Jackal (NES) Speedrun

Played on an emulator, no savestates or slowdown used.

Done for the Speedrunning Tournament Mk. II at speeddemosarchive.com.

Time from gaining control to last hit is 8:52.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Jackal
• NES
• Speed
• Run
• Speedrun
• Nintendo
• Konami

[CallMeY]

Great run. I have a couple of questions: when you take out a lot of enemies like that, is that for the lag?

Do you save a good amount of time with that?

Also: your time would be a few seconds faster if you incorporated jagger's strategy on the fourth level*. i can get to the last level consistently in over seven minutes but you're pretty efficient save for a few minor errors.

[Breakdown776]

Lag reduction is a huge part of speedrunning this game. I don't have an exact figure of how much time I saved by killing enemies on the way (or how much I lost by screwing it up in places), but I'm sure it's a decent chunk of time.

[JeffroBaggins]

That ending picture is so Michael Bay

[DemskeetSkeet]

i could never get past that ship in the third level. Nice vid!

[Splitgage2600]

This is by far my favorite NES game and Ive never beaten the last level the way he dominated the last boss blows my mind. good job love the little spin move you pull around 7:17. Crazy maneuvering.

[metroidmaster88]

I watch it once already. Now i watch it again after i was completed my 10.06 run. This your run was 8.58 with my time rules.

I loved it much last time and i loved it again. Great close calls and nice speed. I just think how much faster you was with power ups? Is it even any more faster collect four power ups. I think only one power up is enought, make it fast like this.

I lost with you run little over minutes, but i got 7 deaths and lost my power up in level 3.

[metroidmaster88]

Crazy run. I favorited

[mikwuyma]

Good run. Lots of lag control and tight maneuvers, just two things.

First boss: Why were you so high up when you started the battle?

Final boss: I think it would have been a better idea to shoot missiles diagonally when the boss was too far to the right.

[JaggerG]

Nice.

I'm surprised you didn't use the machine gun on the second and third bosses. It destroys the missiles the heads shoot, and against the ship, one bullet and one missile (I think) take out each turret. I think you can shoot the missiles diagonally as you shoot the turrets straight ahead to save a bit of time, too.

On the third level, You can go straight up the left side and you don't fall in the puddle.

Other than that, :thumbsup: