Route 1:13:26 - Elastoid

Foreword

This is a guide for everyone wanting to learn how to speedrun Shadowrun on SNES (or emulators) in the “Any%” category. I first stumbled about Shadowrun on the reddit (r/speedrun) post of Elastoid claiming to found a new route to break the two years old record. After that I tried the game and saw that it is fun and a game that I possibly want to speedrun. However, the guides section on speedrun.com had no explanation of any route.

So this is the first attempt to create the first guide for a Shadowrun route to get other people into running Shadowrun “Any%”. For the better or worse. We will see…

Any contributions are welcome! Tell me what is wrong and what can be done better by submitting changes via github page or the forum.

Disclaimer: This is a work in progress document. While writing this route guide Elastoid broke the world record again. The route for both records should be the same (Is this really true?).

To-Do

Special tricks and movement
In this document are a lot of hyperlinks which do not refer to any url. The idea is to have a extra page for special tricks or movements needed during the run. Best would be to have some videos. This idea is inspired by the SM64 Guides by GothicLogic.
Hacking computer
- reformat or restructure
- add maps or in-game pictures
Generate website or/and Github page
- This should allow others to directly contribute to this document. This should be a community effort.
Correct names of items and character
Rethink the structure of directing people
- For example, is it always understandable what northeast means?
Work on headlines and structure of the document
- Add/Remove split times (?)
- Bulleted lists; any good (?)
- Grammar and spelling (sorry, English isn’t my first language)

General Stuff

Resources

Casual

Guide and Walkthrough by Admiral
- Very detailed guide

For Speedrunning

World Record Route Guide with Elastoid and Edgeworth
- Explanation of all tricks and route changes compared to the previous world records
[Youtube] Item Duplication Glitch Tutorial by StuntCoyote
- One of the most important tricks
Speedrun.com Leaderboards
Speedrun.com Guides

Legend

The whole guide is organized in a big bulleted list.
Interaction option, Item name or Person name are highlighted in bold.
Keyword are highlighted in italic, while newly learned keywords are highlighted as this: (Learned Keyword).
Speedrunning tricks should contain hyperlinks to videos or other resources explaining them. For now, none of these tricks contain hyperlinks, i.e. clicking them will not redirect you somewhere. Feel free to contribute to these resources!

Special Meanings

For the sake of brevity I would like to shorten some “Interaction options” in the following way:

Action	Meaning	Explanation
Interact with	Select Character and Talk	Better to distinguish when to “talk” to character…
Talk to	Interact with + Talk in dialogue menu	… or also “talk” in dialogue menu.

The Route

Time begins with “Start New Game” select.

Tenth Street (Morgue)

Pick up Scalpel
Pick up Slap Patch
Leave morgue

Time: 0:00:45 Delta: 00:45

Tenth Street (Street)

Talk to Guy (Hitman and Firearm)
Open Broken Gate
Run straight southeast (don’t stop for dog)
Run into red building
Enter first door
- Examine dead guy
- Pick up Door Key
- Leave and go north
Enter Apartment Building
- Enter third door to the right using Door Key
- Pick up shades
- Examine Paper note (no need to pick it up)
- Leave

Time 0:01:45 Delta: 01:00

Go west and pick up Dog Colar
Go west
Go south
Pick up Beretta Pistol and equip it and equip Shades (equipping Shades will leave inventory
Kill Orc
Examine Orc and pick up Leather Jacket
Run west and talk to Dog
Leave area

Time 0:02:43 Delta: 00:58

Grim Reaper Club

Go north west and enter Grim Reaper Club
Interact with Club Manager (no need to talk)
Talk to A Busy Man (Heal)
Wait for bartender to bring Iced Tea
Pick up Iced Tea and Talk to Club Manager (shadowrunner)
Ask about Shadowrunners (Decker and Hiring)
Ask about Decker (Datajack)
Give Iced Tea to Club patron
Talk to Club patron (Tickets)
Ask about Tickets (Maria and Grinder)
Ask about Grinder (Lone Star)
Leave

Time 0:03:33 Delta 00:50

Business Man and First Duplicate

Enter red building
Enter door at end of floor
Duplicate Leather Jacket once (+1000$)
Ask about Lone Star + buy ID badge (-150¥)
Ask about Firearms + buy 6 Grenades (-600¥)
Leave

Time 0:04:17 Delta 00:44

Glutman’s Office Building

Go a bit southeast
Enter Glutman’s office building
Enter second room (right-hand side)
Pick up Cyberdeck (Pick-up range quite long)
Leave + equip Leather Jacket and ID badge (equipping ID badge will leave inventory)

Morgue (Second Time)

Go northeast to morgue (upper sidewalk)
Enter morgue
Ask about Grinder to lower right of the both Morticians
Open door while mortician is walking to the Filing Cabinets
Move between both Filing Cabinets
First Filling Cabinet
- Open - Examine - pick up Credstick
Second Filling Cabinet
- Open - Examine - pick up Tickets
Leave

Time 0:05:20 Delta 01:03

Graveyard + Club

Run southwest (upper sidewalk)
Run northwest - north (middle of the street)
Run to western catacomb
Use Scalpel
Enter catacomb
Use Slap patch on Indian Shaman
Leave + Talk (Shaman and Magic fetish)
Leave Craveyard
Give Tickets to Heavy Bouncer
Immediately use Credstick on Video Phone (twice or one after another)
First call (Sassie):
- Talk + Ask about Calls
Second call (Glutman):
- Ask about Glutman
Interact with Glutman + Exit

Time 0:06:56 Delta 01:36

Caryard

Go southeast
Interact with Gang member (Caryards)
Ask about Caryards (King)
Go east
Talk to Arena owner

First Fight

Lure Gang member into barrel and kill him
Talk to Arena owner

Second Fight

Move a little bit north
Deal at least 1 dmg to Heavy Dude to turn him red (he will move south)
Kill him from a safe distance
Talk to Arena owner

Third Fight

Strat 1:
- Use Grenade on Heavy Dude to turn him red (at least 6 dmg needed)
- Kill him from a safe distance
- Ask about King
Strat 2:
- Shoot at Heavy Dude until he turns red (at least 6 dmg needed)
- Kill him from a safe distance
- Ask about King

King Fight

Use five (strat 1) or six (strat 2) Grenades on King to turn him red
Kill King from safe distance
Leave Arena
Go northwest
Use Bed
Use karma (Karma: 10)

Category	Attribute	From –> To
Skills	Firearm	1 –> 3
Attribute	Charisma	3 –> 4
Attribute	Strength	3 –> 4

Exit

Time 0:09:48 Delta 02:52

Weapon + Armor + Bottles

Vivyan’s Weapon Shop

Go southeast
Go southwest
Go west
Go northwest
Enter Vivyan’s Weapon Shop
Buy Mesh Wire jacket from Gun Case (-5000$)
Duplicate Mesh Wire jacket six times (+15,000¥)
Buy ‘Defiance T-250’ shotgun (-15,000¥)
Duplicate ‘Defiance T-250’ shotgun six times (+45,000¥)
Equip Mesh Wire jacket and ‘Defiance T-250’ shotgun
Buy Grenade six times (-600¥)
Leave

Talisman Shop

Enter Talisman Shop
Buy Sharp Wooden stake (-2,500¥)
Interact with Indian Shaman (Talismans)
Ask about Talismans (Shaman)
Exit
Buy A blue and purple bottle (-3,000¥)
Leave

Time 14:01 Delta 04:13

Cortex Bomb

Ed’s Patch’n’Fix

Go southeast (upper sidewalk)
Enter backstreet
Enter Ed’s Patch’n’Fix
Interact with Street Doc
Ask about Datajack (Examination)
Ask about Examination (-500¥) (Cortex bomb)
Leave
Walk southeast
Enter Sputnik Club
Interact with Large orc
Hiring (-500¥)
Leave

Water Fountain

Enter subway station
Go northeast + take sub to Tenth Street Station
Go southwest
Go north
Go west
Go to Water Fountain and Use Potion Bottles
Go east
Go east
Enter subway station
Take train
Go west

Cortex Bomb

Take train to Daley Station
Go southeast
Fight two Ferocious orcs
Leave dialogue
Pick up Iron Key
Go southeast (leave dialogue with Dog)
Go northeast
Cross street
Go east
Enter Dr. Maplethorpe’s Office
Interact with Secretary
Ask about Cortex Bomb (-2000¥)
Interact with Street Doc
Ask about Cortex Bomb (Cyberware and Head computer)
Ask about Heal three times (-300¥)
Exit
Buy Boosted Reflexes (-15,000¥)
Leave

Time 0:19:16 Delta 05:15

The Gang

Go west
Cross street
Go west
Go west
Go north
Enter Club
Kill Ferocious Orc
Talk to Club Manager (Ice)
Go downstairs
Hiring Dwarf (-2,000¥)
Go north (middle of street)
Kill enemies
Use Iron Key with Door
Enter Building
Kill all enemies (two Ferocious Orc and Gang Member)
Kill two entering Ferocious Orc
Pick up Crowbar
Enter next room
Use five Grenades on Gang Leader
Use one Grenade on Heavy Dude on the left side
(optional: use one additional Grenade by duplicating the last one. According to Elastoid this will result in an underflow and at this point no further Grenades can be purchased)
Kill all enemies (Gang Leader and Gang member should die first)
Exit dialogue with Gang Leader (Drake)
Pick up Password
Leave building
Leave area (Go west) without killing enemies

Time 0:22:55 Delta 03:39

The Rat

Go southeast
Go southeast
Go west
Go to front of Jagged Nails
Talk to left Cruel Man (-50¥)
Interact with Kitsune
Ask about Dog (enchanted Leaves)
Hiring (-3,000¥)
Leave
Go east
Go southeast
Go south
Go southwest
Interact with Boot driver (Docks)
Go northwest
Enter second door (right-hand side)
Walk into circle
Equip Heal-Spell
Give Leather Jacket to Kitsune
Kitsune: Equip Leather Jacket
Talk to Dog (Rat)
Leave
Go southeast
Go east
Go northeast
Go northwest
Go northeast
Go southeast
Enter Sewers
Kitsune: Cast Spell Summon spirit lvl 5
Kill all Rats
Go northeast
Kitsune: Cast Spell Summon spirit lvl 5
Kill all Rats
Go east
Kitsune: Cast Spell Summon spirit lvl 5
Kill all Rats and Rat Shaman
Pick up 3,000¥
Exit dialogue (Jester)
Dialogue with Kitsune
- Ask about Jester Spirit (Dark Blade)
- Ask about Dark Blade (Vampires)
Leave

Time 0:28:35 Delta 05:40

Vampire - Shopping and Leveling

Go northwest
Kill Norbert (if not already dead)
Go west
Go west
Enter Hotel
Talk to Hotel Manger (-50¥)
Enter left most room
Use Bed
Use karma (Karma: 31)

Category	Attribute	From –> To
Magic	Heal	1 –> 2
Attribute	Magic	1 –> 7
Skills	Firearms	3 –> 4

Leave Hotel
Enter Jagged Nails by Talk to Cruel Man (-50¥)
Use Credstick on Video Phone
Call Talis
Use Credstick on Video Phone
Interact with Decker
Hiring Decker (-5,000¥)
Exit Decker dialogue
Talis call:
- Ask about Dark Blade
Call DBlade
Interact with Club Manager (right bar)
Ask about Vampires (Strobes)
Exit
DBlade call:
- Ask about Magic fetish
Interact with Club Manager (left bar)
- Ask about Strobes (Yes)
Leave Jagged Nails

Time 0:30:49 Delta 02:14

Dark Blade Mansion

Go southeast
Go southeast
Go northeast
Go northeast
Go east
Enter Dark Blade Mansion
Go east
Pick up Bronze Key (fighting enemies not necessary)
Leave room and go first room right
Go north
Go around wall
Use Bronze Key on Bronze Gate
Go southwest
Go southeast
Use Strobe
Use Stake three times on Vampire
Leave
Exit on first dialogue
Ask about Jester Spirit on second dialogue (Laughlyn and Bremerton)
Leave

Time 0:34:14 Delta 03:15

Bremerton

Duplicating + Docks

Go east
Enter Weapon Shop
Duplicate ‘Defiance T-250’ shotgun and sell both (+15,000¥)
Buy Uzi III SMG (-30,000¥)
Leave
Leave
Go northwest
Go west
Go northwest
Enter Wastelands Club
Interact with A Busy Man
Ask about Ice (Yes, -100¥)
Ask about Docks
Exit
Leave Wastelands Club
Go southeast
Go southeast
Go southeast
Go south
Go southwest
Go southwest
Kill Massive Orc
Pickup Explosives
Interact with Boat driver
Ask about Bremerton (Yes, -1,000¥)
Enter Boat

On Ship

Go northeast
Go northeast and back southwest on upper floor
Use Crowbar on second Door
Use Switch
Enter door on first floor (right)
Go northwest (second floor)
Go southwest
Kill Massive Orc
Go south
Kill Massive Orc
Go south
Kill Ferocious Orc
Go south
Kill
Go south
Kill Ferocious Orc
Pickup Safe Key
Use Safe Key on Safe
Pickup Detonator
Leave (all the way up)
Go southwest after climbing up all stairs
Go southwest
Kill Poison Ooze
Use Potion Bottles on Toxic Water
Go southwest
All the way down
Heal and Member and enter room on lowest floor
Kitsune: Cast Invisibility on Kitsune
Pass Orcs and Cast Invisibility on Me
Use Time Bomb on Safe
Heal everyone
Pickup Green Bottle
Leave room
Go all the way up
Go northwest
Go east
Go east
Go east
Kitsune: Cast Spell Summon spirit lvl 5 (when necessary; more than one enemy)
Clear floor
Go east (Use Switch to open door)
Go east
Use Green Bottle on Slimy toxic waste
Use right and left most Switch
Enter east
Enter portal northeast

Jester Spirit

Take upper path
Go east
Go northeast (past indestructible slim)
Kitsune: Cast Spell Summon spirit lvl 5
Until bombs stop dropping
Get close to Jester Spirit
Interact with Jester Spirit (after dealing enough damage; wait for red dialogue box)
Ask about Laughlyn
Interact with Jester Spirit
Ask about Drake (Volcano)
Pick up Jester Spirit
Wait for portal to appear
Enter Portal

Time 0:44:09 Delta 09:55

Drake Tower

Go northeast
Go northwest
Enter second Door (right-hand side)
Enter circle and turn around
Exit dialogue
Leave
Go southeast
Go east
Go northeast
Go northwest
Go west
Enter Hotel
Talk to Hotel Manager (Yes, -50¥)
Enter room
Use Bed
Use karma (Karma: 26)

Category	Attribute	From –> To
Magic	Invisibility	1 –> 3
Attribute	Magic	7 –> 8
Skills	Computers	1 –> 6

Leave
Go southeast
Go southeast
Enter Drake Tower

1st Floor

Kill Mage
Use Cyberdeck on Computer
Sequence of input in computer (will do map in future):
- → →
- ↓ ↓
- → → →
- ↓
- → → → → → →
- ↑
- defuse
Exit
Enter elevator

2nd Floor

Cast Invisibility on Kitsune
Kitsune: Cast spell on Me
Go southeast
Use Cyberdeck on Computer
- ↑ ↑ ↑
- → → → →
- ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑
- ← ←
- defuse(upper)
- → →
- ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓
- ← ← ← ←
- ↓ ↓
- →
- ↑
- → → → → → →
- ↓ ↓
- defuse
Exit
Kitsune: Cast spell on Me
Leave to elevator

3rd Floor

Kill all enemies (Kitsune: Cast spell Summon Spirit)
Decker: Use Cyberdeck on Computer
- ↑
- defuse
- →
- ↑
- ↑
- fight
- ↑ ↑
- → → →
- fight
- →
- defuse
- ← ← ← ←
- ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓
- ← ←
- ↓ ↓↓ ↓
- fight
- ↓
- defuse
Exit
Leave via elevator

4th Floor

Cast Invisibility on Kitsune
Kitsune: Cast spell on Me
Go east
Use Cyberdeck on Computer
- ↑ ↑ ↑
- → →→ →
- ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑
- ← ←
- defuse(upper)
- → →
- ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓
- ← ← ← ←
- ↓ ↓
- →
- ↑
- → → → → → →
- ↓ ↓
- defuse
Exit
Leave via elevator

5th Floor

Kill all enemies (Kitsune: Cast spell Summon Spirit, Cast spell Invisibility on Me and Kitsune)
Decker: Use Cyberdeck on Computer
- ↑
- defuse
- ↑ ↑ ↑
- ← ←
- ↑ ↑
- → → → →
- ↑ ↑ ↑
- defuse
- ↓ ↓ ↓
- ← ← ← ←
- ↓ ↓ ↓
- → →
- ↓ ↓
- →
- ↑ ↑
- fight
- ↑ ↑
- → → →
- fight
- →
- defuse
- ← ← ← ←
- ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓
- ← ← ←
- ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓
- fight
- ↓
- defuse
Exit
Leave via elevator

6th Floor

Cast Invisibility on Kitsune
Kitsune: Cast spell on Me
Go east
Use Cyberdeck on Computer
- → →
- ↓ ↓
- → → →
- ↓
- → → → → → →
- ↑
- defuse
Exit
Leave via elevator

Rooftop

Go east
Interact with Helicopter Pilot
Ask about Volcano

Volcano

Go northeast
Go north
Go southeast
Go southwest
Decker: Use Cyberdeck on Computer
- ↑
- defuse
- →
- ↑
- ↑
- fight
- ↑ ↑
- → → →
- fight
- →
- defuse
- ← ← ← ←
- ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓
- ← ←
- ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓
- fight
- ↓
- defuse
Exit
Leave
Go northeast
Go southeast
Go southeast
Go door west
Decker: Use Cyberdeck on Computer
- → →
- fight
- → →
- fight
- → →
- → →
- fight
- →
- fight
- → →
- defuse
- ← ← ← ← ← ←
- ↓
- fight
- ↓ ↓
- fight
- ↓
- defuse
Exit
Leave
Go southwest
Cast Invisibility on Me
Go east
Go south
Go southeast
Go northeast
Enter door in front of you
Go northeast
Decker: Use Cyberdeck on Computer
- ←
- ↓
- ←
- ↓
- ←
- ↓ ↓
- →
- ↓ ↓
- →
- ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓
- fight
- ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓
- defuse
- ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑
- →
- ↑ ↑ ↑
- fight
- ↑ ↑
- defuse
- ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓
- → → →
- fight
- →
- defuse
Exit
Go northeast
Cast Invisibility on Me
Go northeast
Cast Invisibility on Me
Go southeast
Cast Invisibility on Me
Go southeast+northeast
Go northeast
Use Jester Spirit
Find spot
Move Decker in front of Me
Kill Drake
Go north
Interact with Scientist
Ask about Head Computer
Exit

Time 1:01:10 Delta 17:01

Grand Finale

Go down all elevators
Leave building
Go northwest
Go west
Enter Hotel
Talk to Hotel Manager (Yes, -50¥)
Enter room
Use Bed
Use karma (Karma: 20)

Category	Attribute	From –> To
Magic	Invisibility	3 –> 4
Magic	Heal	2 –> 3
Attribute	Strength	4 –> 5
Attribute	Body	3 –> 5

Exit
Leave
Go southeast
Go northeast
Go east
Go southeast
Enter Weapon Shop
Duplicate Uzi III SMG twice and sell the last one (+42,000¥)
Buy ‘Enfield AS -7’ assault cannon (-40,000¥)
Duplicate ‘Enfield AS -7’ assault cannon (+20,000¥)
Buy Partial Body Suit
Equip ‘Enfield AS -7’ assault cannon and Partial Body Suit
Leave
Go northwest
Go northwest
Go northeast
Enter Volcano Tower without fighting

1st Floor

Use Cyberdeck on Computer
- → →
- ↓ ↓
- → → →
- ↓
- → → → → → →
- ↑
- defuse
Kill Steelflight
Enter elevator

2nd Floor

Go northwest
Cast Invisibility on Me
Kill all enemies
Use Cyberdeck on Computer (2nd on right wall)
- → → →
- ↑
- → →
- defuse
- ← ←
- ↓
- ← ←
- ↑ ↑
- ↓ ↓
- fight
- ↓ ↓ ↓
- ← ← ←
- defuse
- → → →
- ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑
- ↑
- fight
- ↑ ↑
- defuse
- ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓
- → →
- ↑ ↑ ↑
- →
- ↑
- defuse
- ↓
- ←
- ↓ ↓ ↓
- ←
- ↓
- →
- ↑
- defuse
- ↑
- defuse
- →
- ↓
- → → → → →
- ↑ ↑ ↑
- defuse
- ↓ ↓ ↓
- ← ← ← ← ←
- ↑
- ←
- ↓
- →
- ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑
- → →
- ↑
- defuse
Exit
Go southeast
Go southeast
Kill all enemies
Use Cyberdeck on Computer (bottom right)
- →
- receive mail?
- ↓ ↓
- fight
- ↓ ↓
- fight
- ↓ ↓
- fight (to the left)
- ← ←
- defuse
- → →
- ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑
- →
- → → →
- ↑
- →
- fight
- → →
- ↑
- →
- defuse
Exit (Node 3 deactivated)
Go northwest
Enter elevator

3rd Floor

Go northeast
Cast Invisibility on Me
Kill all enemies
Use Cyberdeck on Computer (first office)
- ↑ ↑
- ←
- ↓
- fight
- ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓
- ↓ ↓ ↓
- →
- fight (down)
- ↓ ↓
- defuse (right)
- way back:
- ↑ ↑
- ←
- ↑ ↑ ↑
- ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑
- →
- ↓ ↓
- fight
- ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓
- ↓
- →
- fight
- ↓
- defuse (will destroy all bombs)
- ←
- ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓
- ←
- ↓
- defuse
Exit
Go southeast
Enter elevator

4th Floor

Go northwest
Cast Invisibility on Me
Kill all enemies
Use Cyberdeck on Computer (northeast)
- →
- →
- fight
- → →
- fight
- → → →
- →
- →
- fight
- →
- fight
- → →
- defuse
- way back:
- ← ← ← ← ←
- ←
- ↓
- fight
- ↓ ↓
- fight
- defuse
Exit
Go southeast
Enter elevator

5th Floor

Cast Invisibility on Me
Kill all enemies
Use Cyberdeck on AI Computer
- ↑
- ↑ ↑
- ←
- ↑ ↑
- fight
- ↑
- defuse (will destroy all bombs)
- ← ← ← ← ←
- ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑
- ↑
- →
- ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑
- → → → → →
- ↓
- fight
- ↓
- defuse
Exit

Time stops after transition to exploding AI Computer

Time 1:13:26 Delta 12:16