And some other times as well, knowing that sub 2 would happen. However, my Crabby Beach recording had some dropped frames making it unsubmittable, so I improved it. The goal had been achieved, my total was 2:05.14. And during the bonus stream of AGDQ 2014, while SSBMstuff was attending, I was playing time attacks, squeezing out those last frames for sub 2, beating the last of the times set before me. I also set the goal for myself of taking all of SSBMstuff's time attacks, which would surely be a difficult task. This was beaten back by SSBMstuff the next day, only for me to take it back with 2:02:33-again, ironic since I nearly submitted a 2:13 last year and now I'm shooting for sub 2. In December of 2013 I really started working hard on improving all of my times, taking the 100% record with 2:05:57. I quickly improved my any% time to a 50 (which I wouldn't submit even if I had the original video, it's just not fast enough.which is ironic considering before I'd have submitted a 52), and improved a few other time attacks as well. When I returned, 3:30 had been broken on the time attacks, any% was a 48 and 100% was down to 2:06. I met it, then got under 4:30, at which point I got frustrated with my lack of progress and stopped playing for 6 months. My target was the modest goal of sub 5 minutes, a very achievable goal for me. I never really took them that seriously, though, until 2013 when I was skilled enough to execute many of the strategies used. I got a 53 in any%, took the record for 100% with a 2:13 and all throughout running the other categories, I kept going back to the time attacks as fun little diversions. I wanted to do the best I could, and kept going for good times. At the time, the goal for those was a total under 4 minutes, and he reached it single-handedly. The infinite jump glitch was discovered, the 1 hour mark was broken, people like started running, and I got SSBMstuff to try a full run after watching some of his time attacks. As I did these practice runs (I think the best was a 1:15), I realized I was fairly consistent at all the strats I was using, and so I started focusing on SS runs. I started by routing a segmented any% run, but did SS practice runs to get the practice done as efficiently as I could. Even still, I'm glad it happened, the past 3 years have been amazing and I'm not stopping any time soon. I've met a lot of awesome people through speedrunning, but when I look back it was all due to a series of contrived coincidences. And so I began routing, running, and obtaining capture equipment. My runs! The thought, unbelievable as it is now, hadn't even crossed my mind. I think it was scenic and Caveberry, though, who basically said they were looking forward to my runs. So, not understanding what the forums were for at the time, I made a thread basically asking someone to do a run. However, there was no run of Ape Escape at the time. Naturally, the next step was to watch the speedruns of those games, see what people way better than me would do. At around the same time I'd been replaying old games from my childhood, and had most recently played through Ape Escape. I first discovered SDA, and by extension speedrunning in June of 2010 through SirVG's Super Mario Galaxy Uber Challenge videos, as he'd mentioned the full list of challenges was on the SDA forums. Individual-levels run of Time Attack in 0:01:52.40:
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