A speedrunner used a reside band to get round copyright points whereas making an attempt a Loopy Taxi run.
Close to the tip of this yr’s Superior Video games Achieved Fast, speedrunner chuckles825 took on the Loopy Field mode in Loopy Taxi, which consists of 16 smaller timed challenges.
Whereas Loopy Taxi is well-known for its soundtrack, which incorporates music by The Offspring and Unhealthy Faith, it might have primarily been unimaginable to stream the sport at Superior Video games Achieved Fast with out triggering a DMCA takedown for copyrighted music.
To get round this, the participant put collectively a band referred to as Limiter Lower, who accompanied the motion with covers of the songs from the sport.
As chuckles825 performed via every of the 16 Loopy Field challenges, the band rotated via the songs, stopping on the finish of every problem to play the menu music as in the actual recreation.
Following the efficiency, guitarist 2dos took to Reddit to clarify how the concept happened, explaining that the sport hadn’t been tried at Video games Achieved Fast for a decade and the organisation had turned down quite a few submissions over time for copyright causes.
“[Chuckles and I] had submitted Loopy Taxi a number of instances over time with out success after our AGDQ 2015 run,” he defined. We’d have wanted to mute the soundtrack if it did get in throughout these instances for licensing causes.”
As a result of the band had been newly-formed, and since its members had been from completely different elements of the US, every member practised on their very own till they had been capable of meet at Summer season Video games Achieved Fast 2024, the place they recorded their submission video.
“We then continued to follow on-line as soon as we discovered the run received in, and at last practiced once more in individual at AGDQ 2025 for the few days main as much as the run,” 2dos mentioned.
Requested if there have been any plans to carry the again for future Video games Achieved Fast occasions, 2dos replied that it was a risk, citing the Tony Hawk collection as a possible contender.
“Perhaps, possibly not,” he mentioned. There are related runs that might be executed this manner (Loopy Taxi 2, Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater, and many others) that would doubtlessly be submitted by us.
“However I hope GDQ will get contemporary concepts too. I actually hope we impressed people to give you distinctive submissions sooner or later.”
