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I suppose it would be a good idea to place these on the leaderboard rules, something along the lines of "Emulators are banned, if you wish to run the game on PC you may find OpenGOAL to be better suited for you, leaderboards here: "
Most of the time when a question like this is asked, it would be posted on the Discord server, where people receive an immediate response as the Discord server is far more active than these forums. Maybe also a forum on the Jak series page? Hard to tell since forums are rarely seen in general. Either way I think I will put this in the suggestion box we have on the Discord server for adding this clarification on the rules.
PS2 copies of the Jak trilogy are very common to come by-- yes there is technically a limited amount of them existing but they are still absolutely plentiful, and the PS2 version is the most competitive version. In some couple dozen years when copies become actually hard to come by, there is always the option to move on to the PS3 HD Remaster, or the PS4/5 ports (both of which are distrubited digitally therefore there is substantially less likely that the game will die off any time in the forseeable future). Or, the more likely result is that runners will make the switch to OpenGOAL as it is a far better way to play the game than on an emulator.
Emulators are also quite a bit faster than console, ergo an inaccuracy that would not make sense to have alongside the main console leaderboards. As far as I'm aware there have been recent talks about emulation (which led to Jak X allowing emulators, as accessibility of that game is uncertain i.e. Jak X is unconfirmed to come to OpenGOAL), and the general argument for not allowing it is due to OpenGOAL being a much better and a more relevant alternative.
I think the scope of which we are talking about this is literal decades into the future, where a PS2 (the best-selling console) and a copy of the game (a very popular series on the best-selling console) becomes legitimately hard to obtain. I personally think that at that point, competition will jump to OpenGOAL since it is practically just "the game but on PC" (even as far as the technical scope of it all, it is a replication of the game's original source code rewritten and is compatible on PC). It is very difficult to think of the scope of time where PS2, PS3, and PS4-onwards becomes obsolete or actually limit the amount of runs that will be done, anything could happen. But for now, with the way things are, the trilogy is close to being completely accessible to anyone on PC, thus obsoleting the need for poorer emulation that especially isn't tailor-made for the Jak games (which are complex in their own nature relative to normal PS2 games which emulators are more designed for).
Emulators have been historically banned due to (previously) large inaccuracies compared to console, a few months or years ago it didn't seem logical to allow emulators. However in recent times, PCSX2 and RPCS3 has seen big improvements to the Jak games.
The reason why it is disallowed today is due to it being largely irrelevant due to the OpenGOAL project. OpenGOAL is, in short, a decompilation project for the Naughty Dog Jak games, which as a result has led to a full native PC port of Jak 1 and 2, with Jak 3 just over the horizon. It also, more relevantly, has a ton of speedrunner-based adjustments, such as Speedrunner Mode / Quick Resets, Instant Cutscene Skips (Jak 1), Fast Progress Menu (Jak 2), etc. The leaderboards can be found on https://speedrun.com/jak1og and https://speedrun.com/jak2og (Jak 3 will have a leaderboard once it is ready for public release). Generally it is considered the best way to play the Jak games nowadays. There was an argument for still allowing emulators due to the history and competition being on these console boards, the result of that was emulators being allowed (very recently) for Jak X runs.
For now though, you can either build jak-project by yourself to see how Jak 3 runs (keep in mind, it is still work in progress and this is a developer environment, bugs are to be expected), or you can do your own runs on emulator (the experience is stable enough for your own practice needs). Jak 1 and Jak 2 are readily available on the OpenGOAL Launcher, you will just need to provide your own copy of the game.
Excerpt from the Game Rules:
If remapping a controller layout through use of an adapter, PS4/PS5 settings, console modifications, or emulator, face buttons may only be mapped to other face buttons, triggers to triggers, and sticks to sticks.
tl;dr, you can invert camera via the 2024 Release's remap options. Be cautious when remapping on emulator or on another console, as the right stick is bound to your shooter in A Ghastly Voyage and Rapid Fire Assault.
Thank you moderator, I hope the noddy nation grows stronger with the verdict reached. If it is of any help I can get footage from Ethernet and USB loading on a 90k
Hello moderator can we use OPL and such to play noddy and submit to the leaderboards
You might find google.com a better fit for you :D
all 1 zeebo owners are absolutely raving over this information, can i get a poggers in the chat??
