I Started Running This Game Last Year (2023)... Got What I Thought For Me Was Decent Time (IGT 57:10/RTA 59:34) On NTSC U PS2 But Never Submitted It (And The PS2 Died Soon After)

Went Back To Grinding For A Better PB This Week On A 90k Jap PS2 And Got a 56:59 IGT.

Here's My Issue... I Had No Deaths All The Way Up Until Madnar Where I Got Crushed By The Roller (I Was Greedy) Which Eventually Cost Me 30 Seconds On My Splits

I Ended Up Finishing The Run +10 Seconds Ahead Of My Old Splits (59:45) But Yet Gained 11 Seconds On IGT (56:59) With A Death (Previous Run Was Deathless I Think)

Any Idea Why?

this is fine... the top runners including myself all use a PS2

Interesting Strat But For The Time Save... Totally Not Worth It IMO... If You're Going To Pick Up The Tactical Vest Then You Might As Well Pick Up The Nades In Akro Too... This In Turn Means You'll Have More Nades In Your Inventory When You Buy Them From Mr Douglas Later (This Is Considered As Safety Marathon Strats)... Also As A Side Note... If You Do This And Go To Ayas Trunk... Wait Till You 1st Get To Dryfield And Go The Trunk Then To Pick Up The Belt + Nades... Thats Way Much Faster Then Waiting For Pierce To Stop Moving.

wait... Wolf made a video guide since the new route change (which not only he changed but others as well)... since when?

seriously Fox... do you even look at the guides...

1 question which I want to ask is and I've been wanting to ask this for months... when Sena did his original 1:13 run, why was it not questioned at the time and verified as a 'legit' run... considering there was a 6 minute jump between Setyans 1:19 and Senas 1:13... why has it taken all this time for it to now be an issue? And as a pre cursor, many of us in the community think and agree with Sena that the moderation of this game sucks and it has done for a long time... and there is only 1 mod so don't give us the BS that there are other discussions with 'Mods'

Im gonna go out on a limb and say this... imo Duckstation never should have been added as a category...

What with constant updates (still) with duckstation after 2-3ish years there is never going to be an agreement over which 'Settings' or 'Updates' or 'Versions' of Duckstation to use to run the game.

I've Seen Handgun Only Be A Thing... Rebecca Only Boss Fights Though... Sounds Like A Pain In The Dick

Setyan

I Own A 90000k Japanese PS2 and my best time was with a 45 second mistake is 1:22:29

I submitted my 1st run last night FYI...

And yes I've been watching various runners including yourself run this game over the past 2 years before you make anymore comments...

Isn't the PSP store closed now which in essence now makes 'grinding' a world record impossible on PSP/PSTV for anyone who was not able to download a digital copy beforehand? (Mainly the European region)

How is that now fair on the newer runners/future runners?

Isn't that now a pay to play speedrun for the fastest time?

If You Do Decide To Add Emulator To The Boards It Should Be 100% Seperate Without Argument

I Have A Suggestion To Make The Boards Fair.

Go And Have A Look At The Parasite Eve 2 Leaderboards

Look At The Consoles And How They're Separated

Its Really Fair On There

Everyone Has A Chance To Get A World Record Or A Good Time On Their Respected Console/Emu

This Saves Soy Boys Like Me Getting Salty

In The Parasite Eve 2 Community The Duckstation Emulator World Record Is Currently Slower Then The PS2 World Record

I've Personally Tested Duckstation (Not Yet On This Game) But On Tenchu, Parasite Eve 2 And I Think Apocalypse

And Found That The Emu Was Slower

dude... knife only sucks donkey dick...

With The Segmented Runs That Are Currently On The SD Console Runs...

What Would Be Considered 1st Place Etc?

A Single Segment Run? [If One Was To Be Submitted] Or The Segmented Run?

Not Sure...

On A Side Note... Theres New Strats That Have Been Done On Emulator That Havent Yet Been Implemented On Console So...

World Record Can Still Be Got On All Versions Of PS2s

This Game Is Very Weird To Run On Console And Sometimes On Emulator (I've Watched Your Runs) It Doesn't Even Work On Some Consoles

This Game Has Been Tested On 90000k, 90001k (NTSC U), 90004k And I Believe 90006k (The 90000k Series Models Are Considered The Fastest)

Personally For Me I've Found That The 90001k Loads The Fastest (Which Could Be Considered As Unfair) (I Also Run Final Fantasy 9 Which The 90001k Is Considered The Meta For The Load Times)

When I've Ran The Japanese Version In Particular On The 90000k Myself I've Found That The Load Times Aren't Great Overall

When It Comes To Emulator Its The Same Issue... I Find That The NTSC U Version Loads Way Faster Then Any Japanese Version I've Seen Which Again Could Be Considered As Unfair

As For Improving The Load Times There Is No Real Fix

Hope This Helps

Is/Has There Been An Agreed Emulator For This Game?

Looking To Start Running New Game Any% On Emu And Wondered Which Emu Was Best To Use.

From what I've seen of games/runs using the PSTV (ie MGS1, PE1) they always seem to run fastest on the PSTV... I know for a fact that the PSP runs poorly... not so sure about the Vita... as for which version runs fastest (NA/JPN) i don't know... I find that the controller configuration is much easier on the NA version then it is JPN though

I'm Using A 'Off The Shelf' Japanese PS2 (90000) For Running My Japanese Copy. (Not Dualshock) (Non Modded)

Is This Classed As A Mod Chip Run Or Non Mod Chip?

Thanks

That is pretty much the run

Any% seems fun... just 100% im on the fence about

Can't believe I'm saying this... I now don't think No Item Box should be a speedrun... the 100% Route is just too long and unnecessary... it feels more like a challenge run if anything

That's Just My Take On It

Having To Backtrack Through The Mansion 4 Times Is Just Not Worth It