Sonic Adventure DX (PC) - Emerald Coast Sonic speedrun in 59.65

Sub 1 in this level has always been an unattainable benchmark to me, that was reserved for only the fastest few runners, but thanks to a recent discovery by SQeefy and setup by Niczur, there is now an additional second you can save in the whale section. Shortly before this new strat had been found, I had coincidently put a bunch of time into this level and got my time down to 1:01, so I knew that I now I was now very close to breaking the 1 minute barrier. I was able to get a 1:00.60 pretty quickly with it, but saving those final few tenths took me a lot longer than I was hoping. I was lucky I got this run going with a very good start and then a low speedpad bonk that knocked me directly into the checkpoint after the whale section, which allowed me to segment the run there without losing any time. After a decent middle section, which I managed to get in one segment, I was now about a second ahead of my previous time, so I just had to finish up a half decent final checkpoint. Very happy to finally have gotten rid of the 1: in this stage
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[@deemascolo453]

It’s what sonic would have wanted

[@theultimategamer95]

I always knew that whale strat was possible, but to see it in a run, hot damn dude.

[@Nimputs]

the setup is actually very consistent so its even viable for full game runs: ua-cam.com/video/5ce-Ia7ferI/v-deo.html

[@xbtgames]

You, my friend, have earned a sub for making such awesome Sonic Adventure speedruns.

[@MADENTHLQ]

awesome job with that speedrun mate!

[@granfill]

I liked the part where he changed the camera in a blink of an eye

[@MS54905]

How is the mission "collect 50 rings and destroy the capsule" but u get "rescue Tails" mission?

[@Nimputs]

sorry for the late response, I had notifications turned off for some reason without realizing. Basically before the run I set up a glitch that ensures I get the story mode ending of the stage cause its faster than jumping on the capsule, but without adding 10 seconds to my time. You do this glitch by playing the stage in story mode and then soft-resetting during the emblem cutscene. That also causes the game to "move" on to the next mission but without updating the stage itself

[@MS54905]

@@Nimputs that's really impressive, I hadn't any ideia this glitch existed, thx for explaining

[@dicespeedruns6277]

BRO WHAT?

[@dicespeedruns6277]

THE WHALE STRAT WTF?

[@Kogotom123]

“Now it can’t hurt you anymore”

[@caioccerqueira]

How does pausing and selecting things in the menu help?

[@Nimputs]

the only pause that does something in this run is the very first one. There I change the camera mode, cause the camera behavior in free cam mode is more beneficial for the beginning of the stage, while the rest is better in auto cam. All other pauses are just to look at the timer to see what pace I'm on so I can decide if I wanna move on to the next section or retry for a faster time

[@caioccerqueira]

@@Nimputs Nice!! I didn't notice that was in game time being counted. I thought it was real world time from the start till the end of the stage. In this case, restarting on the checkpoints is a really good strategy.

[@Nimputs]

@@caioccerqueira full game runs from start of the story to the credits are timed like that (in practice its more complicated cause the game is weird with framerate, but thats the idea at least), so there pauses are included in the timing. But individual level competition is always just based on the level timer

[@ari-man]

Awesome