Hi,

alright I am atm practicing the Amiga version I think in a couple of days I will submit a run. So can you please add the Amiga as platform, that would be awesome.

Cheers and Thanks

Hi all,

I noticed that the loading times between the levels are different. In Arans runs they are round about 3-4 sec in Reboots run the loading times are taking about 10s which is quite are difference on the long run.

I also did some runs and was using my standard setup for runs which is basically a A1200 (68020 AGA Cycle Exact with 2MB RAM + 2MB Z2Fast RAM) WHDLoad version. Well of course I use this to reduce loading times which are the same as Arrans loading times. I did a messy run with many crashes and its sub 17m (but 7/7 wins) but of course beating Reboot was no match with his extended Loading times.

So should we agree on some basic setup for running this game or is it a free for all?

Cheers MilkToast

Hi,

I use a tool called captura to capture my videos. Its free to use and does the job quite good.

Hi,

thanks for the answer. Alright did not see that in the rules all good.

Hi,

I was also doing some runs of this game last year and I discovered that you can beat it without playing any minigames. But in my opinion this results in a very boring run so not sure if this strat should be an option. Basically you just dive for a coin and after that you keep Flintheard busyso he cant get any gold. It took me 5m 21s but I am sure you can easily lower it also I was playing the slower Amiga version. You can check out my run here:

btw: Can aou please add Amiga as platform to the game, just in case. Would be awesome.

Cheers MilkToast

Hi,

thx for the answer. Alright will submit it to others. Can you do me a favor and add Amiga as platform to the game so I can mark it correctly?

Thanks

Hi,

I completed a run for this game on the Amiga. So it seems that this version is rather different to the others (and way easier to complete). Is it possible to add the Amiga Version to the Leaderboard?. You cancheck out my run here and make up your mind about it.

Thanks and Cheers MilkToast

Hi TheUnreal,

good luck with the run :)

feel free to join our Discord, its the place to be.

Hi,

this is the conversion of Lotus Turbo Challenge 2, they just renamed it to Lotus Turbo Challegne on the Mega Drive - because of reasons.

Hi,

no worries :)

I am totally fine with being on the current lb, as long as you can see on what System I am using. I was just listing those 3 Options because I encountered them already here on src (communities handling such cases different in my experience).

There is no need for a seperation of the lb on system level - agreed. I would suggest that the only option to seperate the lb would be floppy and cd-rom (because there are some differences - mainly Caves and Dialogskip). But as long as not more runners finish this game we can postpone this discussion.

I was trying to find out all the differences about floppy and cd-rom (maybe as you mentioned there is also a difference between Amiga/MS-DOS Emulated/Real Hardware) I would try to collect all those information as soon as this will become more relevant in some distant future.

So overall thx for adding my run to the current lb I am fine with it.

If you seek for more competiton, Settlers 2 is not a prime candidate. And dont worry someday a new runner will ermerge and will challenge you.

@23Banzaj I second your opinion, its just the way it works best. Hope you get well soon buddy.

@NormannK GG for the runs, looking good. I hope you will make some more in the near future, because I have strats for them, but I still have trouble to set a decent time. Level 10 I have no clue yet how to win fast - it seems to be so easy. Keep on running

Hi NormannK,

good question. Are there any patch notes or other references for the History Edition available to check that there are no differences?

Hi,

I will verify the runs today and substract the time during this process, so there is no need to resubmit them. I already coreccted older runs and started the timer by hitting the ok button accepting your first hero.

Cool thanks guy for your suggestions.

Hi Guys/Girls,

like most of the time I did a run for fun on the Amiga for this game. So I just wanted to ask if it is possible to add Amiga as a platform so I can submit my run here. Would be really great. (I am using WinUAE for emulation).

The Amiga version got some serious slow down issues (same for KQ 1 and most other Sierra games I did run), so even on max speed as soon as there is much animation stuff going on on the screen the game got really slow (Acidrain or in the Spacecantina i.e.). I am still fine to share the same leaderboard wiht you of course. So I did beat it in 31m 52s you can check out my run here.

Btw if some of you is active in the speedy adventure discord you can catch up with me there most of the time.

Thanks and Cheers

Hi

1. I totally agree on your point about using original hardware. Using Trainers/Cheatcodes is up to the different Leaderboards and comunities here on src, Snoopy for the C64 for example allow Trainers to beat the highest difficulty. This is really something every speedrunning comunity has to decide by themself, but of course accept if no trainers in any kind should be used for Rick Dangerous.

2. This really depends most of the time the game leaderborads will be split if the versions are to different what is comon but sometimes they dont do and point out that you better should request this as its own game. There is no exact rule how to proceed with this. If you would split up the board here into the different versions that would be really great. C64 has way less screens to solve and is of course shorter then the Amiga version.

3. I just hate the 2nd level in Egypt :D Well pretty sure that most games that consist of Levels also have an IL Leaderboard it not that unusual, but of course for RD it would be very grindy and not worth it thats right.

Okay lets see how long it will take me to submit a fullgame run. Still impressive that you managed to beat it.

Cheers MilkToast

Hi,

thanks for the reply. Yes this was also coming to my mind. For the C64 Version there is a Trainer available to select each stage, but dont know if thisis also possible for the Amiga version. I just know that there is a cheat which lets you continue the last level: Type "pooky" at the high score screen = Continue from last level. Maybe it would make sense to request the C64 version as its own game on src due to is difference in total screen you have to complete.

Cheers MilkToast

Hi happycamper,

yeah I looks like we should change the rue for when the timer starts. If I recall correctly I did not change anything in my DosBox (OS W10).

I will adjust the rules and retime the already submitted runs soon.

For the new rule starting the timer I think we should go with:

• As soon as player recruits the starting hero (press ok)

Thanks for taking the time and checking it.

Hi,

I just wanted to let you know that I have created a discord in which we can discuss this game furthermore.

Hi all,

I did finish a run on the Amiga for Book One. Due to that is the floppy version of the game, it is different to the CD-ROM version.

• Most annoying is that you cant (or I dont know how) skip the text in the cutscenes, this adds a lot of minutes to the run.
• The walking speed seems to be much faster
• There are loading times between the screen transitions
• The Cave Section is different, iirc there is a fireberry bush missing so you can only reach the river of lava as a wisp You can check out the map here: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/562667-the-legend-of-kyrandia-book-one/faqs/55827

So I just wanted to ask how we go on with the floppy version?

• Same Leaderboard ?
• New Category on the Leaderboard ?
• New Game added to the Kyrandia-Series ?

You can check out my run here:

So what do you think?

Cheers and Thanks MilkToast