Greater Manchester, EnglandSo in the last year I've held a rallying speedrunning marathon based around the Colin McRae Rally/DIRT Series and this time we are back for a third installment with McRaeathon 3.
We are raising money this time around and are allowing all off-road racing/rallying games so if that sounds like the kind of marathon you'd like to be a part of be sure to check out the official thread and submit some of your favourite runs today! :D
Submissions close on October 27th 2019
So in the last year I've held a rallying speedrunning marathon based around the Colin McRae Rally/DIRT Series and this time we are back for a third installment with McRaeathon 3.
We are raising money this time around and are allowing all off-road racing/rallying games so if that sounds like the kind of marathon you'd like to be a part of be sure to check out the official thread and submit some of your favourite runs today! :D
Submissions close on October 27th 2019
So a few weeks ago before the new year I had a thought about some extra categories for the game that might interest a few people :D
The categories will most likely be Misc. as I don't think they need to be main categories due to their length, the ideas though? Complete a city (Complete Miami, Complete San Francisco, Complete Los Angeles and Complete New York)
I have done runs on the PS1 version of the game and have a rough idea of where the runs should start and where they should finish but I think it would be better to hear other people's opinions on this one so thoughts anyone? :)
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If you wish to join the CMR discord then be sure to head over to: https://discord.gg/EPRqPBx
Recently I've been thinking about new categories that we could have for this game, mainly for the PSP version. These ideas for categories are as follows:
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All Treasure Arenas (Complete all Treasure Arenas as fast as possible, choice can be made as to whether to start this from a new game or using a pre-existing one. The difference here would be that if you used a pre-existing save such as a completed all missions one then this run could be finished within around 20-30 minutes whereas the other option would take about 1 hour 20 mins ish from a new save)
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Any% NG+ (Complete all levels aside from Treasure Arenas, run would start at The Prison and finish at defeating The Kraken. Run would approximately take near to a little over an hour)
Any thoughts on both of these ideas would be much appreciated :)
Hi there, recently I was testing out the NTSC version of this game and to no surprise it is a lot faster than PAL however there's a hitch which is that, in the NTSC Version the game hardlocks and freezes near the end of Destroy the Yard (Last mission in Vegas)
This seems to be a reoccurring thing on ePSXe but was wondering if anyone had any similar problems with the same version of the game on other emulators?
If it is a major problem on emulator then it seems like a NTSC PS2 with FDS enabled and the NTSC version of this game is your quickest option at running this game.
Hi all, Recently I've been doing some quick research into the different region versions of the PS1 version of the game and found out the following: PAL - Runs at 25FPS normally, can be run at 50FPS as doubled PAL (I believe can be used for this game since it's used in many other games?)
- Police spawn at a slower rate so you have a easier time of getting to the end of missions most of the time without a tail however IGT is slower as are loading screens.
NTSC - Runs at 30 FPS normally, can be run at 60FPS as Doubled NTSC (No idea if this is allowed or not)
- Police spawn more frequently so having a tail near the end of the mission is more common making runs harder as a whole so having good RNG is needed for a good run with this version. IGT is faster meaning runs are quicker to complete.
Japanese Version is the same as NTSC.
Based on this knowledge: If you have a Japanese or American PS2 along with the same region version of the game and enable FDS then the times should drop for this game by a few mins 🤔
If you have any ideas for new full game categories then be sure to write them down here along with a brief description about the category :)
So there's this game called GT Advance 2: Rally Racing for the GBA and I was thinking if you liked CMR 2.0 on GBA then you'll probably enjoy this one too.
Feel free to have a go at it if you wish and here's the link if you are: https://www.speedrun.com/gtadvance2/full_game
Have Fun ?
So there's this game called GT Advance 2: Rally Racing for the GBA and I was thinking if you liked CMR 2.0 on GBA then you'll probably enjoy this one too.
Feel free to have a go at it if you wish and here's the link if you are: https://www.speedrun.com/gtadvance2/full_game
Have Fun ?
So there's this game called GT Advance 2: Rally Racing for the GBA and I was thinking if you liked CMR 2.0 on GBA then you'll probably enjoy this one too.
Feel free to have a go at it if you wish and here's the link if you are: https://www.speedrun.com/gtadvance2/full_game
Have Fun ?
So there's this game called GT Advance 2: Rally Racing for the GBA and I was thinking if you liked CMR 2.0 on GBA then you'll probably enjoy this one too.
Feel free to have a go at it if you wish and here's the link if you are: https://www.speedrun.com/gtadvance2/full_game
Have Fun :)
Hi there, I'm quite interested in running this game for the first time and wanted to attempt this category first. When exactly does the timer start and end? I would imagine it starts when you start the game after creating a new profile and ends when you fly to Hawaii or land in Hawaii?
Any help on this would be great, thanks :)
If you've got any skips or tricks that you might use for runs then feel free to post them here :)
So far we have two which are:
- The skip dialogue glitch which is enabled by running the game in Windowed Mode and holding the window everytime someone talks (Tutorial Videos, Unlock new Liveries, Showdown talks etc.)
- The flashback trick which allows you to complete a mission making the Japan race near the end much faster to finish in the Road to X-Games (Europe) run, this is done by having the difficulty set to Rookie and using all 5 flashbacks before retiring from the race giving you just enough XP to enter the Europe X-Games event. This trick allows you to gain about 1-1.5 minutes for this particular run but isn't worth it in the longer runs such as Road to X-Games (Asia), Any% and 100%.
Any more tricks or skips then feel free to add them here, if possible with video proof but if not then a text message will still be fine :)
