Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Speed Run Part 1

This is a speed run for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time on the GameCube. I did not do this speed run. I got it from www.speeddemosarchive.com. I got it for all those Prince of Persia fans out there, and non-fans alike. So please don't accuse me of copyright infringement, or plagurism. Enjoy.


Best time: 2:06:03 by Paul 'IRbaboon' Wagener on 01.10.05.


Author's comments:

I never thought I would be on SDA, this run is more or less and accident. Somehow I became obsessed with this game and played through it multiple times a day trying to get the lowest time possible. When I noticed that I was only a few minutes away from the previous record I decided to make a new speedrun for it.

There are almost no shortcuts in this game so most of the time saved comes from perfect execution of the moves and ignoring most battles with the sand monsters. Only a day before I made this run I discovered the prison shortcuts and the shortcut while climbing the Tower of Dawn, which both saved me a couple of minutes and gave me the lead I needed to top the previous record...

Despite everything that went my way there are still a few things that could be improved:
- When you first do a move it moves in slow motion which can be circumvented by changing the camera perspective while doing that move. Unfortunatly I found out about this after I did this run.
- In "Above the baths" you don't have to pull the cabinet all the way to make the jump to the pillar. But I stopped pulling too early and lost some time on hesitating and pushing it all the way just to be safe.
- In the underground ruins Farah stood in the way majorly when I tried to pull a crate. I wasted a good amount of time trying to move her out of the way. She finally budged when I started hacking into her with my sword, sorry about that!
- While climbing the Tower of Dawn there is a hollow tower with ladders and bats you have to go through. It is possible to go through this tower in one go but those bats always seem to throw me off the ladders. I did it the patient way and killed all the bats before going up.
- In the torture chambers while I was pushing the switches to go up the bats wouldn't stop haunting me and I had to waste time killing them. That caused me to wait for the switches to reset and losing a good amount of time.
- A lot minor things went wrong during the battles, but that was inevitable in this speedrun.

I'd like to thank SnapDragon for his inspiring Prince of Persia runs, sorry to beat your record on this one! Though I'm sure you'll make something to top my run off again :)

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Prince
• Of
• Persia
• The
• Sands
• Time
• Speed
• Run
• PoP
• SoT
• Ubi
• Soft
• GameCube

[PhilomathBret]

Can somebody tell me when in the game you press A and B at the same time to do something? The tutorial was telling me how to jump off the wall and attack but it would just disappear in 1 second before I had time to read it. I saw something about pressing A+B but I can't figure out how to do it. Please help!

[bigboss643]

@PhilomathBret Well I've never played the GameCube version, but if B is the attack button, then try running at the wall, press A, and then press B.

[4lligator]

"hey, you! stop!"

"never mind, he's gone. just keep walking back and forth"

[FunnyGlitcher]

This game rocks so hard, the new one sucks.

[DepressedAnimeAddict]

6 minutes off the record. This guy is going down.

[DepressedAnimeAddict]

15 minutes off the record!

[DepressedAnimeAddict]

Did a practice run yesterday. Half an hour off the record :( Got a long way to go before I beat this guy.

[mapleleafmuscle29]

prince of parkour: the sands of time

[thunderpeeweea]

@kentokie hey man gamecube was classic!

[kentokie]

@RaymanandRazorbeard but the games of the gamecube was fucking expensive, the console was big and ugly,

and the controls

well FUCK THE CONTROLS, FUCK THAT, FUCK YOU AND CHEERRS TO BIG BOSS FOR UPLOAD THIS!

[RaymanandRazorbeard]

@kentokie At least show some DAMN respect for the GC...man these GAMECUBE/WII SUXS™ comments are freakin annoying! At least these consoles had FUN games!

[SuperhumanChichi]

how on earth did you manage to skip the fights? I could never escape those, they wouldn't let me continue otherwise :(