I've been wanting to do a pure speedrun without savestates/slowdowns of this game for a long time, so this morning I popped in my Donkey Kong Country cart into the SNES and started practising. After a couple hours, I checked on the Twin Galaxies scoreboard for the fastest completion and to my surprise I noticed a time of 101% in 28:00!? I don't mean to sound like a major skeptic but I have a hard time seeing how that's possible. If you've seen SnapDragon's
speedrun of this game, he plays almost flawlessly and manages a time of 50:00. Even with savestates, I don't know how you could shave off 22 minutes off his run. It could be a result of a glitch, but even so, TG denounces the use of glitches in speedruns (take Metroid for example). Maybe someone has an idea of how he managed it? Anyway, I'll be attempting this game and I'll post my times on here, and I'm hoping that there will be interest in doing a "Speedrun Competition" for DKC like there has been for SMB3, LoZ, and Yoshi's Island.
(and no, I have not abandoned ALttP, I'm currently halfway through optimizing the Dark World)
Edit: Bisqwit, would you consider making a section on the forum for these speedrun competitions? There are about 3 or 4 games with competitions going on so far and I think that it would be good to separate them from the more general or time attack discussions of the games. Also, they'll be easier to notice and will encourage more participation. :)