Kentucky, USATitle explains itself. TASes are cool, and to be honest, I'd like to be able to get in touch with the... two runners who've ran this game to see what they know about it.
Does it matter which dinosaur design you choose in the beginning of the game? The only one that would be of remotely any use would be V-Raptor, but I think I heard one time that you don't really use V-Raptor besides for the Electrominite quest so it doesn't matter. Any answers are welcome, thanks!
I dunno if the mods will be willing to do it, but I was wondering if we could change the regular trophy icons for first, second, and third place into a gold head, silver head, and regular Tricera head fossil respectively. I have a drive link with all three (with a transparent background) below if they were interested.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jnSk271qx1bfeKR-cQ47_U0j5xN0YIhG?usp=sharing
So I was trying to get the WR for Solo Zonga and found out when I loaded my state (in the battle formation screen) that I would record from, my battles only took a few different paths. So I started investigating, and figured out that your battle "RNG" heavily depends upon when you start the battle. I believe this battle RNG seed is set when you hit Start!, and comes in cycles. I think this because when I started the battles on the exact same frame, I could go through the menu-ing RTA (meaning different inputs would be on different frames, which would make you think RNG would be different) and get the exact same result every time, down to the damage dealt by Squiro, the attack performed by the Z-Rex, and even whether I got a critical hit or not. This... is actually gonna be invaluable information to me when I TAS this game, but I figured you guys would find this interesting to know in your runs.
When you fight Lester for the second time at the BB Base in NG+, is it even possible to one-shot his team with Hibi and B-Plesio? If it is, it's another perfect RNG thing like with the battle against Pauleen's Mask. Just wondering if anyone knew this or if someone could plug it into the damage calculator that I think is in the Discord.
In case you didn't know, you can hold up-right instead of just up when trying to get movement off of the door text, which means you don't have to be as precise with your position when talking to K_K, so you can be a little farther to the left than people say. Figured this would help people not have to tap right to get the right position and maybe save some time?
So I was working on a TAS of FFC Any% with a Japanese copy of the game and saw that a lot of the dialogue had to use extra textboxes compared to the English version. I believe this is because of how large the characters are in the Japanese version, leading to more room being taken up by text, and subsequently more textboxes being needed. This is honestly the first time I've seen the English version being faster text-wise, and I plan on making a complete TAS in English. GGs, and may RNGesus smile on your runs. Also if someone could share this is the speedrunning channel in the FF discord please and thank you.
-GuanlongX
P.S. I was able to clean the Tricera head perfectly with juuuuust under 77 seconds to spare. There's a lot of X-Ray and hammer spamming lol
I found one. Finally! The sad part is, it most likely wouldn't save any time in RTA. When Petrified Woods is unlocked for the first time, there's a staff member there and a cutscene trigger in front of her where she says Joe told her to let you go. You can skip over this trigger by clipping into the diagonal part of the wall and making your way to the left, where you can go into Petrified Woods and dig up the Sardinisaurus rock like usual. The problem is, the cutscene is so short, if it were to save time, it would probably be less than a second. Sad. I was doing a lengthy "speedrun" of FFC NG+ and tried to "skip" every cutscene I could find, and this was the only example so far of where you could skip a cutscene and were able to progress the story afterwards. It's most likely TAS-only just because it's not worth it in RTA. But anyway, I'll be back in the Discord and everything on the 1st of November, and I have a time to submit then. See you guys then, and may RNGesus be smiling on you guys. God knows we need it.
-GuanlongX
I don't see the point of the level leaderboard. There's a bunch of random categories that hardly anyone has ran, and I don't think that FFC actually has "levels", unless you count the rounds of the Cup. I just find it odd when I look at it compared to something like a Mario game, which is designed around having levels.
So, we've discovered something. There's a glitch that was found a while ago that I dubbed the "Hole Glitch". It involves digging a hole between you and a wall, going between the hole and the wall, and digging at the hole so you can get pushed into the wall.
Recently, a member of the Fossil Fighters Discord called megalo-vania has discovered a method using the hole glitch which allows you to access the 2 blocked-off areas early. This means we can get Lambeo and other vivosaurs early. Given how powerful Lambeo is, I want to get some more opinions as to whether or not this could result in a routing change. I don't really even know the route today, except for TheAwesomeDJ's WR and the one old guide in the Guides tab. If you have anything to say about this, thank you. Sub 5-hour goals!
Here's the link to the video: https://tinyurl.com/5h3hkwdu
