The Story of Melee's Craziest Speedrun

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Join me as I uncover the secrets behind Super Smash Bros. Melee's insane 100% speedrun category, All Trophies. We'll hear from the category runners, ncb1221, bwells626, and aMSa as they share their experiences from the past several years of running the category.
To solve the mysteries behind this run, we'll examine the category's requirements, dissect the best route, and learn how to shave off time from the runners' best practices. At the end, the current world record holder will share their most clutch moments.
All Trophies on Speedrun.com: www.speedrun.com/ssbm#All_Tro...
Smash Speedrunning / Records Discord server: / discord
Soundtrack: MELEE! The Album. by Dual Screen: • Dual Screen - Insert Disc
DISCORD► / discord
TWITCH► / davidvkimball
PATREON► / davidvkimball
MERCH►davidvkimball.com/merch
00:00 - Introduction
00:47 - All Trophies Category Beginnings
03:36 - Category Overview
05:06 - ncb1221's run
11:03 - bwells626's runs
16:03 - aMSa's runs
27:27 - A Challenger Approaches
30:26 - "Practice Run"
43:04 - Who Else Is Out There?
46:16 - Closing Thoughts
Detailed walkthrough of my route: • SSBM All Trophies Spee...
My Route Notes: docs.google.com/document/d/1x...
24 Hour Time Lapse Video - • 24 Hour Time Lapse
Outro Music Credit: "Resting Place" by Garrett Williamson • Resting Place
#speedrun #supersmashbros #worldrecord

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@LofiRobotGuy Жыл бұрын

David pulling the most gamer move by gambling all his coins to get sub 19 hours for 1 trophy is the most clutch thing I've ever seen. Congrats on the speedrun record

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I can't wait for your new content!

@jeffreystone8974 Жыл бұрын

Right? You can see on his face he went from "pfft David no.." to "... DAVID YES!" 😂

@pyromaniacforhire Жыл бұрын

"Heck It. Let's roll the dice." You will go down in history as a freaking Legend, My Guy~! 💜

@magicwindow6682 Жыл бұрын

a true Chad move

@PlanetAfterlife Жыл бұрын

Nicely said.

@Mr_Spaghetti Жыл бұрын

it’s happened multiple times at this point, but i always get so hype when a speedrun documentary video pulls the “the newest runner………. was me.” move

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Hahaha. Glad!

@ObservationofLimits Жыл бұрын

And that speedrunner.....was Matt Turk

@strangejune Жыл бұрын

@@ObservationofLimits No one expected the sub 19 minutes. And he didn't even share how he did it...

@wheremybike Жыл бұрын

Always gotta celebrate yourself when you get the chance yknow? I celebrate myself every night

@donn4life Жыл бұрын

@@wheremybike That sounds so wrong haha. Hope you found your bike though.

@awiseman93 Жыл бұрын

“Heck it. Let’s roll the dice.” WHAT A LEGEND

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

🥰🥰🥰

@Nintendoggy 2 ай бұрын

"I used to rooooooll the dice~"

@mostlyharmless11 Жыл бұрын

44:28 I’m pretty sure Armada was making a joke that he was trying to speedrun “all trophies” by winning as many melee tournaments as possible there lol

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Yes he was!

@jbomb7867 Жыл бұрын

Pretty sure I'm up to like 17 years in my run now. Should probably get around to finishing

@henryhardtits Жыл бұрын

Lmao same

@MrBrendanRizzo Жыл бұрын

Me too. If only I could beat Adventure on Hard.

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

The 100 coin battles is the real culprit here, let's be honest.

@Kibernizzle 13 күн бұрын

Just checking in.. How is the run going? 😂

@endlesswanderer1753 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely insane. Despite all the hard work and dedication you put into this, that 25% chance gamble is the most incredible part of it. You could have played it safe and still got the world record, but now you're a legend.

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!!

@LittleBabyBlue777 Жыл бұрын

If watching Summoning Salt's taught me anything, it's this; No run is exempt from being refined to incredible degrees. In time, I'm sure we'll learn new ways to tackle the coins process, the overall play of the game, tech to make things go faster, etc. The category's still so young, and has a LOT of room to grow. It's an intimidating category, but one I'd love to see grow over time. Can't wait to see how this one develops! Good job, and great video!

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! You're so right. As of this video, Pablo_SSB has the new emulator world record at around 14:24:29. Sub 14.5 hours. He's done some impressive new routing.

@Khazuki_ 11 ай бұрын

@@davidvkimball is there anywhere to learn what that new routing is, without watching a 14.5 hour video?

@davidvkimball 11 ай бұрын

@@Khazuki_ yeah there's a Speedrun Discord for Smash you could ask there.

@Shmandalf Жыл бұрын

Something that's nice about long runs like these is that while every second can still count, recovering from mistakes is a lot more possible than say, a 20 minute run. Grats man that's a crazy achievement for any runner

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thank you!! You're exactly right. It definitely helped with the anxiety and stress factor you experience in most clutch records.

@korpen2858 Жыл бұрын

Unless, you know... You make a 10 hour continous mistake 💀

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

@@korpen2858 Hahahaha yeah.

@turkeyman631 Жыл бұрын

Until your time gets 'too good.' It's like watching the 120 star runners for SM64 now adays. People like Cheese and Simply with really good times reset after like the first or second mistake if it's early enough. Thats why I know I'd prefer to run something like this rather than a very popular category.

@Shmandalf Жыл бұрын

@@turkeyman631 Yeah I hear you, I want to learn to run some Pokemon games and typically they're 2-5 hours which seems like a nice butter zone for me, but some of the challenge runs are much longer

@dawnpath5727 Жыл бұрын

I know this is unrelated to the (really well-covered & interesting) video content, but please know it means the world to me & other viewers that benefit from closed captions that you captioned an ENTIRE 47 minute long video - even with indicators that help with context. Incredibly based move on your end, man. Thanks.

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

You're welcome! I think it's worth it!

@thebilliestsilly 3 ай бұрын

late, but seconded!

@NunofYerbizness Жыл бұрын

I'm somewhat surprised Melee's "You got all trophies" message and Diskun unlock requirements work as intended, considering the facts that there are actually 293 trophies in Melee (including "Samus Unmasked", "Mario & Yoshi", and "Tamagon"), and there are actually 256 bonuses in the game, with the other seven being unused (those being "Barrel Blast KO", "Crash & Burn", "Deflector", "Green Shell Shooter", "Poolshark", "Red Shell Shooter" and "Ricochet Rifler"), at least according to TCRF.

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Right?! I've scrutinized that page so many times haha.

@mathprodigy Жыл бұрын

@@davidvkimball this warrants a followup vid ABOUT the unused trophies and bonuses. I never knew about all that lol

@Begeru Жыл бұрын

I was about to ask about the bonus trophies requiring save files

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

@@mathprodigy I cover most of them in my documentary Elevated!

@666Drazil Жыл бұрын

@@mathprodigy Dunno about the bonuses but the short of it on the tropies is they were a special in-store promotion in a couple of places in Japan and the US.

@imablisy Жыл бұрын

this video is outstanding. Heck it let's roll the dice is such a chad moment. Excellent presentation and documentation man!

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Hahaha, thank you so much!!

@ryanjd93 Жыл бұрын

"Heck it" goes so hard. I'm using that in everyday conversation now because of this man.

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

@@ryanjd93 Hahahaha amazing

@Skellotronix Жыл бұрын

Fucking "mEmE" cringe is so embarrassing.

@neux64 27 күн бұрын

I know it's been a year but HOLY SMOKES ITS THE PKMN RNG GUY!! I also second the presentation, it stands out and gives the game the love it deserves

@linebeck1381 Жыл бұрын

I think Amsa is the most wholesome human in the world.

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

For sure! Outstanding guy.

@Mister_Clean Жыл бұрын

And he plays such a terrifying character

@Vampibatmanodactyle Жыл бұрын

>emuratewwww

@CSharp__ Жыл бұрын

"At the end, the current world record holder will share their most clutch moments." brilliant foreshadowing

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Hahahaha, thank you!

@CSharp__ Жыл бұрын

@@davidvkimball great stuff as always dude! I stg your editing is top notch

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

@@CSharp__ thanks!!? ☺️☺️☺️

@shy1157 Жыл бұрын

I'm actually super curious as well what a TAS of All Trophies would look like how many coins can be gotten with Dash Dancing every frame in a minute? how many trophies and which ones would be gotten in the first Adventure Mode run? which characters would be used for what scenarios?

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Right?! Super interesting idea.

@GBDupree Жыл бұрын

Could they manipulate the RNG for the lottery? if so, they could make it so they only spend 1 coin and get a new trophy every time! That's a huge time save I'd think. (Unless the RNG isn't manipulated through starting on certain frames or something like that?)

@MLCrafter81 Жыл бұрын

@@GBDupree yes, i think that could possible to do?? (i'm actually very very curious about doing a TAS on this category, but the time investment would be absolutely insane) even if there's not a way to, there's maybe a way to get the trophies really fast outside of lottery

@Epicdps Жыл бұрын

I really hope someone makes a TAS of this!! Practical TAS maybe? DyllonStej?

@MLCrafter81 Жыл бұрын

@@Epicdps I mean they could possibly be involved depending on if they wanted to be involved, it'd be more realistic if a bunch of people had hands in it, since just one person doing it would be a huge gamble and huge weight on the person doing it, especially if they haven't had experience with doing long TASes

@shadowfreak1101 Жыл бұрын

One thing I would know for a TAS run: when you create a new save, the game gives you a free (lottery) trophy. For the TAS, the free trophy that would be most beneficial is Birdo, to instantly get Mushroom Kingdom II.

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

That's right!

@JonathanScarlet 9 ай бұрын

@@davidvkimball But wouldn't it be more beneficial to get Tom Nook or Mute City instead so you don't have to get the smash coins that much or worry about running? Unless you want to route in constant dash-dancing in between KOs or something like that. Just seems like you'd be better off getting the late-game stuff as early as possible and banking on more favorable RNG for Birdo.

@GmNdWtchr96 8 ай бұрын

@@JonathanScarlet They said *lottery* trophy. You can't get the two you mentioned through RNG.

@JonathanScarlet 8 ай бұрын

@@GmNdWtchr96 Ah. Guess I missed that.

@Mackster44 Жыл бұрын

Haha, Armada's deadpan All Trophies joke is gold. Mad respect for getting a sick record on top of making this video, it was a great watch!

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@TheQuicksilver115 Жыл бұрын

Haha yeah I think David might have whooshed that one EDIT: Nah he knows lol

@yayeeters4919 Жыл бұрын

I'm new to this channel, but I really like that you're reaching out and hearing each runners' povs and personal experiences. Amazing way to get the real story. Straight from the original source.

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thank you!! That was the idea!

@SSB_Seal Жыл бұрын

22:19 Bruh, I can't believe that. I would be so unbelievably tilted if that happened to me Also congrats on your world record! This video was very entertaining to watch.

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thank you, I'm really glad you enjoyed it!

@orthostic1933 Жыл бұрын

the amount of melee jank in this video is hilarious and insane

@essielesse Жыл бұрын

I like to think the Baja Blast at 34:49 gave you the energy to keep going.

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

World record-causing beverage and company. 😍

@ferxxo20xx Жыл бұрын

Baja Blast really works in mysterious ways. I feel revitalized after sippin' one.

@jiaan100 2 ай бұрын

It has mystical properties. Truly the nectar of the gods.

@CrypticCode97 Жыл бұрын

I love these speedrun documentaries from people so deep into specific communities/categories

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Me too!!

@River_StGrey Жыл бұрын

"Ya know, I'm pretty close to sub 19..." My heart skipped at that. Really glad it payed off for you, this shit is wild.

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Hahaha. Thank you so much!

@MarMaxGaming Жыл бұрын

All trophies, holy crap what a category. Only something that most people never do, or ends up taking several years!

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Exactly! 😂

@MarMaxGaming Жыл бұрын

@@davidvkimball congratulations on the grind and making it happen! hey David, if you’re into off the wall gaming records… would you mind checking out my vid of beating Ninja Gaiden while running 🏃 at the same time? We did it by putting a TV and an NES on the back of a bike with my friend riding 🚴 , and I ran behind it… hasn’t gotten a lot of attention, I think some people aren’t sure what to make of it! Also did Contra, Battletoads, and attempted Ghosts N Goblins… it was during Covid, kind of a crazy idea

@psymar Жыл бұрын

Yeah -- had the game since 2001 and still haven't managed a few of them!

@OatmealTheCrazy Жыл бұрын

I'm still 20 years into the no damage clear split

@MarMaxGaming Жыл бұрын

@@OatmealTheCrazy haha man that’s tough. Go Very Easy and try using a character with range moves like Samus and keep using the missiles, with the charge shot too. I feel your pain, you’ll be doing great for 10-15 min then a jab comes through like… 😑😩😩

@kellenshover Жыл бұрын

Congrats on the world record! This is something I was always curious about as the trophies fascinated me so much as a kid and teenager playing the game. One time I printed an, at least, 50 page document listing all of the bonuses in the game in order to get Diskun back in the day. My Mom was not happy about the amount of ink used!

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Hahahaha that's amazing. Bwells did the same thing as a kid. Thanks for sharing

@Gigamex2 Жыл бұрын

I feel this comment! I did the same thing. Never got the hammer drop bonus... Might have to get my old stuff out and see if I can finally do it!

@RobertJW Жыл бұрын

@@Gigamex2 I got halfway through this video, went to find my Wii and my copy of Melee, and then realised I couldn't get past the menu screen because I don't have any AA batteries for the Wii remote.

@ethansunday1489 Жыл бұрын

2:34 When I first heard this i thought it was hyperbole... Nope. I did the math, at 8.76 seconds per vs match it would take exactly 101 days 9 hours 20 minutes 0 seconds to complete. Wow.

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

That's insane hahahaha

@rtyuik7 Жыл бұрын

"1,000,000 VS Mode matches! ...Never thought you'd do the math and see the time-cost!"

@PatSpeedruns Жыл бұрын

It's seriously impressive what speedrunners put themselves through. These crazy challenges, especially ones that takes hours to complete, or are just really difficult, are seriously amazing. This community will never cease to amaze me

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

It's so fun to see what people are capable of!

@Pokemonmaster888 Жыл бұрын

This is a well-constructed video about the All Trophies category and its speedrun story on that site. A lot of the rules and sorting out of this category that happened this year were addressed when I first added it in 2019, but the category format didn't have them on the website then due to the lack of people playing. We weren't sure about the best way to do some things until more people submitted and couldn't do some of the plans either when there were only one or two people that had submitted. It is good that this category's leaderboard was improved, and more people will hopefully try to complete them with the better leaderboard and advancements in knowing how to play the category informatively. I'm glad to see that aMSa got a submission that could be approved! It was sad when his first speedrun had to be rejected due to the incomplete video problem; I didn't like having to do that. Your 1st place record is also great! A TAS of this speedrun category would be fun. There are likely a lot of people that already worked on this speedrun in the past because that website only has a pretty small amount of Melee 1P competition/data out of all of its online data and offline history.

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much and I appreciate this background information a lot. ☺️

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

I've uploaded a full guide on this run with notes, spreadsheets, etc. on my Bonus channel: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/arx5jaSmlpnHj3U.html

@davidvBonus Жыл бұрын

Hey, that's me

@jameswhite2308 Жыл бұрын

27:27. Caught me off guard, cause up til this point I went from "it's solid video so far, not bad" to "what" to then 20 more minutes passed by and left wowed. Earned yourself at least one more subscriber right there. Great job!

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!!!

@shamwow2000 Жыл бұрын

pretty much finished the documentary and omg that clutch sub 19 with the great fox gave me goosebumps!!!! once again, amazing stuff. love to see more of these documentaries

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!! Glad you enjoyed it!

@wiz0zero Жыл бұрын

Great video. That sub 19 realization and clutching the last trophy was “*chefs kiss*”

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

@BrookieSmallz Жыл бұрын

Very professionally made video. Thank you. Collecting trophies in the game was always the most appealing part of the game, and now almost 30, and watching AsumSaus I realized I never even had them all lol. Maybe someday.

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Hahaha. AsumSaus is amazing. I turn 30 in November, too. Thank you so much for watching.

@QuintessentialWalrus Жыл бұрын

Getting the lucky sub 19 hour run was such a chad move lol

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Hahaha thank you!!

@DarkViperAU Жыл бұрын

27:44 Ha that is a great twist! 42:04 Fricking nice! Gratz

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Hahaha thank you so much!! I'm so glad you watched it! I had a lot of fun setting up those moments with pacing and music.

@ChaosPootato Жыл бұрын

Matt confirmed consumer of good content

@TheEvilmonkey25 Жыл бұрын

Oh my god this is the most unhinged run I've ever seen in my life

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Hahaha. Yeah it's insane

@SSBRocker Жыл бұрын

Fun and interesting watch. In 2017 I started attempting to 100% every Super Smash Bros. game on stream. Although I didn't attempt to speedrun it and did those games in multiple stream sessions, it was fun doing them and also it taught me a lot about these games, for instance how to farm coins in Melee or how to get every single bonus. I even made my own checklist with every requirement for getting every trophy. So many hours of brainless grinding, but I still had a good time doing that.

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Well done!!

@catman1900 Жыл бұрын

thanks for having full english subs instead of just auto generated ones! awesome documentary!

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

You're welcome! They were pretty tedious to make haha, so thank you for noticing.

@djtuff3355 Жыл бұрын

How does this video only have 4000 views? With the amount of effort you put into it I think it deserves way more! Props to you for 1) Running the category and 2) Making the video. Well spent 47 minutes of my time!

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!! Hoping to get more views soon. 😅

@djtuff3355 Жыл бұрын

@@davidvkimball Curse the yt algorithm!!

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

@@djtuff3355 Right? Sometimes it's helped me though!

@MeesterTweester Жыл бұрын

That was a great video. I looked into the category before but didn't know the whole story. There was a running trend of every runner making a big error, but I guess that's bound to happen with such a long and complex category.

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Right? Thank you so much!

@angelmunoz2365 Жыл бұрын

Dude, I have a lot of fun watching this vid, and I respect your commitment a lot. What a last second lottery roll!

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@mariahs6 Жыл бұрын

Such a well composed and edited video! Congratulations on your run too! Speedruns like these have always been the most fascinating to me!

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@TheQuicksilver115 Жыл бұрын

This was an incredible display of tenacity! Awesome, awesome, awesome!! Also big thanks for putting music credits at the end, no fewer than 5 times during this did I catch myself groovin' like daaaaamn this beat SLAPS! Gonna love that album! Thanks for the insane effort that you put into the run and then this video about it. New fan fosho! Heck it, let's roll the dice!

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!! I'm really glad you enjoyed it. I appreciate the kind words.

@Alexander_Grant Жыл бұрын

Hey man, just wanted to say you'll have a much larger audience soon. It's gotta be disheartening to only have 17k subs after the amount of hours I know making this video took, but the quality will get you there. I can only imagine every video you've made has taken this much care and attention, I plan on watching through the rest soon. Your use of music and transitions into the montages are already far more proficient than many other Melee content creators (hell, many content creators) with far larger subscriber counts (39:40 specifically sticks out to me as exceptional, though every one was pretty sick). Always cool to find smaller channels before they blow up, best of luck to you.

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

What a very kind thing to say. Thank you so much, I hope you enjoy the rest of my videos.

@namechild Жыл бұрын

You really killed it with this video, looking forward to future content from you. And congrats on the WR!

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!!

@worsedoughnut Жыл бұрын

Another awesome video, fantastic showcase of the absurdity that is All Trophies. Also glad to have been there to cheer you on for a handful of hours during your run, it was incredible to watch!

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thanks dude, I really appreciate your help during the run. ☺️☺️

@ScootaNinja Жыл бұрын

After all these years of playing Melee, I had no idea Celebi was in this game

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

It has the most strict unlock criteria of anything except for the Diskun trophy, so it makes sense!

@vastkomplex1851 Жыл бұрын

It would be super interesting to see a full tas of this category.

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

I agree!

@Jcool114 Жыл бұрын

This was such an awesome video! Top notch production quality and amazing story telling, content like this is so inspiring to me. Hope you keep making more, this was truly incredible!

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!! I'm really glad you checked it out!! Thanks Cooper!

@RESPRiT Жыл бұрын

Wake up, babe, new DVK Melee doc

@fayescarlet Жыл бұрын

The world of speed-running never ceases to amaze me. So much dedication and time spent, nobody loves games more than speedrunners! Amazing video!

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! And truer words have never been spoken haha.

@MR.__G Жыл бұрын

Just the other day I was looking into dk64 speed run. It’s the game with the most collectibles ever & I thought a 100 percent run was crazy… but this was just insane on so many levels lol.. I truly respect the speed run community !

@AlexanderWare3 Жыл бұрын

This is literally what I've always dreamed of thank you so much

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

I'm glad! You're so welcome

@flaretheblitz1282 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely insane. Congrats on the record, and thank you for the amazing video!

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thank you, I'm really glad you enjoyed it!

@AdmiralEggroll Жыл бұрын

Just another reason to ban the boxx smh. Incredible video David, I got chills at the beginning with the editing :)

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thanks Matt!! I hope I didn't break your B0XX controller. 😳

@snickidy6947 Жыл бұрын

That's the most badass thing I've ever seen taking that 25% chance on the new trophy

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Hahaha thanks!!

@beingofuniverse5343 Жыл бұрын

I wonder what the most efficient strategy for the lottery is. I suspect "round up to ~90%" is a pleasant safe strat but it probably isn't the best usage of coins. Also, can someone more familiar with Melee's RNG mechanics tell me whether doing RNG manipulation would be viable for the lottery here.

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Great question. SaveState is like the authority on RNG manip in Melee, and Fuzzyness knows a bit about it also. I watched a video covering it. There is a seed for Melee, so nothing is truly "random." It's probably possible to get on a cycle where you get the perfect number of trophies (with maybe a "name entry" or "random character select" thrown in there to change the seed.

@PracticalTAS Жыл бұрын

It's certainly possibly to manipulate the RNG. A TAS could even brute force with a strategy like "make a savestate, play the lottery, if you don't get a new trophy reload and increase the price by 1 before playing again, repeat" and probably collect every lottery trophy with a lot of coins to spare. To be efficient and even do this in real time you'd have to figure out the relationship between coins spent and the trophy you eventually receive, reverse engineer the function that converts RNG seed to trophy, and calculate your current RNG seed at a given time (the last of which we know how to do).

@Rumcake256 Жыл бұрын

That was an incredible journey you took us on during this video. Very well made and well done on your run!

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

@SayTxnist Жыл бұрын

16:15 That timing with yoshi's egg and the music just can't be coincidence, it was very cool

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

😉

@h_b_g_4 Жыл бұрын

Incredible video, David. Nothing to say more than incredible.

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

@IAmElectrospecter Жыл бұрын

This reminds me that I have a memory card somewhere with my old Melee save file with like 2 trophies left to get. I should finish them someday!

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Totally! My guess is... Smash Coins trophy and Diskun?

@IAmElectrospecter Жыл бұрын

@@davidvkimball your guess is as good as mine at this point, as I don't think I've loaded up the save in close to 15 years! Although I do remember having an awful time getting a couple of the bonuses, and unlock conditions probably weren't documented quite as well back then... shooting star comes to mind?

@LyraKeaton Жыл бұрын

Really well put together, and congrats on the WR!

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thanks Lyra! Your ongoing support means so much!!

@thefranChise1 Жыл бұрын

Finally got around to watching and HOLY this was amazing. Great work!

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Really glad you liked it 😊

@AleksHugs Жыл бұрын

Incredible video. One thought-I know the 15 minute melee part with master hand is meant to be a break point of the run, but wouldn’t it be most optimal to grind coins during this part of the run? Dash dance with master hand for the 15 minutes would, theoretically, save 15 minutes. I know losing the break sucks, but thems the facts

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

That is exactly right. I intended on spending half of it taking a break and the other half grinding, but I accidentally started it as 1P instead of 3P, which would have meant my inputs didn't count. So I just took a full break haha.

@shipguy55 Жыл бұрын

Congrats to you David, for what madness you were able to accomplish!

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! "Madness" is quite accurate.

@okeanos317 Жыл бұрын

OMG I really wanted to hear about this,I'm glad you did a video about this,cause that was always so much fun to me,collecting the trophies and learning about nintendo's past

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

@EvanRickettsUk Жыл бұрын

This was such a good video, nice and informative! Congrats on the run

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Evan!!

@valseedian Жыл бұрын

playing this game near daily when it came out, it took me more than 19 months to get all the trophies. love me some melee

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Nice!

@SecureLemons Жыл бұрын

45:46 gotta give it to amsa for being real lmao

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Hahaha fr

@Meme-pg5tw Жыл бұрын

wow just wow that was amazing i was just watching it casually and the ending of your run where you just went frick it and it paid off for the sub 19 was amazing

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!! I'm really glad you enjoyed it.

@BingSway Ай бұрын

Really enjoyed this video, I could tell it took a lot of work. Great job on the run!

@davidvkimball Ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

@Poshriel Жыл бұрын

The Giga Bowser disc read error happened to me twice. I wonder how common it is. I remember being pissed off the first time, the second time I quit playing for a week. I wouldn't have went back, but I decided to see if I could do it with a different disk. It worked the third time and it felt great. That being said, I wasn't speed running 100% trophies.

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Regardless, a rough experience indeed. I found running on Wii is a lot more reliable!

@Poshriel Жыл бұрын

@@davidvkimball The worst part about it was, this was when you had to actually look hard to find out what to even do to get to that point. Then you had to look even harder to see if anyone else had the same problem, and if there were any solutions. Similarly, the same thing happened after waiting 5 hours to unlock Mewtwo. Oldschool melee could be brutal.

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

@@Poshriel You could do it in just 4 hours if you used Lightning Melee!

@Poshriel Жыл бұрын

@@davidvkimball Yeah, learned about that one a little late. When we were waiting the first time for Mewtwo, the internet was young, and my friends and I weren't entirely sure we weren't being trolled. We knew mewtwo existed in the game, we just thought the unlock method was bullshit. When we finally waited out the time, and ended the match, we were so excited we almost lost the match. We won, then the infamous disc read error occurred.

@LunaticJ Жыл бұрын

One of the best speedrunning documentaries I’ve seen in awhile. It’s causing me to entertain the idea of running this category and even Brawl 100% in the distant future. Seems fun ngl

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thank you!! That's some high praise, I really appreciate it. If you do run it hit me up!

@mathprodigy Жыл бұрын

This is truly epic. Man I thought Final Fantasy speedruns at 10 plus hours was a long time. But unbelievably, you made a 20 hour run actually sound interesting, and great storytelling here! I grew up with Smash Bros games and appreciate all the skills and efforts therein. Never in my life did i think I would ever get all the trophies, and here people are speedrunning it today haha. Congratulations on the World Record! Truly well played sir.

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

@lornemalvo4492 Жыл бұрын

ncb1221's 5000 matches is one of the funniest speedrun blunders I've ever seen. what makes it interesting is he was the first person to even consider running the category so we got to see where the growing pains were. his face when he realizes lmaooo

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Hahaha. Right? I'm surprised he decided to continue and finish the run after that.

@MixMaster345 Жыл бұрын

Yo this editing is so top tier 😭, thank you for using my music!

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, I'm so glad you agreed to let me use it! It was perfect for this doc.

@sphear_ Жыл бұрын

This run would make for a spectacular TAS video. Hopefully someone will do it in the future.

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

It's being worked on right now!

@Lawrencelot89 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic video, thanks for all the explanations and congrats on getting world record! I see you've even got sub 18 now so good job!

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.

@Superninja71 Жыл бұрын

Amazing video and congratz on the world record. Phenomenal job dude!

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!!

@GimR Жыл бұрын

can you use a wavebird controller to get 4 people to dash dancing at once?

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Yes! And it would be about 20% faster than 1 person dash dancing in single player modes. However I didn't have access to any wavebirds, and also I'm not sure if it's faster than just using Master Hand in Training Mode.

@AstridCharles330 Жыл бұрын

This category is insane. I've been playing Melee since I was a kid and have never gotten all the trophies. Mad props and that ending was so hype.

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! You can still go back and collect 'em all. :)

@Cerastes12 Жыл бұрын

Awesome video, you did a great job on everything. Loved it!

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

@irishjet2687 Жыл бұрын

Is there anyone who's attempted a "unlock all custom special moves" speedrun for Smash 4? That was an interesting idea for a game mechanic that was stunted by lack of balance and the ridiculous time-sink.

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

That sounds HORRENDOUS.

@KimballDonald Жыл бұрын

Project Ganondorf documentary when?

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Soon!!

@Pixiuchu 4 ай бұрын

32:58 This is so relatable lmao. Half of my long speedruns are because I was going to do a short run, and then randomly figured, eh what the heck let's do it. And that's how I did an 18 hour long speedrun that I started at 7pm, my first long speedrun. They're honestly the most fun way to speedrun IMO. Too bad I don't have the time or resources to do those runs anymore Good video. GG on the sub 19 :)

@davidvkimball 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your crazy speedrun story haha

@themoocow7718 Жыл бұрын

This is such a great video! Congrats on getting the WR.

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

@rruhland Жыл бұрын

I’ve kinda wanted to get into TASing so maybe this is the thing to do. It would be a terrible idea for a first TAS.

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

LMAO yeah that would be a rough one to start with. That being said if you end up doing it hit me up. 👀

@Techstrobe Жыл бұрын

This was so well done! I hope you may garner some interest in maybe considering a video on the history of Brawl's All Challenges, as it is very similar to Melee's All Trophies with the few players that dared to try it out, funny miscalculations, accidental hour-saving discoveries, friendly competition, and more. RubberDuckyAssassin, the WR holder, is actually preparing to do his final run of All Challenges (and Brawl in general) very shortly. If anyone could honor his legacy for All Challenges and Brawl in general in video format, you'd be the guy, if this possibly interests you.

@thebormashine2593 Жыл бұрын

Yeah and some funny mishabs like Dragolina doing all challenges and hosting a charity event and you not accepting her run because there were a few internet issues on cruel brawl in a 43 hour run instead of just adding a penalty time or something because the 4k Views and 525 euros donated to charity were cleary not an indication for it being done and being seen. So quirky of you. Or the legacy of brawl that is built upon the pedo almolicious that you praised to such a high regard as a community and have seen as the great grandfather of the game until the game got a bit of attention and later too through the history video where everything had to be skipped that involved him, because that would make the game look bad. But who could forget the time where ducky too did allegedly something in a certain hotel room but stayed admin on the smash discord anyway when it was still up for debate. You know out of everything (and that is by far not all) that leaked out of your speedrunning community, i am truly wondering why nobody wants to run it even after getting so much mainstream attention by dragolina and i am really wondering why she even put so much time into this unholy abomination of a speedrunning community. There should rather be a video of the legacy of brawl and where it went horrible every single time.

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the heads up! I'm not sure I'd cover that, but it's good to know!

@himez123 Жыл бұрын

Such a dope video and story!! Congrats on sub 19 and the WR!!

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@Jiggleslinky Жыл бұрын

Finally got around to watching this and was not disappointed, you rock dude.

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thank you!! So glad you enjoyed it.

@user-yw9mw9hv8o Жыл бұрын

100% Aka all trophies, should definitely have all glitches and bugs allowed

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

I agree!

@drsour4672 Жыл бұрын

Somebody send this to MoistCritikal please

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

That's an amazing idea!!

@drsour4672 Жыл бұрын

@@davidvkimball I think he would love this video, I know how much he appreciates Smash Bros + Speed Running. So if you could find a way to send this to him I bet it would be a hit on stream.

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

@@drsour4672 Dude, thank you! I'll try to reach out to him!

@drsour4672 Жыл бұрын

@@davidvkimball same here, I’ll be recommending this next time he does KZfaq night

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

@@drsour4672 That's really kind of you, thanks!!!

@UnknownVir Жыл бұрын

Glad this popped up on my recommended, congrats and you've definitely got a new subscriber.

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@brandongordon4019 Жыл бұрын

This was a very fun watch! It was very entertaining and well researched!

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

@guzamike Жыл бұрын

I haven't played melee in years! But what an enjoyable video. I was interested hearing about the first couple runs then the mad man himself attempted it. Great job man. earned a sub!

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!!

@ChaoticYosher Жыл бұрын

this has gotta be hands down my favourite endurance run I've seen, thanks for the break down. This has me thinking about what a healthy sleep route could look like where you slot in lottery grind segments mid run with handing the controller off to Twitch chat (not likely ever to be leaderboard allowable, but an interesting run to pull off)

@davidvkimball Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!! Also, that's a crazy idea. Would be fun for the category extensions section of speedrun.com - have a player hand it off to another player!