Hagg built his name in speedrunning by embracing some of the hardest long-form platformers on the Nintendo 64 and then running them back to back for hours at a time. From marathon appearances at Summer Games Done Quick to world record routes in Banjo Tooie and ambitious Rareware trilogies, his career traces a line through the modern history of N64 collectathon speedrunning.
Best known for his work in Banjo-Tooie, its predecessor Banjo-Kazooie, and Donkey Kong 64, Hagg combined high placements on leaderboards with a patient, teacherly presence on stream. His world record Any percent route in Banjo Tooie, top ten Banjo Kazooie 100 percent times, and long Rareware “301 percent” and trilogy marathons made him one of the defining specialists for this pocket of the speedrunning world.
Early Rareware Roots
By the late 2010s, Hagg’s name was already appearing across multiple leaderboards on Speedrun.com. His early submissions focused on Donkey Kong 64 on the Wii U Virtual Console, where he recorded a 101 percent time of just over six hours and placed around the middle of the top twenty runners at the time of submission.
Those Donkey Kong 64 runs set a pattern that would define his career. Rather than chase only the fastest any percent time, he gravitated toward long, completion-focused categories and multi-game challenges. On the Multiple Rareware Games leaderboards, his times appear in marathon formats that chain together Banjo Kazooie, Banjo Tooie, and Donkey Kong 64 into single massive runs logged at over twelve hours.
This emphasis on endurance and deep familiarity with entire games rather than isolated segments made him a natural fit for marathon events and for the kind of routing work that would later transform Banjo Tooie any percent.
Banjo Kazooie Specialist and SGDQ 2019
In Banjo Kazooie, Hagg settled into the mainline 100 percent category on original N64 hardware. At one point he held a time of 1 hour 58 minutes 19 seconds on the core N64 100 percent leaderboard, placing him solidly inside the top ten runners and within a narrow band of the world record.
That grind to sub two hours formed the backbone of his breakout appearance at Summer Games Done Quick 2019, part of the long running charity marathons organized by Games Done Quick. Running under the handle Hagginater, he raced fellow Banjo specialist Duck in a Banjo Kazooie 100 percent showcase that finished around 2 hours 4 minutes. The run has circulated for years afterward as a recommended introduction to both the game and the broader Rareware speedrun scene, thanks to a combination of tight execution and a relaxed, conversational couch behind the runners.
The SGDQ race distilled what made Hagg compelling to watch. He treated the marathon couch as an extension of the community Discord and forums, using the stage to explain why certain lines were risky, how newer tricks like faster movement through Click Clock Wood had evolved, and how marathon safety routes differed from the razor thin strategies used to push personal bests.
Banjo Tooie Any Percent Innovation
If Banjo Kazooie gave Hagg his first major stage, Banjo Tooie became the game that most clearly reflected his routing and execution. On the Banjo Tooie 100 percent leaderboard, he pushed his N64 time down to 4 hours 25 minutes 03 seconds, good enough for a top five placement and keeping pace with runners like Mittenz and other long-time specialists.
His most visible achievement, however, came in any percent. In 2024 he published a 26 minute 57 second Banjo Tooie Any percent run on his YouTube channel, highlighted in the title and description as a world record. The run showcased aggressive exploitation of the game’s warping and movement glitches, combining techniques like pre-planned Jinjo manipulation and advanced detour routing around the late game worlds to compress what was once an hours-long adventure into under half an hour.
Compared to earlier any percent routes that hovered closer to forty five minutes on the same leaderboard tab, Hagg’s 26:57 represented not only individual execution but a deeper rethinking of how much of Banjo Tooie needed to be visited at all. That run, paired with his extensive 100 percent experience, helped push the broader community to revisit assumptions about routing, backups, and what a “complete” any percent looked like.
Donkey Kong 64 and Rareware 301 Percent Marathons
Hagg’s work in Donkey Kong 64 may not have reached the very top of the leaderboards in raw placement, but his presence in the game is best understood through multi-game formats and very long categories. His 101 percent Wii U Virtual Console time of 6 hours 01 minute 32 seconds put him just behind long standing specialists such as Connor75 and Falcon on the main 101 percent board, a respectable showing in one of the most demanding full completion categories in N64 speedrunning.
Where he stood out most was in Rareware trilogies. On the Multiple Rareware Games board, Hagg appears in a 301 percent challenge that chains Banjo Kazooie 100 percent, Banjo Tooie 100 percent, and Donkey Kong 64 101 percent into a single, roughly twelve and a half hour run. This format demands not only route knowledge across three massive games, but the ability to maintain focus over an entire day of streaming. The leaderboard entry for that marathon lists his nationality as Canadian and logs the time among the fastest completions of the trilogy at the date it was set.
Those marathons carried over onto his Twitch channel, where third party statistics sites still record a 2019 “301 percent Speedrun Marathon” broadcast with an average of around 185 concurrent viewers, as well as later Donkey Kong 64 streams that remained among his most watched broadcasts.
Jiggies of Time and Community Stewardship
Beyond running the original games, Hagg has also taken an active role in the Banjo rom hack scene. On the speedrun.com page for The Legend of Banjo Kazooie: Jiggies of Time, a fan-made hack that fuses Banjo’s moveset with a Legend of Zelda inspired world, he is listed as a super moderator, sharing responsibility with fellow runner Volquerra for maintaining the game’s rules, verifying submissions, and shaping how new categories are defined.
Moderating Jiggies of Time fits naturally alongside his work in Banjo Kazooie category extensions. In one of the most notable extension categories, Glitchless 100 percent on N64, Hagg set a world record time of 2 hours 17 minutes 52 seconds, documented on a dedicated run page that links back to a Twitch VOD and lists his run as first place at the time it was verified.
These roles put him on the other side of the leaderboard, acting as a gatekeeper for timing rules and legitimacy in a niche that depends heavily on community trust. In practice, that has meant answering questions about route legality, adjudicating new trick discoveries, and making sure that leaderboards stay approachable to newer runners who may be encountering a rom hack or category extension for the first time.
Tutorials, VODs, and the Teacher on Stream
One of the clearest threads through Hagg’s online presence is a willingness to teach. His YouTube channel includes full length tutorials for Banjo Kazooie 100 percent and other routes, along with commentary videos where he reacts to his own early personal bests and breaks down how his movement and decision making improved over time. Rather than just publish finished PBs, he uses these uploads to give later runners a roadmap of the mistakes, dead ends, and small optimizations that shaped his times.
That same educational tone carries over to Twitch. Stream descriptions and chat logs captured on statistics sites show him labeling himself a “scuffed” Rareware speedrunner, foregrounding the trial and error inherent to long categories. Viewers tuning into a Hagg stream could expect detailed explanations of how Bottle’s tutorials influence movement, why certain notes or Jiggies are routed later in 100 percent categories, or how to survive the last hour of a Donkey Kong 64 101 percent run without losing focus.
Place in the Rareware Speedrun Tradition
Taken together, Hagg’s career situates him firmly within the tradition of Rareware specialists who treat Banjo Kazooie, Banjo Tooie, and Donkey Kong 64 as a single, sprawling landscape rather than three isolated games. He contributed top level times in both Banjo titles, helped redefine the expectations for Banjo Tooie Any percent, shouldered some of the longest documented Rareware marathon categories, and took on moderator responsibilities for rom hacks like Jiggies of Time as the community’s scope expanded.
He also bridged spaces. On one side, he stood on the stage at Summer Games Done Quick as Hagginater, presenting Banjo Kazooie to a mainstream charity marathon audience. On the other, he sat in the quieter day to day work of routing, moderating, and teaching through VODs and tutorial series. That combination of public showcase and patient backend labor is a large part of why his handle still threads through discussions of Rareware marathons, Banjo Tooie world records, and the evolving ecosystem of Banjo rom hacks years after his first leaderboard entries went up.