17 years after the launch of Wii Play, the Nintendo minigame collection that's mostly remembered by fans as 'the one that's not as good as Wii Sports,' nobody had managed to get a perfect shot in the 9-ball billiards game. Speedrunners have finally changed that, but only after decompiling the game's code to build a tool that could finally sort through millions of possibilities to find the one magic angle.
Wii Play has a robust speedrunning community that's been around for years, and getting through the billiards game as fast as possible means trying to sink as many balls as you can in a single shot. If you're speedrunning a game of 9-ball, it'd be ideal to sink every single ball in a break shot, but as of earlier this year, the best anybody had ever managed was seven balls sunk in the break - something that had only happened four times in the history of the game's speedrunning scene.
