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Speedrunning World Records & Route Evolutions: Weekly Glitch Hunting Dispatch

Boundary breaks, memory corruption skips, and frame-perfect routing. Celebrating community ingenuity across speedrunning leaderboards.

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Elena Rostova
Curated • February 19, 2026
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Pushing Game Engines Past Their Design Limits

Speedrunners do not just play games; they deconstruct memory registers, collision meshes, and animation frames. Here are three record-shattering route discoveries that stunned leaderboards this week:

  • Mario 64 16-Star: New sub-pixel BLJ alignment shaving 0.4 seconds off the basement stair approach.
  • Elden Ring Any%: Zip glitch routing optimization bypassing Royal Capital trigger volumes.
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