From Mike Tyson’s punch-out was published on the NES in 1987, millions of players have undertaken millions of digital matches against One of the most difficult video game bosses of all time: Tyson himself (or, later, The Reskinned “M. Dream”).
Only a small percentage of these players could survive the Rafale de Tyson d’Uppercuts instantaneous and came out victorious with the world undisputed video boxing championship. Even less had fingers fast enough for Take out Tyson in the first round.
During all this time, nobody was able to record a TKO on Tyson in less than two minutes on the clock in play always present (which works about three times faster than a clock in real time). At least it was true until last weekend, when popular speedrunner and Speedrun historian Invoke salt withdrawn a knock-out of 1: 59.97 After What he says “75,000 attempts over almost five years.”
Breaking the two -minute barrier on Tyson is both an incredible skill and an incredibly improbable chance. As invoking salt itself started to document in a 2017 videoObtaining the fastest possible Tyson TKO requires throwing 21 “perfect” punch throughout the fight, each in a window of a sixth of the second. Punch too early and these punches do a little less damage, which makes the fight take a little more time. Too late and Tyson will vomit a block, completely canceling the punch.
A first-rate Tyson Speedrun also requires dodge and the canon of Tyson de Tyson so that the little Mac (the player’s character) can resume the counterpart position as quickly as possible. Salt’s call says that he was only seven images of perfection in this regard, which cost about 0.35 seconds into play during the fight.
Even with this almost unequaled execution, the invocation of the record race of Salt would have failed well if it was not an unreasonable chance of the game itself. As Bismuth explains in a 2024 videoTyson can stop during anywhere between a fraction of a second and up to eight seconds between the punches.
Obtaining the longest of these delays can hinder any chance of beating Tyson in the first round. But for its TKO for less than two minutes, the invocation of salt needed almost all these breaks to come fortunately at least eight images (~ 0.4 seconds on the clock in play).
Salt’s call says that Tyson here gave him a “perfect pattern” during his first phase of endless uppercuts, something that happens only 1. And later in the fight, the generator of random numbers of the Game cooperated by adding only 16 additional delay images (~ 0.8 seconds in play) compared to a “perfect” race. The combined and invoking salt estimates that Tyson will only allow quickly once every 7,000 to 10,000 attempts.
“It’s over”, invoking salt said live on Twitch When the record match was finished, in a surprisingly uniform tone which came which is very similar to an abandoned controller. “I thought I would be much more excited about this. Fucking shit, guy! It’s fucking … Dude, I’m dreaming right now? … I’m sorry, I’m so calm. I’m a bit in shock at the moment that it has just happened. “”
With its almost perfect combination of competence and luck, invoking the new Salt record exceeds His own previous world record From 2: 00.00 precisely on the clock in play. This brand, taking place only eight months ago, was only three images of the display of 1:59 on the timer in play for the first time.
