Streamer’s Shiba Inu to become first dog speedrunner at AGDQ 2024

Streamer JSR_’s pet Shiba Inu, Peanut Butter, will become the first ever dog to speedrun a game during Awesome Games Done Quick in January 2024.

Peanut Butter will speedrun Gyromite, a puzzle platformer released on the NES which used the Robotic Operating Buddy accessory. Peanut Butter uses a custom controller and you can see him in action completing the game in 25 minutes and 29 seconds on YouTube.

As you can see in the video, JSR_ directs Peanut Butter to press buttons and gives him a reward for doing so. “This took years of training,” JSR_ said, adding that no assistance, autofire, macro, or states were used.

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