CanadaHello IHNMAIMS speedrun community members,
Kyon here. This speedrun has seen a flurry of activity recently, and some interesting and curious questions have come up from community members. After discussions with the community via our Discord server, I have rolled out some changes to the leaderboard and ruleset:
1. New run submissions MUST include ScummVM Version.
The official Steam release utilizes a version of ScummVM which has not been updated in some time. New runners have been experimenting with up-to-date versions and thus far no major time saves or advantages have been found other than QoL improvements in the VMware itself. That being said, VM versions will be tracked going forward in case of any unidentified time saves. If there are any issues with the versions available to pick from at the time of submission, please DM me.
2. New run submissions will be measured down to the millisecond.
Honestly this is something that has been a long time coming. As overall times improve, there will be more reason to be more specific in our timing method.
3. Hotkey rebinding, through first-party or third-party programs, is allowed. Macros are not allowed.
After a long discussion, the decision was made to allow external keybinding explicitly. As a moderator, I can't see your keyboard and honestly don't care if you press T to talk or rebind it to F13 - or to X on a gamepad. As long as the gameplay is valid and legal, you do you. That being said, the use of Macros (keybinds that perform more than one action per key press) are explicitly banned.
I always try to be open to what the active speedrunning community wants, as long as the end result represents a fair and level playing field that does not discourage new runners. If you have questions, comments, concerns, gripes, complaints, let's chat about them.
-Kyonlion
Thanks for the suggestion! Sorry I have missed it until now. I'll gladly put up individual level boards, but I'd like at least one of them to be occupied first. If you're interested in submitting and IL run, DM me on discord and we'll work it out. :)
If we were looking for an easy way to fix WOL alone, we could just adjust his category to "Prologue and Destiny Odyssey I" and have it start from START. It doesn't solve the other pre-run abuse problems but it is something. I am not a fair judge for invalidating runs because, frankly, my name isn't on this leaderboard yet, so I have nothing to lose.
Thanks for the reply. I'll pick up the PC version when I can ^^ I completely understand about the emulator though.
Hello!
I'm thinking about picking this up as a speedgame, and I would love to play the PSP version but do not have a PSP capture setup. I am wondering if you would still count the run as valid if it were played on PPSSPP with frame lock and no speedup, etc? Thanks ^^
Welcome!
First thing I'll say is that PAL runs at a slightly lower framerate so NTSC is preferred if playing on PS2. May not sound like a lot but it does add up quickly.
PC slots currently does not have a leaderboard, as the any% route includes Yuffie Warping to Debug Room to bypass a large portion of the game. If you are considering doing a PC slots run, there are many similarities but the stepcount is definitely different compared to PS2 slots.
Hope this helps ^^
Welcome W1G!
There are a few (so many) options for controller configurations and such, but XPadder is generally accepted as a simple and lightweight solution. It does mean running the XPadder program in the background whenever playing, but it is quite customizable and easy to set up. XPadder recently went paid (10.99 one time payment) but there is an older, freeware version available.
GLHF!
Welcome Zell8888!
We've got a pretty active discord channel on the FF speedrunning server that has a great wealth of knowledge. I'd invite you to join in the discussion. We're all very friendly! Here's a one time use invite that expires 24h from now:
-Kyon
Hello,
I would like to submit a run for the RTA category, but I have been playing it on the NTSC PS4 version of the game. Since I do not see this option in the drop-down list, I thought I would rather make this post than just submit it as a vita run, in case there was any confusion.
Please let me know if this is doable, because I have a WR run ready to be submitted for verification :)
kyonlion
