Boost Chaining

Hey! Here's the explanation on boost chaining and everything you need to know about how to boost chain, when to use boost chains, and finally, advanced techs that you can only perform by boost chaining.

First, how do you boost chain? To boost chain, do a drift, boost while you are drifting, then release your drift. Think of doing a boost while stutter drifting (stutter drifting is tapping drift to do a micro realignment).  When you use a boost chain, your speed is multiplied by 1.196 times what it was when you did the boost (to keep the math easy, I will explain the calculations as if the multiplier were 1.2).  A good way to practice this is by picking power gear on Babylon Guardian.

Second, how do you apply boost chaining to get the most out of it? You boost chain whenever your multiplied speed would be higher than the speed a normal boost would set you to. Situations, where this occurs, includes getting an X rank trick (at levels 1 and 2), boost chaining from your drift dash, boost chaining from your previous boost, and boost chaining from certain type shortcuts such as the second rail in Metal City or the fly hoops in the monkey ball section in Sega Carnival.

Finally, what are the advanced techs you can do which abuse the mechanics of boost chaining?  There are currently 3 techs that every normal boosting gear can perform. Jump Cancel Boost Chain (JCBC for short) is performed by charging a jump, then inputting a boost chain. The jump charge cancels your boost duration, meaning that you can perform this tech multiple times in quick succession. Boost cost air though, meaning that if you mash JCBC too much in an area where you don't get any air refill (or in an area where you can't release your jump without jumping, such as going into a QTE or finishing a race), you will get punished. There are two more techniques you can perform using JCBCs, JCBCDPC, and JCBCBC (short for Jump Cancel Boost Chain Dash Panel Cancel and Jump Cancel Boost Chain Bonk Cancel better known as "Bonk Dash"). Both of these techniques perform the same goal: canceling your jump charge so you can boost and keep your boost duration. If you release your jump charge in the 14 frames of control lock after you speed up from a dash panel, the jump charge will be canceled (without doing your jump), and you can boost chain again with the additional speed from the dash panel. With a JCBCBC, the concept is similar, you cancel your jump charge in the same way you would do a JCBCDPC, but instead of canceling the jump charge from a dash panel, you cancel the jump charge from bonking into a wall. This act is typically referred to as a "bonk dash".

And that is everything you need to know to boost chain! As always, the best way to learn is to practice and experiment with yourself to find out the best timings for boost chain, and when you should (or shouldn't) boost chain.

How to complete 1.3 Sega Carnival Mission 5 in Storm Missions Category

The routing involves going backwards, and dying to spawn earlier in the stage so you can rack up more hoops than normally possible. Here's the demonstration by Frenchypierre: https://youtu.be/AeC_c13Sa8k

Speedrunning Rules

Video proof is required for the submission and the time must be visible.

Any version of the Dolphin emulator is allowed for running. However, extremely old versions such as stable 4.0 and under might have unsatisfactory emulation accuracy so do NOT use them.

The FPS counter **MUST** be enabled (in the graphics tab) if you record your run in fullscreen. If you have an unstable framerate at any point, the run will be rendered invalid. EVEN if you do not have any noticeable framerate drops but the fps counter is not enabled, the run will still be rendered invalid. While we are pretty anal about this for a variety of reasons, there is one exception we are willing to make. If the video was recorded in 60fps and multiple verifiers determine that there doesn't "appear" to be any framerate drops, then the run will be valid.

Runs MUST be performed in the Time Trial mode.

Loading a save state is not allowed at any capacity while in gameplay. However, you are allowed to load a state as far as the tail end of the loading screen. This is so players can attempt runs at a quicker pace. To be specific, loading your state from the pause menu will invalidate the run. Even if the game is fading in from black, your character is technically actionable if you were able to pause.

Gecko codes that alter the game from a purely cosmetic standpoint are allowed. These include but are not limited to:

- Disable Music
- Disable Motion Blur
- 16:9 Widescreen
- Custom Gear Exhaust Trail colors
- Gear Exhaust trail will grow in size when a drift dash is charged

Custom textures, shaders, disable fog, free look, widescreen hack, etc. are allowed. These are all external features within dolphin that do not affect the actual gameplay. As long as the gameplay is discernable, (please do NOT make the stage invisible using textures or record the run in wireframe mode) custom textures or external changes to the visuals will always be accepted.

PTRs are considered to be unofficial. Any runs that are using patches that are labeled PTR (Public Test Release) or have the PTR mode toggled in the Debug Menu will be invalidated.

SRTE Speedrunning Concerned Changes

Preamble:

Sonic Riders Tournament Edition is a tournament mod for Sonic Riders that was developed to gear the game towards a competitive 1v1 environment. In the process of doing this, there are many notable changes to the game that still apply when there is no opponent to race against. SRTE is still Sonic Riders at the core, but there are many small mechanical changes that add up to making a run in this mod look very different from a run in the original. We are going to focus on what these changes mean for speedrunning the game and how to use them effectively.

Changes:

- Many of the crazy glitches in the game have been fixed or lessened. Pause glitches with FLY types are impossible as you are now required to hold the pause button for a second in order for the game to pause. In addition, the Auto Slider can no longer drift dash in the air. (Sorry but you won't be able to perform 6-second laps anymore.)

- "Quick Time Events" (QTE) automatically spin. In almost every track of the game, you are required to go through a qte. In vanilla runs of this game, you will notice that all WRs are dominated by people who specifically use keyboard on the pc version. There is a reason for this. The pc version has a glitch where pressing both keys allows you to go through the QTEs frame perfect, gaining max air and lots of speed with no effort. Getting rid of the glitch would have been an issue as we have built this mod using the GameCube version, and keyboard players wouldn't be able to make a circle motion with their non-existent analog sticks. In SRTE, you simply go through all quick time events automatically frame perfect so that you can use whatever controller you please for runs.

- You gain a flat amount of additional speed from dash panels instead of being capped to a specific speed. This means that dash panels are something you want to hit unlike in vanilla where you actually want to avoid dash panels most of the time. Make sure to time boosts and drift dashes before hitting the panels. You want to do this so that the dash panel speed gets added on top of your speed, instead of hitting the panel first and then setting your speed back down to whatever your boost or drift dash would be.

- We removed the 100 Ring Box and MAX Air Box due to their anti-competitive nature. This means for speedrunning the game, you will actually need to get good at ring collection and all of the skills that come with it such as spacing, routing, air management. These make the runs much more challenging and varied, compared to the original where you get handed a free level 3 on most tracks.

- Ball & Chain item was removed. This item was stupid and needlessly added rng to the runs in the original.

- Speed shoes now adds 100 speed instead of setting your current speed to 200. The problem with the original speed shoes is that all gears at level 3 move faster than 200. Considering speed shoes was an item you could grab in random boxes, this item added some nasty rng to Heroes and Babylon story runs in vanilla. With this change we made, speed shoes are almost always useful.

- Dying does not reset your rings nor your level. You won't have to instantly restart your run due to one mistake. Additionally, this opens up possibilities for skips in nearly all categories since in the original you couldn't afford to do many of the skips because you'd be knocked down to level 1 for dying.

- In Time Trial mode, gears that use rings as fuel will always get 10 rings instead of 20 from random item boxes. Gears that use Air as fuel will get 10 ring boxes from random item boxes until the player is level 3. At level 3 the player will pick up 30 air boxes as usual. Time Trial mode is normally weird since it is a lot slower paced than Free Race. These changes are to make it so Time Trial mode runs resemble the actual performance of an extreme gear in competitive play.

- Players can hold the Z button to become immune to turbulence & pits. You can also press the Y button to toggle the function on or off. This change makes certain categories have less rng.

- Big one, characters are all unique with more varied stat spreads. In ILs for the original, you would pretty much only ever play Shadow, Tails, or Aiai for each type respectively due to their stats making every other character obsolete. In tournament edition, some characters work better for specific gears than others due to things like having higher top speed, longer boost duration at certain levels, or higher drift dash speeds. Refer to the sidebar on this page to see all the changes in detail.

- Another big one. There are 40 unique gears (Each individual character's default gear is not counted) in the game and they were all changed to be incredibly varied and do something completely different from each, rather than the original where most of the gears were just a crappier version of Darkness. (Shadow's skates) Refer to the sidebar on this page to see all the changes in detail.

Name	Autor
Boost Chaining	ludiyolo252 5 years ago
How to complete 1.3 Sega Carnival Mission 5 in Storm Missions Category	Protagonist 5 years ago
Speedrunning Rules	KingOfAllBS 2 years ago
SRTE Speedrunning Concerned Changes	Protagonist 5 years ago