Hey _-_Star_Fox_-_
6 years ago
Texas, USA

Hey -Star_Fox-, I was wondering if I could talk with you on speedrunning this game on PC. Right now I am testing out the skips you use, and so far I have come across a couple of cut scenes which crash the game upon trying to skip them. I am seeing if letting them play out will help, but it seems that the PC version acts much differently than the Wii version.

Texas, USA

It must be my computer, but I can show you a list of the cut scenes that crash when I try to skip them:

  1. After accepting or denying wanting to watch the penguins fish (Watering Hole)
  2. Before Musical Chairs (Rites of Passage)
  3. Before the Obstacle Course (Rites of Passage)
  4. Before Hot Durian (Rites of Passage)
  5. Before testing the flying machine (Fix the Plane)
  6. After the flying machine (Fix the Plane)
  7. Before rolling the ball of junk (Fix the Plane)
  8. After rolling the ball of junk (Fix the Plane) The controls I used were the keyboard controls (I don't have any other means of controlling the game as of right now). I'm glad someone besides me is interested in running this game a lot more now! I think that we should work together on this, since you have both the Wii version and the PC version (both of which I own, but I cannot record my TV well enough), so how about we try this: since you want to test out different versions of the game, you try the Wii version and I can try the PC version.

By the way, on the walls in Rites of Passage, did you know you could jump up from certain portions so that you don't have to climb up all the way? I will make a video showcasing these jumps soon.

Also, might you be interested in speed running one of the Cars games?

Edited by the author 6 years ago
Texas, USA

Alright, awesome! Thanks for responding! I will have to get a controller a bit later, though, because I have to wait a while since I have a few camps to go to throughout the next week and then most of the next month. But I will more than likely get a controller there as well.

Have you seen any gameplay of Mater-National or my channel where I made a speedrun of the game? If not, then I would recommend seeing the game first before you consider trying it out.

Texas, USA

Alright, well that's great! I wouldn't rush you, though.

Also, I'm fairly certain that the jump would not be shorter on the Wii version. That just seems unlikely. I will have to test it out when I play the Wii version, which I will do shortly. If you're saying that you missed that hard skip in Welcome to Africa, I HAVE gotten it on WIi version (heck, it was the version I found it on since when I first played PC version, my computer had some problem with the game).

Well, I'll have to look deep into this, because it is REALLY hard, almost impossible. I will look into that possible jump height difference on zip vines.

Okay, it's NOT that the jumps are SHORTER, but that the jumps move SLOWER. It's possible, just EXTREMELY difficult and precise.

Edited by the author 6 years ago
Texas, USA

I wasn't really planning on Xbox 360 version, though, but hey, if you use the same movement you used for the current saved world record, then we can test out the different versions' speeds, see if it matters a whole lot.

By the way, I JUST got an Xbox 360 controller, and I tried the cutscenes, but it still couldn't skip certain cutscenes in the game. I'm trying to get the game installed on a different computer, but I need a LOT of time to do this right now.

Okay, I'll reinstall it on my laptop one more time and see if the problem still persists. If it does, I need to see what makes you able to skip cutscenes.

Edited by the author 6 years ago
Texas, USA

That's good enough for me, but how long will you be gone for?

I WOULD'VE gotten a gaming laptop to have me be able to record videos if I didn't find OBS Studio, which was free AND so much faster to use than the other one I was thinking of getting probably would ever be.

So far, I found that only one cutscene crashes the game constantly, and that is the third cutscene in Rites of Passage (between first wall climb and Musical Chairs). Although sometimes a cutscene will randomly crash the game when trying to skip it (I had that happen twice, once with the balance beam tutorial in Fix the Plane, and once with the final cutscene in Fix the Plane).

Heck, I just tried a full-game run (not recorded), and even THAT cutscene didn't crash! I don't know why it did that to begin with now...

Edited by the author 6 years ago
Texas, USA

My laptop is currently the "better of two evils" for me. I have to practice that third skip in Welcome to Africa, because for whatever reason, I can't seem to get that down, even though I thought I had.

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