Rayman 2 speedrunning

[PluMGMK]

Unless you force it to run at 50 fps.

[SpeedBot]

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Glitchless - Console in 03h 50m 33s by Future34 - 1st place

Submitted: 12/03/2021
Platform: PlayStation 2
Region: EUR / PAL

Additional details:

• Analog Stick: Yes

[hoodlumsworld]

Funny, it's the first entry ever for Glitchless, but Any% must be rather boring with a current WR of 10m58s...

[Hunchman801]

Yeah, it's mostly about taking advantage of the open world and going OOB.

[hoodlumsworld]

There's a new, interesting strat for Fairy Glade part 3:

[Hunchman801]

Oh, that's the one you mentioned last night that allows you to pick up the yellow Lums and return to the green Lum by falling into the water, thereby saving the detour at the beginning of the map? Now that I see the video I get it.

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PC - Any% in 01h 16m 20s by Torcnein - 4th place

Submitted: 22/03/2021
Platform: PC

Rayman 2 week 2:04:26 → 1:16:20

Additional details:

• NoMovies: NM

[hoodlumsworld]

With a time like this Torcnein would have won both the Rayman 2 AND Rayman 3 categories for the contest, but he's lucky that aulos plays All Masks.

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N64 - 100% in 02h 27m 03s by Payman - 1st place

Submitted: 27/03/2021
Platform: Nintendo 64
Region: USA / NTSC

Early game could've been better but I am so surprised that water & ice didn't ruin my run, mid game was decent, late game was good until beneath rock and lava, end game was the best I've ever done.

[hoodlumsworld]

Over two and a half minutes shorter than Manocheese's former world record, very nice.

[Hunchman801]

With a time like this Torcnein would have won both the Rayman 2 AND Rayman 3 categories for the contest, but he's lucky that aulos plays All Masks.

Yeah, he's improved his trifecta (running the full trilogy) time a lot lately.

Over two and a half minutes shorter than Manocheese's former world record, very nice.

Well, he held the records for the Any% and Treasure% categories on N64 so it's not surprising he went for 100% as well!

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N64 - Any% in 01h 50m 02s by Glackum - 1st place

Submitted: 12/04/2021
Platform: Nintendo 64
Region: USA / NTSC

Early Echoing Caves saves a ton of time. In exchange for an entirely worse gamefeel, I think early echoing caves the trick itself might actually be easier on this version? Either way, I think I can save 10 minutes off this run to compare to a perfect PC run of this route.

[hoodlumsworld]

Well done! Early Echoing Caves saves a lot of time, but even with the 10 minute time save, it will still be 30 minutes longer than the best PC runs.

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PC - Any% in 01h 12m 56s by Torcnein - 4th place

Submitted: 13/04/2021
Platform: PC

bad water & ice, pretty solid other than that. Gotta add some strats to push for sub 1:10 !

Additional details:

• NoMovies: NM

[hoodlumsworld]

So did playing Rayman 2 for the SpeedRay contest make Torcnein want to become a Rayman 2 runner too?

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N64 - 100% in 02h 53m 00s by markyard44 - 3rd place

Submitted: 18/05/2021
Platform: Nintendo 64
Region: USA / NTSC

Forgot about doing the race before tomb... Still ended up being not too bad.

Link to video: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1026767725

[Steo]

Rayman 1 seems to have a lot more runs going on compared to Rayman 2 interestingly.

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N64 - Any% in 01h 34m 47s by Payman - 1st place

Submitted: 22/05/2021
Platform: Nintendo 64
Region: USA / NTSC

For my first run with early ec I'm happy with how the run went and I might come back to this category but this time is going to be difficult to beat.

[Steo]

Wow nice work!

[Hunchman801]

Yeah, beating the previous record was expected since it used the old route but even then things went pretty well here.