Pitfall II speed run

[cak]

This is sort of old news by now, but I thought I'd post the video here since it just got verified at speeddemosarchive.com (making it the first real Atari video submitted there).

Finished in 9:47 with perfect score...beats Douglas Korekach's Twin Galaxies time of 10:08. Enjoy.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d53WTK8NG2s

[0078265317]

nice

[Rom Hunter]

Very well done!

 

[StanJr]

sweet. well played.

[Byte Knight]

Amazing! Too bad there's not a special ending for a perfect score. So does running and jumping at the same time make you go faster? I noticed you doing this in the beginning of the game but not towards the end.

[cak]

Nah, the jumps are just out of boredom from playing the game so many times, lol.

[+jeremiahjt]

Great job! What kind of controller did you use?

[cak]

3-button Genesis. I originally wanted to try using a stock joystick, but a working Genesis controller was easier to find.

[+jeremiahjt]

It's still awesome, but not as much as if you had used an original joystick. I looked on the website to see what was written about it there, but I couldn't find it. Only two runs done on the Gameboy Advance.

[cak]

I agree in a way, but my experience with VCS joysticks is that a properly working one is hard to find, and even then it's somewhat inferior in the realm of joysticks.

 

http://forum.speedde..._10th_2013.html

 

Verified, but not yet posted. They have a huge backlog of videos waiting to be updated, including two other speedruns from myself.

Edited April 16, 2013 by cak

[cak]

Ok, it's published now:

http://speeddemosarchive.com/Pitfall2.html

 

Thanks for the comments guys.