Rules for Custom Robo Arena Any%
7 years ago
United States

Hello! I plan to run this game for the 12 Hour Challenge that will take place next weekend. I see that there are no runs or rules defined for this game to determine what exactly starts and ends the run. I would imagine that the start of the run would be on pressing Story in the main menu and it would end on winning the Robo Cup (before the grand battle story begins). Since I don't have a DS or 3DS capture card(yet), I plan to run the game on emulator. Currently the emulator I plan to use is desmume. In regards to completing this run and getting it approved on the leaderboard, is there anything else I should be concerned about? Anything wrong with the start and stop times or the use of an emulator? Thanks for reading!

LuccaSuper likes this

those rules seem fine (end time might need to be more precise though), will add them

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Bremen, Germany

Hello together. I have played through this game about a million times and i want to mention an other end time: Delivering the final blow on Hadron in the final fight against him.

The reason why I think this end time is more suitable then winning the robo cup is because between you can fight the final fights in the robo cup there are the credits whitch are (to my knowlege) not skipable.

What are your thoughts about this? Am I too late to change anything here, because there are runs already recorded?

regards, Mehneyer

LuccaSuper likes this

I can make that another category if you feel like it (and add the current runs' times at that point to the new category)

LuccaSuper likes this
Bremen, Germany

I dont think it's nessesary to create a second category. I'll stick with the robo cup final as the end.

regards, Mehneyer

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São Paulo, Brazil

Hello there, i have been playing this game ever since i was a little kid and feel deeply in love with it even to the point of it becoming my favourite game of all time, it is truly a shame that there are almost no speedruns for this game nor that many categories, i know that i am running a little bit late here but i would like to attempt to speedrun this game but not only on this format.

Here are some ideas for other categories:

  1. Arcade speedrun, where you attempt to complete the 10 levels of the arcade as fast as possible(Just the arcade not the completion of the game to the arcade nor the completion of the game plust the 10 arcade levels).
  2. Fastes Grudge Match Completion Time, where you attempt to finish all grudge matches as fast as possible while beating the game itself.
  3. All mission Battles completed, where you try to complete all possible mission battles as fast as possible.
  4. Quickest battle possible, where you try to finish the battle as quick as humanly possible.
  5. Quickest Perfect battle possible, where you try to get a perfect while going as quick as you can.
  6. 1012 Jason Combo Speedrun, where all you have to do is get the above 1000 combo against jason as fast as possible disregarding the story and gameplay.
  7. Fastest 100 wins at battle arena thingy (I forgot the name of this facility but it is on the police squad headquarters)
  8. Fastest Hadron battle (All 3 battles)
  9. Fastes to complete 100% of the game, use all parts, finish all mission battles, get to king, own all dioramas, finish all mission battles etc...
  10. Complete the game while baattling as mush as possible, so this one is a little bit tricky but its simple, basically everyday on the story there is a different amount of trainers you can battle, that changes every 2 days, you have to battle everyone that appears at least once everytime it changes not counting Lexicon characters like bull and tanya.
  11. Finish the game at defeating hadron, because the technical end is at the cutscenes i believe so creating a not fully completed game but up to hadron category is good enough and not that time consuming as the other categories.

I know this is too much, especially for a 2006 game, but i believe that with the support of this games fandom we can make it a actual speedruning game with all these different categories, for me its just a waste that such a good game has only 1 category and 4 runs submitted, i myself would like to start speedrunning the game when i have the chance, escpecially these categories that i just listed.

Btw i saw that 2 of the submitted runs were on emulators, i cant seem to find a good one to emulate the game, any tips on where i cant find it?

Thank you for reading this far in, even if this doesnt come to reality i will try my best to make this game popular and make it a good speedrunning category, peace folks.

France

Hey, a bit late there but personally i use DeSmuME, feel free to fill that leaderboard lol. Other than that I also think a Grudge Match category would be nice.

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