Quest for Glory I Speedruns: The Hunt for 50 Seconds

A tale of framerules and desyncs, featuring Santa Claus.

OneShortEye's "Quest for Glory Speedrun History" video from 2021:
   • Quest for Glory Speedrun History  

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:55 SantaClaus is coming to town
02:15 Santa's optimizations
07:47 The 1st run
09:52 Speedrunning tech
12:29 The 2nd run
13:39 The wrong input buffer
19:27 The Sierra Script Desync Glitch
21:36 The 3rd run
24:29 The Three-handed Mutant
26:06 Outro

Quest for Glory speedrunning:
Quest for Glory Speedrunning Discord:   / discord  
Quest for Glory I Leaderboards: https://www.speedrun.com/quest_for_gl...

Thanks to:
‪@polygon586‬ , SantaClaus, for the secret sauce.
‪@Rainault‬ for the frame perfect competition.
‪@OneShortEye‬ for his feedback on this video, and for permission to use footage from his channel.
‪@MisterMiller‬ for fostering the Quest for Glory community, without whom we would not be here.
My budgie for co-commentating this video with me.

Attributions:
https://pixabay.com/ for some images.
https://freesound.org/ for the glass breaking sound.

Bonus:
The video that made me initially decide to make this essay.
   • QfG1, I need a drink