Hey Raida. Thank you for the post! I think all of the runs on the leaderboard do exactly this. It's immensely helpful for the speedrun because Bug Domain is a pain in the butt and has multiple boss fights. It leads to other fun casual bugs such as being able to recruit the bosses in bug domain too!

Wonderful run! It is amazing to me to see how far this game has come

Most cartridges that "blown out" are just poorly maintained. Many of them that people think are broken can be fixed with a simple cleaning. Take care of your hardware.

Entering web domain(1) with 2 betamon and 8skateboards is something I had considered in the past, but I ultimately decided against it because of a couple reasons. The first is that getting demidevimon out of my party requires luck. You need demidevimon to get KO'd during the centarumon fight in BIOS. The second (and more important) reason is because getting both and completing the domain in one shot would over-level your betamon such that they won't learn fire blast upon evolving. If you were to evolve the two betamon before even entering web domain you'd have wasted too much time doing so, as it takes too much time to get them to level 11 beforehand.. hence the two trips to web.

I obviously wouldn't use a toy plane here as it'd be a waste of a toy plane. I need them both later in the run for much more difficult captures.

Quite frankly. If the route isn't good enough for you, perform a better one.

You seem to want a guide that treats this game as a game that has no variation to it. Every run I (or anyone else I'd imagine) do of this game is not meticulously routed out as far as money or exp goes because it can't be. We take what the game gives us and make the best decisions we feel we can for that circumstance.

Please remove my route from the guides section of the website. It is a poor representation of my route and has a lot of false information in it that can mislead new runners that may be interested in the game.

I will post my own when I have the time

Hello everyone. Some people in the DW2 community have recently created a discord server. I want to extend an invitation to anyone interested in the game, whether it is on a casual level or if you may have an interest in speedrunning the game. I have been combing through the forum and I am finding a LOT of false information regarding the speedrun and things you "need" to do. There are plentiful resources in the discord as well as some very knowledgeable people who are willing to help.

https://discord.com/invite/EKkaFQG

Would love to see some of you there!

It'd probably be a good idea to crop the video down in such a way that the parts overlap each other by a little while to prove continuity. Congrats on the achievement of finishing a run! :D

Hello LinkXNess. I'm sorry to say that typically romhacks aren't allowed to be used in exchange of the actual game or rom. They can be good to use for practice, but as far as competitive attempts they typically aren't accepted on leaderboards. I actually had a romhack made for this game when I was running it to practice, but when doing runs always returned to the original game.

What kind of issues are you having with emulating a mouse?

The water speed has never really seemed consistent to me and seeing speeds like this make me want to figure it out.

I do not believe it is possible at this time.

It is activated by entering the warp portal the first frame it is activated as far as I know.

holy shit. i'll have to give this a try sometime!

I can't think of any NES RTA speedruns that allow L+R to be honest since it's not possible by conventional means.

Left + Right isn't possible on console though regrettably.

I mean you aren't starting the game/run with a continue there so I don't see it as a rule violation. Just my thoughts though.

This sounds like a job that is much more in your own wheelhouse of expertise. Next time be sure to record what you find. :)