to collect through high-octane movement and wild momentum tricks! The fun and fast action also serves to make this game great as a race, which I'm submitting with Kingj and ShadedMaster.Status: Pending 100% 00:15:00 PC LaurieDBunnykins Purrgatory Purrgatory is a point and click adventure game about being dead. You're taken to Purrgatory, a place where nothing ever happens, but there are many cats! While there, you meet a colorful cast of characters who are also dead, and help them deal with some of the unresolved feelings from their time alive. The speedrun involves a lot of multitasking between multiple character quests in order to keep yourself always moving, without ever sacrificing the game's cozy and emotional vibe.Status: Pending Save Everyone 00:20:00 PC Sonicman2005 Double Dragon 4 The game takes place after the events of Double Dragon II: The Revenge with the Lee brothers spreading their martial art by establishing dojos. They are attacked by a new gang called the Renegades who teamed up with the Black Warriors to put an end to them finally. I will play as enemy Jake. Jake is like Max from streets of Rage 2, extremely powerful. He moves slow but dropkick like a truck. Status: Pending Jake Any % 00:35:00 Nintendo Switch LaurieDBunnykins OneShot: World Machine Edition OneShot: World Machine Edition is a remake of the PC game OneShot for modern consoles. This remake not only removes the original RPGMaker grid movement, but also creates a virtual desktop that incorporates the original game's illusions of messing with your PC. This creates a version of OneShot that's much easier to follow as a viewer without ruining what makes the run great. The run is a perfect showcase of why movement and menus matter a lot, solving the games many puzzles at breakneck speeds.Status: Pending 100% 01:05:00 Status: Pending True Ending 01:00:00 Status: Pending First Ending 00:30:00 Switch DECosmic Devil May Cry 5: Special Edition Devil May Cry 5 has changed significantly since its last showing at AGDQ2020. Along with the release of Special Edition featuring turbo mode, which increases the overall speed of the game by 20%, there are new strats across the game, including new skips with summoner mage V that allow us to clip out of bounds and skip entire missions. In the Legendary Dark Knight category, enemy waves become akin to that of a Dynasty Warriors game, changing up the dynamic and route of the game significantly.Status: Pending NG Nero/Dante/V Human 01:20:00 Status: Pending NG Nero/Dante/V Legendary Dark Knight 02:10:00 Playstation 5 Metroid Crime Hot Dog Reporter Hot Dog Reporter (2023) is a short indie game about a hot dog in a hurry! It's a fast paced platformer with amazingly fluid movement and animation, and it has a dedicated speedrun mode. In the Any% run, we jump, flip, bounce, and slide our way through the levels to collect all the hot dogs in the world! I'll be facing off against happybythree, which one of us will be the top dog?Status: Pending Any% - Race 00:08:00 Status: Pending Any% - Best of 3 Race 00:20:00 PC DECosmic Vanquish Last showcased at SGDQ2021, Vanquish has undergone numerous optimizations in room clears and boss strats, which have evolved to account for swapping guns in and out based around fixed weapon spawns, resulting in various loadouts being used across the game, whereas before the w/DLC category stuck primarily to one loadout. The No DLC in its current form has never been shown at a GDQ, wherein we ditch the Anti-Armor Pistol in favor of primarily upgrading the Shotgun and the Rocket Launcher.Status: Pending Any% Casual No DLC 01:35:00 Status: Pending Any% Casual w/DLC 01:30:00 PC happybythree Hot Dog Reporter Hot Dog Reporter (2023) is a short indie game about a hot dog in a hurry! It's a fast paced platformer with amazingly fluid movement and animation, and it has a dedicated speedrun mode.

In the Any% run, we jump, flip, bounce, and slide our way through the levels to collect all the hot dogs in the world! I'll be facing off against Metroid Crime, which one of us will be the top dog?

(Because of the short length of the run, we could also offer a best of 3 race for a bit more drama!)

Status: Pending Any% Race 00:08:00 Status: Pending Any% Best of 3 Race 00:20:00 PC shmumbler Kwaidan ~ Azuma Manor Story ~ Kwaidan gives us a classic survival horror game with a cursed control scheme: Controlling the protagonist and an on-screen cursor simultaneously. While fighting the controls, we'll also be fighting hordes of randomly spawning yokai and solving myriad puzzles, with some light sequence breaking thanks to unrandomized solutions.Status: Pending any% 00:35:00 PC Sonicman2005 Streets of Rage 2: New Era When it comes to beat‘em ups, one of the golden standards is that of Streets of Rage 2. In New Era, we take a whole new spin on this classic. With new features and a “clone” mode where we utilize multiple “clones” of our sprite to take down a multitude of enemies. Examples of quick kills and optimal groupings are: Timestamps [13:07-13:37, 18:50-19:10, 23:50-24:05, 30:00-30:17 and 33:15-33:30], as seen on GDQ’s Juneteenth event. We will strive to beat this run in 45 minutes or lessStatus: Pending Blaze Normal: Ninpo Kage Bunshin % 00:45:00 PC Crak Atak Valkie 64 Indie Zelda clone. Any% consists of going to the end without finishing all the side quests. The run consists of doing dungeons out of order and going to end without upgrades except for the armor. Anything can happen.Status: Pending any% 00:50:00 PC DarkTerrex Mega Man 6 Mega Man 6 but this time I collect Beat the bird and the Energy Balancer. These small collections make several rooms gain new routes, some even regain OLD strats to make room for new ones later on in the stage! Only a couple minutes are added to the run from Any% to create this one, thereby giving a neat twist to the game while still maintaining a fast pace run.Status: Pending 100% 00:40:00 NES Crak Atak Where's Waldo 80k attempts. Incentive to play Great Waldo Search as well. Find Waldo fast and become Waldo.Status: Pending any% 00:03:00 NES Crak Atak The Great Waldo Search The intro song is good. Its waldo, find waldo fast.Status: Pending any% 00:01:00 NES Crak Atak Kama Bullet Heritage 2 Ahhh...OKAYStatus: Pending any% 00:05:00 PC spagettd Felix The Toy Felix The Toy is an indie game made by a solo developer and is handcrafted as a wonderful tribute to retro 3D Platformers of old. This game has no enemies or puzzles, just raw platforming and skillful jumps! Please consider this passion project of a game and give it the love it deserves!Status: Pending Explorer Mode 01:25:00 Nintendo Switch GBsaysHi Disney's 102 Dalmatian: Puppies to the Rescue Cruella has captured all the Dalmatians and their parents, Dottie and Dipstick, set out to rescue their puppies, commanding Oddball and Domino to stay home. Instead the puppies set out to save their siblings, and their parents, who are captured along the way. Game is loosely based on the live-action Disney movie 102 Dalmatians. The run is full of crazy skips and out of bounds. Also we get to save lots of Puppies so that already makes it a great game.Status: Pending All Puppies 00:50:00 Dreamcast DECosmic Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex A third-person shooter that follows the investigative journey of Motoko Kusanagi and Batou as they track down the source of micromachine rice that killed a suspect in the weapons black market. The Any% is an extravaganza of movement tricks and precise combat strats, such as ping-ponging yourself off three walls to bypass dealing with snipers or spawn-killing a helicopter.Status: Pending Any% 00:55:00 Playstation 2 DECosmic Resident Evil: Dead Aim Known in Japan by its infinitely cooler name, Biohazard Gun Survivor 4: Heroes Never Die, this RE spin-off title sees protagonists Bruce McGivern and Fong Ling (also known as "we have Leon and Ada at home") take on Morpheus D. Duvall, who is attempting to harness the power of the T+G virus. The run is a blend of third-person movement optimization and first-person gunplay. We also get to kill a boss with a railgun so that's pretty cool.Status: Pending NG Easy 0:40:00 Playstation 2 DukeFireBird Vegas Stakes Where else but Las Vegas can you turn 1 grand into a cool ten million?

Using a set of 256 RNG seeds, we can know what the dice will roll to reach this amount to first be able to enter the Laurel Palace, and then achieve the dream of getting 10 Million!

Good candidate for Silly block

Status: Pending single segment 0:10:00 SNES Zapplex Brave New World 2 Brave New World 2 is a Super Mario World hack that showcases different glitches and quirks that can be performed in the original game in amazing creative setups, with great soundtrack and graphics. Any% clears the game as fast as possible to get credits going through 13 levels.Status: Pending any% 00:25:00 Super Nintendo DukeFireBird Math Blaster: Episode 1 The Search for Spot A very fun educational game that helps us learn Math. The game does offer subtraction, multiplication, and division as well, but we will be focusing on the addition aspect for this run.

Has never been on the main stage, but has been showcased on 2 Hotfix shows, and also is a great candidate for the silly block

Status: Pending addition% 0:15:00 SNES DarkTerrex Everhood Imagine this. You're walking down a path when suddenly you meet a frog playing a banjo (not Kermit). He tips his straw hat and plays a few notes. These sounds manifest into colorful beams of light that really... HURT. This frog is playing Guitar Hero while you, a wooden puppet (definitely not Geno), dodge and reflect every deadly note on the chart.

Everhood is an Undertale inspired adventure RPG with incredible tunes and psychedelic battles. Let's take a wild trip through eternity...

Status: Pending True Ending Glitchless Expert 2:30:00 PC adef The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Randomizer No Logic means items can be anywhere, regardless of normal requirements. It requires immense game and glitch knowledge in order to reason your way out of seemingly impossible situations. The beauty of this category is that (as you'll see in my submission video) I have talented players who can vet seeds to be interesting and completable in whatever time frame is most beneficial to the marathon.

No Logic + All-Sanity is that, but cranked up to 11. Items can literally be in anything, anywhere.

Status: Pending No Logic 01:30:00 Status: Pending No Logic + All-Sanity 02:30:00 Wii VC LeadOstrich Donkey Kong Country Submitting as a race with Silent Wolf, Tylen0l, and V0oid. This category hasn't been seen at GDQ since 2019 and has seen a number of major changes including the Forest Frenzy SFR, Snow Barrel Blast SJR, Mincers SJR, Perils Wrong Warp, Antics Blaster, and Croctopus Chase featuring Expresso, not to mention a plethora of smaller optimizations in movement.Status: Pending All Stages 00:36:00 SNES selcouthmind Dicey Dungeons Dicey Dungeons is a deck building, roguelike, dungeon crawler where humans have been turned into dice to play in Lady Luck's game show, "Dicey Dungeons". Little do they know that the game is rigged against them.

Backstage is the final boss.

Full Game is one of the few glitched categories that exist, using skips to unlock characters and the Backstage early and duplication tech to ensure optimal weapons for all episodes.

Warrior Showcase features 3 ILs across base game and the 2 DLCs.

Status: Pending Backstage Any% 00:25:00 Status: Pending Warrior Showcase 00:50:00 Status: Pending Halloween Special, Warrior All Fights 00:20:00 Status: Pending Full Game Any% 1:20:00 PC EJ125 The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Any% No MSS is an excellent balance of game-breaking tricks and accessiblity, restricting the extremely physical and difficult tricks that sets regular Any% apart. This category bans Manual Superswim and Puppet Ganon skip, requiring the completion of the Outset Island Intro and fighting Puppet Ganon.

This category has seen some recent optimizations that have pushed this category down to its limits, such as the new Hole-in-One Quiver.

Submitting as a solo run or a race with minimini352

Status: Pending Any% No MSS 1:30:00 Nintendo Wii selcouthmind Flufftopia Flufftopia is a clicker game set in a cute and colourful world where nothing bad ever happens ... right?

In Alternate Ending, Happy, our visitor host/guide, asks to talk to us about something important, triggering a sudden descent into the dark backend of the matrix controlling Flufftopia. Can we free Happy or will they be stuck forever?

Both silly and scary, there's something for everyone packed into this short run!

Status: Pending Alternate Ending 00:10:00 PC Biglaw Enter The Matrix Operator, we need to Enter The Matrix, and do our part in the war against the machines. We're taking on agents, vampires, werewolves and more in this action packed run with more Powerade machines than you can count. Grenade jumps, inhuman reactions to dodge bullets, and a highway chase turned highway sprint makes this a tight run to watch and execute.Status: Pending Niobe Any% 00:55:00 PC WearingFin G-Darius By manipulating the internal dynamic difficulty I can speed kill bosses, to do this I just have to keep my ship weak. With this in mind I take the hardest route in the game ending with the Great Thing, a giant mechanical weaponized space whale, showing that you can speedrun an autoscrolling shoot em up. I also turn off slowdown, a feature in the M2 port. Also, as seen in the video, we can talk about pokemon, dragon ball z, and also a bit of The Little Mermaid as we go under the sea. Status: Pending Omicron V' (No Slowdown) 00:26:00 Nintendo Switch LadyErianna Landstalker: The Treasures of King Nole Landstalker is an isometric platforming/adventure game for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. Because of the isometric nature of the game, the platforming is tight but looks and feels amazing when it is performed. The JP version of the game is used because of the faster text speed as well as a glitch that allows you to pass through locked doors as long as you are in the enemy's hitbox, allowing for some big sequence breaks and skips. Extra safeties are taken in the run to ensure it's solid finish.Status: Pending Any% JP No Death Statue Skip 01:55:00 Sega Genesis doof_heinz Pizza Tower Pizza Tower is an indie game influenced by the Wario Land series.Features high speed and exhilarating action.In this category,This is a category that uses glitches to clear quickly, with some exceptions.Status: Pending Any% Peppino,Unrestricted 01:00:00 PC WearingFin GG Aleste 3 Technically one of the best homebrew titles ever released, M2 of emulation fan made their own entry into the Aleste series with a brand new GG Aleste... and it looks brilliant. And plays brilliant. To make it more speedrun friendly, we use the comfort mode, which is comfortable for the eyes but not the player in that all slowdown is removed. Plenty of different stages, big bosses, and spaces for donations and to talk about the Game Gear. Commentated run video is not great, I usually play better.Status: Pending Comfort Mode (which means Slowdown is removed) 00:40:00 Nintendo Switch vmpqnmy SCP: Containment Breach Randomly generated map. Get 35/37 achievements. (the remaining two are really not super applicable to random seeds) All glitches are allowed assuming the player stays inbounds. For GDQ I would do one seed no matter how bad or good it might be -- and show off some really cool tricks as well as some interesting stuff about how maps generate and whatnot. There is also a chance that the run I get is world record since there's still a decent amount of optimization that could be done. Status: Pending 99% 00:35:00 PC arnaud33200 Rambo: First Blood Part 2 It's an overhead run-and-gun game, similar to Ikari Warriors (NES). Notorious for its difficulty due to the absence of continues or cheats, few have managed to finish it. As the current WR holder, I aim to showcase the possibility of completing it during the silly block. This was a childhood favorite that I recently conquered after years of trying. I've extensively researched the game and uncovered fascinating insights, even developing RetroAchievements for it.Status: Pending any% 0:12:00 Sega Master System arnaud33200 Time Gate: Knight's Chase This obscure game could have been Alone in the Dark 4, sharing its engine and some developers. In SGDQ 2021's silly block, I showcased this game and I'm eager to run it again in person. This time, I'll reveal an intriguing glitch allowing me to pass through walls for a significant part of the run. With deeper insights into the game and enhanced commentary, this run promises to be even more captivating. While my current PB stands at 18:52, the GDQ run offers valuable insights worth exploring.Status: Pending any% 00:22:00 DOS CallieMacN Sonic Superstars It's the latest 2D Sonic game! The run has a good balance of skillful gameplay, speedrun glitches as well as cool tech that anyone would be able to try out for themselves. This run would be with Amy, as she differs slightly to other characters such as Tails and Trip, she can help show off the flow of levels in a unique way.Status: Pending Amy Rose Any% 00:55:00 PC Zic3 Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time Sly Cooper Thieves in Time is a game shadowed by its PS2 predecessors, but is no less a fantastic speedrun. Sly 4 introduces the ability to play as Sly's ancestors each with their own special ability leading to some really cool movement. Between tricks like Paraclimbing, or circle boosting, its a game that always feels fresh and exciting to play and watch.Status: Pending Episode 1 Any% 00:47:00 Status: Pending Episode 2 Any% 01:00:00 Status: Pending Episode 3 Any% 00:55:00 Status: Pending Episode 4 Any% 00:55:00 PS3 Plyd Mad Max Mad Max's unique speedrun operates mostly on being able to complete mini challenges optimally throughout the run while dealing with whatever rng the game gives us, good or bad. The runner must be able to route on the fly. Lots of unique strategies to overcome our severely under leveled player over the run as well as many glitches to help us along the way. Mad Max's speedrun is unlike any other open world game out there. Status: Pending Any% New Game+ 2:40:00 PC hatkirby The Witness The Witness is a first person 3D puzzle game. Speedrunning it involves memorising hundreds of puzzles and quickly and accurately drawing lines through grids. Tricks include "sniping", which is sequence breaking the game by solving puzzles from very far away.

The Witness was shown once at GDQ back in 2016, with the shorter 7 Lasers category. I ran All Lasers at GDQ Hotfix last October. All Lasers involves more tricks, and ends with a cool RNG section.

Status: Pending All Lasers 00:28:00 PC Zic3 Final Fantasy 6 Pixel Remaster Final Fantasy 6 is a fan favorite of the series and the Pixel Remaster is a breath of fresh air for the game. While some things carry over from the original (Using Gogo to mimic amazing abilities and rods in the end game), there are also some new Pixel Remaster specific things (Like needing less soldiers at the banquet depending on what character you are). Added on is an impressive Final Boss that puts any runner to the test.Status: Pending Any% 05:00:00 PS5 Zic3 Titan Souls Titan Souls returns! Since my runs at AGDQ 2016 and SGDQ 2017 Titan souls has not gotten is return to the big stage. Myself and Rubiehart are offering a new exciting take on the run, a race! As a 2D "Dark souls"-like game, it is a short, sweet, exciting race as its anyone's game at anytime. All Bosses will take us through the entire game fighting every single Titan along the way!Status: Pending All Bosses Race w/ Rubiehart 00:25:00 PC TerpohGaming Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon A fun point-and-click adventure game from the same folks that brought us "Freddie Fish" and "Pajama Sam". Humungous Entertainment (HE) games are ones that many folks have fond memories of, with this one being close to my heart. Those memories of HE games will hopefully bring in people to enjoy Putt-Putt being whisked to the Moon, and making it back at lightning speed.Status: Pending No Skips 00:20:00 PC IndyVillain Payday 3 Payday 3 (2023) is a first-person shooter game in which players carry out crime-related objectives, usually focused around stealing money or other high priced valuables. All of the levels are highly variable in terms of RNG, so there is a lot of on-the-fly decision making.

Metroid Crime and I are showing off three Normal difficulty levels (5-10 minutes each) from the game that are fun to pull off stealth heists in, and we do it really fast without drawing attention! Controlled chaos!

Status: Pending 2p Co-op - Any Difficulty, Non-Seeded, All Loot 00:30:00 PC Sonicman2005 Super Punch Patrol Super Punch Patrol is an indie beat‘em up with a unique art style and gameplay that I originally showcased on GDQ’s Unapologetically Black Event. Influenced by streets of rage and other beat'em ups, Super Punch Patrol is a fresh take on a classic genre and we will show how to beat this game in just under 35 minutes using classic beat'em up speed strategies but also some fun boss fights that keep the run entertaining.Status: Pending Anders Any % 00:35:00 Nintendo Switch Metroid Crime Payday 3 Payday 3 (2023) is a first-person shooter game in which players carry out crime-related objectives, usually focused around stealing money or other high priced valuables. All of the levels are highly variable in terms of RNG, so there is a lot of on-the-fly decision making. IndyVillain and I are showing off three Normal difficulty levels (5-10 minutes each) from the game that are fun to pull off stealth heists in, and we do it really fast without drawing attention! Controlled chaos!Status: Pending 2p Co-op - Any Difficulty, Non-Seeded, All Loot 00:30:00 PC Sonicman2005 Streets of Rage 4 Streets of Rage 4 is beat'em up that has handful of vigilantes as they try to dismantle a criminal syndicate led by the Y twins, the children of the previous game's arch villain Mr. X. I am running the game in Mania mode as the Streets of Rage 1 character Blaze Feilding. She does not have any special moves but makes it up by having a devasting combo that does real damage in the game.Status: Pending SOR 1: Blaze Mania % 01:35:00 Nintendo Switch Giga Hercules: The Legendary Journeys An infamous Nintendo 64 adventure game with a very rushed development based on the TV show of the same name. Hercules and friends run and dive their way straight through solid walls on the way to complete fetch quests and defeat way too many minotaurs.

In addition to clipping through many objects to save lots of time, there are other tricks such as double jumps and boss quick kill strategies, including a recently developed strat that saves multiple minutes on the final boss.

Status: Pending any% 01:21:00 Nintendo 64 shmumbler Silent Hill: Shattered Memories In this reimagining of Silent Hill 1, Harry is once again searching for his daughter, Cheryl. Only this time, we're also getting therapy...or not? This run opens the PS2 disc tray to unload upcoming dialogue, skipping most of Kauffman's psychotherapy sessions, saving around 15 minutes throughout the run.Status: Pending Any% Disc Tray Skips 01:20:00 PS2 moonblazewolf Long Gone Days Long Gone Days is an indie RPG released in 2023 that focuses on themes of war, culture, and immigration. The game draws heavy inspiration from Earthbound in its themes, character design, and battle system. It takes place in the modern world and tells a story that is extremely relevant to our current global situation.Status: Pending Any% Console 03:45:00 PS5 moonblazewolf Final Fantasy X HD Remaster Final Fantasy X has undergone even more exciting development as a speedrun within the past year with the discovery of Mushroom Rock Road/Terra skip. The game now features a whole new route to support this advancement and times are lower than ever. I am also submitting the game with the RNG Fix mod, which scrambles the game's RNG into an untrackable state and makes the run much more dynamic.Status: Pending Any% Cutscene Remover w/RNG Fix 03:30:00 PC moonblazewolf Chained Echoes Chained Echoes is a retro-styled RPG released in late 2022. It features fast action, dynamic turn based combat, with a separate battle system for the game's large cool-looking mechs. I ran the main glitched category last year at SGDQ and would love to be able to show off the game's Glitchless category this year, alongside my partner Ferric. We have worked very hard on route optimization and have performed the run co-op on several occasions.Status: Pending Any% Glitchless Co-op 03:35:00 PC moonblazewolf Small Saga Small Saga is a turn-based indie RPG released in 2023 that follows the adventures of a band of rodents as they confront and hope to avenge the death of one of their own against a god. Along the way they have to confront the social issues in their own society as well as their own personal demons and identities. It's a stylish and cozy game that is relatively short for an RPG speedrun.Status: Pending Any% Glitchless 01:50:00 PC shmumbler White Day: A Labyrinth Named School (2001) A love confession goes awry when Hui-Min Lee gets locked in his haunted school overnight. Thankfully, his parkour skills are far greater than his romance skills, and all encounters but a single boss are easily skipped.

White Day is a highly compact run featuring 2 similarly long paths with multiple skips occuring per minute of gameplay.

Status: Pending Any% Hui-Min 00:15:00 Status: Pending Any% So-Yeong 00:15:00 PC Metroid Crime Neon Beats Neon Beats (2019) is a rhythm platformer with a fun soundtrack and quick chase sequences. We'll speed through the rhythm-based levels, hop over projectiles, and even make time for dance breaks! Any% +DLC is 4 levels of the base game, plus 4 extra DLC levels. The DLC levels introduce new mechanics like gravity flipping and portal warping. In All Music Notes, the collectible notes are on slightly more difficult paths, and when you pick them up, you enhance the game's soundtrack with new beats!Status: Pending All Music Notes +DLC, Glitchless 00:25:00 Status: Pending Any% +DLC, Glitchless 00:22:00 PC FailedUplink Detention Detention is a point and click horror game set in 1960s Taiwan. It is visually stunning game with a great soundtrack. And beyond that it has a strong story to tell.

There are two categories any% (which is the normal faster ending) and the True Ending (which require a few more steps)

Status: Pending Any% 00:53:00 Status: Pending True Ending 00:58:00 PC KeiperDontCare Donkey Kong 64 The DK64 rando community continues to grow and create new and exciting ways to play, including the newest settings known as KEVIN (yes, that is actually what it's called). Using the rando's setting "Complex Level Order", as well more advanced hints, it is a fresh and innovative way to play everyone's favorite Donkey Kong game that came out on the Nintendo 64. Find your missing family members, collect the keys, and save DK Isle!Status: Pending Item Randomizer - KEVIN Settings 1:35:00 Wii U VC SMMidi Wii Play Wii Play is a Wii Remote pointer tech demo with frame-perfect Tanks tricks, dual controller strats, and knitted cow riding. Wall sprays, RNG manip with mines, and mine self-detonation can help optimise the slowest layouts. Nine missions have over a million random permutations so no two runs are the same! Platinum allows us to see the highest attainable medal in all nine games.Status: Pending Platinum Medals 01:15:00 Status: Pending Tanks! Solo 100 00:55:00 Wii U Metroid Crime Curse Crackers: For Whom the Belle Toils Curse Crackers: For Whom the Belle Toils (2022) is a 2D platformer heavily inspired by the Game Boy Color era, created by indie developer Colorgrave. We jump, bounce, and vault our way through the magical world of Ledamra as Belle the acrobat and Chime the living bell! In this category we play as Belle! We use a passcode to unlock a DOUBLE JUMP and then proceed to platform through the world, collecting a total of 30 roses to unlock the final area. The end of the game is boss-fight heavy.Status: Pending Any% - Belle (No Spark Bangle) 00:13:00 PC Rifampin Turok 2: Seeds of Evil Remastered Turok 2 for the PC is a remaster of an FPS released originally for N64 in '98. The remaster brought updated graphics, improved level layouts, quick warping between levels, and quick saving/loading at any time. Most significantly, an exploit was found during the game over screen that makes for one of the most unique runs. It was discovered that you can regain control of Turok, and entering a teleporter revives you. Tight ammo management, health management, and control over your life count are keyStatus: Pending any% 00:55:00 PC duck Mario Party It's time to party! This speedrun gets rid of the board and dives straight into the good stuff, the mini-games! The goal is simple, beat all the mini-games as fast as possible and hope the computer players don't go beast mode! This run is super wholesome and exciting and is sure to bring tons of laughs and smiles, makes a great race too!Status: Pending mini-game island any% 00:45:00 Nintendo 64 duck Banjo-Tooie Banjo-Tooie 100% is a collectable marathon! This game boasts a whopping 90 jiggies, 25 honeycombs, 25 cheato pages, 17 glowbos, 900 notes, 45 jinjos, and 24 moves. The 100% category uses massive gamebreaking glitches to collect it all in under 5 hours. Utilizing the clockwork kazooie egg specifically, it's super fun to see all of the intended puzzles get completely broken throughout this mammoth of a game.Status: Pending 100% 4:45:00 Nintendo 64 duck Banjo-Kazooie Wahay! Banjo-Kazooie 100% has been a GDQ favourite throughout the years and for good reason. The run has tight movement, precise glitches, amazing level design, and don't forget a catchy soundtrack. Any% has never been showcased at an event before and it's an awesome run as well. Using the bee transformation to escape out of bounds, a few of the levels are entirely performed as the bee and this shaves an entire hour off of the 100% run!Status: Pending 100% 2:03:00 Status: Pending any% 1:07:00 Status: Pending 100% no FFM 2:06:00 Nintendo 64 Iceblue Mega Man Battle Network 2 (Legacy Collection) A departure from side-scrolling platforming, Mega Man Battle Network 2 is Mega Man's foray into a card-based RPG. The combat is slick and requires good timing and fast thinking while looking incredibly stylish, all while maintaining the classic Mega Man look and feel. The Single Segment category eliminates any RNG manipulation, thus leaving all battles to have on-the-fly decision making and routing.

Submitting solo, but if others submit, definitely willing to race!

Status: Pending Single Segment 03:00:00 PC Metroid Crime Sonic Mania Sonic Mania (2017) is a 2D Sonic game with rehashes of previous levels from the classic games, alongside some really fun new additions. This run makes use of the Amy Rose mod, which allows her to spin all around, smash enemies with hammers, and look really cute while doing so. Hang Glider% is a condensed run of Sonic Mania that ends with the game soft locking after 4 levels. Once Amy Rose arrives at Flying Battery Zone Act 2, she seeks out the hang gliders, and peaces out! It's vacation time!Status: Pending Hang Glider% - Amy 00:20:00 PC Hobbit1697 Metroid Dread Metroid Dread Unrestricted categories are a flashy demo of the tech available within the game! Now, better than ever in 2024! A steady first half leads into an action packed second half where the game truly breaks open where it either becomes a race to the finish despite Ravenbeak's best efforts or a devastating boss clean up with late game upgrades! While Dread has had some amazing showings at GDQ, none are shaped by the runner quite like Unrestricted runs are.Status: Pending All Bosses Unrestricted 1:30:00 Status: Pending Any % Unrestricted 1:00:00 Nintendo Switch YouFailMe Super Mario World The Kaizo SMW community is back and better than ever! We assembled some of the best level makers, artists, musicians, and coders (including some surprises) to make mind-blowing levels exclusively for SGDQ. Racers will work as a team (4v4) to speedrun these levels despite having never seen them before. Estimate is flexible; we can add and drop levels to fit the schedule.

Submitting with GlitchCat7, shovda, Thabeast721, YouFailMe, juzcook, TheJavabrew, Shoujo, and MarkAlarm (JankPickle as backup)

Status: Pending Kaizo Relay Race 02:00:00 SNES Revven The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time & Majoras Mask This is a Co-op run between WoodenBarrel and myself that takes the two 3D N64 Zelda games, Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, and sticks them together with all their items randomized between the two games. Looking for Goron Mask? It could be found in the Forest Temple in Ocarina of Time. Looking for the Iron Boots? It could be found in Majora's Mask on the Curiosity Shop for 500 rupees. We play the same seed, sharing information in order to beat 6 (random) dungeons and defeat Ganon and Majora.Status: Pending Co-op Combo Randomizer 3:30:00 Nintendo 64 EldritchWolfie Turnip Boy Robs a Bank Me and HappyByThree will be racing to rob a bank as fast as possible!Status: Pending Any% Race 00:45:00 pc zzrules21 RAGE 2 A very Doom-like FPS game, our goal is to stop the Authority from wiping out humanity as we know it The sequel to RAGE, RAGE2 introduces combat and movement abilities for us to unlock and level up, which we promptly abuse in order to easily get OOB to skip big chunks of the game The game is open world so we use clever routing to complete the fastest missions possible in the vast world If the Doom comparisons weren’t quite on the nose yet, we have the BFG9000 to completely obliterate bossesStatus: Pending Any% 1:45:00 PC Anankoz Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble Third game in the Donkey Kong Country trilogy. 103% is a very technical run in which all bonus coins, DK coins and banana birds are collected during a great showcase of everything this game has to offer. The best is saved for the end as the lost world Krematoa features the most difficult stages and some of the most interesting tricks in the game. Since its last showcase, tons of optimizations have been added which have made this category ever more interesting and exciting for a marathon setting.Status: Pending 103% 01:56:00 SNES Drex Puggsy Puggsy is a forgotten puzzle platformer that features a unique physics engine and mascot. The run features both executing quickly things as intended by the devs and interesting exploits of the "physics" engine.

You also get to guess what the heck Puggsy is during the entire run which ALWAYS leads to an engaging and entertaining run.

Status: Pending Any% 00:28:00 Genesis Hazeblade Lords of the Fallen [2023] Lords of the Fallen is a hidden gem in the speedrun scene, featuring some incredibly cool tech which was discovered by only a handful of runners to bring the run well under 1 hour (LRT) within the first month of the game's release. With the release of the Elden Ring DLC just days prior to the marathon, this run will most definitely shine among others as people flock to see souls and soulslike speedruns performed at SGDQ. You won't want to pass up on this game!Status: Pending Any% 1:05:00 PC BigNoNo Yakuza Kiwami 2 Yakuza 2 is a highly technical run. This, the remake, not so much. We get magical muscle drinks and big weapons and hit enemies with them until they stop hitting you. Still, there's a lot of execution here in terms of movement and menuing, especially in the big mob fights and set pieces, where packing enemies together and reacting to their movements is crucial.

Also, you also get to fight the two tigers in this one. It's still pretty cool. You hit them with big swords, surprisingly.

Status: Pending Any% 01:50:00 PC Kyoslilmonster1 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex A Third-Person shooter with wall-jumping, AI tricking, and out of bounds movement?! This hidden gem of a PS2 title was created by Cavia and is a cult-classic anime, Ghost in the Shell. We follow the story of Motoko and Batou in an attempt to finish this game as quickly as possible. It is extremely marathon safe and although my PB is old I still run this at least once a month. This is a great game and would definitely capture the attention of the audience.Status: Pending Any% 0:55:00 Playstation 2 teddyras Dark Souls Randomizer The Dark Souls rando creates a lot of weird situations and routes through the game you wouldn't typically see playing the game normally. Someone went and jumbled up the lord souls and the lordvessel and I gotta find them. Also enemies got jormbled, so we get a new appreciation of twin headed snakes and which boss arenas I hate fighting manus in the most (it's the capra demon arena). I gotta figure out how to cover the whole game map FAST (lil glitches and jumps help) and open all the chests.Status: Pending No Wrong Warp 02:30:00 PC ptminsker Outer Wilds Outer Wilds is a heavily movement based speedrun with very open ended routing options and reliance and cycle based timing.

The shipless 100% speedrun is one of the most difficult categories in the game, and a favorite among casual players. It features tons of difficult movement and tricks, cool routing, and some of the more unique gameplay that this game has to offer.

Status: Pending 100% Base Game Shipless 1:15:00 Status: Pending 100% Base+DLC Shipless 1:45:00 PC Drakodan Sparkster 2D side-scrolling action-platformer that moves faster than can be reasonably kept up with at times. Both movement and damage-boosts are "routed" in this game, via the boosts you can use to get through levels/obstacles, and how quickly you can burst down bosses respectively. Your health indirectly serves as a resource to deal damage faster, creating a risk/reward system which makes most boss fights a tense affair.Status: Pending Normal 00:25:00 SNES CarlSagan42 Diablo IV Proposed is a Co-op run of Diablo IV with CarlSagan42, DanTheVP, FuryfulFawful, and Teruokun. D4 hasn’t been seen at GDQ, and this submission offers an intense challenge that’s exciting for runners and viewers. It has the same action you’d get in a solo run, while adding unique routing and 4 player perspectives. D4’s randomness means players must adapt and coordinate at all times, especially on the hardcore difficulty. Despite permadeath, potions and backup characters make the run marathon safe.Status: Pending 4-player Co-op - Hardcore Campaign 04:00:00 PC Drakodan Astro Boy: Omega Factor 2D side-scrolling beat-em-up by Treasure that sees the titular Astro run, gun, punch, kick, boost, laser and machine gun his way through several stages in an ever-expanding plot that involves quelling a robot uprising in the city, flying to a remote island to uncover a secret weapon, going to the moon, foiling a terrorist plot in Antarctica, travelling back in time 30,000 years, then back to a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Don't think about it too hard. It's a very pretty game, though.Status: Pending Birth 00:30:00 GBA CarlSagan42 Super Mario Maker 2 The Mario Maker community has prepared a set of custom made troll levels, full of glitches and unexpected surprises to delight and bedazzle the GDQ audience. Proposed is a race between CarlSagan42 and Juzcook, who will compete to outsmart the trolls in a best-of format similar to past Mario Maker races. Expect lots of wild setups, hilarious glitches, and maybe a little screen surfing as we showcase the creativity of the Mario Maker community!Status: Pending Troll Level Race 00:45:00 Nintendo Switch RadRingtail Enter the Gungeon Proposed are 3 races between DantheVP and RadRingtail.

Enter the Gungeon is a top-down, roguelite bullet-hell game with a robust speedrun following. Each run is unique and runners must clear rooms, battle bosses, solve RNG layouts and improvise to proceed quickly. Viewers both familiar and not will enjoy the showcase of skill required to defeat the game's challenges.

These runs utilize the Gunslinger character, Turbo Mode and Rainbow Mode, to present the game in an RTA and race-friendly way.

Status: Pending Rainbow Turbo Any% (No AWP) Race 00:25:00 Status: Pending Rainbow Turbo Blessing Any% Race 00:30:00 Status: Pending Rainbow Turbo All Floors (No AWP) Race 00:45:00 PC Pokehero Pokémon Channel You watch TV with Pikachu as a job, living the dreamStatus: Pending Any% (Single Console) 00:47:00 Nintendo GameCube Pokehero 19XX: The War Against Destiny A classic Arcade shmup played on the Capcom Arcade Stadium version of the game. The game's plot revolves around a lone fighter pilot saving the world from a terrorist organization from starting World War III, seriously. A fun run all about optimizing boss patterns and resource managementStatus: Pending Any% (De Havilland Mosquito) 00:25:00 Status: Pending Any% Co-Op (w/ RubberDuckyAssassin) 00:26:00 Nintendo Switch Shayy Undertale Yellow Undertale Yellow is a recently released, extremely popular fan-made prequel to Undertale, and is officially endorsed by Toby Fox.

The True Pacifist speedrun shows off the entire game, as well as the high amount of glitches that can be executed using the Bag Glitch, such as cutscene skips, out of bounds, and very technical movement. It also has very tough boss fights that showcase a lot of player skill with limited resources and high damage.

Status: Pending True Pacifist 01:20:00 PC Shayy Undertale Yellow Undertale Yellow is an extremely popular fan-made prequel to Undertale that is officially sanctioned by Toby Fox.

The "Justice" ending is the game's dark ending, where we have to kill every monster encountered. The speedrun very quickly blasts through all of the enemies without too much overworld grinding, and the run features the game's two hardest boss battles, including the infamously difficult Zenith battle which showcases extremely high runner skill.

Status: Pending Justice Ending 01:15:00 PC Pokehero Pokémon Stadium Pokémon Stadium is the second 3D battle simulator released for the N64, but there's no battling here. In Kids Club, the mini-games are played here, with both Hard and Hyper (the hardest difficulty) 9 Wins showcasing every mini-game available with some fun tech to speed them up.Status: Pending Kids Club (Hard - 9 Wins) 00:13:00 Status: Pending Kids Club (Hyper - 9 Wins) 00:13:00 Nintendo 64 Shayy Undertale (Submitted as a race with Mrlink2k)

Undertale's Genocide Ending is very popular and has never been showcased at a GDQ before. This submission uses a modified copy of Undertale in order to give both runners the same encounter RNG, ensuring a very close race throughout.

The submission VOD is from the Winners finals of a tournament featuring this mod, showcasing how close and intense the races were between us.

Status: Pending Genocide Ending Race 01:10:00 PC Peace Egg Overcooked 2 The WR-setting chefs from last year's breakfast block have another tasting menu for your consideration! Thanks to archipelago modding for Overcooked, levels can now end as soon as a star threshold is reached. This not only eliminates a tremendous amount of downtime, it makes cooking quickly and efficiently even more important. Are we prepared for another showcase of frantic cooking around the world? YES CHEF! Submitting as a 3-player run with RUBIEHART and Sunbrojade.Status: Pending Any% Modded 01:40:00 PC Shayy Undertale Undertale is a very technical speedgame when glitches are allowed to be used, heavily relying on the extremely precise and visually impressive Punch Card exploit to skip cutscenes and blast through the game incredibly quickly. It plays very unlike a traditional RPG speedrun.

The Neutral ending is a condensed showcase of the game and is the most competitive category, and the True Pacifist ending is longer but a more complete run, featuring a new area and the game's true final boss.

Status: Pending Neutral Ending 01:00:00 Status: Pending True Pacifist Ending 01:27:00 PC Shayy Deltarune Deltarune has had both chapters individually showcased at GDQ before, but this category combines both chapters with all of the additional content and hidden boss fights. The run takes advantage of the powerful items we can obtain from CH1 and changes up how CH2 is played as a result. The run features both extremely popular secret bosses, Jevil and Spamton NEO, and is the most complete showcase of what the game has to offer.Status: Pending All Chapters All Bosses Glitchless 01:30:00 PC DECosmic DmC Devil May Cry: Definitive Edition The infamous Devil May Cry reboot. Except this time, you play as Vergil in a unique campaign! Whereas Dante's run is closer to a traditional dmc run (but with more heavily glitched skips), Vergil's run is functionally an action platformer, and the skips are exploitations of level geometry combined with various movement techniques. Fights also have a variety of optimization methods, with everything from environmental kills to teleport cancelling projectiles to shred the major boss.Status: Pending Vergil's Downfall - Any% 00:30:00 Playstation 5 Roach788 Ducktales: Remastered Submitted as race with DukeFireBird.

Play as Scrooge McDuck as he traverses the world trying to save his nephews who keep getting kidnapped and to chase after those who stole his First Dime.

Through the jungles, up in the mountains, a haunted mansion, and even on the moon!

Status: Pending Glitchless Any% Easy 00:42:00 PC Shoujo Super "Sonic Saves the World" World Super "Sonic Saves the World" World is a Super Mario World hack created by Maddy Thorson. It features 21 completely unique and custom levels that show off incredibly difficult tricks and amazing custom mechanics. Additionally, Maddy worked very hard to give each level its own charm, providing a humorous and satisfying experience to players and viewers alike.

The any% category skips "Celeste (2018)" and the second half of the final castle, bringing down the estimate by about 20 minutes.

Status: Pending 100% 01:45:00 Status: Pending Any% 01:25:00 Status: Pending Abridged% 0:45:00 SNES Shoujo Super Mario World The Kaizo SMW community is back and better than ever! We assembled some of the best level makers, artists, musicians, and coders (including some surprises) to make mind-blowing levels exclusively for SGDQ. Racers will work as a team (4v4) to speedrun these levels despite having never seen them before. Estimate is flexible; we can add and drop levels to fit the schedule. Submitting with GlitchCat7, shovda, Thabeast721, YouFailMe, juzcook, TheJavabrew, Shoujo, and MarkAlarm (JankPickle as backup)Status: Pending Kaizo Relay Race 02:00:00 SNES D3lighted The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess HD All Dungeons has not been run at a GDQ before this category tackles all the main Dungeons in a interesting order and will get to see Dungeons you don't usually see in any% like Temple of time, Goron Mines and all of Snowpeak. The current route also implements early Snowpeak witch cuts bombs from the route completely. I would love to show off this category. GMRTA (Goron Mines RTA) is a nice short category and has a really cool way to skip a mandatory fight and would love to show it off. Status: Pending Any% 03:25:00 Status: Pending GMRTA (Goron Mines RTA) 01:25:00 Status: Pending All Dungeons 04:15:00 Wii U Aquas Pink Sweets: Ibara Sorekara This arcade shoot 'em up (2006) features a variety of scoring and survival techniques, routing, quick decision making, intensely difficult sections and randomness that makes every run different. It is considered one of the hardest arcade shmups. I have the WR score and have been playing dedicated for 1.5 years.

Submission video has detailed commentary from a live run on the game's scoring and mechanics + the run itself.

Status: Pending High Score 01:20:00 Xbox 360 Jaxler Vexx Vexx is a 3D collectathon with a massive suite of movement glitches. What separates this speedrun apart from others is its emphasis on vertical movement tech, with the ability to chain massive double and triple jumps through the use of rage jumping and fakie fireballs. Lateral movement is also satisfying thanks to extended long jump tech, and with the addition of glitches like heart duping and cutscene overlap this run is a spectacle to watch in motion.Status: Pending Any% 1:40:00 Wii arnaud33200 Land of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse Platformer game and part of the Illusion trilogy, featuring beloved Disney character Mickey Mouse. This is one of the best games on the Master System because of its captivating music, intriguing puzzle-solving elements, and a beautiful overworld with diverse universes. As one of my favorite games on the console, its speedrun showcases numerous shortcuts and glitches, making it an ideal fit for a Disney-themed block.Status: Pending any% 00:27:00 Sega Master System Aquas Contra: Shattered Soldier Diver Mine only, limits firepower to the Diver Mine and Homing Missile weaponry. This is notable because normally the Energy Shot (the Fire Whip charge shot) is used in Any% to much greater efficacy / DPS and time savings. To achieve big damage, instead, Diver Mine only category shifts the skill weight to a continuous 4 to 5 frame window (/60fps) timing before every charge shot is full. This is called a "Full Partial Charge". Overall, this is a more difficult and skillfully executed category.Status: Pending All Stages, Diver Mine only 00:45:00 PlayStation 2 pmcTRILOGY An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs What if stock photos of dogs ran airports? In this very, very silly game, the runner must manage a series of demanding gate agents asking for bribes, energy, and more while also selecting and making flights on time - all to meet up with the only other human left. With help from Scarlet Bovine (not to be confused with Red Bull!!!), we can drink a single can through every airport in the stars!Status: Pending any% 00:35:00 PC MrMiguel Metroid Prime 3: Corruption While not as fast of the other two prime games, it still is a very fun and exciting speedrun filled with a lot of tricks to speed up the game significantly! Most notably Early Elysia, Early Spire or Theronian Bomb Skip (Any% only), Early Spider Ball (100% Only) and lots of very fast movement optimizations that make the game interesting.Status: Pending Any% 2:55:00 Status: Pending 100% 4:00:00 Nintendo Wii Aquas Ghosts'n Demons Ultimate Challenge category has me play through 2 loops and fight the True Final Boss. The 2nd loop has more difficult changes than any official series GnG game. More boss health, more random spawns, new attacks from the bosses. Continues are disabled in the 2nd loop but I'm confident in my ability to clear the game. There is a small chance of failure. (5% chance?).Status: Pending Ultimate Challenge 00:52:00 PC OGHappydude Killer Instinct One of the best arcade fighter of the 90's got ported over to the SNES in 1995 and is remembered fondly after the franchise got rebooted in 2013. Oh, you think we are going to be running that version? Nope!! We will be playing the 2 button version in glorious 144P on the original Game Boy!! Status: Pending Any 00:15:00 Super Nintendo pmcTRILOGY Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza In this 2002 FPS that follows the plot of the 1988 movie, we all knew that John McClane could clip through doors at will and rub up against toilet paper to change his physical properties and jump through a wall, but wait there's more! In the past year, John learned to jump off a ladder in such a way that he can straight up fly and then rub against more weird objects to clip through even more walls. Huh! Weird movie!Status: Pending any% 00:30:00 PC Aquas The Speed Rumbler Classic Capcom arcade title from the creator of the G'nG series. Make a mad dash through 6 stages equipping your car to combat & survive erratic enemy cars who try their best to destroy or ram your car into an instant death obstacle. Speed is the essence of this run as clearing stages quickly is encouraged to earn the necessary points for extra lives and to simply escape death. The randomness can provide a very exciting and fun run.Status: Pending Any% 00:26:00 Playstation 3 arnaud33200 Astérix Platformer game featuring both Asterix and Obelix. Despite the franchise's mixed reputation in gaming, this Master System adaptation proves to be quite enjoyable. Offering players the choice between two iconic characters enhances the gameplay experience, while the presence of interesting skips adds depth to the speedrunning potential. Having recently revisited this title during a SegaFest event, I believe it would make a fantastic addition to SGDQ.Status: Pending any% 00:26:00 Sega Master System Aquas Gokumakaimura Kai Updated, Japanese only release of Ultimate Ghosts'n Goblins. 2 Loops through the game required to fight the last boss. Arthur uses the Pow Upgrade (heavy damage), Electric Whip weapon, and Angel Armor (infinite flight) to advance through the game quickly. Status: Pending Any% 00:55:00 PlayStation TV arnaud33200 Jurassic Park A well-crafted entry in the Jurassic Park series, this Sega Master System adaptation stands out as one of the best among its counterparts. The dinosaurs are meticulously designed, and the availability of three weapons, coupled with an overworld, opens up strategic opportunities for speedrunners. Despite its lack of popularity, I'm eager to showcase this gem during SGDQ.Status: Pending any% 00:17:00 Sega Master System alditto Momodora: Moonlit Farewell This is quite an interesnting run which uses some risky strats by dealing with bosses with only 1 HP (for most of them), as well as playing pretty much half of the game with only 1 HP. This means it has its fair share of skill and can be entertaining to see it being run live.Status: Pending NMG Normal 01:12:00 PC pmcTRILOGY Slave Zero Slave Zero is a relentless kaiju romp through MegaCity S1-9. This 1999 action game offers huge vertical levels filled with enormous enemies and questionable physics. Doors have seams that let the player climb up and through them. Enemy spawners provide excess vertical boost to get up and over walls. One early game boss self-destructs in shame as the player can jump off boss itself to the end of the level.Status: Pending any% 00:55:00 PC ThundaSurge Lethal Company In this popular co-op horror game, we are contracted workers for the Company! Our job is to collect scrap from abandoned moons to meet the Company's profit quota (Or else). We can use the cash we earn to travel to new moons with higher risks and rewards!

Our goal in this Speedrun is to meet 6 quotas as fast as possible using various glitches such as ship clip, item drop tech, & apparatus clip

(This is a Co-op submission with SpacebarS and ThundaSurge)

Status: Pending 6 Quota 2 Employees Glitched 01:00:00 PC TheShadedMaster Celeste 64: Fragments of the Mountain Celebrating the 6th anniversary of Celeste, Madeline is here in 3D and she must nyoom. Celeste 64 is a short adventure through 3D Forsaken City with 30 berries to collect. With the same simple controls of dashing, jumping and grabbing, this run stays difficult with perilous speed strats and questionable deathwarp planning.

Submitting as a race against KingJ0444 and LaurieDBunnykins, or as a solo run

Status: Pending 100% 00:15:00 PC ClownPuncher139 Batman: Arkham City Any% runs of Arkham City have been shown at GDQ many times before, showing off all the fun glitches the game has and how far the community has come with interesting tech behind the game. I want to show off a run that anyone could do if they were determined. The idea behind the run seems daunting, but in the end, it's incredibly simple. No crazy skips or difficult tech, just playing the game slightly faster than average. But with the added twist of doing literally everything.Status: Pending 100%, Glitchless, No Catwoman 05:10:00 Xbox 360 Alnak Ghostrunner 2 Ghostrunner 2 is a first person hack & slash set in a cyberpunk megastructure. As Jack, you navigate through levels slicing enemies with your katana. The game really shines as a speedrun thanks to techniques that make better use of the parkour mechanics.

The sequel builds upon the first game and adds more features which are useful in the run like a motorcycle that lets you reach unintended paths or the ability spam which eventually will make you fly through stages.

Status: Pending Any% Unrestricted 01:15:00 PC bobbyburm Chants of Sennaar Nominated as a "Game for Impact" at The Game Awards 2023, this visually stunning puzzle game allows players to translate fictional languages to bring peace. This run showcases many skips, precise inputs, and technical movement methods across a diverse landscape. Additionally, this game has never been showcased at a GDQ and would shine in a marathon setting.Status: Pending any% 00:58:00 PC killingpepsi Pseudoregalia Pseudoregalia is an Indie 3D platformer/metroidvania with incredible movement tech such as ultra sidehops, kneeslides, platform slidecancels, and moonkicks. 100% OOB plays on original patch with abundant use of OOB to cut down on backtracking. The Map Update adds several new time trials that unlock new costumes, which changes up each areas route in a really fun way. Willling to be race/backup if others submit as well. Sybil is the Goat.Status: Pending 100% No OOB (Map Update) 00:42:00 Status: Pending 100% OOB 00:30:00 PC Shadra Outward A simple and quick run showcasing movement tech in the game Outward

Time starts when you select "create" on the character creation screen. Time ends when you open the Cierzo legacy chest. Use of the Code Sonic is allowed. Clipping out of bounds intentionally is banned. Solo Run

Status: Pending Legacy Chest 00:10:00 PC Steam bobbyburm Inscryption Inscryption is a fast-paced, deck-builder story game that is jam-packed full of quick decisions and huge boss fights.

Act 1 showcases quick thinking and rapid deck building, Act 2 builds up powerful cards with precise strategies, and Act 3 is a dynamic balancing act of power and speed. This game flaunts its beautiful and constantly changing environments paired with tank building strats that we use to clear all enemies that stand in our way.

Status: Pending any% NMG 01:40:00 PC killingpepsi TASOMACHI: Behind the Twilight Tasomachi is a beautifully crafted 3D collectathon/atmospere simulator. Your goal is to progress through the 3 main areas completing sanctuary challenges and clearing out the dense fog, while also trying to repair your airship. Gradually throughout the run new tech gets added and compounded like animation cancelling to blind walk during cutscenes, a dash ability combined with precise bunny hops with no speed cap, a double jump, and a recently discovered airtime-storage glitch.Status: Pending 150 Sources 01:05:00 PC juzcook Super Mario Maker 2 The Mario Maker community has prepared a set of custom made troll levels, full of glitches and unexpected surprises to delight and bedazzle the GDQ audience. Proposed is a race between CarlSagan42 and Juzcook, who will compete to outsmart the trolls in a best-of format similar to past Mario Maker races. Expect lots of wild setups, hilarious glitches, and maybe a little screen surfing as we showcase the creativity of the Mario Maker community!Status: Pending Troll Level Race 00:45:00 Nintendo Switch talia Will You Snail? Will You Snail? is a 2D platformer where you play as a snail fighting against an all-powerful AI named Squid. Throughout the game, Squid calculates the perfect spots to place hazards to catch you, as well as controlling various other environment aspects, forcing you to react on the spot. In the speedrun, this is combined with various flashy skips and boss quick kills, including a literal slam dunk. Any% No Major Glitches is the main category, with Infinitely Easy being the fastest difficulty. 🐌Status: Pending Any% NMG Infinitely Easy 00:20:00 PC Vynnada Bloodrayne Join us on this frame-counting journey as we play a half-vampire protagonist teaming up with a secret organization. We'll fight untold monsters, unearth weird demons, use giant mechs, and hop in and out of paper walls during this movement-heavy, out of bounds adventure.Status: Pending Any% Easy 00:30:00 PC Hyperguyver Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased his Name Any % Speedrun on the PS5. I had a fun time with this run, though a couple of minutes off of my WR pace, it was focused on making it a fun experience. I added a short skit prior to the run as a fun way to introduce it. It would be awesome to be able to improve upon it and use it during the event in some way should I be accepted. Status: Pending any % PS5 01:35:00 PS5 IllegallySam Evoland Evoland is an indie game inspired by genre-defining old school classics like Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy, and even Diablo. The main gimmick of the game is that the game and its graphics, music, and even mechanics evolve as you progress through the game. The Any% run requires beating the game as quickly as possible, and this includes demolishing the intended route as much as possible, with menu glitches, skipping intended upgrades, and lots of small skips and optimizations all throughout.Status: Pending Any% 00:40:00 Xbox Series X IllegallySam Levelhead Levelhead is an indie 2D platformer maker game whose main unique gameplay feature is the package, which is an object that is not only required to beat every level, but it is also used for both basic platforming and advanced tech. Speedruns involve playing through the game's campaign, and feature varying amounts of the 93 levels featured based on the category. Ranging from playing only 62 levels in Any% to getting nearly 5000 collectibles in 100%, each category has something unique to offer. Status: Pending Any% 00:50:00 Status: Pending All Training Stages (Any%) 01:03:00 Status: Pending All Training Stages (New Game) 01:15:00 Status: Pending 100% 01:50:00 Xbox Series X XevenstevensX Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus (2002) Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus is a PS2 3d platformer that is know for Sly's sneaky and stealthy missions to retrieve the pages that were stolen from the Thievius Raccoonus, a book that was passed down from generations sharing family secrets. The speedrun breaks this game wide open with extreme launches, precise platforming, load abuses, and even world skips! In the longer categories we unlock abilities which really showcases what Sly is capable of with some insane movement tech. Status: Pending Coinless 100% 2:35:00 Status: Pending 100% 1:55:00 Status: Pending All Vaults 1:15:00 Status: Pending Any% 00:38:00 BCPS3 Ratyu ASTRAL CHAIN This is a work by Platinum Games, a company with an established reputation for 3D action! Uses multiple techniques for cool action The discovery of a new glitch has saved nearly two hours.Status: Pending Any％ 00:45:00 Nintendo Switch Ratyu Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles RemasteredEdition No DLC and solid play! Enjoy the wonderful world!Status: Pending Any％(No DLC) 02:35:00 PS5 Ratyu FINAL FANTASY CRYSTAL CHRONICLES Utilize multiplayer in the early stages of the game. By rewriting the ID, the Enemy is equipped and fires a barrage of magic, and even goes to warp!Status: Pending Any％ 01:50:00 Wii Mattmatt Spider-Man (2000) Spider-Man 2000 is arguably one of the greatest Spider-Man games of all time and definitely the most nostalgic for most. The speedrun for this game has changed a lot over the years with new tricks and skips still being found to this day! I run the Dreamcast version and one interesting thing about the DC version is if you play the PAL version through VGA the game runs at 60hz which speeds up the gameplay significantly and makes for a more enjoyable speedrun to watch and play!Status: Pending Any% 00:33:00 Status: Pending No Skips 00:37:00 Dreamcast Bubzia Super Mario 64 Blindfolded Mario 64 has come a long way over the past years and new strategies matching visual speedun times are consistently implemented in runs. Even difficult categories like 1 Star are now possible due to clever setups for precise tricks like LBLJ and SBLJ, which allow you to skip through most star barriers in the game. 16 Star also has completely new strategies in every single stage and is unrecognizable from even 1 year ago.Status: Pending 1 Star Blindfolded 00:25:00 Status: Pending 16 Star Blindfolded 00:27:00 Wii VC Bubzia Super Mario 64 Randomizer Randomizers like the SM64 one are essential in the world of speedrunning these days. For the first time in world history, it is also possible to play the randomizer blindfolded, through a similar ruleset like in blindfolded Rubik’s cube. We learn a random seed with eyes, create strategies and routes during the speedrun, and finally collect 10 memorized stars while blindfolded. That opens the final Bowser Stage and we can finish the game.Status: Pending 10 Star Blindfolded 00:40:00 Wii VC Bubzia Dark Souls: Remastered Dark Souls is considered an extremely difficult game, but did you know that you can push the boundaries of difficulty even further, by completing the entire game while blindfolded?

The blindfolded speedrun of Dark Souls has everything you search for: Clever setups, intense bossfights, cheese strats, broken glitches, blindfolded bow aiming, timed dodge rolls, and much more. But most importantly, we are certainly going to see the famous words everyone dreads:

“YOU DIED!”

Status: Pending Any% Blindfolded 04:00:00 Status: Pending Anor Londo% Blindfolded 02:15:00 Status: Pending Bells of Awakening% Blindfolded 01:15:00 PC 360Chrism Super Mario 64 A new way of playing SM64 has just come out! With the help of the Archipelago Randomizer you can now randomize Mario's abilities. You start with just "jump" and "punch" and have to route your way through the game by unlocking more abilities like "Long Jump", "Ground Pound" and "Ledge Grab" to name a few. With more abilities more Stars will be obtainable which will lead to more unlocks. The goal is to get 70 Stars and enough abilities to beat the game. Bid war M's color: Red,Green,Yellow,Purple.Status: Pending Ability Randomizer 01:30:00 PC 360Chrism Pokemon Emerald Randomizer This randomizer not only randomizes all battles & wild encounters, but also shuffles all entrances in the game! Every door, staircase, & ladder leads to somewhere random!

The goal is to find & complete all 8 gyms, elite 4 members, & finish on champion. I will be playing cooperatively w/ adef, Shenanagans & Keizaron, splitting up & covering different parts of the map simultaneously. This run is cooperative chaos at its finest.

Status: Pending Map Randomizer Co-op 02:00:00 Status: Pending Evo Every Level 2:50:00 Gameboy Player 360Chrism Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics 51 Games 51 Runners! I want to bring the relay fun to GDQ. I would love to showcase Clubhouse games on the big stage either as a solo run or a 51 player relay where the controller is handed to the next person every time a game has been beaten.

I would organize this and make sure everyone participating is an expert in their game and knows all the strats and backups!

Status: Pending Win All Games (51 Player Relay) 2:40:00 Status: Pending Win All Games 02:00:00 Nintendo Switch LinearC TMNT Hyperstone Heist I will be playing TMNT Hyperstone Heist as part of the PS5 Cowabunga Collection. Category is Leonardo Easy: all levels.

Hyperstone Heist is unique in that each of the turtles has different base stats. All former GDQ runs have used Raphael, as he has the highest attack and speed; I am going to run Leonardo, hopefully to inspire other runners to run the other turtles.

Join me as we bring a rarely used speedrun turtle to GDQ and showcase his unique stats, strategies, and tricks to beat the game.

Status: Pending Leo, Easy 00:38:00 PS5 360Chrism Kaizo Mario Galaxy It's not the Super Mario Galaxy you remember! Kaizo Mario Galaxy is a mod that alters the layout all the levels and makes Stars more difficult and some straight up unfair. I would like to compile a showcase of some of Kaizo Mario Galaxy's most impressive and difficult Stars for the GDQ audience! This showcase can be various lengths as I can always fit more stars into it.

Played on WiiU

Status: Pending Showcase 01:30:00 Status: Pending Showcase 01:00:00 Status: Pending Showcase 02:00:00 Nintendo Wii U Fuso-Shikine Takeshi's Challenge Takeshi's Challenge is one of the most famous awful game in Japan. It is treated as the top of Kusoge. This game's idea came from Takeshi Kitano, who is a comedian and now famous as a movie creator. It contains incredible mystery solving, less tips, many enemies and Takeshi Kitano's genius idea. This game can't beat within 1 hour in the usual way because we have to wait 1 hour to find tresure map, but it can beat within 30 min in speedrun.Status: Pending Glitchless 00:30:00 Famicom Fuso-Shikine Sherlock Holmes: The Kidnapped Countess This game is most famous and notorious sherlock holmes game in Japan. It is not adventure. It is action game with terrible difficulty. Holmes kicks the enemy and earns money and information. Status: Pending Any% 0:25:00 NES heyitsperk Saturn Bomberman A classic, top down style Bomberman game that has seen massive community growth recently, with 3 different World Record Holders in the past 3 years and over 3 minutes of time save since my last GDQ submission!

Bomb kick trickshots, cross map bomb throws, and frame perfect explosion chains highlight the creativity in this run. 7 unique boss fights with an abundance of fascinating enemies presented in beautiful pixel art will keep the viewer compelled and captivated.

Status: Pending Normal Mode 00:48:00 Saturn Silent Wolf Donkey Kong Country This submission is intended to be an in-person 4-way race between myself, LeadOstrich, V0oid, and Tylen0l. All Stages is the main category for Donkey Kong Country and has not been featured in a GDQ since 2019. Since then, several groundbreaking tricks have been discovered and the game itself has come a long way (which is saying a lot considering how old and competitive the game is). We would love to have the opportunity to showcase the efforts our community has put forward on the big stage.Status: Pending All Stages 00:36:00 Super Nintendo (SNES) AstridTheHorrorGirl RUINER RUINER is a Twin-Stick Shooter set in a Cyberpunk world where gangsters control a city by hacking into people's brains. The game has a lot of OOB moments mixed in with proficient gameplay.Status: Pending NG+ No Tutorial 00:52:00 PC AstridTheHorrorGirl NecroVisioN: Lost Company This is an FPS with a horror influence about World War I, but like, the REAL Great War, with Zombies, and Vampires, and Werewolves and Demons and Dragons. You know? Status: Pending Any% 00:35:00 PC DukeFireBird Ducktales: Remastered Having just come off the any% at AGDQ2024, the glitchless category for Ducktales Remastered gets to show off the entire game, and even longer Moon level music. Submitting as a race against Roach788Status: Pending glitchless easy 0:42:00 PC AstridTheHorrorGirl Dementium II HD Dementium II HD is the PC only HD version of Dementium II that was on the Nintendo DS before. It is a very silly run that we are continuing to find new OOB spots for, more sequence breaks, and all sorts of things.Status: Pending Any% 00:33:00 PC Sean_A Super Zangyura Super Zangyura is a 2021 remake of the 2004 action platformer/Castlevania parody Zangyura. The game is self-described as "deathmatic" which basically means that it is very very mean; with brutal trap-filled level design, and enemies that love to stunlock you to death. Movement is sped up through the ability to cancel the dash animation with an attack to negate some downsides of the dash. The game is filled with a charming sense of humour, through its writing and playfully cruel game design.Status: Pending Nocturne Any% 00:20:00 Nintendo Switch DanTheVP Enter the Gungeon Proposed are 3 races between DantheVP and RadRingtail.

Enter the Gungeon is a top-down, roguelite bullet-hell game with a robust speedrun following. Each run is unique and runners must clear rooms, battle bosses, solve RNG layouts and improvise to proceed quickly. Viewers both familiar and not will enjoy the showcase of skill required to defeat the game's challenges.

These runs utilize the Gunslinger character, Turbo Mode and Rainbow Mode, to present the game in an RTA and race-friendly way.

Status: Pending Rainbow Turbo Any% (No AWP) Race 00:25:00 Status: Pending Rainbow Turbo Blessing Any% Race 00:30:00 Status: Pending Rainbow Turbo All Floors (No AWP) Race 00:45:00 PC V0oid Super Mario RPG Remake This long-awaited HD remake of the beloved SNES classic makes for an entirely different (and faster!) speedrun than its counterpart, in no small part due to the addition of several new battle mechanics, as well as quicker and more fluid animations. An incredibly accessible and fun, yet challenging speedgame that not only keeps all of the original's charm but breathes new life into the Mario RPG genre!

Can be offered as a coop run or a race!

Status: Pending Normal RTA 02:45:00 Nintendo Switch V0oid Donkey Kong Country The main category of this SNES classic has seen some of the biggest and most significant improvements in a long time over the last couple of years, thus bringing the top times down to lows never thought achievable in the past. A treat of a speedgame to spectate due to its abundance of skips and glitches, fluid and exciting movement and timeless soundtrack!

Submitted as a race with LeadOstrich, Silent Wolf and Tylen0l.

Status: Pending All Stages - Modern 00:37:00 SNES thebroodles Final Fantasy IX its the best final fantasy man, you guys aint run it since 2019, it's time for a new run, you get me? the route has changed since then and features a more stripped down and streamlined route with some exciting new strategies.Status: Pending any% 9:10:00 ps2 thebroodles Final Fantasy VIII people love ff8. trust me, i'm people. perfect for overnight streaming. now with manips and spreadsheets.Status: Pending any% 8:30:00 ps2 thebroodles Final Fantasy VII absolute banger. you ran it last year but its ff7 so you should run it again. i'm submitting both any% and no slots despite not having run slots yet, but i'm currently learning it and it's all transferrable knowledge. (this means the category video is a bit wrong but dont worry about it)Status: Pending any% 6:45:00 Status: Pending any% no slots 7:05:00 ps2 Savac Sonic Adventure 2: Battle Although recently shown, these categories are vastly different from the A-Rank run and the prior showcase in 2017. Expect skips never before seen on the stage, methodical treasure hunting, and technical mech movement. Join me as I laugh in the face of gravity, walls, and floors, which are mere suggestions in this run.

New Game+ has never been shown. It starts from a completed save with every upgrade, allowing for additional large skips and strategies.

Submitting both as a potential bid war.

Status: Pending Dark Story (New Game) 00:38:00 Status: Pending Dark Story (New Game+) 00:35:00 PC doctor_eggy Wild 9 The wild 9 speedrun features many skips and tricks of all kinds. This includes getting launched by a enemy into a warp spot in the sky to skip 80% of a level, clipping through walls, and duplicating keys. Much of the game involves using the enemies to solve puzzles (and skip long checkpoint animations ect) there are 14 levels with platforming, vehicle chasing, and falling through space transport tubes.Status: Pending Any% Easy 00:52:00 PS2 spacecatsunited Secret Agent Barbie: The Royal Jewels Hello Barbie, let's go speedrun! Secret Agent Barbie: The Royal Jewels is a fun, upbeat platformer with mini puzzles throughout the game. Together with Barbie we run, jump, and roll our way through 16 levels across 4 countries to save the world. There's cars, horses, and even jetskis! Secret Agent Barbie: The Royal Jewels is a hidden jewel of its own and I would love the opportunity to share it with more people. <3Status: Pending any% 00:20:00 Game Boy Advance gymnast86 The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Twilight Princess Randomizer has been out for a while now and as expected the Clawshots, Gale Boomerang, Spinner, and more have been randomly strewn across Hyrule and it's up to us to find them all as fast as possible.

Solo settings would reduce the number of checks in the pool to keep the same time estimate as a co-op run. Co-op run is being submitted with Spikevegeta.

Status: Pending Solo or Co-op Randomizer 2:45:00 Nintendo Wii DanTheVP Shovel Knight: King of Cards Proposed is a NG+ run of the final Shovel Knight campaign.

Shovel Knight is a definitive modern 2D game and speedruns of it are a GDQ staple.The NG+ run of King of Cards is the fastest main category and has never been featured at GDQ. The Any% run is already quick, and NG+ turns it up to 11. King Knight dashes, spins, pogos, and sometimes flies his way through this showcase of skill and speed. The final stage ends with a pixel-perfect trick after being off screen for 90 seconds.

Status: Pending NG+ 00:30:00 PC Greenalink Quake II Enhanced An official remaster released last year. Not only it features the PC's original campaign & expansions but also features both N64 campaign & the brand new Call of the Machine. This speedrun will be focusing on the N64 campaign by not only clearing the maps fast but also killing all of the enemies & finding every secret. The execution difference between N64 and PC is night and day thanks to a higher stable framerate, mouse & keyboard controls and quicksaves/quickloads to minimise timeloss errors.Status: Pending N64 Maps - Easy - 100% Kills/100% Secrets 00:38:00 PC AKDylie Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II Sonic Team's dungeon crawler/ARPG where no two runs are the same due to random drops and randomly picked maps. Glitchless runs manage items carefully and try to squeeze out the most with limited resources. Glitched runs break the game open using menu layering to increase attack power to absurd levels, but the enemies can still bite back if not handled quickly.Status: Pending any% episode 1 glitchless (Hunter class) 02:26:00 Status: Pending any% episode 1 (glitched) 00:59:00 Status: Pending any% episode 2 (glitched) 01:08:00 Wii Caneras Jet Force Gemini Jet Force Gemini is a third person shooter where the run features route planning, adaptation, and precise movement/aiming. While runs don't deviate much from playing how the developers intended, they do involve blazing through enemies to unlock progression and difficult to execute strategies. Plus, the soundtrack is full of hits and has been used in the GDQ background playlist in past marathons.

Co-op with 2 runners has never been done before and would involve new strategies unique to it.

Status: Pending Any% 03:35:00 Status: Pending 100% 4:15:00 Status: Pending Any% Co-op 3:30:00 Status: Pending Any% Race 3:45:00 Nintendo 64 RadRingtail Kingsley's Adventure Kingsley's Adventure is a budget 3D adventure game for PSX featuring tank controls, crunchy low-poly graphics, a banging soundtrack, silly NPCs, sequence breaks, death plane abuse, and a tiny fox. The run uses TAS-discovered strats to skip many rooms, carry keys to later dungeons for more skips, and quick kill bosses. Tricks are spread throughout the hour of playtime with only the occasional run-back, creating a perfect break for donations. Never before seen at GDQ! Fox kigu round 2?Status: Pending Any% 01:05:00 PS2 Luckyboy527 Over The Hedge DS Come watch the lovable cast of the hit 2006 movie Over the Hedge completely break the fabric of their world and physics itself. Gladys has returned to ruin the sanctuary that the forest holds. As we play through 100% of IGN's 2006 winner for "the best game nobody played" award, collecting all the key items to introduce endangered animals to a live construction site, we will truly find out what lives over that hedge. This 3d platformer is exciting and funny, making it perfect for awful block.Status: Pending All Levels 00:30:00 New 3DS with capture card mrlink2k Undertale The Undertale Genocide category is the most ran category of the game. Instead of relying heavily on the difficult tricks of other categories, the genocide route forces players to grind encounters in an area until there are none left, making the category primarily focus on the luck of the encounters as well as the mastery of weapons.

This is being submitted as a race between myself and Shayy where we play on a mod to get the same encounter RNG, allowing for a close race the whole way through.

Status: Pending Genocide Ending Race 01:10:00 PC streetbackguy Dead Rising 4 Frank Rising, unfortunately Frank West got reincarnated as a zombie. Now in the search for a cure, he must save everyone he met in Dead Rising 4's campaign (who are still alive).Status: Pending Frank Rising - Good Ending 00:50:00 PC Moogle Batman Dark Tomorrow Batman Dark Tomorrow is the 2nd Batman game from Kemco. The category "best ending" is the best ending of the game where Batman lightly jogs through the streets of Gotham, sewers, an asylum and a trip to an undisclosed mountain area to deactivate the doomsday device and beats up Ra's al Ghul and get credits. the game plays exactly like what you'd imagine a superhero game from the early 2000's would with locked camera angles and tank controls.Status: Pending best ending 00:40:00 Microsoft Xbox wilbun84 Pseudoregalia Pseudoregalia is a movement-heavy 3D platformer and metroidvania. It is a fast-paced run that takes advantage of slide cancels to boost your momentum, frame perfect clips to move in and out of bounds, and checkpoint manipulation to death-warp to different parts of the map. With only two-skippable cutscenes, this run is a constant stream of great platforming movement, sure to please fans of similar games like Super Mario 64.

Pseudoregalia was also run this year at AGDQ and Frame Fatales.

Status: Pending 100% (Full Gold Patch) 00:35:00 Status: Pending All Abilities% (Full Gold Patch) 00:22:00 PC anarchy UNO (Ubisoft) Everyone knows the world famous, friendship ending card game UNO that came with your xbox! Get rid of all your cards and win! But it's way less widely known that you can speedrun UNO. This is Ubisoft's 2016 UNO, a run that showcases shennanigans that are the UNO CPU, awesome DLC decks and all around teaching those about the interesting world of UNO speedrunning. And now with added tomfoolery, we have Bingo! Lock in and Trust!Status: Pending Every Deck (No Rules Added) 1:15:00 Status: Pending Bingo 00:30:00 Status: Pending Blackout Bingo 1:15:00 PC Vysuals Hollow Knight The fastest patch of Hollow Knight is patch 1.2.2.1 that almost all the main categories of the game are run on. This is the 1xx% run for that patch, getting everything in the game that counts for completion. This category has such a cool mix of challenging bosses and interesting quick kills for bosses in ways you won't see in any other HK run. Not to mention getting all the movement abilities to really show off what you're capable in this game, with a crescendo of action at the end.Status: Pending 106% NMG 2:50:00 PC anarchy Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus Making it's debut at a mainline GDQ event, Wolfenstein II follows another action-packed adventure with BJ Blazkowicz as he takes on the Nazi's on American soil. This run is glitchless, so it doesn't have any major glitches, but it does still use a lot of speed-tech to complete the game fast. These include utilizing weapon upgrades, optimized routing and battle walker skips which allow for some slight sequence breaking in the later half of the run all without glitching. It was space aliens!Status: Pending Glitchless 1:25:00 PC anarchy Wolfenstein: The Old Blood Wolfenstein: The Old Blood tells the beginning of the end for the allies in an alternate WW2 timeline. This run is very individual and unique compared to the others new Wolfenstein games. It takes a page out of previous attemps at revivals of the Wolfenstein series and includes influences from the supernatural and comedic relief. This run is glitchless, meaning no major glitches, but it does still use some small speed-tech and optimizations to make an already fast game faster. Hot Dog!Status: Pending Glitchless 1:25:00 PC anarchy Wolfenstein: Youngblood Wolfenstein: Youngblood takes the series to 1980 as it follows BJ Blazkowicz's twin daughters Jess and Soph as they fight their way through Nazi occupied Paris to find their dad. Solo Glitchless w/Peps denotes that in this run only one of the two characters is being controlled, there are no glitches and that the run will be utilize the peps, unlockable buffs which are available across playthroughs. Though complicated, this run showcases a unique take on a game known for being totally busted.Status: Pending Solo Glitchless w/Peps 2:10:00 PC HexSpeedruns Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury Super Mario 3D World was originally released on the Wii U but got ported to the Switch in 2021. This version allows us to skip cutscenes and improves the characters base running speed. 3D World was already filled with awesome momentum and crazy skips but now it's more fast paced than ever! While the Wii U version was shown at previous GDQ events, the Switch version still has yet to be shown off.Status: Pending Any% Race w/ KingJO444 1:45:00 Nintendo Switch anarchy Wolfenstein: The New Order Wolfenstein: The New Order is the original gangster alt-timeline revival game. This glitchless run takes us through an gripped adventure with BJ Blazkowicz as we liberate Europe from the Nazis. Though there are no glitches, we still utilize some speed-tech including checkpoint reloading, movement exploits and other optimizations. It's gritty, serious and a great re-introduction to the series. The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.Status: Pending Glitchless 2:00:00 PC suavepeanut Alan Wake 2 Is Alan Wake a good writer? (No) Does Saga Anderson have magic powers? (Yes) Can we please get Casey some coffee? (Probably not)

Alan Wake 2 is the highly-anticipated survival horror sequel to Remedy's 2010 Alan Wake. The Any% run offers a good look at some really interesting OOB skips in Alan's campaign that can't be found in Glitchless, which was recently featured by TaintedTali at ESA Winter: https://tinyurl.com/aw2-speedrun.

Status: Pending Any% New Game 02:50:00 Status: Pending Alan% (Initiation Only) 01:05:00 PlayStation 5 Stratus Hollow Knight This will be a True Ending (TE) race between Stratus and Vysuals. Stratus is the current WR holder that's been pushing TE forward recently, while Vysuals has run TE for almost 6 years and has had WR many times. TE is one of the most exciting race categories for Hollow Knight since the final boss is very difficult, even for top runners, meaning this race is never quite over until you see the credits. Vysuals ran TE for AGDQ 2019, and since then the WR has dropped by over 7 minutes. Status: Pending True Ending NMG Race 01:20:00 PC Keizaron Pokemon Emerald Randomizer This randomizer not only randomizes all battles & wild encounters, but also shuffles all entrances in the game! Every door, staircase, & ladder leads to somewhere random!

The goal is to find & complete all 8 gyms, elite 4 members, & finish on champion. I will be playing cooperatively w/ 360Chrism, adef, & Shenanagans_, splitting up & covering different parts of the map simultaneously. This run is cooperative chaos at its finest.

Status: Pending Map Randomizer Co-op 02:00:00 GameCube (Game Boy Player) adef Pokémon Emerald Randomizer This not only randomizes all battles & wild encounters, but also shuffles all entrances in the game! Every door, staircase, & ladder leads to somewhere random!

The goal is to find & complete all 8 gyms, e4 members, & finish on champ. I'll be playing w/ 360chrism, Shenanagans_, & Keizaron, splitting up & covering different parts of the map simultaneously. This run is cooperative chaos at its finest.

Choose-my-main gives donors the chance to choose what Pokémon I solo-main for a rando run!

Status: Pending Map Randomizer Co-Op 02:00:00 Status: Pending Choose-my-Main 02:40:00 Gamecube (Game Boy Player) Keizaron Animorphs Trust in the me that trusts in the under estimate run. It's Silly Block instead of Awful Block so the time won't be awful.Status: Pending Any% 00:40:00 Status: Pending 125% 00:50:00 GameCube (Game Boy Player) Lady_Smaell Worldless Worldless is a beautiful, stylised 2D metroidvania that was released in 2023. It encompasses traditional metroidvania elements with exploration and the collection of abilities to progress further and mixes it up with active battles which require precise timing to attack effectively and defend against enemies attacks.

Any% is a streamlined run of the game utilising a small number of exploits to quickly dispatch enemies and an exhibition of both platforming and combat prowess.

Status: Pending Any% 00:55:00 PC Keizaron Pokemon Crystal In Randomizer Co-op Bingo, Tyrant14 and I will be completing goals on a randomly generated board, ranging from catching certain Pokemon to obtaining certain items and more. Through good communication and properly divided roles, we will be blacking out the card entirely, completing all 25 goals. Seeds for both the randomizer and the bingo board itself will be vetted to ensure a marathon- and estimate-safe run.Status: Pending Randomizer Co-op Bingo 01:30:00 GameCube (Game Boy Player) Keizaron Pokemon Emerald Speedrunning one game is already hard enough. What better way to bond with friends than by trying to co-op speedrun multiple games at once, where all the items are randomized between worlds!

Submitting as a 2 Player Co-op with JHobz296 (KH2) and a 3 Player Co-op with JHobz296 and RUBIEHART (Overcooked! 2)

Status: Pending 2 Player Archipelago 02:30:00 Status: Pending 3 Player Archipelago 03:00:00 PC Tyrant14 Pokemon Crystal In Randomizer Co-op Bingo, Keizaron and I will be completing goals on a randomly generated board, ranging from catching certain Pokemon to obtaining certain items and more. Through good communication and properly divided roles, we will be blacking out the card entirely, completing all 25 goals. Seeds for both the randomizer and the bingo board itself will be vetted to ensure a marathon- and estimate-safe run.Status: Pending Randomizer Co-op Bingo 01:30:00 Nintendo Gamecube theValiantSun Stardew Valley The farming simulation game that is sweeping the internet, Stardew Valley makes for a unique speedgame that delights both casual and challenge runners alike. With the 1.6 update, the game is once again in the forefront of indie gaming. While both of these runs feature older versions of the game, they have yet to be featured on the GDQ stage!

Submitting both categories with atwentysomethingloser, blackheartwings, Terpretor, theValiantSun

Status: Pending 4P Mines120 Relay 01:30:00 Status: Pending 4P Seeded Community Center Restoration 01:40:00 PC BetoKos Shin Megami Tensei: Synchronicity Prologue If you love SMT/Persona and Metroidvanias, this game is the game for you!

Developed by team Ladybug this game is a hidden gem for those seeking for another amazing metroidvania experience. In this game you play as the iconic Jack Frost and Pyro Jack Bros. and go in an adventure to beat the Evil Black Frost.

The speedrun is really broken with a lot of interesting skips and glitches. There is aways something going on or a tech to be explained. It's short but packed with cool strats!

Status: Pending Any% Easy 00:15:00 PC teddyras Sushi Souls Universe The sequel to I'M GOING TO DIE IF I DON'T EAT SUSHI! They give you the ability to dash towards the ground right away and there's boost pads in some levels, so this one's a bit more complicated as a speedgame.

Oh yeah, uh, you go to universes where sushi is sports, another where it's computers, and one where it's god. Imagine if some guy showed up in your universe and just started eating soccer balls and told you it was food, that's this game. What I'm saying is: it's great!

Status: Pending Any% 00:35:00 PC theValiantSun PlateUp! PlateUp! is a roguelike kitchen simulation game where we are trying to franchise a restaurant by surviving for 15 days! This run was completed at Flame Fatales 2023. We raised over $1k during the run with over 100 of that occurring in the last 3-minutes of the run for an unofficial run incentive to catch our kitchen on fire. This game has a lot of opportunities for donations and also is ran by the extremely charming Team OAT (not biased)!

3P with atwentysomethingloser, okNia_, and theValiantSun

Status: Pending Any% - Random Seed, Turkey, Trio 00:40:00 PC NathanFTL PICO PARK PICO PARK is a multiplayer co-op game created by Teco. All players play as colored cats and work together to complete a series of platform and puzzle levels. With online support for up to 8 players, PICO PARK gives a unique, and perhaps chaotic, speedrunning experience for the GDQ stage.

Nathan: Submitting with Stripe, Mkwiifreak, Danny, erupt, Jiro, Goofy, and Winbag.

Status: Pending 8P 00:40:00 PC bombomb Custom Robo :Battle Revolution This game was released in 2004 as Robot Action RPG. It is first game in the all Custom Robo series released in world wide countries. Aim to clear by combining parts consisting Robo, Gun, Bomb, Pod and Legs. The final boss is the strongest in the series. Status: Pending New Journey-Any% 2:10:00 Nintendo Wii bombomb Custom Robo This game was released in 1999 as Robot Action RPG. This title is only release in Japan and first title in this series. Aim to beat the game by combining parts consisting Robo, Gun, Bomb, Pod and Legs respectively. I have world record of this category. Status: Pending Scenario Mode 2:05:00 Nintendo 64 Violin Mario vs. Donkey Kong (2024) Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2024 is a Nintendo Switch remake of the GBA game of the same name, which I speedran for SGDQ 2020. This features very similar fast and fluid movement, with triple jumps, back flips, and awesome puzzle skips, and this time there are 4 extra worlds across Any%+*. There are also some extra Expert Levels, which would be an awesome showcase as a donation incentive. Submitting as a solo run or race :)

*Any%+ is an extended Any% category that includes the Plus Worlds.

Status: Pending Any%+ 2:15:00 Status: Pending Any% 1:20:00 Nintendo Switch JaekRock Sunset Riders Yeehaw! Sunset Riders is a beloved run 'n gun for the SNES, where the stakes are high and one hit means death and loss of powerups. The run focuses on quick levels and boss kills, requiring pixel-perfect damage distances from bosses, despawning enemy weapons, and careful timing. 2P difficulty and boss HP increase from the standard 1P difficulty. I will play a pistol wielder (Steve), and spacecoastgaming will select his character based on donation. See YT video description for run highlights.Status: Pending Beat the Game (Co-op) - Normal 00:25:00 SNES Riko Jet Moto 2: Championship Edition A futuristic PS1 racing game, Jet Moto 2: Championship Edition is known for its blistering speed and high difficulty. Full Season shows off all ten of the game's primary tracks, each featuring unique locales such as an active volcano, an earthquake-stricken city, a rollercoaster, and even Heaven and Hell. Status: Pending Full Season 00:35:00 PlayStation 2 limy Chessplosion Chessplosion is a mix between classic bomberman and chess as a puzzle fighter. Pieces explode in the path they would normally move in chess (ex, the bishop can only explode diagonally). There are a couple of different modes I'll be submitting for this- adventure, which is more of a story mode with set challenges per level, dungeon, which is more of a binding of isaac style rougelite with lots of exploration, and gauntlet, which is a combo-based rapid-fire mode that has a different flow.Status: Pending Dungeon Mode (Normal Ending) 0:13:00 Status: Pending Dungeon Mode (True Ending) 0:22:00 Status: Pending Gauntlet Mode (1P) 0:13:00 Status: Pending Adventure Mode (Any%) 0:27:00 PC JaekRock Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons A love letter to the Double Dragon series, this 2023 release contains a serious set of beat’em up moves, characters, and replayability. This will be a co-op (/w spacecoastgmaing) out-of-bounds run w/ all bosses (true ending). Each player controls two characters that can be swapped when the Special Meter is full. This character swap is also used in the speedrun to bypass spawn checkpoints and cutscenes. Both players will use Marian as one character, but the second character is up to donations! Status: Pending All Bosses % (Co-op) Normal OOBS 00:35:00 PC Eold Half-Life 2 Half-Life 2 is a first person shooter game released in 2004. It is an incredibly movement-focused speedrun, featuring classic source engine glitches such as accelerated hopping, air strafing, and damage boosting. With new strategies and tricks such as ISG, the world record has been cut by 3 minutes since the last time Half-Life 2 was ran at GDQ.

Dirtch and I would face off head to head in this race

Status: Pending New Engine - Any% No Voidclip, Race 01:00:00 PC Wolsk WannaFest 22 WannaFest 22 is widely considered to be the best 'I Wanna Be The Guy' fangame ever made, with an insane level of polish and game references that are sure to excite people from within any gaming community. Unlike most fangames, this makes use of 3D environments that have been adapted to work as 2D platforming. The run itself is full of skips and precise movement, and each stage will blow your mind in a new way. Additional developer commentary is likely!Status: Pending Any% 00:52:00 PC Wolsk I Wanna Micromedley Micromedley is the perfect fusion between 'WarioWare' and 'I Wanna Be The Guy,' and it plays very differently from nearly every other fangame. Each stage is uniquely themed with an immense variety of challenges and bosses, with the final boss being a perfect climax. The run primarily consists of on-the-fly routing but has several skips and exploits scattered throughout; throw in its bangin' music and flashy visuals, and this run becomes enticing to play and enthralling to watch.Status: Pending Any% 00:45:00 PC Wolsk I Wanna Be The Fangame! Back in AGDQ 2021, I got to showcase the blazing-fast Any% run with the bonus GLaDOS boss incentive, but that category still leaves out half the available content in the game. In the 100% run, you'll see many more optional bosses, classic game references, wrong warps, and even a shmup! Come bear witness to all that Fangame has to offer!Status: Pending 100% (Hard, No Timer Item) 00:45:00 PC Tylenol Donkey Kong Country Submitting as a race with Silent Wolf, LeadOstrich, and v0oid. This category has lots of new glitches and strats ever since its last time at GDQ (2019) and would be a very different run to show case as well as plenty of intense moments for racing purposes (many places to make come backs or push pulls) Status: Pending All Stages 00:36:00 Super Nintendo Entertainment System Imyt Super Metroid Hello there! I would like to submit a Super Metroid any% race to GDQ with my friend Sefi. We would be running the most difficult and competitive category and route in the game (PRKD - order in which you kill the bosses). Both of us got a sub 42 time within recent years, putting myself in top 10 on the leaderboard with Sefi trailing right behind. We are close friends and do a ton of races so we have a lot of experience with a handful of playful banter, meanwhile showcasing all the new strats!Status: Pending any% race 00:43:00 Super Nintendo limy Hi-Fi-RUSH Half hack and slash, half rhythm game, with tons of animation canceling and movement optimization. The perfect game honestly. I'm running Rhythm Tower, which is the post-game mode where you go through 60 floors of different fights and bosses where you get graded on your combos and your speed, on top of being able to save RTA by animation canceling out of special attacks making this run flow completely differently than Any% does.Status: Pending Rhythm Tower - Easy 1:13:00 PC Satorha Metroid Dread Unrestricted aims to complete the game while getting all sorts of items out of order, pretending that walls and floors are fake, and while ignoring enough pickups where applicable to consider the run as Low%!

It's an exciting box of speed, visual spectacle, and RNG! Both new and experienced Dread fans and speedrunners alike can find much to appreciate in this bombshell of a category.

Any% is by far the fastest, while All Bosses and 100% are more elaborate and grow more and more interesting.

Status: Pending Any% Unrestricted 01:00:00 Status: Pending All Bosses Unrestricted 01:14:00 Status: Pending 100% Unrestricted 01:37:00 Nintendo Switch stone_clive Ai Cho Aniki It was released on TurboGrafx-16 from MASAYA. At first glance, the game appears to be a shooting game, but a fighting game command input system is adopted for the use of techniques. Despite the flashy graphics, the game contains many serious challenging elements, since a single input error can lead to time loss. I will play it on WiiU VC.Status: Pending Any% 00:21:00 WiiU VC stone_clive Tenchu Stealth Assassins This game is Rittai Ninja Katsugeki Tenchu: Shinobi Gaisen in Japan. I must obtain the secret items needed to shorten time. (Stage 1 and Stage 3)

There are stages where you can be found by enemies and stages where you should not be found. The use of items is very important.

The video submitted is the Japanese version, but if selected, it will run in English. This can be changed in the options. There are no major changes to the game, just a change in language.

Status: Pending Any% 00:30:00 PS2 limy Super Monkey Ball: Touch and Roll This game is the perfect blend of SMB1 and SMB2 where the physics are similar any many of the levels have been transformed to fit onto the DS. A lot of the levels have been broken in completely different ways than the originals, with many fantastic original levels. Additionally, I have a Score Attack RTA showcase which requires mastery of all parts of the game. It's one of the hardest runs I know. I'm not submitting All Worlds but I am open to doing it through an incentive.Status: Pending Main Worlds 0:28:00 Status: Pending Extra Worlds 0:18:00 Status: Pending Main Worlds (Score Attack) 0:55:00 New 2DS BetoKos Sheep Raider Sheep Raider is an amazing Looney Tunes game where you play as Ralph Wolf and your goal is to steal sheeps from Sam Sheepdog in a sneaky and clever way. Every stage has it's unique quirks and gimmicks BUT we never play he intended way, that's the fun part.

The speedrun has evolved so much since my last GDQ Hotfix showcase and there is a lot of new strats that were found pretty recently. I would love to showcase this new route because it's honestly mind blowing.

Status: Pending Any% 01:05:00 PC limy Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 NASB2 is one of the new notable platform fighters featuring a full cast of classic and new Nickelodeon characters. It has lots of tech like slime cancelling and wavedashing in a rougelite gameplay loop. In the run, I build high damage or movement and make my way through the 3 main areas of the game to beat the final boss.

The characters in the bidwar are El Tigre, Danny Phantom, Garfield, Korra, Angry Beavers, Squidward, Jenny, and Donatello. If wanted, I can also just pick 1 to run with.

Status: Pending Campaign (New Game+) Character Bidwar 0:27:00 Status: Pending Campaign (New Game+) 0:27:00 PC ThundaSurge Rocket League The Rocket League custom map making community over the years has made several challenging maps that push the limits of the game and this Workshop Showcase submission aims to show off some of the best and most challenging speedruns available in RL! Many of the maps included require expert car control and precise player "mechanics" to complete. The maps have a lot of love and care crafted into them and each map has something unique to offer to both the player and viewers. Status: Pending Workshop Showcase 01:00:00 PC DirtyBunny Zwift Zwift is a game controlled by a bicycle hooked up to the internet. It's a fitness app with MMO elements which are explained in the video.

In this skill-style run, I do the "Sprinters Challenge" (or "Sprint %" of you like), where I pedal down the southern coast of the world and compete on 4 sprints in less than 40 minutes.

My bigger goal is to encourage people to start a fitness journey of their own. Start small, aim big. If a 50+ year old diabetic can do it, you can too.

Status: Pending Sprinters Challenge 00:40:00 PC Slurpeeninja Mega Man 9 An amazing game with amazing music! The buster only category has seen massive improvements in both movement and the optimization of boss fights since it was last showcased at a GDQ.Status: Pending Any%, Buster Only 00:43:00 Status: Pending Any% 00:35:00 Wii Antinomy Super Metroid Hello, I go by Sefi and I'm submitting alongside my close friend Imyt for a good old fashioned any% race where we are looking to showcase fresh batch of new strats for the category! We will be racing the PRKD boss order given that our competitive leaderboard times are within a few seconds of each other. Imyt and I have experience in doing competitive races with some friendly banter peppered in to spice things up for the viewers!Status: Pending any% 00:43:00 Super Nintendo Slurpeeninja Where's Waldo? (Submission for awful block) The traditional Where's Waldo? Submission! Categories include Easy, Medium, Hard, or All difficulties!! This run features Waldo hiding in various locations, and the goal of the speedrun is to find him as fast as possible. While this sounds like a simple task, Waldo is a master of disguise and can be anywhere the six RNG seeds place him.Status: Pending Any%, Easy 00:05:00 Status: Pending Any%, Medium 00:07:00 Status: Pending Any%, Hard 00:10:00 Status: Pending Any%, All Difficulties 00:15:00 NES Retroverse Catlateral Damage: Remeowstered Catlateral Damage: Remeowstered is a first-person mayhem game where you play as a cat and cause chaos and destruction while the humans are away! The dishes, bookshelves, science equipment, refrigerator food and even ancient dinosaur fossils will not be spared!

This is a remastered version of the game with new levels and goals. Every level and their goals are randomly generated, making for a new and fun experience each time!

Status: Pending Procedural Gauntlet - All Stages 00:23:00 PC Retroverse Felix the Cat Everyone loves Felix!

This Game Boy port of the NES platformer is a bit shorter but is still packed with all the action! The game features 6 interesting worlds with lots of cool upgrades for Felix.

Between the tight jumps, lag management and iframe manipulations, this game is sure to keep viewers on the edge of their seats!

Status: Pending any% 00:15:00 Game Boy Jiro Pico Park PICO PARK is a multiplayer co-op game created by Teco. All players play as colored cats and work together to complete a series of platform and puzzle levels. With online support for up to 8 players, PICO PARK gives a unique, and perhaps chaotic, speedrunning experience for the GDQ stage.

Submitting with Stripe, Mkwiifreak, Danny, erupt, Nathan, Goofy, and Winbag.

Status: Pending Multiplayer - 8 Player 00:40:00 PC Retroverse Dynasty Warriors 5 Dynasty Warriors is a cult classic dating back to the PS2 era of gaming. This series is action packed and full of great story-telling.

In the year 200AD, the Han dynasty fell leading to an age of turmoil in China. Various heroes from across the land battled for power. One of these people was Lu Bu, known as a powerful but untrustworthy general to be reckoned with.

Lu Bu is a character immortalized in many video games and media and is a fan favorite.

Status: Pending Lu Bu Musou Mode - Easy 00:10:00 PS2 FujiP Sheepy: A Short Adventure "Sheepy is a free pixel platformer released by music label MrSuicideSheep in February 2023. It is signified by its quality in both ambient and action music, its cute and mesmerising pixel art, and its tight movement, all uncharacteristically polished for a free game. The minor optimizations and minute timelosses shine bright, especially in the second half of the run, making it a great game to have as a race.

Submitted as a race between dosufura1984, mobtelo, and fujip."

Status: Pending Any% Glitchless (Race) 0:20:00 PC Cleavly Here Comes Niko! Here Comes Niko is a cozy 3D platformer hat is so, so cute! This game has a ton of glitches and tricks with a cast of charming characters. We will become a fishing hook, dance with a flamingo, and enter arcade machines all to get paid and hired.

Any% Bottle Walking will see us becoming a professional friend very quickly, with a massive glitch involving a bottle with a cute little fish on it that has not been seen at GDQ. Any% restricts this glitch, but has its own fun unique tricks.

Status: Pending Any% Bottle Walking 00:22:00 Status: Pending Any% 00:23:00 PC Regole Dark Souls Trilogy All three Dark Souls games have fast Any% speedruns, all making use of very different glitches and skips. In this run I will be showcasing all of them back to back to back in order, in a Dark Souls Trilogy Any% run. There will be whacky movement tech, item dupes, wrong warps, and more spread across all three games as we try to finish the entire trilogy as quickly as possible.Status: Pending Trilogy Any% 01:45:00 PC cicada Carto Carto is a "Carcassonne"-like puzzle adventure that rearranges the map to advance. It's a cute picture book-like game, but a wicked game that takes advantage of out-of-bounds. I broke the world record of this game in 2023. - 14:00- Skip by out of bounds. 32:54- Volcano stage skip.Status: Pending Any% 00:55:00 Status: Pending All Secret Pieces 01:05:00 PC cicada Transiruby Transiruby is a 2D action game released by SkipMore in 2021. It features speedy playing and skipping techniques. - 24:40- Early Elevator(I discovered this) 29:56- Dramos SkipStatus: Pending Any% 01:30:00 PC potaterhands BOSSGAME: The Final Boss Is My Heart Described as a "lesbian romance boss rush", BOSSGAME has you control 2 characters simultaneously in a challenging action battler where coordination, timing, and reaction speed are essential to mastering the game. With 16 bosses each possessing a unique arsenal of offense and defense, there's never a dull moment in this world-saving adventure.Status: Pending Boss Rush: ALL 00:25:00 PC mobtelo Sheepy: A Short Adventure "Sheepy is a free pixel platformer released by music label MrSuicideSheep in February 2023. It is signified by its quality in both ambient and action music, its cute and mesmerising pixel art, and its tight movement, all uncharacteristically polished for a free game. The minor optimizations and minute timelosses shine bright, especially in the second half of the run, making it a great game to have as a race.

Submitted as a race between dosufura1984, mobtelo, and fujip."

Status: Pending Any% Glitchless (Race) 00:20:00 PC atwentysomethingloser Mail Time Mail Time is a relaxing, cottagecore adventure set in a peaceful forest far, far away. It’s your first day on the job as a newly minted Mail Scout. With pep in our step and a letter glider on our back, we're off to deliver letters, collect trinkets, and meet all the animals in the neighborhood to earn ourselves 14 mail scout patches as quickly as possible.Status: Pending 14 Patches 00:25:00 PC atwentysomethingloser Stardew Valley The farming simulation game that is sweeping the internet, Stardew Valley makes for a unique speedgame that delights both casual and challenge runners alike. With the 1.6 update, the game is once again in the forefront of indie gaming. While both of these runs feature older versions of the game, they have yet to be featured on the GDQ stage!

Submitting both categories with atwentysomethingloser, blackheartwings, Terpretor, theValiantSun

Status: Pending 4P Mines120 Relay 01:30:00 Status: Pending 4P Seeded Community Center Restoration 01:40:00 PC atwentysomethingloser PlateUp! PlateUp! is a roguelike kitchen simulation game where we are trying to franchise a restaurant by surviving for 15 days! This run was completed at Flame Fatales 2023. We raised over $1k during the run with over 100 of that occurring in the last 3-minutes of the run for an unofficial run incentive to catch our kitchen on fire. This game has a lot of opportunities for donations and also is ran by the extremely charming Team OAT (not biased)!

3P with atwentysomethingloser, okNia_, and theValiantSun

Status: Pending Any% - Random Seed, Turkey, Trio 00:40:00 PC WearingFin Blazing Star The pinnacle of pre-rendered 16-bit games and questionable English translations, By abusing safe spots and the internal difficulty, I take what is one of the harder Neo Geo shmups and make it seem... almost trivial? But no, being a pacifist means being careful, and mistakes can be costly, but playing this way is also the quickest. Each boss has a timer and by keeping the rank low, I can speed kill all of them. Video a typical run produced today (23/3), please see other vids for commentary styleStatus: Pending Level 4 (Arcade Default) 00:25:00 Nintendo Switch AKDylie Phantasy Star Online The original version of the game released for Dreamcast, with the most glitches to exploit, including a door clipping glitch that allows skipping some rooms to shave off a few more seconds, and allow skipping the Ruins unlock backtrack quest. Stacked weapons gives a powerful character without armor that must take things out before being overwhelmed.Status: Pending any% 00:57:00 Dreamcast Dosufura1984 Sheepy: A Short Adventure "Sheepy is a free pixel platformer released by music label MrSuicideSheep in February 2023. It is signified by its quality in both ambient and action music, its cute and mesmerising pixel art, and its tight movement, all uncharacteristically polished for a free game. The minor optimizations and minute timelosses shine bright, especially in the second half of the run, making it a great game to have as a race.Status: Pending Any% Glitchless (Race) 0:20:00 PC SuperSonic Mega Man Battle Network 2 (Legacy Collection) A departure from side-scrolling platforming, Mega Man Battle Network 2 is Mega Man's foray into a card-based RPG. The combat is slick and requires good timing and fast thinking while looking incredibly stylish, all while maintaining the classic Mega Man look and feel. The Single Segment category eliminates any RNG manipulation, thus leaving all battles to have on-the-fly decision making and routing.

Submitting as a race with Iceblue

Status: Pending Single Segment 03:00:00 PC nb1rs WACCA Reverse WACCA Reverse is an arcade rhythm game featuring a 360° LED touch surface. In this exhibition, I dive headfirst into some of the hardest content in the game! Enjoy colorful circular gameplay as I tap and swipe from 1 to 1962 bpm!Status: Pending Arcade Showcase 1:00:00 WACCA Arcade Machine SuperSonic Sonic 3 & Knuckles Sonic 3 & Knuckles is the completed version of Sonic the Hedgehog 3 with the Sonic & Knuckles Lock-On Technology cartridge. This beautiful game and entertaining speedrun is such a broken mess from start to finish with various level wraps, screen wraps, slope glitches, boss skips, and funny looking sprites to make your jaws drop. We will be using Sonic alone to traverse through Floating Island to stop Dr. Robotnik's diabolical plans.Status: Pending Beat the Game - Glitched (Sonic) 00:45:00 Sega Genesis SuperSonic Animaniacs A 'Sonic Heroes style' 2D platformer based on a popular 90s cartoon. The Warner Brothers, and Warner Sister, have different abilities that will aid them throughout their quest. We traverse through 5 studio stages retrieving movie memorabilia from the clutches of Ralph the Security Guard and Pinky & The Brain. Adding all 3 difficulties in the submission. The boss fights and damage taken scale higher with a higher difficulty.Status: Pending Easy 00:30:00 Status: Pending Normal 00:32:00 Status: Pending Hard 00:34:00 Sega Genesis Dirtch Half-Life 2 Half-Life 2 is a first person shooter game released in 2004. It is an incredibly movement-focused speedrun, featuring classic source engine glitches such as accelerated hopping, air strafing, and damage boosting. With new strategies and tricks such as and ISG, the world record has been cut by 3 minutes since the last time Half-Life 2 was ran at GDQ.

Eold and I would go head-to-head in racing this category.

Status: Pending New Engine - Any% No Voidclip Race 01:00:00 PC Kory_ Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure was the first majorly successful Toys-to-Life game. This run features 10+ different characters who are utilized for various unique skips and tricks. This run also utilizes the game's Co-op feature often, requiring the runner to manage two controllers in addition to swapping figures. Status: Pending Any% 1:07:00 WiiU SuperSonic Sonic the Hedgehog This is the game that started it all for the Blue Blur; a 2D platformer with 6 colorful zones with an iconic soundtrack. This category is beating the game from start to finish with no glitches. It is based on movement, execution, and taking the quickest routes in each act.Status: Pending Beat the Game - Glitchless 00:25:00 Sega Genesis JetPastel Donkey Kong Land 2 Donkey Kong Land 2 features remixed music, scenery, and bosses from the familiar Donkey Kong Country 2, only this time on the Game Boy. In this run, Dixie Kong is the star of the show thanks to her glide ability, which allows for shortcuts and sharp platforming. Also returning from the SNES games are Animal Buddies and stage gimmicks, which add variety throughout the run. The 100% category includes collecting all of the bonuses and DK coins, including those in the Lost World.Status: Pending Any% 00:43:00 Status: Pending 100% 01:09:00 Game Boy Player musical_daredevil The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Morrowind is an RPG from 2002 with gameplay somewhat reminiscent of D&D. The any% route was shown at SGDQ23 and the All Main Quests category builds on some of the same strats of that run to complete all of the main quests in just 26 minutes. Getting a speed of 3000 (when 100 is the normal max) allows lots of opportunities to get out of bounds and commit lots of crimes before NPCs can catch us. Plus there's glitched items to skip past the slow parts and keep the action going through the whole runStatus: Pending All Main Quests 00:26:00 PC shoehorse Super Buster Bros. Tour Mode of Super Buster Bros. is a hectic sprint through 40 levels of ball-shooting arcade goodness. The run features a mix of strategy and tactics, as each level has an initial plan but most levels devolve into reacting to the randomness that the game throws at you. The rapid pace of the gameplay and the frequency of "how-did-he-survive-that?" moments make the run an exciting watch. The goal of the game is easy to grok, so viewers will have an intuitive sense for the difficulty of the run.Status: Pending Tour Mode - Expert 00:26:00 SNES Uppercasserole Hollow Knight Hollow Knight is a 2017 indie metroidvania with incredibly crisp movement and combat, having great depth that is still visually impressive to those unfamiliar with it. All skills is the category where we collect the "major" items in the game, traversing the entirety of the map and deleting bosses with our powerful spells. The All Skills category has recently seen a huge surge in popularity as the route has changed dramatically in Feb 2024 after being stagnant for several years.Status: Pending All Skills (1.4.3.2+ NMG) 01:10:00 Status: Pending All Skills (1.4.3.2+ NMG) Race (w/ Mathulu) 01:10:00 PC mathulu Hollow Knight Hollow Knight is a massively successful indie metroidvania from 2017, and is one of the most popular speedgames as well!

I am submitting three categories:

All Skills is a main board category collecting all abilities and finishing the game, submitted either as a race with Uppercasserole or as a solo run

Elegy%, or All Grubs saves all the grubs while showing off Hallownest's beautiful scenery

Happy Couple showcases the game's canonical gay couple along with extremely difficult combat

Status: Pending All Skills (1.4.3.2+ NMG) 01:10:00 Status: Pending All Skills (1.4.3.2+ NMG) Race w/ Uppercasserole) 01:10:00 Status: Pending Happy Couple 01:15:00 Status: Pending Elegy% (All Grubs) 01:10:00 PC mathulu GRIME GRIME is a wonderful indie soulslike metroidvania from 2021, featuring a beautiful art style and exciting if punishing combat. As a speedrun, GRIME really flourishes, with tons of speed tech and a small but active and welcoming speedrunning community. The Any% run of the game has been heavily rerouted in recent months after the latest DLC release, and now involves new tech and optimized boss fights for an exciting experience for viewers either familiar with the game or new to it!Status: Pending Any% (Restricted) 00:55:00 PC mathulu Ducky's Delivery Service Ducky's Delivery Service is an adorable indie game from 2023, where you control a cute duck with just 2 buttons and momentum-based physics to deliver packages to other ducks' houses. The Flyer Marathon category is a showcase of all levels in the game, and it is an extremely quick run to do. This submission is for a race of this category with Quacksilver, which will be a nailbiter to the end with how difficult the last few levels can be!Status: Pending Flyer Marathon (Race w/ Quacksilver) 00:12:00 PC TheHaxor Super Mario Bros. 3 Super Mario Bros. 3 is one of the most recognizable platformers of all time as one of the top selling NES games and being featured in the 1989 film The Wizard. The game features unique power-ups to the series, such as the hammer suit, and also introduces flight to the series. Each run of SMB3 requires on the fly routing due to the movement of hammer bros. The fast paced movement of the game results in eye-catching strategies that are sure to be a crowd pleaser.Status: Pending 100% 01:15:00 Status: Pending Any% Warpless 00:55:00 NES Quacksilver Haiku the Robot Haiku the Robot is a solo-dev indie metroidvania where the titular Haiku must explore the land of Arcadia to destroy the Virus that felled all the robots within.

In All Bosses and Skills, Haiku goes on a full map tour to clear out the major areas of the game, including constant heat gauge management, i-frame stacking to walk directly through an incinerator, sequence breaking to the best movement early, dunking the robot, and so, so many fights against malevolent orbs.

Status: Pending All Bosses and Skills (Base Game) 0:40:00 PC (Steam) TheHaxor Super Mario Bros. 2 USA SMB2U is one of the most popular games from the NES console. It's an improvement upon its Japanese predecessor, Doki Doki Panic. It's the first Mario game to feature character selection between levels. Each character has unique abilities that are used throughout the course of a run. There have been significant developments in the All Levels strategies throughout the past year that resulted in a new record. This serves as a great opportunity to showcase some of the new developments.Status: Pending All Levels 00:27:00 NES JHobz Archipelago Multiworld - Kingdom Hearts II Archipelago is a platform by which players can play cross-game randomizers with other players. I have two submissions with this program planned, both of which involve me playing KH2. The 2-person multiworld category has proven to be extremely successful on GDQ Hotfix many times prior. Settings could be tweaked to easily adjust the estimate lower by as much as 30 minutes. I am willing to assist in developing a tool for displaying the feed of incoming items on the layout in an integrated way.Status: Pending Kingdom Hearts 2 + Pokemon Emerald + Overcooked! 2 03:00:00 Status: Pending Kingdom Hearts 2 + Pokemon Emerald 02:45:00 PC OhHeyItsKara Skator Gator The game before Skator Gator 3D (previously featured at AGDQ 2024), SG is a short, fast-paced game with great music, wild power-ups, and lots of hazards to navigate. The run is very short, but there is a lot to comment on, since SG is a lot of game in a small package.

The run requires very tight navigation, timing, and routing, and has essentially no boring parts, which is nice.

There's also potential for a bid war (gator skin choice) and an incentive (upgrade to All Eggs/100%).

Status: Pending Any% 00:11:00 PC/Steam Quacksilver Lone Fungus Lone Fungus is a mushroom metroidvania by Basti Art Games where the game gives you a platform-spawning tool about 5 minutes in and tells you to go make your own sequence breaks -- and yes, we do!

In True Ending, our protagonist Greencap must collect all 10 spells guarded by fearsome bosses in order to ascend to the surface of the world and repopulate it with fungal biodiversity. The run features breakneck movement aided primarily by Greencap's ability to bounce on *any* surface!

Status: Pending True Ending (Explorer) 0:37:00 PC (Steam) TheHaxor Multiple Classic Mario Games The MCMG categories require the runner to prepare for and quickly adapt to multiple runs at the same time. The NES Trilogy features SMB1, SMB2U, and SMB3, which are three bestselling games from the NES. The Any% runs are three of the most popular and recognizable runs from the console. The record features runs that broke three iconic time barriers: sub 5, sub 9, and sub 11. This is a unique opportunity to feature this multiple game run for the first time.Status: Pending NES Trilogy Any% 00:30:00 NES TheHaxor Mini Kaizo Bros. 3 MKB3 is a Kaizo Mario game created by Mitchflowerpower that uses the SMB3 engine. It features unique boss designs and puzzles for the runner to solve, which had never been done in an SMB3 Kaizo game prior. There are also unique mechanics that have been added to the game that are sure to surprise. Sticking with the theme of Kaizo, the game features difficult levels for the runner to complete that are sure to entertain fans of Kaizo and Mario in general. Status: Pending 100% 00:45:00 NES JHobz Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix I'm submitting both KH2 randomizer and a KH2 speedrun. Open to a race. Would prefer Any% over Critical Mode for the speedrun. Randomizer is always done on Critical Mode.

My randomizer estimate is a worst-case scenario. Seeds are most often < 2 hours.

Status: Pending Randomzier 2024 League Settings 02:20:00 Status: Pending Any% (Gummi Skip) 02:50:00 Status: Pending Any% (Critical mode, Gummi Skip) 03:10:00 PC Quacksilver Ducky's Delivery Service Ducky's Delivery Service is an indie arcade-style postal service nightmare simulator by CT Matthews in which an adorable duck must use his outlandishly momentum-driven propeller hat to deliver mail and gifts to a plethora of ducks who have chosen to live in some incredibly treacherous biomes, including a ghost-infested cave and an active volcano!

In this race, mathulu and I will compete to throw flyers into every single mailbox in the game's 16 levels in a pure time attack!

Status: Pending Flyer Marathon - Race 0:12:00 PC (Steam) jadejade Pizza Tower (Race with SoaringSloth, but willing to run alone.)

Pizza Tower is a fast-paced platformer inspired by the Wario Land series. Join Peppino as he tries to take down the many wacky creatures that live inside of the Pizza Tower! With satisfying movement and a zany artstyle, this game has become an internet sensation.

Very recently, an update for the game came out that introduces an entirely new character: The Noise! His gameplay is unalike Peppino's, making for a vastly different speedrun.

Status: Pending Any%, Noise, No Major Glitches 01:25:00 PC JHobz Marvel's Spider-Man 2 The NG+ update is still extremely new. I expect to be able to lower this estimate by quite a bit (as much as 30m) in the coming weeks.

They Any% video is an older PB, my actual PB is 4:04:14, hence why the estimate is lower than the time. Unfortunately the video for my actual PB was corrupted, so I have to use an old one, I apologize.

Boss rush is simply going through all the boss missions back-to-back to show off the boss strats.

Status: Pending NG+ 04:15:00 Status: Pending Any% 04:15:00 Status: Pending Replay Mission Boss Rush 0:30:00 PS5 DwarvenDynamite Growl Save the animals from an evil organization of poachers. Lots of enemy manipulation and precise positioning. A few bugs and skips with a ton of weird and funny moments throughout.Status: Pending Gen Any% 00:30:00 Sega Genesis JHobz Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy OpenGOAL is a fan-made PC port of the original PS2 game, bringing in higher resolutions, higher frame rates, and modding capabilities, including a cutscene skip mod. The video shown is the PB I acquired during an episode of GDQ Hotfix's PB Precipice.Status: Pending OpenGOAL Any% No LTS (Cutscene skips) 01:10:00 PC GlitchCat7 Super Mario World The Kaizo SMW community is back and better than ever! We assembled some of the best level makers, artists, musicians, and coders (including some surprises) to make mind-blowing levels exclusively for SGDQ. Racers will work as a team (4v4) to speedrun these levels despite having never seen them before. Estimate is flexible; we can add and drop levels to fit the schedule. Submitting with GlitchCat7, shovda, Thabeast721, YouFailMe, juzcook, TheJavabrew, Shoujo, and MarkAlarm (JankPickle as backup)Status: Pending Kaizo Relay Race 2:00:00 SNES JHobz Kingdom Hearts 0.2: A Fragmentary Passage The actual name of this game is too long for the field lolStatus: Pending Any% 00:30:00 PS5 spicee Tomb Raider (2013) In this game, Lara is stranded on an island, separated from her friends and works to figure out what is happening on the island as it is inhabited. However, we will be seeing hardly any of that as this run is incredibly broken, with non-stop clipping through walls, and flying around the map insanely fast with the airwalk glitch. From start to finish this is a very fast paced and flashy run that is really fun to watch. Status: Pending Any% 1:10:00 PC Ferric Chained Echoes Chained Echoes is a retro-styled RPG released in late 2022. It features fast action, dynamic turn based combat, with a separate battle system for the game's large cool-looking mechs. I would love to be able to show off this category alongside my partner Blaze. We have worked very hard on route optimization and have performed the co-op run on several occasions.Status: Pending Any% Glitchless Co-op 3:35:00 PC Nikoheart REVEIL REVEIL is a narrative first-person psycho-thriller game that focuses on story, puzzles and exploration. 5 chapters to the game, all exploring the life of the protagonist as he delves further into the dredges of his memories(?) as he uncovers a ghastly truth,Status: Pending Any% Just Get Out Of Here 01:00:00 PC Plumato Rocket League This will be an additional showcase for ThundaSurge's run that will focus only air dribble maps, to show a higher level of difficulty of aerial ball control.

NOTE: This is meant to be a bonus incentive for ThundaSurge's run, assuming the incentive is met. Also, this will be done in the Breakout hitbox with no additional incentives to change.

Status: Pending Workshop Showcase (Bonus: Air Dribbles) 00:15:00 PC erupt PICO PARK PICO PARK is a multiplayer co-op game created by Teco. All players play as colored cats and work together to complete a series of platform and puzzle levels. With online support for up to 8 players, PICO PARK gives a unique, and perhaps chaotic, speedrunning experience for the GDQ stage. Submitting 4P with Stripe, Mkwiifreak, and Danny, 8P adds Nathan, Jiro, Goofy, and Winbag.Status: Pending Multiplayer - 8 Player 00:40:00 Status: Pending Multiplayer - 4 Player 00:28:00 PC stripe Pico Park PICO PARK is a multiplayer co-op game created by Teco. All players play as colored cats and work together to complete a series of platform and puzzle levels. With online support for up to 8 players, PICO PARK gives a unique, and perhaps chaotic, speedrunning experience for the GDQ stage.

Submitting 2P with Mkwiifreak, 3P adds Danny, 4P adds erupt, 8P adds Nathan, Jiro, Goofy, and Winbag.

Status: Pending Multiplayer - 8P 00:40:00 Status: Pending Multiplayer - 4P 00:28:00 Status: Pending Multiplayer - 3P 00:26:00 Status: Pending Multiplayer - 2P 00:26:00 PC peaches Kid Chameleon Iconic Genesis platformer with a massive twisting web of levels packed with a large variety of powerups and secret exits ripe for speedrunning. The 4Boss run had a new wr set just this year and has a variety of new tricks found since the previous GDQ run in 2018. The 100k trip category utilizes a special speed-gated warp that skips to roughly the halfway point and has yet to be shown off in the main marathon. Status: Pending 4Boss 00:30:00 Status: Pending 100k Trip 00:20:00 Nintendo Wii (VC) GrimShins Ecco: The Tides of Time In celebration of the 30th anniversary of this game's release, here are some fun facts about dolphins: -Dolphins can swim through rocks and walls -Dolphins are filled with helium sacs and can fly -Dolphins can carry you with their minds -Dolphins can turn into seagulls -Dolphins can time travel without machines -Dolphins dislike aliens -Dolphins love new age spirituality and crystalsStatus: Pending Any% 00:35:00 Sega Genesis Nikoheart Silent Hill: The Short Message (Note, this game has a few triggering topics, it's referenced within the beginning portion of submission video & warnings screens in-game) The Short Message is a free-to-play Silent Hill spin-off set in modern-day Germany. Anita enters an apartment block in search of her deceased friend, Maya. Haunted by text messages from Maya, and armed with nothing but a phone flashlight, the goal is to explore each decaying room, uncover clues, solve puzzles and escape pursuit.Status: Pending Any% 00:30:00 PS5 Uncle Slam Super Mario Maker 2 Five different game styles across the Super Mario series wrapped up into one! An often overlooked aspect of the game, SMM2’s story mode makes for a surprisingly solid speedrun thanks to Nintendo’s ingenious level design. Each level has its own theme distinguishing it from the rest, including elements you don’t get to see in any online levels.

What we get is a run that includes plenty of flashy skips, moments guaranteed to make you clench, and all sorts of varied movement to keep things spicy.

Status: Pending Story Mode Any%, No Luigi Assist 01:45:00 Nintendo Switch okNia_ PlateUp! PlateUp! is a roguelike kitchen simulation game where we are trying to franchise a restaurant by surviving for 15 days! This run was completed at Flame Fatales 2023. We raised over $1k during the run with over 100 of that occurring in the last 3-minutes of the run for an unofficial run incentive to catch our kitchen on fire. This game has a lot of opportunities for donations and also is ran by the extremely charming Team OAT (not biased)!

3P with atwentysomethingloser, okNia_, and theValiantSun

Status: Pending Any% - Random Seed, Turkey, Trio 00:40:00 PC Murcaz Crash Bandicoot N.Sane-Trilogy The classic beloved playstation mascot crash bandicoot is back yet again! Crash 3 NST has been showcased multiple times at GDQ and have always been well recieved and different. its an ever changing category with impressive tricks and sequence breaks on top of the already hard movement. and this time it will be executed by 2 players sharing a controller! submitted with Alaapo. Also submitting 108% which has not yet been showcased and has a lot of cool onecycles and nostalgia not seen in Any%Status: Pending Crash 3 Any% 2 player 1 controller 00:52:00 Status: Pending Crash 3 108% 2:20:00 PC Alaapo Crash Bandicoot N.Sane-Trilogy he classic beloved playstation mascot crash bandicoot is back yet again! Crash 3 NST has been showcased multiple times at GDQ and have always been well recieved and different. its an ever changing category with impressive tricks and sequence breaks on top of the already hard movement. and this time it will be executed by 2 players sharing a controller! submitted with murcazStatus: Pending Crash 3 Any% 2 player 1 controller 00:52:00 PC Kobazzco Spore Hero Spore Hero is a 3D action-adventure game that takes the popular Creature Stage of Spore for the PC and turns it into a new game. Being a Wii game, motion controls are used all the time to make for a jank experience like no other. There's interesting and precise platforming skips, suffering through motion control combat, and making your arms REALLY big to make said combat easier. All of this together makes for an entertaining run where my abomination saves the world that is sure to make you laughStatus: Pending Any% 01:25:00 Wii U Alaapo Tekken 8 Tekken 8 is newest instalment of Tekken fighting game series. In this run we complete Arcade/Story mode with Kuma fast as possible and become champion of ''King of Iron Fist Tournament''.Status: Pending Arcade Battle - Kuma Easy 00:11:00 PC Starwin Mega Man X5 Mega Man X5 is an action platformer, and the 5th game in the X series. The Any% category for the longest time was not a viable marathon run due to a heavy RNG element in the game, but a recent manipulation trick has now made this category marathon viable. The run focuses on skipping the main 8 stages of the game, and completing the final stages with next to no upgrades.Status: Pending Any% 00:27:00 Playstation happybythree Turnip Boy Robs a Bank Two days after the events of Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion, our favorite lovable root vegetable returns to ~turnip~ the heat in a roguelike heist for the ages!

In classic speedrun tradition, Any% involves beating the game as quickly as possible, and Playstyle A is the "easy mode" of the game's two options.

This run really shines in marathon settings, combining the charm of its predecessor with high-skill gameplay and lots of options for backup strats if RNG tries to get the better of us!

Status: Pending Any% (Playstyle A) 00:45:00 Status: Pending Any% (Playstyle A) Race w/ Eldritch Wolfie 00:45:00 PC Panduhmonium Yakuza: Dead Souls Want to see Kiryu Kazuma running around shooting zombies with a massive rifle? Yakuza Dead Souls is a weird amalgamation of Yakuza series shenanigans, 3rd person shooter, and every single trope ever presented in media featuring zombies.

In NG+ forget guns, we use a satellite laser from space to delete everything, including yourself, so be careful where you point that thing!

Dead Souls is the hardest difficulty. Zombies are always enraged, love to stomp and tackle, and boy do they HURT.

Status: Pending Any% 02:55:00 Status: Pending NG+ 02:20:00 Status: Pending Dead Souls 03:25:00 Playstation 3 BubbleBass SpongeBob's Truth or Square Truth or Square is the second successor to Battle for Bikini Bottom. It has garnered a passionate community due to its varied glitches and complex movement toolkit. Out of Bounds shenanigans create crazy platforming sequences in levels like Mermalair, Santa, and Karate Island. The game also offers unique movement tech such as Spin Boosting to gain massive height quickly and spin-hopping to gain extra lateral speed.Status: Pending Any% No LSG 00:50:00 Status: Pending 100% 01:12:00 Xbox 360 GaussMkII Gravity Circuit Gravity Circuit is a fast paced platformer heavily influenced by titles like Megaman X. Controls and movement are smooth and exciting to watch. It is very marathon safe as even deaths only take you back to a checkpoint, there are no game overs. There won't be any cutscenes.

If accepted there is also a category for Dog% to save the best boys Amadeus and Yuki. They are not seen in the run otherwise. Would make a solid incentive for after the main run.

Status: Pending Any% Normal mode 00:53:00 Status: Pending Dog% 00:10:00 PC TheHaxor Super Mario Bros. 3 Randomizer Randomizer provides a fresh experience to a platforming classic. It features randomized world order, level order/locations, enemy sets in levels, overworld pipe locations/destinations, hammer bro fights, airships, and item rewards from letters/chests. Each world features obstacles (bridges and locks) that must be overcome by fortress completion in order to progress to the end of the world.

This race features the 2020 and the 2021/2022 SMB3 Randomizer tournament champions in a Best of 5 format.

Status: Pending Any% Warples Bo5 race w/Mitchflowerpower 03:00:00 NES LaserTrap_ Mario Kart DS I'm submitting as a backup in case Abel is unable to run. Please prioritize their run over mine regardless of being online or onsite.

Additionally, All Staff Ghosts No Repeat Karts is a category that explores all of the different kart controls in the game, showing off the good, the bad and the ugly. 32 different karts are used in the run and must beat one selected staff ghost, which can make mistakes more punishing than usual.

Status: Pending 32 Tracks 01:00:00 Status: Pending All Staff Ghosts, No Repeat Karts 01:15:00 DS Starwin Oddworld Adventures A gameboy port of Oddworld Abe's Oddysee. You fart to jump higher, and break the game. Enough said.Status: Pending Any% 00:12:00 Gameboy weldytime ZOMBIES ATE MY NEIGHBORS ANY% RUN. Standard run. I've ran this for NoGlitchesAllowed and Retrothon in the past. Should be a standard run!Status: Pending Any% 00:39:00 NINTENDO SWITCH Jaypeg FOREWARNED You can describe Forewarned(2021) as "If Phasmophobia watched The Mummy & Indiana Jones on repeat." It's a ghost investigation game, but with some fun - and deadly - twists along the way.

I will be running with happybythree, blondkayvon and gondortowerguard! Join us as we sprint our way through 9 maps of mazes, traps, and ancient vengeful spirits. No map is ever the same twice, so this involves lots of communication, teamwork, and quick thinking to get the info we need and escape.

Status: Pending any% 4 person co-op 00:55:00 PC HyperionSkies Stardew Valley A farming sim Stardew Valley is a unique speedgame with appeal for both casual and challenge runners; the 1.6 update has again put Stardew in the forefront of indie gaming. This run uses an older version of the game, but has yet to be featured on the GDQ stage! 2P Fishtank Vanilla will be run by hyperionskies (me) and blackheartwingsStatus: Pending 2P Fishtank% Vanilla 1:45:00 PC Jaypeg Cave Crawler Cave Crawler is a lovely short game made by Technomancy Studios. Presented in a "found footage" style, you pilot a drone into a cave and discover something much more dangerous under the surface.

This any% run is short, sweet, and jam-packed with all sorts of rock puns (and room for more). I do a bit where I act as the "trainer" teaching you how to pilot the drone, and we only do the specific scans needed to finish each level. I will bring my own safety vest and hard hat.

Status: Pending Any% 00:12:00 PC Kialeee Metal Gear Solid 3: HD Edition Set in the Cold War-era Soviet Union, the story centers on FOX operative Naked Snake as he attempts to rescue a weapons designer and sabotage an experimental super-weapon known as the Shagohod.

In this Any% Very Easy, I'll be showcasing a few glitches along with a very accessible speedrun for people who wants to get into speedrunning, and also love the MGS series!

Status: Pending Any% Very Easy 01:10:00 PC cassasaur Dora: The Search for Pirate Pig's Treasure Vamonos! Dora the Explorer and Boots need your help to find Pirate Pig’s treasure in the franchise’s first adventure on the Game Boy Advance screen. With the map and backpack by our side, we’ll travel through eight worlds in this edutainment platformer perfect for the silly block or a cartoon block. The game plays like an episode of the show, complete with friends like Tico and the Fiesta Trio. And we’ll need the audience's help to stop Swiper the Fox! Status: Pending Any% No Continue Codes 00:40:00 GBI Crak Atak Contra: Rogue Corps Contra known for its run and gun changes the format to a twin stick shooter with a massive amount of grinding to play effectively. This run takes on the toughest boss in the game with a roguelike mapset layout. I spent hundreds of hours to have the NG+ file consisting of lots of grinding and savescumming to get the perfect setup I want. The run is mostly about optimizing DPS in various ways while trying to dodge often. Giant enemy crab alert!Status: Pending NG+ Chaos Finale 00:15:00 PC Starwin Resident Evil Gaiden Resident Evil Gaiden is a survival horror game on the Gameboy Color. While this is a Resident Evil title, it plays completely differently than other games in the series. The game uses a first person perspective for fights, and top-down perspective for general gameplay. Gaiden isn't exactly the best game in the series, but when it comes to the horror genre, the worst the game the better the speed tech. Glitches and infinite ammo galore!Status: Pending Any% 00:38:00 Gameboy Color Kialeee Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance This is the fourth release in the METAL GEAR series. Metal Gear Solid 2 is a story a told in two parts:

In the Tanker chapters, Solid Snake sneaks into a secret tanker in pursuit of a new top-secret nuclear weapon, called Metal Gear.

In the Plant chapters, Raiden of the new FOXHOUND unit infiltrates an offshore plant occupied by terrorists.

In this speedrun category, Any%, I will showcase a few glitches as well as an easily accessible speedrun for anyone who wants to get into speedrunning

Status: Pending Any% Very Easy 01:10:00 PC Starwin Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir Spirit Camera is a handheld AR horror game, and a spin off title from the Fatal Frame series. The game involves using the 3DS camera, gyro controls, and a AR notebook known as " The Diary of Faces" in order to progress through the game, and solve the mysteries involving the Woman in Black. While fighting spirits, and solving puzzles is the main focus in the game, I'll also have to manipulate the notebook in real time in order to go as fast as possible.Status: Pending Any% 01:00:00 Nintendo 3DS Sweenerdog Diddy Kong Racing Randomizer Diddy Kong Racing is an N64 racing game classic that the audience always loves to watch. The music is great, the gameplay is fast paced and wild, and the world of DKR Randomizer adds an incredible amount of complexity to an already insane speedrun. Better yet, this Randomizer submission is a race with Obiyo, another prolific DKR speedrunner. Our races always end up very close, and quite exciting to watch.Status: Pending 100% Randomizer 2:15:00 Nintendo 64 DynamiteDanTNT Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII Dirge of Cerberus is a third-person shooter spin-off of the Final Fantasy franchise. The speedrun offers unique tricks such as zoom climbs, similar to an infinite jump glitch, as well as chain-shot setups, which are a mechanic of the game that runners use to neutralize bosses in several "blink and you'll miss it" moments.

Timestamps are in the YouTube video description for highlights of the run.

Status: Pending Any% 01:20:00 Playstation 2 Skybilz Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories (15 Card) There is no better place to save Ancient Egypt than on the GDQ stage - and this run has it all: suspense, no cpu mercy, booster pack intrigue, and anime memes galore. Whether one is a fan of card games, Yugioh, or speedrunning, there is truly something for everyone here. Starting with a pre-seeded deck to maximize time (and fun). Submitting a race between myself and Keiz to maximize our odds of victory against the cpu as well as hold a live rematch that will have people talking for years.Status: Pending any% 15 Card - Race with Keizaron 02:55:00 Status: Pending any% 15 Card - Solo 02:55:00 Playstation 2 Mildew Penny's Big Breakaway The restricted category is like our version of a glitchless category where you are only allowed to use what is available to you in order to progress levels fast. The movement that runners are able to pull off is very satisfying to both perform and watch

Highlights 4:37 Example of good swing usage 15:37 Example of abusing open levels to go fast 40:35 saving 30 seconds by using the background platforms 1:01:26 walls are a suggestion 1:08:30 using a mix of height and speed to complete 11-1 fast

Status: Pending Any% Restricted 01:30:00 PC Skybilz Super Mario All-Stars Shuffler This showcase was an absolute delight in the finale of Flame Fatales 2022, AGDQ 2023 Online, and I am excited to once again propose this submission now for a live performance. Playing 4 (or 5) 2D Mario games at the same time brings a unique showcase and feel to any speedrun event. Imagine the live and virtual audience on the edge of their seats as they don't know when the game will change over. Status: Pending any% All Four - No Wrong Warp 01:50:00 SNES (Emulator) Argick Sonic Mania Sonic Mania is fast, speedy and fun. This category showcases the game without any of the major glitches that skip through parts of levels & certain bosses.

We'll see everything the game has to offer and is still filled with movement tech and the elemental shields to keep the momentum going. Plus we'll be speeding our way through the special stages to get the chaos emeralds in SECONDS.

This is the complete experience of Sonic Mania! That can also be run with any character! Bid war maybe?

Status: Pending S&T Good Ending - No Major Glitches 01:00:00 PC Intovariance Final Fantasy Legend II FFL2 is an interesting story driven game about family, friendship and betrayal. There are several donation incentive options for this game. Also this game has become more accessible recently with several new ports (switch, PC and phone)Status: Pending glitchless, no hard resets 1:55:00 PC ICED Rain World: Downpour As the hardest of the base game Slugcats, Hunter, lives in a world with much harder creature spawns and a limited amount of days to live. The Pebbles category is a deviation from standard categories as it requires only finishing the game while also having met one of the main characters, Pebbles, while going through some areas introduced with the new DLC. Hunter runs involve mastery over the movement and creature mechanics as you have additional speed and power but no special abilities. Status: Pending Hunter - Pebbles 00:55:00 PC DylWingo Final Fantasy VII Any% No Slots bans the use of Cait Sith's limit break Slots, which insta-kills any boss in the game. No Slots boss strategies differ heavily, with mainly utilizing the Deathblow Materia, as well as abusing Tifa's broken weapon, the Powersoul, that adds much more unique variety and excitement for each boss battle. Add this, alongside several large game breakin skips and a pre-determined steproute to optimally track in-game encounters, FF7 offers one of the best JRPG speedrun experiences, to date.Status: Pending Any% No Slots 07:00:00 PlayStation 2 Jaypeg Golf It! You've seen Golf It. Now, what if you could never go into the correct hole for the hole you're on? And what if you could jump? For 3 courses?

Wrong Hole Only race is *not* a traditional category of this game, but it takes the game's silliness up about 30 notches. With my co-racers blondkayvon and gondortowerguard, you'll see us drive the ball halfway across the map, through trees, or into pitch blackness to reach any hole but the one we're supposed to be on. It's a golfing good time.

Status: Pending Wrong Hole Only Race 00:30:00 PC Winbag4 PICO PARK PICO PARK is a multiplayer co-op game created by Teco. All players play as colored cats and work together to complete a series of platform and puzzle levels. With online support for up to 8 players, PICO PARK gives a unique, and perhaps chaotic, speedrunning experience for the GDQ stage.

Submitting with Stripe, Mkwiifreak, Danny, erupt, Nathan, Jiro, and Goofy.

Status: Pending 8P 00:40:00 PC happybythree FOREWARNED You can describe Forewarned(2021) as "If Phasmophobia watched The Mummy & Indiana Jones on repeat." It's a ghost investigation game, but with some fun - and deadly - twists along the way.

I will be running with Jaypeg, blondkayvon and gondortowerguard! Join us as we sprint our way through 9 maps of mazes, traps, and ancient vengeful spirits. No map is ever the same twice, so this involves lots of communication, teamwork, and quick thinking to get the info we need and escape.

Status: Pending Any% 4-Person Co-Op 00:55:00 PC ICED Rain World: Downpour Rivulet is the fastest of the slugcats with access to multiple movement abilities making them one of the most skill-expressive characters to play. Movement methods change throughout the run involving wall pounces, ploinks, grappling, zero-g, and the use of an anti-gravity ball. Rivulet needs all of these tools to perform the fastest route to deliver the anti-gravity ball, from one god to another, within the limited time each day before the rain comes...Status: Pending Rivulet - Story 00:48:00 PC Keizaron Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories There is no better place to save Ancient Egypt than on the GDQ stage - and this run has it all: suspense, no cpu mercy, booster pack intrigue, and anime memes galore. Whether one is a fan of card games, Yugioh, or speedrunning, there is truly something for everyone here. Starting with a pre-seeded deck to maximize time (and fun). Submitting a race between myself and Skybilz to maximize our odds of victory against the cpu as well as hold a live rematch that will have people talking for years.Status: Pending any% 15 Card - Race with Skybilz 02:55:00 Playstation 2 Etchy Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee Despite having the same name, this is a new category compared to the one ran at SGDQ2019.

Recently we discovered how to consistently do a glitch called Mount Skips, which save several minutes by doing sub-pixel perfect movements in Victory Road to skip all of the trainers. It's an interesting glitch to explain and showcase!

We beat Gym Leaders in an unorthodox order while catching tons of different Pokemon in order to beat the game! It's a unique Pokemon speedrun that plays like a randomizer.

Status: Pending Any% 3:05:00 Nintendo Switch RbdJellyfish LittleBigPlanet LBP is a physics-based 2.5D platformer focused on playfulness and creativity. In the All Prize Bubbles category, me, fritt, Krosso, and FireThieff work together to beat the story mode while collecting every collectable. The mix of a carefully crafted co-op route, high-skill-ceiling movement tech, and a wild physics engine makes the run an entertaining mix of impressive coordination and chaotic improvisation.Status: Pending all prize bubbles 4 players 01:50:00 Playstation 3 Krosso LittleBigPlanet LBP is a physics-based 2.5D platformer focused on playfulness and creativity. In the All Prize Bubbles category, me, fritt, rbdjellyfish, and FireThieff work together to beat the story mode while collecting every collectable. The mix of a carefully crafted co-op route, high-skill-ceiling movement tech, and a wild physics engine makes the run an entertaining mix of impressive coordination and chaotic improvisation.Status: Pending all prize bubbles 4 players 01:50:00 Playstation 3 FireThieff LittleBigPlanet LBP is a physics-based 2.5D platformer focused on playfulness and creativity. In the All Prize Bubbles category, me, fritt, Krosso, and RbdJellyfish work together to beat the story mode while collecting every collectable. The mix of a carefully crafted co-op route, high-skill-ceiling movement tech, and a wild physics engine makes the run an entertaining mix of impressive coordination and chaotic improvisation.Status: Pending all prize bubbles 4 players 01:50:00 PlayStation 3 JalBagel Monster Hunter World Any% speedrun of Monster Hunter World! New character to Xeno'jiiva, the final monster of the base game experience! What this game lacks in skips and glitches it makes up for in precise execution and deep game knowledge! The goal is to hunt every monster as fast as possible taking advantage of every tool the game gives, including Defender Weapons and Clutch Claw exploits! Status: Pending Xeno% 02:38:00 PC fritt LittleBigPlanet LBP is a physics-based 2.5D platformer focused on playfulness and creativity. In the All Prize Bubbles category, me, RbdJellyfish, Krosso, and FireThieff work together to beat the story mode while collecting every collectable. The mix of a carefully crafted co-op route, high-skill-ceiling movement tech, and a wild physics engine makes the run an entertaining mix of impressive coordination and chaotic improvisation.Status: Pending all prize bubbles 4 players 1:50:00 Playstation 3 blondkayvon Golf It You've seen Golf It. Now, what if you could never go into the correct hole for the hole you're on? And what if you could jump? For 3 courses?

Wrong Hole Only race is not a traditional category of this game, but it takes the game's silliness up about 30 notches. With co-racers jaypeg_exe and gondortowerguard, you'll see us drive the ball halfway across the map, through trees, or into pitch blackness to reach any hole but the one we're supposed to be on. It's a golfing good time.

Status: Pending Wrong Hole Only Race 00:30:00 PC/Mac blondkayvon FOREWARNED You can describe Forewarned(2021) as "If Phasmophobia watched The Mummy & Indiana Jones on repeat." It's a ghost investigation game, but with some fun - and deadly - twists along the way.

I will be running with happybythree, jaypeg_exe, and GondorTowerGuard! Join us as we sprint our way through 9 maps of mazes, traps, and ancient vengeful spirits. No map is ever the same twice, so this involves lots of communication, teamwork, and quick thinking to get the info we need and escape.

Status: Pending any% 4 person co-op 00:55:00 PC a_variety_pack Bayonetta 3 Bayonetta 3 evolves the flashy combat of its predecessors by adding demon summons and a new playable character. The New Game+ speedrun retains the most timesaving skips (including an Out of Bounds, Spider Jumps, and abuse of collision) while taking advantage of the most powerful demons to eviscerate enemies in seconds. Status: Pending Any% NG+ (Expert) 2:20:00 Nintendo Switch Vysuals Hollow Knight This will be a race between Stratus and Vysuals. Stratus is the current WR holder that's been pushing this category forward recently. Vysuals has run this category for almost 6 years and has had WR many times. True Ending is one of the most exciting race categories for Hollow Knight since the final boss is very difficult, even for the top runners. Meaning this race is never quite over until you see the credits. Vysuals ran this in 2019, and the WR is now almost 7 minutes faster.Status: Pending True Ending NMG 1:20:00 PC WoodenBarrel The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time & Majoras Mask This is a Co-op run between Revven and myself that takes the two 3D N64 Zelda games, Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, and sticks them together with all their items randomized between the two games. Looking for Goron Mask? It could be found in the Forest Temple in Ocarina of Time. Looking for the Iron Boots? It could be found in Majora's Mask on the Curiosity Shop for 500 rupees. We play the same seed, sharing information in order to beat 6 (random) dungeons and defeat Ganon and Majora.Status: Pending Combo Rando Co-op 03:30:00 Nintendo 64 NickRPGreen UnMetal UnMetal is a 2D indie action game that pays homage to the 2D Metal Gear games on the MSX. It tells the comedic story of Jesse Fox, who must escape a covert military base using his wits and fists. Puzzles, boss fights and more can be expected. Guard patterns are randomized and getting spotted isn't optimal, so on-the-fly stealth routing is essential. Perfect adds in taking out every guard, UnPerfect then adds secret dev challenges, whilst All Achievements swaps in other, really nasty objectives!Status: Pending Any% - Hard 00:55:00 Status: Pending Perfect - Hard 01:15:00 Status: Pending UnPerfect - Hard 01:28:00 Status: Pending All Achievements 01:15:00 PC NickRPGreen Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil Klonoa 2 is one of the hidden gems of the PS2 and the recent remaster breathed new life into it. A platformer with a unique mechanic whereby you temporarily capture enemies and reuse them to throw at objects, launch yourself into the air or use their unique powers. Brightly colored with adorable characters, it provides a nice blend of platforming, puzzles, and boss fights. Support mode gives Klonoa an added jump boost, allowing for interesting skips and glitches. Hard gives Klonoa just 1 hp!Status: Pending Any%, Normal, Support Mode 01:45:00 Status: Pending Any%, Hard, Support Mode 01:50:00 Status: Pending All Visions, Normal, Support Mode 01:50:00 PC Mattmatt Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Uncharted 2 has one of the most unique and interesting speedruns in the entire series. Using a wide range glitches including launching ourselves across the map, airwalking to skip entire chapters, numerous wall clips and the best part of the run is.... we can pet some yaks! The run has quite a few new tricks since I last showed off the run! All Treasures gives us that extra added challenge in collecting all the treasures, allowing us to make use of even more tricks and skips!Status: Pending Any% 01:25:00 Status: Pending All Treasures 2:10:00 PS5 NickRPGreen Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater MGS3 takes stealth to the 1960s jungle! Thanks to the Master Collection, we finally have a smooth PC version of a game that had been unavailable for some time. European Extreme difficulty ups the ante with the hardest bosses, little room for error, and the Game Over If Discovered mechanic, meaning we can't get spotted. But adding onto the difficulty even further is the All Kerotans run, which requires shooting a cheeky hidden Kerotan Frog in almost every room, requiring new routes and tactics.Status: Pending Any% - European Extreme 01:25:00 Status: Pending All Kerotans - European Extreme 01:40:00 PC NickRPGreen Mini Ghost Mini Ghost is a cute, MSX-inspired, space metroidvania. Avoiding enemies, fighting mechanized bosses, and navigating the maze of rooms, this run sees good route optimization to carve the quickest path through. Any% takes a risky approach, seeing only about half of the game and skipping most upgrades to take on the bosses very underpowered. 100% meanwhile sees Ghost power up to the max whilst seeing much more of the game.Status: Pending Any% 00:27:00 Status: Pending 100% 00:41:00 PC Antiaaron Hard Corps Uprising with Operation Galuga out we should show respect to the game that kicks off the timeline for the contra series. Hard Corps Uprising. Fully upgraded with all perks you run & gun or hack & slash your way through 8 challenging stages to defeat the commonwealth.Status: Pending Rising Mode Bahamut 00:55:00 Status: Pending Rising Mode Sayuri 00:42:00 xbox Series S SHiFT SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom A niche platformer turned a classic over the last decade, Battle for Bikini Bottom is a nonstop joyride of diverse glitches and creative movement. Damage boosts, memory storage, nonstop sequence breaks with the majority requiring 1/60th second precision. Since its last appearance in AGDQ 2022, the iconic "cruise boost" has been uncapped to infinite speed potential, along with a new spatula duplication process that'll make the audience's heads spin. With that said, I must ask: are ya ready, kids?Status: Pending Any% 0:55:00 Status: Pending 100% 1:30:00 Xbox DarkTerrex The Incredible Crash Dummies Heads will roll and bodies will fly in this NES platformer! Based on the toys of the same name this run features damage boosting that makes you zoom across the screen. LJN made one decent game, shocking I know, and here it is. Last performed by me in SGDQ 2016, I am now submitting my estimate as my then marathon time with new strats and boss manipulation found! So strap in by buckling your safety belt, we're losing our heads to this driver's test speed course!Status: Pending Any% 00:17:00 NES SingleScoop Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker Timestamps of interesting parts in the top comment of the video. Short and cute 3d collectathon where I control Captain Toad and Toadette simultaneously via two controllers. Even though this game might seem mechanically simple, there tends to be just enough at our disposal to come up with some unique strats. Also just look how cute they are.Status: Pending Special Episode Any% 1 Player 2 Controllers 00:30:00 Nintendo Switch DarkTerrex Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars Bizarre and funky, this 3D platformer about a telekinetic mushroom armed with a sticky hand and weapons built from junk drawer objects takes us on a trippy adventure filled with strange environments and stranger music. Sequence breaks, out of bounds tricks, and long roll jumps for fast platforming make for an entertaining and wacky run that fits perfectly in the Silly Block! I recently rerouted weapon pickups which saved 3 minutes off the previous record run.Status: Pending Any% 00:51:00 Wii TheSpectacularSlade Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Two players get to go through the game as quickly as possible. Now with the wonderful removal of all of the FMV cutscenes the runtime for this game has gone down by a significant amount.Status: Pending Co-op Any% with Zojalyx 1:10:00 PC juh0 Muscle March NO, IT CAN'T BE! THE PROTEIN SHAKE IS GONE AND WE HAVE TO STOP THE CULPRIT! HOLD ON! GYATT DAMN! IS THAT A POLAR BEAR WITH BIG THICC FUR MARCHING! 😍😍😍 NO WAIT! THAT'S A VERY MUSCULAR BODYBUILDING LADY MARCHING! 😳😳😳 OH MY! THE MUSCULAR MEN ARE MARCHING TO SGDQ TOO!! 🥵🥵🥵Status: Pending All Levels 00:18:00 Wii RUBIEHART Hades Hades runners have been tearing through the layers of Hell at the speed of light since the Supergiant masterpiece released. But what if not just gods and devils of the game came out to play, but the audience? Join RUBIEHART as they take on this challenge run to see if, with a new game file and all of Games Done Quick throwing items, boons, death, and demons their way, they can defeat Hades before the timer strikes zero!Status: Pending Fresh File Crowd Control 03:00:00 PC DEVILMAN Inscryption This is a psychological horror like card game, developed by Daniel Mullins Games in 2021. There are three main sections. And as the sections progress, you can see how the card game is gradually disrupted. Particularly in Act 3(Unrestricted, PC), I will use two glitches, Fight Skip and Event Dupe, to skip almost all card battles.(47:44) In Act 3(NMG), I will progress by always drawing a powerful card using the GetFairhand algorithm, the difficulty adjustment system.(51:21) Status: Pending Any% (Unrestricted, PC) 01:17:00 Status: Pending Any% (NMG) 01:25:00 PC Joester98 Kururin Squash! The lone console entry in the series, Squash! builds on the Kururin style by adding the ability to control rotation speed as well as several new helirins, including ones that punch, spit fire, and make tornadoes! These new mechanics are taken advantage of in boss fights, allowing for multiple quick kills. A limited supply of health, paired with damage abuses to skip cycles in every level, forces extremely fast and precise movement everywhere, making for a very difficult and impressive showcase!Status: Pending Any% Normal 00:40:00 GameCube RUBIEHART Titan Souls Created by Acid Nerve, the same studio that made Death's Door, Titan Souls is a beautiful and challenging 2D pixel art platformer likened to masterpieces like Shadow of the Colossus and Dark Souls. Set in an ancient land, follow RUBIEHART and Zic3 as they race through 19 epic bosses in fights that you will miss if you look away for more than a few seconds. Status: Pending 100% - All Bosses RACE 00:25:00 PC / PS5 Joester98 Pac 'n Roll One of the earliest DS titles, PnR relies completely on touchscreen/stylus controls for movement, but by using 2 styluses, you can move twice as fast! This allows for a number of cycle skips and even a whole level skip! Powerups to make Pac-Man lighter or heavier are skipped or abused to sequence break within levels, and clever boss AI manipulation allows for several quick kills. The constant double stylus action combined with an overly ecstatic Pac-Man make PnR a fun and entertaining showcase!Status: Pending Any% 00:40:00 3DS XL Riekelt Ape Escape 3 Ape Escape 3 is the third and most complete edition of the Ape Escape series. It has a lot of cute monkeys that escaped again, and it's up to us to catch em.

There's a lot of movement glitches like the recently found Hip Drop Storage. Giving 2 categories, Any% and the more fun Survival Mode. 0 lives, all gadgets and morphs, ALL monkeys!

Status: Pending Any% 1:22:00 Status: Pending Survival Mode 2:06:00 PS3 potaterhands moon: Remix RPG Adventure A quirky adventure game / deconstruction of JRPGs. The category Beat the Game (aka Any%) is tightly routed around the day-night cycle, in-game currencies, and utilizes some clever exploits. There is still a large amount of randomness in the run, which requires an ability to quickly react and adapt to it on the fly.Status: Pending Beat the Game 2:20:00 PC FailedUplink FAITH: The Unholy Trinity FAITH is an intense horror game where one touch is death. You play a priest who is trying to exorcise demons in a retro inspired indie game.

GCB% is all chapters, all good endings, and zero deaths. If a death occurs I run to the end or all good endings if time permits. For this category I am also submitting it as a race with opiepieSunpaul.

Any% Ending II is the good ending of chapter 3 and therefore shows off all bosses.

Marathon% is all chapters completed as fast as possible.

Status: Pending GCB% 01:35:00 Status: Pending Chapter III Any% Ending II 01:10:00 Status: Pending Marathon% 00:40:00 PC The Retro Runner Splatterhouse Wanpaku Graffiti This is a very charming Famicom game that has some amazing Halloween vibes. The controls are among the tightest of any game I've played on the NES and it is a joy to play as you control Rick, with a myriad of boss quick kills and deceptively difficult optimized movement and platforming in the run. It's such a good game and deserves to be way more known than it is.Status: Pending Any% 00:20:00 NES Rubberduckyassassin Spyro: Season of Ice A nostalgia trip for some, a trauma bond for others. The 1st handheld Spyro game is a unique experience; from blind jumps, invisible walls to “super fluttering” and wacky boss fights. The speedrun makes this game look like a cake walk, when it is in fact, not a cake walk. This was one of the first games I ever played and is great example of how sometimes a poorly made game can be a fun yet challenging speedrun :)Status: Pending Any% 01:10:00 Gameboy Player Rubberduckyassassin Spyro 2: Season of Flame There has been an abduction of the Dragon Realm's fireflies at the hands of a mysterious (Ripto) foe, causing the dragons to lose their ability to breathe fire. With help from his friends and a man with a GameCube controller, Spyro must recover fireflies and uncover the culprit behind the theft (Ripto). In this fast-paced 2.5D platformer will be pulling off all kinds of tight jumps, turns, and tricks.in the vast assortment of stages this game has to offer.Status: Pending Any% 00:28:00 Status: Pending No Fire Breath 00:32:00 Status: Pending All Fireflies 01:00:00 Gameboy Player The Retro Runner Ninja Gaiden In the two years since this game has been showcased at a GDQ, we have been able to cut down the world record by two more seconds. Another showcasing of the technical movement, climbs and quick kills in this highly recognizable title would easily make for a thrilling addition to the marathon. We have also improved the LOW% category by 5 seconds, so if accepted, I would place an incentive for this challenging category as well.Status: Pending Any% 00:15:00 NES danejerus RAGE Despite this game's obscurity, there's some fun and really impressive speedtech in this run. It being on the idtech engine means we've got strafehopping. If you like Quake 2, we've got you covered. Also, about 2 hours of the game is skipped by running away from people and talking to them again. Yes, you read that right. 2 hours.Status: Pending Any% 02:00:00 PC juh0 Fear the Spotlight Me: MOM! CAN I HAVE SILENT HILL: THE SHORT MESSAGE? Mom: WE HAVE SILENT HILL: THE SHORT MESSAGE AT HOME! Silent Hill: The Short Message at home. Fear the Spotlight is a Silent Hill inspired indie horror game. Think Silent Hill: A Short Message but at home, and with a lesbian love story! The game has unique skips and optimized routing, and its PS1-esque graphics will surely bring in the likes of many retro horror fans who would like to see this one of a kind game.Status: Pending any% 00:38:00 PC Czikubi MOTHER All Melodies is a category where the game's only major glitch is exploited to beat the game in a quick and unique way, venturing into many different areas and obtaining abilities not required in the regular Any% category. With tons of manipulation and teleport platforming, it's sure to impress as the first appearance of this game in an official GDQ event. Although Any% skips much of the content in the game, it is still a great representation of this game's speedrun and how broken it is.Status: Pending Any% 00:40:00 Status: Pending All Melodies 1:15:00 Famicom Abel Mario Kart DS Mario Kart DS is where lightweights reign supreme! All 32 tracks are played in order with CPU difficulty set to hard. The category is a one-try tour of every track showing off snaking, PRB, several OoB skips and Blue Shell Dodging. 300cc speed class and All Custom Tracks categories also submitted.

All Missions incorporates a big chunk of the tech seen in 32 Tracks; the twist being you have to drive through gates, destroy item boxes, collect coins and even beat bosses amongst other objectives.

Status: Pending 32 Tracks (300cc) 00:45:00 Status: Pending All Custom Tracks 02:00:00 Status: Pending All Missions 00:45:00 Status: Pending 32 Tracks 00:55:00 Nintendo DS JonDBS Atelier Marie Remake: The Alchemist of Salburg Marking the 25th Anniversary of the Atelier series, Atelier Marie Remake is marked as a cozy, a cute, and one of the short(est) turn-based JRPGs whose main premise is on item crafting and building. The speedrun of this game feature powerful crafted items such as a SUPER BOMB and a time stopping tablet rendering foes frozen; and a staple in JRPGs, the fast item gathering, less cutscenes and transitions, fast menuing and auto-battle mode. Categories are divided according to Marie's pathway.Status: Pending Normal Ending 00:14:00 Status: Pending A Savior Ending (Normal) 00:35:00 Status: Pending A Professor Ending 00:56:00 Status: Pending A Savior Ending (Very Hard) 01:10:00 PC Gerbiez Mario Party This category is a great way to show the bones and foundation of mario party minigames, and how they became what they are today. There are some elements of RNG, but a lot of time can be made up with skill. I personally have dedicated a lot of time to this category, and would love a chance to show the world how amazing and fun mario party speedruns can be. Status: Pending Mini-Game Island Any% 00:40:00 Nintendo 64 Crow3893 Nicktoons Unite! This game is a 3D Co-Op Beat Em' Up where SpongeBob, Danny Phantom, Timmy Turner, and Jimmy Neutron team up to defeat the Evil Syndicate from destroying their worlds by collecting power ups in every level. NG+ allows us to have all the abilities unlocked at the start and fully upgraded. "Solo" is a "1 Player Any Controller" category and I will be running with 2 GameCube controllers. Some glitches used are: Increasing an ally's hitbox, going Out of Bounds, Cheerleader Jumps, and partner warps.Status: Pending NG+ (Solo) 1:10:00 Wii Duckable Promenade Promenade is a new, 2D platformer/collectathon game. It takes aspects from many other games, such as Celeste, Mario Odyssey, Klonoa and more. The objective of the game, and this run, is to complete the game as fast as possible, without performing any major skips. There are some very fun, unique strategies that can be performed with your octopus companion, in order to collect all the gear cogs required to reach the top of the elevator. Major skips in this game involve avoiding major progression. Status: Pending Any% No Major Skips 1:30:00 PC Crow3893 Nicktoons: Battle for Volcano Island This game is a platformer where 9 Nicktoons heroes are the "Chosen Ones" who must stop the evil Mawgu from destroying Volcano Island. Throughout the game, you meet up with other characters who join your team, and later on collect items to create a "Rip Zipper" to defeat the Mawgu for good. In a speedrun there are some skips and glitches used such as out of bounds, increased height jumps, continuous character jumps, and using allies to skip parts of a level or hitting cutscene triggers early.Status: Pending Any% (Solo) 00:40:00 Wii Crow3893 Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots This game is a platformer where you play as Nicktoons heroes who must stop Professor Calamitous from being titled "The Biggest Genius." You also have to collect "Master Models" of other Nicktoons characters to progress further in the game. In Any%, we collect the 9 fastest Master Models but also doing some interesting skips and glitches. Some of those being increased speed tech, Master Model skips, out of bounds, sometimes to skip entire levels, and even a wrong warp that skips half of the game!Status: Pending Any% 00:41:00 Wii U Maxylobes Resident Evil (2002) One of the most beloved remakes of a game, ever. The HD version on Steam is the best way of showcasing all of the flashy zombie dodges, slick stair-skating, and strict resource routing. Jill and Chris have many differences between them, including entirely different boss strategies, health pools, item routing, and movement. Chris' scenario is preferred, but I'm willing to either have them as a bid war, or run Jill's scenario as a bonus incentive to show off the Door Randomizer.Status: Pending Chris Any% 01:00:00 Status: Pending Jill Any% 01:00:00 Status: Pending Door Randomizer 01:20:00 PC Phantom5800 Paper Mario Blitz settings attempt to shorten the time it takes to complete a seed by lowering the number of Star Spirits from 7 to 4, and restricting where required items can be placed to only those parts of the game. This creates a much more streamlined encouraging strategic use of items and abilities. Glitch Logic incorporates dozens of glitches into the item placement logic. These settings also require beating all 7 chapters, and with how broken the game is, this can lead to crazy routing.Status: Pending Randomizer (Glitch Logic) 3:30:00 Status: Pending Randomizer (Blitz) 1:50:00 N64 Phantom5800 Super Mario RPG Breezy is a new mode available in the remake that modifies enemy stats and gives more experience to the player. This has resulted in another drastically different route from even the Normal difficulty where it is no longer considered optimal to get the Super Suit.Status: Pending Any% Breezy 2:45:00 Nintendo Switch Mattmatt The Thing The Thing is a canon sequal to the 1982 movie of the same name, it even features a cameo by John Carpenter himself! This game has a unique trust feature where any one of your squadmates can be infected at any time and it makes the gameplay very interesting. The run itself is very fast paced with virtually no downtime, clipping through walls using needles as well skipping boss and tactical ammo conservation... also making sure we're topped up on medkits!Status: Pending Any% 00:55:00 PC Phantom5800 THE DOG Island You play as a puppy, your puppy sibling is DYING and you have to go to an island full of other puppies to find the cure! By learning the scents of various objects and solving troubles of the island's citizens; you will become a true sniff master, save the world from a flying whale, defeat a resurrected T-Rex zombie and even cure an incurable disease.Status: Pending Any% 2:35:00 Wii austinh2714 Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005) The Any% run in Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005) is a runthrough of the 'Rise of the Empire' Campaign story mode, however you bypass all of the space missions in the campaign. There are 13 levels to complete, certain levels lasting around 2 minutes, to the longest level lasting around 9 minutes. This run also includes certain skips like RRT (Remote Rocket Trigger), Turret Clips, and Out of Bounds.Status: Pending Any% w/ Bonuses 01:00:00 PC Mattmatt Blade II Blade II has a pretty unique and awesome speedrun filled with tons of out of bounds glitches and exploits, skipping most of the levels entirely! Most people haven't even heard of this game but it's a gem that should be cherished! Playing NG+ allows us to start the run with UV grenades already unlocked which helps out massively throughout the run. If accepted I will joined on commentary with one of the developers for the game, Tom Forsyth!Status: Pending Any% NG+ 00:50:00 Xbox KyoshiCadre OMORI Omori is a surreal psychologic horror game developed by OMOCAT and released on December 25, 2020. Since OMORI last debuted at SGDQ 2022, there have been several minutes of timesave and optimizations. These timesaves include a massive glitch that allows you to skip multiple sections of the game with the picnic cutscenes. There's a lot of down time but there are several high points within the run.Status: Pending Any% No Save Warp 2:20:00 Status: Pending Secret Ending No Save Warp 3:50:00 Status: Pending All Bosses No Save Warp 3:55:00 Status: Pending Any% Unrestricted 1:00:00 PC Drumboardist Dragon Ball Z: Legend of the Super Saiya-Jin It's a Dragon Ball Z RPG, on the SNES!

So....multiple issues here. It was back in the day when they REALLY wanted to make "card games" the norm for RPGs. It didn't work out....especially when you did things too fast in the menu screens.

But we can break the canon of the series anyways! Want to see "no one die" on Earth? We have a glitched category! TenShinHan rules the world? Glitchless has yer back! Yamcha, Krillin, and Chao-Tzu be relevant? Well, that's glitches again....

Status: Pending any% "Radar%" 01:10:00 Status: Pending any% Glitchless 03:10:00 SNES Punchy Seven Mansions: Ghastly Smile A pair of colossal idiots moonwalk and manipulate time itself via bugs through a survival horror adventure but where everything just doesn't quite work like a normal video game. The strongest weapon is a pen, for some reason.Status: Pending Any% Kei 00:35:00 Status: Pending Any% Reina 00:35:00 Dreamcast Punchy Resident Evil Survivor First person shooter RE spin-off where spiders get stuck in the floor and vibrate strangely and the premier tech is the Dude Boost where you enlist the power of enemy dudes to push you up hills. this game is a bit like playing a resi game and then having a weird dream about them, it's good for a laugh.Status: Pending New Game Easy 00:40:00 PS2 LonelyRoast Tearaway: Unfolded Tearaway: Unfolded is a 3D platformer from Media Molecule (Creators of LittleBigPlanet & Dreams). It is a creative game with many exploits, "out of bounds" tricks & unique skips that can be used throughout the game. I am the current world record holder for the game & categories. There are also opportunities to add creative flair throughout the game with it's customization options. The game was positively received in GDQ Time Capsule 2015 Vol. III. Status: Pending NG+ 1:50:00 Status: Pending Any% 02:15:00 PlayStation 4 Punchy Rugrats: Search For Reptar Strangely bald child jumps awkwardly through this janky 3d "platformer" (genre description tentative) with oddly frantic and unhinged energy for a game made for babies. Throw the baby down a flight of stairs for speed.Status: Pending Any% 00:20:00 PS2 eewalktub Deliver Us The Moon A linear progression style of game to complete certain objectives and puzzles. We have in the last year discovered many interesting and unique tricks throughout the entire run to cut the time down to below and hour. Based on the moon in a near future apocalypse where you must reactivate an energy source to restore power to the Earth.Status: Pending Any% Full Game 01:03:00 PC Kyoslilmonster1 Forspoken Forspoken follows the journey of Frey, a young New Yorker transported to the beautiful and cruel land of Athia. In search of a way home, Frey must use her newfound magical abilities to traverse sprawling landscapes and battle monstrous creatures. Enjoy fluid combat, topical humor, and some of the slickest movement you've ever seen in an RPG!Status: Pending Any% Truthful Ending No DLC/Bonus 02:20:00 Status: Pending Any% 02:10:00 PC TheAlphaDolphin Sonic Adventure DX : Director's Cut Ahah blue hedgehog and friends go really fast in this game... One rolls on himself the other fly and spins! They all have funny qualities that make them cool! But can they beat Eggman and Chaos this time? Status: Pending Sonic's Story Race (w/ Katie4) 00:33:00 Status: Pending Tails Story 00:20:00 Status: Pending 130 Emblems 4:50:00 PC Katie4 Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut Sonic is fast. He spindashes through levels at light speed, clips through suggestions/walls whenever he wants, skips massive chunks of levels that take forever, and doesn't afraid of anything. So cool! Submitting as a race with TheAlphaDolphin.Status: Pending Sonic Story 00:33:00 PC davidtki Lychnis This is a DOS platformer (mostly) released exclusively in Korea in 1994. It's mostly known as a starting point for game companies Softmax and Gravity, and musician group SoundTeMP. Lychnis is a game with some great music and almost looks like it could be an amazing game but for some design decisions that make it almost Kaizo-like. In particular the final boss is a twist and curve that you won't see coming.Status: Pending Any% (Iris) 00:30:00 Status: Pending Any% (Lychnis) 00:30:00 DOS davidtki Pac-Land This is a difficult but also surprisingly fun platformer. That one Pac-Man stage from Smash Bros.? This is it. Originally an arcade release, this has been ported to a few platforms with the TurboGrafx-16 port being one of the best to play due to the built-in turbo function of the controller. There are no tricks in this run, it's all sheer skill.

This would make a great race against FlannelKat, PeaceEgg and Rujasu.

Status: Pending 8 trips (TG-16) 00:35:00 TG-16 davidtki Quest For Glory 2: Trial By Fire The point-and-click RPG hybrid game series and sequel to QFG1, this sequel brings you to the desert lands of Shapeir as you defend the city from the elements.

Normally infamous for the minutes long wait in Raseir for your room to open at the inn, I am happy to report that we have discovered a trick that now allows us to completely bypass the Raseir wait! There is almost no downtime remaining.

Status: Pending 100% (Fighter) 00:24:00 Status: Pending 100% (Magic-User) 00:22:00 Status: Pending 100% (Thief) 00:25:00 DOS Stevetvonline Nippon Marathon This is a game.

This a game about racing.

This is a game about racing and a dog and more dogs and a lobster and memes and Australians and businessmen and watermelons.

This game is all for fun and janky on purpose and would be an amazing awful block game, or even a regular block.

Status: Pending Full Marathon (Minigames On, No Turbo) 01:00:00 Xbox Series X Kyoslilmonster1 Final Fantasy XV: Royal Edition You've seen the short version, how about the one without all the glitches and shenanigans!?Status: Pending Any% Glitchless 04:05:00 PC Kyoslilmonster1 Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age The most broken version of FFXII comes to bear with RNG Manipulation, 4x speedup, and invisible weapons. A literal SPEEDRUN. This game originally for the PS2 now has an HD remake with all the goodies added to it from the IZJS release which was for Japan only. This also adds quite a few broken things to the game, including a weapon that has only a 1/10,000 chance of being found..so naturally we're gonna get multiples of it.Status: Pending Any% 02:40:00 Playstation 5 BigNoNo Yakuza Kiwami The remake of the first Yakuza. Majima is everywhere, including in the run, because we beat him in a fight you're supposed to lose (by cheating) and become ridiculously overpowered for the remainder.

By the end of the run we sometimes do x16 the damage you're supposed to do to bosses, which makes the whole thing feel like a cartoon in the best way possible. This all hinges on us playing the game damageless though. Good luck!

Legend is the max difficulty category. NG+ shows a maxed out Kiryu.

Status: Pending Any% 01:53:00 Status: Pending Legend 02:20:00 Status: Pending NG+ 01:40:00 PC Stevetvonline TOEM Controlling the character of a young photographer, you are tasked by your Grandmother to ascend a mountain to witness a phenomenon known as "Toem". You must go and help NPC characters with different tasks to complete in order to get stamps and achievements to gather EVERYTHING in the game. Tasks can be as small as finding a sandwich to cheering on a snail in a race, the cuteness never stops while we find everything there is to find.Status: Pending 100% 00:50:00 Xbox Series X Stevetvonline Dreamworks Dragons: Dawn of New Riders Taking place in the HTTYD universe, the story finds us controlling a deserted survivor of a fire that doesn't know his name. Through the help of the magically hatched egg, you join the hero in stopping the evil Eir from taking over and destroying the dragons. This is nonstop glitches and tricks that just show how broken this game is. Any% has glitches galore that require precision switching to skip past almost any cutscene in the game, and OOB tricks that allow us to skip puzzles entirely.Status: Pending Any% (V-Sync Off) 01:10:00 PC IkeSMB Super Monkey Ball 651 SMB651 is a Super Monkey Ball custom game by the amazing player scrap651. Featuring an entirely original soundtrack by Jim Nopédie, SMB651 feels like an entirely new game, not just a romhack. SMB651’s trailblazing use of switches, wormholes, and conveyors leads to fun speedrun strats that feel right out of vanilla SMB2. SMB651 is also well known for its infamously difficult endgame, which only a small handful of the very best players can consistently beat. This awesome run is not to be missed!Status: Pending Story Mode All Levels 00:38:00 Wii FOK Dishonored This game is known for a huge amount of possibilities to eliminate your target, so our goal is to find the fastest way to get rid off your target and save the kingdomStatus: Pending Glitchless 00:30:00 PC Stevetvonline The Last Campfire Lost in a world unknown, Ember must find a way to escape as well as save those who have been lost in the darkness and become forlorn. This cute puzzle game has some pretty major glitches as well as fast movement through each puzzle and some cute gameplay to boot. In any% we collect 4 forlorn in each chapter and get to the end as quickly as possible.Status: Pending Any% 01:10:00 Xbox Series X FOK SUPERHOT "The time moves only when you move", which means that we will move as much as possible to complete the game as fast as possible.Status: Pending Any% 00:18:00 PC bewildebeest The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask In an any% NMG speedrun without further restrictions, the infinite sword glitch (ISG) is used extensively, as it makes bomb hovers possible and prevents Link from falling off ledges. In this category, however, ISG is prohibited, which yields a substantially different route from standard any% NMG and showcases quite a few quirky glitches.Status: Pending Any% NMG no ISG 1:20:00 Nintendo Wii FOK Batman: Arkham City Arkham City is a second game in the Arkham Franchise, and arguably the one with biggest amount of glitches out there, and we use all of them to complete the game in less than an hour.Status: Pending Any% Easy 1:05:00 Status: Pending Any% NG+ w/Cat 00:42:00 PC IkeSMB Super Monkey Ball Gaiden Super Monkey Ball Gaiden is an amazing Super Monkey Ball custom game. The levels are both fun & focused as well as large & spectacular, leading to a barrage of stunning speedrun strats such as tight movement (8-5), fast multi-part aerial moves (3-7), and climbing a giant robot (9-7) - every stage is exciting! I would love to showcase one of the best SMB runs of all time.

The Story Mode category plays the 100 main levels; Nambo’s Master Mode submission is intended as a bonus to follow this run.

Status: Pending Story Mode All Levels 00:42:00 Wii bewildebeest The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess 100% shows off the most interesting speed tech and skips the game has to offer. Low B Presses is a fun challenge category with a route and strategies unlike any other.Status: Pending 100% 6:35:00 Status: Pending Low B Presses 5:30:00 Nintendo Wii snrZora Sonic Frontiers Any% was at GDQ last year, a lot of cool new stuff has been discovered such as new skips and routes. This game is really movement and tech heavy, which makes the game a really satisfying speed game to look at.

Another Ending is a completely new category. The game has had 3 major updates, which in the latest one, they added a complete new story to the end! This story has new playable characters (Amy, Knuckles and Tails), and a really sick final boss, where Sonic powers up and goes Super Sonic 2

Status: Pending Any% Another Ending 1:30:00 Status: Pending Any% 1:10:00 PC oneeyeddeacon Plants vs. Zombies PvZ is a game where you need to defend your house against zombies trying to eat your brains. The key to the speedrun is the 50% rule, which means we can advance the waves by dealing ~50% of the damage to a given wave. The speedrun in all of the categories is thus about balacing fast 50% with preparation for future waves of zombies.Status: Pending Any% 3:35:00 Status: Pending All Minigames 2:00:00 Status: Pending Survival Endless (20 flags) 00:45:00 Status: Pending All Puzzles 00:20:00 PC JnicTM Trackmania Trackmania is know for its fun and arcade styled racing maps. But just like Mario platformers have Kaizo mario, Trackmania has World of Wampus (WoW).

Though Wampus is not a mod, it is still an incredibly hard challenge, and is known as a 'trial' map. Therefore the intention of the map was not to complete it in a fast manner, but to be able to complete it at all. But of course speedrunners took up the challenge.

Wampus shows off so much of Trackmanias fun mechanics, bugs and wicked stunts.

Status: Pending World of Wampus 01:00:00 PC Brandino59 Luigi's Mansion 3DS Grab your gameboy horror, we have a mansion to explore! This 3DS remake of the Gamecube original brings beautiful updated graphics, gyro controls, and amiibo support into the game. Watch as I have to physically jerk the 3DS up and down in the real world to grab ghosts with Luigi. This run features slick ghost suck-ups and 3DS-exclusive text skip glitches to make E. Gadd stop talking to us about the elements. Let's save Mario and secure the bag!Status: Pending 100% (Normal Mansion) 1:45:00 Status: Pending Any% (Normal Mansion) 1:21:00 Nintendo 3DS OGHappydude Evil Zone The game that has had a tournament featured at (At least) 6 GDQ's and was promoted HEAVELY promoted by SpikeVegeta at AGDQ 2024, Evil Zone is a 2 button fighter with only a block and a attack button. The run is on Easy but I will more than likely STILL game over as the game's story gives only one life! Wonky controls, polygons that you can individually count, and controls that sometimes don't do you want. IT'S EVIL ZONE BAY BAY!!!Status: Pending Story Mode - Easy% 00:15:00 Playstation 3 AraneaCharlotte Tetris The Grand Master Complete the standard mode of Tetris while attempting to meet the speed requirements to attain the GM grade. This involves making use of high-level movement mechanics to place pieces at extreme speeds.Status: Pending Master Mode 00:15:00 Nintendo Switch rantan Metal Unit Metal Unit is a side-scrolling 2D action roguelite game released in 2021. Each time you run, the shape and number of maps to advance changes, and equipment is obtained at random, making it a game with a high randomization factor. Speedrun was first shown at an event in Japan in 2022, and has gradually gained popularity with more and more runners. Although the game has a large random element, you can experience many joys and sorrows in one run.Status: Pending Any% 00:30:00 PC Rocher Blasphemous 2 Blasphemous 2 is the second opus to the andalusian metroidvania. It has great art, game design and bosses. The No Major Glitch (NMG) category is the most complete category that faces every boss. We will be doing the whole run without picking up any health upgrade. The route has been very optimized and is able to go under 1:05:00 but the estimate covers 1 or 2 eventual deathStatus: Pending Any% NMG Race w/ Chemigoku 01:20:00 PC TheShadedMaster Hexcells Infinite The danger of Minesweeper mixed with the logic of nonograms, Hexcells Infinite is the ultimate test of mouse accuracy. With the Infinite Generator capable of creating 200 million levels, the furious ambient pings will help soothe chatter's souls. 6 Level Showcase aims to show the fluidity of easy logic levels and the rigid path of a hard logic level. Levels would likely be predetermined by size to better fit the category estimate and with special numbers such as important datesStatus: Pending 6 Level Showcase 00:25:00 PC DarkTerrex Wizards & Warriors 3: Kuros: Visions of Power The third installment of Wizards & Warriors on the NES has the knight Kuros return right where he left off, chasing down the evil wizard Malkil to the town of Piedup. There he becomes a thief and breaks into people's homes, promises to marry three princesses (and a dragon?) for their jewelry, and finally levitates menacingly at the Burger King to make him explode. Just a normal day for a knight, right?

Would be happy to race with Ppotdot1 or any other submitters.

Status: Pending Any% 00:25:00 NES Kingj0444 Super Mario 3D World Super Mario 3D World was originally released on the Wii U but got ported to the Switch in 2021. This version allows us to skip cutscenes and improves the characters base running speed. 3D World was already filled with awesome momentum and crazy skips but now it's more fast paced than ever! While the Wii U version was shown at previous GDQ events, the Switch version still has yet to be shown off.

Submitting Any% as a race with HexSpeedruns. Everything else is submitted as solo.

Status: Pending Random% 01:55:00 Status: Pending 243 Stars 02:35:00 Status: Pending 380 Stars 04:00:00 Status: Pending Any% 01:45:00 Switch DasYorkie BCV - Battle Construction Vehicles PAL and JP Exclusive game about the honour of fighting using construction vehicles.Status: Pending All Major Cutscenes 00:55:00 Status: Pending any% 00:34:00 PS2 TheProfesser The Nightmare Before Christmas:Oogies Revenge The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogies Revenge is a Devil May Cry-esque Hack & Slash game based on events after the movie. The game was released on PS2 and Xbox in 2005. The Speedrun focuses on KH1 style Platforming, Money Management (in Any%), and Sing-Along Musical Boss Battles that gets the whole crowd singing. My submission shows the two main categories that takes us through all 24 chapters of the main game, and a shorter sprint that shows everything the game has to holdStatus: Pending All Bosses 00:40:00 Status: Pending Any% NG+ 1:45:00 Status: Pending Any% 1:55:00 Xbox Kobazzco Chibi-Robo! Lockout bingo is a competitive speedrun format for Chibi-Robo where you must claim 13 of 25 random objectives before your opponent does first. Chibi-Robo is already an amazing speedgame thanks to flashy wall clips, precise platforming, and deep battery management strats, but bingo takes it to another level. Between expert level predictions, last second objective snipes, and ridiculous comeback plays, Chibi-Robo lockout bingo is the DEFINITION of hype. Submitting with Jaxler.Status: Pending 1v1 Lockout Bingo 1:10:00 Wii GLPhoenix Eastern Exorcist My usual pitch for this game is "What if Sekiro, but 2d?" which tends to work better for the main story. The category I've submitted is the other story with the other playable character, which tends to be flashier and also more dangerous when it comes to later boss fights.

The last I submitted this game I had an estimate of 1 hour 10, but since then we've been able to cut a considerable amount of time using one simple trick to skip a handful of otherwise annoying fights.

Status: Pending Any% (NG Casual - Xiahou Xue) 00:55:00 PC(Steam) CookieBunny Catherine Climb to the top or die trying. Catherine is a unique hybrid of life sim and puzzle game that was one of my favorite games of the PS3/Xbox 360 era. It's a fantastically fun, original, and challenging puzzle game. Each night brings new types of blocks, settings, strategies, and monsters chasing you as you reach higher and higher into the heavens.Status: Pending Story Easy 1:20:00 PC Kobazzco Find Mii II Find Mii II is a simple RPG included for free on the 3DS, with a speedrun revolving around pre-run setup and instant quick menuing. Recent developments in the speedrun has turned it into something quite silly, with a legion of Miis called S from Peru being used to clear the entire game. Due to this, it makes for a silly, yet engaging run as legions of S from Peru are expertly menu'd into completing the entire game as quickly as possible. A sure to be nostalgia trip for anyone who had a 3DS.Status: Pending Both Quests 00:16:00 3DS Dr4gonBlitz Castlevania: Nocturne in the Moonlight The Sega Saturn version of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night was a Japanese only release of the game that has many changes from the original including a unique character and new glitches that completely change how this version is played. The Glitched Any% route uses a glitch to transfer late game stats and relics to a brand new play file and even has a newly discovered RNG Manip in the route. Maria Any% is the speedrun for the version exclusive character with unique movement and glitches.Status: Pending Alucard Any% Glitched 00:15:00 Status: Pending Maria Any% 00:10:00 Sega Saturn Dr4gonBlitz Castlevania: Symphony of the Night E3 Demo In 1997, The Electronic Entertainment Expo was held in Atlanta Georgia. A playable demo for the yet to be released Castlevania: Symphony of the Night was at the event. That demo build was designed to keep the player locked in a small play area, but with clever use of movement and glitches its not only possible to break out of the intended area, but its possible to beat the entirety of the game. This speedrun aims to do that while showcasing a very interesting piece of gaming historyStatus: Pending E3 Demo Any% 00:17:00 PSX Dr4gonBlitz Evil Zone Co-submitting with Caveman If you have ever ran into me at a GDQ event you have probably at one point heard myself or Caveman attempt to proselytize anyone that would hear us out about the hit 2-button fighting game Evil Zone. This game has made up a large portion of mine and many other's fond memories at GDQ Events and we would like to bring that feeling and community onto the big stage. The bracket for the event will be ran off stream day(s) prior, with the top 4 being streamed on stage.Status: Pending Tournament Finals 00:50:00 PSX minimini352 The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker After years of trick discoveries and routing, we have finally broken the 6 hour barrier in 100%, and the run includes all the staple tricks of storage, superswims and zombie hovers, as well as huge skips including barrier skip, early earth temple and hyrule 1 skip. Glitchless had a huge route change with the discovery of early ghost ship chart and the flow of the route is better than ever. We play through the game mostly intended, focussing on movement and fights, with some big tricks thrown in.Status: Pending 100% 6:25:00 Status: Pending Glitchless Any% 5:20:00 Status: Pending Pearls, Swords, Triforce 4:10:00 Status: Pending Any% No MSS Race 1:30:00 Wii DreamTora The Lion King: Simba’s Mighty Adventure Simba’s Mighty Adventure follows the events of both The Lion King and The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride, played as Simba himself. This game is a 3D platformer, but with unique mechanics such as the Pounce which we use to our advantage for this speedrun in order to save time on levels and also get quicker kills on the bosses.Status: Pending Any% 00:30:00 Sony Playstation CheeseJay Super Mario Odyssey Superstar Mode is a SMO kaizo mod created by Skeleux. This mod aims to make every single kingdom much more difficult. Some of the most notable changes include a "Floor is Lava" challenge for Sand Kingdom, a massive spikebar during the Cloud Bowser fight, and damage bubble covering the entire Mecha Broodal in Bowsers. Overall, I believe this mod would make for a great GDQ showcase because of the insane amount of skill and technical precision it takes to complete all of the stages.Status: Pending Superstar Mode Any% 1:30:00 Nintendo Switch Brandino59 Conker's Bad Fur Day Conker's BFD is a goofy, story-driven adventure starring DKR alumni Conker T. Squirrel, but with more beer, raves, and bees than Banjo-Kazooie. In this category, we'll run through the game's story as fast as we can (without watching any cutscenes) to get Conker home after a rough night of partying! Along the way we'll see large variance in the gameplay: from platforming, racing, third-person shooting, to poo-rolling, even some crazy out of bounds manuevers to avoid tricky sections of the game!Status: Pending Chapters 100% 1:43:00 Xbox Series X zzrules21 Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! Everything beloved from BL2 in SPACE In Any% we use a new save and play as everyone’s favorite overenthusiastic robot Claptrap to blitz through the story of Handsome Jack becoming the villain of BL2 Weapon merging and infinite ammo glitches return. The 0grav in SPACE let us b-hop to bound across the large maps. Also, the Vibrapulse ZAP ⚡ Geared UVHM is NG+ where we take a maxed out save and use specific gear to launch across entire maps with 1shot and shred enemies with grossly overpowered gunsStatus: Pending Any% 2:15:00 Status: Pending Geared UVHM 1:39:00 PC Jerikandra Chrono Cross - Radical Dreamers Edition In this run, we navigate a challenging speedrun with precision, managing stamina and adapting strategies based on unique boss fight formulas. Utilizing magic elements to counter varying boss colors, we optimize damage and efficiency. FastForward is crucial, cutting traversal time and speeding up battles, allowing swift strategy execution. The game's colorful graphics, beautiful cutscenes, and convoluted storyline create an immersive, rewarding experience across time and parallel dimensions.Status: Pending Any% Good Ending FastForward 04:30:00 Status: Pending Lynx% FastForward 01:22:00 PC/Steam Phantom5800 PokéPark Wii: Pikachu's Adventure Pikachu is on an adventure to save the planet from the wrath of Mew who has threatened total armageddon if the Pokémon don't stop fighting and become friends with each other. Through various minigames, Pikachu must find the true meaning of friendship, defeat Mew, and save the world.Status: Pending Any% 2:30:00 Wii Dwhatever Super Mario 64 Together with itsbeeve, I would like to complete a Mario 64 Speedrun, preferably 120 Star, but 70 works, too. Both our controllers are connected to a controller switcher. You can switch the controller with a press of a button. Whenever someone donates a specific amount of money to this event (could be $10, more or less) the donation reader will press the switch on who is currently playing. Preferably this happens randomly without itsbeeve or me knowing, but it could also be handled differently.Status: Pending 120 Star - 2 Player 2 Controller 01:50:00 Status: Pending 70 Star - 2 Player 2 Controller 01:00:00 Nintendo 64 teddyras Dead Rising What if the guy from marvel vs. capcom had his own game? Well believe it or not, he's in 3 of these.

This speedrun uses a mod to keep you from having to wait 4 hours to beat the game and instead we can beat it, and all the bosses, in like an hour-ish. I use a couple of tricks, some goofy tech, and silly powerups to move speedily through big crowds of zombies & beat up psychopaths, all of them. Like I spit on a man until he dies, this is peak videogames. Also I do some cool skating 🛹

Status: Pending All Bosses 01:15:00 PC YatogamiNL DMC Devil May Cry: Vergils Downfall This game is all about movement and we will unlock things on the way since this is new game. The more you progress, the more moves you can use for faster battles and skips (if possible). The game plan is to to skip as much fights as possible and when its forced, use a set amount of moves to slay your enemies quickly or use the the edges of the stage to push them off.Status: Pending NG NMG - Human 00:30:00 PC Alys Rujasu Pac-Land A 1989 TurboGrafx-16 port of the classic 1984 arcade game that inspired Super Mario Bros. and numerous other platformers. Pac-Land features straightforward, fun, and challenging platforming with colorful scenery and upbeat music. The TurboGrafx version adds short cutscenes not included in the original version, and an unlockable "pro" difficulty. The game consists of eight "trips" of four "rounds" each, for 32 levels in total. Submitting as a race with the other Pac-Land runners.Status: Pending The Whole Dang Game 00:32:00 PC Engine YatogamiNL Barbie and the Three Musketeers Barbie is a 2D platformer with 4 playable characters and all of them has different abilities. This is mostly a puzzle game because you have to use (almost) all mechanics to make it to the end. All characters get a tutorial so even when you're watching, you'll get to know how the characters play and function. Yes there is also a cat!Status: Pending Any% Wii 01:00:00 Wii Primorix Bastion Bastion is an incredibly broken speedgame with nuanced movement focused around manipulating the scripted events in each level to our advantage. All Story Levels No MS (menu storage) is a long-form category that showcases a variety of tech, Any% No MS is a hyper-optimized short category that has seen incredible recent progress, and Any% Mouse Only is a silly run that is basically a harder version of Any% No MS where pausing the game is not allowed.Status: Pending All Story Levels No MS 00:50:00 Status: Pending Any% No MS 00:20:00 Status: Pending Any% Mouse Only 00:22:00 PC Alpha0mega Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion Octo Expansion is the 2018 DLC for Splatoon 2, adding another campaign for player to go through. Any% No Death Abuse aims to finish the game as quick as possible without using the 'Skip Level' feature that is available after dying a set amount of times. This run shows off a variety of different skillsets, and provides quite the challenge, with deaths often resulting in over 15 seconds of time loss, if not more. It's a fun run to watch, making it a great fit for a marathon.Status: Pending Any% No Death Abuse 1:25:00 Nintendo Switch cynOmatic Silent Hill 2 The classic psychological horror that haunted all who played it. This game tackles heavy and dark themes throughout with an unexpected twist at the end. This was the first game that truly scared me and still does. With its apt conveyance of complex emotions and unforgettable atmosphere, it remains one of the best horror games of all time.Status: Pending Any% Normal 01:05:00 PC Pr0tal The Talos Principle 2 The Talos Principle 2 is a newly released puzzle-adventure video game developed by Croteam as a sequel to The Talos Principle (2014). In a recent update, all cutscenes have become totally skippable, bringing the time down by a whopping 30 minutes. The speedrun will be an Any% run that abuses some of the most game breaking and wacky glitches that this game has to offer, as well as using frame perfect tricks involving the photomode mechanic to skip large portions of the game. Status: Pending Any% 00:48:00 PC j0kerr Synaesthete Synaesthete is a rhythm action game where you control the Zaikman, matching beats to the rhythm of the song to destroy enemies and save your world. It is a game developed by 4 students of DigiPen Institute of Technology in 2007, with all original EDM songs. Each level is based around a song and evolves as you move between rooms. I like to say it plays as if Rock Band and Binding of Isaac had a child, dodging enemies and shooting them to the rhythm of the music.Status: Pending All Songs Trivial (No Tutorial) 00:35:00 Status: Pending All Songs Warning! (No Tutorial) 00:50:00 PC Berix Age of Mythology Age of Mythology is an real-time strategy game over twenty years old. The gameplay ranges from frantic micro, multitasking, and macro gameplay, all in the name of speed.

The Golden Gift campaign is a shorter 4 mission campaign with a solid mix of glitches, micro, and time to relax and enjoy the phenomenal game sound and music.

Status: Pending The Golden Gift 00:15:00 PC tyhill111 Island Saver Island Saver is a wholesome game that teaches kids about money and spreads a positive message about cleaning the environment. Despite being "educational" it is charming and fun to play. Due to new discoveries found over the last year, any% was cut down from about an hour to about 15 minutes, and the I am very excited at the chance to show it off! Status: Pending any% no DLC 00:16:00 PC ateatree Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons (The linked video showcases "all levels", a 50 minute category which includes all of Any% plus the final level. This would make a great upgrade incentive!)

Double Dragon is re-imagined as a post-apocalypse roguelite, where a young pair of brothers take it upon themselves to take down four gangs that threaten their city. As stages are cleared the player gains move and stat upgrades in a semi-randomized fashion, but level order and RNG also dictate what traps and bosses the player will encounter.

Status: Pending Any% 00:40:00 PC LV Creed Rockman 7: Bean Lover This is a "buster only" romhack of Mega Man 7 made by Puresabe (of Rockman 4 Minus Infinity fame) where LITERALLY all you use is just your buster. No boss weapons, no Rush items, no extra utilities nor adaptors. Just your regular, ordinary, run-of-the mill... "bean gatling gun". In addition, a special modifier to make your slides blazing fast is added for that extra little speed pick-me-up. However, why "beans"? Doesn't Mega Man fire "lemons"? Well... I'll let you make that choice.Status: Pending Any% (Burst Bean) 00:22:00 Status: Pending Any% (Burst Lemon) 00:22:00 Super Nintendo mochajones10 Pokemon Scarlet Go on a culinary journey as we defeat Titan Pokemon, collect Herba Mystica, and make sandwiches!Status: Pending Path of Legends 01:05:00 Nintendo Switch RamboRachel Brink Co-op Submission with j0kerr and Enbyzee

Brink is a 2010 team-based first-person shooter with teams fighting for the control of the Ark, a series of floating islands hosting the remnants of humanity. As Ark Security we complete objectives in the missions while utilizing teamwork and constant communication in order to preserve order in the Ark. We will make use of all 4 available classes to repair, hack, heal, and destroy, in order to keep the Ark safe from contact with the outside world.

Status: Pending Any% Security Co-op 00:45:00 PC spagettd Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue Toy Story 2 is a 3D Platformer collectathon with very strong similarities to games of that genre like Super Mario 64. The objective is to collect Pizza Planet tokens to progress through the levels and save your pal Woody! There's lots of platforming, high-skill technical jumps, and plenty of skips/glitches to showcase as well! In any% we are only required to get 30 out of the 50 tokens to beat the game. This is exclusive to the N64 version, compared to the minimum 40 token on other consoles.Status: Pending N64 Any % 00:35:00 Status: Pending 100% 01:00:00 Nintendo 64 spagettd The Lord of the Rings: Gollum Gollum is an infamous game released just last year in 2023 as being the "worst game of the year" by many. Don't let that little worldwide opinion distract you from the fact this is one of the best speedruns to come out last year too! Tons of out-of-bounds platforming, deload shenanigans, and complete level skips, oh my!Status: Pending Any % 4:00:00 PC dannyb The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Ganondoor is dead! After 12 years of unwavering dominance, the infamous wrong warp from Deku Tree to Ganon's Tower has been beaten by a new contender: Ganonfloor. A completely brand new class of wrong warps, Dynawarping allows OoT runners to warp ANYWHERE, and I helped discover it! Extremely fast paced, impressive, and with the WTF factor that has long since given OoT speedruns their charm, the latest Defeat Ganon route is a huge crowd pleaser and I'd love to have the opportunity to show it off!Status: Pending Defeat Ganon No SRM 0:20:00 Gamecube dannyb The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Glitchless OoT is my bread and butter and SO much has changed in the 8 years since I last played it at GDQ. We have 2 categories: All Main Quests, and Any%. AMQ preserves the feel of a Glitchless run, mandating all dungeons and major story beats, while still being chock full of flashy parkour. Any% stretches the word 'Glitchless' to its limit, offering an extremely unique view into how far the game can be pushed with all of the grey area techniques that aren't glitches but definitely unintended.Status: Pending Glitchless All Main Quests 3:50:00 Status: Pending Glitchless Any% 2:25:00 Wii VC Ulvind "a" (Note: the game is actually called a (without the quotation marks), but I had to add the quotation marks to get it over the minimum 2 character limit.)

Silly Game block submit. your soul is about to be reincarnated. find your vessel; defeat the monster; play all the stages of this 2D-Platformer.

Status: Pending any% 00:18:00 Nintendo Switch Vysuals Disney's Extremely Goofy Skateboarding Come enter the world of horrible controls, an uncooperative camera, and egregious hitboxes as we clear all 12 stages as Max Goof, famous son of Goofy Goof. You'll see impossible feats of skill in this run, such as turning your character around and jumping onto tables. The world is ready to see the worst skateboarding game ever made, and the surprisingly fun speedrun of it.Status: Pending Any% 0:15:00 PC Reclaimer BlazBlue Entropy Effect This run takes place as 3 different characters of the player's choosing. 3 Totals runs with 3 different characters showcasing a wide variety of combat and decision making.

Blaze Blue Entropy Effect is an action roguelite with super fast paced hack n slash gameplay with 10 different characters

Status: Pending Trifecta Run 00:48:00 PC Sway Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time Still yet to be seen on the main GDQ stage, this run tests mastery of frame-tight Bros. Items and is sure to impress. Several glitches allow us to skip chunks of some areas, get rich quick, and even enter the final dungeon early via a comically trivial clip!

Any% would use a badge that requires us to stay at low HP for the notorious final boss gauntlet, which should make for a thrilling (but very recoverable) ending. All Bosses would show off some additional skips and a safer ending.

Status: Pending Any% 2:50:00 Status: Pending All Bosses 3:40:00 Nintendo DS RUBIEHART Overcooked 2 Speedrunning one game is already hard enough. What better way to bond with friends than by trying to co-op speedrun multiple games at once, where all the items are randomized between worlds and control stick batteries matter! Join RUBIEHART, Jhobz296, and Keizaron as they play a cooperative multiworld archipelago across Overcooked 2, Pokemon Emerald, and Kingdom Hearts 2. Three amazing runs and worlds, one wild and chaotic run.Status: Pending Multiworld Archipelago 02:45:00 PC chemigoku Blasphemous 2 Blasphemous 2 is the second opus to the andalusian metroidvania. It has great art, game design and bosses. The No Major Glitch (NMG) category is the most complete category that faces every boss. We will be doing the whole run withou picking up any health upgrade. The route has been very optimized and is able to go under 1:05:00 but the estimate covers 1 or 2 eventuals deathsStatus: Pending Any% NMG Race w/ Rocher_brockas 01:20:00 PC carrarium Celeste Custom Maps: Monika's D-Sides Monika's D-Sides is one of the most well-known and long-established custom Celeste maps in the Celeste modding world. Designed to be very hard versions of the base game chapters, Monika's D-Sides foregoes chocolate mechanics and gameplay variants for pure platforming reminiscent of kaizo design philosophies. Using a slew of obscure binds, sequence breaks, and frame-perfect strats, carrarium will push Madeline's three basic mechanics (jump, climb, and dash) to their absolute breaking point.Status: Pending Dny% 01:10:00 PC Primorix Ori and the Blind Forest DE Ori DE All Skills was featured at the last SGDQ, and while the core gameplay focused on high-octane movement and difficult sequence breaks remains similar, there have been several small but significant route improvements since that run, and I personally have improved dramatically at the run as well.Status: Pending All Skills No OOB/TA 00:32:00 PC tjb0607 Super Mario World Over the years, the Kaizo SMW community has crafted some of the most difficult boss fights ever seen in gaming. Between a precise bullet hell long thought to be impossible, fire and hammers flying around with no rhyme or reason, and lightning raining down without end, each of these boss fights have taken the best of players dozens of hours to beat once. Now, they can each be beaten in under 10 minutes, consistently, on a whim. Submitting as a co-op showcase with lungfish3000 and MarkAlarm.Status: Pending Custom Boss Showcase 0:30:00 SNES TheJavaBrew Super Mario World The Kaizo SMW community is back and better than ever! We assembled some of the best level makers, artists, musicians, and coders (including some surprises) to make mind-blowing levels exclusively for SGDQ. Racers will work as a team (4v4) to speedrun these levels despite having never seen them before. Estimate is flexible; we can add and drop levels to fit the schedule. Submitting with GlitchCat7, shovda, Thabeast721, YouFailMe, juzcook, TheJavabrew, Shoujo, and MarkAlarm (JankPickle as backup)Status: Pending Kaizo Relay Race 2:00:00 SNES j0kerr Sonic R Sonic R is a classic Sonic racing game. But instead of playing as the blue blur we play as Knuckles and Metal Knuckles, utilizing their drift control and gliding ability to make tracks faster. We need to collect all 5 Sonic Coins and find all 7 Chaos Emeralds while finishing in first place on each track to complete the game. Try to Feel the Sunshine, keep Living in the City, don't go Back in Time, try to Work It Out, find that Diamond in the Sky, and join me for some Super Sonic Racing!Status: Pending 100% (No OoB) 00:18:00 PC j0kerr Brink Co-op submission with Enbyzee and RamboRachel

Brink is a 2010 team-based first-person shooter with teams fighting for the control of the Ark, a series of floating islands hosting the remnants of humanity. As Ark Security we complete objectives in the missions while utilizing teamwork and constant communication in order to preserve order in the Ark. We will make use of all 4 of the available classes to repair, hack, heal, and destroy, all to keep the Ark safe from contact with the outside world.

Status: Pending Any% Security Co-op 00:45:00 PC CavemanDCJ Evil Zone Co-submitting with my pal Dr4gonBlitz. If you have ever met me I have probably told you the good word about the hottest 2-button fighting game on the PS1. For the better part of the last decade, the one constant at GDQs has been the Evil Zone tournament, and now it is time for the community to get a spotlight on the big stage. I plan on running the brackets of the tournament on site, with winners, losers, and grand finals playing out live on stage. Anyone in attendance could be in the finals!Status: Pending Tournament Finals 00:50:00 PS2 Zojalyx Veggietales: Larryboy and the Bad Apple A 3D platformer released for the Playstation 2.This game is silly. It has zero invulnerability frames because why not? It has a lot of really awesome speedrunning skips between using elevation to fling us out of bounds and jumping around physics that we really should not be able to jump on. It has been featured at multiple marathons with a lot of strong support across every marathon it has been on. Status: Pending Any% 01:35:00 Playstation 2 Amyrlinn Geneforge do you dare to venture to the mysterious and forbidden sucia island? to train in the ancient and mystical ways of shaping the essence of life itself? to learn the secrets of the sholai and confront the world-altering powers of the geneforge?

ME NEITHER, LET'S DO THE SILLY BAD ENDING BY JUST GETTIN THE HECK OUTTA HERE

Status: Pending Any% 0:15:00 PC Amyrlinn Quake a quake level pack except it's better than the original quake :) not as much bhopping but plenty of rocket boosts and corner cutsStatus: Pending Dimension of the Machine - Any% 0:40:00 PC Amyrlinn Neon White this is a sub that i'm perfectly willing to do as a dono incentive if another neon white runner submits. this is all three sidequest rushes back to back in hell mode, which means if i die i restart the entire rush. i've gotten this deathless onstage at twitchcon, and it would be a huge rush to do it live at gdq. the estimate is inflated a bit to account for restart deaths.Status: Pending Hell Rainbow Rush 0:20:00 PC Mr_Shasta Kirby Super Star Ultra This remake of the titular SNES title adds 4 new game modes, along with changing up some physics slightly and nerfing and buffing a few powers. 100% has had a lot of strat changes, fight optimizations, and candy and power mixes added to the run that make things way flashier now! There's a lot neat power variety, but Jet is primarily used because of its versatility. 100% beats all game modes, gets all 19 powers in MWW, all 60 chests in GCO, and hits 2 Switches in Dyna Blade.Status: Pending 100% 02:15:00 New Nintendo 3DS XL w/ capture card Mr_Shasta The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass Phantom Hourglass is completely touch-screen based aside from shortcuts on the face buttons. The run is host to a lot of nice movement and optimizations with this, as well as some neat skips, such as clipping the Hammer through walls to access Goron Temple early or sequence breaking dungeons by displacing the camera and hitting a switch offscreen. We also run on English Wii U VC because it allows us to do a frame perfect glitch to skip a required item and save 4 minutes, plus faster load timesStatus: Pending Any% 03:20:00 Wii U VC adef Block Dude What can I say that I haven't said about Block Dude before? Well, this speedrun has remarkably difficult puzzles made to look incredibly fast via incredible memorization. Also, there is an awesome glitch done by positioning two blocks in specific spots to go in between them and skip the largest puzzle in the game! Additionally, I can do levels blindfolded for a donation incentive! This is probably the most serious submission I've ever written for this game.Status: Pending any% 00:12:00 TI-8x Series Calculator Mr_Shasta Kirby Planet Robobot Meta Knightmare Returns has us playing as Meta Knight instead of Kirby going through the story mode. It cuts out all the Robobot sections, so it's a lot faster overall. There's a lot of movement tech in this run such as shuttle looping, which allows us to glide over gaps quickly, plus we have 2 room clearing attacks in Galaxia Darkness and Meta Knights that demolish boss fights! Points are dropped whenever an enemy or boss is defeated, and are routed so we can use Meta Quick to move faster a lotStatus: Pending Meta Knightmare Returns 01:15:00 New Nintendo 3DS XL w/ capture card Mr_Shasta Kirby Triple Deluxe Dededetour goes through the Story Mode of Triple Deluxe with King Dedede instead, eliminating sections that only Kirby could go through like the Hypernova sections. It also adds warps everywhere, which put you farther ahead in the level, sometimes skipping minibosses too! These are usually in places where Sun Stones would be in the normal game, so you see a lot more puzzles and extra content in this run compared to when playing as Kirby. We also HELLA abuse i frames to save time everywhere!Status: Pending Dededetour 01:20:00 New Nintendo 3DS XL w/ capture card Jaxler Chibi-Robo! Lockout bingo is a competitive speedrun format for Chibi-Robo where you must claim 13 of 25 random objectives before your opponent does first. Chibi-Robo is already an amazing speedgame thanks to flashy wall clips, precise platforming, and deep battery management strats, but bingo takes it to another level. Between expert level predictions, last second objective snipes, and ridiculous comeback plays, Chibi-Robo lockout bingo is the DEFINITION of hype. Submitting w/ KobazcoStatus: Pending 1v1 Lockout Bingo 1:10:00 Wii Jaxler Rabbids Go Home A game in which you pilot two rabbits in a shopping cart with mini-turbos like it's Mario Kart. This speedrun is the ultimate combo of high skill ceiling and extremely bizarre / goofy game. On one hand, you have precise boost chains for movement, along with wall clips, proxy boosts, and the signature "bwaa-boost". On the other, we steal a boatload of junk (including two cows) to build a pile to the moon and constantly deprive pedestrians of clothing. Guaranteed to make people laugh / confused.Status: Pending All Missions (PC) 0:55:00 PC Jaxler Stuart Little 2 aka Stuart Little and the Secret Rings aka "we have Super Mario 64 at home". This is a PS1 collectathon with hilariously bad voice lines, horrid vehicle sections, and way more speedtech than a game like this deserves to have. With both Any% and 100% being showcased at GDQ Hotfix's Awfully Silly and Do All The Things (respectively), this game is a certified meme-fiesta and would make a great addition to SGDQ's Silly Block.Status: Pending Any% 0:40:00 Status: Pending 100% 1:00:00 PS1 Mr_Shasta Bust-a-Move '99 Bust-a-Move '99 is the 3rd Puzzle Bobble game in the series, and it adds some great new features like your bubbles bouncing off the ceiling, plus some new pesky bubbles to deal with. The run comes down to quick on the fly thinking and pinpoint precision, not to mention the more bubbles we shoot, the faster the level ends! The first 4 levels in this run function as one long level each, with clearing the screen advancing us WAY further into the level! After that it's normal Bust-a-Move gameplay.Status: Pending Puzzle Mode Normal 00:20:00 Nintendo 64 Vermillion Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater Metal Gear Solid 3 is the 3rd installment in the critically acclaimed Metal Gear Solid series. It is a run that is action packed, while also using a lot of tricky stealth to get through! We will be playing on the highest difficulty, so if we ever get spotted the game is over! Extremely exciting for viewers!Status: Pending European Extreme 1:05:00 Status: Pending 2 Players 1 Controller with ApacheSmash 1:30:00 PC Vermillion Final Fantasy X Final Fantasy X is the tenth installment in the extremely popular Final Fantasy franchise. This run will be using a new mod used for the game that has been extremely popular called “RNG Fix” that basically allows the run to be played with RNG! It will be extremely exciting for everyone to see what happens. We will also be using a new Skip found after 22 years called Terra Skip that saves 20 minutes in the entire run! This run was founded in May 2023 and it would be exciting to show it off at GDQStatus: Pending Cutscene Remover RNG Fix 3:25:00 PC Vermillion Metal Gear Solid 2 Metal Gear Solid 2 is the 2nd game in the Metal Gear Solid series and is a fan favorite. The run will employ a lot of incredibly difficult tricks and gunplay to ensure we get through this extremely difficult run. We will be playing on European Extreme, which is the hardest difficulty and has almost every single enemy kill you in 1 to 2 hits.Status: Pending European Extreme 1:30:00 PC CheeseJay Super Mario Odyssey Talkatoo% is just like regular Any% with the goal of beating the goal of beating the game as fast as possible, except with the twist of having to talk to the hint bird "Talkatoo" for every moon. Talkatoo essentially acts as in-game randomizer and makes the run different every time. This allows for creative movement and routing from the player. I think this category would be great for a GDQ showcase because it is not too serious of a run and could be easily incentivized.Status: Pending Talkatoo% 1:50:00 Nintendo Switch CheeseJay Super Mario Odyssey All Sub Areas is one of the best showcase categories Odyssey has to offer. The goal of this category is to collect moons from every subarea in the game. This means we get to see parts of the game that normally get overlooked in a similar post-game category like Dark Side or Darker Side. The post game in this run is nonstop subarea action, one after another. And to top it all off we to get to end the run with beating the entirety of Dark Side, subareas included!Status: Pending All Sub Areas 3:25:00 Nintendo Switch CheeseJay Super Mario Odyssey All Music is one of Odyssey's silliest runs. The goal of this category is to completely fill out the music list by hearing every song in the game. This makes for some absurd routing where you go into rooms for a split second just to hear a song and overall makes for a very fun run that no other category can offer.Status: Pending All Music 1:35:00 Nintendo Switch CriticalCyd Sonic Frontiers Sonic’s latest 3D adventure, though we've received some new updates since you last saw it that give us even more movement options to traverse the game’s vast open zones. The Limited Tech Selection category aims to highlight skill at navigating the game’s base structure by banning some of the biggest glitches. Early boss fights and flying over the entire island is out, collectible routing and movement tech is in. We even get to play the infamous pinball minigame!Status: Pending Limited Tech Selection 1:50:00 Xbox Series X GhostKumo Pokemon Stadium One of the harder Pokemon games, Stadium is one of the most beloved (and weird) spinoffs for the juggernaut franchise. Here we take on the game's foremost popular challenge, the Gym Leader Castle, using the game's meager rentals, as quick as possible.

Oh and I can do this blindfolded.

The crowd's excitement is building over this white hot speedrun!

Status: Pending Gym Leader Castle R1 01:55:00 Status: Pending Gym Leader Castle R1 (Blindfolded) 02:00:00 Switch GhostKumo Ys IX: Monstrum Nox Ys IX's speedrun is what happens when you put Spiderman-like superpowers in an action RPG, put the trigger for endgame in an early part of town, lock it behind 8 chapters of slowly opening up barriers, and kindly ask the player not to break the game (as if that would stop me). In the years since this game came out, we've found a way to turn this 30-40 hour RPG into a run that can be completed in under 40 minutes, with plenty of wild tricks, skips, and shenanigans. Status: Pending Any% 00:43:00 PC GhostKumo Ys: Memories of Celceta Ys Celceta is the answer to the question "what do you get when an action speedrun community slayed every one of its white whales, found all of its holy grails, and then broke it some more for good measure?" This run features all kinds of glitches, clips, cutscene skips, cutscene forcing, basically every major type of sequence break that makes it ~40 minutes instead of dozens of hours. Status: Pending Any% Nightmare 00:44:00 PC Dr4gonBlitz Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Symphony of the Night has a variety of competitive and interesting speedrun categories. I am submitting Reverse Boss Order as it is a never before seen category for the marathon and showcases the entirety of the game's castle and bosses while using unique glitches along the way. And I am also submitting Any% as it can be played either normally or in luck mode to add an additional challenge as well have the potential to showcase a new faster route.Status: Pending Reverse Boss Order (RBO) 01:10:00 Status: Pending Alucard Any% 00:18:00 Xbox 360 SeaAverage Sheepy: A Short Adventure Sheepy is a semi-spooky platformer about an abandoned sheep who has been brought to life and put on an adventure. Being a glitchless run, a lot of the speed comes from optimized jumps, combat manipulation, and tight movement, with a couple neat tricks thrown in here and there. If you are a fan of spooky environments and cute sheep, this is a must see. Status: Pending Any% Glitchless 00:24:00 PC frozenflygone Powerpuff Girls: Him and Seek Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice! Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup fly to finish a scavenger hunt and bring the villains of Townsville to justice. Each girl has unique attacks and movement to defeat enemies and traverse the game. This game features Out of Bounds glitches in Mojo Jojo's "OOBservatory" section, and boss quick kills throughout the run manipulating the game's magic system. highlight timestamps: 1:50:40, 1:52:15. 1:57:40.Status: Pending any% 00:23:00 GBA frozenflygone Fresh Hops (Kaizo) Fresh Hops is a Super Mario World Kaizo hack made by MorrietheMagpie, featuring 14 levels all themed around beer! As a homebrewer myself, I will take the audience through three flights of levels that showcase a taste of the excellent level design the kaizo scene has come to offer. Featuring 3 custom bosses, chocolate mechanics, and plenty of hops, this hack is a delight to play casually and extremely technical to master. Highlights of the run can be found in the YouTube description. Cheers!Status: Pending 100% 00:40:00 SNES Nambo Super Monkey Ball Monkey Target is a classic party game where you roll the monkey down a huge ramp, soar into the air, and aim at targets while collecting bananas in the air.

The high-score TAS bursts this minigame wide open by charging up speed to fling to the targets (No wings needed!), and making an unexpected ally of the bomb hazards by smashing them to propel across the targets for pre-flight bananas (rounds 1 and 4).

The RTA opts for precise high-speed flight and landings on tiny targets.

Status: Pending Monkey Target Score TAS (5-round) 0:14:00 Status: Pending Monkey Target Score RTA (10-round) 0:20:00 Nintendo Wii LMMotoss Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan! Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan! is a 2005 rhythm game for the Nintendo DS developed by iNiS. Focusing on a male cheer squad that helps people around town get through their increasingly ridiculous tasks with the POWER OF BURNING PASSION, the highest difficulty secretly unlocks the professionals - American style cheerleaders. This category includes only the top tier of songs in difficulty but can still be shortened for time if necessary.Status: Pending Exhibition 00:50:00 Status: Pending Final Batch Exhibition 00:30:00 Nintendo 3DS Kaos_Wulf Hedon In Hedon, we assume the role of Zan, as she fights her way through hordes of demons and cultists to recover an artifact that was taken from her home. The movement is fast, rhythmic, includes rocket jumps, kick slides, and tossing our axe for speed. The OST features tracks by the esteemed composer, Alexander Brandon, known for his work on Unreal and Deus ExStatus: Pending Crystal Heart Any% 00:40:00 PC oneeyeddeacon Batman: Arkham Knight The Main Story categories utilizes a lot of glitches in order to stop Scarecrow from unleashing terror on the city.

Season of Infamy is a shorter category that completes the 4 DLC side missions, which also showcases some of the gameplay and glitches.

Matter of Family is a short Arkham Episode DLC, where you play the role of Batgirl trying to rescue her father. Due to some major skips, we skip almost half of the DLC.

Status: Pending Main Story (Easy) 02:35:00 Status: Pending Season of Infamy 00:35:00 Status: Pending Arkham Episodes: A Matter of Family 0:15:00 PC kurushiidrive Afterimage The aim is to achieve the good ending of the main character through a very fast-paced, nonstop action run, acquiring progression and items needed before culminating in a set of two final bosses which must be defeated in consecutive fashion. After which, the ending known as "The Essential" (1 of 10 endings) is attained. As it has yet to have a GDQ appearance, having this run would be a great opportunity at showcasing a well-made metroidvania with mechanics that pair excellently for speedrunning.Status: Pending The Essential restricted/NMG 1:15:00 PC Kaos_Wulf Turok 2: Seeds of Evil Remaster Turok 2 has shaped up to be one of the strangest speedruns, that is needed an entire history video dedicated to explaining its speedtech to a general audience. We intentionally Game Over to break the game wide open, cheat death itself, and crush times that were previously thought impossible.Status: Pending Any% 00:55:00 Status: Pending Any% NMG 1:05:00 Status: Pending 100% 1:35:00 PC ShikenNuggets Multiple Arkham Games All Arkham games back to back!

Asylum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TXRmbuznfA City: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfX7pFo7JBk Origins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIwArMslilo Knight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A2yBIvAqL8

Status: Pending Trilogy Any% 05:00:00 Status: Pending Anthology Any% 06:00:00 PC Kaos_Wulf Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion Remaster The third and final chapter to the Turok franchise on the N64, fully remastered by Nightdive Studios. Turok 3 is an FPS game with multiple characters, each with their own branching paths and selection of equipment. The run has a few major sequence breaks through the use of careful platforming and door clips, but is mostly vanilla aside from optimized movement.

(Watch Danielle's video first for full run explanation, timestamps, and incentive overview.)

Status: Pending Danielle Any% 00:40:00 Status: Pending Joseph Any% 00:38:00 Status: Pending Joshua Any% 00:36:00 Status: Pending Raptor Any% 00:26:00 PC ShikenNuggets Batman: Arkham Origins Have you ever been playing Arkham Origins and thought "I actually don't like playing this game that much, I wish I could play less of it"? Well now you can! Thanks to a series of new glitches combined with a few very old ones you can skip two thirds of the game and make sure all the assassins are behind bars in under an hour.

Cold Cold Heart is a fun little run with a few interesting skips and some remote claw zips, which are currently unique to this category.

Status: Pending Any% 01:00:00 Status: Pending Cold, Cold Heart DLC 00:35:00 PC ShikenNuggets Batman: Arkham City 100% is a beast of a category with 12 side missions and 400 things to pick up, scan, or break, but with careful planning it goes pretty fast. In doing so we'll see plenty of zips, cancels, jumps, and generally exploiting Batman's most busted gadgets as much as possible.Status: Pending 100% 03:30:00 PC Nambo Super Monkey Ball: Launch! SMB Launch! is a challenging SMB custom game. The 20 Master stages are made up of super long kaizo-level obstacle courses involving tight movement on animated obstacles. Sometimes this means keeping balance during a minute-long sprint atop thin animated platforms, while other times, this means soaring over the entire stage in a crazy momentum-based sequence break, leading to a very thrill-dense run packed with challenges and trick shotsStatus: Pending Master 0:30:00 Nintendo Wii ShikenNuggets Batman: Arkham Asylum Re-live the original worst night of Batman's life, but this time things will be different. Thanks to a variety of zips, animation cancels, and various out of bounds shenanigans, we can skip all the worst parts and ruin weeks of Joker's planning in just over an hour. Since this game was last shown in 2018, the run has changed pretty dramatically, the world record's gone down by over 15 minutes thanks to a huge amount of new major skips in almost every part of the run.Status: Pending Any% 01:08:00 Status: Pending 100% 02:20:00 PC Ryroby1 Warhammer: Vermintide 2 Movement manipulation, in-bounds skips, stamina management, rhythm, and adaptability to potion/monster RNG are the name of the game as our heroes run full speed through the forces of Skaven, Chaos, and Beastmen. This intense full game run showcases all the base game (Helmgart) missions with each level's objectives being completed. Celebrating the game's 6th year anniversary, Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is set in the popular franchise’s fantasy inspired Age of Sigmar universe. Status: Pending All Objectives Solo- Full Game (Recruit) 01:30:00 PC Nambo Super Monkey Ball: Gaiden Super Monkey Ball Gaiden is an amazing Super Monkey Ball custom game. The 11 Master levels are spectacularly complex and difficult Goldberg-like obstacle courses, which leads to a run filled with balancing sprints across thin wires (EX7) and multi-part airborne sequence breaks (EX10). It's an incredibly thrill-dense run that destroys kaizo-level stages.

This run works well as a bonus run incentive for IkeSMB's Story Mode submission, which together would play all 111 stages in this custom game.

Status: Pending Master 0:20:00 Nintendo Wii JonDBS Atelier Rorona DX: The Alchemist of Arland Atelier Rorona is the 11th installment in the Atelier series (one of the short turn-based JRPGs) which emphasizes more on the item creation/synthesis with a powerful application in combat. The Arland series is well known for its harsh time limit mechanics, hence the speedruns mostly showcase the optimal routing and fast increase in popularity meter towards the good ending, combined with fast menuing (and mashing) and fast pacing of the game.Status: Pending Good Ending 01:40:00 PC Heponwana Below The Ocean Dive deep "Below the Ocean" in search of legendary treasures while using your oxygen lifeline to swing passed obstacles! Run, Jump, Swing, Bubble-Jump, Bungee, Slingshot, Puzzle-Solve, Platform, Treasure-Hunt, BELOW THE OCEAN! This category has the runner explore all the content in this transquel 1-bit style precision platformer.Status: Pending 100% All Gems All Chapters 00:31:00 PC Heponwana Mr. Platformer A retro inspired platformer inspired by classics on the Intellivision and Atari 2600 and from the always delightful mind of Terry Cavanagh. Full Game requires playing and completing 40 unique stages before reaching the final goal.Status: Pending Full Game 00:18:00 PC Heponwana EYELAND A short adventure/RPG where our boatless hero wakes up in a strange land, makes the worst cup of coffee, explores a hotel, mines some coal, learns a song, make a robot friend, meets the mayor, and somehow sails off into the sunset.Status: Pending Any% 00:12:00 Playdate Heponwana The King's Dungeon A microvania on the console with a crank! We’ve eaten the king’s royal cheese and have been trapped in his dungeon. Can we escape to devour cheese again? Can we gain cool new powers? Can we find a use of the Playdate’s crank? The game has two dungeons to explore and collectibles to find for the 100% completion.Status: Pending World 1+2 100% 00:16:00 Status: Pending World 1 Any% 00:06:00 Status: Pending World 2 Any% 00:08:00 Playdate Crisisaurus Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games This game is a minigame collection featuring your favourite cast of Mario and Sonic characters competing for gold medals in Skiing events, Snowboarding events, Stating events and much much more.

Mario & Sonic's first tag team adventure where they have to Stop Bowser and Dr. Eggman from stealing snow spirits and hosting their own Winter Games. We do mission based on the Olympic winter events to acquire team members and items to save the snow spirits from Bowser and Eggman.

Status: Pending Adventure Tours Any% 02:50:00 Nintendo DS DerrickGnC Earthbound This game is a RPG from 1994, that blends notes of nostalgic, Absurdity, and the esoteric, into a light hearted loveable RPG that will tug on the nostalgic hearts of every 90s kidStatus: Pending Boogie% 01:40:00 Super Nintendo Czikubi EarthBound Beginnings Jumping Jellyfish! What a speed run! If we're talking about the best glitchless category for the first game in the MOTHER series, we're talking about this category. Equipped with the Nike® Air Force 1® foams to go 5x faster than in the Japanese version, the tedious parts don't feel so tedious and our boy Ninten can run across the landscape with ease, dodging every enemy with an ancient technique handed down through generations. エンディングまで泣くんじゃない。名作保証。The ultimate EarthBound Beginnings experience.Status: Pending Any% Non-Manipulated 02:10:00 NES Hibnotix Iblard: Laputa no Kaeru Machi This is a 20th century art instalment. Based on Naohisa Inoue's surrealist universe Iblard, we traverse a world with a design that compliments the PS1's hardware. Our main goal is to collect bus passes and crystals across a collection of maze-like levels to save Iblard (in turn birthing a new body of earth) and get home to our withering plants. Along the way we watch some mesmerising FMVs, befriend some dinosaurs, fight some UFOs and do a lil parkour.Status: Pending Any% 01:20:00 PS1 CriticalCyd Sonic Lost World A game that wears its inspirations on its sleeves and asks the question: what if we made a Sonic game in the style of Mario Galaxy. Actually why stop there, what if Sonic did parkour too! The results is varied and creative stage design, a surprisingly expansive move set and some funny one-off gimmicks to keep the surprises coming. The Wingless category bans the use of the assist mechanic that teleports you to the next checkpoint, so we actually get to see all the awesome skips and speedtech!Status: Pending Any% Wingless 1:20:00 PC juh0 SAW: The Videogame Imagine: Jigsaw traps a speedrunner in his game of traps... BUT THE SPEEDRUNNER COMPLETES A WHOLE COURSE OF TORTURE IN LESS THAN 1 HOUR!

This horror-franchise-turn-horror game will bring nostalgia to the new (the ones who play Dead by Daylight) and the old (the ones who's watched the movies). Speedrun consists of RNG, time saving skips and OoBs, and great lines such as "You ruined my life!" or "He is faster than I anticipated".

Status: Pending any% 01:00:00 PC Potty Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped Warped keeps the intensive movement and precise box breaking the Crash series is known for, whilst introducing the Time Trial gimmick that would become a staple of the franchise. This category collects all Crystals, Gems, and Time Relics. Where this entry shines is the diverse control schemes present in many stages that change up how the runner approaches going fast. Masterful play in order to collect gems and relics simultaneously allows this massive game to be completed in only 2 hours.Status: Pending 105% 2:15:00 PS2 TSR Stormed Banjo-Kazooie Any% No DDA/POG is a showcase of legacy Any% in its most classic and entertaining form. In this run, we ban two major Xbox glitches, Demo Desync Adventure and Pause Overlap Glitch, that let us start in Rusty Bucket Bay and duplicate notes respectfully. Instead, we start on a fresh file and we try to beat the game from the start. With a wrong warp in Banjo's House and our little friend the bee, we can reach the last level of the game in less than 20 minutes and jet through this 90s classic! Status: Pending Any% No DDA/POG 1:18:00 Xbox One Muffin Tunes Streets of SimCity Imagine driving through the streets of SimCity, through various campaigns cast of stars and their motor vehicle. From delivering packages, running from the law, to even racing against the clock, SoSC is total mayhem within the Sim franchise.

Various campaigns have the player delivering packages of RNG elements, acquiring weapons, and escaping from threats during the dystopian days of 1995. This game is cosmetically customizable to reach any incentive or thematic needs.

Status: Pending Granny's Wild Ride Campaign | Glitchless 00:25:00 Status: Pending Zippy's Courier Service Campaign | Glichless 00:50:00 PC LivelyRaccoon Chameleon Twist A platformer where you play as a chameleon, using your tongue to twist on poles through obstacles. It's good early 3d platformer fun, with some glitches along with creative applications of the tongue to blitz through the game. Any% goes only to the 4 required levels whereas all levels and 100% go to all 6, 100% collecting all the crowns. Status: Pending any% 00:15:00 Status: Pending All Levels 00:25:00 Status: Pending 100% 00:35:00 N64 LivelyRaccoon Chameleon Twist 2 A sequel that keeps the spirit of the original, with fun tongue-based action but adds its own flavor. The addition of the parasol and the ability to attach your tongue to nearly anything allows for tricks where you slingshot your chameleon, skipping large sections of level. Combine this with very forgiving death warps and the game really flies by. 100% collects all coins and carrots, with less emphasis on death warping and more on optimized movement while tonguing coinsStatus: Pending any% 00:28:00 Status: Pending 100% 00:40:00 N64 LivelyRaccoon Tom and Jerry in Fists of Furry A zany powerstone-like fighting game featuring characters from tom and jerry. The spirit of tom and jerry is very present, with cartoon violence taking center stage. Runs of this game have a fun balance of luck and skill. Random weapon spawns are quite important but a good knowledge of the AI behavior and good aim with objects like hay bales and tables can win you fights quickly even without weapons. Each character has unique speed and damage outputStatus: Pending any% Jerry 00:20:00 Status: Pending any% Tom 00:15:00 Status: Pending any% Spike 00:15:00 N64 cathelios Drakengard Drakengard is a PS2 game and the first game of the Drakenier franchise. A mix between a flight simulator on a dragon and a musou style game, the speedrun shows off different weapons and an underleveled main character to race to the end of the game as quickly as possible. Within the estimate, we can also fit cutscenes in if desired.Status: Pending any% 02:40:00 Playstation 2 spaceyL1 Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice A fast paced run with many boss fights and skips. This particular category hasn't been shown at a main gdq event yet, and so has many fights and strats that haven't been shown yet.Status: Pending All Bosses/Minibosses 01:30:00 PC SuperViperT302 Pac 'n Roll Remix The Pac is back, this time as a literal limbless ball! This remake of a DS game has us rolling our favorite yellow dot-muncher through 25 levels across 5 worlds, dodging obstacles, gobbling dots to open gates, and fighting the evil Golvis. The game's mechanics give way to many cool level routes, impressive skips, and clean movement, plus a cheery atmosphere to top it all off. Never-before-seen on the main GDQ stage, making this a better time than ever to finally give it the showing it deserves!Status: Pending Any% (Wii) 00:25:00 Wii U Kingj0444 Bee Movie Game (Wii) According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to speedrun. Its wings are too slow to get its fat little body a gold split. The bee, of course, runs anyway because bees don't care what humans think is impossible.

The Bee Movie on Wii is a clunky licensed game that has some of best, most memorable voice lines of all time! The Wii version has the fastest Any% and mandatory motion controls too. What more could you want for a silly/bad game block game?!

Status: Pending Any% 01:05:00 Wii gymnast86 The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Skyward Sword Randomizer is ready for it's GDQ debut!

The Randomizer turns Skyward Sword into an open sky waiting to be explored with... whatever items we happen to stumble across this time as they've all been scattered randomly to the wind. Co-op gives us the opportunity to show off more of the game in a single seed as we work to pass information back and forth while navigating movement tricks, collision seams, and title screens.

Submitting as a Co-op run with PippyInATopHat.

Status: Pending Co-op Randomizer 2:45:00 Nintendo Wii Kingj0444 New Super Lucky's Tale New Super Lucky's Tale released on Switch in November of 2019 and was later ported to PC shortly after. The speedrun for this 3D platformer has had some groundbreaking discoveries, the big one being a glitch that lets us scale any wall infinitely which leads to many sequence breaks! Whether it’s Any% to 100%, this game has got a lot of cool strats, exploits and skips all in an overall charming game!

Submitting Any%, All Main Levels and NG+ as a race with SteveTVOnline

100% is solo

Status: Pending 100% 02:55:00 Status: Pending NG+ All Main Levels 01:15:00 Status: Pending All Main Levels 01:30:00 Status: Pending Any% 01:00:00 PC CrispyTacoz Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time is the 4th mainline installment of the beloved Crash Bandicoot series. The any% category on the PC version has evolved with much more skips and tech since its release in 2020.Status: Pending Any% 01:30:00 PC AvuKamu My Friendly Neighborhood Survival horror meets children's television series. (Not saying the names but it rhymes with Pesident Pevil meets Sesame Road)

Cool indie game made by two developers, MFN is a short and fun speedrun with cool OOBs, texture manips, boss fights, and an overall lovable cast of friendly neighborhood residents that just want to hug you... (to death).

Status: Pending any% 0:21:00 Status: Pending glitchless 0:32:00 PC wdssgrant Red Faction (2001) Red Faction is a game made in 2001 by Volition pioneering its revolutionary Geo-Mod engine allowing it to be the first game with real time destruction. This not only creates free speedrun tech for shortcuts throughout various points of the run, but in recent years the game has undergone several optimizations including Out of Bound tricks and Unique gun play to kill enemies in seconds that has helped the run drop several minutes in the last few years recently dropping below 40 minutes. Status: Pending Any% 00:46:00 PC AvuKamu Alan Wake 2 A 2023 Game Awards winner and survival horror game developed by Remedy Entertainment featuring novelist Alan Wake as he attempts to escape by writing a horror story involving an FBI special agent named Saga Anderson.

On top of the game having new gameplay mechanics, the speedrun will show ladder glitching, crazy out-of-bounds, zipping, dialogue manips for speed boosts. (YT submission will have timestamps for ie.)

Plus, did we mention there's musical bangers and a sweet dance? (we WILL dance)

Status: Pending any% 2:37:00 Status: Pending glitchless 2:49:00 PC shovelclaws Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart SRB2 Kart is a kart-racer mod inspired by a gamemode of a Sonic Riders mod of a Sonic fangame that is a mod of DOOM. Is that too chaotic??? Well, that barely scratches the surface of what happens in Kart.

One of the best kart racers ever made (Seriously), SRB2K has an amazing community of passionate players. With a sequel getting ever closer, it's about time to get this amazing Sonic fangame on the main stage!

Status: Pending 32 Track Showcase 1:15:00 PC DEVILMAN The Hex It's a psychological horror game developed by Daniel Mullins Games in 2018, centered around the gaming community. I utilize hinted Easter eggs within the game to shorten the time. Specifically, in the RPG section, I use debug mode.(24:33) And in the strategy section, I skip battles using shortcut keys (40:17). Please note that there is a part where violent live-action footage is shown within the record.(01:33:42)Status: Pending Hex Ending 01:40:00 PC Brandino59 Sonic Lost World 3DS Lost World brings Sonic to new heights (literally!) with his parkour techniques, running on and up the walls. No boost button to be found here, just pure spindash speed. This game also introduces new wisps, like an all-consuming vortex and an unstoppable boulder. This run contains incredibly fast and tight platforming with unusual gravity and tubular levels, plus head-spinning gyro controls. We'll be going through all the levels in the game on grounds, on rails, on walls, on rockets, and more!Status: Pending All Speed Stages 1:09:00 Status: Pending Any% Helpless 1:25:00 3DS RUBIEHART Overcooked 2 Welcome back to the kitchens, chefs. Thanks to a new mod created by toasterparty, the Any% run of this game has taken a time cut so great that even Final Fantasy cutscene remover fans will swoon. Join the world record setting chefs, RUBIEHART, sunbrojade, and PeaceEgg from last year's Horde run as they bring you a menu served in eclectic venues such as city skylines, magical portal filled universities, and the nebulous void of space. We hope you enjoy the show. Status: Pending Any% Modded 01:40:00 PC DEVILMAN Unworthy Unworthy is a Metroidvania strongly influenced by DARK SOULS, released in 2018. This game is characterized by the inability to jump. In speedrun, I plan to use the Spirit Bow to slip through locked doors.(21:48, 24:06 in Any% vid.) In All Bosses category, I aim to beat the game by defeating all bosses, including two secret bosses. I adjust the PC clock to pass through the secret bridge that appears for only 5 minutes (29:17). Status: Pending Any% 00:32:00 Status: Pending All Bosses 00:55:00 PC DEVILMAN Squirrel Stapler This is a short horror game developed by David Szymanski in 2023, inspired by classic hunting games. Originally, the game involves hunting for squirrels by concealing sound and presence. However, in speedruns, I drink energy drinks to increase movement speed and engage in aggressive hunting. This makes the gameplay like DOOM. Any% and Any% (Giant Squirrels Mode) are slmost same. In Giant Squirrels Mode, squirrels become several times bigger. Status: Pending Any% 00:25:00 Status: Pending Any% (Giant Squirrels Mode) 00:25:00 PC LonerHero Devil May Cry 2 Set in modern times, on the fictional Dumary Island, the story centres on Dante and Lucia in their fight to stop a sinister businessman named Arius from raising the demon Argosax and achieving supreme power. Running DMC2 involves high-risk/high-reward most of the time. You are playing unyielding character and wrestle the controller to get precise movement, enemy cycles..etc. Majin form plays huge role for DanteStatus: Pending NG Dante 00:50:00 PC LonerHero Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams Sixth and latest installment of Capcom's Onimusha series, while being the fourth and final game in the canonical main series. While this game maintains the core mechanic such as critical hit. Player will have to manage it's RPG element i.e equipment purchase, enhancement and skill point level for 5 different characters. The player primarily controls a swordsman named Soki while giving orders to respective partner, with their respective lifebars displayed at the top.Status: Pending Normal - New Game 2:10:00 Playstation 2 LonerHero Onimusha 3: Demon Siege Onimusha 3 focuses around counterattack move that kills most enemies in one strike that is called critical or issen. Since Onimusha 2 you can chain it on multiple hits. You are going to play three different characters and have a companion who's going to assist you within the currency route. The pace of this run is extremely reliant on player's performance.Status: Pending Any% Normal Mode - Normal 1:10:00 PC ZELLLOOO Mega Man Network Transmission MegaMan.EXE dives into this strange cross of classic Mega Man platforming with the strategy folder-building and RPG elements of the Battle Network series, a careful selection of mechanics such as the Reg system and useful battle chips allows us to get by with as few resources as possible, making for a fast but scary run through the internet. Since the last showing at AGDQ 2017, strats have been updated to become both safer and faster and marathon backups are available. Jack in! MegaMan, execute!Status: Pending Any% 01:00:00 Gamecube LonerHero Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 is a broken game due to having two types of out of bonds glitches. Other than requiring to adapt to combat situation. Ryu can interact with the environment abnormally to skip excessive fight sections. This made the run more complex since it require great care to execute with quick menu weapon switching and avoid soft-locking and such. This run used to be auto-scroller until the recent Master Collection release.Status: Pending NG Any% 1:55:00 PC ZELLLOOO Descent The defining face of the 6DOF shooters hasn't been seen at a GDQ since AGDQ2015, since then the route has significantly changed with many new deathwarps and better item management while still keeping the tricky core run mechanics like trichording to move over 70% faster at the cost of difficult aiming and unsteady movement lines, who doesn't want to let the Pyro-GX loose through the mines of our solar system again?Status: Pending Trainee Any% 00:47:00 PC ZELLLOOO Doom 64 (2020) Doomguy hasn't had enough beating demons over the head with a chainsaw at GDQs so let's dive into Hell one more time, 64's unique map design with its modifications to the Doom engine makes for a very intense set of fights on Watch Me Die difficulty and many core Doom speedrunning mechanics still apply such as linedef skipping triggers and efficient straferunning. No Watch Me Die category has been run since 2014 and any would favorably follow up on last AGDQ's action-packed PC runs.Status: Pending Watch Me Die-Speed 00:55:00 Status: Pending Watch Me Die-Max 01:45:00 Status: Pending Lost Levels - Watch Me Die-Speed 00:25:00 Status: Pending Lost Levels - Watch Me Die-Max 00:35:00 PC LonerHero DmC: Devil May Cry DmC runs are longer and more complex, including numerous tricks and glitches. This game heavily emphasizes on movement rather than combat. No Major Glitches limits game breaking behavior with tricks like Infinite Glide since that trick is one of the hardest thing to pull in the series.Status: Pending NG - Human No Major Glitches 1:30:00 PC TechnicalJL Mario Kart 8 Deluxe This is a 6-person relay submission to run through all 96 tracks for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on 200cc with no items. We will each be running through one of the 16 track categories on the main leaderboard, with my submission being for DLC Waves 3 and 4.

It's been a couple of years since Mario Kart 8 Deluxe was featured at GDQ, and half of the tracks have never been showcased before on 200cc, which is the fastest game mode and introduces new strategies and shortcuts.

Status: Pending 96 Tracks 200cc Relay 3:00:00 Nintendo Switch ToastedMildly Bioshock Infinite Join me in a thrilling journey through the skies of Columbia as I attempt to break my world record for Bioshock Infinite, glitchless. Experience the captivating story and breathtaking visuals of this iconic game, as I navigate its intricacies with precision and skill. With no exploits or glitches to rely on, every moment is a test of strategy and execution. With heart-pounding combat, witness the mastery of gameplay mechanics as I strive to achieve the fastest ever console completion.Status: Pending glitchless 2:48:00 Playstation 4 The Retro Runner Monster Party Monster Party is a game that has a very unique level of self aware and bizarre humor. There is a lot of interesting speed tech here that isn't immediately apparent and I find very engaging to talk about and explain. Someone watching the run is for sure to remember it, just for how strange the dialogue and events in the game are, and showcasing it being played in a speed context provides a recipe for a thrilling run, given that the RNG for the final boss can vary from a few seconds to forty-plus!Status: Pending Any% 00:20:00 NES derpydragon15 Skelattack Skelattack is an indie precision platformer. The run consists of many very difficult rooms where one wrong move could lead to hitting a spike, and the room resets. Many of the strategies used throughout the run were developed by myself and the game's creator, David Stanley, who is part of our speedrunning community. The game has a beautiful visual style, fast-paced platforming, and some cool tricks mixed throughout. Status: Pending Any% 00:50:00 PC Enigma Requiem PowerWash Simulator Co-op submission with Acadiel, amyrlinn, AngelicKnight, enbee, Biglaw, and Enigma.

Powerwash Sim has gotten a bunch of new DLC, and who better to show it off than this professional six-player team? We'll blast through this run just like we blast all the dirt off, going through either the Spongebob DLC or "most" of the DLC vehicles (the Warhammer 40k DLC is simply too long to be included). Plenty of satisfying dings and powerwasher sounds await!

Status: Pending 6 Players, Most DLC Vehicles 00:30:00 Status: Pending 6 Players, Spongebob DLC 00:35:00 PC killingpepsi Spongebob Squarepants Plug and Play The first of many Spongebob Plug and Play consoles released in the 2000's. The Super Chum Bucket features 40 Donkey Kong-esque levels with many hard cycle skips, tight jumps, and whole level skips saving anywhere from 3-25 seconds each. There is also no RNG, just pure gaming skill. Join me as I use nasal manipulation to maneuver through Planktons evil challenges in order to save Sandy AND the Krabby Patty Formula! Status: Pending The Super Chum Bucket 00:20:00 Plug and Play bobbyburm My Friend Peppa Pig This adorable 2D story game provides a fleshed out speedrun that will make the whole family squeal with joy. Also, did I mention that this run will be completed BLINDFOLDED? Utilizing a blindfold increases the difficulty of the speedrun strategies significantly by adding in precise timing of interactions and progression through audio cues only. This would be an oinkin' good time on the GDQ stage!Status: Pending any% PC Blindfolded 00:25:00 PC GrayGooGirl Wizards and Warriors III: Kuros: Visions of Power Wizards and Warrior 3 is an early Rare game, and the last entry in the Wizards and Warriors series for NES. Our hero Kuros finds himself in the town of Piedup, which has been taken hostage by the malevolent spirit Malkil. He must use a series of powers (such as stealing things and shooting fireballs) to save the town... maybe and find love along way?

It's the best kind of NES jank that's well suited for an awful block situation.

Status: Pending any% 00:25:00 NES GLPhoenix Street Fighter 6 The World Tour mode for Street Fighter 6 plays out like an open world rpg, and because of this the speedrun has all the hallmarks of classic rpg speedruning: optimising damage output with peculiar setups, clean movement, swift menuing, and all of this over the top of playing a fighting game against increasingly difficult opponents.

On top of being able to cheese our way through a lot of the tougher fights, being able to adapt to the situations as things go off the rails makes things exciting.

Status: Pending World Tour All Main Chapters 02:40:00 PC(Steam) Sean_A Jitsuroku Powerful Yakyuken Slugger Yamada Jitsuroku Powerful Yakyuken Slugger Yamada is an absurd yet excellent baseball-themed puzzle action game. In the run we make use of the many baseball-like game mechanics to navigate every level as quickly as possible. We also optimize multiple baseball-like RPG meta progression systems to move faster and deal more damage. This extremely silly game makes for a bizarre and fascinating run. Mid run we roll a fake currency gacha to build our dream baseball team, it is very funny. Let’s go Yamada!Status: Pending All Levels 00:20:00 PC alpha Mario Kart 8 Deluxe This is a 6-person relay submission to run through all 96 tracks for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on 200cc with no items. We will each be running through one of the 16 track categories on the main leaderboard, with my submission being for the nitro tracks.

It's been a couple of years since Mario Kart 8 Deluxe was featured at GDQ, and half of the tracks have never been showcased before on 200cc, which is the fastest game mode and introduces new strategies and shortcuts.

Status: Pending 96 tracks 200cc relay 03:00:00 Nintendo Switch Awoken Mario Kart 8 Deluxe This is a 6-person relay submission to run through all 96 tracks for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on 200cc with no items. We will each be running through one of the 16 track categories on the main leaderboard, with my submission being for Waves 1 and 2 of the Booster Course Pass.

It's been a couple of years since Mario Kart 8 Deluxe was featured at GDQ, and half of the tracks have never been showcased before on 200cc, which is the fastest game mode and introduces new strategies and shortcuts.

Status: Pending 96 Tracks, 200cc (Relay) 3:00:00 Nintendo Switch bobbyburm Hyperbolica This non-Euclidean adventure quite literally bends reality as we see it.

The 5 required missions in our curved and hyperbolic world require tight platforming, precise target practice, and complicated terrain traversal. For being a fairly short run, this game is jam-packed with technical and input intense segments. This run has never been showcased at a GDQ event before and combines a unique visual aesthetic combined with fleshed out strats.

Also the boss at the end - *chefs kiss*

Status: Pending any% 00:23:00 PC tapioca Yakuza The original Yakuza game, featuring everything people like about these runs but also its own unique jank and weirdness. Whenever I run this for a marathon or something, chat says "I've heard about this but never seen it, this is interesting" which is a good sign I figureStatus: Pending any% 02:00:00 PS3 bloodthunder Amnesia: The Bunker Amnesia: The Bunker is the latest entry in the sereis from Frictional Games

Glitchless showcases the clever routing of the game's various sub-areas of the map without clipping through walls or other major exploits and even though it has a lot of RNG factors, there are consistent backup strats for even the worst case scenarios

Submitting bonus run/incentives to up the difficulty to the new ShellShock mode aka Very Hard and to showcase the 2 min long any% as well

Status: Pending Any% 0:05:00 Status: Pending Glitchless 0:20:00 Status: Pending Glitchless (ShellShock Difficulty) 0:35:00 PC bloodthunder SOMA Last seen at AGDQ 2016, SOMA has since had a whole slew of optimizations and route changes featuring new prop clips, prop hovers and more importantly, new dialogue skips. All this helps to bring the Simon's journey across the ocean floor right under that hour mark.Status: Pending Any% 1:10:00 PC bloodthunder BioShock Infinite Last seen at SGDQ 2020, BioShock Infinite features a handful of new skips, mainly thanks to high FPS values allowing us to either boost up walls or slip straight through them all together. Fights have also been reworked to flow better and deal with enemies in the blink of an eye. Status: Pending Any% (HRH-Mod) 1:50:00 PC bloodthunder System Shock (Remake) Experience Nightdive's remake of the original 1994 game in the most mystifying way possible as the speedrun creates and then bounces between multiple timelines. This run also features a lot of clipping out of bounds then flying over the void then slashing enemies with a weapon that's definitely not a lightsaberStatus: Pending Any% 0:40:00 PC bloodthunder Fears to Fathom Anthology Fears to Fathom is an anthology series where each game you play as a new character trying to survive the events of a creepy story. Plenty of silly strats help us get through the night alive like getting the zoomies from drinking too much soda and boosting off the watch tower to avoid a crazy cult chase

Submitting the 4 episodes that are currently out as 1 run

4 different stories, 4 different characters, 2 entire trays of lasagna eaten, 1 jeffrey and even a piece of cardboard dipped in milk!

Status: Pending Episodes 1-4 (Current Patch) 1:05:00 PC bramhallthefifth Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore Arzette is an interactive animated side-scrolling adventure inspired by the Zelda games for CD-i, complete with painted landscapes, vibrant spritework and fully animated 2D cutscenes. Speedruns are heavy on item management, platforming and enemy control.Status: Pending Any% (Casual) 00:22:00 Status: Pending Any% (Casual) + Cutscenes 00:37:00 Status: Pending Cutscene% (Casual) 01:10:00 PC Riekelt Untitled Goose Game Honk! The Goose is back, and ready for more mischief! With new strategies and ways to annoy the villagers, we're completing our tasks as fast by being a goose! (Yes, I am the runner of the AMT video from ESA, see ending)Status: Pending 100% 00:35:00 Status: Pending All Main Tasks 00:19:00 Status: Pending Any% Glitchless 00:18:00 PC Vysetra Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines A comprehensive, completionist and fast run of every single quest in base game V1.1, using the character sheet glitch, bunnyhop Source movement and multiple prayers to stop the game from softlocking or otherwise hardcrashing. The true Bloodlines experience.

The Any% routes utilise different clans which have unique routing options and feature the same tech used in the 100% run.

Status: Pending 100% Quest Log 02:40:00 Status: Pending Any% Tremere 00:40:00 Status: Pending Any% Gangrel 00:36:00 PC bramhallthefifth Live A Live Live A Live is a 2022 remake of a 1994 anthology RPG for the Super Famicom by Squaresoft. This version is the first time the game has made it overseas in almost 30 years. You can play in seven different scenarios that take place at different points throughout history, with an additional two unlockable at the end. Combat is grid-based and places heavy emphasis on good positioning and each chapter has aunique gameplay mechanic in addition to the combat.Status: Pending Any% Good Ending 04:00:00 Status: Pending Single Story: Middle Ages 00:45:00 Status: Pending Twilight of Edo Japan, Present Day, Prehistory 00:45:00 PC Zojalyx Star Wars: The Force Unleashed An Action RPG that has been broken to pieces and had routing changes for the last few years. we have one glitch that skips over an hour of gameplay and we have cool showcases of ARPG combat as well as tight platforming and cool movement. Status: Pending Any% 00:25:00 Status: Pending Any% - No Mission Skips 01:25:00 PC ericg08 Call of Duty 2 With 27 levels, cod2's speedrun comes equipped with intense out of bounds, sequence breaks, and unique movement mechanics used to traverse through the 3 campaigns the game offersStatus: Pending any% 2:23:00 PC MetalGlennSolid Metal Gear Solid Solid Snake is raring to go with the port that has the best overall showcase possible for this game. From fan favorites like the Vent Glitch and Boba Skip to new discoveries like the new Ninja loop, this game has never been faster and the possibilities are truly expanding. In Any%, the skips and movement will be key in going as humanly fast as possible. In All Bosses, the perfect balance between console and PC exclusivity can be struck in just over an hour.Status: Pending All Bosses Extreme 1:05:00 Status: Pending Any% Extreme 0:38:00 PC (2000) Slyton Monster High New Ghoul in School Monster High New Ghoul in School reaches new heights for the Monster High franchise with a game that has 1 song as background music that we never hear more than 10 seconds of, but occasionally we get to hear the Fearleading song! Whats more hype than a game with 2 songs and a story that about an ancient artifact that turns zombies into zombies(Yes it turns most characters but zombies to zombies is funnier)Status: Pending Any% 2:10:00 PC Nestani Scooby-Doo! Night of 100 Frights Night of 100 Frights is a Metroidvania-style platformer with mixed 3D and 2.5D levels. 100% includes collecting every Upgrade, Snack, and Monster Tokens as well as defeating every boss in the game. Scooby has a unique charge attack and the ability to climb invisible slopes, which allow for several difficult movement strategies, tight cycle skips, and challenging sequence breaks. Status: Pending 100% 02:00:00 Status: Pending All Monster Tokens 00:42:00 Gamecube MetalGlennSolid Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Nine years after the events of Ground Zeroes, Big Boss awakens from a nine year coma. While plotting his revenge, he has gained the ability to warp in a manner similar to a TerminalMontage video, making it that much faster to get to his goals.Status: Pending Chapter 1 PSNK 2:05:00 PC Nestani Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones Sacred Stones is a turn based tactical role-playing game. The run entails RNG manipulation literally everywhere in the run. By simply moving the cursor, we can force the game to land hits on enemies, force misses against us, and force critical strikes to one shot enemies. This extends to forcing the game to give us certain stats when we level up to make our units stronger than normal as well. Status: Pending Ephraim Route 01:25:00 Gameboy Advance Subbaro Sonic Colours: Ultimate Sonic Colours is a modern-boost-style Sonic game with a mix of 3D and 2D gameplay. With Ultimate being a remaster of the original Wii game, giving us the new Tails saves or the 360 degrees laser, there are now even more flashy 3D in 2D tricks and skips.

Egg Shuttle is the NG+ mode of the game, getting rid of cutscenes, map traversal and loading times, as well as opening up new boost and wisp routes.

Game Land is a short and sweet bonus world with stages based on classic sonic stage layouts.

Status: Pending Game Land 00:30:00 Status: Pending Egg Shuttle 00:55:00 PC Eroooooooos Klonoa 2: Dream Champ Tournament Klonoa 2 DCT is a game from the klonoa series that came out on the GBA and there were 2 that release in the US and ill be running the second one, its a puzzle platformer with interesting puzzle solutionsStatus: Pending any % 01:20:00 Game Boy Advance Biglaw Overcooked! 2 Overcooked 2 is hectic coop game about cooking with friends in increasingly perilous and poorly designed kitchens. Using the Archipelago mod for the game, levels instantly end upon reaching enough points to complete it, rather than being an autoscroller. Because of this, each stage is an exciting mix of chaos, efficient communication and cooking, and extremely questionable food safety practices. Submitting as a team with enbee, Acadiel, AngelicKnight, and Biglaw.Status: Pending Any% 4P Modded 01:40:00 PC AngelicKnight Overcooked 2 Overcooked 2 is hectic coop game about cooking with friends in increasingly perilous and poorly designed kitchens. Using the Archipelago mod for the game, levels instantly end upon reaching enough points to complete it, rather than being an autoscroller. Because of this, each stage is an exciting mix of chaos, efficient communication and cooking, and extremely questionable food safety practices. Submitting as a team with enbee, Acadiel, AngelicKnight, and Biglaw.Status: Pending Any% 4P Modded 01:40:00 PC MarkAlarm We Ski One of the many garbage shovelware games that released on the Wii, We Ski is a game about skiing down a mountain. I love motion controls! All Courses and All Courses S+ both aim to beat all 14 of the game's courses and include the range of this game's equivalent green circle to double black diamond. S+ adds the extra difficulty of beating every course with near perfection, requiring constant turning, tricks, and no forgiveness when an NPC rams into you at mach speed and knocks you over.Status: Pending All Courses S+ 00:20:00 Status: Pending All Courses 00:15:00 Wii Biglaw PowerWash Simulator Co-op submission with Acadiel, amyrlinn, AngelicKnight, enbee, Biglaw, and Enigma.

Powerwash Sim has gotten a bunch of new DLC, and who better to show it off than this professional six-player team? We'll blast through this run just like we blast all the dirt off, going through either the Spongebob DLC or "most" of the DLC vehicles (the Warhammer 40k DLC is simply too long to be included). Plenty of satisfying dings and powerwasher sounds await!

Status: Pending Spongebob Squarepants DLC 6P Co-Op 00:35:00 Status: Pending Most DLC Vehicles 6P Co-Op 00:30:00 PC AngelicKnight PowerWash Simulator Co-op submission with Acadiel, amyrlinn, AngelicKnight, enbee, Biglaw, and Enigma.

Powerwash Sim has gotten a bunch of new DLC, and who better to show it off than this professional six-player team? We'll blast through this run just like we blast all the dirt off, going through either the Spongebob DLC or "most" of the DLC vehicles (the Warhammer 40k DLC is simply too long to be included). Plenty of satisfying dings and powerwasher sounds await!

Status: Pending 6p Spongebob DLC 00:35:00 Status: Pending 6p Most DLC Vehicles 00:30:00 PC Acadiel Powerwash Simulator Co-op submission with Acadiel, amyrlinn, AngelicKnight, enbee, Biglaw, and Enigma.

Powerwash Sim has gotten a bunch of new DLC, and who better to show it off than this professional six-player team? We'll blast through this run just like we blast all the dirt off, going through either the Spongebob DLC or "most" of the DLC vehicles (the Warhammer 40k DLC is simply too long to be included). Plenty of satisfying dings and powerwasher sounds await!

Status: Pending 6P Most DLC Vehicles 00:30:00 Status: Pending 6P Spongebob DLC 00:35:00 PC Acadiel Overcooked 2 Overcooked 2 is hectic coop game about cooking with friends in increasingly perilous and poorly designed kitchens. Using the Archipelago mod for the game, levels instantly end upon reaching enough points to complete it, rather than being an autoscroller. Because of this, each stage is an exciting mix of chaos, efficient communication and cooking, and extremely questionable food safety practices. Submitting as a team with enbee, Acadiel, AngelicKnight, and Biglaw.Status: Pending Any% 4P Modded 01:40:00 PC Amyrlinn PowerWash Simulator Co-op submission with Acadiel, amyrlinn, AngelicKnight, enbee, Biglaw, and Enigma.

Powerwash Sim has gotten a bunch of new DLC, and who better to show it off than this professional six-player team? We'll blast through this run just like we blast all the dirt off, going through either the Spongebob DLC or "most" of the DLC vehicles (the Warhammer 40k DLC is simply too long to be included). Plenty of satisfying dings and powerwasher sounds await!

Status: Pending 6p Spongebob DLC 0:35:00 Status: Pending 6p Most DLC Vehicles 0:30:00 PC enbee PowerWash Simulator Co-op submission with Acadiel, amyrlinn, AngelicKnight, enbee, Biglaw, and Enigma.

Powerwash Sim has gotten a bunch of new DLC, and who better to show it off than this professional six-player team? We'll blast through this run just like we blast all the dirt off, going through either the Spongebob DLC or "most" of the DLC vehicles (the Warhammer 40k DLC is simply too long to be included). Plenty of satisfying dings and powerwasher sounds await!

Status: Pending 6P Most DLC Vehicles 00:30:00 Status: Pending 6P Spongebob DLC 00:35:00 PC enbee Overcooked 2 Overcooked 2 is hectic coop game about cooking with friends in increasingly perilous and poorly designed kitchens. Using the Archipelago mod for the game, levels instantly end upon reaching enough points to complete it, rather than being an autoscroller. Because of this, each stage is an exciting mix of chaos, efficient communication and cooking, and extremely questionable food safety practices. Submitting as a team with enbee, Acadiel, AngelicKnight, and Biglaw.Status: Pending Any% 4P Modded 01:40:00 PC Amyrlinn Zoombinis the finest silly block submission. watch a 31 year old man attempt to solve children's puzzles and get yelled at by a living stump.

MAKE ME A PIZZA

Status: Pending 4% (Not Very Hard, Who's Bayou) 0:13:00 PC Brandino59 Diddy Kong Racing DS It's the race of the century, Wizpig vs Wizpig! With new playable characters, tracks,modes, vehicle upgrades, and more, DKR DS brings a new spin to an old favorite. Along the way you will experience some tight and technical movement in the game's vehicles like car power drifts and hover hops. At our disposal as well are DS functions like blowing into the mic and revving up the engine with the touch screen. Even the most seasoned N64 runner has no idea what's in store on the DS!Status: Pending Any% 2:43:00 Nintendo DS swooce Pru the Pigeon What if you took A Hat in Time, Celeste 64, Super Mario Galaxy, [insert some other platformers], mixed them together, and oh also you're a pigeon? That's Pru in a nutshell (eggshell?) The game has 15 levels to diveboost (though it's more of a belly flop), spin and float through, culminating with a big mosquito as a final boss. This is a retro platformer with surprisingly tight movement, and one hoot (coo?) of a good time.Status: Pending Any% 00:17:00 PC Eold Black Mesa Black Mesa is a remake of Half-Life 1 in the source engine. The run features classic source engine movement tech such as air-strafing, bunny hopping, and damage boosting. The Black Mesa speedrun community has spared no expense in utilizing all of these in addition to Black Mesa's own unique tech, such as quantum pausing and sliding. Since the last time Black Mesa was shown at GDQ, new strategies have been developed which have brought the world record down by 10 minutes. Status: Pending No Void 01:35:00 PC Digitalhobo Valkyrie Elysium In Valkyrie Elysium you play as a Valkyrie who is created to find and purify souls to help an injured Odin defeat Fenrir, during Ragnarok. The game is a spiritual successor to the Valkyrie Profile series.

The speedrun has over time gained a lot of out of bounds tricks due to its movement tech. Ranging from small ones like in chapters 1, 2, 3 to ones that skip basically the entire levels like chapters 5, 6, and 7. With some RNG to really spice things up.

Status: Pending any% 1:07:00 Status: Pending Blossom% 1:32:00 PC Alymra Pokemon Infinite Fusion What makes Pokemon Infinite Fusion different from main line Pokemon games? There are over 200,000 unique Pokemon in the game because of the Pokemon fusing mechanic. The magic of the game is in this spectacle of using and fighting these fusions. The run uses two separate main Pokemon, early game then late game main, and uses different configurations of those mains to get through the the 8 gyms, Elite 4, and a mandatory Super Boss. This run would be great in either a Pokemon or Fan Game block.Status: Pending Classic Any% Ver 5.1+ 01:15:00 PC Alymra Pokemon Infinite Fusion What makes Pokemon Infinite Fusion different from main line Pokemon games? There are over 200,000 unique Pokemon in the game because of the fusing mechanic, 126,000 of them have custom community created sprites. Insane BST randomizer takes all Pokemon and changes them to another Pokemon within 300 base stat total of the original. The goal is to find a strong combination of Pokemon to fuse and run through up to 16 gyms, the Elite 4, and two Super Bosses. Any% ends at credits. Status: Pending Beat Gold Insane BST Randomizer 02:25:00 Status: Pending Any% Insane BST Randomizer 01:45:00 PC Thabeast721 Super Mario World The Kaizo SMW community is back and better than ever! We assembled some of the best level makers, artists, musicians, and coders (including some surprises) to make mind-blowing levels exclusively for SGDQ. Racers will work as a team (4v4) to speedrun these levels despite having never seen them before. Estimate is flexible; we can add and drop levels to fit the schedule. Submitting with GlitchCat7, shovda, Thabeast721, YouFailMe, juzcook, TheJavabrew, Shoujo, and MarkAlarm (JankPickle as backup)Status: Pending Kaizo Relay Race 02:00:00 Super Nintendo Alymra Pokemon Infinite Fusion What makes Pokemon Infinite Fusion different from main line Pokemon games? There are over 200,000 unique Pokemon in the game because of the Pokemon fusing mechanic. The magic of the game is in this spectacle of using and fighting these fusions. The run is a race using two different stable versions of the game with different story progression paths. Both get through the the 8 gyms, Elite 4, and a mandatory Super Boss. This is a unique race because the times are comparable. Race with GaryJGames.Status: Pending Classic Any% Ver 5.1+ and Ver 5.0.36- Race 1:25:00 PC Lyon My Friendly Neighborhood Goofy children's television series meets a survival horror when things go wrong while electrician Gordan is tasked with turning off a still functioning antenna at an abandoned studio.

Being a fantastic indie game developed by just two brothers, MFN is a fast paced and entertaining horror speedrun that showcases funny and loveable, but creepy enemies, interesting OOB maneuvers with texture and impact manipulation and a disturbingly cool final boss design.

Status: Pending Any% 00:20:00 Status: Pending NMG 00:33:00 PC sharif Grey's Anatomy: The Video Game Imagine Trauma Center, but much less compelling from both a gameplay and a story perspective.Status: Pending Episode 1 01:40:00 Status: Pending Any% 06:15:00 Nintendo Wii Pianist15 Mario Kart 8 Deluxe This is a 6-person relay submission to run through all 96 tracks for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on 200cc with no items. We will each be running through one of the 16-track categories on the main leaderboard, with my submission being for Waves 5+6, the anchor leg of the relay.

It's been a couple of years since Mario Kart 8 Deluxe was featured at GDQ, and half of the tracks have never been showcased before on 200cc, which is the fastest game mode and introduces new strategies and shortcuts.

Status: Pending 96 Tracks 200cc Relay 3:00:00 Nintendo Switch pmcTRILOGY G-Saviour G-Saviour is a PS2 mecha action game set as a direct sequel to the movie of the same name. The speedrun features relentless forward progress, management of hover and shield meters, and an array of rush-down boss strategies. Since last being submitted, new beam saber tech has been put together for chapters 1 and 3. NG+ sacrifices mobile suit variety for the consistency of infinite roller skating.Status: Pending any% 00:28:00 Status: Pending NG+ 00:26:00 PS2 PippyInATopHat Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes KTaNE is an asymmetric co-op game, where players exchange information to solve puzzles. In this submission, we defuse a modded bomb made just for GDQ, as fast as we can.

There has never been a co-op showcase of KTaNE at GDQ, let alone modded. This showcase shows off various puzzles created by the community, some interesting, some entertaining, some beans!

We have curated 2 bomb options for this submission, one with 23 puzzles and one with 47.

Submitted as a co-op with Pesh and BlvdBroken

Status: Pending 47 Module Modded Showcase 00:55:00 Status: Pending 23 Module Modded Showcase 00:35:00 PC Pesh Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes KTaNE is an asymmetric coop game, where players exchange information to solve puzzles. In this submission, we defuse a modded bomb made just for GDQ, as fast as we can. There has never been a coop showcase of KTaNE at GDQ, let alone modded. This showcase shows off various puzzles created by the community, some interesting, some entertaining, some beans! We have curated 2 bomb options for this submission, one with 23 puzzles and one with 47. Submitted as a co-op with PippyInATopHat and BlvdBrokenStatus: Pending 23 Module Modded Showcase 00:35:00 Status: Pending 47 Module Modded Showcase 00:55:00 PC BlvdBroken Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes KTaNE is an asymmetric co-op game, where players exchange information to solve puzzles. In this submission, we defuse a modded bomb made just for GDQ, as fast as we can. There has never been a co-op showcase of KTaNE at GDQ, let alone modded. This showcase shows off various puzzles created by the community, some interesting, some entertaining, some beans! We have curated 2 bomb options for this submission, one with 23 puzzles and one with 47.

Submitted as a co-op with PippyInATopHat and Pesh.

Status: Pending 47 Module Modded Showcase 00:55:00 Status: Pending 23 Module Modded Showcase 00:35:00 PC pmcTRILOGY Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Fallen DS9 The Fallen is a 2000 PC action game with separate but intertwined campaigns for each of the principal cast members Sisko, Kira, and Worf. While bunny hopping and mine jumps work for all characters, each run also offers unique strategies including fantasy walls, sliding down sheer cliffs, and mantling skips. In a showdown between Sisko, Kira, and Worf, who would win?Status: Pending any% (Sisko) 00:55:00 Status: Pending any% (Kira) 00:45:00 Status: Pending any% (Worf) 00:48:00 PC Fumoffu Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon Ultimate mode, with out of bounds allowed.

The run starts with all Zangetsu upgrades and a charge slash. The out of bounds category has door skips (jumping over doors) and some out of bounds zips allowing us to skip large sections of levels, and drop directly into boss arenas.

Incentive: Boss Rush mode. This category is a standard boss rush format, however all sub weapons and spells are only able to be collected once. There are also unique boss quick kills only seen in boss rush mode.

Status: Pending Any%, Ultimate, Veteran 00:28:00 PC LuikIzumori moon:Remix RPG Adventure In 1997, the now legendary anti-RPG “moon” launched in Japan. In 2021, under the watchful eye of its original creators, it was finally on Steam, in English!

Have you ever felt it odd that the heroes of RPGs go around opening villagers' closets and stealing from them? Or that they travel the world indiscriminately killing all monsters they meet? This game looks at the RPGs we all know and love from a new perspective. (From the Onion Games website)

Race with Tecchan and myself.

Status: Pending Beat the Game (Race) 02:20:00 PC(Steam) tecchan moon: Remix RPG Adventure In 1997, the now legendary anti-RPG “moon” launched in Japan. In 2021, under the watchful eye of its original creators, it was finally on Steam, in English!

Have you ever felt it odd that the heroes of RPGs go around opening villagers' closets and stealing from them? Or that they travel the world indiscriminately killing all monsters they meet? This game looks at the RPGs we all know and love from a new perspective. (From the Onion Games website)

Race with Luik Izumori and myself.

Status: Pending Beat the Game (Race) 02:20:00 PC (Steam) tecchan Community Pom Community Pom is a 2D action RPG released by Fill in Cafe in 1997. It is a combination of RPG elements similar to The Legend of Zelda and a simulation game in which you develop a community of "Pom" creatures. The storyline, dot art, and music match the warm atmosphere of the game, and the player can enjoy the game in a cheerful mood from start to finish. The exhilaration of running through the fairy-tale world at high speed is the charm of speedrun!Status: Pending Any% 01:30:00 PS StoRmsN The Messenger The Messenger is an indie platformer developed by Sabotage Studios, which recently released Sea of Stars.

It's a ninja game heavily inspired by games like the old Ninja Gaiden, combined with a fantastic soundtrack and beautiful visuals.

This game really shines as a speed game; most of the tech is pure movement, and going fast in this game looks super cool and feels very nice.

Unfortunately till now, the full game was never shown at a GDQ despite GDQ hotfix and we need to change that :D

Status: Pending Any% 2:00:00 Status: Pending 100% 2:45:00 Status: Pending Second Quest 01:20:00 PC EnglishBen Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is one of the most popular speedgames of all time, and I’ve been showcasing it to the masses across the planet for five years now. Join our boy Tommy Vercetti on a quest to take over the world, or not as we skip the entire second half of the game by executing a million glitches and seeing the game’s mission code disintegrate in real time in front of your very eyes. Status: Pending Any% No SSU 1:00:00 Status: Pending Tightened Vice 1:20:00 Status: Pending All Missions 02:40:00 PC EnglishBen Grand Theft Auto III Grand Theft Auto III is easily the hardest game in the 3D era, but that doesn’t mean we don’t break it into a million pieces. In this run we skip entire missions, fly a vehicle that was intended to be "unflyable" by the developers, and jump around the map so fast that we kill our character if we do it in the wrong places! All of this in just over an hour. Status: Pending Any% 1:20:00 Status: Pending Tightened Thrice 1:40:00 PC Spyran Spider-Man (2000) Spider-Man (2000) was most people's first encounter with a Spider-Man video game and is still considered one of the best to ever release. The speedrun for this game is still evolving today. And with it, the community has also grown substantially, with frequent events and broadcasts also ongoing with Spider-Man (2000).

The PlayStation version is the one most people will have played thanks to it's wide distribution. With skips, unique movement tech and more, there's plenty for everyone to enjoy!

Status: Pending Any% (Easy) 00:36:00 Status: Pending Any% No Skips 00:40:00 Status: Pending Captain Universe 00:34:00 Status: Pending Any% (Hard) 00:43:00 Playstation 1 Spyran Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro Enter Electro is the sequel to the beloved Spider-Man (2000), but had a much narrower release as it only released on PlayStation. Still, it's a great sequel that is faithful to the original and is a very fun speedrun (if you can handle the RNG!). Lots of unique movement tech and skips again like the original thanks to Spider-Man's powers.Status: Pending Any% Easy Mode 00:31:00 Playstation 1 KeiperDontCare Super Mario RPG An infamous speedrun category, relying heavily on RNG, made marathon save through the use of multiple profiles and save files. Low Level is challenge run meets speedrun, as we must intentionally lose our XP points and stay as low of a level as possible. All the while using various strategies to keep ourselves safe, manipulate fights, and defeat Smithy! Who will prevail?! Team Left or Team Right??...Status: Pending Low Level Showcase 4:45:00 Switch bombomb WarioWare:Twisted! This is the 3rd game in the WarioWare series released by GBA in 2004. A gyro sensor called a rotation sensor is installed in the cartridge, and player can tilt, shake and rotate the GBA to clear many mini-games. The only elements used to progress the game are "rotation+A" and it is widely familiar to everyone because operation is very simple. I will play this game using GBP, insert the cartridge into the GameCube and rotate it while holding the my body.Status: Pending Any% 0:35:00 Game Boy Player Nave357 Scooby-Doo! Classic Creep Capers SDCCC for the N64 is a short but sweet speedrun, full of classic Scooby scares! The run consists of optimal routing to collect items needed to complete each chapter, with the final chapter showcasing an original villain and a relatively recent glitch that drastically changes the route and time save. No S+Q means no Save and Quit, meaning the run is done in a continuous run, while Any% allows S+Q which means certain locations allow teleporting. It's a fun, classic, short run.Status: Pending Any% No S+Q 00:30:00 Status: Pending Any% 00:30:00 Nintendo 64 enbee SUSHI SOUL UNIVERSE The sequel to 'I'm going to die if I don't eat sushi' showcased at AGDQ 2023, SSU is a wonderfully silly follow-up that adds in dimensional travel and multiverses to the already wild concept. The platforming is still just as fun, with some neat skips interspersed. The models and world design are still just as goofy. And the cutscenes and dialogue have managed to somehow out-do the previous game in their ridiculousness. I ATE IT (again)!Status: Pending Any% 00:31:00 PC Nave357 Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus One stunning, devious, thievious raccoonus. This PS2 era game is a classic stealth action platformer revolving around Sly Cooper, a raccoon thief seeking to avenge his family. The shortest of the Sly Cooper franchise, the game is busted wide open, with large world skips as well as interesting movement tech and tricks within each level. My submissions are for the Remaster version of the game.Status: Pending Any% 00:50:00 Status: Pending All Keys 01:15:00 Status: Pending All Minigames 00:25:00 Playstation 3 MarkAlarm Super Mario World Over the years, the Kaizo SMW community has crafted some of the most difficult boss fights ever seen in gaming. Between a precise bullet hell long thought to be impossible, fire and hammers flying around with no rhyme or reason, and lightning raining down without end, each of these boss fights have taken the best of players dozens of hours to beat once. Now, they can each be beaten in under 10 minutes, consistently, on a whim. Submitting as a co-op showcase with lungfish3000 and tjb0607.Status: Pending Custom Boss Showcase 00:30:00 SNES bombomb Custom Robo V2 This game was released in 2000 as Robot Action RPG. This title is only release in Japan. But it is said that this game is most famous and masterpiece. Aim to clear by combining parts consisting Robo, Gun, Bomb, Pod and Legs. Aim to clear quickly by using high damage combos that are not used in normal play. The parts are customized gradually with game progress. "New Journey" was called as main story mode. This category same as Any% and I have world record.Status: Pending New Journey 2:35:00 Nintendo 64 Nave357 Sly 2: Band of Thieves The sequel to the original stealth action platformer, this game allows playing as multiple characters, has an episodic format, and is all around sneaky fun. A constant stream of interesting movement tech and tricks keeps the run engaging, and each episode can be run individually to keep it short, even allowing for the use of additional gadgets for more time save and interesting tech. The first time Sly 2 was at a main GDQ was SGDQ 2022 by me for Episode 1, and a return would be fitting.Status: Pending Episode 1 00:30:00 Status: Pending Episode 8 00:30:00 Status: Pending Episode 6+7 01:15:00 Status: Pending Bronze Comb% 00:10:00 Playstation 3 Nave357 Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves The final of the original Sly Cooper trilogy by Sucker Punch, Sly 3 keeps the sneaky thieving action fun and entertaining. Maintaining the episodic format and gadgets to keep movement tech interesting and fun, recent rule changes in the community allows these additional gadgets to be used in individual episode runs to keep the speedruns even shorter and faster. Full game is just as entertaining with the fun dialogue and story lines. Plus, this game has pirates, who doesn't love pirates?Status: Pending Any% 06:15:00 Status: Pending Episode 1 01:00:00 Status: Pending Episode 5 01:00:00 Status: Pending All Hazard Room Challenges 01:35:00 Playstation 3 Nave357 Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time The 4th entry in the Sly Cooper series is made by a different developer, Sanzaru Games. Thankfully, the devs included a "skip cinematic" button allowing the speedrun to be mostly comprised of non-stop action. The movement tech and strategies are pretty unique, just like the art style, but it keeps the same voice actors and witty dialogue and story to keep it entertaining as well. The episodic format is maintained, allowing for bite-sized runs in addition to the full-game. 100% is especially fun.Status: Pending Any% 04:50:00 Status: Pending 100% 06:20:00 Status: Pending Episode 1 00:45:00 Status: Pending Episode 3 00:50:00 Playstation 3 bombomb The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD A remake of The Wind Waker released in 2002 for the GameCube. There are glitches that can only be used in the HD version, and there are many things that break the game. You can see sights that not be seen in normal play, such as swimming with high speed in the sea, teleporting, through walls and floating in the air. The difficulty of the glitches technique is very high because the number of using frame perfect is so many.Status: Pending All Dungeons-No MSS 3:00:00 Status: Pending Any%-Restricted 1:35:00 Nintendo WiiU altabiscuit Mr. Run and Jump Mr. Run and Jump is a reimagining of the Atari 2600 game of the same name as a precision platformer. Between long jumps, high jumps, wall jumps and air dashes, there are a lot of movement options available to tackle the obstacles in each room quickly in every direction.Status: Pending Any% 00:42:00 PC ChampionBeef The Legend of Heroes: Trails From Zero Using turbo to skip past the tutorial dialogue of the game, we are able to immediately go to the 3rd final dungeon of the game, use 1 fight to get near max level, and proceed to decimate the rest of the game in a speedy fashion, allowing us to beat this 60 hour jrpg in under 1. Modified Turbo means we use turbo for battles and cutscenes, but not field map movement, meaning the run is easier to follow. Also submitting the non-glitched any% which clears the game in a more normal fashionStatus: Pending Any% Glitched Turbo 00:45:00 Status: Pending Any% Glitched Modified Turbo 00:55:00 Status: Pending Any% Glitchless Modified Turbo 2:35:00 PC ChampionBeef The Legend of Heroes: Trails to Azure This speedrun is the hardest and most technical of the trails runs. There's so many amazing strategies that work by a razor thin margin and so many creative ways of getting through battles. The run mainly focuses on doing magic damage with “arts”, as physical damage doesn't scale very well. Modified Turbo means we use turbo for the battles and cutscenes, but not for field movement, meaning the game is easier to followStatus: Pending Any% Modified Turbo 3:45:00 PC ChampionBeef The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 2 This speedrun makes use of the incredible power of “scrafts”, our ultimate attacks, to decimate almost every encounter in the game. Early on we get very easy access to a huge damage modifier as well as the ability to quickly buff up our strength, increasing our scraft damage even more. Our main character Rean can hack and slash through any wall in the game and get out of bounds, allowing us to skip major parts of dungeons and terrain to save a whole bunch of time Status: Pending Any% Modified Turbo 03:25:00 PC TheGodfatherDictator Ninja Gaiden Sigma Ninja Gaiden Sigma is a run that requires a lot of skills. Being able to adapt and improvised fighting relentless enemies. While having very tight movement mechanics. This game is sure to entertain everyone till the very end of the run.Status: Pending Normal Any% 01:50:00 Status: Pending Equipment Any% 01:45:00 PC TheGodfatherDictator Ninja Gaiden Black Last time Ninja Gaiden Black was at GDQ it was in 2018 run by Mike Kanis with a time of 1:55:XX. Since then the run has been improved by over 22 minutes with a current time of 1:33:XX. Ninja Gaiden Black is a run that requires a lot of skills. Being able to adapt and improvised fighting relentless enemies. While having very tight movement mechanics. This game is sure to entertain everyone till the very end of the run.Status: Pending Normal Any% 01:45:00 Status: Pending Master Ninja Any% 02:30:00 Xbox Series X Mee Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt You play a doctor who treats patients in top-down shooter mode, as in Binding of Isaac. You move like an old JRPG with ZX Spectrum-style graphics, but the game was released in 2014. In this category, you have to get about a third of the way through the game without taking any optional upgrades in order to unlock a bonus, which is pretty tense. After that, everything is harvested as in a more classic 100%, but there are still a few complicated battles.Status: Pending 101% (Normal) 00:20:00 PC Neko_22 Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series I'll run Klonoa2. On GDQ run of Klonoa1 was accepted some times but run of Klonoa2 never been accepted. Klonoa2 has many cool skips and it really shows even to the most casual of viewers(For example, wall-clip on 20:16~ and perfect timing throwing at vs boss on 31:30~). Especially "engine skip" glitch (1:12:30~, 1:14:42~ and 1:19:37~ on VOD) which you can return to latest check point while it run event flag is provided to big time save. Status: Pending Klonoa2, Any%, Normal, Standard Mode 01:45:00 PC CaptainEzekiel Resident Evil 7: Biohazard Resident Evil 7 has received an immense amount of changes in it's routing. Primarily, we have expanded on and introduced new elements to the out of bounds, We go all over the place in a tech heavy sequence break, now. This applies to all categories. Hard madhouse boss fights, new, never before seen at a GDQ OOB routes, new routing since it's last debut - RE7 is ready for a power house of a showcase.

Not a hero Professional DLC as a separate run or incentive.

Status: Pending Madhouse New Game 1:45:00 Status: Pending Knife Only Madhouse 2:15:00 Status: Pending Not a Hero New Game Professional 00:30:00 PC Stelmo98 Sonic Project 06 As a from-the-ground-up fan reimagining of Sonic 06 in the Unity Engine, Project 06 not only reinnovates Sonic 06 into one of the best 3D Sonic experiences, but also masters the beloved Sonic Adventure Formula by taking ideas and mechanics from many games across the franchise. There is also a dash of completely new ideas thrown in to make the game stand out from the rest.Status: Pending All Stories Any% 01:20:00 Status: Pending Sonic Any% 00:28:00 Status: Pending Silver Any% 00:25:00 Status: Pending Shadow Any% 00:26:00 PC peterafro Kao the Kangaroo: Mystery of the Volcano Kao is on an expedition at an island. During it, he is offered to do a race to get a parachute. Kao declines in favor of throwing dynamite to slow down falling speed and go out of bounds. All artifacts does all the stages as opposed to entering the final boss immediately.Status: Pending all artifacts 00:50:00 PC peterafro Mighty Gunvolt Platfomer where you can play as either Gunvolt from Azure Striker Gunvolt (has double jump a powerful attack forcing the people to be still), Beck from Might Number 9 (Sliding and dash attack), and Eroko from Gal Gun (fly and turn enemies into allies)Status: Pending Eroko 00:15:00 Status: Pending Beck 00:15:00 Status: Pending Gunvolt 00:15:00 PC Ryan Ford Quest RPG: Brian's Journey So I was talking to Sent while I was practicing this game at AGDQ since I saw he was on the leaderboards and he said "you should submit this to SGDQ to maybe have a good Quest game in"

This is an enhanced De-make of Quest 64. While pretty true to the base game, the run is very different. JP and US version are also very different from each other

Status: Pending US Any% 1:42:00 Status: Pending JP Any% 1:35:00 Status: Pending All Spirits 1:55:00 Gameboy Player peterafro Flare Nuinui Quest Run and gun platformer involving Hololive vtubers. True end adds two extra bosses to westa, a boss rush level with 5 new bosses, and one last level featuring a giant skip at the end. NG+ lets you start with all the upgrades, allowing for many unintentional skips.Status: Pending ban end NG+ 00:12:00 Status: Pending true end NG+ 00:20:00 Status: Pending true end 00:30:00 Status: Pending bad end 00:20:00 PC Ryan Ford The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX Zelda LADX is an enhanced re-release of Link's Awakening and a sequel to ALttP. It's a 2D Zelda game with a lot of unique movement and a wild amount of different tech and even doubles as a "2D Mario game" with some familiar charactersStatus: Pending Any% (No WW/OoB) 00:57:00 Status: Pending Any% (No S+Q/WW/Oob) 1:00:00 Gameboy Player peterafro Mega Man Rock Force this fangame sets itself apart from every other mega man game because in it you barely plays as mega man. Once you unlock nitro man, you use him for almost the entire run. He has a glitch allowing you to fly in the air and fall through floors.Status: Pending any% 00:50:00 PC SirLiveAlot Geometry Dash Geometry Dash was originally a auto runner game. So how do we make the original 1 to 8 levels harder? Easy, we beat the first 8 levels while juggling! I have never seen anyone else beat games while juggling so perhaps you have not either. Let this be the first. This is also a showcase for the use of the Xbox adaptive controller with the Logitech adaptive gaming kitStatus: Pending any % 1-8 00:14:00 PC peterafro Mega Man X7 Mixes up the series formula with 3d movement and the ability to switch between two characters mid stage. any% uses a fresh file and involves reploid collecting and being careful with health. NG+ has all the upgrades making it much speedier. any% is a race between Focussight, Ppotdot, and me.Status: Pending any% 1:04:00 Status: Pending NG+ 1:00:00 PC Ryan Ford Little Samson Expensive Mega Man-esque looking hidden gem.

Normal Difficulty has a few extra stages near the end of the game, which gets you the good ending

Status: Pending Any% Normal (No Oob) 00:23:00 Status: Pending Any% Easy (No Oob) 00:16:00 Famicom Ryan Ford Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest Roll and Move: The sequel

Good old fast-paced sidescroller with a good amount of good tricks. Some straightforward parts that leaves good chances for donation reading, and a ton of categories that are interesting in their own way

Status: Pending True Ending 00:43:00 Status: Pending 102% 1:37:00 Status: Pending Beat Mario (All DK Coins) 1:08:00 Status: Pending Warpless 1:00:00 SNES sharif The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince Very cute hand drawn escort puzzle platformer. Guide the prince to see the witch of the woods to restore his sight. Many of the puzzles and enemies can be skipped with precise platforming, making the speedrun interesting and high stakes.Status: Pending Beat The Game 01:15:00 PS5 sharif Barbie Fashion Pack Games oh dearStatus: Pending Fashion Backpack% 00:10:00 Status: Pending Hundo% D: 01:00:00 GBC edzwoo Super Metroid Map Rando Super Metroid Map Rando shuffles the entire world in a geometrically consistent way. Item logic is based on an open source project that accounts for a vast amount of strategies known by the community. Hard difficulty has common randomizer tricks and is logic geared for community tournament play. Expert difficulty has tricks expected in SM Kaizo and Challenge progression will try to pigeonhole the player through a single path. Seed can be curated by devs for time and a better showcase of skills.Status: Pending Expert Challenge 02:30:00 Status: Pending Hard Tricky 01:30:00 SNES Zojalyx The Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers One of the greatest video games based on a movie of all time. This run takes 3 characters, Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, and takes them through the events of the first two Lord of the Rings movies. This run is being presented as a character bid war from the best runner in the world. It features precise EXP routing, boss quick kills that are crazy to watch from a visual perspective, and a fast-paced run that can keep viewers engaged the whole time. Status: Pending Aragorn (Easy) 00:55:00 Status: Pending Legolas (Easy) 00:55:00 Status: Pending Gimli (Easy) 00:55:00 Status: Pending All Levels 01:20:00 Nintendo Wii Ray0ken Sonic Adventure DX I know it's called Sonic Adventure, but sometimes the side characters need a spot in the limelight! In small stories, you'll see fast platforming, glitches, and racing opponents from Tails, fishing with our good pal Big The Cat, and topping the run off with the always exciting Super Sonic endgame (it is his game after all.) Status: Pending Small Stories (T.B.SS) 00:40:00 PC Zojalyx The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King This run had an incredible showcase a few years ago at SGDQ 2022. Now, let us bring it back in a brand new fashion, The PC port has a new feature that allows us to skip all the FMV cutscenes in the run removing 11 minutes of downtime. Plus adding in a co-op run for this game as well will make the run even more entertaining and show off even more of what this game can do.Status: Pending Any% (No Cutscenes, Solo) 01:20:00 Status: Pending No Upgrades (Solo, No Cutscenes) 01:25:00 Status: Pending Any% (No Cutscnes, Co-op) w/ TheSpectacularSlade 01:20:00 PC Zojalyx Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 This game is a very fast-paced speedrun. The movement is super fast and there are skips pretty much everywhere in the run even if someone will not even notice it. This is a game that has non-stop Star Wars action throughout the entire game. All Holocrons obsoletes a few Any% skips but adds in a skip that is one of the most insane skips ever in The Force Unleashed 2 SpeedrunStatus: Pending Any% 01:15:00 Status: Pending All Holocrons 01:25:00 PC kasayev Sea of Stars Sea of Stars is a RPG that is heavily inspired by the classics such as Chrono Trigger, Super Mario RPG and Illusion of Gaia. It tells the story of two Children of the Solstice who will use the power of sun and moon to defeat monsters created by the evil alchemist The Fleshmancer. The speedrun features a lot of the good stuff such as glitches, huge skips, infinite money glitch, transfering stats between save files, amazing ost, and so on.Status: Pending Any% No Relics 06:20:00 PC Ray0ken Elmo's Number Journey Elmo is here and ready to teach us how to count! In this silly N64 title, we'll jetski through a chocolate river, run across a carnival at the speed of sound, and even venture into Count's Castle, all in the name of a journey to learn more about numbers! Status: Pending Easy 00:15:00 Nintendo 64 KyoshiCadre OFF OFF is an indie rpg created by Mortis ghost in 2008 in RPG Maker 2003. You help The Batter in his mission to purify all the zones that have specters infecting them... but is your mission truly just?

This game inspired a lot of indie games seen today such as Undertale, Omori, and OneShot. The game is fairly fast paced, requiring you to be on your toes in boss fights.

Status: Pending Any% 1:13:00 PC teddyras Memoirs of Magic I am submitting this run because I am assured one day it will get in if I just keep making this one of my 5 lol. I think I've submitted it like 10 times now.

It's a really hard doom mod where you can do magic out of your shotgun or a book. Also it's really really zelda. Oh, and this game has made everyone suffer that I made play it because it's hard, but they all assure me they love this game. I got an incentive to make it harder for me, there's plenty of read donation time when I'm not blabbin

Status: Pending Any% 01:40:00 PC zoreo Portal Reversed Map Order Portal Reversed Map Order is exactly what the name implies. Its Portal 1 but you play the game backwards. You start at Glados' chamber at the end of the game, and the run ends when you flush the toilet in the vault. Although the maps are fundamentally the same, changing direction vastly changes the experience.Status: Pending Glitchless 00:12:00 PC Taechuk Alien Hominid HD Alien Hominid HD is a run and gun with the old style of Newgrounds. It is a brutal game as you are rushing through levels doing your best to not get shot, as any hit means death. Friendly difficulty increases player damage, resulting in a faster pace overall, and also gives a shield on respawn and on weapon pickup. The run is constant mashing and masterful knowledge of how to deal with each screen and bosses in quick fashion as well as reacting to random weapon drops which can lead to timesaves.Status: Pending Any% Friendly 00:45:00 PC Taechuk Alien Hominid Invasion Alien Hominid Invasion is a roguelike reimagining-slash-sequel of the original Alien Hominid, where the Aliens invade the planet and aim to destroy the FBI's headquarter, killing anything in their way. The usual run is fairly repetitive, requiring the player to do 6 very similar missions with a different boss at the end, but there is an exploit to give a character another's progress, bypassing the missions and changing the run into a boss rush of all the bosses in the game.Status: Pending Any% Skips 00:25:00 Status: Pending Any% 1:30:00 PC Violin M&M's Shell Shocked M&M's Shell Shocked is a 3D platformer that is heavily inspired by the Crash Bandicoot series, but without all of the polish that usually comes with a good videogame. That's right, this game is awful, and silly, and even awfully silly. I ran this for GDQ Hotfix a few years ago and would love to showcase it again at SGDQ to bring some smiles and laughter to the people watching.Status: Pending Any% 00:50:00 PS2 Abbiescorner Yakuza Kiwami 2 You've seen Kiryu's story, are you Kiryu-ous about The Mad Dog Shimano Goro Majima's story? Well here's Majima in Yakuza Kiwami 2! Status: Pending Majima Sega any% 00:15:00 Playstation 5 teddyras C.B.T. This game is good and silly, I swear, don't you brush it off instantly for the name, how dare you even.

It's a friggin marble game, it's got a monkey in a ball (like monkey ball) who makes monkey sounds no less, and if I mess up, the game plays funny sounds. Also, this game has big schmoovement and I can use that to be a little wiener and skip chunks of the levels, along with using powerups in wrong and forbidden ways. I do sick jumps and go through levels the dev made to make me cry, but fast

Status: Pending Any% 00:30:00 PC PippyInATopHat The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Skyward Sword any% is a fast-paced gauntlet of menus, memory manipulation, and motion controls.

This route is equal parts silly and highly technical with its utilization of title screen shenanigans to skip the majority of intended progression. It also, as of summer 2022, now features an even more unorthodox ending. This new route has never before been seen at a GDQ event and looks like nothing Skyward Sword speedrunning has seen before.

It's flashy, it's fun, it's fast :>

Status: Pending Any% 01:25:00 Nintendo Wii speedyISH Resident Evil Code Veronica: X Last appeared on SGDQ 2017, the 4th main installment of the RE series and the first RE title released for the Dreamcast that both fans love and hate. Notorious for its long backtracking, difficult boss fights and narrow hallways filled with zombies. For this run, all i need is good, precise movement plus a glitch the involves using the training manual... which will allow me to bypass the most notorious boss fights rendering them as small fries. Status: Pending Any% Glitched 1:50:00 Playstation 3 Peas Puyo Puyo Sun The first Puyo game to add a gimmick to the standard Tsuu rule, where if an opponent offsets damage, Sun Puyo will drop in each column, in order, from left to right. Normal Mode is Arle's Story, except played on the Master Difficulty, the hardest difficulty in the game. The drop speed is very fast, the AI moves fast, you deal slightly less damage, and you start with more colors. I will offer an incentive to fight Carbuncle in Schezo's story.Status: Pending Normal Mode (Master Difficulty) 00:28:00 Status: Pending Fight Carbuncle% 00:10:00 PS1 Peas Puyo Puyo 2 The iconic sequel to Puyo Puyo, which introduced the counterattacking mechanic, where if your chain power is stronger than what your opponent set off, they will take more damage. Endurance Mode is essentially Rally Mode in most Puyo 2 ports, where instead of a score attacking run, you fight all of the characters in the game. The fights slightly increase in difficulty, but each death decreases the drop speed for said fight. This is played on the SEGA AGES version, also known as the arcade port.Status: Pending Endurance Mode 00:40:00 Nintendo Switch Peas Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz HD Released in 2019 as a remaster to the Wii launch title, Banana Blitz HD reverts to analog controls, as opposed to using gyro controls. Additionally, the jumping mechanic and boss fights have been improved to accommodate for this change. The game also adds Sonic the Hedgehog to the cast. All Worlds runs through all 100 stages, with Worlds 1-8 each containing a boss fight at the end. Worlds 9 and 10 have an extra stage instead of a boss fight.Status: Pending All Worlds 00:50:00 PC Peas Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll Best known for the use of the Balance Board, Step & Roll is a laxer approach to the Monkey Ball series. This game lacks the jumping from Banana Blitz and improves the motion controls. However, playing with the Wii Remote adds obstacles to the levels. By changing one line of code in the memory address, we can trick the game into loading the Balance Board stages while playing with the Wii Remote! This makes the game much more accessible, and a very unique SMB speedrunning experience.Status: Pending All Worlds 00:40:00 Wii LifeL1ke Summoner A pseudo-isometric RPG from the developers who brought you the Red Faction and Saints Row series, Summoner was an ambitious game for its time. The speedrun takes advantage of various menu exploits and some design oversights to skip animations, kill bosses very quickly, or in some cases skip bosses entirely. Many parts of the run also involve micromanaging multiple party members to complete up to 4 different objectives simultaneously.Status: Pending any% 2:00:00 PC LifeL1ke Cyberia This game would be a perfect fit for Silly block even when it's being played well, but what really makes it shine are the over the top death animations. Slip on an oil slick twice? dead. Touch one wrong button on a security lock? ENTIRE FACILITY EXPLODES. There is even one instance where you can literally shoot your own foot off. Status: Pending All Unique Deaths 1:13:00 PC LifeL1ke Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 An action-platformer with some RPG elements, the speedrun uses animation cancelling to move faster throughout the game. In addition to this, there are several large skips that take advantage of the game’s physics and damage mechanics to bypass lengthy combat and puzzle sequences. Some notable skips happen at 5:25, and 59:20 in the video. Status: Pending any% 1:25:00 PC LifeL1ke Star Wars: The Force Unleashed This is the PC/X360/PS3 version, which is distinct from the PS2/Wii/Switch version, the DS version, and the iOS/Ngage version.

Any%: 1. Darth Vader hops like a bunny to kidnap a child. 2. ??? skips 90% of the game. 3. Grown up child attacks Death Star and kills Vader. 4. Profit.

No Mission Skips: An action-platformer with some RPG elements, the route abuses in game mechanics to bypass some platforming puzzles (good example at 17:02 in the NMS video))

Status: Pending No Mission Skips 1:12:00 Status: Pending any% 0:20:00 PC G3neziz Pokémon Red/Blue This glitch-heavy category shows off a broad range of techniques like RNG manipulation, out of bounds movement & memory manipulation in order to obtain all 8 gym badges in the reverse order.

Giovanni's badge first, brock's badge last.

Most of the glitches are visually stunning and will definitely trigger some "oh my god, you can do this with this game?" moments.

Status: Pending Reverse Badge Order 00:40:00 GBI G3neziz The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask This category makes heavy use of stale reference manipulation (SRM), which has been discovered around 4.5 years ago. Since this is a memory manipulation glitch we can overwrite data in memory to achieve our goal:

Collect all the boss remains from their original source (at the end of each dungeon) instead of just glitching them directly into the inventory.

"Sequence breaking" is an understatement in this category.

Status: Pending All Dungeons (SRM) 00:50:00 WiiVC G3neziz Pokémon Gold/Silver The majority of this run will be done glitchlessly. However, mid-run we'll set up our pc's box names with very exotic names. This usually indicates the use of arbitrary code execution (ACE).

And that's 100% accurate for this category.

We want to end up in the credits after defeating the final boss Gold. Save Corruption is banned, but everything else, including ACE, is available to us.

Status: Pending Any% No Save Corruption 01:00:00 GBI Czikubi Super Mario Bros. 3 All forts continues to be unparalleled in the SMB3 speedrun world when it comes to the amount of bizarre content that it holds. Long ago, shortly after its last appearance in a GDQ, it became the only long category to feature a wrong warp, and it has gained many other unique strategies since then. SMO 97%, the most difficult and punishing category, goes where no other category goes. It is the only time you will see a shell jump in this game, and it enters levels you would otherwise skip or clip.Status: Pending Small Mario Only 97% 01:20:00 Status: Pending Any% All Fortresses 00:48:00 NES Teruokun Diablo IV Proposed is a Co-op run of Diablo IV with CarlSagan42, DanTheVP, FuryfulFawful, and Teruokun. D4 hasn’t been seen at GDQ, and this submission offers an intense challenge that’s exciting for runners and viewers. It has the same action you’d get in a solo run, while adding unique routing and 4 player perspectives. D4’s randomness means players must adapt and coordinate at all times, especially on the hardcore difficulty. Despite permadeath, potions and backup characters make the run marathon safe.Status: Pending 4-player Co-op - Hardcore Campaign 04:00:00 PC TeamMacIntyre Factorio This is a 100% achievement run of Factorio. The run requires getting every single achievement in the game in one run. A very difficult run and a very competitive category right now between myself and the top runners. Typically random seed, but recommended to prepare a seed for this event to remove reroll time.

I can easily describe what I'm doing and why it matters during the run, and make it exciting for new / unfamiliar viewers of the game.

Status: Pending 100% 05:00:00 PC Fablespell Meet Your Oshi Meet Your Oshi is a new FNAF styled game that released last November and hasn't been run in GDQ before. Us runners for the game have discovered a few bugs and tricks that I think would be interesting to show off. It's a simple game, that could potentially be ran in under an hour if things go correct, and could fit well within a horror block.Status: Pending any% 01:10:00 PC PippyInATopHat The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Randomizer Skyward Sword Randomizer is ready for its GDQ debut!

The Randomizer turns Skyward Sword into an open sky waiting to be explored with... whatever items we happen to stumble across this time as they've all been scattered randomly to the wind. Co-op gives us the opportunity to show off more of the game in a single seed as we work to pass information back and forth while navigating movement tricks, collision seams, and title screens.

Submitted as a co-op showcase with gymnast86 :>

Status: Pending 2 Player Co-Op 02:45:00 Nintendo Wii Electric_man17 Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear To The Rescue The run will showcase the best of Buzz Lightyear’s Abilities to collect many Pizza Planet Tokens, Power-ups and defeating bosses as quickly in order to save Woody from going to JapanStatus: Pending 100% 01:05:00 PlayStation TV Slayur Call of Duty: Black Ops Call of Duty: Black Ops is one of the most iconic games in the entire franchise, with a lot of memorable quotes such as "The numbers, Mason, what do they mean?" This run will showcase precise movement, strategic glitches, and optimized routing to deliver an exhilarating experience for the viewers.Status: Pending Any% 02:55:00 PC TTS4life Pokemon White 2 Since its last showing on the main stage in 2018, Pokemon White 2 has seen lots of route improvements and optimizations including trainer skips and new manips. Our trusty main Excadrill is a beast at clearing through this fast-paced action packed route.

Challenge mode raises the stakes by giving every trainer level increases, extra Pokes for Gym Leader/E4 with tougher builds, and lots of Pokemon "moments" that can be done as an upgrade incentive or a standalone run.

Status: Pending Any% 3:25:00 Status: Pending Challenge Mode 3:40:00 Nintendo DS DanTheVP Diablo IV Proposed is a Co-op run of Diablo IV with CarlSagan42, DanTheVP, FuryfulFawful, and Teruokun. D4 hasn’t been seen at GDQ, and this submission offers an intense challenge that’s exciting for runners and viewers. It has the same action you’d get in a solo run, while adding unique routing and 4 player perspectives. D4’s randomness means players must adapt and coordinate at all times, especially on the hardcore difficulty. Despite permadeath, potions and backup characters make the run marathon safe.Status: Pending 4-player Co-op - Hardcore Campaign 04:00:00 PC Glubbers The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Twilight Princess All Dungeons is a lengthy, but relaxing category which has a combination of precise tricks, cool general gameplay, and goofy glitches, and as a result delivers a consistently interesting experience for viewers and runners alike.Status: Pending All Dungeons 04:00:00 Nintendo Wii Donaldwd518 super mario world This is a fan made game called Beautiful dangerous by Iamtheratio. The category is mustache %. Which is where you run the entire hack 100% but also wearing a fake mustache Status: Pending mustache % 00:51:00 SNES sharif Jenny LeClue - Detectivu Fun little fourth wall breaking detective noir story starring an intrepid young wanna-be detective, Jenny LeClue. Solve the various mysteries of Arthurton and get to the truth your mother is hiding. Fun little puzzle game, speedrun mostly just knows where to go and how to solve puzzles optimally. No Dialogue Skip categories create a more immersive narrative experience, at the cost of 2 hours of game time.Status: Pending Any% No Dialogue Skip 06:15:00 Status: Pending 100% No Dialogue Skip 07:15:00 Status: Pending Any% 04:15:00 Status: Pending 100% 05:15:00 PC shovda Super Mario World The Kaizo SMW community is back and better than ever! We assembled some of the best level makers, artists, musicians, and coders (including some surprises) to make mind-blowing levels exclusively for SGDQ. Racers will work as a team (4v4) to speedrun these levels despite having never seen them before. Estimate is flexible; we can add and drop levels to fit the schedule. Submitting with GlitchCat7, shovda, Thabeast721, YouFailMe, juzcook, TheJavabrew, Shoujo, and MarkAlarm (JankPickle as backup)Status: Pending Kaizo Relay Race 2:00:00 Super Nintendo EldritchWolfie Turnip Boy Robs A Bank Turnip Boy is back and this time he's running and gunning for cash. This is any% so we are going to be robbing a bank as fast as we can.Status: Pending Any% 00:45:00 PC Satoryu 9 Years of Shadows 9YoS is a Metroidvania with strong themes of color and music. Its defining mechanic is the light bar, which serves both as ammo for your ranged offense and as your first line of defense when you are hit. So maximizing your damage while not making yourself vulnerable is key to succeed. Europa also gains new armors on her journey, unlocking new elemental properties and traversal methods.Status: Pending any% 1:35:00 PC Corvimae Learn with Pokémon: Typing Adventure This game is the only game that uses the world's worst keyboard, the DS Wireless Keyboard. It's ISO layout, it does not feel good to type on, and you're forced to use either it or the touch screen, which is an even worse experience. It's a silly run but I'm very good at typing. Catch Mew is like 30 minutes straight of error-less typing. It's very very hard. Maybe instead of "learning a run" we should be "running a learn (with Pokémon: Typing Adventure)" 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔Status: Pending Any% 0:44:00 Status: Pending Catch Mew 0:52:00 DS Lotus_RT Wario Land 3 Wario Land runs have always had a great degree of entertainment in them thanks to the tricks involved. However, we've always showcased the shorter Any% categories in the case of Wario Land 3. Let's break the mold and show off the skills and possibilities of what we can execute when we have to get not just all 100 chests, but all the game's music coins, totaling 200, on top of that! In a game that encourages exploration, let's bring the music box world to life!Status: Pending 100% 03:40:00 Game Boy Color dopezzera The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask Submitting as a relay with jess57329Status: Pending 100% Glitchless 6:10:00 Nintendo Wii Lotus_RT Wario Land 3 Randomizer Just like with many other games that have a lot of available items and progressions, Wario Land 3 also possesses the ability have a randomized experience. This breathes life in a game that naturally encourages exploration. With the plethora of available settings, we will always get a unique experience each time. After the success of the Pokemon Crystal Randomizer in AGDQ2024, let's show off the possibilities that are available in a Wario Land 3 Randomizer Experience!Status: Pending Randomizer, Any% 02:00:00 Game Boy Color jess57329 The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 100% Glitchless is a category which beats the game while getting every item that stays with you after playing song of time under a set of community-defined restrictions that we refer to as "glitchless". This run shows off complex routing based on in-game time events, route-defining sequence breaks, and engaging movement tech for each transformation mask.

Submitting as a relay with dopezzera

Status: Pending 100% Glitchless 06:10:00 Nintendo Wii Gerbiez Mario Tennis This run is a great challenge. It's a fun way to show the community how reactive and difficult a mario tennis speedrun can be. This category includes Tournament cups + Star Cups. Star cups is VERY difficult and would be a good example of the difficulty for the speedrun. While the beginning tournament cups being more about aces and clean gameplay, making it a breeze. A great balanced overall run that deserves to be shared!Status: Pending All Cups 00:35:00 Nintendo 64 emray Hollow Knight The famous Silksong prequel done fast!

Patch doesn't impact the run too much in this category, and it can be done on current patch as in the submission video to easily transition to Pantheon of Hallownest, if accepted as an incentive.

Status: Pending Pantheon of Hallownest 00:30:00 Status: Pending True Ending NMG 01:30:00 PC LaserTrap_ LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (DS) A goofy game shown on the GDQ channel before, and shown very successfully for a live audience at ESA last year. This is far from the best Lego game, as it's obviously broken from the onset, but I can break it further and it is, frankly, hilarious. I also accidentally cursed myself by purchasing a version 1.0 cart, which somehow dooms me to only running the All Levels category, since literally none of the others are possible :)Status: Pending All Levels 1.0 00:52:00 DS LaserTrap_ LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game (GBA) I recently ran this in person at ESA, and was able to get the crowd incredibly hype. You need this at your event. This submission also assumes my PAX run is a huge hit. All Episodes is the main category and is being submitted as a race with JankPickle. Death Star Plans are the collectible in this game, and collecting them is on a whole new level of skill. As a non-traditional Lego game, deaths restart the room, and we take a lot of risks. This run will have you on the edge of your seat.Status: Pending All Episodes 00:50:00 Status: Pending All Death Star Plans 01:10:00 DS LaserTrap_ LEGO Batman: The Videogame (DS) This is one of the best speedruns I have to offer. While this game casually might have not been the most fantastic, the speedruns can skip any of the slowest sections. Lego Batman on the DS is a super sneaky pick for the best flowing speedrun you could possibly see at Games Done Quick. Free Play allows us to bring any character back into each of the levels, leading to flashy clips and height gaining tricks and so much more. Hero and Villain are separate story lines, but both together plays best.Status: Pending Free Play - All Levels 01:12:00 Status: Pending Free Play - Hero 00:43:00 Status: Pending Free Play - Villain 00:29:00 DS cajink87 Barbie Fashion Pack Games It's not easy being fabulous. Help Barbie and her friends be glamorous and achieve the fashion backpack through a series of minigames. Oh dear...

Submitting as a race with sharif

Status: Pending Fashion Backpack % race 00:10:00 Status: Pending Hundo% D: race 01:00:00 GBC LaserTrap_ Demon Shift A short and very fast-paced platformer originally for Flash, but still playable in 2024. Play as a demon, and shift through the 2 dimensions, altering collision or behaviors of obstacles. This feature is surprisingly polished and unbroken, but there are still minor skips with precise platforming, and even without it, the slick movement should speak for itself. This game has been hidden for far too long.Status: Pending The Devil Is Satisfied 00:15:00 PC junkyard_dave Tecmo World Wrestling I recently dropped the record in this obscure & goofy wrestling game from Tecmo by nearly 17 minutes incorporating TAS strats from ShesChardcore and adding my own RTA strats - and the best part is the run is extremely RNG and horrible. Will it take 5 minutes, or 20? Who knows!

Join our wrestler in our extremely random journey toward being the best (or worst) in the world.

Status: Pending Any% 00:30:00 Nintendo Entertainment System junkyard_dave Bucky O'Hare I recently achieved HARD! mode Bucky (2nd place) with 0 accidental deaths. HARD! mode Bucky is an anti-piracy feature that turns all damage into one hit kills that you can trigger by entering a password at the beginning of the game. One of the best lesser-known flagship platformer speedruns and one of most underrated categories on the NES. Status: Pending HARD! Mode 00:30:00 Nintendo Entertainment System junkyard_dave Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril Submitting version 1.1 on the NES which is the hardest difficulty. Released in 2010 by SivakGames, Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril is a tough-as-nails platformer. Incentives will include different difficulty modes which limit my lives from infinite, to 50, to just 20 - if which exceeded, I'll get kicked back to the title screen. When I first beat this casually with my girlfriend, we died nearly 2000 times and it took 15 hours to beat. My current lowest deaths is 4.

Very hard game!

Status: Pending Any% (Normal - Unfair) 00:42:00 Nintendo Entertainment System junkyard_dave Battletoads "All Stages" allows us to skip some of the worst parts of the runs by skipping Turbo Tunnel and entering some screen transitions early, also, skipping racing the rat in the Rat Race level.

Note: I'm learning this ahead of time as I submit this and the estimate will drop drastically. Will update/resubmit before the deadline with a better PB once I have a PB.

Status: Pending All Stages 00:45:00 Nintendo Entertainment System Bayesic Mario Kart 8 Deluxe This is a 6-person relay submission to run through all 96 tracks for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on 200cc with no items. We will each be running through one of the 16 track categories on the main leaderboard, with my submission being for the retro tracks.

It's been a couple of years since Mario Kart 8 Deluxe was featured at GDQ, and half of the tracks have never been showcased before on 200cc, which is the fastest game mode and introduces new strategies and shortcuts

Status: Pending 96 tracks 200cc relay 03:00:00 Nintendo Switch Maxylobes Visage A popular indie horror game, inspired by Amnesia and Silent Hill. Despite the simplistic mechanics, this game provides very unique, and complex skips. One of which involves loading multiple areas at once, which will surely blow the minds of many. Chapters% has evolved a lot over the past year. Two brand new skips, and a new variation of an existing one. All of them are wild, and also cut the darkest subject matter from the game entirely. This category is now the best possible showcase for GDQ.Status: Pending Chapters% 01:00:00 PC Mattmatt Dead Space 3 Dead Space 3 does not get anywhere near enough love, and it's still the only game in the series that hasn't had a solo run featured at GDQ. In this run we abuse tons of out of bounds, wall clips, mine boosts as well as launching ourselves across the map to skip huge portions of the game. NG+ allows us to mine boost right from the start of the game, as well as making combat trivial, putting the spotlight on the glitches!Status: Pending Any% NG+ 1:55:00 Status: Pending Any% New Game 2:10:00 PC Maxylobes F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin After running F.E.A.R. twice at past events, I feel it's time to bring the sequel to the stage. Over the past couple of years, this route has gone through major changes that have cut 10 minutes off of the run. New clips, out of bounds skips, and unintended parkour, all make it just as flashy as the first game. There's also a heavier emphasis on optimizing combat in this run, which makes fighting sections more interesting. While it may not be as spooky as F.E.A.R., it is just as entertaining.Status: Pending Any% 01:15:00 PC Kingj0444 Disney Illusion Island Disney Illusion Island is a new switch exclusive 2D metroidvania platformer with Disney characters that was recently released on July 28th of 2023. Being very linear in it’s main path, this game is filled and built off of tiny optimizations and corner cuts that really add up over the course of the run. There's also 1 major exploit called IWC (Infinite Wall Cling) that's very hard but skips 2 major sections in Any%, saving 10 minutes. No IWC is the glitchless category where this trick is banned.Status: Pending Any% (No IWC) 02:20:00 Status: Pending Any% 02:10:00 Switch Kingj0444 Celeste 64: Fragments of the Mountain Celeste 64 is a free bite-sized 3D version of the first level in Celeste that was made in the span of 1-2 weeks by the Celeste developers to Celebrate the game's 6 year anniversary. Even though it's small in scale, it still holds plenty of challenge as well as 30 strawberries for 100%. The speedrun has a ton of tough tricks, skips and very optimized movement using combinations of jumping, dashing and climbing!

Submitting as a race with Laurie and ShadedMaster

Status: Pending 100% 00:15:00 PC juzcook Super Mario World The Kaizo SMW community is back and better than ever! We assembled some of the best level makers, artists, musicians, and coders (including some surprises) to make mind-blowing levels exclusively for SGDQ. Racers will work as a team (4v4) to speedrun these levels despite having never seen them before. Estimate is flexible; we can add and drop levels to fit the schedule. Submitting with GlitchCat7, shovda, Thabeast721, YouFailMe, juzcook, TheJavabrew, Shoujo, and MarkAlarm (JankPickle as backup)Status: Pending Kaizo Relay Race 2:00:00 SNES ColonelFatso Mega Man 4 Since the Mega Man 4-6 relay race at AGDQ2020, the game has seen a slew of minor improvements including new weapon routing through the Wily stages. I also intend to showcase many of the more advanced and "race unsafe" time savers this game is known for.Status: Pending any% 00:43:00 NES ColonelFatso Front Mission: Gun Hazard Sidescrolling action RPG by Omiya Soft & Square, blending 2D mecha action with level progression, ammo & health management and a detailed narrative about soldier-in-exile Albert Grabner unraveling a global conspiracy to feed pointless wars around the world. Routing in the game is primarily about meeting specific level thresholds to unlock important shop items such as new mecha suits & weapons, as well as an ammunition glitch that busts the weapon balance wide open.Status: Pending any% 03:00:00 SFC Tommy_Tricks Wacky Races: Starring Dick Dastardly & Muttley This run involves four 5-race circuits showcasing all the race tracks available to the game. It makes use of the fastest car in the game and involves utilising car abilities and picking up tokens to power said abilities.

I've chosen this run as I believe it showcases most of what the game has to offer in terms of both game design for a Kart Racer and speedrunning difficulty. This run also has 3 semi-consistent tricks available to showcase which would not be otherwise in any other category.

Status: Pending All Cups; 1 Player; 1 Controller 00:45:00 PlayStation 2 Twyn Rogue Legacy 2 Rogue Legacy 2 is a Rogue Lite where dying allows the player to level up and improve gear. Sadly in this high drama action packed category, we beat the game with the first heir, meaning no dying, no improving, no hope. This is a very difficult category so in a live setting it's only an attempt, dying would mean beating the game any%, still high skill but the real show lies in the expectation and hope of finishing deathless. It works very well live (as shown in the example video). PB is 1h25.Status: Pending First Heir (attempt) 01:40:00 PC Mulanv44 Super Mario Odyssey Talkatoo% is essentially the randomizer of Super Mario Odyssey Any%. In this run, you must keep talking to the bird 'Talkatoo', who provides you with the names of moons across the kingdoms. While this is intended to be a hint mechanic for new players, speedrunners have creatively turned it into a challenge for top runners. As a race, the stakes are high. Runners must rely on luck for good moons, while also strategizing and making routes on the fly.Status: Pending Talkatoo% 2 Player Race 1:50:00 Nintendo Switch Joester98 Crash Twinsanity Twinsanity takes the meaning of "broken" to a completely new level. 100% features lengthy OoB sequences everywhere, zombie mode to make Crash invincible, and even an invisible hoverboard! A glitched longjump is used repeatedly to skip most puzzles and cutscenes, and Cortex himself is heavily abused as a platform to allow for some truly ridiculous skips. With an acapella soundtrack and hilarious dialogue to go with it, Twinsanity is definitely one of the most entertaining runs out there, period.Status: Pending 100% 01:25:00 PlayStation 2 Joester98 Pac-Man World Last seen way back at SGDQ 2019, the Pac has returned and is zigzagging harder than ever. Any% still features multiple game-breaking skips combined with constant high-speed movement and precise platforming. 100% builds on these big skips and includes dozens more to avoid a lot of intended backtracking. Sprinkle in some classic and cleverly routed 2D maze action, where we abuse some Japanese version-specific cheese to breeze through, and the smiling yellow ball is sure to amaze once again!Status: Pending Any% 00:35:00 Status: Pending 100% 01:25:00 PlayStation 2 opi_pie_sunpaul FAITH: The Unholy Trinity GCB% is all chapters, all good endings, and zero deaths. If a death occurs I run to the end or all good endings if time permits. For GCB% category I am also submitting it as a race with FailedUplink.Status: Pending GCB% 01:40:00 PC Joester98 Mad Panic Coaster 15 rollercoasters straight from hell with one simple goal - hang on for dear life. Just staying on the track on its own would be a huge challenge, but add in enemies trying to kill you everywhere, a track with some of the worst ice physics ever, and a constant breakneck speed and you've got a recipe for pure chaos. Bosses that constantly fill the screen with incredibly unfair attacks combined with a banging heavy rock soundtrack are the icing on top of this dessert that is guaranteed to delight!Status: Pending Any% 00:40:00 PlayStation 2 Riekelt Goat Simulator 3 Goat Simulator 3 is a quirky game that actually has a legit ending! It's a simulator free-roaming game generally, but there are "GTA like" missions you can do. When doing enough of these, you get access to the final boss. There is movement tech that makes traversing fast, and a lot of references to other games and pop culture to make it a fun watch!Status: Pending Beat the Farmer 0:40:00 PC Riekelt Retro City Rampage Retro City Rampage is a GTA3-Demake inspired game on all the consoles (last game on wii). It has lots of missions, and lots of references to other games and pop culture (Mario, Contra, Zelda, MGS etc). Next to some cool tricks and getting infinite ammo via a clever trick, this run is all about drinking coffee to make the gamespeed twice as fast, that I need to react too. Status: Pending Any% 1:10:00 PC opi_pie_sunpaul FAITH: Chapter III Play in turbo mode. In turbo mode, you can choose between x2 or x4 speed. x4 speed is very difficult to clear, but I can do it.Status: Pending Turbo% Ending II (x4) 00:30:00 Status: Pending Turbo% Ending II (x2) 00:40:00 PC Riekelt Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Remastered We all know GTA SA, and it was in SGDQ last year. However, this can be done faster. Only in the PC version of the Remastered version (Not definitive, but close to it), can you do an Arbitrary Jump in Script (or AJS), which is a really convoluted and clever setup to warp to the final mission, skipping all of the game. It's a millisecond-precise trick, but marathon safe

In this submission, I will submit a version where I show a typical run where it fails, and 1 that succeeds in 1 go!

Status: Pending Any% showcase with fail 00:25:00 Status: Pending Any% showcase 00:18:00 PC CriticalCyd Sonic Heroes One of the most unique Sonic games thanks to the team mechanic that allows you to switch between 3 different playstyles on the fly and what better way to show off everything this system can do than with the extra challenging Super Hard Mode! LTS is a subcategory that bans a couple of big tricks that would otherwise disregard most of the stage design, forcing us to be far more creative with this game’s amazing movement options to traverse the most difficult stage layouts the game has to offer.Status: Pending Super Hard Mode LTS 1:00:00 Wii Hibnotix Sonic Free Riders It's been 7 years since the original Sonic Riders was showcased at a GDQ event. Sonic Free Riders throws out the rulebook from the original release. Considered a spin-off as opposed to a sequel, Sonic Free Riders was a launch title for the ill-fated Kinect. In this game we once again race the eclectic cast of characters in any of the four main stories. Each stage is a different challenge and can include wobbling, jumping, crouching and even t-posing.Status: Pending Team Bid War 00:30:00 Status: Pending Any% 02:00:00 XBOX 360 w/ Kinect linewashere Pokémon Platinum Glitched speedrun of Pokémon Platinum, there has been significant route improvements recently, and the route is a lot different compared to what was showcased on the Hotfix in January 2024.Status: Pending Any% 2:55:00 Nintendo DS MarkAlarm Super Mario World The Kaizo SMW community is back and better than ever! We assembled some of the best level makers, artists, musicians, and coders (including some surprises) to make mind-blowing levels exclusively for SGDQ. Racers will work as a team (4v4) to speedrun these levels despite having never seen them before. Estimate is flexible; we can add and drop levels to fit the schedule. Submitting with GlitchCat7, shovda, Thabeast721, YouFailMe, juzcook, TheJavabrew, Shoujo, and MarkAlarm (JankPickle as backup)Status: Pending Kaizo Relay Race 02:00:00 SNES texas_grandma Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep Final Mix HD This game hasn't been featured at a mainline GDQ event since AGDQ 2019, to my knowledge, where Pessilist ran Terra Crit lvl 1 Any%. Since then the game has developed a lot, and I had a hand in many of the recent improvements to both the categories I'm submitting, including being the former world record holder for Terra Crit lvl 1. Either or both of the categories would make an exciting showcase to demonstrate the evolution of one of my personal favorite speedgames.Status: Pending Terra Crit lvl 1 Any% 00:56:00 Status: Pending Aqua Crit lvl 1 Any% 00:48:00 Playstation 4 Sanjan Mass Effect 2 Mass Effect 2 is a shooter Western RPG game developed by Bioware. As the beloved second installation of the Mass Effect Series - Commander Shepard basically rounds up a crew of misfits to save the world. ME2 as a speedrun is an extremely fast paced run with lots of action and amazing tricks. We play on the original version of the game, which allows more access to exciting glitches. Any% is the fastest category (bad ending) while NOLB is the happy ending.

This can be done solo or in a race.

Status: Pending No One Left Behind NG+ 01:18:00 Status: Pending Any% NG+ 01:08:00 PC KyoshiCadre Undertale Yellow The long awaited fan-made prequel to Undertale led by MasterSword is here. A labor of love for one of the best indie games ever created, with a soundtrack that'll knock your socks off, with boss fights that will have you glued to the screen. This run blows the game out of the water. We take advantage of an oversight with the game's storage mechanic to gain movement during cutscenes, skipping bosses, clipping through walls, all to get us to the finish line. It's challenging, but rewarding!Status: Pending True Pacifist 1:17:00 Status: Pending Justice 1:13:00 Status: Pending Neutral 1:05:00 PC Violin Kingdom Hearts III For this showcase I'll be fighting the hardest superboss in the Kingdom Hearts series with these restrictions:

-Critical Mode -Level 1 -All Pro Codes -Kingdom Key Only -BLINDFOLDED

This showcase was a massive fan favorite at the past two RPG Limit Break events, and would be perfect for a big donation incentive, even as a standalone thing.

Status: Pending Blindfolded Yozora Showcase 00:30:00 PC ninpalk Yooka-Laylee Any% w/ flight could be compared to 16 star from Super Mario 64. It isn't the fastest way to beat the game, but is much more marathon safe and actually has collection of some collectibles unlike any%, making it a fun watch. 100 pagies however, is more comparable to 70 star from Super Mario 64. This run gets the bare necessities to beat the game with intended requirements, with lots of cool glitches and fun movement along the way!Status: Pending Any% w/ Flight 00:28:00 Status: Pending 100 Pagies 02:10:00 Nintendo Switch Peas Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Nintendo finally completed the Booster Course Pass DLC, adding 48 more courses. They also implemented a “speed buff” for the midweight characters, which completely shifted the metagame and strats, especially for the base game courses. Therefore, I’d like to offer a bidwar to choose my combo. 96 Tracks runs through both base game and DLC, showing off fan-favorite courses, and shortcuts done without a mushroom. 48 Tracks DLC shows off the completed Booster Course Pass courses.Status: Pending 150cc 96 Tracks (No Items) 04:00:00 Status: Pending 150cc 48 Tracks DLC (No Items) 02:00:00 Nintendo Switch wafflesoup Timespinner A short little run through this metroidvania where we have very tight movement and kill everything in 1 hit because of NG+Status: Pending New Game Plus Glitchless 00:21:00 PC Duckable Super Mario Odyssey Talkatoo% is essentially the randomizer of Super Mario Odyssey Any%. In this run, you must keep talking to the bird 'Talkatoo', who provides you with the names of moons across the kingdoms. While this is intended to be a hint mechanic for new players, speedrunners have creatively turned it into a challenge for top runners. As a race, the stakes are high. Runners must rely on luck for good moons, while also strategizing and making routes on the fly. Status: Pending Talkatoo% 2 Player Race 1:50:00 Nintendo Switch Asuka424 Final Fantasy Type-0 HD One of my dream speedruns to learn, Type-0 HD is an action RPG that is also one of the more obscure Final Fantasy titles. Throughout the run, we balance RNG, our constant state of panic, and needing to reroute based on who's still alive in Class Zero...and who we can throw into the frozen crystals of the workhorse of the run: Shiva. Also Samurai Jack carries us on his back when all else fails. Timestamps in VOD description.Status: Pending New Game, Cadet 02:30:00 PC Rubberduckyassassin GBA Spyro Trilogy The first 3 handheld Spyro games are both canonically a Trilogy, and a very entertaining speedrun! Familiarizing yourself with each game is a feat in itself, but this run tests how fast you can beat all 3 games with no break! Each game offers an improvement to the isometric graphics, fast-pace mechanics, bangin' music, and also has a unique charm and playstyle to each individual game!Status: Pending GBA Trilogy Any% 02:10:00 Status: Pending GBA Trilogy Any% (Cheats) 00:30:00 Gameboy Player MHFsilver VIVIDLOPE Vividlope is a speedgame that has a great balance of challenging movement, great expression when it comes to how you approach completing levels, and fun design. The items category makes use of the item menu which allows you to use items outside of their intended levels, this makes for a lot more clever routing and pathing throughout the levels and in some levels, it can even break the intended design.Status: Pending Any (Items) 00:40:00 PC MHFsilver Hebereke 2 A uniquely designed 2D rougelike, Hebereke 2 is a run that requires the runner to do a lot of on the fly thinking and rerouting to work around the randomized levels while making use of several items and characters, all to pull of tricks like down warps, cutscene skips and even abusing some unintended side effects of certain game mechanics. All together it makes for a really fun, cute but challenging speedgameStatus: Pending Any% 01:00:00 PC Rubberduckyassassin Pokemon Rumble This charming WiiWare beat-em’-up has us playing as cute toy Pokemon, going through 4 ranks consisting of 6 stages and a Battle Royale. We use Pokemon (either given to us from special passwords or ones that are in the wild) to complete the stages in a timely manner, and beat up a wide variety of pokemon, swiftly. This game consists of cutting corners, battle royales, shiny pokemon, and damage rolls; what more could you ask for?!Status: Pending Any% No Passwords 00:55:00 Status: Pending All Stages No Passwords 1:10:00 Status: Pending Any% Passwords 00:38:00 Status: Pending Complete the Game Passwords 01:55:00 WiiU Rubberduckyassassin Mortal Kombat: Armageddon The last of the Midway-made Mortal Kombat games; Armageddon tells the story of Tavon, son of Argus, and how he uses random weapons including but not limited to a lightsaber, solves puzzles, and enacts extreme violence to fulfill a quest he doesn't know anything about. This 3D “open-world” beat-em-up has unique and silly strategies used in both fights and movement along with fantastic voice acting and graphics for a bloody-good time.Status: Pending Konquest All Relics 01:40:00 Status: Pending Konquest Any% 01:35:00 WiiU AirAngel Smushi Come Home This submission is for a race with SeaAverage! Venture through a cute Fern Gully-esk world filled with adventures, surprising jumps, bugs that just want to help (or not), and random side quests to help friends in need. Currency routing, saying "heck it I'm going to jump anyways," and expert knowledge of the game really comes through in this category. Please note my PB/runs are consistently under the 42 min mark, the submission video includes a mushroom cosplay incentive that added more time. Status: Pending Any% No OOB Race 00:42:00 Switch Wed Spyro 3.5: Return to the Forgotten Realms Created as a passion project for those that wanted a little bit more out of the original Spyro trilogy, Spyro 3.5 doesn't hold back. With a much heavier focus on exploration and mechanical mastery, this is a Spyro fangame that is littered with outside-the box thinking throughout it's runtime. As a speedrun, Spyro 3.5 features all of the goofy tricks you've stored away in a hard drive 8 years ago because they're "useless" and finally gives them a chance to shine.Status: Pending Any% No Sorceress Skip 00:45:00 Playstation 2 puwexil Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals Late-release SNES game that combines a very polished turn-based RPG battle system with unique Zelda style dungeon exploration & puzzle solving. Lufia II makes for a very fast-paced and engaging speedrun, with technical movement to avoid nearly all enemy encounters from start to finish, clever routing with the game's deep equipment-based special attack system, and exciting boss fights that feature a wide variety of strategies & challenges.Status: Pending Any% No Major Glitches/No Manipulation 4:20:00 SNES Lunaaa Geometry Dash After over 7 years, Geometry Dash 2.2 released, which included it's platformer mode "The Tower"! This category has you beating the first 4 levels (Floor 1) of the official platformer mode, aka The Tower, as fast as possible. This run has many things such as one side-scroller, many obstacles, 3 usable game modes (with more to hopefully be used in the future floor 2), and even a boss fight.Status: Pending Tower Floor 1 Any% 00:25:00 PC Konception Barbie Hi Barbie! This is a fun, quirky 2D platformer for the NES where bosses pop up in the shape of beach balls, gaudy outfits, crabs, ice cream sundaes and jukeboxes. If that isn't surprising Kenough (tm), there is actually a good amount of tech and resource management that make this run as enjoyable at is it. Whaddaya say we go to the Fantasy Ball together this summer?Status: Pending Any% 00:16:00 NES OGHappydude Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Teenage Mutant Turtles: Turtles In Time is one of the "Konami 5" of the early 90's that paved the way for what the standard of a arcade brawler was, and is to this day. Most people have fond memories of this game as their first arcade experience, and I'm sharing stories and puns along the way. Slide out of bed, jump into your PJs and enjoy your sugary cereal as we go back to world of Saturday Mornings and relive your nostalgia with TMNT: Turtles in Time!Status: Pending Any% 00:40:00 Playstation 4 Ace Delusional Fortnite: Save the World Dungeons is a dungeon crawler event inside Save the World. It is semi-Rougelike, where each game has the basic layout remains the same, but the placement of Monster Spawners and keys is random. The All Dungeons category will go through all 5 dungeons in the game, with each dungeon being unique and having their own twist.Status: Pending All Dungeons 01:00:00 PC Konception PocketBike Racer The Sneak King fed us, now it's time to burn off those calories on tiny little motorcycles while wearing some questionable costume. Status: Pending Standard Race Tournament (150cc) 00:15:00 Xbox Konception Adventures in the Magic Kingdom This is a somewhat goofy and lighthearted game where we are tasked with riding famous rides from Disney theme parks to collect keys to unlock the castle doors to start the parade. We play as like a cowboy kid for some reason? Also you have to be good at Disney trivia to be good at this run, I don't make the rules. Combined with iconic sprite work and fun platforming levels, this run is equal parts silly and fun!Status: Pending Any% 00:15:00 NES Konception Garbage Pail Kids It's a Garbage Pail Kids game! It's also the Super Mario Bros. 2 we have at home! Watch as we go through a disgusting 8-bit journey with 4 different playable characters, multiple skips/shortcuts, quick kills for almost all of the bosses. Oh also, there are fart clouds, snot rockets and projectile vomiting (tastefully done, of course) at our disposal. This game came out in 2022, but I will be performing the run on an authentic, hot pink NES cartridge! Status: Pending Any% Tourist 00:32:00 NES MrMightyMouse Grand Poo World 3 The long anticipated sequel to GPW2, Grand Poo World 3 is a masterpiece of an SMW game, with some of the most fun platforming combined with creative custom gimmicks, a great soundtrack, and a new Overworld that can be navigated by airship! The run even has some RNG sections that runners have learned to manipulate! All Exits is every level in the game and the fullest way to feature the game, any% is the minimum levels needed, All Bosses is a nice medium, shorter, but gets to play all the bossesStatus: Pending All Exits 01:40:00 Status: Pending All Bosses 01:25:00 Status: Pending Any% 01:10:00 Super Nintendo Entertainment System MarkAlarm Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure is the first entry in the toys-to-life series Skylanders. Akin to amiibo, figures are used to bring characters into the game. This run features swapping between several figures, using multiple controllers simultaneously to control multiple players, precise movement, and fast combat to optimally get through the game. Any% Glitchless is the most movement heavy category in the game while still featuring many tricks and a few skips to keep the run fluid and fast paced.Status: Pending Any% Glitchless 01:40:00 Wii MrMiguel Metroid Dread The most broken category of this game. Like the name implies, Unrestricted allows us to take advantage of any glitch known to date, in particular clipping through walls and floors, it can be a little jarring to someone who doesn't know all of the tricks, but it is very fun.

This speedrun heavily relies on RNG, both in early game and late game, it could go either extremely well with a fast time below an hour or catastrophically bad and potentially take over no more than an hour.

Status: Pending Any% Unrestricted 1:00:00 Nintendo Switch Asuka424 Groove Coaster: Wai Wai Party!!!! Groove Coaster: Wai Wai Party!!!! is a unique rhythm game brought out of the arcade and onto the Nintendo Switch. This showcase not only shows off many of the hardest-rated songs on the hardest difficulty (Master), but it is played with a controller that replicates the true arcade experience. Controller shown on screen starting at 17:49 of VOD; showcase length can be adjusted anywhere between 00:30:00 and 01:00:00.Status: Pending Master Showcase 00:40:00 Nintendo Switch Odme_ Penny's Big Breakaway Penny's Big Breakaway is less than a month old and is already making big waves in the speedrunning community! This game has some of the most fluid movement seen in 3D platformers since the release of Super Mario Odyssey back in 2017. Conservation of momentum is a key factor in showing off just how fast you can move in this game. The Any% Restricted category allows every level to be shown off while using the game's intended mechanics to pull off crazy skips in some of the levels!Status: Pending Any% (Restricted) 1:35:00 PC AsheWynLucatiel Chrono Trigger Chrono Trigger (CT) has not been in a main GDQ marathon since 2019 and is a highly acclaimed JRPG. Any% No LSS is a highly execution-based category of CT, and combines tricky RNG manipulation with several difficult glitch-based skips. The run culminates in a long gauntlet of tough fights (Lavos Shell) and demands high focus and skill. Any% instead opts to use a complicated wrong warp to skip the shell in a more glitch-intensive ending. This can be a bid war diverging after defeating Magus.Status: Pending Any% No LSS 3:00:00 Status: Pending Any% 2:45:00 SNES Paulsaltine Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi Shadow Dancer is an side-scrolling action game and is the 2nd game in the Sega Genesis Shinobi trilogy. A challenging game with precise movement, calculated attacks, and nasty one-hit deaths, Shadow Dancer is bound to challenge the player to no end. The run has some nice boss quick kills, though being able to perform them is RNG dependent. Can Joe Musashi and his doggo companion Yamato take down the evil Union Lizard and save New York City?Status: Pending Any% Shu 00:14:00 Sega Genesis Argros It Takes Two Filled with exciting platforming, funny/cool skips, and captivating co-op gameplay, It Takes Two is an amazing speedrun. With previous appearances showing off any% were happy to bring you Inbounds. A category that with its restrictions brings more unique and fun sections never seen before. Now including two brand new skips saving over 1 minute for everyone category.Status: Pending Inbounds 02:15:00 PC Daemonweave It Takes Two Filled with exciting platforming, funny/cool skips, and captivating co-op gameplay, It Takes Two is an amazing speedrun. With previous appearances showing off any% were happy to bring you Inbounds. A category that with its restrictions brings more unique and fun sections never seen before.Status: Pending Inbounds 02:15:00 PC Heponwana The Quiet Man The infamous awful game that’s designed around FMV content but removed all audio until New Game+. Game play is made of “realistic” brawling that involves teleportation and the “I win” button as you beat up the same three character models, only to suddenly require strategy once complacency has taken hold. Remember to avoid the “soft-lock button” as you stumble to victory! Somehow despite all its problems, we are left with a game that is truly special as comedic art. Any% skips multiple cut scenesStatus: Pending Re-mumbled normal 02:12:00 Status: Pending Blessed Silence normal 02:12:00 Status: Pending Normal Any% 1:33:00 PC Harutomo Muscle March "Muscle March" is a mysterious game released exclusively for download on the Wii. The game is controlled using the Wii Remote and Wii Nunchuck controllers. When you move them up and down, the character strikes a pose. Try to strike the same pose as the top runner. If you finally catch the top runner, you will clear the stage.Status: Pending All Levels 00:20:00 Wii Harutomo We Love Katamari Reroll We Love Katamari Reroll is a remake of the PS2 "We Love Katamari". It has some additional elements not found in the original version. The remaster has faster loading speeds, allowing for greater time savings compared to the original. Enjoy the comfortable roll-up and great background music!Status: Pending Roll Up the Sun(Any%) 0:50:00 PC(Steam) Harutomo Katamari Forever ・This piece rolls a ball called a "Katamari" ・It can involve objects on the stage. ・The larger the size of "Katamari", the more objects you can roll-up into it. ・The player will achieve a quota for each stage. ・There is a new mode "Katamari Drive" in this title. Please enjoy the best speed, comfortable roll-up, and wonderful BGM!Status: Pending All Goals(Any) 01:00:00 PS3 danejerus Resident Evil 1 (Remake) There's a really easy bidwar for this one: Doors vs. Locks. In door rando, every door exits to another random door. The dining room in the mansion might spit you out into the lab at the end of the game. It's chaos. Lock rando is less chaotic but arguably has a higher skill ceiling to keep track of everything. Also, bidwar for Jill's outfit would likely pull some donations in.

Since I can only give you one video, here's door rando.

Status: Pending Randomizer 1:30:00 PC danejerus Fashion Police Squad I doubt I need to really introduce this one. You all remember AGDQ 2023, right? Realistically, I know NG+ has the best shot but 100% would show off almost the whole game and there will be PLENTY of time for memes (the secrets in each level).Status: Pending Any% 00:40:00 Status: Pending NG+ 00:33:00 Status: Pending 100% 1:35:00 PC danejerus DOOM (2016) With the recent showcase of DOOM 100% at AGDQ, it would be great to showcase an even buggier, glitchier, and more broken version. Classic gains access to checkpoint loading which gives us the ability to sequence break and dupe items. You still get almost all of the combat, but we do a lot of zippin' around too.Status: Pending 100% (Classic) 02:50:00 PC Asuka424 Leaf Blower Man: This Game Blows! You are a humble leaf blower person, fighting evil robots, cleaning up the Moon, conversing with Mayor of World, stopping the Leaf King from leading a leaf revolution, battling the Developer and his descent into Capitalism, and occasionally doing your job of cleaning up leaves.

LBM has a hilarious amount of speed tech that's shown in this quick run, and NG+ with Ads is the best category to show the bulk of everything. The ads are the secondary plot of the game and feature the developer himself.

Status: Pending NG+, With Ads 00:18:00 Status: Pending NG+, Ad-Free 00:16:00 Status: Pending Fresh File, Ad-Free 00:20:00 Status: Pending Fresh File, With Ads 00:25:00 PC Asuka424 Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore What began as a spiritual successor to the cursed games Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon turned into a surprising fun, exciting, and very challenging 2D platformer. This run has boss quick kills, precise jumps, tight health management, and cutscenes animated in the same style as its predecessors. Yes, we can totally watch these GLORIOUS cutscenes if accepted.Status: Pending Any%, Casual 00:20:00 PC texas_grandma Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance HD This game is unique as a speedgame in the Kingdom Hearts series for its heavy emphasis on movement, and while this game famously has a dominant strategy problem, I believe that this run demonstrates that there's still a high level of skill and plenty of exciting and varied strategies you must use to go fast, on top of an intricate movement system with lots of room for optimization. Balloon, Mini, Thundara, and Slow are used throughout as well as the infamous Balloonra.Status: Pending Beginner Any% NG 02:10:00 Playstation 4 Konception Bugsnax Bugsnax is a wonderful, colorful game with a brilliant and inclusive cast of characters and tons of fun exploits and skips. The Any% category gets through 95% of the story in about 6 minutes by getting through loading zones way too early, which is significantly faster than the All Bosses run of last summer. This is a quick little kinda-bug-kinda-snack shaped treat that's ripe for the pickin'!Status: Pending Any% 00:19:00 PlayStation 5 Iceblue Zelda II: The Adventures of Link An obscure official release of a Zelda game that doubles as a Metroidvania and also an RPG! Link doesn't find new weapons in this Zelda title, but instead he gains experience to level up his Attack, Health and Magic stats.

Ganon has cast a spell on Zelda and put her to sleep. Link ventures out into the world to stop Ganon and wake Zelda. He has to learn spells, gain experience, and ultimately enter the Great Palace to face off against his greatest foe ever! Himself.

Status: Pending 100% All Keys 1CC 01:20:00 NES Ryan Ford Gimmick! If you saw me run this online for SGDQ 2021, I'm trying to submit the unrestricted categories this time

The latter half of the run is very different

Status: Pending Any% 00:09:00 Status: Pending Best Ending 00:13:00 Famicom passere Disney's 102 Dalmatians: Puppies to the Rescue Cute retro puppy platformer goes hardcore, because this is a TAS. We pass through walls you expect to be solid, use enemies to get ahead in ways that seem impossible, and gain so much speed it looks like teleportation. It's 16 minutes of non-stop action--with some time for donations, of course. An unexpected (but awesome) game to TAS. Nominated for PSX TAS of 2023 on TASVideos! (TAS by passere and Avouca, presented by passere. Estimate allows for a short trick primer before the TAS starts.)Status: Pending All Levels TAS 00:22:00 PS1 LivelyRaccoon Bomberman 64 Bomberman 64 is a game all about solving your problems with bombs. This game has a lot of neat bomb jumps and tech. The 100% category collects all gold cards and costume pieces and goes to the secret last world. 100% has a lot of exclusive tricks and thoughtful routing due to needing 30 enemy kills a level.Status: Pending 100% 01:45:00 N64 itsbeeve Super Mario 64 I will be performing Super Mario 64 Nonstop 120 which is different than your usual vanilla 120 star run! In this category extension with specific game shark codes, you grab the star, you keep going and you're not kicked out of the level. The routes are very different and you'll see some strats you've never seen before in a vanilla 120 star run. I will also be performing the newest, biggest time save in years called Carpetless! Status: Pending Nonstop 120 01:15:00 N64 Asuka424 Maid of Sker A stealth horror game that has RE3-levels of RNG, Maid of Sker is a gorgeous game that I'm in constant battle with. Where I want to go fast, Sker throws random enemy placements, a game crash, and general rudeness in my way that I must route around on-the-fly. Make sure you have the, "that's never happened before" button ready.Status: Pending Console Glitchless (Bad Ending) 00:38:00 Status: Pending Console Glitchless (Good Ending) 00:40:00 PS5 Maxylobes Shenmue After years of submitting Shenmue, I now have ShenTool. It allows us to fast-forward the in-game clock, effectively acting as a "Timeskip" mod. It is half the time of regular Any%, and we still get to experience the entire game! Fighting sailors, huge skips, forklift racing, hilarious dialogue, timeless cutscenes, and so much more. Shenmue ran so Yakuza could sprint, and IT IS time to have Ryo Hazuki take the stage. "And thus the saga… Begins…"Status: Pending Any% Timeskip 03:20:00 PC SeaAverage City Bus Driver Simulator City Bus Driver Simulator is a silly little mobile port (probably?) where you simply drive a bus around to pick up and drop off passengers before parking the bus at the end of your route. What isn't so simple is avoiding the rest of the vehicles on the road that have no desire whatsoever to avoid a collision with you. If that isn't silly enough for you, we also can do the levels in any order want want, picking the random level order by rolling a D10 before each level

Races with BystanderTim

Status: Pending Any% Race - Random Level Order 00:30:00 Status: Pending Any% - Random Level Order 00:30:00 Status: Pending Any% Race 00:30:00 Status: Pending Any% 00:30:00 PC SeaAverage Bastion The quick little Bastion Any% run that we all know and love. Admittedly mostly throwing this out there in case y'all need a short Checkpoint game to fill time with. Status: Pending Any% 00:05:00 PC SableDragonRook The Last Guardian The Last Guardian run requires constant skilled management of a lovable AI to solve environmental puzzles while performing skips, glitches, and optimized movement. You will love Trico by the end or your imaginary money back. The beauty of this run comes from the runner's need to control a highly complex, temperamental, and highly variable (and entertaining!) AI well. From the same people who made Shadow of the Colossus/ICO. Snuggle% is at speedrun.com/team_ico_games?h=tlg-snuggle&x=vdoevl6kStatus: Pending Any% 03:27:00 Status: Pending Snuggle% 01:05:00 PS4/PS5 Jerikandra Chrono Trigger Chrono Trigger is such a classic and amazing RPG. This run doesn't really do it justice but at the same time, it's also kind of awe-inspiring to see the final boss beat to a pulp in a mere 5 minutes.Status: Pending New Game+ 00:07:00 PC/Steam ShikenNuggets Batman: Arkham Knight It's Halloween, and there's an army in town, led by Scarecrow and a new mysterious figure: the Arkham Knight, who is definitely not Jason Todd. Batman will have to use his most trusted ally, prep time, to, well, ignore most of what's going on and make a beeline straight for the end of the game, in a path that involves extreme teleportation, slightly less extreme teleportation, falling through floors into out of bounds shenanigans, and forcing the car to teleport to strange places.Status: Pending Main Story (NG+) 02:35:00 Status: Pending Season of Infamy DLC 00:35:00 Status: Pending Matter of Family DLC 00:15:00 PC SeaAverage Smushi Come Home Smushi Come Home is an adorable game about a mushroom named Smushi that gets snatched away from his family and is trying to find his way back. The No OoB category is full of tight jumps and movement, clever platforming, and adorable friends.

Submitting as a race with AirAngel

Status: Pending Any% No OoB Race 00:42:00 PC Jerikandra Dragon Quest XI S - Definitive Edition In DQXI Any%, we're able to leverage the horse out of bounds glitch to skip the necessity of gathering several orbs, saving significant time in progression. Additionally, we are able to utilize 2d-mode of the game to grind some levels, making up for the lost experience. Finally, we exploit the sea strand glitch to acquire the harp in Act 2, bypassing the requirement to rescue Jade and skipping over five extra boss fights. Amazing graphics and fun gameplay make this run a lot of fun!Status: Pending Any% 05:05:00 PC/Steam BigNoNo Yakuza 0 The game that re-introduced Yakuza to the masses. Crush bosses with fancy furniture and neon signs as Kiryu, or use the power of breakdancing as Majima, in true 80s fashion. Acquire shotguns. Fall in love. 0 is a game about life before the bubble exploded, and its speedrun is similarly all about taking out bosses before they reach their 2nd phase and delete you from existence.

Legend is the max difficulty category. Bosses hit harder than financial collapse. But don't worry, we have nail bats.

Status: Pending Any% 03:40:00 Status: Pending Legend 04:10:00 PC Stevetvonline New Super Lucky's Tale New Super Lucky's Tale released on Switch in November of 2019 and was later ported to PC shortly after. The speedrun for this 3D platformer has had some groundbreaking discoveries, the big one being a glitch that lets us scale any wall infinitely which leads to many sequence breaks! Whether it’s Any% to 100%, this game has got a lot of cool strats, exploits and skips all in an overall charming game!

Submitting as a race with Kingj0444 or solo

Status: Pending All Main Levels (Race) 01:30:00 Status: Pending Any% (Race) 01:00:00 Status: Pending NG+ All Main Levels (Race) 01:15:00 PC Nambo Super Monkey Ball: Stardust What if we took a flashy trick shots compilation video, and turned that into all 100 stages of a speedrun?

SMB Stardust is a challenging SMB custom game focused on speed and air control with a wacky gimmick: Every stage has a bonus "stunt goal" in an absurd place that REQUIRES you break the stage with a flashy trick shot to reach it. This run is nothing but action as we slam dunk into 100 goals that are way above the stage, hanging upside down, or even atop decorative objects!

Status: Pending All Stunt Goals 1:00:00 Nintendo Wii BigNoNo Yakuza The game that started it all, and it sure is a video game. The greatest challenge here is to work the game's lock-on system. There's also an on-rails shooter part, and yes it works about as well as you'd think from a PS2 game. On the plus side, we eventually get magic swords that stunlock bosses - again, if you can get Kiryu to actually hit them in the first place.

Still, this run gives that weird satisfaction like riding a mechanical bull. Could work real well in the awful block.

Status: Pending Any% 02:05:00 PS3 BigNoNo Yakuza 2 The sequel where the series really hit its stride. Y2 is a highly technical run, where we use input buffers to skip boss phases and QTEs, play a chunk of the game in critical health to skip a long animation, play the finale in critical health to max out our damage, wrestle tigers that can very easily pounce you at a bad time and ruin your day... I'm never calm running this game. Why do I do this to myself

Also yes you fight two tigers in this game. It's pretty cool

Status: Pending Any% 02:15:00 PS3 PootLoops I Am Fish An adorable yet difficult game that exhibits both the grace and chaos of speed running. This run is chock-full of hilarious glitches, speed-tech, massive skips and routing techniques with 4 fish and 13 levels.

Will we be able to make every fish pun in existence during the course of this run?

Status: Pending Any% 01:30:00 PC PootLoops Surgeon Simulator 2013 Watch the quickest surgeon in the world complete 9 surgeries in less than 10 minutes.

notarealsurgeonStatus: Pending

Bob Levels - Any Rating 00:10:00 PC davidtki Organ Trail The zombie apocalypse parody of the original Oregon Trail. Travel across America to Safe Haven (in Oregon no less) as you attempt to survive the onslaught of zombies. As you might expect from an Oregon Trail parody there is a lot of RNG in this game, but it's actually quite a bit fairer and safer than Oregon Trail.

There's also a bonus sub-game Clement's Quest that I am submitting, just for some fun "difficult to control game" shenanigans.

Status: Pending Any% 00:20:00 Status: Pending Clement's Quest 00:17:00 PC TheAlphaDolphin Sonic Frontiers Jump in the world of cyberspace with Sonic saving the world once again from life threatening menace. He already saved it, but as a result eggman lost his daughter... Here's the alternative story introducing movement from Tails, Knuckles and Amy. Status: Pending Another Story 00:43:00 PC Steam Katie4 Sonic Heroes Sonic Heroes is a peculiar game in the Adventure era. Each character has its own bag of tech to abuse, making for a high skill ceiling but awarding players with slick movement in kind. Limited Tech Selection is a subcategory that bans the use of certain tricks, most notably bop boosting. No "warp-to-the-end-of-the-level" tricks here! Team Sonic is your typical romp through the game, while Chaotix involves completing specific missions to complete stages, making for a unique experience.Status: Pending Team Sonic (LTS) 01:05:00 Status: Pending Team Chaotix (LTS) 00:52:00 GCN Iceblue BS Legend of Zelda With the success of BS Zelda at AGDQ 2023, I decided to route out 4th quest (BS Zelda's 2nd quest). This quest contains a brand new overworld, brand new dungeon layouts, and all new routing, while keeping the charm of the game. This quest introduces a couple new, yet familiar bosses that make our quest a bit tougher! Submitting both any% and 100% as solo runs. If anyone submits these, I'd be more than happy to race!Status: Pending 4th quest any% 00:35:00 Status: Pending 4th quest 100% 00:42:00 SNES Punchy Dino Crisis It's the popular resident evil but with dinosaurs game. The game can be completed without ever attacking with some additional difficulty which is novel even among the Resident Evils.Status: Pending Any% 01:40:00 Status: Pending No Weapon 01:40:00 Status: Pending Best Ending 01:40:00 PC cynOmatic Ore No Ryouri The best cooking game you've never heard of. In this whimsical and silly run, we'll be playing as a skilled chef, rival to an evil frog and his goons trying to take over the world. The only way to stop them? Cook better & faster! This game is a delightful treat that directly inspired Cook, Serve, Delicious, and no doubt many others.Status: Pending Easy Any% 00:35:00 PS3 TheShadedMaster Friday Night Funkin The Newgrounds rhythm game that sparked a modded apocalypse of songs and tunes, FNF is here for the main stage with the Indie Cross mod. The titular Boyfriend must face off against 3 notorious indie characters: Sans Undertale, Cuphead Cuphead, and Bendy Ink Machine. With 19* songs to rap against, the Boyfriend is challenged with a host of deadly mechanics culminating in the fiery Nightmare trio destroying the boundaries of rhythm game difficulty.Status: Pending Indie Cross Mod Showcase 1:10:00 PC DefyByDefault Princess Kaizo Land I am submitting Princess Kaizo Land (Princess%). Princess% requires you to run the regular Any% category while in Princess Peach cosplay/drag. I believe it is a fun run that will show great support for the drag community and get people talking! It is a shorter and will pair nicely with other kaizo fangames (like Grand Poo World 3) or Princess Peach: Showtime! I will be in full costume for this run as an in person run.Status: Pending Princess% (Any%) 00:22:00 Super Nintendo AggytheAron Gris An incredible games as art puzzle platformer with an incredible story all told through the stunning gameplay that is filled with lots of clean movement, skips and tricks that are sure to delight.Status: Pending Any% NMG 01:30:00 Status: Pending All Mementos 01:45:00 Status: Pending All Achievements 02:00:00 Nintendo Switch/PC ins0mnia Hollow Knight Hollow Knight is a 2017 indie metroidvania that has gone on to define the genre, and features movement and combat that is simple to understand but in the hands of speedrunners possesses incredible depth that is visually impressive even to people new to the game. 107% AB is a completion category featuring everything the game has to give, sans the 40m boss rush added in the final DLC. This includes precise movement and skips, combat trials, and boss fights. Status: Pending 107% All Bosses No Major Glitches 03:10:00 PC Gerbiez Mario Tennis This run is a nice mix of RNG + Skill. One of the earliest mario sports games from nintendo, between scoring aces, and getting good returns, it would be a great chance to show people how fun some of the old mario games can be. Nice short category that can easily be done in 15minutes. Status: Pending Tournament Cups 00:15:00 Nintendo 64 shovda JokerShellOK JokerShellOK is a difficult Super Mario World fangame that focuses on shells and everything you can do with them, including things never before seen on the GDQ stage. The ample use of "chocolate" - mechanics not seen in Super Mario World - combined with the wide variety of shell tricks makes for a flashy, captivating experience. This would be the most difficult SMW fangame to be shown off at a main GDQ, and shovda, the WR holder and Frost Fatales runner of the fangame, is up to the challenge.Status: Pending Kill the Koopalarve% 00:50:00 Super Nintendo minimini352 Luigi's Mansion Any% has seen its largest timesave in 10 years, discovered by myself, taking the run from 7 minutes long to just over 5. By performing some Mouse Acrobatics™ we can get a skew in the first hallway and clip out of bounds without needing to defeat a single portrait ghost, do some tricky out of bounds movement and finish the run off with the very difficult King Boo one cycle.Status: Pending Any% 0:10:00 Wii shovelclaws Paradise Marsh Paradise Marsh is a first person open world all about collecting bugs in a unique world to fill the night sky with stars.

With movement akin to some of the best FPS speedruns, PM heavily relies on RNG due to its random world generation. Bug spawns are random too, so it's an adaptive run that takes a high amount of knowledge and on-the-fly decision making to perform! With the soft tunes of Disasterpeace and stellar visuals, it balances chaos with serenity perfectly.

Status: Pending All Captures 0:25:00 PC minimini352 Mario Party Advance Mario Party Advance is very different from your typical mario party game, playing more like an adventure game. We will ride around shroom city, completing 50 quests for various characters and playing minigames along the way while dealing with koopa kid. A chill run which focuses mostly on decision making and dealing with the RNG given to try to land on dice spaces and get as much movement as possible to minimise minigames.Status: Pending Beat Shroom City 2:45:00 Wii U Bamford Monsters, Inc: Scream Team Monsters Inc. Scream Team is probably the best Monsters Inc. game that exists but there isn't much competition. You get to hear Mike say "Booga Booga Booga" over and over again which is very funny. Plus there's lots of tricks and strats blah, blah blah.Status: Pending 100% 1:05:00 Status: Pending Any% 00:30:00 PC minimini352 Link's Crossbow Training In All Triforces we complete the main objective for all 27 levels in the game, shooting plenty of targets, enemies, skulls and pots. Fast and precise aiming with the wii's motion controls are key to having a fast run, and "ranger" levels where we have control of Link will test movement at the same time.Status: Pending All Triforces 0:30:00 Wii U Bamford Alice: Madness Returns Dark and creepy Alice in Wonderland game. Strats finding has taken off recently so the game got even cooler. Not the most kid-friendly game but also not mature content.Status: Pending Any% 2:00:00 Status: Pending 100% 3:35:00 PC Bamford My Street Minigames but they aren't good and you have to push a cow for like 20 mins. Great gameStatus: Pending Any% 1:30:00 PS2 Bamford Inspector Gadget: Gadget's Crazy Maze This is one of the worst games i've ever played. Obviously the first choice when it comes to the marathon and should for sure be the opener :)Status: Pending Any% 00:35:00 Status: Pending Any% 1 Player 2 Controllers 00:40:00 PS1 Pandora_jane Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem Ever wondered how fast you can get the secret Rune Mantorok and the Enchanted Gladius? What's the minimum amount of Spells to beat the game? How fast can Eternal Darkness be beaten if you are not allowed to use glitches? So many questions, but the answers can only be found on the ancient's plans. Follow Alex Roivas on her eternal seek for knowledge and speed, as she does moving spells, time travel and multiple warps. There's also the rats, I almost forgot.Status: Pending 100% One Alignment 2:06:00 Status: Pending Low Spell Challenge 2:30:00 Status: Pending Glitchless 2:05:00 Wii Pandora_jane Hybrid Heaven It's the year 2000, an intergalactic invader is trying to take over the planet by replacing the world leaders with genetically engineered hybrids. Only Johnny Slater can stop it, using his top notch athletic abilities (and a couple guns). Is it an action game?, an RPG?, a wrestling simulator? a convoluted story?, all of the above?. It doesn't matter, but it definitely is a great speedrun. And remember, everyday is only left leg day.Status: Pending Any% Normal 2:50:00 Nintendo 64 Pandora_jane Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising The sequel of the amazing classic turn-based strategy from Game Boy Advance. We have to move out and prevent Black Hole from taking over Macro Land. Sturm comes back with a new crew and all kinds of new weapons.

Watch the enemy AI do exactly what we want it to do via RNG manipulation, in an apm heavy war adventure with no rest (except waiting for the enemy turns I guess, which is great for donations!).

Status: Pending Any% 1:20:00 Game Boy Advance Pandora_jane Hocus Pocus It's not related to the 1993 movie, or to the 1971 Focus song. No, this is an original story that follows the trials of a wizard apprentice called... well... Hocus. A quite simple game with some precise movement and a speedrun that exploits cheat codes in a very unintended way. There's also dragons and walking trees, yahoo!Status: Pending All Episodes (Easy) 0:52:00 PC Pandora_jane The Lost Vikings 2 The criminally unknown sequel of the super classic The Lost Vikings. With an unfortunate late SNES release on 1997, along with questionable Playstation and Saturn ports, this game went completely under the radar. Despite this, it's a very competent puzzle platformer and an amazing speedrun, as it greatly expands the movement options of the first game. Runners have to manage 3 characters at the same time, trying to optimize and automatize as many actions as possible.Status: Pending Any% 1:27:00 Status: Pending Special Moves 1:18:00 Super Nintendo FlannelKat Pac-Land Pac-Land is a pioneer of the platformer genre. With only a few tricks the run relies on pure execution and makes for an extremely exciting race. The category "The Whole Dang Game" plays all 32 rounds of the game up until it's ending.Status: Pending The Whole Dang Game 00:30:00 Turbografx 16 Gulch2 NecroVisioN: Lost Company NecroVision: Lost Company is the prequel to NecroVision, an alternate history horror first-person shooter. This fast-paced speedrun has plenty of game-breaking tricks that makes for an exciting watch! From running into collision to flinging ourselves in the air, performing "Rifle Jumps" to boost ourselves horizontally and vertically around the map, clipping out and back in bounds (including some blind out of bounds), and much more! All jam packed into a short but sweet run! Status: Pending Any% 00:32:00 PC FlannelKat Weird Dreams Weird Dreams is just an extremely bizarre game. We use cheats to give ourselves unlimited lives otherwise this basically would not be runnable. At least not in a marathon. We'll hit things with fish, eels, and flyswatters.

All Dreams means we will not take advantage of a glitch that lets us skip a level of the game if it occurs

Status: Pending All Dreams 00:20:00 DOS FlannelKat Fire Bam Fire Bam is best described as "Zelda 2 at home." It's an early HAL Labs game that attempts to do it's own version of Z2 to various results. Between Autoscrollers to extremely obtuse direction in the game to shops randomly losing items if you do things out of order the whole thing is a bit of a mess. I absolutely adore this game and need to show people it.Status: Pending Any% 01:30:00 Famicom Disc System FlannelKat The Don Bluth Trilogy The Don Bluth Trilogy is 3 games back to back. Dragon's Lair, Space Ace, and Dragon's Lair 2. Basically they're FMV quick time games that demand a high level of execution the whole way through. There's even a genuine skip in Dragon's Lair so it's theoretically actually a speedrun. We can also split these games into single game runs or withhold one as a donation incentive. I've learned my lesson since this run and will bring will bring commentary for sure.Status: Pending Any% 00:50:00 PC Jubb Jubb Destiny 1 Wrath of the Machine was a 6 player raif released with the final DLC of Destiny 1. Despite arguably being the fan favorite, it’s remained in the shadows with the release and continuous success of Destiny2. However, a handful of players stuck around. As a result, the tech discovered and strategies created have turned Destiny 1 into an entirely different game. I’d love nothing more than to unlock memories and shine some light on the hard work done over the years by doing the raid solo.Status: Pending Wrath of the Machine - Solo 1:45:00 Xbox One Punchy Silent Hill Harry Mason runs into doors but in a fast way.

New Game (Easy) has new glitches not shown at GDQ yet, All Bosses is the more orthodox route. UFO Ending is a bit shorter but has alien memes.