Earthworm Jim (Genesis) Full Game Speedrun Part 2

Played on an emulator. No savestates or slowdown used. Single segment run played on Normal difficulty. Final time from gaining control to last hit on the final boss is 32:53.

This was a very fun game to run. It has so many different types of gameplay packed into it and even after putting lots of time into it the past several weeks the humor about it never got old. This run is far from perfect, but does showcase some interesting and difficult tricks. I'm very happy with this time.

Part 2

Down the Tubes 1: Outside of having a little difficulty getting on the hamster everything up to the second pod went just fine. The second pod section is one of the uglier parts of the run. I didn't want to hit the air supply I did, but considering how I did through this part it's probably a good thing as I'd have been cutting it very close on time at the end without it.

Down the Tubes 2: The start and end of this level could've gone better, but the run I got through the pod section is one the better ones I've ever had. Certainly not flawless, but better than usual.

Andy Asteroids 3: Yawn.

Snot a Problem: Don't blink, you might miss it. Very happy to have gotten all three forms on the first drop. All of them are much harder than they look (the physics to these fights are pretty screwy) and screwing up any of them usually means at least 10 seconds down the crapper if not death by the thing at the bottom.

Andy Asteroids 4: This is the first one of these that presents much of a challenge, but it's still not that hard really. Did break my no orbs streak here though, oh well.

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Tags:

• Earthworm
• Jim
• Shiny
• Sega
• Genesis
• Mega
• Drive
• Speed
• Run
• Speedrun

[FascistFrenchman]

Andy Asteroids: It appears that you're not just ignoring the bubbles, you're going out of your way to avoid them. You are aware that you get a bonus for collecting 50 of those, right? I mean, sure, it's probably worth more to not go through a bunch of asteroids just to collect one bubble (if you don't get 50, big deal, why care), but outright dodging them?

[Breakdown776]

@FascistFrenchman: It takes a few seconds to get awarded the bonus which is no good when playing for speed, plus it's a continue, and you don't really need continues if you don't plan on dying. Since trying from them all is detrimental to what I'm trying to do, I figured I'd try for none for entertainment purposes.

[hxctrance]

"woah nelly!"

[Sly88Frye]

Whoa! That's all you have to do against the boss? Damn!

[MrClockWK]

I've noticed at 2:31 of the video you was making the bubbles emit from the... Contraption, in a rhythmic pattern to the Background music. I always do the same in everygame I play.

[triumphtr779]

Down the Tubes has the easiest boss battle ever. Just walk right up to him.

[AriesByTheStars]

Fuck EVERYTHING about the pods. EVERYTHING.

[HunterTiger2100]

The pod run is DIFFICULT! Well, I made many mistakes. It was not easy for me to line up the insertion point with the air supply valve. Snot-a-Problem level was SHORT! You have to know some tricks to this game because of the way you play. That was impressive.

[czuket]

ah man... these were the games...

[ShiverZ92]

You

are

amazing



[nitro836]

WHOOOOOOOA NELLEH!