Player speedruns Pokemon Shining Pearl in just 33 minutes - Get2Gaming

Only 10 days after its release, someone has found a way to complete Pokemon Shining Peal in 33 minutes.

Speedrunner and content creator Werster has uploaded a video of him finishing Pokémon Shining Pearl in under 33 minutes. Under ‘any per cent’ speedrun rules, the game can be regarded as completed, so long as the credits roll. It doesn’t matter how much of the game was played in per cent.

To achieve a time of 33 minutes, Werster used glitches and speedrun tricks to cut out any content he needed to. This includes trainer battles and Elite Four challenges. It’s a common tactic of speedrunners to exploit glitches to shorten their time as much as possible, especially outside of games ‘built’ for speedrunning (such as Super Mario Bros and Celeste). The speedrunner has described the game as “very busted”.

Werster’s techniques include reducing the music volume to zero to stop music from loading, interrupting door animations to prevent other scripts from starting, and opening multiple menus to make the player surf over land and out of bounds.

Werster already held the record by beating the game in 50 minutes, using simple techniques such as using the bare minimum inputs in the opening and setting the text speed to fast, as well as turning off battle animations. Werster has now topped his own record, of course.

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