Hello.

I think you really should make a run and submit it :)

This video contains some tricks to make a run faster for the runners of this game. Thanks for posting it :)

You could set the rules yourself, if you want ;) Just say so and I will make you a mod, cause I've never even played PS version.

I can add leaderboards for these bonus missions if you want? ^^
edit: the ones that can be speedrun anyway

Hey everyone,

I completely agree that single segment speedruns do not even remotely reflect the effort you guys put into grinding individual levels. However, a speedrun usually takes more into account than pure execution.
While I see routing and efficient menuing as crucial skills, it might not make the Career any% SS category very interesting to run compared to submitting a segmented run which skips police encounters, etc.

That being said, I was wondering about alternative categories as more of a challenge than having to suffer from bad comparisons to IL runs. I was assuming Career 100% meant have every race marked as won by the time you defeat Darius at first but it could also apply to ingame % keeping track of your progress. (I would appreciate some definitions and offer to help with them as well.) 
A very interesting category would be low%. I haven't come up with a clear definition, yet, but the aim would be to obtain the least amount of upgrades/cars and beat the game. The best I could get was buying the first car (probably mandatory) and winning the one from your first area boss (no further upgrades, etc.). It makes most races quite difficult and especially the last canyon duel vs. Darius seems to require abuse of the +5000 point bonus upon contact with your car when he's following (to be able to win at all).

I'd love to progress speedruns of this game to get more attention to it.

I already changed all of his runs to emulator.

Btw, what do you mean by those green and red numbers in corners? The only thing I can see are split times (green if you're ahead, red if you're losing) since some of his ILs are done in tournament mode.

Are you sure there are track differencies? Cause as far as I can tell there is none if I compare PC vs GCN version. Maybe PS2 is different though.

You should definitely record a video so we have more records, which could attract more people to speedrun HP2, kinda like what hapenned to Carbon.

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