England8 months late, sorry... yes you can, from what testing I've done you need 2 enemies there to push you through. And having them spawn near the gate is quite annoying to do. So it's possible yes, but not really faster unfortunately.
@starsmiley I have enabled it now.
Hi, I'd like to request to be a mod of the following leaderboard https://www.speedrun.com/xena_warrior_princess There are no current mods, and I messaged a past mod but have received no reply.
Can't wait to see all dem juicy Japanese strats. But yea, bringing the two communities together would be a really cool thing, whichever what you guys decide to do it, it will at least be progress.
It's not possible to swap to disk 3 from what I've tried. If you do it before entering the Salt Flats, it locks on a black screen. If you enter the Salt Flats with disk 2 still in, it does the same thing. You can't even get to Abadon to try it there.
(and yes Ahramanyu, it is disk :p)
I think the misc categories for PC are fine as it is. I'm not sure where else you could move them to that wouldn't make it confusing. The way it is now, they are all under the PC tab and so are easy to access, and you know that they are all PC runs. If you moved them, you would need a separate "misc" category or something, which you would then need to sub-categorise into PC and Console right?
As for JP runs, I think they should be misc for the reasons Windows said. Most JP runners don't use twitch or youtube, it would be weird to mix them with Western times. Plus, the timing methods are different aren't they?.
I tried it from an actual disk 2 save (starting from when you leave FH) and it is the same result. A disk 1 save triggers the first 2 cutscenes from disk 1 (not the intro cutscene) and softlocks too.
Also, if you could clip the garden like he tries in the video, there are lots of invisible walls where Esthar is supposed to be and there is nothing there to trigger any story anyway. The only way is though the elevator.
Sadly, it looks like this won't be possible even if we COULD clip through.
I think the same thing will happen if he does it from a disk 2 save. What I think is happening is basically that the game is trying to load the cutscene based on its location on the disk, in this case, it would be the 1st couple of cutscenes on disk 3, but instead it is loading the first couple on disk 2, because that is where you are(if you check the save file, it still says disk 2), and those cutscenes don't have whatever trigger the game wants to advance to the "elevator goes down" state, so you soft lock.
I think no matter where you have your save, disk 1, 2, 4, it will always trigger the 1st couple of cutscenes from those disks, and the probability that those cutscenes just happen to have whatever trigger the game wants to advance is kinda low I think. Even if you could clip onto the Salt Flats early, I don't think it is possible.
