Yeah that's pretty normal. The extra usually comes from a Silencestrike weapon with 3 empty slots (drops from Seymour) or an Alchemy weapon with 3 empty slots (drops from Crawler). These sell for 30k each but are quite rare

Yeah I checked your highlight and you had 81k which is perfectly normal. You can just use it all on one bribe and steal fire gems from Grenades on Gagazet, or bribe half of your gil and do 2 separate bribes. This takes a bit more time but is generally considered worth it if you have a lot of gil

A 40k bribe will generally net you around 9-11 fire gems An 60k bribe will be around 14 fire gems An 80k bribe will be around 16 fire gems

So you can see how there's diminishing returns with amount you spend and the number you get. So typically if you have 80k+ it becomes more worth it to do 2 separate bribes for 9-11 since you need ~23 in total. Hope that makes sense

If you're still not sure, just bribe all of your money every time. The amount you had was normal and you haven't done anything wrong anyway

Are you selling equipment to Rin before Evrae? There's also the 10'000 gil chest in home after the long cutscene. You should average 60-70k gil in calm lands. With 80k+ you should consider bribing 2 different flame flans (40k~ each), less than that just do 1 bribe with all your gil

As far as I know, nobody has done a run on the PC version. It would most likely get its own category.

Try contacting one of the leaderboard moderators if you need the category added

From the game submission thread:

"Game submissions will open on Tuesday the 14th of February and close on Wednesday the 1st of March at 23:59 CET. "

Might be a good idea to divide up hall B with the middle wall thing. I think a large part of the reason it wasn't used that much last year was because of Rock band being quite loud

We were not all punished as a group. I for one didn't get a sign on my door, and I'd like to keep it that way this year.

Is breakfast included with both hotels?

Edit by Edenal: Yes, both hotels include breakfast!

I rejected the run and request for category so I'll explain why First of all, there's never going to be a "right" way to deal with this and you'll always have discussion on the matter one way or the other as you can already see in this thread.

I think it's silly to create a category to display only 1 time on the leaderboard. Leaderboards are useful to show competition and compare times between runners, not just show off 1 persons PB. Having multiple leaderboards with only 1 time just makes it frustrating for users to find out where the real competition is at and what people run. For Furrywulfz examples, I don't moderate FF1 or 8 so I can't say, but for FF5 BS1A times are on the nico RTA wiki so the time there serves a purpose. (We don't attempt to actively add nico times since keeping the boards updated is a lot of work and nico boards don't have vods). No sphere grid FFX is something I've been working on personally for a long time and something others have shown interest in, there will be more times in the future. Expert sphere grid is a bit of an outlier. This board was created when the HD version came out and I expected more interest. Creating it then was probably the wrong decision, but at least the speedrun is serious and non-arbitrary.

Accepting new categories after a run has been done sets an awful precedent if you haven't thought about the consequence. If this run is ok, then what about a different selection of boosters? What if someone "trolls" and creates a different category every day of the week with each one being slightly different than the other? "All characters speedrun" "All summon materias" "All magic materias" Just to clog up the leaderboards with random garbage-tier speedruns, they should be accepted too? For better or worse, creating categories is a case-by-case basis, and in this case I've decided to decline as allowing a specific selection of boosters is incredibly arbitrary, no matter how fun the speedrun might be for you. As of right now there's no other interest besides yourself. As I said when I rejected it, if there's more interest in the future from others, and more than 1 time to display on the leaderboard, we can discuss it again and probably create the category.

This doesn't mean you have to stop speedrunning it, though. A leaderboard doesn't need to exist for you to speedrun something. Doing something that's fun for you but different to others? That's great, but it doesn't mean a leaderboard has to exist.

Next time ask us directly or at least on the FF7 forum

You're right I remember now.

In that case, are there any measures being taken to improve the wifi situation?

Sticking with 1 stream?

Any solution for being able to watch the stream from anywhere in the main venue? I imagine most of the wifi bandwidth was used on watching the stream so hopefully a solution here can solve more than 1 issue

SNES manip works on GBA, but quicksaves on GBA means you could have a faster route (one does not exist, yet). You also require a different route on GBA as some strats won't work (item dupe and kiss of blessing glitch are fixed). So you'll likely need a different step route on GBA for that reason, too.

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Seems to me like it would be a good idea to post the proposed stream layouts on the forums before the event. Much like the shirt, changes can be suggested and hopefully improve them if need be. Pretty sure I recall this happening in 2015 (although I don't think changes were made because most were happy)

Alright I asked around a bit, and it turns out that emulator is actually faster than PS2. As such we decided it would end up on the PSX digital leaderboard with PSTV runs (at least for now). Keep in mind emulation is always a grey area so runs might get moved/seperated or possibly completely removed in future. Surprisingly, there actually aren't any emulator runs on the leaderboard right now.

As for glitchless categories, for PC, the 'less glitchy' (warpless) run still does the midgar skip on disc 2 which skips ~10 minutes. Midgar turks and Proudclod are skipped from that. PS runs do this too. There is also the all bosses category which is as it sounds, but isn't very popular. PS has all bosses glitchless (no w-item dupe etc.) and PC just has all bosses (so it includes W-item dupe, vincent mug glitch and maybe others).

I'd recommend joining the FF Speedruns discord here: https://discord.gg/0tjIC3eQA7VFd6Qw to discuss with the other runners. As you may have noticed, these forums aren't really used.

One final note, just because categories exist, you can always create your own. It's usually just preferred to conform to a category so the leaderboards aren't a miss and so there's actually some competition. But if glitchless is what you really want to do then don't be afraid to step up. But it'll only add 2 trivial boss fights (and it's arguable that Turks skip is intended anyway). I'd recommend just running No slots

Probably around half an hour. Not exactly sure but it is quite significant

That said, don't let it deter you from learning/practising on emulator anyway. My advice is to make sure speedrunning the game is your thing before investing in a PS2. You should probably do that eventually though if you want to compete. Or just run the warpless PC categories. I think they're a little less competitive but the route is essentially the same (if not identical, just different encounter manipulation afaik).

I suppose I can noob it up again for my yearly MTG session at ESA. I hope more beginners can go though, looking at this thread it doesn't look that way :(

For a long time I've known the rules to be -Not changing the disc while the console is on except when the game prompts you to -Time ends on the first frame of the final damage number

I don't remember where I read or heard this but it was when I started running a long time ago.

End-time might be a little obscure on 'final hit' but JP time ending isn't much better.

The thread is entirely sarcastic (I hope, anyway)

We clearly don't need the EU, so let's make our own marathon: UKSA