About 100%

For the history, you wanna begin on hard difficulty to unlock O.S.L as fast as possible but there are 2 things that you don't have to start on hard :
- There are some missions like Scramble and Intercept that you can't get an A rank with those aircrafts, ennemies are too resistants and you'll fail if you can't beat them down fastly. So you'll need to do those missions twice.
- Honestly, I did one try and I given up on Night Raven... On Hard difficulty, THE X-49 IS IMPOSSIBLE TO DESTROY UNDER 4 MINUTES WITH THE SU-43, R 103 OR XFA-36A. Atleast on NTSC-U version only i think because when I completed 100% on my ps2 PAL version which is actually buged as fuck, I didn't know how to unlock Geopelia so I completed Night Raven on hard with an A with 1 of the 3 aircrafts I quoted above.

The best thing to do is to complete the history on normal with A rank everywhere to get XR-900 Geopelia and to unlock mission simulator as fast as possible and then do hard difficulty with XR-900 to unlock the O.S.L. and then you finish with the easy difficulty

About Fragile Cargo

This split is totally RNG based because there are 3 routes for the mission and each one has different length :
- East side which is the shortest because you can complete the mission in 5:20
- Northeast side in 6:20
- Southeast which is the longest with 7:20
So that is why I restart this mission so many times, that's because RNG

About Maze

You have to learn all 3 paths that your UAV takes during the beggining of the mission, a video will come soon.

General speedrunning information for NTSC-U (WIP 2 25/06/2020)

PAL or NTSC-U ?

Let's see pros which are given for both version :
PAL : No briefing cutscene with the UEPO thing at the beggining or the end of some missions (saves around 10 seconds)
NTSC-U : "Mission Accomplished" is around 5 seconds faster than PAL. In any%, it saves 5x35 (not counting Electrosphere) = 175 seconds which is almost 3 minutes.
So NTSC-U is faster than PAL for 2 minutes and 45 secondes

Which plane should you take ? (PAL & NTSC-u)

In my opinion, I always take the fastest plane I've got. So here is basicly all planes that I take during runs :

Any% :
- 1-4 missions : EF-2000E Typhon II
- 5-11 missions : F-16XF Gyrfalcon
- 12th and 19th missions : RF-12A2 Blackbird II
- 13th mission : R-101 Delphinus I
- 14-15 ; 17-18 and 20-25 missions : F-15 S/MT Eagle+
- 16th mission : R-352 Sepia
- 26-35 missions : Su-43 Berkut

100% (before unlocking XR-900 Geopelia) :
- 1st mission : EF-2000E Typhon II
- 2-4 missions : Mig-33 Fulcrum SS
- 5th mission : F-16XF Gyrfalcon
- 6-11 and 13th missions : R-101 Delphinus 1
- 12th and 19th missions : RF-12A2 Blackbird II
- 14-15 17-18 and 20-23 missions : F-15 S/MT Eagle+
- 24-25 missions : R-102 Delphinus 2
- 26-36 missions : Su-43 Berkut

Why Su-43 Berkut over R-103 Delphinus 3 ?
Even if the R-103 is faster than the Su-43, the Su-43 is A LOT more mobile than the R-103 (100 vs 70, source : game or http://acecombat.wikia.com/wiki/Ace_Combat_3:_Electrosphere/Aircraft), which can help you a lot for Tunnel Vision or to chase easier X-49 or UI-4054 Aurora

InsaneFalcon

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Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere

US/PAL - Reaching for Stars

US/PAL -  Fjord

PlayStation 2

PlayStation

Acerlot

testpilot0723

USA / NTSC

EUR / PAL

JPN / NTSC

Easy

Normal

Hard

Electrosphere

Geopelia

A Canopy of Stars

Sole Survivor

Self Awareness

Default

Deadcopy

Difficulty

Campaign

Savefile

Ace Combat

Searching for the iso rom 

Customizing controls in AC3 before starting a run

Few questions regarding rules

Is an English patched version of Ace Combat 3 allowed for the all campaign speed run?

Name	Autor
About 100%	InsaneFalcon 11 years ago
About Fragile Cargo	InsaneFalcon 11 years ago
About Maze	InsaneFalcon 11 years ago
General speedrunning information for NTSC-U (WIP 2 25/06/2020)	TransparentBlue 6 years ago
PAL or NTSC-U ?	InsaneFalcon 11 years ago
Which plane should you take ? (PAL & NTSC-u)	InsaneFalcon 11 years ago