13 minute Ninja Gaiden speedrun: We are all inadequate

by JC Fletcher { May 28th 2007 at 1:30PM }

Not all speedruns are worth covering on Wii Fanboy, but when the game is Ninja Gaiden, we think everybody should know about it. We were happy the one time we made a run of Ninja Gaiden, and that took like a week. But not only did Tommy Montgomery complete Ninja Gaiden, but he did so in a record-setting 13:49.

That's it. We quit gaming. You guys can go watch the video after the break, then download Ninja Gaiden on the Virtual Console and try it yourselves.Check the link for videos of other Ninja Gaiden speedruns too. We're just going to sit for a minute, and reevaluate our lives.

Ninja Gaiden

[Via Joystiq]

Tags: gaiden, ninja, ninja gaiden, NinjaGaiden, nintendo, nintendo wii, NintendoWii, run, speed, speedrun, vc, video, videos, virtual console, VirtualConsole, wii

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

snkngshps @ May 28th 2007 1:48PM

Not that this isn't impressive.. but most speedruns on the internet are made by playing the game through an emulator in half speed and recording it. Then they take the recording and speed it up to regular speed. Plus save states are often used, meaning if they make a mistake they can go back and try again and edit the mistake out.

steve @ May 28th 2007 4:17PM

I feel like such a noob watching this.

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RogueFace @ May 28th 2007 8:34PM

#1:

If you did your research, you would realize that there are two distinct groups of speedrunners out there in the intarwebs. There is the group that does what you yourself would consider "actual" speedruns, on a console, recorded to VHS. Their goal is to play the game the fastest that a human can possibly play it. The biggest site for that community that I am aware of is http://www.speeddemosarchive.com .

The other group, which you were referring to, create tool-assisted speedruns, which are always (unless the creator wants to be shunned) labeled very plainly as such. They use emulators, watch memory addresses, use savestates, etc. Their goal is to play the game as quickly as is allowed by the programming of the game. You can find their videos at http://tasvideos.org .

The two groups do not really mingle, although they will watch each others' videos to help plan routes and learn tricks and whatnot.

The Ninja Gaiden speedrun above, btw, is a non-assisted speedrun. The current tool-assisted speedrun is, iirc, somewhere in the neighborhood of 1.5-2 minutes faster yet.

shaoron @ May 29th 2007 4:42AM

@1
based from the opening remarks of this video.. this one has been sent to "speed demo archives"...
and as #3 said, SDA DOES NOT ACCEPT any emulator played games... meaning if the game is a NES game, it's played in NES... thou... certain games like multi0-platform games gets separated by platform or remkaes like the mario games are given seperate category on the same page. (thou the game it self is still considered as the original platform's)