Hey, there's a Trans Day of Visibility stream happening on https://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick right now, and I'll be appearing on it with a Cassette Beasts speedrun tonight, at approximately 7:00 PM Eastern!
How a Ladder Just Broke Dark Souls Speedrunning
The SNES Seems To Be Getting Faster Over Time - Every Super Nintendo console should run at the same speed. They were all built in ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/24/the-snes-seems-to-be-getting-faster-over-time/ #supernintendo #speedrunning #mischacks #nintendo #speedrun #snes
Super Nintendo Hardware Is Running Faster as It Ages
—@404mediaco
｢ the obscure discovery does highlight the fact that old consoles’ performance is not frozen at the time of their release date, and that they are made of sensitive components that can age and degrade, or even ‘upgrade’, over time ｣
https://www.404media.co/super-nintendo-hardware-is-running-faster-as-it-ages/
We published our first game "Yokai Parade"! 
https://s4g.itch.io/yokai-parade
It's a colorful platformer with hand-drawn assets in a unique style.
You are a cat yokai 
that is too late to the big yokai parade because they slept in (the evening before may or may not have involved catnip). "Borrow" powers of other yokai to make it to the parade quicker and get a good spot!
Made with @godotengine as part of our first semester project by the 7 peeps of the team "Pretentious Possums". Playable directly on @itchio and downloadable for Linux and Windows.
#godot #godotengine #platformer #speedrunning #itch #gamedev #handdrawn #colorful #yokaiparade
SNES-Konsolen laufen heute schneller als vor 30 Jahren. Ein Hardware-Problem bringt die #Speedrunning-Community ins Schwitzen. Die Ursache liegt in einem unscheinbaren Bauteil, das sich mit der Zeit verändert. https://winfuture.de/news,149609.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia
→ Twitch’s new storage limits will purge huge swaths of Internet #gaming #history
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/02/history-evaporating-before-our-eyes-gamers-lament-twitchs-new-video-storage-limits/
“Twitch cited the "costly" indefinite #storage of these #highlights, which it says are responsible for "less than 0.1% of hours watched" across the site. These highlights "haven't been very effective in driving discovery or #engagement with viewers," #Twitch wrote […].”
“The #speedrunning community seems particularly likely to be negatively affected by Twitch's move.”
Hello everyone! We are delighted to open up game and volunteer submissions for Power Up With Pride 2025!
We will be taking run and volunteer submissions from March 1 until March 31st!
To submit your runs, head on over to Oengus to our event page
https://oengus.io/marathon/puwp25
If you would like to volunteer for the event, head over to our Volunteer Application Google Form - https://bit.ly/PUWP25-Volunteers
#Twitch announced they are going to be deleting highlights down to the most viewed 100 hours of video for every #streamer in a few months time. Twitch has not provided any kind of useful tooling for creators to migrate their content off the platform, but yt-dlp can be used as a stopgap to help archive your highlight videos locally. For example,
yt-dlp --format 'bestvideo+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/bestvideo+bestaudio/best' --merge-output-format mkv https://www.twitch.tv/<user>/videos?filter=highlights
This will download all highlights from <user> consecutively and save them as .mkv files, but it is still far from practical for more extensive sets of highlights.
Many people make use of highlights for archiving their streams so they are not simply lost when they are done, and it threatens to erase a lot of Twitch history including not only gaming but also videos from artists, musicians and many others. This is particularly the case in #SpeedRunning communities that use Twitch highlights for keeping verifiable records of runs and anything reposted would need to be re-verified.
Twitch claims this impacts only some 0.5% of users but the methodology for that statistic is at best suspect when it comes to long term active streamers. While I personally don’t have a massive amount of hours of highlights, I do use them for refining and sharing clipped moments as well as for building compilations to share.
It’s pretty concerning that large swathes of online history are being erased on various platforms (YouTube, imgur, etc) including from those people who are no longer with us or simply can’t archive elsewhere.
Here’s one place to make your voice heard whether you are someone who streams or watches, https://twitch.uservoice.com/forums/928429-channel-page/suggestions/49496519-do-not-implement-100-hour-limit-for-highlights-and
Twitch is introducing a 100 hour storage limit to all uploads and highlights. A move by Twitch that will only lead more people to use YouTube instead. 
This might also be devastating to the speedrunning community, due to some people having immense amounts of content on the page, as well as inactive runners who likely won't see the change before it's already too late. #Twitch #Speedrunning
(Article in Polish) In March 2009, Maciej “groobo” Maselewski, via the Speed Demos Archive, (claimed to) have beaten the original Diablo in 3 minutes and 12 seconds. After analysis, it turns out that there are 2.2 billion possible variants of maps in the game, a tool was created to analyze them, and it proved this record fake (it's still listed in the Guinness Book for fastest rpg completion).
Now live on self-hosted Owncast
"Bringing Speedrunning to the Fediverse"
Speedrunning Derust
Metroid Dread (Switch) - Any% Glitchless
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First intervals session for over 6 months Didn’t push too hard just enough to get the heart rate up. 20 minutes warm up, 15x30 second repeats with 15 seconds active recovery followed by a 10 minute jog home #running #intervaltraining #speedrunning #adidasrunning #runnersofmastodon #RunningCommunity #oldguysrule
I'm thinking about doing some work on a TouchGrass% series of speedruns for #Pokemon games (first frame your character is in a grassy patch).
It's real fast for R/B/Y, a bit of dialogue for G/S/C, a larger amount of dialogue for R/S/E, decently fast in gen 4, and so on. Gets a little complicated in the 3D games, but one should be able to figure a state for the split.
Could be a fun multi speed run, like those folks who do Mario 602 (but far more manageable). #Speedrunning
AGDQ just started 
World biggest speedrunning event showing commented speedruns 24/7 for a whole week and benefiting the Prevent Cancer Foundation.
Mainstream:
https://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick
Schedule:
https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule/52
Restreams:
https://www.twitch.tv/germench
https://www.twitch.tv/lefrenchrestream
https://www.twitch.tv/speedrunsespanol
If you'd like a very queer, neuroatypical space to talk about GDQ/speedrunning, there's a permanent thread for it under the gaming channel of my discord https://discord.gg/aRPehynz
