Better movement, better weapons, better practice! Run starts at 4:20ish
From amnesiac to messiah of Auldrant in 8 hours 32 minutes and 42 seconds.
A thanks to the community behind the 'Tales of' speedruns. Thank you to goldyshiba for showing up 7.5 hours in and making me smile. A very special thanks to my other half for putting up with my fixation on this game this past month over this game.
Technical: SSD NVME GEN 4, Citra Nightly 2104, no turbo controller, English Version of Tales of Abyss. Xbox Controller Model: m1192192-001 Other Citra settings of interest are shown at the end of the run. Donor save from Redditt at: https://www.reddit.com/r/tales/comments/8od7zs/i_just_beat_tales_of_the_abyss_3ds_and_ive_got_a/ Ending save files available at: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1g-drOQ8Y8wFvcxFiYkh-quSpKlwYJLLC?usp=drive_link Tales of the Abyss game ver.: 0004000000061300
Runners note: A safety save was attempted prior to leaving Engave due a crash a day prior. I don't fully understand why this save corrupted. I have included the entire unedited stream to show some troubleshooting I did at the tail end of this run. I am able to start a NG plus from the save files produced from this run. I have a theory it is a regional problem with how the TOA sys files are created.(i.e. donor save Europe, runners sys North America) I do not know for certain if these flaws are caused by regional, system, emulation, Citra's windows port, etc, etc. I will attest that none of these circumstances affected my ability to execute this run. This save is, in my opinion, not a great one, due to flags not being carried over for failing the orb puzzle, failing the sneak section in Theor forest 5 times, and having a full item list where just life bottles, treats, and holy bottles would've done better.

3DSᴇᴍᴜGame/category rules have been updated to reflect this, but if you're interested in running Abyss 3DS using InputRedirection-QT or a different homebrew application to hook up a wireless 3rd party controller to the console, given that this presents a very similar advantage to emulator, it is allowed b









