Astérix Speedrunning: xxl2

baku69

gwennaterasu

I wasn't there the day you came, I was working from home, I had moved away from Lyon, but I saw the photo 🤣

martyste

The only credit i can take, is being the first person to speedrun XXL in March 2015, and ask speedrun.com to open a page for the series. And then everyone found interest in the coming months to join me

gwennaterasu

Yes, in meetings it was often things like, ‘If we don't do this, Martyste won't be happy.’

martyste

I got the game on Xmas 2003.

martyste

DUDE I CAN'T X3

martyste

WE HAVE SO MUCH TO TALK ABOUT, AND DON'T WORRY, I HAVE NO HARD FEELINGS

martyste

( i'm serious )

martyste

This is the best thing for me to happen this whole holiday

martyste

lemme bring a slightly edited picture

martyste

That's me, the day I presumably unboxed XXL, I was 5 years old.

martyste

I was actually just as blonde back then

gwennaterasu

Haha, that's so cute! I also have a VHS video of my birthday with friends where we're talking about a bridge in Normandy that I couldn't get across (I didn't understand how to do a double long jump)

martyste

But from December 25th 2003... it took until February 24th 2005 at 18:54 to finally have the rights to save the game

baku69

That was me in the Normandy cave, before tower section, i just couldn't jump over that second pit :painelix:

Imagine feeling when i found out that i can just press buttons slowly xD

martyste

I found out when i hacked into the files of my memory card and saw when the XXL files were generated. My Older sister forbid me to use her memcard for a year and a half, out of fear i'd erase her FFX savefile! Eitherway, both were preserved to this day and transferred to my PC.

gwennaterasu

yessss all the same :obelul:

martyste

the chilchood memories with XXL are some of the most intense for me. 70 romans in gaul were scary. But the longest roadblock was just the entrance of Normandy. the archer firing pilums at you ( sorry, but that's pilum sized arrows ) was invisible to me, i couldn't see him hidden in his spot firing at me

martyste

poetic that this area was where I understood how flybash glitch worked, to make our first glitched skip possible.

#xxl2