4 3D Zeldas in 48 hours

[Exoduso]

lol and they're still on Majora's Mask? >.>

[Toralyn]

Someone ought to do the really amazing thing and do every single final fantasy in one week.

that would be amazing. 1-12.

none of the side ones like tactics, or gameboy or anything. just the main console ones, 1-12 in one week.

I think you'd go insane.

VII isn't too hard to run through in a single day, you can beat it in 18-19 hrs if you know exactly what to do and when to stop to just grind for a couple hrs (Mideel area). VIII I imagine wouldn't be too hard either if you know where to go, IX either. I think VI would be the challenge, honestly. Having to recollect everyone and spend time xping for Kefka's tower would suck.

[Jedimasta]

Majoras Mask takes too damn long with all the waiting for times and such. And least you can speed up/slow down/jump forward in time.

[Parshias]

It's possible to beat Majora's Mask on the very first three-day cycle, an at least the SNES version of FF6 can be beaten quickly by missing out on random encounters and using Setzer's roulette to Doom everything by pausing the game to get it right every time.

Playing these games traditionally, or how the game makers might have intended takes a while, but there are a lot of tricks beyond grinding to speed through a lot of games.

[Correction]

Someone ought to do the really amazing thing and do every single final fantasy in one week.

that would be amazing. 1-12.

none of the side ones like tactics, or gameboy or anything. just the main console ones, 1-12 in one week.

I think you'd go insane.

VII isn't too hard to run through in a single day, you can beat it in 18-19 hrs if you know exactly what to do and when to stop to just grind for a couple hrs (Mideel area). VIII I imagine wouldn't be too hard either if you know where to go, IX either. I think VI would be the challenge, honestly. Having to recollect everyone and spend time xping for Kefka's tower would suck.

The records for Final Fantasy IV-VI don't add up to 12 hours:

http://speeddemosarchive.com/gamelist/SNES.html

Presumably since they're not as long, I-III would face similar completion times. So you could beat half the released console series in ~2 days, given time to sleep/eat/etc.

VII would be a pain due to the sheer length of cutscenes and the need to get certain materia maxed out to efficiently kill bosses (Counter Command in particular), plus time getting Barret's limit breaks maxed out. And are the FMV cutscenes in VII skippable? I don't recall that they were. Cutscene skippability would also determine whether or not VIII or IX could be beaten within a 48 hour timespan. Record on IX is under 9 hours and that's with a maximum of luck manipulation to get around the unmatched rate of random encounters in that game.

'Speed running' probabaly isn't a term you can much use for the PS2 games, as neither X or XII gave you much in the way of speedy overworld traversal. You'd need to find a way to beat both games without grinding the hell out of the Sphere/License boards.

11 Final Fantasy games in a week? I think you'd have to forego meals, sleep and bathing to pull it off, honestly.

[Minions]

Almost 1300 viewers lol

[Kaylia]

VII would be a pain due to the sheer length of cutscenes and the need to get certain materia maxed out to efficiently kill bosses (Counter Command in particular), plus time getting Barret's limit breaks maxed out.

Might be able to find a hp materia/lucky seven combo.

[Quicklet]

It's possible to beat Majora's Mask on the very first three-day cycle

That sounds like an exaggeration, if not a sheer impossibility. But yeah, it can be done in under a few hours.

[MisterBob]

Damn, you'd think if someone was willing to do this they'd do it on something better than a 21" fucking tube TV. What kinda gamer even owns a TV like that in this day and age, jesus.

80% of the people with a Wii.
(hell, I got a 17" CRT sitting right next to me)

Anyways, 48 hours.....is this all legit, or are they using exploits to progress faster? I just can't see this being done in that amount of time, especially with Twilight Princess itself taking a good 20 hours alone.

Huh? TP is like the shortest of the 3D zeldas. I finished it in like 13 hours without a guide on my first runthrough, and people have been doing it in like 6...

[Elcura]

I remember the back of the manual or case of my FFVII, it had some challenge to play through the whole game without a memory card. Thinking about it, shouldn't be that hard to play through VII quickly in 1 sitting.

[ertyu]

lol they aint gonna make it... twilight princess is long as fuck and wind waker was pretty long too and they only have like 30 some odd hours left.

[Spoony Bob]

lol they aint gonna make it... twilight princess is long as fuck and wind waker was pretty long too and they only have like 30 some odd hours left.

TP long as fuck? Which version were you playing?

[Exoduso]

lol they aint gonna make it... twilight princess is long as fuck and wind waker was pretty long too and they only have like 30 some odd hours left.

Apparently you were playing a different Twilight Princess... shit can be done in less than 10 hours if you've beaten it before and know your way around.

[Helpoemer]

It's possible to beat Majora's Mask on the very first three-day cycle

That sounds like an exaggeration, if not a sheer impossibility. But yeah, it can be done in under a few hours.

it's perfectly possible, i've done it myself

[Hige]

It's possible to beat Majora's Mask on the very first three-day cycle

That sounds like an exaggeration, if not a sheer impossibility. But yeah, it can be done in under a few hours.

it's perfectly possible, i've done it myself

It's been a while since I played, but isn't it impossible to beat in the very first 3 day cycle? The first cycle involves getting back to human form, and even if you do all the steps quickly you're forced to wait till near the end of the 3rd day at the clock tower before going back in time. A 2nd cycle completion is possible though.

Second is a run that seeks to finish the game as early as possible in the second cycle: After completing the mandatory first cycle, the second cycle must be completed without going back in time again.

[Sagacious Sundi]

Someone ought to do the really amazing thing and do every single final fantasy in one week.

that would be amazing. 1-12.

none of the side ones like tactics, or gameboy or anything. just the main console ones, 1-12 in one week.

I think you'd go insane.

What about X-2? Just curious if you're including that.

[yayaok]

ff 1-12 (excluding xi lol) in 1 week would mentally scar anyone, personally i don't think thats possible
time-wise, i can see it happening... but where would you find the gamer that has the potential
the player would have to be like invincible in terms of mental and physical strength lol

[Charla]

I'm going to assume that by first cycle they all meant first cycle after getting the ocarina, also known as the second cycle.

FFX has several ways to go about low level (or no sphere grid in this case) games, mostly involving either killing everything with summons or using wakka's 12-hit limit break with a "9999 damage per hit" mix to oneshot bosses. I remember you can pop the disc cover on FF9 to skip cutscenes (and it was necessary to get excalibur 2 level speed), does that work on 7 or 8? I only played the PC version.

[Exoduso]

Sadly, FFX-2 counts as a mainstream Final Fantasy.

[Kaisha]

Sadly, FFX-2 counts as a mainstream Final Fantasy.

At least it's short.