MarkAlarm

2nd bside level done i think. finally made it out of the smw retirement home, heres hoping it doesnt take another 3 years to make one level lol

real shit though, i think this level is pretty cool! happy with how it turned out. RTA attempts soon, i was just excited to share the design completion :D

Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure Any% Glitchless Speedrun Tutorial Series - YouTube

i finished the skylanders any% glitchless video tutorial series! spent a lot of time the past few months working on it and im really glad to finally publish this. hoping this will get more people to consider learning the run and this awesome speedgame :D

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Finally graduated with my Master's degree! Really proud and happy to be done with it (although the CS job market sucks, if I know you and you/someone you know is hiring DM me lol). School is the big reason I haven't been as active, but I'm back and I'll have more to share soon!

Having completed this goal, I'll now be pivoting focus into an Any% Glitchless video tutorial series! Skylanders is an awesome speedgame, and I hope a guide will get people to try it out. There's a lot more to this run than people might expect, and I think a top-level analysis will help.

(2/2)

1:31!!!!!!!!!! This is an absolutely phenomenal run, played around a minute off SOB which is genuinely wild for this category. Certainly improvable, but my goal was to take back WR/break the minute barrier and I absolutely succeeded. Amazed by what I've done to this category over the years.

(1/2)

Life's been busy and stressful lately. Handling it well, but speedrunning is definitely on the backburner right now. I have some projects I'd like to get to soon, but they'll only happen once I'm ready. I have a lot I want to do, but such limited time.

got a 17:28 small only run for NoGlitchesAllowed...
with a DEATH IN YOSHIS ISLAND 2 (i missed PB by 3 seconds like yeah sure)
(really happy to have nailed the midairs and SW4 first try though, overall solid performance i think)

a pixel art of mario from the video game nintendo wii . Alt: Small Mario from Super Mario World running animation

Please observe down below in his natural habitat, the small Mario, running with all his might, being controlled by the ever wonderful @markalarm.bsky.social, showcasing his expertise with an SMW small only speedrun (I hope you all love midairs 👀)! www.twitch.tv/noglitchesal...

strizer86 - Twitch Canadian speedrunner, lover of 2D platformers, RPGs & randomizers. Castlevania Legends & Chronicles TAS author. Game Over Cancer board member & organizer of the GOC speedrun events. Capcom Creator!

Running Hades 3 Weapons in about an hour for Game Over, Cancer! Catch the stream if you can :D

www.twitch.tv/strizer86

Arbitrary code execution being possible in SMB2 was not on my bingo cards but here we are! (Inputs up to 4th room are by HappyLee)

I'll also be running Super Mario World Small Only for No Glitches Allowed! While it may be vanilla SMW, if you're at all familiar with kaizo and some of the hard tech there, you're in for a real treat with this category. Nervous about running such a hard category, but excited to put on a good show!

I'll be running Hades 3 Weapons for Game Over Cancer, kicking off the Friday runs! There will be a bidwar to determine which weapons I run, so it'll be interesting to find out what I run when that time comes!

Full schedule link: horaro.org/goc2025/sche...

in addition, that run was near the most locked in ive ever been for an endgame (up there with my 1:32 in SSA glitchless). i performed so goddamn well under nerves, the endgame was good enough to secure the goal time.
im so incredibly proud of what ive accomplished today, genuinely ecstatic (3/3)

the sub 11 is probably one of the runs im most proud of ever. while me explicitly grinding 11 exit and going for a sub 11 time didnt take very long, ive played a LOT of smw between kaizo, speedrunning, and grinding tech, so its the culmination of many years of proficiency in that game (2/3)

i think today was one of the craziest speedrunning days ive ever had.
hades - achilles spear - 9:26 -> 7:55
smw - 11 exit (glitchless) - 11:10 -> 10:59
smw - small only - 19:14 -> 17:25 (immediately after the 10:59!!!)
i genuinely cant believe how well i played today (1/3)

Today I finally reached my goal of sub 10 with all weapons in Hades!
Sword - 8:47
Spear - 9:26
Shield - 9:22
Bow - 9:03
Fists - 9:00
Rail - 7:52
Not sure what I wanna run next... there's so many choices between new games to learn and old games to derust. Only time will tell I suppose!

YouTube video by 100th Coin How I Beat NES Mario in 0.000005 Seconds

My favorite optimization problem has to be completing video games, and this time I intentionally went too far.

Here's Super Mario Bros. 3 completed in five microseconds, through the power of moving NES cartridges at multiple hundreds of thousands of miles per hour.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK7h...

Feeling good about Hades runs lately :) nearing my goal of sub 10 with all weapons, then I'll probably shift focus.
Nemesis Sword / 8:47
Demeter Fists / 9:00
Achilles Spear / 9:26
Eris Rail / 7:52
Also submitted Hades, MC, SMW, and We Ski to a couple events, so that might sway my upcoming grind(s)!

GitHub - StefanLobbenmeier/youtube-dl-gui: A cross-platform GUI for youtube-dl made in Electron and node.js A cross-platform GUI for youtube-dl made in Electron and node.js - StefanLobbenmeier/youtube-dl-gui

the original youtube-dl-gui is no longer being maintained but there's an active fork: github.com/StefanLobben...

i've been pretty absent from social media aside from periodically checking DMs and notifications lol
here's something I made a couple of weeks ago: a music visualizer running inside SMW (made to work with AMK songs/ports specifically)

my snes and spc700 asm adventure continues...

sadly this is a moment of no vid no did. given this was literally one attempt on a whim for shits and giggles im sure i can improve it but goddamn

Had the record for 3 years and took it back within a week. There's about a second left to take, but I'm very happy with this. I'd rather not have to push this category further, but I will if I have to. youtu.be/Kq-nOsrq9oY

(New WR was a 57. My PB was a 59, not a 1:07. These were derust splits)

finally lost the casio get credits WR and by extension, i no longer hold any WRs that have any amount of competition. thought i had that one on lock, but i was unfortunately proven wrong.
determined to take it back, but it'll be a hell of an order.

no joke this new SMW tech is the most exciting thing to happen in a loooong time and someone's gonna get a 1:20:xx in 96 exit

22 -> 23 birthday yippee :D
might stream something random during the day for fun idk

final words continued (7/7)
to anyone who read this, i hope you tag along for the ride. whether you're in the stream and actively chatting, sending a quick gl, or silently lurking, i appreciate it a lot. or if you just follow updates here, thats cool too :)

final words (6/7)
what an amazing year overall, both in speedrunning and my personal life. i look forward to what the future has in store for me. i have high hopes and big goals to reach for, but even if i dont accomplish everything, as long as i enjoy myself ill be happy

2025 goals continued (5/7)
make one "content" video (something edited, though tutorial is more important to me)
hardcore pokemon (romhack?) nuzlockes
celeste d-sides
hades 32 heat
something minecraft (hhh?)
ssa damageless?
memorize national pokedex in order
two new games casually

2025 goals (4/7)
make video tutorial series for ssa any% glitchless
take back ssa any% glitchless wr (maybe 1:31)
learn a ds era pokemon run
learn new speedgame
mess around with old speedgames (we ski?)
improve minecraft PB (and/or ranked?)
do more marathons
make new friends :)

2024 things i didnt reach or accomplish (3/7)
no youtube content (and by extension, no notable increase in sub count)
no 3D mario improvement
learned less new games than i would have hoped (hades and map rando were the most notable new ones)
minimal challenge run stuff