Hesse, GermanyThis game exists under a couple of different names depending on the regions: EU: Total Drivin NA: Car & Driver presents: Grand Tour Racing '98 JP: Gekisou!! Grand Racing FR: M6 Turbo Racing
In my understanding, all versions are just different localizations of the same game with only minor differences. Differences are listed in the GTR98 wiki here: https://gtr98.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/about-total-drivin-m6-turbo-racing/
I added the game to SRcom under the European name for a number of reasons, but as of now I consider each version to be the same game and are therefore all accepted for this leaderboard. However, I only own the European version and I don't know how much these minor differences affect the run. Should the need come up in the future, we can discuss possibly splitting the leaderboards between versions, either by subcategories, or by requesting the other versions as their own game on the site
New public Sonic speedrunning community Discord server, including a Sonic Adventure 2 channel, open to join!
I'm making this post preventively because I'm sure these questions will come up at some point (and have in the past when these categories have been discussed in the community Discord):
"There are Knuckles and Rouge Centurion. What about the other characters?" Knuckles Centurions have first been done as practise, to learn all the emerald hints. The structured repitition of the levels made this category ideal to practise these, and the randomness involved in the levels made it interesting to play, despite having to beat the same level over and over. Because of this, over time, Knuckles Centurions have become a very popular category with lots of entries on the leaderboards. However, while it certainly is possible to do centurions for other characters and a handful of people have done it, the main reasons why Centurions for Knuckles and Rouge have gained such a large popularity are not existent for Centurions of other characters.
"Can you add other Centurions anyways?" No.
"There is Hero story low%. Why not Dark story or All stories low%?" The reason is simple: The fastest way to beat Dark story already collects the least upgrades possible, therefore in practise there would be no difference between the two categories. Only in Hero story you collect skippable upgrades that actually help you in the run, making low% slower and more difficult.
"Why are the Knuckles stages x20 and the Rouge stages x25?" Because these categories can be seen as segments for a full centurion. Knuckles has 5 stages in a centurion, therefore each one has to be played 20 times to make 100 stages. Rouge has 4 stages in a centurion, therefore each has to be played 25 times to make 100 stages. This system has been carried over to these sub-categories.
"Why are the Knuckles stage x20s and Rouge stage x25s but not for stages of other characters?" The same reason why there are no Centurions for other characters.
If there are any more questions, feel free to ask them, either in this thread or make a new thread. If I find them to be relevant, I'll add them to this post.
Hi, I was thinking that it might be cool to add categories (in all the games that have them) for the campaigns of gamemodes other than the regular race campaigns. I personally think it'd be really interesting to see speedruns of the Puzzle or Platform campaigns, cause those aren't intended to be played fast. Getting through them quickly would be a good challenge. I'd personally be interested in running the Platform Title Pack in TM² Canyon
Hi! I've done ILs in this game a few months ago, and I couldnt find any leaderboards or any other competitive runs for this game anywhere back then. Any chance IL boards for this game could be added?
My ILs were done in Time Attack Mode and I took my time for all 4 laps, but of course also could be done for a single lap
