I’ve done it again. 1:02.8 today. I have no words right now. I discovered a faster level 7 strat and I destroyed Sibley. Watch the epic run below:
– Michael Shaw, President/Founder of Flippin’ Fun Video Games
Website is back! Updates + new speedrun PBs
Hey, guys!
The website is back! My host did some funky things and locked me out for a hot minute, but we’re back now. Since then, I’ve finally started speedrunning SaGa Frontier and may or may not have gotten a 28:53 a couple weeks ago. I’m now seriously grinding the category for a top time. The full run can be found here:
I’ve also created a shared leaderboard for all of SaGa Frontier and am actively scouring both international and Japanese times, both current and ancient, to make it as accurate as possible. Click here to check it out.
Additionally, I’ve switched from streaming on YouTube to streaming on Mixer. So if you want to catch one of my livestreams, you can either find me on Twitch or find me on Mixer.
Anyway, that’s all I wanted to say. Welcome back!
– Michael Shaw, President/Founder of Flippin’ Fun Video Games
New World Record in Fast Rolling Any% – 4:52.94
Hey, guys!
Happy new year! It’s been forever since I’ve posted here. I apologize for that.
Recently, I’ve been speedrunning a game called Fast Rolling live on my Twitch and YouTube channels, going after the coveted world record. Well, today, it finally happened. Not only did I beat the previous world record by a country mile, I skipped sub-6 minutes and went directly to sub-5 minutes. Since I now have the world record, I no longer plan on running the game unless a major discovery about the game is revealed. Although this run was pretty good, there’s still over half a minute of time to be saved throughout the run. On top of this world record, I obtained my 9th individual level WR in the game, making me quite literally the best Fast Rolling player in the world. You can watch the Any% WR below or by clicking here:
As of writing, the run has not been approved by the moderators. I hope it happens within the next day or so. In the future, I plan on running a mix of Super Mario 64, SaGa Frontier, and Star Ocean: The Second Story. If you want to watch me attempt to PB in each game, follow my Twitter or join my Discord to be notified exactly when I go live.
Here’s to the next decade.
-Michael Shaw, Founder/President of Flippin’ Fun Video Games
New Super Mario 64 16 Star PB: 31:17.31
Hello, everyone!
Last night during my live stream (which you should totally watch on Tuesday’s and Friday’s), I was able to beat my personal best in SM64 16 star not once, but twice! (To be fair, my first PB wasn’t that hard to beat in the first place) The first PB of the night was a 48:09.04, which beat my previous PB by almost an hour!
Just a few runs later, I was able to PB again, this time by almost 16 minutes, bringing my PB as of today to 31:17.31:
Personally, I think this run can be greatly improved upon within a couple weeks to a mid-to-low 20-minute time, so long as I can consistently get all the basic tricks first try and complete the stages faster than I completed them in that run. Before I can break the 20-minute barrier, however, I will need to learn how to complete each star in the fastest way possible.
Enjoy!
– Michael Shaw, President/Founder of Flippin’ Fun Video Games
New QoL Changes to the Website
Hello, all!
I have just completed some amazing additions and changes to this site that I think y’all will thoroughly enjoy!
Firstly, I changed around the color palette on the website so it works better with certain elements that I added. The colors are brighter and more pastel in nature, with text color now being darker to accommodate. For those of you using a browser plugin that turns everything into dark mode, don’t worry; everything looks great on that end as well. The reason for doing this is because I realized that the previous color palette didn’t work with the user profile system.
Secondly, I have overhauled the current user profile system to be more cosmetic in nature. The U.I. has been changed to look more modern and user profiles have more cosmetic items that can be displayed, such as your email, a nickname, and a description of yourself, along with your birthday and your gender if you want to change that. And if you’re worried about privacy, you can set the info to be viewed by everyone, registered members, your friends, or yourself only. WordPress does store this information, but only for the purpose of displaying it on your profile. You also have the option to download the information WordPress has stored from your account if you so choose. You may notice that there are actually two profiles that are official Flippin’ Fun Video Games profiles. The first one, michael2001, is an admin account that was included with this domain. The second one, ffvdgames, is my personal WordPress account that has the exact same permissions as michael2001. General announcements, such as this one, will come from michael2001, while personal statements will come from ffvdgames. Personal signatures will still be a thing so you know exactly who’s telling you what.
I would also like to announce that I am slowly, but surely, working on adding a newsletter system to the website through Mailchimp. The only things that will be stored through Mailchimp are your first name, your preferred email address, and your last name if you choose to provide that. This system will be used to email you about everything that I am doing, along with things you may have missed and some things I am actively promoting. You will be able to sign up through a page in the side menu once I’m finished setting everything up. Emails will be sent whenever I make a new post, update dev logs, make announcements such as this post, etc. This will be added by the end of June.
I hope you guys enjoy all these things coming your way! If you have any suggestions, feedback, or concern, feel free to shoot me an email, write me a Tweet, ping/DM me on Discord, or leave a comment on this post and I’ll do my best to respond ASAP.
Have a flippin’ awesome day!
-Michael Shaw, President/Founder of Flippin’ Fun Video Games