Speedrunning

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Broco posted something cool about the Dragon Quest I RNG manipulation tech:

NES Dragon Warrior as rhythm game

https://www.twitch.tv/nescardinality/v/73640647 Just 6 months ago, the speedrun world record for NES Dragon Warrior – which was considered highly optimized – was over 5 hours. The latest WR above is 42 minutes. How this happened is fascinating to me. I’ve always had an interest in this game because of how pure it is, and I’ve also appreciated rhythm games for their purity. It turns out that there is a rhythm game contained within Dragon Warrior, which only is revealed by attempting to maste…

which then had some interesting digressions