frame-perfect
English
Alternative forms
- frame perfect
Adjective
frame-perfect (not comparable)
- (speedrunning) Of an input, trick etc., to only be possible for the duration of a single frame.
- 2018 December, Matt Knutson, “Backtrack, pause, rewind, reset: Queering chrononormativity in gaming”, in Game Studies, volume 18, number 3, ISSN 1604-7982, pages 1-15:
- Immediate decision-making, twitch reactions, tight timings, microtemporal awareness and frame-perfect [4] performance characterize competitive play behaviors in fighting games, first-person shooters, MOBAs and real time strategy games.
- 2019, James Newman, “Wrong Warping, Sequence Breaking, and Running through Code Systemic Contiguity and Narrative Architecture in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Any% Speedrun”, in Journal of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities, volume 4, number 1, Japanese Association for Digital Humanities, DOI:, ISSN 2188-7276, pages 7-36:
- It also requires frame-perfect precision in execution, with particular inputs having to coincide with in-game timers and triggers.
- 2021 May 20, Stephen Mumford, A Philosopher Looks at Sport (A Philosopher Looks At), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 2021024530, page 60:
- Moment #37 is famous in Street Fighter 2, for instance, because its execution required virtually frame-perfect inputs, which very few players had the dexterity to perform. Another norm is that the sport be regimented and codified.
See also
- pixel-perfect