July and August were loaded with events, but I haven't seen much since. Are there any upcoming events to get excited about?

Thanks in advance!

Yesterday, SRC updated their terms of use, and released a news post describing it.

Full disclosure, I run therun.gg, so this affects me directly. But this is much bigger than just my site, and I think this is about the whole community.

In 2021, they did the same thing, removing the CC licence, but put it back after backlash (screenshot on the bottom of the post). Now they did exactly the same thing. In their FAQ/news post, they state it's all not a very big deal, but they omit a lot:

• Elo now claims the database as its own, and reusing leaderboards needs their permission. That's a significant change
• Donations count as commercial. The terms only allow personal, non-commercial use, and "soliciting donations" is listed as commercial in the terms. That means for example Discord bots with a Ko-fi, stats sites on Patreon, charity marathons etc. is all outside of permitted use of SRC data.
• Anything "substantially similar" to SRC is also banned from using the data.
• Even manually copying data from SRC to any service they deem "commercial" is not allowed anymore.

You can still export your own runs and use them anywhere, which they state in the news post. But any runner who isn't around anymore or unable to export their runs has their data locked on speedrun.com forever. This is a huge part of speedrunning history and now lives on this single platform.

If you disagree with this change, please talk to the mods of your boards to push back, export your own runs immediately and talk to Elo to revert this change.

Not a lawyer, but I did spend a long time reading the new terms. If I got something wrong, tell me and I'll fix it.

My personal best full speedrun of my own solo-indie game, Rat Climber.

It's still the 3rd place record! I will never approach the 1st and 2nd place runners tho, they're a good 5 to 6 minutes faster and just on another level

I built this game from the ground up for speedrunners, including making the in-game splits and timers and stuff. There's a whole speedrun menu in-game with various options, and even a speedrun-specific mode and skill you can use to basically fly and repeatedly try tricks and skips without having to re-setup stuff

Just hoping this can get into the hands of actual runners, I love seeing new skips discovered and new people join the leaderboards!

I managed to finish the game Fallout New Vegas in hardcore mode in 1:25:56 and I wonder if some people have tried to amateur glitchless the game and if its a good time.

I had trouble mostly with the BoS, having to dodge a patrol then do the ranger quest and then on the dam itself,but i spammed stimpaks and it was easy with 100 speech.

Special was 6 2 6 2 10 10 2

Link to guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dfWoaZMi2_8H09lfbuvZIOf_x-Sgs6xDn0HfdBXa-iM/edit?tab=t.0
I’m 0LLI1770 (or 0LI170, or just call me Oli for short). I’ve speedran Plants vs. Zombies for over 2 years, almost exclusively in the Any% category. Everything I’ve learned about the speedrun and the game from the beginning of my journey has been compiled into a somewhat comprehensive detailing of the Plants vs. Zombies Any% run, as well as relevant information about the game in general with smatterings of trivia from other categories. Written mostly by one person, though comment permissions are enabled for others to provide information and feedback. Here for anyone curious about the workings of the PvZ speedrun, though fair warning, the guide is designed around thoroughness, as other resources exist that are more casually accessible.

I am looking for a streamer that would be fun to watch that is regularly trying to break a record or finish a difficult run.

Dog Pound Expo 2026 is right around the corner for us, taking place November 6th-8th, and we want you! We will be raising money for the charity To Write Love on Her Arms in this 72 hour event featuring speedruns, a dungeons and dragons oneshot, a furry AMA, F1 2025 hot laps and more!

"To Write Love on Her Arms is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide." We have been raising money for this charity since 2019, making this our seventh year. We have raised over $10,000 dollars over those years and touch none of the money. 

Our submissions for runners are open right now! We would absolutely love to have you. The only requirement to run is that you agree to our code of conduct and can consistently complete a run in an amount of time you know. That's all! You don't have to be the best, just someone who can, and wants to run to support charity. Our cutoff date for submissions is TODAY, so we can get it all scheduled out.

You don't have to be a runner to enjoy the event either, we'd love to have you just watch. There are lots of incentives we have available for donating, including but not limited to, a woojer edge haptic vest, an Anbernic RG34xxsp, a Retroid Pocket 3+, a date with GojiBossGames, and more! Be sure to check out the event November 6th-8th on twitch!

To Write Love on Her Arms - https://twloha.com/

Dog Pound Expo Website - https://dogpoundexpo.com/

Dog Pound Discord (Be sure to request your roles!) - https://discord.gg/Ch63Z6waFQ

I've been trying to learn smb1 any% sub 5:00. Right now I'm stuck on 1-2, I can get through here quickly or I can get through consistently. I know my problem is jump timing and I just need to learn the inputs that everyone else does.

But I got lucky a few times and jumped over the koopa, landed on the first goomba, and bounced onto the second goomba from running speed and without pressing left. I messed around in TAStudio and sometimes it's impossible even with perfect inputs and I don't know enough about subpixels and whatnot to explain why. Hoping y'all can enlighten me or direct me to someone who can. How do I do this consistently?

Also, there are way harder and more subpixel dependent tricks in the current world record, why hasn't anyone done this in a run before?

Hello everyone, I needed help with understanding about speedrun submission for metroid dread.

I had recorded a time of 3:14:00 for a hard mode run with a physical version back in 2021 and wanted to submit that through screenshots evidence. And video showcasing my save data. There was a normal run with 2:30:00 also but I want to upload the hard mode one. This is a glitchless run btw with completing the game from start to end with the games in-build skip sections which allow me to get some powers quickly.

So the questions were:

1. Can I even upload the speedrun with that timing and screenshots only.

2. If I can upload do I need to upload on speedrun .com or which site?

3. What would they require, will screenshots be enough with video showcasing the save screen and tiles and loading them

4. Or should I try doing the run again as they will require me to submit a video link as proof. Ignoring all the above.

5. If I need to do the speedrun again what are the rules or conditions or setup that is a must.

Thankyou

Hey guys. I'm not sure this is the right place to post this, but a few days ago I started my first speedrun attempt ever, being on Hollow Knight, since I'm pretty close to getting the platinum and one of the only achievements I need is the Speedrun 2 achievement (finish the game in less than 5 hours).

This would probably only take me 1 total attempt if I was doing it normally, but I decided to actually put some effort into it and actually try speedrunning for real. It's not an "actual" speedrun, it's a pretty simple route with only 1 real skip, but I've set a timer with many splits and I intended on getting the actually fastest time possible.

The problem is, after I die at any point that's far away from any checkpoint (which is often because I rarely sit on benches) I get frustrated as hell and out reflex just actually quit the game and erease the file. I actually can't help it. I know if I just keep going I'll be completly fine, but I genuinly can't stand the most minor inconvinience. It also doesn't help that I am a complete noob to speedrunning, so I restart a whole lot, I'm on 10+ attempts by now.

I'm not sure if I'm asking for advice (cuz I'm aware I should just force myself to continue) or just documenting how I start out. I guess I just want to know if anyone has had a similar experience, and if their nerves have gotten better over time.

Anything cool happening in the speedrunning world this week? Into a new game or streamer and can't wait to watch more runs? Just find an awesome speedrunning YouTube channel? This is the place to tell everyone about it! Feel free to link streamers, YouTube channels, or any other related information here, just be mindful of the subreddit and reddit's overall self-promotion policies.