Ah, F-Zero GX, you magnificent bastard of a game.
I don't give it a long introduction right now [yet] because its almost 2am as of writing this...but if you know of this game well enough, then I don't think I need to give you a big intro for you to know how wild this racer is.
Hyper Speeder has always been a favorite of mine here because it is a machine that actually complies with the stats it says on the screen - and having a machine that can keep a stable grip at high speeds is quite the blessing when this game expects you to keep that grip tight in the many winding turns the tracks have. At least if you play Max Speed.
The runs here may be old, but that's because recording the latest version of Dolphin [that supports RetroAchievements] without frequent slowdowns on my current humble PC seems like an unlikely task...that aside, I'm glad that at least I recorded these to flex that at some point I fought tooth and nail long enough to get the Grand Prix in Master absolutely damn done. There's no recording for Ruby and Emerald unfortunately, but you can already see the picture between the Sapphire Cup Clear...and then the big feature with the Diamond Cup run [plus the AX Cup being notably easier to beat in Master lol].
May 28th 2021 - Sapphire Cup Master / Hyper Speeder
August 18th 2022 - Diamond Cup Master / Hyper Speeder
August 18th 2022 - AX Cup Master / Hyper Speeder [Perfect Run]
As a big bonus, there's also the DIAMOND MASTER EXPERIENCE video which is around 18 minutes of compiling all the fails that it took me to actually beat Diamond Cup Master back in 2022.
December 20th 2022 - Diamond Cup Master / Hyper Speeder
I actually beat Story Mode's Very Hard Mission 1 once. But unfortunately that I didn't get recorded...because I had done it some years ago on the Wii [and I don't have a capture card], but I think that my save file with Rainbow Phoenix must still be in the memory card. Oh well - that aside, looks like I had recorded at least two Story mode related things: A run of Mission 1 in Hard [not extremely tight at VH but still tough]...and a run of Mission 7 in Normal - with SNAKING. It must be easy to do consistently for trained players, but I remember trying quite many times just to get it done with snaking because the margin of error gets thinner the more you try to snake over thin roads.
May 2nd 2022 - Mission 1 Hard Clear
August 18th 2022 - Mission 7 Normal w/ Snaking Clear
a very stupid clip from a mission 7 attempt
