Falcon is a British Columbia based N64 speedrunner whose name became inseparable from Banjo Tooie 100 percent and from the idea of tackling multiple Rareware platformers in a single marathon run. On leaderboards, marathon categories, and long form tutorials, he helped define what high level play looked like for Banjo Tooie and for multi game “collectathon” challenges through the late 2010s and early 2020s.
Origins In The N64 Collectathon Scene
Falcon’s public trail as a speedrunner runs mainly through his profile on Speedrun.com, which lists more than two hundred full game runs and over sixty level runs across titles like Banjo Tooie, Banjo Kazooie, Donkey Kong 64, Glover, Golden Nugget 64, Super Mario 64, and smaller curios such as Star Soldier Vanishing Earth and System Goose Overload. The profile places him in British Columbia, Canada and shows him active on the site since the late 2010s, with most of his personal bests in N64 games and Wii U virtual console versions that kept those games alive for a new generation.
From the beginning his game list points to a taste for long, route heavy platformers rather than short arcade titles. Donkey Kong 64 runs listed under his name include categories such as 101 percent and No Levels Early on Wii U virtual console, where he posted top three and top ten finishes in the years when that version was drawing active routing work. Glover entries show him experimenting with multiple categories from Any percent to Reverse Boss Order, again with times near the top of the board. That broader background in Rare style collectathons set the stage for the more focused Banjo Tooie work that would define his reputation.
Building Banjo Tooie 100 Percent Into A Showcase Category
Banjo Tooie 100 percent on N64 asks a runner to collect every jiggy, note, Cheato page, and honeycomb, to clear the elaborate boss lineup, and to navigate version specific tricks like Jinjo manipulation. The main 100 percent leaderboard on Speedrun.com shows Falcon holding first place with a 4 hours 16 minutes 15 seconds run, recorded four years before the present ranking snapshot and still listed as the top verified time. That clear placement at the head of a dense top ten field made his name the one that newer runners saw each time they opened the category.
The Banjo Tooie category page links directly out to routing resources, including a dedicated 100 percent tutorial playlist that the BanjoSpeedruns community attributes to Falcon. Those videos walk through the route level by level and teach details such as optimal jiggy order, Jinjo manipulation, and the movement techniques that keep long splits under control. For many players entering the category in the early and mid 2020s, that playlist functioned as their first structured introduction to modern Tooie routing.
Outside the leaderboards, his YouTube channel highlights a series of incremental pushes on the same category. One video titled “[WR] Banjo Tooie 100% Speedrun in 4:10:46 (RTA)” shows him cutting more than five minutes off his verified leaderboard time, with a description that frames it as the culmination of a long grind for a more realistic personal goal. Because community moderators later chose not to accept further submissions from him, that 4 hours 10 minutes 46 seconds performance exists primarily as a video rather than as an updated board entry, but for viewers it represents the peak of his execution on the route he helped teach.
Alongside the 100 percent work, he claimed first place in several other Banjo Tooie categories. His profile lists world leading times in Any percent on N64 at 25 minutes 49 seconds, Any percent No Bitclips on N64 at 41 minutes 53 seconds, and No DCW or BC at 2 hours 38 minutes 37 seconds, all recorded within the last few years. Taken together, those results show a runner who was not just learning one route but repeatedly pushing different category definitions of Tooie to their limits.
Rareware Collectathon Trilogy And Long Form Marathons
Falcon’s interest in long runs did not stop at individual games. On the Multiple Rareware Games board, the Rareware Collectathon Trilogy 301 percent category tasks runners with full completion of Banjo Kazooie, Banjo Tooie, and Donkey Kong 64 in a single sitting. There he posted a time of 12 hours 19 minutes 56 seconds, still listed as first place on the trilogy leaderboard five years after it was set. The spread between that run and the cluster of twelve to sixteen hour finishes behind him underscores the scale of refinement required to keep three long games on world record pace in a marathon context.
These marathons tied him into the broader N64 relay culture that grew up around events like The 1545, a sprawling relay designed to showcase many of the platform’s titles. On that event’s Speedrun.com page, Falcon appears as part of several multi person teams, including a sixteen hour Team Any percent relay finish and multi day Team 1545 relay placements, where he handled segments within the larger schedule. For viewers, those relays made him familiar as one of the runners who could anchor the Rare platformer sections during long charity or community events.
Beyond Banjo Tooie: Glover, Donkey Kong 64, And Super Mario 64
While Banjo Tooie dominates any list of Falcon’s accomplishments, his profile points to serious investment in other games. In Glover, another challenging N64 platformer with intricate movement and route requirements, he holds first place in Any percent with a time of 6 minutes 43 seconds and top three positions in categories such as 100 percent and All Bosses. Those runs show the same preference for technically demanding collectathons, this time in a game whose small but dedicated community values precise ball control and aggressive level skips.
Donkey Kong 64 entries reinforce that pattern. Falcon’s runs include top three or top ten placements in Any percent, No Levels Early, and 101 percent on Wii U virtual console, with times such as 24 minutes 59 seconds for Any percent and 5 hours 17 minutes 31 seconds for 101 percent. While he did not define those categories to the same extent as his Tooie work, the results mark him as part of the mid 2010s and early 2020s wave of players who helped drag Donkey Kong 64 completion times down from the eight to ten hour range to something closer to five hours at the top end.
He also spent time in Super Mario 64, where his profile lists runs in 16 star, 70 star, 120 star, and other categories. His placements there cluster around the middle of very dense boards rather than at the top, with times like 48 minutes 49 seconds in 70 star and 1 hour 43 minutes 32 seconds in 120 star. Even without top three results, those entries show how he engaged with the broader N64 speedrunning canon and imported ideas back into his Rareware routing.
Tutorials, Streams, And Community Presence
As his Banjo Tooie 100 percent time climbed, Falcon increasingly presented himself not only as a record chaser but as a teacher. The BanjoSpeedruns 100 percent category page points runners toward his dedicated tutorial playlist as a core learning tool, putting his name directly in front of anyone trying to move from casual play to serious attempts. That playlist and other explanatory videos on his YouTube channel break down rooms, boss fights, and tricky movement sequences that can easily cost minutes in a four hour run.
On Twitch, where he streamed under the handle Falcon_SR, his channel centered heavily on Banjo Tooie 100 percent during early 2025. Analytics from that period show repeated broadcasts titled along the lines of “Tooie 100% speedruns for a better WR” and “Tooie 100% for 4:10,” with sessions often stretching four to five hours as he ground for incremental time saves. The same records list his channel as created in January 2017 and still carry the description “Speedrunner of N64 games,” matching the focus visible on Speedrun.com.
The Banjo community’s social media accounts occasionally highlighted his achievements in real time. A post from the BanjoSpeedruns account on X congratulated him for breaking the Banjo Tooie 100 percent world record by more than a minute with his 4 hours 16 minutes 15 seconds run, underlining how significant that improvement looked to people following the category.
Community Moderation And A Complicated Legacy
Falcon’s relationship with parts of the N64 speedrunning community eventually fractured. On at least one Banjo Tooie leaderboard entry, a moderator note explicitly states that the community condemns his actions, explains that he has been banned from the community, and clarifies that his runs remain on the board for archival purposes only. Separate conversations on social media and in community spaces discuss the reasons for that decision, but those extend beyond the scope of this profile and into areas where official statements are limited and emotions run high.
For historians of speedrunning, the presence of that moderator note next to world leading times creates a tension that has become more common as the scene matures. On the one hand there is an objective record of technical accomplishment, preserved through videos, leaderboards, and tutorial playlists that many runners still find useful. On the other hand there is a set of community judgments about conduct that lead organizers and moderators to distance their spaces from the person behind those records.
This article focuses on the documented speedrunning record while acknowledging that his standing within parts of the community is contested. Anyone engaging with his work today needs to be aware of both pieces of that story: the routes and times that shaped how people run Banjo Tooie and related games, and the community decisions that frame how those runs are remembered and referenced.
Legacy In The Speedrunning Record
Taken together, Falcon’s contributions make him one of the central figures in Banjo Tooie 100 percent during the late 2010s and early 2020s and an important name in the broader N64 collectathon scene. His verified world record on the 100 percent leaderboard, extended further in subsequent unsubmitted videos, demonstrated how far optimized movement, Jinjo manipulation, and refined boss strategies could compress a long route.
The Rareware Collectathon Trilogy 301 percent record and his participation in long relay events like The 1545 showed what it looked like to treat multiple demanding platformers as parts of one continuous challenge rather than separate projects. His Glover, Donkey Kong 64, and Super Mario 64 runs helped bridge communities and cross pollinate routing ideas between games that share a platform but have different mechanical demands.
His tutorial playlist and recorded streams continue to circulate as teaching tools, even as newer runners adapt and extend the route. For anyone tracing the evolution of Banjo Tooie 100 percent or of long form Rareware marathons, Falcon’s times and videos remain key primary sources, both for the strategies they document and for the questions they raise about how communities remember and contextualize the work of players whose personal conduct has been formally condemned.