Hello,

Infinite Wealth rules were lacking a few details that have come to light with a few recent submissions. This is completely on me for not being detailed enough with the rules after the board came out. Specifically the wording on the timer rule made it seem like only PC runs needed a timer on screen.

For the future any runs submitted must have a timer on screen. This includes console too. This brings Infinite Wealth into parity with the other Yakuza speedruns. Similarly rules have been put in to clarify certain other things such as all runs needing Game Audio as well as no important UI elements are allowed to be covered (There's a lot of UI elements covering the screen in Infinite Wealth, so the important parts are the very bottom UI bar featuring your party members HP and MP, and the top right of the screen featuring the money you receive and any other completion list achievements. There is a bit of overlap with the enemy list on the right hand side; however enemies have their own HP bars in this game so that makes covering a part of that ok.)

Any current runs in waiting (provided the runs have followed the previously established rules) will still be verified, but in future these rules must be followed. We apologise for the inconvenience.

Hello!

We appreciate you eagerly anticipating the leaderboard opening. Whilst you're waiting feel free to join the Discord where we're strat finding for the speedrun! In the meantime i'd like to offer an explanation as to why we've pushed the time back by a week:

As i'm sure you're aware the content in the game is huge. It took us a lot longer to finish the game than usual and we need just a little bit more time to make sure everything is going to work properly. It's likely going to be locked 60fps (with fps visible at all times) as Hawaii is a lot more intensive than even Kamurocho and Izezaki Ijincho to hit 120 consistently, but we want to make sure there's no discrepancies like the other games and are making sure to explore every avenue before making a decision. Console runs will 100% be seperated from PC like all other RGG experiences

We also have the first version of the load remover currently being tested! The asl file is on the discord if you'd like to come help test it out and see if there are any discrepancies in the loads. This one is the big reason as to why the boards are slightly delayed. We've opened up leaderboards previously without being fully ready before and have had to invalidate runs which isn't fair on you as runners.

Thank you for listening and we hope you've been enjoying the game and are looking forward to doing runs of Infinite Wealth!