January Update

I think every month (or at least every month that anything worth talking about happens) I'll post a pastebin to track the progress of the tentatively titled "Whatever We End Up Calling This Thing" 2017. If you have no idea what I'm talking about read this http://pastebin.com/Nh5FFaDv (or like, the middle of this).

SMW 96 - I broke my own rule and did a run. Barely PB'd, but it was only really half due to the stuff I'd learned and mostly due to me just having a trash PB. I'm about halfway through the 20 hours of practice/learning that I want to do before starting runs, gonna likely knock that out during February and then really begin going for a reasonable time.

MMX 100% - Did a couple runs/races with Chaide and Chuk, as Chaide wanted to dip his feet into the game and I figured it was a good opportunity to see just how rusty I was. One run was a 45, which is my goal for the entire thing, with a couple others being close. None of those runs I'd categorize as great, so still feeling pretty comfortable that once I dig back into MMX, I'll be able to meet that goal handily.

LttP 100% - Other than scouring through a route, I didn't do anything with LttP in January. Not shocked or anything, I shouldn't be trying to improve every game all at once. Whenever I do start to get after this, I'll probably spend far too much time in the practice ROM learning strats.

DKC 101% - Considering I hadn't even casually got 101%, I'd say I made some decent progress this month. Learned where all the secrets were, and did 1 "run" that took a shade under 2 hours with some really silly mistakes. (multiple deaths to K. Rool lol) I've watched a couple of runs that Antilles did and took some rudimentary notes, as well as tracked down Eazinn's tutorial. Both of those should help immensely when the time for gittin gud rolls around. (Rolls around, ha, jokes) Debating whether or not to pick this up during the 12 Hour Challenge coming this month in order to actually put up a time that isn't embarrassing.

SM 100% - Continued violently stumbling through this game without learning anything. Did put up a 1:49 on a run, which considering I want a 1:35ish PB, should be fairly free once I actually learn how to move and fight even halfway decently.

Long story short:

SMW 96 Exit	- Previous PB: 1:56	- Current PB: 1:55
MMX 100%	- Previous PB: 42	- Current PB: 42
LttP 100%	- Previous PB: ???	- Current PB: ???
DKC 101%	- Previous PB: ???	- Current PB: 1:52
SM 100%		- Previous PB: 1:54	- Current PB: 1:49

Also possible names? Cab suggested SNES Hundothon... but idk, I feel like the entire SMW community will set me on fire for calling 96 "100%". Another possibility is "The 497" which isn't bad, but might be a little confusing idk. I recently thought of "The SNES Tetrathlon", but not only does a Tetrathlon apparently not exist, but it's also a bit cumbersome to say. So still a work in progress I guess.

EDIT: I have since realized that I was trying to think of the word Pentathlon. I'm a moron. Please continue with your day.

There's a few other things in the works, mostly SGDQ-type things, but hopefully I can really start properly grinding 1 or 2 of these runs in the coming month as well.

Thanks for reading the this if you read the this.
<3 Glib