Hey everyone!

A small update to let you know of a change in our moderation team.

We would like to welcome MikeDoesAudio to the moderation team and to also thank Quezington for his service as a moderator over the past years.

Also something that previously went without an announcement is that Kiitoksia is one of our moderators and W1ndows has also been given the role verifier on SRC to help out with submissions.

We will be also announcing details in the near future about the changes to the PC CSR.

We urge people to continue testing the current version and post all feedback so we have the most imformation possible.

Hey all!

We would like to announce the new version of the FF8 PC 2013 CSR (1.42). (Available via FF8 Utilities or you can install manually via the github link)

This new version:

• Fixes the Ruby Dragon minigame to prevent a possible crash.

• The concert minigame has now been edited to match the Any% routing. So 'Eyes on Me' is the fastest option and the other options will now lose time as expected.

• The CSR is also fully compatible with the 100% route for the game. To accommodate this category in a CSR setting, we have added 2 further breaks. An extra break in Deep Sea Research Center and another at the final Chocobo Forest on Disc 4.

We would like to thank SeiferTV for his work in creating the CSR mod and we look forward to future versions of the CSR coming soon.

Following these changes, we plan to update the leaderboards so that CSR is considered it's own platform.

This means we can accept various categories ran in CSR; Any%, 100%, Dollet% etc. Apologies in advance for any extra notifications on speedrun.com while we carry out this process.

We urge all CSR runners to all update to the newest version as we welcome feedback and any potential bug reports if anything is to emerge.

Happy running!

It's with great excitement we would like to announce a new update to FF8 Utilities! This version is quite special as it has some new features which should help everyone wishing to run the PC 2013 version.

It greatly simplifies some aspects of the setup. FF8 Utilities can now install/uninstall CSR Versions and swap the music files from midi to the PSX audio files with one click in the Settings page. (Also Practice% mod, for French only.)

There have been some other neat changes including Dark mode, Card RNG tracking updates and some under the hood upgrades.

Big thank you to @Kiitoksia for the hard work put into making this all possible!

You can grab the new version here: https://github.com/Kiitoksia/FF8-Utilities/releases/latest

Hey all! As you've probably been made aware, Twitch have changed their policy on video highlights. You can see the post here.

tl;dr: You may now have only 100 hours of VOD highlights on your channel, with excess VODs being deleted from April 19th, 2025.

As a result, going forward we now require all submissions with a YouTube video.

As for updating existing runs, we request that you simply Edit your existing run and add the new VOD link in the description. This will help us match both videos quicker and also help us retain some moderation details from the original submission.

Thanks all!

Hey everyone!

We're very happy to announce the addition of a 5 minute break to the FF8 2013 CSR. There is also a new version of the Autosplitter for the 2013 PC version.

You can find the new versions of the CSR (1.31 for French and 1.2 for English) with the same links as before.

The Autosplitter is now hosted by the livesplit github, so you can activate it within Livesplit. If you wish to add it manually, the version is also updated on speedrun.com resources.

Note that the timer must be set to Game Time for the pause to function correctly and we strongly advise people to test it in advance of completing a run.

Huge thank you to Seifer for creating the break within the CSR and ElliotOrnitier for updating the Autosplitter.

Hopefully this will encourage more runs for the PC CSR. Happy running!

Hey all,

Just a quick post in the interest of transparency, here are some of the leader board changes that have happened in the background over the past few weeks.

1. We have overhauled all the rules on SRC and confirmed their accuracy. There were some vague rules and overlaps between categories. Everything should be in order now.

2. Level leader boards have been removed entirely. This is just neater overall as the levels were just used for Dollet. As a result Dollet% has been moved to it's own category for it's respective platforms.

3. Dollet% has been added to PSX. As the category existed already, we just needed some runners. The board has since been created.

4. PSX Leaderboards now have a Turbo button rather than a separate category for turbo and non turbo runs. This is to future proof All Bosses or Dollet if people wish to run them with or without Turbo.

We hope these changes make the boards easier to navigate.

Happy running!

Hey everyone!

We're pleased to unveil a brand new resource for FF8 speedrunning, ff8.wiki!

https://ff8.wiki/

The plan is for this to become a central hub for information regarding speedrunning this game in all its forms. We've made a start in building the basic structure and including some of the more fundamental information (including the hardest skip...), but as you will be able to see there is still a lot of missing information, and a lot of red links. As with any wiki, information can be contributed by anyone, so feel free to get stuck in; any help would be greatly appreciated! One point to stress is that this aims to specifically be a wiki about FF8 speedrunning, so we should try to stay relevant and avoid adding unnecessary information that sits outside of this scope.

A new channel in the discord server has also been created for any discussion related to the wiki to take place.

Big thank you to Brofar for getting the website set up for us.

Happy running!

Hey everyone

After requests from some members of the community, we have decided to return missing WR runs to the leaderboards on speedrun.com. We feel our job as moderators is to maintain the SRC leaderboards as accurately as we can so we agreed that this was a worthwhile course of action.

The criteria for runs which were added back is: they were all WRs at one time, and also the current PB of the removed players. (That is to say: we have not added every WR a runner may have had in the the lead up to their current PB)

The boards affected are:

• PSX Disc: US Any%, JP Any%, US Any% Turbo,
• PC (Windows 7): Any%,
• HD (Console): Any% - No Turbo, and
• PSX Digital.

Thanks everyone, happy running!

Hey everyone!

We have decided to make a change to the ruleset for the PSX leaderboard. From today, the use of pre-manipulation will be banned and cannot be used in submissions. This is to finally bring PSX in line with the rest of the platforms, which had banned pre-manipulation.

We have spoken with the two remaining runners with times using pre-manip on the board. They have both decided to have their pre-manip runs removed. After removing these runs, there is no other use of pre-manip on the leaderboard, making this the ideal time to make this change. This will change the current listed WR to ConnorCordell's 8:20:21 run.

We hope that the changes will make the PSX run more appealing for those who wish to compete and hopefully inspire some new runs/runners in the community. We will also begin the process of compiling FF8 WRs for history sake so no achievement will be forgotten.

Happy running!