Capítulo 188: How did you do it?
At a certain moment, Taiga Oono felt that all his plans were useless.
In just one day, all the completion data were instantly refreshed.
This was indeed very disappointing, very sad. The prize money that was right in front of him was suddenly out of reach.
But the second places in the three games could also each receive three million, totaling nine million yen, which might still be acceptable.
Taiga Oono was quite satisfied with this.
But now he was more interested in knowing one thing.
How did this person named Takagaki do it?
Clearing Super Mario in just over two minutes?
How was that possible?
He began to frantically think of feasible strategies in his mind, but no matter how he thought, he felt it was impossible.
But the data was right in front of him.
He couldn't say anything.
Many players around Taiga Oono were also dumbfounded.
This was a bit too abnormal. Who exactly was this Takagaki?
On the leaderboard, they could see that Takagaki was in a challenge arena located in a video game store in Adachi Ward.
Taiga Oono had also been to that video game store before, and there were also a few players among them who came from Adachi Ward.
But none of them knew this person named Takagaki.
At this point, a few players looked somewhat embarrassedly at Taiga Oono.
Earlier, they had wanted to ask Taiga Oono to be their mentor.
But now that the first place had been taken away, it seemed that Taiga Oono wasn't a true gaming genius after all.
There was obviously someone even more powerful.
And his records were even more terrifying, more overwhelming.
"Wait a minute, don't you guys find it strange? The completion time is a bit too low, isn't it?"
"Maybe they have some special way of completing the game?"
"But no matter how special, it shouldn't be this low."
Most players couldn't quite imagine it.
But there were now several players who could truly occupy a certain rank on the leaderboard.
Among them were the seventh and eighth place, as well as several players in the top one percent.
They might not be as dedicated to studying speedrunning as Taiga Oono, but they at least knew the approximate completion time for the game levels.
Super Mario had a total of eight worlds, each with four stages, for a total of thirty-two levels.
From Taiga Oono's demonstration earlier, they also knew about the warp option, which greatly reduced the time.
But they couldn't achieve the same low error rate as Taiga Oono, so their time would be a bit longer.
They believed that Taiga Oono's completion method was already the optimal solution, and theoretically, they could only strive for a few seconds or even a dozen seconds by improving the error rate.
But to shorten it to just over two minutes, it felt unreasonable.
"Oono-san, actually, this isn't bad either. The second places in the three games together also amount to nine million yen, so please don't be too sad."
Someone gently patted Taiga Oono's shoulder and comforted him.
Some of them seemed to be worried that Taiga Oono would feel very down because of this, so they were very concerned.
Taiga Oono seemed to be touched inwardly.
Before, he was very withdrawn and hardly interacted with the outside world at all.
But now, suddenly, there were some people who cared about him because of electronic games.
Taiga Oono looked up at the person who was comforting him, who was just a stranger.
But he radiated genuine goodwill, rather than intentionally distancing himself after losing his ranking.
Several players around him were also the same, expressing, "Yes, Oono-san, you're actually very amazing. Hopefully, we can exchange more insights into electronic games in the future."
At this moment, Taiga Oono no longer seemed to feel regretful about losing the first place.
"Right, now that the rankings have been announced, shouldn't we have a small awards ceremony?"
"Yes, where should the awards be held?"
Actually, the staff was also a bit confused by the updated rankings earlier. As a video game store employee, he also had a deep understanding of electronic games.
Now that he saw the ranking data, he also felt it was unbelievable.
At this point, hearing the inquiries from the people around him, he turned back and said, "The specific awards ceremony will start soon after we received the news, and it will take place at a video game store in Minato Ward. Players who are in the top one percent ranking can go there to receive their awards, and the players who receive keychains for different rankings can exchange them at our store."
"Minato Ward? Let's hurry up and go, let's see who this Takagaki really is."
"Oono-san, cheer up, okay? Shall we go together and see how it goes?"
Taiga Oono now also regained his composure and nodded, saying, "Okay, let's go now."
In fact, some players among them also felt that the latest speedrun data was a bit unreasonable, and Takayuki also felt the same.
Leaving aside the Tetris game for now, the other three games were simply impossible.
Other players might suspect that there might be a faster way to complete the game.
But as the creator of Mario, Takayuki knew that there was simply no faster way to complete it.
In the previous life, the fastest completion record for Mario was four minutes and fifty-four seconds.
This was hailed as a typical perfect completion by humans, and it was considered a record that would almost never be surpassed again.
To achieve this result, it involved behaviors like frame buffering and pipe clipping outside the game's rules, but that was also accepted by players in later years, so it wasn't considered cheating.
Even with that, the limit for completion was only possibly four minutes and fifty-four seconds.
Not to mention, Takayuki had already made some adjustments to Mario in this world, so it could be said that it was impossible for normal completion times to be under five minutes.
So there was only one possibility: this player used other methods, which was cheating.
The same went for Contra. In the previous life, the fastest completion record was around ten minutes, but Takagaki managed to do it in five minutes, which was simply absurd.
There was no detailed record of the fastest completion time for Metroid in the previous life, but based on the rough completion time, it was probably around an hour.
As for the speed of level eighteen in Tetris, the blocks were almost blinking, and some players could barely hold on for ten seconds, which was not impossible, but considering how absurd the completion times were for the other three games, this player probably used cheating methods in this game as well.
So early in the morning, Takayuki went straight to the video game store in Adachi Ward. He also brought along a few engineers and instructed the staff over there not to open the store, and to keep all the game consoles as they were, untouched.
He wanted to personally inspect them.
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