Super Punch Out!! - Piston Hurricane [0'05"49] (NTSC WR)

This run was done on an original Super Nintendo cartridge of Super Punch-Out, as well as an original Super Nintendo 1chip console that was recapped and modded with the Voultar RGB amp to restore the correct color intensity. For some more in depth information about my general RGB setup, you can check out this pastebin here: https://pastebin.com/TtXx1PQx

Additionally, I've decided to include a non-stretched version of this fight in an unlisted video. If you'd like to learn more about why I'm including this too, you can check out the description in the second video here:    • Super Punch-Out!! - Piston Hurricane ...  

Piston Hurricane is notoriously the quickest fight not only in this game, but in the entire Punch-Out franchise (excluding PAL Super Punch Out anyways)! Normally, this is a fight that is designed to teach you the importance of blocking high and low for when he attempts to hit you with his "Hurricane rush" attack consisting of alternating jabs and hooks, however for the speedrun, he gets to show off none of this.

I remember casually getting this guy down in the 7 second range before I knew anything about what other people had done on this fight, just because Piston does not do a great job guarding or dodging repeated low super punches. You don't need to guard manipulate him, or even space these out; he'll just take the full damage from all of them lol.

There are two main strategies that you can do to get in the mid 5 second range. I'll start with the easier one that anyone reading this can do, then I'll cover the strategy that you see in this video.

The easy way to do this fight for anyone here who's reading this is to start by manipulating Piston's guard up by holding "Up" until the first frame of the fight elapses (or 0'00"01 on the timer occurs). If you do this correctly, you will be able to land a left handed gut punch for free. From here, you can follow that up with 2 more buffered gut punches, 3 buffered jabs, and one final buffered gut punch which will easily get Piston dizzy. If you throw a left jab and buffer a dodge, then IMMEDIATELY press the super button as your dodge starts, he'll be instantly knocked down! At this point, just holding down the super punch button will instantly knock Piston down a second time for a KO! This strategy when done frame perfectly will get you a 5"50 on the clock.

However, the strategy in this video is slightly different, and a bit harder to pull off than the previous one. For this one, start by not pressing anything for the first frame of the fight, then for the second frame, hold the input for a left jab. Follow that up with 2 more buffered jabs, then you'll need to delay a left body blow here. For this strategy to actually get Piston dizzy, you need this delayed punch to either be the earliest frame where he doesn't block, or one frame later than that. If you punch later than that 2 frame window, then this strategy will not work at all. After the delayed hit, just buffer another left jab, followed by a left gut punch, and another left jab to get him dizzy. The same jab into quick dodge buffer I mentioned above works just as well here. From here, you're home free to just hold the super punch button and it'll just land instantly and KO him lol.

There really isn't anything else to this fight as far as speedrunning goes. I would highly recommend that people who want to try speedrunning this game should start with this fight, because the easy approach I mentioned above is probably just as easy, if not easier than the Gabby Jay strategy I've posted before. Literally everyone reading this could get an incredibly fast time on Hurricane really quickly, I promise!

Anyways, thanks for watching!