Even if I never practiced it myself, I sure hope so ! In my opinion it's no accident that these moving barricades were put here, and it's part of the game to take advantage of this shortcut whenever possible. In any case, it looks like quite the challenge. Mastering this trick should be recognized and rewarded. :-)

"WHY WOULD YOU DO THA-Oh alright" ahahahah that instant max speed was insane, especially out of slow corners ! There's definitely something to explore here and you could call it the JFred bus-kick strat or something ! :D

Excellent ! At first sight this new organization seems to work like a charm, and it might be even easier to navigate actually.

I didn't think about how level runs are separated from full runs on a user profile, but now this migration makes even more sense for me.

Thank you MSM !

Hey guys,

To be honest my first reaction is similar to Art_Izon, I wouldn't have thought that this naming convention would discourage potential runners. But considering the lack of activity on these boards ... well, we have nothing to lose really. I guess it's worth giving it a try !

I'm taking this opportunity to add you as a moderator, MSMarceau : feel free to implement your ideas of more attractive categories, and let's cross fingers for new challengers at some point. Whatever works to give this game the love it deserves ! :D

EDIT : Just noticed I put Genesis instead of 32X, my mistake. Sorry for the double validation !

From what I've seen at Twin Galaxies, Rage definitely is going to be a tough competitor. Welcome !

I for one wholeheartedly concur with all of those requests ! :- )

But unfortunately, I'm not sure that speedrun.com currently provides a way to use scores instead of times ... I hope I'm wrong ! Here's a topic I found : https://www.speedrun.com/The_Site/thread/1gbee Discussion ongoing since last year, so this may not happen anytime soon.

Meanwhile, adding Japan/West leaderboards for those bonus stages would be an excellent reason to enjoy those stages again. Please PRiSONER, PeteDorr, make this happen ! 0:- )

Hello and first, thank you for the quick answers. :-)

Now I understand I shouldn't have used the word "demo" as its too ambiguous. I have renamed the video and added a more complete description.

The country regions are the names of the 10 different endings available in the game : 10 destinations depending on the path you choose during the race. Maybe the linked description page doesn't explain that very well.

Here's how I can try to explain : The arcade version of OutRunners saves the best time for each of the 10 available endings. Therefore, as I see it, there should be 10 main sections for the game entry here on speedrun.com. Hence my list of regions, which are the names of those different endings. Then each section can have several filtering criterias like the selected car, selected transmission (manual/auto), and maybe also the cabinet's difficulty settings, though the default settings should remain as the main thing. But that's another level of details which I can't really discuss before getting a view of all the available means to categorize runs properly.

So, do you think that would be enough to make a proper game request this time, or do you see any other things to clarify ?

In any case, thanks again for your support !

Hello :-)

As I was suggested to do in the Genesis/Megadrive version of OutRunners forum, I made a request to create a new game entry dedicated to the arcade version of OutRunners.

But my request was just rejected for the following reason : "As stated on the "Request Game" submission form, we require a full speedrun of said category and not only a "single level""

Here is the demo run :

As you can see, this is a full run, from start to finish, so I don't know what to think. :-(

Most games of the OutRun series work the same, time attack being the main thing. You can look at other OutRun game entries as examples of runs which are all similar to what my demo shows.

So what is wrong here ? Can somebody explain what I'm missing ?

Sorry in advance if I'm really dumb or something, but I really don't see what's wrong and I just want to enjoy my OutRunners cab with passion and brag about being in the game's leaderboards like a good humble speedrunner :'-| ...

Ok, understood, thanks for the quick answer ! I'll see how to make such request then. :-)

Wiz

Hello,

Could a new section be opened for the Arcade version of the game please ?

Or should it be declared as a whole new game, as this one is directly labelled as the Genesis game ?

Thanks :-),

Wiz