Player beat Punch-Out’s MikeTyson in under 2 minutes for the first time

Since Mike Tyson punched out Released on NES in 1987, millions of players took on millions of digital matches One of the most difficult video game bosses ever: Tyson himself (or later Reskin’s “Mr. Dream”).

A few of these players survived the gust of Tyson’s instant knockdown uppercut and won the indisputable World Video Boxing Association Championship. Even less I had enough fingers Take out Tyson in the first round.

All this time, I was unable to register TKO with Tyson within two minutes on an in-game clock (about three times faster than a real-time clock). At least it was last weekend with the popular speed runners. The History of Speedrun Summon salt 1:59.97 knockout was pulled out rear What he says “It was 75,000 attempts over nearly five years.”

Breaking the famous two-minute barrier at Tyson is a matter of both incredible skill and incredibly unlikely luck. Like summoning salt Started documenting in a 2017 videoTo get the fastest possible Tyson TKO, each must throw 21 “frame perfect” punches into the fight, within a 6-second window. If you punch too quickly, those punches will be a little less and the fight will take a little longer. If it’s too late, Tyson throws a block and completely denys the punch.

Also, the top-class Tyson Speedrun will require Tyson’s own punch timing evacuation and ducking, allowing Little Mac (player character) to return to the counter punch position as soon as possible. Summoning the salt, he was only 7 frames from perfect in this respect, taking about 0.35 seconds in the game in the course of the battle.

But even with that almost unparalleled execution, summoning Salt’s record-breaking run would have been incredibly short, without the unfair amount of luck from the game itself. As Bismuth explains in a 2024 videoTyson can pause between just a few seconds and eight seconds between punches.

Getting the longest of these delays could potentially beat Tyson in the first round. However, in his sub-minute TKO, almost all of these pauses were fortunate to have to go down in eight frames (about 0.4 seconds on the in-game clock) to summon salt.

Summoning salt, he says that Tyson gave him the “perfect pattern” in the first stage of the infinite uppercut. And later in the battle, the game’s random number generators cooperated by adding 16 frames of delay (in-game seconds) compared to the “perfect” run. Combined and summoned salt, Tyson estimates that he will punch this only once in 7,000-10,000 attempts.

Summon “finished” salt I said it was live on Twitch When the record setting match ended, it was surprisingly even tone and sounded like a controller drop. “I thought I would be more excited about this. Holy shit, dude! That’s shit… Man, am I dreaming now? …Sorry, it’s so quiet. I just happened now, I’m a bit shocked at this.”

Summon a new record of salt with his near perfect combination of both skill and luck His own previous world record Exactly 2:00.00 for the clock in the game. The mark, set just eight months ago, was just three frames since it first showed 1:59 on the in-game timer.