Hey!

I speedrun a game called "Rollcage Stage 2" and the game has a decent chunk of loading times in it after each level change. The loading times can vary a lot depending on the machine you are running it on. I want to make the speedrun less reliant on hardware so I'm looking for solutions to this issue, but so far have come up short. I would feel silly if it turned out that there was an easy solution and I just never bothered to ask.

Note: I have zero skill in programming of any sort so something like making an autosplitter for the game is out of the question for me.

If you edit the theme of a game, there's an options to put an image as a banner. I couldn't figure out where the banner for a game shows up on this site.

Not a complaint, just looking to hear from people. Is it just me or has the message “site is under a lot of pressure” been coming up a lot more often recently?

Hey, it's been long overdue but Grid finally has a discord server!

https://discord.gg/ybpRxW9qSQ

Hello!

Since there's no discord or anything (edit: there is now) of the sort, I figured I'd post this here.

When trying to get WR on Fearsome Factory 3, I somehow accidentally had a glitch happen to me that allowed me to move during a cutscene when normally the game freezes you (even midair). Since I record my every attempt and key inputs, I had a look and tried to recreate it. After some time I did manage it once and I thought I'd post it here.

It's not bad enough that the cutscene movement glitch is right after THE HARDEST JUMP IN THE GAME, but it's also incredibly difficult to get it to work in the first place. I didn't try too much since it was late but I did get the successful attempt on video.

The 2 times I managed to get it to work I did the following. I took a step towards the ladder and quick double jumped (not the flip double jump), grabbed the ladder and quick jump just as the cutscene starts. It might be frame perfect, I don't know. Sometimes you freeze in the air (aka failed attempt), sometimes you hear yourself jump and you fall to the bottom of the ladder instead of freezing midair, but you won't be able to move still and on a successful attempt you can just fully move I guess, although you can't see yourself due to the cutscene taking place at the same time.

First time I got this glitch by accident, I just walked into the pit and died during the cutscene.

I didn't really know where to post it as the game doesn't exactly have the largest following but I thought I'd post it here at least.

Hey. I used to be the only runner of Rollcage and Rollcage 2, but they seem to have gathered some interest lately. So I figured now might be as good of a time as any for a shameless promo of it since it’s the best time to jump in if you are interested.

Both are early arcadeish racing games from early 2000nds. They have time attack races, campaign mode and rollcage 2 has a mode called “scramble”, which is basically super monkey ballish.

One of the developers had found our discord long ago and made some updates for both the games, making them completely compatible with modern hardware and enabling us to play multiplayer on original rollcage. On top of that, he made the games free to download on his own site. (Thanks Rob!) You can read his blog there too to get a better understanding.

We have a discord and have multiplayer sessions every so often. We are friendly and can answer any questions you might have so don’t be afraid to ask.

Rollcage site:

http://www.codemonkey.me.uk/rollcage_redux.php

Rollcage 2 site:

http://www.codemonkey.me.uk/rollcage_extreme.php

Rollcage discord at https://discord.gg/6WbWeKe

Maybe someone will find this of interest.

Hello!

Since I've been added as a mod here, I've made some changes to the page and fixed quite a few mistakes that were lingering about. Here's some stuff that I changed.

• Added background picture

• Changed Speedrun.com logo to a more "Grid" style (viewable only in night mode)

• Changed Emkay's original japanese track times to their correct times (instead of being rounded down to lowest second)

• Changed timing priority to In Game Timer (Used only in level leaderboard and in the newly added "All tracks" USA/Europe/Japan region leaderboard) and fixed everybody's runs who mistakenly used their final in game time in multiple timing methods.

• In level leaderboard added the vehicle that the players used to everyone's runs that hadn't added it themselves.

• In "All Japanese Courses" re-timed everybody's runs and created pastebins which shows all track times for every driver. (Hopefully people can do that themselves in the future, if not then I'll do it)

• Made Level Leaderboards class based (May expand in the future) based on the most frequently used vehicles and moved everybody's runs into the appropriate class.

• Reworked the "Misc" category which featured all Usa/Europe/Japan courses into an "All Tracks" category, which features the regions as subcategories. Also made the rules for those less obscure and easier to understand.

• Changed the rules for every category in general to a simpler, yet concrete form.

• Made it so that only correct vehicles could be added to your run in level leaderboard. (Can't do that for the subcategories in "all tracks" mode due to site limitations, which is why every vehicle can be chosen. Only the appropriate regional vehicles will be approved by mods though and added region behind every car to make it easier for people. I could eliminate the problem completely by making the 3 subcategories into full classes, but it doesn't look as nice.)

• Added an IGT - Ingame Time Calculator to the resources. It's main purpose is to help people interested in the "All Tracks" category by making it easier to add up the track times.

If there's any questions or someone would like to see anything else added/changed/removed or doesn't like any of the changes I made then you can post your feedback here.

There's 3 categories right now for some reason, 2 for drift cars and 1 for any car of your choosing. This seems rather random to me, especially the fact that people in 1 lap column don't even use the fastest cars, instead they tend to use the Japanese Pro tuned cars. I would feel rather bad at beating WanWan's nissan skyline run with a pagani zonda for example, since it's not even fair at that point. I was thinking that maybe we could change up the columns to represent a vehicle class type, instead of 2 random drift cars and then any other car There's 14 different classes in the game: 1 ) Drift (7 cars) 2 ) Pro Muscle (6 cars) 3 ) GT1 (6 cars) 4 ) Pro Tuned (4 cars) 5 ) LMP1 (4 cars) 6 ) Prototype (3 cars) 7 ) GT2 (2 cars) 8 ) Touring Cars (2 cars) 9 ) LMP2 (2 cars) 10 ) Prestige (2 cars) 11 ) Demolition Derby (1 car) 12 ) Formula 3 (1 car) 13 ) Formula 1000 (1 car) 14 ) Club GT (1 car) People in the current leaderboard have used pretty much exclusively 2 types of cars, Drift (the AE86 and Subaru Impreza) and Pro Tuned (Toyota Supra and Nissan Skyline). So how about making it into 3 categories for now, such as Drift column, Pro Tuned column and Any Car column. That way when making changes, no ones runs would have to be removed, just moved to different category. And I could actually use faster vehicles without feeling guilty :slight_smile: Although, if it were up to me, then I'd probably have 5 columns, Drift, Pro Tuned, Pro Muscle, GT and LMP, but I realize that 5 columns might be too many if there aren't any players.

Hey, if you are interested in playing Rollcage but don't know where to start or want some info, help or anything at all relating to rollcage, then you are welcome to comment in this thread.

Also if you aren't interested in the current categories then you can also leave your suggestion for a new one here.

If you are interested in speedrunning this game then it's available to download from here: http://www.codemonkey.me.uk/rollcage_redux.php

I guess I've done a few runs already but I never said Hi

So uhmm..... Hi

If you are interested in speedrunning this game then it's available to download from here: http://codemonkey.me.uk/rollcage_extreme.php

Hey, if you are interested in playing rollcage 2 but don't know where to start or want some info, help or anything at all relating to rollcage, then you are welcome to comment in this thread.