It's a frame perfect trick called a fadeout. Pressing the start button on the correct frame after a boss explosion will cause the game to attempt to open the menu, but the process is interrupted and the screen fades to black early instead. It saves approximately 20 frames, or 1/3rd of a second, each time it's used.

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Eagle has been my ringtone for years, OST is unreal in this game

The work of capcom sound team always was very good in general

X: *insert child scream Sigma: Hahahaha, do you think you can defeat ME? X: Yes

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It's a trick I've seen on RTA runs, it's insane and I love it.

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Yeah my mouth dropped 3x through that whole stunt

@@Atrain204saaaaaame, that was nuts

It's a classic

This is what a Perfect Human Speedrun would look like.

I think the TAS practiced getting good RNG so that the penguin wouldn’t slide

@@sapphireskyes3571 If they used a turbo controller

@@Toadzx No turbo needed. The shooting in this video is perfectly doable by human speedrunners and has been done by many of them. Quit spreading misinformation.

Haha yeah, you're not alone there. Bospider had my number when I was a kid, never made it to the second Sigma stage. Thanks for watching!

Never too late to learn!

This run is done specifically on the JP release for faster text boxes, yes. The JP version saves 11.6 seconds over the ENG version due the differences in text boxes. This is also the v1.0 ROM, which was chosen specifically because of the allowance of 'item juggling', where we use additional boomerangs to delay how long it takes for an item to return to X, and is used only once during the run at 8:17. The v1.1 ROM in both ENG and JP does not allow item juggling. Great ear on the Sting Chameleon sound effect by the way. It's not due to the fadeout, but rather just another difference between v1.0 and v1.1 of the ROM. As far as I know, it's the only audio-related change between the two versions.

Haha yeah, just a byproduct of the fadeout glitch, the music levels are reduced (but the sound effect volume remains) until the next time the game is paused.

It's the song that plays during the closing sequence while X runs on the highway and all the enemies and bosses are named. You can hear it again at 36:21.

Yes, it is optimal to do it the way that is shown. If you jump from further back and with dash-speed, you have to do an extra wall kick to make it over the pillar. Instead, like shown here, you can dash up to it and turn back to the left for just a few frames to gain what's called 'slope speed' from the angled ground. You must be at walking speed to attain slope speed, but the main purpose is to gain the extra jump height that slope speed affords, allowing us to reach the top of the pillar in a single jump instead of two. Doing it as shown in this video saves between 5 and 10 frames, depending on how well you execute it.

@@ARSVids You can absolutely do that, but unfortunately hadoukening the nose is slightly slower than just using chameleon sting. There are ways to use the hadouken more effectively, but they're not viable in RTA runs because it's dependent on the RNG from the eyes, and a human player has no way to predict that their setup would work for a given eye pattern.

There is currently no known way to get the mech up to where the heart is. Going underneath only leads to another large blue pole that the mech cannot jump over, and even if you made it past that somehow, the jump afterwards to make it to the upper path is still not possible, the mech won't reach even halfway up the wall.

It's a frame perfect trick called a fadeout. Pressing the start button on the correct frame after a boss explosion will cause the game to attempt to open the menu, but the process is interrupted and the screen fades to black early instead. It saves approximately 20 frames, or 1/3rd of a second, each time it's used.

It's customary for a TAS to let the entirety of the credits play, including any after-credits scenes.

@@OhTrials Oh, you mean that a TAS/RTA of MMX (for example) ends before the credits start? (when the player no longer controls anything maybe except skipping credits)?

@@kirbaran2039 By RTA timing, the run starts when the player presses start on the main menu and it ends on the final hit of Big Sig. By TAS timing, the run starts when the console powers on and ends when the last input is given, in this case, the final text box closes. That said, TAS videos still let the remainder of the game play out even if there are no inputs required, so that the game is displayed completely from absolute start to absolute end. The timer I added was to help MMX speedrunners reference parts of the run, so it follows standard RTA timing procedures, but I also allowed the game to play out in full to adhere to standard TAS practices.

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There is no RNG associated with the hadouken capsule, only a set of conditions that must be met. The ledge where the capsule spawns has to be 'seen' a total of 5 times. On the fifth and final time, the player must have collected all hearts, all subtanks, all armour upgrades, all boss weapons, and must be at full health (the contents of your subtanks does not matter). If all of these conditions are met, the capsule spawns.

No, final Sigma can't take damage from the Hadouken in the original game. It is possible in the PSP remake, Maverick Hunter X, though.

Yes, exactly

No teleport involved, I think you may just be watching in 30fps instead of 60fps. Try rewatching that moment with one of the higher resolution/framerate options on the video and it should clear things up for you.

Mostly from strategies that require inputs humans cannot perform. Examples would be a wall clip in Spark Mandrill stage that requires around a dozen frame perfect sequential inputs to save ~3 seconds, turnaround wallkicks that require both left and right to be pressed on the d-pad simultaneously that physical controllers cannot do, and a total of 11 phantom grabs through the run whereas this Human Theory TAS and actual speedrunners will only ever perform 5 of them.

Using the 波動拳 ⬇️↘️➡️ + Shot

It is to facilitate one of the requirements for the hadouken capsule to spawn. The ledge where the capsule spawns must be 'seen' a total of five times. The first time is during the normal playthrough of Armadillo's stage. After all of the bosses are defeated and items collected, you re-enter Armadillo's stage to view the ledge three more times, falling in the pit each time to reset the stage, which is faster than exiting the stage and traversing all the way back there. The fifth time the ledge has been seen, and you have met all of the other conditions, the hadouken capsule will spawn, which is necessary for 100% completion of the game.

Kuwanger skip is not used in the RTA 100% category because it loses time for RTA runners when compared to just using the hadouken. It's used in the RTA any% category as it's much faster than the homing torpedo Kuwanger refight. Since this Human Theory TAS is a showcase of current optimal strats for the RTA speedrun, Kuwanger skip doesn't belong here.

I forget the technical details of it, but the short version is that specific situations can corrupt the data that tells the game what object the Boomerang has grabbed, letting it transform into other often illegal objects, such as that platform, at which point you ride the platform as it gets pulled to you To quote the uploader from another comment about the same moment at 11 mins > Both that and the moment in Sigma 1 with the platform are called phantom grabs. It's a semi-complex trick that requires the runner to load specific items into the game's memory the frame after collecting an item from a boomerang. Phantom grabs have been a staple in high level Mega Man X speedruns for over a decade now, definitely one of the flashier tricks we use!

Both that and the moment in Sigma 1 with the platform are called phantom grabs. It's a semi-complex trick that requires the runner to load specific items into the game's memory the frame after collecting an item from a boomerang. Phantom grabs have been a staple in high level Mega Man X speedruns for over a decade now, definitely one of the flashier tricks we use!

A standard TAS is meant to go as fast as possible, even if that includes inputs and glitches that are impossible for human hands to do. A 'Human Theory' TAS is designed to play the game as fast as possible while also staying within the confines of what a human player can do. As the text at the beginning of the video says, everything contained within this run is humanly achievable.

It is to facilitate one of the requirements for the hadouken capsule to spawn. The ledge where the capsule spawns must be 'seen' a total of five times. The first time is during the normal playthrough of Armadillo's stage. After all of the bosses are defeated and items collected, you re-enter Armadillo's stage to view the ledge three more times, falling in the pit each time to reset the stage, which is faster than exiting the stage and traversing all the way back there. The fifth time the ledge has been seen, and you have met all of the other conditions, the hadouken capsule will spawn, which is necessary for 100% completion of the game.

A standard TAS is meant to go as fast as possible, even if that includes inputs and glitches that are impossible for human hands to do. A 'Human Theory' TAS is designed to play the game as fast as possible while also staying within the confines of what a human player can do. As the text at the beginning of the video says, everything contained within this run is humanly achievable.

@@OhTrials thanks

All of what is shown in this TAS is humanly viable without the use of turbo, and that includes the shooting speeds. Speedrunners of this game, myself included, can button mash on par with this TAS.

This looks like perfectly normal mashing to me, a fair bit strenuous, I wouldn't be able to maintain such a rate for a whole run, but completely reasonable

@@syrelian it seemed like some of the rate in opening stage in particular didn't seem humanely possible

because it is tool assisted

@@yee6870 My brother in Christ, that's the joke.

As the introductory text says, everything in this video is humanly viable, including the button mashing without the use of turbo controllers. There are several speedrunners of this game that have button mashing abilities on par with this TAS, myself included. Frankly, it would be downright strange to make a human theory TAS shoot slower than real human players.

Tell me your mash is slow without telling me your mash is slow 😂

@@OhTrials yeah that first burst had me going but the rest looked pretty human. good video

Your mash game is weak. You must train more.

That’s so cool dude! You should tell us, and especially this slow TAS guy, what specifically to do differently on each boss fight so that we can 100% this game a minute faster than than the any% record!

you don't know what a TAS speedrun is, do you

There is no need for a turbo controller to shoot at the speeds shown in this TAS. The shooting rate was based on actual human speedrunners of this game, of which I am one. It would be more strange of me to make a 'Human Theory' TAS that shoots slower than real human players.

As the introductory text says, everything in this video is 100% humanly viable. The button mashing during the intro stage (and any other part of the run, for that matter) is well within the realm of the human limit, as I and several other speedrunners of this game possess a shooting speed that is on par with this TAS. The stage selects are equally human in that most stage selects of this route can be done during a single frame and have been accomplished many times by actual humans. I do appreciate the kind words, though.

​@@OhTrialsI doubt a human can press a button 4~5 times in 0,1 second, but if you say so...

@@rafaelogenio819 You're clearly mistaken if you think that the shooting in this video was "4 to 5 times in 0.1 seconds". That is not even possible at any level, as the game runs at 60 FPS. The MAXIMUM speed that a TAS could ever shoot at is 30 times per second (3 times in 0.1 seconds). That is the absolute limit of the hardware involved. The shooting speed in this video never exceeded 20 times per second (2 times in 0.1 seconds). That is a rate that has been done by many people, including myself. I have videos on this very channel displaying my shooting speed. It would be wrong of me and downright strange to make a 'Human Theory' TAS that shoots slower than actual human speedrunners.

Dude, I could mash faster than this while blindfolded. It’s super doable for a human

@@rafaelogenio819 This mashing isn't THAT absurd, I can manage that with decent consistency even and I don't even speedrun, not for the full length of the run I'm sure, thats a feat of stamina rather than physical execution limit though, as for the menuing, super reasonable, the stage select is stupid fast responsive and if you know what you plan to do you don't need to think just slam buttons