Hello D2 speedrunning community,

With much help from the Phrozen Keep community (they are amazing and did most of the work), I have created a patch which fixes the single player shop bug -- the one that occurs if you buy too quickly with left click. The modification of the game to fix this is MINIMAL, only requiring changing a single byte of code. I'm curious if the community would be interested in this patch and allow it for speedrunning or if you'd rather deal with the bug (open belt and escape, then go back to shop).

Regards, Owna

It depends on the emulator version. The real n64 hardware lags there, and some emulators emulate that lag better than others. The most popular lag reduction strat that I am aware of is rotating the camera 90 degrees left or right which reduces the number of things loaded in memory - thereby causing it to run a bit faster.

• Owna

So... does anybody else think we should have a 50 star category? What is the procedure for getting it officially created?

50 star category sounds awesome. And what about all glitches allowed? The rules are 50 stars by any means necessary?

Hi all,

New glitches in this mod are being discovered on a weekly basis. At some point, I believe the categories should either be changed or updated with descriptions of which glitches are allowed and which are not.

For example, this evening I just found a fast and consistent clip through the bowser2 door, modifying a method by pingtoe. However, it (mostly) only works if you have at least one star. So I can beat the game with 1 star... but not the DDD star. Which category does this belong in? The 0 star category according to the current rules I think? EDIT: Video should be posted tomorrow hopefully to show this.

Also, if I am doing a 16 star run, can I use this new clip instead of the MIPS clip? Is that legal?

Clarification and updating of the categories would help answer these and other questions when routing runs.

Thanks, Owna