X-Men Genesis Speedrun in 8:46

Finally got posted on SDA, so now here it is on my youtube page. This took a while to make, and even longer to get posted (finished on 4/1/09, finally posted 7/31/09).

Detailed writeup can be found here: http://speeddemosarchive.com/XMenGenesis.html

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• xmen
• genesis
• speedrun
• speed
• run
• playthrough
• wolverine
• nightcrawler
• gambit
• cyclops
• mutants
• games
• sega

[jzigsjzigs]

I'm pretty sure in the game you can only use the helper heroes once each per level. I don't buy the verified no cheating.

[honorablejay]

@jzigsjzigs Yes each helper hero can be used once. Basically they're like weapons with only 1 shot in the clip. I got around this on Ahab's Future by grabbing an Iceman "ammo" partway through the level. The only heroes you can switch to a limited amount of times during a level are the playable ones (limited to 2 switches per level). The level writeups are linked in the video description and explains everything. In short: yes this video was verified for no cheating.

[Kzar5678]

No TASes of this? That sucks. Id like to see one of those...

[honorablejay]

@Kzar5678 Until the emulators support soft resets while recording this game can't have a TAS :(

[TheSaggyMaster]

Me and my brother loved this game as kids. Guess I would have been around 8 or 9, he a couple of years younger. We could never figure out how to get past the level with all the TV screens. We were dumb kids. To this day ive still thought about it lol. So we never got to fight Maggy.

I feel a tear of nostalgia coming on. T_T

[honorablejay]

@TheSaggyMaster I got lucky when I figured out how to get past Mojo's level, probably about the same age as you. After arguing with my brother about what to do I just hit the reset button and wow it worked :)

[grogtgs]

Damn.the ending to this game sucked.

[lolerz222]

This...this right here...is my childhood.

[TheSweetKnight]

I love 4:04 your syncing your attacks to the music :D

[johnny0seven]

Can't believe this game can be completed in less than 10 minutes! Woah.

[BortBorts0n]

Damn good run, and having put years of frustration into it, can easily verify there was no cheating involved, just a lot of memorization of where to teleport past the annoying mini bosses ect..

I think the only way I figured out that reset the danger room = reset your genesis was by getting to that point, getting frustrated and rage resetting it... And forget about using game genie since that would send you back to the code input screen.

[jzigsjzigs]

@honorablejay I guess I'll have to rewatch it. I thought that the "helpers" happened more often than they were picked up, but I may have missed it. It was really fast. Either way, it was well done, cheating or not.

[himearly]

This game is hard as F***, cheated with game genie and still couldn't beat it. sound effects are priceless. love the death sound.

[Kzar5678]

@honorablejay Why not? And I think Gens has soft reset and its re-recordable.