like genuinely pound for pound it is one of the craziest achievements i've seen in speedrunning. I get this community isn't that active but a 6:23 is damn near perfect. The tas is presumed to be around 5:50ish, and at least 20 of those seconds aren't humanly possible to achieve. Genuinely no clue how he did it.
I was the one that submitted Harry's run from Speed Demos Archive back when these leaderboards were created. The run is still available there: https://speeddemosarchive.com/demo.pl?MightyJillOff_623 And re-uploaded to YouTube by someone here:
It's been a while since I watched it, but it wouldn't hurt to scrutinize it a bit. It has happened before that these verified SDA runs were in fact spliced (for instance Exo's infamous Super Meat Boy run).
I seem to vaguely recall seeing a live run of Mighty Jill-Off by him, but gdqvods.com got nothing, so I don't know if it's just my memory playing tricks on me or if it was at some other event.
I thank you for the compliment but I think it's a bit of an exaggeration.
There are a couple of tricks that I either didn't know about or didn't do, but aside from that I know I messed up the part where you fall through the flames, the part before the spiders towards the end where I bump my head, in the spider room where I try to jump over the block as it spawns but bump my head because I was too slow and then on the very last section where you should ideally be super jumping every platform.
To mess up that many times in about 6 mins is a long way from perfection in speedrunning terms and actually I am a bit surprised that no-one has beat it yet with the renewed interest in the game.
In fact I remember not being happy with my run and I almost didn't submit it to SDA for that reason, but I had worked hard enough on it and I had become too busy to do any more runs for a while so I did.
I don't think I've ever done a live run, and it's generally not my thing to livestream speedrunning because I wouldn't be concentrate to the maximum and also because I personally don't enjoy watching speedrun streams.
If anyone really thinks I spliced it though I suppose I could be convinced to do a live run in the discord where I should be able to get a run that beats the second place, but we'll see on that.
damn, i've been trying to go for the record and its just the 50 room jump + a bunch of little mistakes. Shoutout to you for optimizing the run so much so many years ago, its really stood the test of time. I absolutely DO NOT think that you were cheating or whatever, I understand that through my words it may have come off that way, moreso I just meant it as a compliment - I really am just amazed at how good the run was.
