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Empty green grid, 1989. R C I meters balancing the line. Zone the land, click the mouse, let it grow. Watch the tiny little pixels start to show. Power lines stretching out through the dark. Bulldoze a road just to build a small park. Air Fare, traffic jams, taxes at ten. If the budget goes red, we just restart again. Clicking on the bulldozer, clearing out trees. Hoping for an influx of new simulation refugees.

From the underground wires to the tops of the sky, My Sim City Rise Will Never Die. Hear the layout expand, feel the power grid hum, The future of the metro has finally come. From the 2D pixel to the 3D dome, We build up the world that we call our home.

1993, now we shift the whole view.SimCity 2000, everything is brand new. Arcologies rising, futuristic and tall. Launch the underground subway right through the mall. Hydro-electric dams pumping water upstream. Building out the utopia we saw in a dream. Then the monster attacks, or an alien flight. Nuke the whole grid in the middle of the night. Listen to the whatever newspaper ticker tape reads. Give the local Sims every single thing that they need.

From the underground wires to the tops of the sky, My Sim City Rise Will Never Die. Hear the layout expand, feel the power grid hum, The future of the metro has finally come. From the 2D pixel to the 3D dome, We build up the world that we call our home.

3000 arrived with a jazz-infused beat. Landmarks and garbage piling up on the street. In a Optimized Utopia, Magnasanti. Perfect Synergy, What more could it ever be. SimCity 4 regional maps take control. Connecting the highway to the simulation soul. Even when the servers crashed back in thirteen, The spirit of the planner stays vivid and clean. Plumbing the pipes, managing the core. We keep clicking onward, forever asking for more.

From the underground wires to the tops of the sky, My Sim City Rise Will Never Die. Hear the layout expand, feel the power grid hum, The future of the metro has finally come. From the 2D pixel to the 3D dome, We build up the world that we call our home.

Now that you hear our Doctor Wright.. We bid you all a good night!

So I have some updates for the 462,000 in 10 game years.

I have pushed every bit of knowledge and skill and can't get remotely close, with perfectly optimized strats, money management, and zone layout. The highest I have gotten is 277,000 and cannot even scratch the level of the what this guy did. Something is fishy, I have tried every day for 4 hours a day trying to crack the code to how they did it. Without the Money hack, there has to be some sort of bug we do not know about or is being kept secret. There are tricks that involve the physical copy and game deck that could possibly do it. However, those cannot be done on emulator for various reasons.

I even tried every possible way to cheat it just to see if it is a cheated score and the Retro Achievements Version of the Emulator is very well built on Cheat and Modding protection for Hardcore mode. Cheat Engine straight crashes the Emulator. Enabling Cheats makes it enter Softcore mode meaning you cannot attempt leaderboards. Save States also make your run Fail. Debug Menu itself makes it so you are not allowed to be able to have Leaderboard postings. I even went as far as to use the Save Editor posted by Princess_Eev and even that trips up the Save File into being unloadable due to the Save from the Emulator and the Custom Save from the Editor having separate S-Ram Values causing the Unedited File to load or start a fresh one thus over writing it entirely. I would like to request help from everyone to figure out this madness, because i am at my wits end trying to solve it.

I have used the following Glitches to no avail: My mentioned Land Value Duping O.O.B. Map Corruption Present Duping

Tricks: Early Air Port before anything else No Police Stations till 13K population Commercial over Residential zones (formula rn is R-C-I = 2-4-2) Spike Taxes to 20 in November to maximize money without Money Glitch then after taxes, set back to 0% and repeat Game Speed to Paused while building 1 tile rail per every 4 buildings to maximize transport and correct locations between rails to make unemployment 0%

if anyone can figure out anything.. let me know.. please

So I was practicing to get good enough to have a time under 1 hour and I was playing the USA version (its the one I own a hard copy of) and happened to Punch Mecha Godzilla while he was mid charge/body slam and it froze my game and crashed into a black screen. Is this supposed to happen?

How on earth is it possible to attain 400,000 population in 10 game years without cheating, without debug mode, and without glitches.. that's like 20 minutes of play. Leader boards here have like 3 hours for that population under such rules.

I played this out on original hardware and then recreated it on Emulator. been secretly working on this for months

773,000 Citizens according to the Urban Renewal Kit when I build it on The Super NES Game Deck.

What do you guys think?

Sadly, I do not have a screen cap of the glitch or recording because my Power went out due to another drunk driver when testing but...

I found a glitch messing around with manual deletion of save files for cities. I don't know how it works or why but what happened in detail was this: I went and saved a city with all spaces in it's name with a 0 as the last character, started the city on hard and once I got to 500K, I saved and quit to The End and opened the debug menu and switched reclaim, and needless money.. then Memory to SET instead of CLR. Then I reset the game and opened the Freeland map, filled it with a standard 1 Million population attempt (only got to 971,600) and then did the out of bounds glitch in the top left hand map corner and moved 3 cycles left, 5 cycles down, then 1 cycle to the right then back up 1, Saved my city like this and then loaded into my Hard Mode 500K city but something was weird... my population was not 500K but showed P471600).

I can't duplicate it as of right now, but if I find a way to make it work, then this glitch will have to be banned if it is straight copying population numbers and adding it to the other save file. cause P from the PDHQ gift is the replacement of the 1 in 1,000,000 when you hit 1,400,000 and adding the 2 cities together, then, the population would have been 1,471,600.

If we can recreate it and find out what triggers this glitch, then this will ruin max-population because it would be possible in 40 minutes with Frame-Skipping to make a City with 2,000,000 or even 3,000,000 without any work or skill put in

Map - 000 Name - Nitemare Population - 1,521,440 Residents - 869,380 Commerce - 434,700 Industry - 217,360

Power Plants - 48

Approval Rating - 73%

Tax 2%

Game Mode - Hard

year - 8799/September

No Presents

This is the Design I used to make 600,000 population in 35 minutes pushed to its limit without Zone Stacking. Population 833,280. Tax at 1% Approval Rating 52% Residents - 252,100 Commerce - 178,060 Industry - 403,120

Hello. This is A fellow Runner of the game that as everyones guess, is Priere aka Rika_Furude. I am making the message here on the quote of from his live stream from 12 days ago as of this post. He claims to still "Technically" hold the world record for both Max Population categories. I also was not banned from this site, however, was banned from the Panel De Pon community for accusations that really upset me to the point where it broke my heart to play that game ever again thanks to being gas lit really really hard and even harassed and threatened.

As for Accusations of cheating in my simcity runs back when i had my previous account.. Well you are all dead wrong if you think I cheated in any way. Only think I did for those long runs was use the Frame Skip/Fast Forward functions as per the rules allow for the max population runs. I followed the rules and as far as my research goes... there are no cheats outside of unlocking all scenario cities which lets you play on the Freeland Map to begin with.

I'd like to have people not accuse me when the strats I use, can be and have been done on original hardware as well as emulation. Now I am not bringing up that quote for anything malicious or anything or to gas light people. I merely found it odd and kind of like I was put beneath everyone else for what was going on, and that my Strats maybe un-orthodox, but is that not how new records are found? Also.. As for becoming "Too good, too quickly" for simcity... Keep in mind, I've been building 800K+ cities since I was 6 years old without zone stacking, and I am 27 now, so 21 going on 22 years of high level simcity play, of doing nothing but experiment and try different things to make my theories reality. Which is why I have the building styles and optimized numbers I do and still finding improvements to my strats. My nearly Roadless/Rail-less design I posted directly to Czar in a chat, and the Zone-Stacked Run of mine had lots of planning and attempts to build.

I can laterally tell you how this game works, top to bottom and why it works if asked. I love this game and would love to be able to run this game again, but due to all the stuff that happened to me on my last account... I just don't have the desire to play competitively for this game for times and scores. I also have forgotten more about this game, than most people will learn from playing it.

Though it is true that I can go ahead and write/type out an entire master level guide to this game and how I found all that I have... I simply do not have the time anymore for long posts like that... Not to mention My original notebooks and pen pads, sticky notes, and loose paper holding all my notes and theory crafting have been lost to time. So quite literally... I would end up spending about 5 years writing this guide only to have more things found about these games that would have to go into it by that future time. It's not like I am holding my secrets and work from everyone... I just simply cannot post it due to how long it would actually take for a thankless job such as that, especially if I am doing it for absolutely no cost to others.

Basically, what I am saying is; I am not mad, just perplexed at how I seemed to be talked about in that livestream indirectly. As well As the friendship I had with Czar and all being good when I last checked. Though I understand the sediments of owning that record and being able to be the first with recorded proof. So again, I appologize if this sounds like I am angry. I am not... you could almost say I have a coletial relationship with this game because of how much I loved it when I got it.. growing up with it, and how much I love it to this day.

So Here is my discord if anyone wants to message me further about this since I am more active on it than anywhere else: Shippai#8805 also works with: Chara Dreemurr YGOMD#8805

Lastly Thanks For Reading - Rika/Raid