I haven't seen an exact date for that but the patch was around September 2016.

If your ROM is US-NTSC 1.0, you can do every skip and trick in the current route on emulator. JP and PAL versions cannot do many of the tricks but that's a difference in game version rather than console vs. emu.

Only thing that comes to mind that you should be aware of is killing the motorcycle skeletons at the bottom of castle center on emu. That is the likeliest place for the game to crash, so test it out and see what happens.

Carrie has a setup to get the correct position before the clip. Grab onto the ledge and make sure you're up against that left corner. Climb over to the right twice, pull yourself up, then hold C Up and let go so the camera spins around. Once the camera has readjusted and stops moving, sidehop directly right and hold A the entire time. You're going to bonk into the wall, and as you're falling, hold straight up on the control stick while still holding A and you'll clip through and grab a ledge from inside the wall. The toughest part about Left Tower Skip is the timing for when to start holding up on the control stick out of the sidehop. If you're grabbing the ledge and not clipping through, that means you're holding up too early. If you're landing on top of the ledge without grabbing anything, you're holding up too late. Once you've clipped through and are grabbing something inside the wall, let go of A, and you will take something like 85% fall damage. Hold R to bring the camera down so you can see what's going on, then run up-right and you will fall past some invisible walls and land on the outside of the level where you can jump into the loading zone for the Villa from the other side.

Feel free to join the CV64/LoD speedrun Discord here https://discord.gg/eKht382 if you have any other questions about running these games. Good luck

Hey FijiWater! Glad to hear you're interested in running the game.

Two different runners should not submit runs from the same video hosting account for verification purposes. Creating a new YouTube account or simply uploading the offline recording to your Twitch account would be sufficient and preferable.

Regarding the best strategies, I'd recommend joining the Discord here https://discord.gg/cJ5sFJX so we can discuss it more thoroughly, and other runners could give their feedback.

Here you go https://discord.gg/cJ5sFJX

There's no one currently running the game at the moment, but feel free to message me on Discord if you have questions about the run.

We've decided to rank runs by in-game time instead of real time, because of the drastically different load times for individual PS4's and PC's. Both RTA and IGT will be displayed for submitted runs.

To determine the IGT of the run, subtract the total amount of time spent in load screens from the standard RTA time. There are six load screens, corresponding to the end of each chapter. Begin timing the load screen when the screen fades to black, and stop the time as soon as the screen fades back in.

Azama and I have added the IGT for all submitted runs.

When a new run is submitted, and if the runner hasn't yet posted the IGT, moderators please subtract loading times from their run and have the IGT displayed as well for ranking.

Would love to see Abzu at AGDQ. I won't be able to attend, but hopefully they'll accept your run!

Hey Mezd,

Are you trying to learn Glitched Any% or Glitchless? I could make a video explaining the skips; just let me know what category you're working on.

Feel free to join the Discord and we can talk more there.

I think most of the glitches still work for Black Suit, but to be honest it would just be a boring run because of the slow swim speed through OoB areas. I would vote to remove the category since it doesn't add anything interesting.

Wish we could do a 100% or All Shells category...now that would be fun.

How's it going guys. Discord and races sound like a good idea. Would love to grow the community and get some more people interested in running this game.

Grier: I saw your black suit glitchless beat me by milliseconds -_- gonna have to run the category again and take it back!

Azama: I'm coming for your blue suit any% WR. Hoping for sub 25.