A couple of minor blemishes on the way to the end, but it was honestly all quite amazing...until I lost 13 seconds at the very last moment. This was a very hard one for me to swallow, but I'm glad I could get another world record during the Big20 awareness period.
Thank you so much, everyone, for the continued inspiration, and for humoring my immense enthusiasm! I'm very glad to see you all get the hang of this!
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FAQ:
Q - What is this game?
A - Joust (NES) is a home title based on the arcade game of the same name.
Q - What is "50K"?
A - It means "try to obtain 50,000 points in the game as fast as possible". Time begins when the player bird first appears, and ends on the frame which 50K points is attained.
Q - What is "100K"?
A - Same thing, but with 100K.
Q - What platform are you playing on? Is it emulator?
A - Yes, Mesen 0.9.9.
Q - What about the thing in the corner of your webcam??
A - Characters from a YouTube webseries called Diminish.
Q - Why don't you do [insert idea here] instead?
A - NESCardinality added some optimizations to the routing and gameplay in order to attain his world records, and there's simply a ton of safety that has to be observed in Joust. But there may be things still to find! I'd be interested if you tried this out for yourself, using any method you want! Comment here with your thoughts if you'd like.
Q - Why are you playing this game, of all games?
A - Joust is one of the first games I ever played at a very young age. It happened to be the game that NESCardinality was grinding when I started watching his stream regularly in 2018. Since then, I've kept meaning to try speedrunning it myself, and every time I checked the leaderboard I noticed that the world records had never changed. I finally got off my butt and am giving it a shot! It was a blast to be able to compete with him after he beat one of my world records.
Q - What's the point of this?
A - Speedrunning is a fun and extremely challenging way of adding replay value to your all-time favorite games, or any game at all! The first time I tried speedrunning River City Ransom EX (GBA) in 2015, no speedruns existed on the official speedrun.com leaderboards, so I had to create the page myself. I left it for years and forgot all about it. Then Redd92 beat my world record, and once I found out, I felt a brand new competitive fire! It motivated me to create entirely new routes for categories in that game, so I could experience new challenges with one of my favorite games ever. It's been indescribable fun, and triumphing over the game like this after it beats you down feels absolutely otherworldly. I experienced the same thing with Family Dog, a game I'd never played before attempting to speedrun it.