I’ve been practicing this one for a couple weeks on dreamcast and I didn’t realize why I didn’t have the same gundam options like in the leaderboard runs, I realized that the 2 releases are pretty different actually along with the arcade release.

The Dreamcast version came with 2 discs, disc one is what Im playing and that’s the arcade original federation vs zeon, you have more limited gundam options 3 instead of 5 and there are no space levels. You have to clear less levels to complete the game.

the second disc of the dreamcast version is the DX version, this is the version on ps2, but where these differ are the dreamcast version doesn’t have a story mode and instead both discs have online play on dreamcast which is still online to play on a real dreamcast over 56k modem or the flycast emulator I think has online play now(and crossplay with Dreamcast consoles)

I realize it’s not much different but the arcade and dreamcast have theoretically faster versions of the game since there’s no distinction between arcade original and DX releases

With the new Rainbow Cotton re release I just wanted to document a few changes I noticed that effect the speedrun of this game

-No more Auto centering

-fairy gem power has been decreased by a lot, boss fights especially take a hit here, mid level boss in world 5 used to take 2 gems, now I can’t even beat it with all 5

-Fairy targeting got a huge improvement, no complaints about this at all

-collision is improved so you don’t fly all over the screen, this helped sometimes though to get away from attacks so I’m mixed on this change

-cannot play without cutscenes/have to skip every cut scene

-the mid level boss in world 5 is at least twice as hard, not sure what they did balancing wise

-the final boss has an invincibility shield that makes you have to play the whole boss sequence, before you could defeat the boss by the first stop, in the remake the boss is at 75% health at this point

So while the remake is beautiful, well done and a welcome addition to my modern library, the speedrun isn’t really doable on the new consoles because the developers added a few features that kill the run pretty early on.

Hey guys I just wanted to let you know if you’re interested in the Christmas level I made a speedrun board for the Dream On Volume 4 demo disc so there could be runs of it, I haven’t done the summer level yet but might look into a board for that demo disc as well!

Is there a setting in the game that turns the tracking circles on for photos? I notice before you take a picture you have circles showing what’s in frame of the photo but I didn’t have that in my game

Since it’s Christmas I’ve been looking for Christmasy games to play and I found the Xmas level from the Dream On 4 demo disc, along with the Dream on 11 demo disc having the summer level, it’s like dlc for the game but given away in magazines. Wondering if we could get those on the board as well! I got a 2’44”28 in the Christmas level last night so I wanted to see if anyone else even knew about them!

It’s wild how fast the TAS goes, I wonder if the Dreamcast version can accept keyboard inputs that fast as well

It was released in Europe, I have the english version on my Gdemu

you can use it but i think its probably slower than an official disc

started practicing this on dreamcast and lesson 5 part 3 is impossible on there haha you seem to have a lot more time to think through an emulator

Working on my dreamcast keyboard run I found a cool dev feature that was left in the game. If you press 1 on the keyboard you get a fully completed save file that starts from rays house. This helps the dreamcast keyboard speedrun because now you don’t have to worry about having a controller plugged in to one of the other slots.

I’m getting a dreamcast keyboard for Christmas so I’m gonna start trying some keyboard runs for fun! I don’t see it being faster than like 30 minutes but it’ll be fun to see if I can get close to any of the pc splits!

My run in any controller was done on the Dreamcast I’m sure you could tell by the video though haha I’ve been trying to practice with a keyboard adapter, it’s a totally different game with a keyboard though I definitely like using the controller more

So I’ve been playing The Textorcist a bunch lately and wanted to get into running the game, I don’t have the pc version just the recently released Dreamcast port so I was wondering if there could be a separate category for it on the leaderboard. The run could probably follow the same rules as the pc version I think but the difference in load times and a few differences in boss patterns would make a Dreamcast category make sense.