Crash Bandicoot 2 - 100% speedrun in
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- This is my latest speedrun of Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back! I have since obsoleted this time, but there's no video on UA-cam of the new run yet. But this run is still pretty good!
Not a commentary fan? Right this way. • Crash Bandicoot 2 - 10...
If you ever want to watch me do some speedrun attempts live, this is the place to go: / mrbean35000vr
So! How does one take an already good run and cut another 8 minutes from it? Well, a change in hardware, some new tricks, and less deaths. This run was played on a real PAL PS2 slim with Fast Disc Speed enabled, which saves huuuuuge time on level loading. However, even without FDS, this run is faster than my old 1:29:39. Strictly speaking, this new run is actually 1:20:50.95, but I don't care enough to nitpick over it. Round it up and be done :P
Like my old run, this video is commentated by me (MrBean35000vr) and Chadderz, my younger brother. The left side banner was made by me, and the clock belongs to Chadderz. Hope you appreciate both of them as they sure took a while to make!
A brief breakdown of this run, then. There were 5 accidental deaths this time around, of which only one was particularly terrible. The other 4 were due to my sheer incompetence at life but wasted less than 10 seconds apiece. All in all, I got very lucky with where I died. In particular, Warp Room 4 did not troll nearly as hard as usual, much to my pleasure.
So, for those new to Crash 2 speedruns, allow me to share with you some information about movement techniques.
The primary method of movement is Neutral Slide Spin, or NSS. To perform it, do a slide, then release the d-pad button or analog stick, and press spin before the slide ends. If you don't release the direction, your spin will be slow, but it's fast if you don't! A very fun and challenging way to play.
Glitched high jumps can be performed by spinning as you leap off the ground in a slide or crouch jump. These insanely high jumps can be used to jump to ledges or clear holes that are supposed to be impossible to clear.
The game allows you to keep crystals and gems in death, so deathwarping is viable in this game. It is used whenever dying is a faster method of going somewhere than walking there.
There are many other tricks, but YT descriptions aren't allowed to be too long. Watch the video for more!
This run was a long, long time coming, so I hope it is enjoyable to watch. Thanks to everyone who's been supportive while I sat there and reset and reset and reset and reset :P
Special thanks go to a few people; trihex and pirohiko for being my original inspiration. Sword0fSeals for being a boss and inventing strats and sitting there through tons of my runs while doing his own. Chadderz, because commentary among other things. CaneOfPacci for keeping those Crash leaderboards running (see docs.google.co...) and the other members of the Crash speedrunning community for various reasons, primarily for picking such a good set of games to speedrun :P
With that said, please enjoy, and thanks for watching/reading!
![Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back [100%] by Stuart0000 - #ESASummer23](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/s2ZWLAUOfEM/mqdefault.jpg)
![Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back [100%] by Stuart0000 - #ESASummer23](/img/tr.png)
![Crash Bandicoot :: SPEED RUN (0:46:13) by CaneofPacci [PS1] #AGDQ 2014](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/aeiXRJW6q3o/mqdefault.jpg)
I still come back to this speedrun, absolute masterpiece
same since 2015
same
Same
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...Hell, I thought I'd have a tiny little glance, a blast from the past, then I blink and it's eighty minutes later. Brilliant speedrun, fascinating commentary and, at the end of the day, a real pleasure to watch. Damn good show.
+TamiyaGuy Thanks! Glad you enjoyed!
Absolutely great commentary. Made watching this speedrun extremely entertaining
I come back to this every few years thanks to the commentary.
Extremely entertaining commentary. I know you've improved this time on your Twitch channel, but I always find myself coming back to watch this one.
This is so satisfying
Java its so satisfying even though its a 4 year video and CRAHS BANDICOOT WAS REMASTERED FOR PS4
Goomba ____ yeah but you can't do any of that in that remaster lmao
It's nice hearing commentary on a speedrun for once.
It is relaxing to see an entire game in just an hour or so but it's nice to hear the ins and outs of how they done it.
sonic meerkat the crash n sane looking better eh? I'm excited.
i'm not, personally don't like the texture work.
especially crashes model, it has fur textures but no actual fur.
it looks like he's covered in hair gel for me and i just don't like it.
sonic meerkat ugh...
Oh come on!! Really?!
sadly so, i am glad they're adding extra modes and moves in though.
even if it's just the crash 3 moveset in all the games which would be easier to code than 3 individual ones, and the time trials just tend to change boxes and fruit around.
now the original trilogy being easy to access for new audiences is always great, more crash fans to support the series if crash doesn't get relegated to skylander only like spyro did.
hell the skylanders are the big reason i'm not excited, i know that if i support it it won't make a new crash game like megaman legacy collection (or whatever the PS4 one is called) didn't make a new megaman game, it's just marketing to make more money and with a slue of crash reviews coming out youtubers child audiences will see that crash is also in skylanders and buy it, by the next game he'll be on the sidelines of the series.
+sonic meerkat You're such a nitpicker.
This run is really entertaining! Unfortunately many speedruners are very quiet and concentrated and don't talk much. And I really like commentary on speedrunnnig techniques and yout Video is exacly that :)
I don't know who you watch, but most I watch seem to talk a fair amount. They don't start to get quiet/focus unless it's a possible urn which only happens maybe 1-2 times max in a streaming session.
Speech was recorded after the actual try
People laugh at me when I tell them I still love to play PS1 games, but you know, the graphics may suck but I love it, and games like these are classics.
Shutter Speed Maybe those people didn't get a PS1 or were late to the party.
I still play PS1 games. Crash games aged well, the gameplay is smooth.
*****
Water effects and especially the waterfalls in Crash Bandicoot 2 look beautiful, considering the hardware limitations present.
Terri Coverly
you should laugh at them for what they're missing out on. ps1 is the greatest console ever
They are stupid, actually the graphics are very good
+shikar najmadeen I use an emulator ;) all tho it's illegal xD
mandatory watch every 6 months or so
This is the most relaxing and best commentated speedrun that there is ♥
We brits do a good job of being laid back in these things. lmao.
@@abathurx9500
Yank: OOOH this part of the run, it's actually fucking INSAAAANE BROOOOO
Anglo: Ah, yes, I believe this particular trick requires 4 frame-perfect inputs in rapid succession. I must say, it's quite the pickle tickler!
Really well done. This was the first speed run video which I've watched I've watched others and they don't compare to this. I like how you both bring in facts or glitches a player may have not known. Keep up the good work and keep the commentary team the same. Forget what the haters say. Good stuff!
Waqaas Ali Thanks!
+MrBean35000vr Excellent job, Merry Christmas by the way. :)
+MrBean35000vr *tries to play normally* ugh *does slide spin, glitch high jump, and wiggle* wait this ain't a speedrun, but maybe I should do a speedrun.
@@MrBean35000vr where have you guys gone ?
Legendary run and commentary, can't believe this was almost 11 years ago now.
How many heart attacks did you guys have watching this?
I had 52.
ha... ha...
I would ask if it was one for each gem but there are 42 gems...
474736374748279977183 !!!
It was OVER NINE THOUSAAAAANDD!!!! Lol jk
I wish more speedrunners did this after-run commentary because it's fascinating and hilarious. This might be my favourite video on UA-cam.
Do you think you could try do a crash 3 warped speed run? I find these videos satisfying
+KatherineMusic xx i agree!
Crash 3 would be very hard because of these time runs to get 105%
You guys are so British. :P
Sorry dude, Kalebo_III has 1:12:18 :/ Are you planning to beat that soon? ;)
Wow, so fun and interesting to watch. Also, it's a very good idea to add your comments in live
Thanks
10 years later, still showed up on my recommendations and good that it did! Great run and a super entertaining commentary. Felt a bit proud when you said "there is no way a kid would figure all this out" after unlocking the first secret exit. This was the first console game I ever played, back in 1997, 7 years old. Had no internet but managed to somehow get 100%. Probably took forever 😅
I don’t like how you do the bear levels. Please treat the bear with respect or I will have to call PETA on you. Thank you.
This is an amazing speedrun of an amazing game! :D Great job
Stupid
meandre allen why is he stupid?
@@thebackro0ms Shut up
This is one of the greatest commentaries I've heard of a speedrun. I like that it's recorded after it's played, so that they're not stressed out. Often times, it'd be nice to watch the gameplay without some obnoxious commentary, but this is brilliant.
this brought back great memories watched this many times. when he remastered version comes out i might speed run it if they don't patch all movement glitches
love this game. playing through it again now. normally of course because I'm not a wizard like you
Anyone want to see why he hates Ruin levels so much? Watch his Twitch, he was having a perfect speed run at one point and then bang, ruin level destroyed his run.
Not only he speedruns amazingly fast but he also speaks extreamly fast
I saw this video 6 years ago and youtube decided to recommend it for me again, I forgot how fun it was to watch your stream, now I am wondering what are you guys up to these days
Nowdays, I'm mostly streaming Mario Kart Wii. It's been a while since I last played Crash 2, although me and Chadderz did do a live commentary of the recent 100% TAS of the game, for a bit of fun and as a nostalgia trip. That's over on my Twitch if you're curious, in the highlights section.
I think I have watched this run about 3-4 times and I am always satisfied. The commentary along with the amazing gameplay makes this easily in the top 5 runs in my opinion.
Will you be doing another speed run once the remastered copies come out?
It's a huge AVS script that I wrote, involving a lot of miniature video clips and images. Indeed, it was all added afterwards, I went through the original video looking for the frames on which certain things happened and made the interface update based on that.
loved this video. like watching david brent and gareth keenan run a game
Okay, NOW I beat it fully. The last boss fight which was with Cortex was lame... I hate to say it, but even Wrath of Cortex had a better boss fight.........
Yeah, the Cortex fight is very simplistic. It works for me, though, as it's a good way to round off a speedrun; no worries about the final boss screwing me over :P
Good job guys nice video
u guys are devoted for this game well done
i hope there well be crash bandicoot on PS4
I'm going to come back and comment on this video every time I watch it until we get another glorious dual commentary crash 2 run. NST be damned, OG is the best.
22Jun23
25OCT23, still watching.
22JAN24
Ahhh... Good old Crash Bandicoot games! In the recent years the franchise has just gone down the shitter.
I've made only main storyline and never 100%. You made 100% under one and half hour.
Sir. I salute you
This game is a classic, no doubt about it! I grew up on this game and had to play it now that I'm an adult and want to feel like a little kid again!
I didn't realize how entertaining speed runs were
I didn't know the ps2 had a fast disc speed option.
Yup. Start the console without the disc in, press triangle twice, and you should be able to see it there.
that's kind of spooky tbh.
+MrBean35000vr wait mate there's a problem when ever I change the disk speed to fast turn on a game it changes it self to standard again what the hell any solutions?
+Soporific Spy The disc speed reverts to normal when you reset the console. Setting the disc speed to fast can break certain games that were designed to be played at a set speed, so it's turned off automatically as a precautionary measure.
Lol I turned on fast disc speed while ago and I see your comment now :D.
you could have finished it earlier with less then 1:20:00 a bet
you are good
Memories. As a kid I used to 100% it. I looked through every nook and cranny to discover some secrets as I didn't have a guide and there wasn't no internet yet.
How did you get the pause menu overlay to show up in real time?
Zeb89 don't toucha my spaghet.
Zeb89 cosa ci fai qua ahaha
With editing.
It's a thing called ram watch.
This video inspired me to buy Crash 2 and a PS2 and learn 100%. I loved the commentary so much that I wanted to be able to do it too. Crazy how shaving off another 8 minutes took 2 years
When speed is the goal, I don't want to go invincible. It makes me move slower!
Something about the fact that you're brothers and both knowledgeable about crash speedrunning is really funny to me. Wish my siblings and I had that kind of dynamic. The tidbits of mechanics along with the natural chemistry of the banter made this a really fun watch.
Still, it took an awful long time for that dynamic to emerge. When we were younger, he and I were constantly at war with each other. It took growing up and mellowing out for us to finally go, "Yeah, this dude's actually pretty cool" and thus a proper friendship started to emerge. It does help we have relatively similar hobbies, though, heheh. Maybe the same will happen with you and your siblings, you never know what the future will bring. Anyways, glad you enjoyed!
I decided to slow down the footage to see how many gems are visible in the secret ending just for the hell of it. Turns out instead of 42 gems there are 43.
i fucking love you dude please do a speed run of the n sane trilogy ty
why do i watch this all the time
Why are you guys not at AGDQ?!
I'm certainly interested, but I'm also in England which makes it very difficult to pull off. It was being considered this year, as a potential donation war between the any% run that was featured and 100%, but the arrangements couldn't be made fast enough, so I had to withdraw. (Later you leave ordering plane tickets, the more expensive they get, and honestly, I don't have a lot of money to my name).
Bean couldn't you do a kickstarter 1 or 2 pounds times 30 thousand is a lot of money. I would back you
MrBean35000vr Do you think you'll ever be a part of AGDQ? I'd love to see this happen there. It certainly deserves it.
Gimfigle496 Maybe one day. I'll keep trying.
This series of crash would of made a good cartoon. Nice speed run btw
When are you going to do a commentary video on your new crash bandicoot 2 record? I know many others here would like it :)
rly impressive
I did it on the PS2, because my PS1 is almost dead :P
In order to go fast when you spin, start a slide, then before the slide ends, if you are using the d-pad, let go of the direction button, if using the analog, let go of the stick, and then do a spin while nothing else is pressed and before the slide ends. The spin will then be fast!
This will remain a pleasure to watch. The commentary, equally, is brilliant! :)
Two brothers just chilling and talking about Crash Bandicoot 2 in general and its speedrunning techniques makes for such a lovely time watching this video, I love it!! I'm halfway through it and it feels like time's flying
The funniest thing about the true ending is that when the space station blows up, it doesn’t show cortex in it, making it seem like he just disintegrated lmao
on plant food if you go into the bonus round and then die you have 1 minute extra on your timer, not sure if that helps at all, just a glitch I came across.
Wow. I thought I knew my all time favourite game. This not only made me feel like a newbie with playing the game, but it also taught me new tricks I didn't even know existed (like the running at the top of Piston it Away and the "wiggle" jump, I knew I wasn't insane with thinking that wiggling the controller helped and yet i felt silly!).
Also, that Brio ending with him getting trapped in a cyclone had me laughing super hard. Great video and great commentary.
second is the best!
Years later, still love the commentary on this video, even if it's not the wr. It's not just an impressive speedrun; it's bloody good entertainment.
Also, one thing the remastered CB 2 fails at, imo, is the soundtrack. Road to Ruin sounds so much better in the original than the remaster. Pretty game, soundtrack could've used work.
One of the few times I enjoyed a commentary!
probably would have just skimmed through this but the commentary was so good i watched the whole thing
Whenever I can't sleep I put this on. Don't know why but I'm always dead asleep before road to ruin
You are the best player of Crash Bandicoot on the word.
>On the word
Hmm, my reaction to spin slide breaking 3... I think it went along the lines of "OH! I got 3 with a slide, holy shit!" and then complained about my heart for a little while :P
And I believe that glitch you saw and that move I did follow similar principles. I should see if I can get myself stuck in the glass after getting on top of it.
And thanks!
1:00:23
Cock up. Man, I love the English language. Thank you guys.
This was awesome to watch.
R1-X-Square-Circle. Needs good timing or you'll not get enough height, or the red gem won't be low enough to be grabbed in the first place.
Where did you guys go i missed this channel
Still around, but I mostly focus on playing/modding Mario Kart Wii at this point. I'm more active on Twitch than UA-cam these days.
@@MrBean35000vr ahhh ok ... I absolutely love this run and the commentary. This was the video that got me into speed running so a massive thank you. Have a lovely evening.
this is the greatest speedrun of all time
i've watched it at least 50 times now
great job man the force is strong with u
0:55 I've been trying to do that for years. Wtf!
me and my brother figured this out by ourselves back in 97, but we used the box or the seal to do it
Oh please tell me you'll do a Crash 3 Speedrun/walkthrough. Simply love your commentary :)
I just got this in my recommended and got 50 minutes in before looking at the date. The fact that a speedrun like this is 10 years old is just insane, really holds up
Thanks a lot!
I consider myself a die-hard fan of this game and I SILL didn't now you could kill the seals by charging into them. (Did know about spinning gorilla logs) That's interesting to know.
At 38:35 you don't break one of the boxes but it still counts when the bear does. So why bother breaking any of them in these levels? Or how exactly does it work?
If I go too fast while missing boxes, I may cause them to unload before the bear hits them. If that happens, they won't get broken at all. But if I can guarantee that the box will be loaded when the bear gets to it, I don't need to worry. The same applies in the boulder levels. Basically, if I can see a box, it's loaded, and if I can't, it isn't.
1:26:45, you never skip cutscenes in OoT? I guess it's been a few years since these guys have seen an OoT run! (Great run, though)
You can skip a lot, for sure, but you can't skip them all! Heheh.
A real pro, and I thought I was the best player to have closed at 106% --' old times :D
I'm impressed that through all of this, the Triangle button is still in tact from the amount that HUD is checked!
So Sword of seals went from not being a crash speedrunner with a squeaky voice to a grown man running crash 2 at agdq
Not a bad way to turn out, I feel.
Time for my annual rewatch of this run!
The fact this video is 8 years old and you’re still replying to comments. Well played mate
Cause I'm still getting notified, so why not, eh?
That false wall in The Eel Deal blew my mind.
Wait... What? You can lift your lefts up on the grates to avoid being damaged? You've gotta be kidding me. I've beaten this game over 4 times and I've always just spun to avoid them (which is stupid and not nearly as easy). I figured I would learn things from watching this, but I wasn't expecting to learn that I didn't know about a game mechanic.
Thougroughly enjoyed this! Amazing job!
Is PS2 slim really 6 minutes faster? Because I run this game on an original PS (NTSC) and got 1 hour 41 minutes. I died 7 times, but most of them were right after a checkpoint, yet I've seen runs with considerably more time-loss deaths that finish sooner than mine.
It certainly saves quite a lot of time, but your main problem is probably going to be using the NTSC version of the game. The PAL version is faster overall (and you would need a PAL console to match). When they ported the game, they sped up the physics a little bit to make it so that the game wouldn't run at 5/6 speed due to our framerate, but the conversion was slightly off and so Crash moves faster and jumps higher, which saves a lot of time over all the levels in the game.
@@MrBean35000vr That explains how off certain moves are in videos I watch to when I perform them, it doesn't appear physically possible, and it's incredibly difficult to NSS over pits. PAL certainly would make things easier. I would love to body slam every crate instead of finicking around with that wonky hit detection. But that's interesting. Now I'm wondering what my time would translate to under the fastest version. Would you know the subtraction off top to say if it'd be under 1 hour 40? And by how much specifically if so?
I'm eternally waiting for Sony to release the original Crash and Spyro trilogies on PS4, just so I can find another way to relive my childhood again. Oh! And awesome speedrun, of course.
This was awesome, thanks guys. This was my favourite game when I was young. Still can't believe you ended with 60+ lives without even doing the bear trick in warp 2.
Nice work indeed for this game
I think I have watched you two do this at least 10 times
I love that it's two brothers together
Reminds me of me and my brother where we were younger
The commentary is brilliant!
Thank you guys
It's easier on PAL, or so the rumours go. On NTSC, it is certainly possible to get it in the way I do. However, much easier is a trick where you stand on the bouncy box to the right by spinning when you jump on it, and then using that for a little extra height to do a slide spin jump body slam and catch the gem.
The timing on the Diggin' It box count glitch is totally unfair. All you can do is keep trying until you get it. Even sometimes when it looks like it should work, it simply... doesn't. It's very silly.
As for Lv2, the red gem is moving slowly up and down. You have to hit it with the body slam as it moves downwards in order to get it from the floor.
Would you consider doing crash 1 or 3 ? Love the commentary, none of the others explain and it's so good to find out so much about a game I used to play day at night as a kid.
thank you. it was enjoyable to listen to you guys explaining stuff, and besides, you sound like good friends. rarely do I hear such positive speedrun
Haha, no it does not happen very often, but it's something you can practice with relative ease. All you have to do is jump out of a spin at the right moment and you can go right past the animation trigger, but the level still loads anyways.
This is great. You cover a lot of helpful strategies and you do a great job speed running, and the commentary just makes it that much better :)
Watching again for the eight time I love both the gameplay and the commentary haha, do you plan on getting the Nsane trilogy, I plan on buying a ps4 just to play the crash games again
Usually the result is no music, but otherwise the game is normal. In some cases, it causes the texturing inside the warp room to be corrupted, which is interesting to look at.
No matter how hard I try, I can't do a slide spin like you do. Crash doesn't gain any more speed that a normal one. Is this only a glitch in the PAL version? Or am I just just not doing it right.
TonyElTigre42 It exists in all versions, so you'll need to change up your technique a bit!
MrBean35000vr I don't really even want to speed run with it. I just suck at the chase levels and I want an advantage lol. I'll keep trying
0:55 In a remake, you wouldn't do it that way. Because it has been corrected. The gem is much higher.