Physical Copy / Cartridge can be ordered here!

https://www.ferrantecrafts.com/listing/1221102527/black-castle-game-cartridge-for-game-boy

Ships from NL / Europe.

There has been a new idea lately for a new interesting category, which aims at having the Any% NMG-speedrun-experience but without the "frame-perfect" manipulations to pre-plan/predict the outcomes of battles. The latter might be a high-entrance barrier and may be annoying/too challenging to new runners, so maybe a "more chill"-category could be a cool idea.

The first drafts were to have a category with Any% NMG-rules with the addition of not allowing boss-drops (e.g. Catfish Jewel) to be used and disallowing entering save-tiles without actually saving.

Most recent testing showed that stepping on a save-tile and actually using it (as in actually saving) doesn't reset the RNG in a way that it can be manipulated to de-RNG the outcome of upcoming battles.

And disallowing random boss-drops is to not have an outstanding advantage from runs that actually drop the item in the "dev-intended random way".

There are 3 highlights of finished runs under these rules yet, done by: @RealCritical:

@Derxu:

and @Skipsy

A few other Lufia II / AC-community members also showed interest in the category, when there was talk about it on the L2 AC-community discord.

@Deln / @eLmaGus / @HappySquid89 / @Kriegspyre : it would be cool if the moderation team would consider this approach to become a new category on the leaderboards. Having a leaderboard might draw more attention to the game and the category.

Ancient Cave discord can be found HERE:

https://discord.gg/Mp9znRb

You'll find all important ressources regarding speedrunning Lufia II - Ancient Cave there.

my body is ready...

Check out https://circuit-board.de/forum/index.php/Thread/31040-Neues-Gameboy-Spiel-Black-Castle/ for the latest version of the game.

Since this is a huge SNES speedrun community, I thought I'd ask here: any experience regarding the Switch Virtual Console for SNES games, and whether it's suitable for ALTTP or let's say SNES games in general?

It seems it's already allowed, since it's listed for legit consoles, iirc.

Thanks for your feedback!

THIS GAME IS GONNA BE HYPE!!!

..soon! FeelsBaguetteMan

Dear mods,

could you consider making "VS. V-Hard" the standard-tab, when opening https://www.speedrun.com/tetris_attack - since it's the main category with the most runs.

best regards bamboo

I read there's a revision for SML1. According to https://tcrf.net/Super_Mario_Land it seems there's mostly cosmetic stuff being fixed. Does the game revision make any difference regarding speedrunning the game?

thanks & much love bamboo

I made a map: https://bit.ly/3eslm6K

...and map layers, if someone's interested: https://bit.ly/2RCL9A2

hey fellas: is there a Lufia II Discord Server?

best regards bamboo

How does the ALLTP community feel towards this piece of hardware?

LADX Wiki-Page:

There's a Wiki-Page for all the knowledge about LADX / LADX-Speedruns, gathered here. If you're looking for Speedrun-Tutorials / Hacks / Glitches / whatever, feel free to look here:

http://spiraster.x10host.com/LADXWiki/index.php/Main_Page

Also accessible under: www.ladx.tk

Greetz bamboo

Hi there,

are EMUs allowed on this Game? If yes, which are?

thanks & greetings!