Besides that there are way fewer items to grab and Fox now sports some kick-butt sun-glasses (ok, so that makes up for the shoddy arwing). There are a few more enemies on certain levels (not that many actually.) and more importantly, they fire much faster and with greater intensity. In Expert mode, a collision takes a wing off and 25% of your health (Save the solar system and win a crappy arwing with easily detachable wings!).

Once all the medals have been achieved, Expert Mode is then unlocked. Medals are awarded for clearing a moderately high number of enemies on each level while keeping all wingmates alive. While there's a lot to Star Fox 64 (uber-fan speaking here), the meat of this game is in shooting up hundreds of enemies.

Star Fox 64 is not a naturally awesome game to speedrun, but while I think I did justice to the 'out of the box' run, I think this run truly does justice to the game itself. This run category, in my opinion, is the best speedrun the game has to offer. You go down in my book as 'The Hylian Who Saved Lylat.' Sorry to have owned your any% time TSA, but thanks for first running the game, because that run may have been the first speedrun I ever found. I know he was a big Star Fox fan even though he's mostly known for Zelda. I'd like to say thanks again to TSA for running the game first. Thanks also to MatrixTN and all others who posted in the topic for you support! SMK helped get things off the ground, then came back for some good advice: 'SMK your words are like pools of wisdom reaching to unfathomable depths.' Petrie911 helped greatly with support and analysis of my early videos. Huge thanks also to the others who supported me in the 100% run forum topic. As a knowledgable fan of the game and a long-standing member of SDA, his immediate and continued support were very much appreciated. Insipid had followed TSA's first and second runs of the game, and even attempted his own back in the day. No matter how much analysis, commentary, or progress I posted, he was there to give feedback, watch dozens of practice videos, and encourage me during the development of the run.

Thanks also to Mike Uyama and DJGrenola for posting new runs faster than the average travelling velocity of an unladen African swallow.Д¬ollosal props, my mostly undying gratitude, and much polysyllabic verbosity to InsipidMuckyWater for following this run so closely through to the end.

Thank you Radix for everything that you do and have done to make SDA awesome!.

Thank you Nate for everything you do and for just being.

Available in five versions: low/normal quality DivX, and normal/high/low quality H.264 MPEG-4. Single-segment speed run of Star Fox 64 on Expert mode with 100% of medals collected, done on September 21 2006.

Star fox 64 speed run