Resident Evil Veronica’s hidden speedrun glitch just broke a 20-year-old record, and fans are losing their minds.
- A frame-perfect exploit, named ‘Wesker Warp,’ allows players to skip the infamous Antarctic Base entirely, shaving 40 minutes off the game’s completion time.
- The glitch was only discovered after a fan decoded unused assets in the 2022 HD re-release, proving the code was always there but never functional until a recent patch.
- Speedrunner ‘CrimsonUmbrella42’ clocked a 1 hour 12 minute run, beating the previous world record set in 2005 by a full 23 minutes.
- Capcom has yet to comment, but dataminers found a hidden flag in the game’s memory that suggests a piece of cut content—a boss fight with a prototype Tyrant—is tied to the warp.
- The trick requires perfect timing on a specific door animation in the Palace of the Dead, and only works on the 2022 remaster version, not the original Dreamcast disc.