Hi everyone, sorry I'm not on the site much so I've had a number of people go "hey, its in the wrong order!"

Well finally I took a look round and yes, whoever made the original entry put it in time ascending. I asked for moderator access so I could upload my own score, and thought nothing of it (the other entry had a missing video, I shrugged my shoulders and didn't think anything of it, assuming it was based on video proof - I was new).

@RevisitedGames clearly has a run that is quicker than both our times, so I'm sorry that I didn't notice this earlier. Thanks to everyone who messaged me about it, but I totally didn't see it as I don't have notifications set on (whoops!)

Sometimes people come to troll about where you get the game, citing illegalness. You can get the rom legally through Atari Vault as its one of the included games. You can take the rom and put it in a romcart or other device, such as the Retron 77 which I used as otherwise I'd be playing on a PAL machine.

So there we go, I can't promise I'll approve any runs in any form of timely manner, you'll have to contact me offsite (Mikebloke in most websites will literally be me, just look for game related stuff).

All the best to any future runners of Stunt Cycle.

Well done to BOWIEtheHERO, got a sub 13 run the other day.

Guess its time to clean my Saturn up and give it another go.

Perhaps a Chapter 2 run should be next on our list :o

I did a post on the series forum about what could be done generally for the rest of the game, but I don't think anyone answered.

Although they are in effect different games, I'm wondering if Chapter 2 + 3 and perhaps a whole "game" run of all 3 chapters should just remain on one page. There is hardly a lot of categories / runners involved, it would probably be over kill to do another two entries for the other chapters. Hmmm.

Hi Shining Fans, I was wondering what people thought of the 3 scenarios in Shining Force 3 and in the future whether they should have separate game pages or not.

This is a consideration for the future, as currently, the only person who seems to even "run" SF3 is... me, and only scenario 1.

I've been thinking about this for a long while, partly because I had only played through the other two parts once, and only on PC emulation. I now have the ability to play on hardware, which opens up the possibilities more as previously I was heavily effected by using the save game editor as my emulator / disk image didn't like certain parts of the game.

I'm usually anti-emulation when it comes to streaming games, and especially speedrunning them, however, SF3 does not have a base of runners to really grow from and emulation comes with just as many challenges with saturn games than running the game itself. I'd be very happy to see other runners in the game, and wondered whether scenario 2 might actually be quicker (or at least, have a more interesting start).

Here is the arguments I can think of for both sides:

Keeping in one page: a ) Realistically, there is not really "categories" that each scenario can be split into other than any% or 100%. Anything else would be for silly fun and count as a misc category. b ) While there is many many people interested in watching SF3 runs, as I'm currently the only runner having 3 separate pages for it might be obsessive. c ) Any multi-part run with all or some of the scenarios and premium disk would require yet another game page.

Splitting into multiple pages: a ) They are effectively 3 different games! b ) You do not need to play scenario 1 to play 2, or play 2 to play 3 c ) I don't really know any more

Let me know what you think shining fans!

Also - I'd love to be a mod for the current scenario 1 page, just so I can edit rule sets and things, but its not super important while I'm the only runner. I want to establish a proper start point (I'm thinking after naming the 3 characters) as well as when it ends (last boss hit).

Sorry, I'm a bit confused what the "bookless" refers to, could someone explain it to me? Thanks.

Hi Guys,

Appreciate you are always busy.

Would it be possible at some point in the future to consider more search options for Series of games? At the moment we have a text box to search and an A - Z. I feel as a user this limits me to trawling through many irregular played or little known series. I appreciate that the site has a mammoth database of stuff, but if there was anything else we could have to search through series that would be really appreciated, eg:

Sort by number of games Sort by number of runs (full game runs as well?) Sort by latest release date Anything else that would be helpful

Many thanks if you take this into consideration.

So the amusing thing is none of the videos for this is viewable for copyright reasons - for a webgame! The world has gone mad!

Would welcome other ideas for categories, here is a few I thought up / is obvious:

100% I think walkingeye is interested in this Low% No unnecessary pickups, this might have to be thought out if this is viable or not Spirit% Timer ends when all 6 spirits gained

If there is major differences in the difficulties, this can also be added.

Misc:

The minigame outside Airl's dungeon Boss battles? This would probably be a stretch without a boss battle mode (that's a shame!)

Feel free to support any of these ideas or provide your own, if there is a desire for any to be added we can go about discussing it.

I've just submitted a run for the Atari 2600 port of the Arcade version.

In reality, I think the game is slightly simplified from the Arcade one as I don't think you can get quite as many enemies on screen at once, so will probably require breaking into its own category. I notice games like Centipede has some sort of sub-categories which is probably the best way to split this.

Any particular reason why PAL region isn't listed here? Because I'm definitely playing a PAL version on my PAL NES.

Any chance the 7800 version would be added to this one, I presume this is closer to the Arcade version than the NES?

Any chance of adding these consoles as well?

Sega Saturn GBA / GBA Collection PC

Also would it be possible to have a glitchless category.

I've just completed a story-led run that wasn't strictly a speedrun but highlighted the inevitable issues:

1 ) Make sure you set menu speeds to as fast as possible once you get the ability to.

2 ) Other than churches and shops, there is no real reason to find items to pick up. Ruin maps are also irrelevant I believe unless you want Hagane, which I'll probably still try doing in my next run. The Malorie item shop owner can give you a healing rain which may help in last battle if you can use it right. I managed to waste two in my run.

3 ) Mercenaries will probably be better than your underleveled characters, in my run I picked all the characters up, limiting me to 1 merc, I'd say dropping at least 2 characters (so you can get priest, mage and knight) will probably be best tactic, so I will probably not bother picking up Penn and Rachet who both have longer event chains to join plus tend to be quite useless.

4 ) You'll almost certainly need to do the trials before last battle to level up those left behind. Spam Skeletons until they only give 1 exp (good till level 11). Ideally everyone should be level 15 or higher.

5 ) Know your hard hitters, I personally find Dantares, Hayward and Irene to be the hardest hitters and often do specials especially with the help of friendships. These would be the people I Mythril up first.

6 ) Spark Lv 2-3 is your friend, you can devastate most chapter 5-6 battles with these spells, which means you want to level up your main character (Lv3 @ 14 and Lv4 @20) and Masqurin (Lv 13 and 19) (this means you'll want Noon too, which means doing Chap3-1 the long way).

7 ) Try and keep Eldar leveled up, it makes life a bit easier, she goes places others can't, and if you try to do the trials properly she can do the second battle quicker than everyone chasing up the stairs.

8 ) Grace really should have Aura lv1 at level 7 and ideally lv 2 at level 14 at least before the last battle, this makes life easier to heal when colossus is whacking you.

9. Choose your reserve team wisely for last battle. I found Frank and Murasame to be quite useful as they move fast and can keep the pace. Horst can be useful if he actually catches up in time.

Hi guys, just wondering if any boss setting is allowed, I think all versions have some kind of option and it obviously gives different times depending on which boss you are playing.