Florida, USAYeah they are allowed, the rules just haven't been updated it seems
Hello everyone,
It's been brought to my attention by other runners that a lot of the end time methods for certain categories are inconsistent and unclear/arbitrary. I will be updating the timing methods for the following categories:
Console Any% NG and NG+: Time will be changed from ending on the final results screen to the final hit on sasuke to be consistent with the timing method for PC.
Console Tales: Time will be changed from ending on the final results screen to the final hit of each individual Tale, to be consistent with PC timing methods.
Survival Cups: Time will be changed from ending on the "white screen after results of the fight" to the final hit of the final cup. Rules will be clarified to indicate that you can do the cups in whatever order you'd like.
Existing times on the leaderboard that followed the previous rules will all be manually retimed by me, so this will take some time but should not affect any placements on the leaderboards.
The rules will be updated shortly, so for any runs submitted from here on out ensure to follow the new rules.
Thanks!
Yeah, the PSP version is definitely the worse version of the game. Ive beaten both all the way through and the PSP version bosses have an unfair amount of health and damage and the game gives you no equipment to deal with it at all. For example, Krieg has 3800HP on PSP but around 2600 on 3DS. You also don't have the ability to Sprint. I recommend playing 3DS but the choice is yours at the end of the day.
2x EXP mod would be used with Citra, the 3ds emulator. The PSP version is naturally going to be much, much longer due to the worse balancing and lack of helpful equipment and SP boosts. I can make Arlong%, that sounds like a good category with enough bosses to feel fulfilling
The 2x EXP mod is there for that reason, it would basically cut the run in half due to needing to grind less. What other categories do you have in mind?
Hey everyone,
I'm really happy to see so many new runners for this game! I wanted to let you all know that I updated the leaderboard to add our community's discord server, in case anyone wanted to join and discuss strategies and socialize with other runners.
The link is here, but now it's also accessible via the discord icon near the follow button. https://discord.gg/YtMMvcB5Su
You can play this game in 2022 and onward using Flashpoint, a flash game emulation program. The program has the game built into it.
Download Flashpoint infinity here: https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/
You can play this game in 2022 and onward using Flashpoint, a flash game emulation program. The program has the game built into it.
Download Flashpoint infinity here: https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/
You can play this game in 2022 and onward using Flashpoint, a flash game emulation program. The program has the game built into it.
Download Flashpoint infinity here: https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/
What happened to the old ODB run that was done on mobile phone emulator? I feel like other runs were missing too but i could be misremembering
While I do understand the desire to take breaks in longer runs like these, I personally am not in agreement with allowing breaks in an RTA run. Including breaks with paused timer would basically mean that the runs submitted with breaks would leave the conventional rules of RTA and become segmented runs, due to the timer being stopped and started again. Allowing breaks that don't count against your time also sort of sets the current times on the leaderboard at a disadvantage, since they were all set without that rule to benefit their runs.
You can always take breaks during a run of course, but I personally feel it should count against your time.. After all, it only makes your run arbitrarily faster for pauses during breaks, since the same amount of time passes irl regardless.
I feel that preparation and time management are another important part and skill demonstrated during these longer RTA runs, and I feel that that skill will also not be able to be properly represented without being disadvantaged if breaks were made not to count against your final time. I also believe there's plenty of places to take decent stretch/quick bathroom breaks. There's a 49 second break in Brownboo after Matataki, a 55 second break from entering the submarine for the first time in queens, and a 3 minute break after Sun and Moon temple where cutscenes play with no prompts to mash text. Basically after each dungeon there's a decent opportunity for a quick breather.
Saving time and in turn ultimately having less time needed for breaks in dark cloud is just highly dependent on weapon RNG in the first two dungeons/the route you chose to run with, if you reset to get the bandit slingshot within those two dungeons it shaves hours off of the run and can make a run on average an hour or more shorter in most cases.
BCPS3 was voted to be banned by the community for runs, and ISOs loaded via ps3 are not allowed.
Its kind of a pain to try to run JP games on American PS2s, i recommend if you want to play J to just invest in either of the actually native Japanese consoles. If you can't or don't want to, you'll either have to install a modchip like ModBo or Matrix that removes region locking, or you'll have to use FreeMcBoot to run a Swapmagic ELF and utilize that to play the Japanese version.
We don't add categories unless someone has runs completed for them. Many times as a moderator I've had people say "We should have this or that category" but they never end up running them and the category sits around cluttering the leaderboard page.
That being said, if you'd like there to be a category, along with any other ideas you may have, do a run for us and link it to us so we can review it and consider the new category. Thank you.
Yes, you would have to disable this mod. For consistency's sake, the mods have agreed to ban all mods for the PC version, including visual mods.
This is mostly because allowing any mods at all as we had previously discussed opens the doors to more tomfoolery, even if they dont affect the game on the surface level beyond visuals. I do understand that it is a bit easier to react to prompts when the PC version matches the controllers, but it will become better with time and muscle memory.
Apologies for the inconvenience, and I hope you understand!
Globku has brought to our attention that many runners on the leaderboard have submitted runs using the 60FPS mod for PC. This is a mod that functions separately and differently from the most recent patch on console that supports 60FPS.
**The 60FPS mod, along with all other mods in general, are now officially banned on the main leaderboards after discussion between the main moderators. **
We initially were not aware of the usage of the 60FPS mod in these runs, so the runs were verified without our knowledge of this issue. Due to this, and the fact that beforehand it was not explicitly specified that mods were banned on PC, no runners who submitted runs using the mods will be penalized. Any runner who submitted a run using this mod will still be allowed to submit further runs.
To those runners, we just ask to uninstall the mod along with any other mods downloaded, and we will be more closely monitoring submissions from here on out. If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to reply to me in a comment here, or join the discord and ping me or any mods with an @.
Thank you!
