Instead of making a new thread, I figured I'd post something I found. It just bugs out cutscenes from what I can tell but I've only tried it here.

https://www.speedrun.com/Metal_Slug_1_Other_Platforms

They are being moved here.

Hi! I'm sorry I have kind of been neglecting this board and haven't really set up any ground rules for emulation, I rarely get people submitting. There are not set in stone rules so I'm open to discussion about all these topics. I see you also run RE2, so we can do something similar to how it is handled in the RE series.

1. My run is done on ePSXe, Ulver's PSXfin and Skunky I'm not too sure. I am for the idea of limiting the accepted emulator to just duckstation. I would have to seperate the categories to "Emulator (Legacy)" and "Emulator" which we be only duckstation

2. I prefer if only default setting are used. I don't really like seek speed + read speed x10 super fast load emu runs.

3. My issue is that a potential strategy that saves time could be discovered from having multiple actions set to one key and I think it's best to keep the emulation experience as close to console as possible. However, there isn't really a good way to enforce this rule, input display doesn't really solve the issue entirely. So I would prefer if someone didn't use this, but I can't really tell if they are or not.

4. I do not know which one is fastest for emulation, this hasn't really been tested to my knowledge. I don't think the difference will be substantial enought to warrent seperate categories for regions. So both JP and NA are allowed for the board.

if you remember anything or think it could be documented somewhere, please share.

I wanted to share a run done on the Switch version by a Japanese runner, the game is very fast now.

Thank you

Ps2 with fast disk speed enabled is fastest. PS3 is slow unfortunately. I do have a question regarding the ps1 version and I didn't think it would be wise to make a new thread. Are there any notable differences between the US and JP versions for speedrunning? Thanks.

Hopefully its okay to ask in this thread, do you happen to have any public notes/guides for this game? Thanks

Hi, I have been added as a moderator to help with the verification process. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

Added it.

I second this, there needs to be some updates to the rules and the categories don't make sense.

Frame Skip and Turbo are 2 different things yet the 2x category has the runner using Turbo and not Frame Skip. From what I can see no one is using Frame Skip so who knows if its even banned?

I can't believe that resident evil has like 3 billion version categories and people are still asking for more. There are so many options to run these games for a European player and still be on the leaderboard, PAL is not only broken but also just not needed. You are free to make your own leaderboard, this website is not the law.

I would like to see glitchless too, I'm interested in that or the dynamo skip routes.

If someone submits any of the full cups as a run I will add it. I suspect all cups would take like 3+ hours

With all these categories it makes it hard for someone like me to find the actual best executed run of PE2. Could epsxe and 10x seek speed be merged or are they just not comparable?

• M1 Crane Skip (15~ seconds save)

• M1 NA No Sniper Hack (Like 2~ seconds slower then JP optimally)

• M2 Small Jump (Saves like 7~ seconds)

• M4 JP/Alternate NA Skip (20+ for JP, 3 seconds slower on NA vs. first try optimal skip)

• M9 OoB Skip (It's only like 10~ seconds. Shame you can't go down further)

• Easier M9 Skip

• I found many useless OoBs, especially in M4. Example:

So if I wanted to start runs now what exactly should my settings look like? Is the WR run by @Sena using the correct settings?

Also some people mentioned what would happen to the other runs if rules changed. You can simply remove them, there doesn't need to be a category just for every setting lol.

I have seen this happen before, I don't remember who got it. Unfortunately this just soft locks the game as far as we know.

Maybe I am misunderstanding but why can't you make a rule to set Seek Speedup to None?

Hey. I didn't notice that you don't receive an IGT if you use continues. In that case I think it is best to separate console and emulation but I understand if you don't want to bother doing it since the community is very small. Thank you.

While I'm here, I have to ask. Do you know how to get extra credits? It happened to me once were I randomly started with 4 credits, I didn't save and now I don't know how to get it back.