When you tuned into Superior Video games Carried out Fast right now, you may need seen one of many charity speedrunning occasion’s greatest milestones because it welcomed its first canine speedrunner. 

Simply as cute as his title, Peanut Butter is a Shiba Inu who additionally occurs to be an skilled in helping with Gyromite‘s Recreation B mode. Recreation B had Nintendo’s short-lived robotic assistant R.O.B. do the heavy lifting, urgent actuators to maneuver pipes so Professor Hector could make it by every degree unscathed. On this run, nevertheless, it was Peanut Butter who did all of the exhausting work. You may see simply how good this boy is proper right here.

The Peanut Butter Resolution

Whereas Peanut Butter makes all of it look straightforward, speedrunner JSR spent a 12 months coaching him to take over the position of the R.O.B. controller. He does so with a bespoke controller of his personal, which permits him to press just a few particular buttons on command with nice accuracy (and with the looming promise of a scrumptious deal with). JSR acquired the concept when he was making an attempt to stream each recreation from each episode of Indignant Video Recreation Nerd.

“It took us a few 12 months of coaching, each single day,” JSR stated. “However I used to be in a position to get him to press and maintain buttons down, and he’s in a position to do it now for an extended sufficient period of time that he can speedrun video games.”

All that coaching resulted in a very cute run with a pair shut calls. A lot ham was expended to get the job finished, and there’s all the time the potential time loss hazard of an itchy stomach. Even with the problem of merely being a canine, Peanut Butter was in a position to blast by Recreation B of Gyromite and loads of bonus kibbles in a formidable 26 minutes and 24.5 seconds. 

Those that need to have a good time Peanut Butter’s accomplishment and donate to an excellent trigger — additional benefitting the Stop Most cancers Basis, which AGDQ helps annually — can choose up a restricted time GOOD BOY! t-shirt from The Yetee. Six bucks from each tee goes on to the charity, and the shirt is nearly as lovable as Peanut Butter himself.