LatviaWell I did test this on 2 different PC's with different OS. As far as I know, Noz has had a similar crash, not sure if he had the same glitches. It would be great if someone also would test it out, even just casually playing for 2h+
Either way, this is just a friendly tip to anyone that does indeed turn out to have the same issues as I have.
So today I once again tried to run the any% no save glitch category, and similar to my PB run, my game crashed, this time at around 3 hour mark. But what I found out is that I had the same instance of weird bugs showing up 10-20 mins before the crash - either somewhere a white horizontal line appears over the screen or some parts of the screen ar black/gray. Im not sure if others have this same kind of an issue, but I have had this issue on both 32 and 64 bit versions of PPSSPP and using different versions of the emulator itself. I did use clean and newly installed versions of PPSSPP.
So for those who consider running either any% no save glitch or 100% categories of this game, I advise you to either save your progress and reload the emulator when glitches like that start to appear (the glitches can be seen in first 3 parts of my PB few mins before the vid ends) or to use a legit hardware, which in this case would be faster RTA wise.
If you do consider restarting your emulator, then accept a chance, that the crashes could become more frequent, like I had in above mentioned PB, that I had a crash first 2 times at 2h marks and the 3rd time at 30 min mark, so the further you will continue, the bigger chance is that the game will crash constantly like heck.
If someone who has played CTW for a long time in one sitting and hasn't had these issues could post either what versions and specs they use, but either way, legit hardware is the way to go for these categories.
So i stiched together a quick 100% route to encourage people to actually run it. It is located here:
Old 100% route: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LM4uGxPyP-yG83aCXiim4TswfGYluPb6zsbIyIxggVc/edit?usp=sharing New 100% route: [WIP]
This route is still kinda in its development stage, as I haven't tested it, or went fully through it myself, but it should be okay, or atleast covers 99% of everything. Also it looks kinda childish, but I tried to make it somewhat understandable in the spare time I had.
I will be more than happy to help anyone if you have any questions, as the pictures might be hard to understand, because I couldn't get the map at high res. Also mention if there is something missing.
Thanks for testing it out, seems like So Near, Yet Sonar gets real messed up if it is done outside its regular mission path.
Here it is, that mission spawns close to the safehouse after reading the mail and putting up a waypoint through the mail, as just reading it doesnt spawn it.
https://failiem.lv/u/2x8asy9x EU version save file
So I started to route AM and 100% runs, it turns out, it wont be possible to do them on legit hardware, atleast for me, because the mission So Near, Yet Sonar is crashing the game every time I start it even in different parts of the game (early in the game, and close to the end part). It might be a fault in my hardware (I use psp-2000) but if someone wants to help me and test it out can try it, it is being unlocked by reading the mail "Idiots." by Chan.
R.I.P. save glitch usage in these cats for now.
I will look into routing a possible AM run, but yeah, it is a long mess, because any opened mail or a change in mission order changes everything else further in the run.
I do agree it could be fun to watch, as the continuity of the story would also be messed up, as one moment you might be killing Zhou at one of the final missions, and on the next one you are stealing crates with him.
In that case, I change my vote to A), atleast it would make the playing field a bit similar to those, who use an external software.
I am considering that, challenges that are included in 100% are really fun, but I dont really have time for 100% due to uni and other stuff, because as far as I know, hundo in this game might be pretty long, even using this as a time save.
So as you all know, save glitch breaks the game up pretty badly in Chinatown Wars. Today I messed around in CTW a bit with other missions after you do a save glitch (I dont have a video tho, will probably post it later)
It turns out that, not only after using a save glitch you open up a couple of missions up, but the mission start points change aswell. I had a nexperience when even the Rat Race started from Kenny's restaurant, even tho it has to be triggered on the other island. Basically as much as I understood, from Kenny's restaurant you can spawn and start any mission, that is given to you by Kenny, including Copter Carnage, Missed the Boat? etc.
I havent yet tested this out with Chan and other characters, but will do in the future.
Also, once you do a mission, you get around 45 new messages in your inbox (I did Natural Burn Killer as the first mission) and after opening up/reading the messages, they take off and spawn new missions, depending probably on what messages you read, but I did read all of them, so couldnt test out all of that completely.
Note: One glitch that happens with messages is, after you do Yu Jian (its usually after Natural Burn killer in the same marker if you do it as the next mission) is, if you open up for example a spam mail, for example, Welcome to Badger network or similar, early in the game, you get stuck in the message screen and can't quit, because the game thinks that you recieved one of the first mails from Kenny to go to him and aks you to use the GPS waypoint, but a Bager message doesnt have that option, so that can potentially stop a run. P.S. Hopefully i explained this okay-ishly
So from what I am understanding at the moment, you can change spawns of the missions by opening certain mails and doing missions in a certain order, so with a lot of grinding and experimenting, probably theres a way to line up all of the story missions to be close each other without the long drives or needs for a cab. Also the Yu Jian mission spawns, so 100% count can be achieved. This might make possible future hundo runs easier as you don't have to wait for mails and making a route even more optimal and gaining advantages in other missions.
How will it increase everyones chance to run AM if it will be simply moved from misc to unmisc? YOU ARE JUST MOVING A CATEGORY FROM ONE TAB TO ANOTHER. It doesnt affect speedrunning at all, those who will want to run it, will run it. Changing placement in a god damn website doesn't affect quality or anything else related to speedrunning.
Same goes for duping, why would anyone remove duping from the game if it helps achieve faster times? Isn't that the point of speedrunning - finishing the game as fast as possible?
I agree, that would make organizing a lot easier, especially for newer games that tend to have multiple DLC's that contains story and overall game changing features.
I will propose both RoG and SW as separate games once SW rolls out of early access.
Im writing this on behalf of the new DLC that has been released - Shipwrecked. This DLC adds a lot of new features to the game, even more than Reign of Giants did, and making yet another seperate categories just for the game will make the leaderboards look chaotic.
My proposal is that we might try to make RoG and SW as a different game, so that their leaderboards would be easier to understand. Seeing as both of the DLC's change the game drastically, this seems pretty obvious that they should be listed as seperate games.
Those who maybe lurk on DS forums, voice your opinion about this.
IMO that would be considered as set seet because you could set what mobs and biomes will spawn or wont spawn in-world and potentially have a better outcome than random seed.
Set seed isn't meant to be that everyone has the same file, its more of a - everyone knows the layout of the world they will play in, weather it is through world settings or a set seed. Of course, for everyone who does get a WR/PB or generally a good world than can be grinded should share his file with others.
This can be crucial on All Bosses, but as currently I have no intentions to run Dont Starve for the upcoming weeks and as others are quiet inactive, If you do a run, I will allow whatever world creation tactic you use for your run - set seed or custom world settings.
I've seen some anime character model mods here http://www.gta4-mods.com/ here basically is the best mods quality and selection wise for IV.
So I made a simple route of any% glitchless right here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EE9jyw2Aq_Sgu6XU3Uh9Gro9V6b-9lsg_6A3834q1uE/edit?usp=sharing
For mission walkthrough use this guide http://www.gamefaqs.com/ds/950922-grand-theft-auto-chinatown-wars/faqs/57086 and I will add the PSP exclusive mission walkthrough in the level runs section.
For any questions, write to me on steam or here.
EDIT: For mission locations I will make a file soon aswell.
It probably will be put in the guides and yes, there will be 2 different categories - psp and DS, mobile run as the psp version has the exclusive missions that are needed to complete the storyline (not sure about iOS, but Android also have the same missions as the DS). And is the Yu Jian replayable? I might have missed it, will add when I will get to my pc at home.
