Game:

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (2007)

Duration: 3:05:57

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This is a Tool Assisted Speedrun of Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

In a 100% Speedrun the goal is to beat the game while collecting every Item.

The final RTA time is 2:57:01.567
The final ingame time is 2:09:40.433

My first Corruption TAS! After doing almost every possible thing I could think of in Echoes, I finally tackled Prime 3. This run is mostly a way for me to get used to the controls and the physics of the game. I want to do more Corruption in the future since but there are a few issues with the emulator which make TASing this game very annoying (look further down in the "rants"-section of the description if you want to know more), but all in all I had lot's of fun with this. The next project I'll work on will most likely be another Prime 3 run and I'll most likely improve this run in the future.

some rants about this run:
TLDR: This is a Segmented Tool Assisted Speedrun because of Emulator issues

Metroid Prime 3 is very stupid to TAS. It's prone to desyncs and if it a TAS desyncs, you can't enter the ship (or save stations) most of the time without softlocking. The only way to prevent this issue is playing the whole run from the beginning every time you start recording which of course takes very long after a while. Also doing it this way doesn't fix the desyc issue, it just reduces the probability of it happening.
So what's my workaround? I don't want to watch the 3 hour run just to see that I got a desync during the final boss fight! The answer is that this run is segmented and spliced. Every time I use the ship and land somewhere I re-enter the ship, save the game and end the recording. For the next segment I just start from the save and play until I reach the next possible save. Then I splice the segments together in a video editing program. This run consists of 17 Segments.

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