Alright so after a good 2 and half hour glitch hunting session I can say that I have not found the setup to doing the glitch, however I have a few take-aways starting with unimportant ones:

1. You can only have 10 of 1 type of item on the ground at once (ex. 10 proteins)
2. Going hunting removes pending mail
3. When you finish your second title match if you click the mail you get a gift of a really big food

so these are unimportant but could come in handy if we find any glitches that interact, however I got a couple leads to a very important discovery:

The game's RNG is really easy to manipulate.

Unlike other games even in this genre, this game makes 1 random seed at the beginning of the game and just offsets it depending on what actions you take. It will only make a new seed if it really has to however, during my testing using save states I found that resetting the console doesn't actually reset the seed unless you start a new game as well. This coupled with this next part really takes the cake:

The offsets are fixed.

So if you use a save state and keep on doing the same tasks again and again you will always get the same luck, the Digimon will move the same, the maps you fight on will be the same, the Digimon you find while hunting are all predetermined once you turn on that console. And they will happen in the order of when they are supposed to happen every time no matter how long you delay doing anything. There are no frame perfects for this RNG manipulation.

Here are all the things in the game that offset the seed, found out by the random map you get when you go into title matches:

• Hunting
• Going into the "Fight" menu and backing out of a fight
• A battle ending
• Beginning a new day

I say that these are offsets because if you use a save state and do the same offset again you will get the same luck again.

Hopefully in the coming weeks I can actually find some consistent RNG manipulation and make this game consistent. Here's to hoping!

I was testing out the Japanese version of the game to see if it could be faster (so far it might be slower since they slow down the special move charge up animation) and I somehow skipped the medal cutscene after the first title match? It instead gave me the generic match success ending. I'm not sure how it was done as I have not repeated the glitch, I was just messing about on my first run so I was not really paying attention too much when the first title match went down. Things that happened before the glitch:

1. I was accidentally going into every menu except battles until I got into battles
2. It was later in the day as my digimon took forever to digivolve
3. I was clicking on every mail waiting for my only digimon to heal

I'll be trying this out soon on stream to see if I can reproduce it.

I believe I only made that a part of the initial route because it was way more common for 1 of each of those to spawn rather than 2 of the same to spawn on the map. It is possible that 2 Nyokimon or 2 Punimon could work in a run but I was never able to test it myself.

Hello!

I have been wanting to start running since I first saw a AGDQ Doom run a while back, and because of a humble bundle pack, I think I found a game that I can start practicing getting into the mindset with. (Magnetic: Cage Closed)

But I'd really like to get started on doing some DOS runs, since It brings back memories playing Nox and Dungeon Keeper, which are still 2 of my most favorite games. So I have two questions for that.

1. Is DOSBox an accepted method to run categories or do I have to use a way older version of windows?
2. What would be a good starter speed run game for DOS?