There's a reason that the capstone Super Metroid speedrun at AGDQ this year wasn't the vanilla game, but a kaizolike masocore hack.
People have optimized Super Metroid SO MUCH - kind of like Super Mario Bros 1 - that the difference between the human world record and the TAS world record is counted in frames. If you have people racing it annually, even casuals get a bit "oh, again?" Especially because races are so tight that everyone has to play ultra-risky and a single death means you just lose. (That happened one year, where everyone game overed on Phantoon except the one guy who took a few extra seconds to make a save game. Kind of took all the tension out.)
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There's a reason that the capstone Super Metroid speedrun at AGDQ this year wasn't the vanilla game, but a kaizolike masocore hack.
People have optimized Super Metroid SO MUCH - kind of like Super Mario Bros 1 - that the difference between the human world record and the TAS world record is counted in frames. If you have people racing it annually, even casuals get a bit "oh, again?" Especially because races are so tight that everyone has to play ultra-risky and a single death means you just lose. (That happened one year, where everyone game overed on Phantoon except the one guy who took a few extra seconds to make a save game. Kind of took all the tension out.)