all paffets is a category I've been thinking of also! I haven't managed to accomplish it, with the ways that this game can lock you out of progress, but if you can, that's great

I assume that all paffets would require delivering all the furniture paffets to their recipients, not just making them and having them in storage, right? It seems like a reasonable 100%-ish category.

(I think true 100% would involve getting all Straynap's Diary entries which means playing through the game an unreasonable number of times)

Hey, thanks for stepping in, and these rules sound good to me.

I've added in-game time (IGT) as a column to the leaderboards. (deathline requested this a while ago, but I didn't know how at the time)

Incidentally, there are many things I don't know about in-game time in this game:

• When is the timer running?
• Why is IGT longer than RTA in most categories?
• Is there a way to see IGT during the game?

Hello all! I'm arborelia, the new moderator for the Giraffe and Annika board. I took over from Cirno9 who was no longer approving runs. My pronouns are she/her.

Once I became moderator I was excited to see that there were two new Any% runs waiting to be approved. I'm excited to see more speedrunners of this game!

I understand that most runners of this game speak Japanese, and I can understand a little Japanese but I'm not very good at it. I think it would help to have an additional moderator who speaks Japanese. Please reply if you're interested.

日本語を書くのを少し苦手ですが、がんばります！よろしくお願いします。

追加のモデレーターを探しています 。興味ありますか？ご返信お願いします。

Oh, I found the guide, it's the respawn glitch. The category rules should describe that a bit.

I'd like to know what ROR stands for so I know what the new category split is.

An update I should mention in this thread is that I split the categories, because I found out about the significant timing differences that were putting console runs at a huge disadvantage. The GD-ROM in a Dreamcast has longer loading times, of course, and I also discovered that Flycast does not emulate lag that happens on the real Dreamcast.

So Mikeke, I currently believe the English patch (burned onto a CD) would be fine to run as a non-emulated run, but I admit that I've never tried it.

If it changes the number of text boxes, that's a tiny difference because text boxes can be instantly mashed through, and also English text probably takes up more text boxes than Japanese anyway. My partner who knows more about the Dreamcast tells me that a burned CD would probably be slower than the actual game disc.

If it's a modded Dreamcast that loads games off a flash drive instead of an optical disc, though -- I know these exist and kinda wish I owned one -- that'd make a lot more sense to group in with the emulated category, because it would load so much faster.

classicreload is fine!

As listed in the overall game rules, DOSbox should be at a maximum of 3000 cycles.

I might go back to starting any% when you choose "New Game", there's too many uncertainties about how to define the start otherwise. Getting feedback on Twitter: https://twitter.com/arborelia/status/1230937790835286018

When I started running this game, I lamented that a speedrun would have to involve skipping the songs -- the only skippable cutscenes -- and that's a tragedy.

So I decided I'd do an "All Songs" speedrun where you let them play. Some folks on Twitter agreed this was the correct category.

But in Any% you can skip the songs, and stop time when you defeat the boss and lose control. And, at the suggestion of a friend, I have the Any% time start at the first save point, so you can reload that save to reset instead of playing 10 minutes of mostly-unskippable intro.

Anyone else who's interested, are there adjustments I should make?

And yeah, English should definitely be allowed, to make the game much more accessible. I've done a run in English. I started learning the run in Japanese but that shouldn't be a barrier to entry.

Great to hear that you're also interested! And yeah I just talked to Gqro and there's really no reason for the rule.

Gqro made me a mod, so we can change the rule now!

I messaged the mod, Gqro, about this as well, but I think that disallowing emulators is one reason this leaderboard is empty. It's too much of a barrier for most people to get started.