That's not a file.

Files aren't usually the ones fixed to walls, the one he ran past was just a wall article. Theres literally no way to trick the file counter unless you cheat and well, im sure he wouldve done something more inventive than skip one he couldve picked up when he walked past.

You can find a lot of file guides online, or just literally run through the game and every time you read something see if it adds to your file counter in the stats menu.

That's fair enough; my live split timer is acuallu always two seconds behind my IGT, thinking about it after what you said that's probably due to the pauses for retries

Using the autosplitter I've noticed that the timer does stop when you pause, so the IGT stops, but as soon as you can "continue" mine starts again, so with something like speed boosts there's definitely no time deficits; and the same seems to apply for the end of Mia then, if it skips part of the game and there's no time loss from retrying, you're just deleting those few seconds, I feel there's a lot more places that it can be used

I remember seeing the bathroom one; I only did it on my NG+ though since you kinda need speed to avoid jack breaking the wall, but I wonder what it actually does, if Xerian comes on here it'd be great to have it clarified to find out what exact benefits it gives.

With the Mia one, is it the Mia videotape? Skipping the video at the end of the whole Mia section fair enough puts you into the game quicker but if it's the videotape where shes grabbing Alan, does that really do anything?

I'd be interested to test these but theres a loooot of retry points. Not only that if Capcom ever decide to somehow fix any speed boosts, we're into HL2 territory with version differentials

Agreed, it's really well, quick, right? The difference would be fractions of a second I'm guessing. The speed up ones I can concur with though they do save time.

Sounds perfect, I probably wont have time to run until the weekend anywho but I'll give it a shot, I'm going to have to stare at that red split the next time I kill him though :(

Always IGT. You can have an RTA timer too, but even if the RTA timer is linked to game time (which isn't possible on console anyway) it must be IGT. Needs to be a full recording from start to finish, no breaks so like, dark screen unless loading, higher than 15FPS, full audio, no screen freezes for longer than 5 seconds; and IGT must be displayed at the end (after skipping all end credit scenes)

That's probably it. I normally pick up a herb before the fight from the cabinet, and I use that as soon as I kill Jack to heal and empty my inventory and move space ready for the scorpion key.

Strange question but at what point does the chainsaw jack kill split? The first time I did the fight it split like, the moment after I yanked the chainsaw out, when I did the most recent run it split like way after his legs had finally fallen to the ground; it couldve just been me not paying attention i just wondered at what point it splits so I can be sure

I recommend doing a local recording ontop of streaming if your system can handle it, its a lot more reliable in the event of errors

Short, simple, and non-sugar coated... Not a chance

Must be a full video run, no major breaks up to and including 5 seconds (for FPS freezing/drops, not pure black video unless its a loading screen). Must have full audio, and be no less than 15 frames per second, it has to be relatively watchable. Sorry buddy, if we could accept half a run we would, but theres too many things that can happen in 24 minutes of missing footage

There are only so many of us; and we have lives and jobs, I for instance have only just gotten back from work, and on a busy day like this I'm checking the forums eating then sleeping.

It'll get accepted, well or rejected. But patience is a virtue some people wait a lot longer than 13 hours

See I thought that but everybody's saying "you must have 30 or 60 fps locked" yet I do most of the tricks on variable; it's very inconsistent in a way

Well thanks! At first I could barely get him but I started just whittling down these little things and now I get him at least 80% of the time

So I've been testing this for, well, ages, and its not easy to do. The first time I did it was in my 1:37:34 rekkie for NG Easy, and I did it by accident, leading me to know well, its possible, and it'll save you about 10-20 seconds.

Here's the video for it, yeah its shit quality I know

So my testing has concluded: It takes 10 shots to bring him to the floor. I use 9, reload, and then whatever I've got left. If you drop him before you reload, you lose time, and heres why: When jack goes down he has two counters: A; a damage counter and B; a time counter. You want to run down that damage counter, not that time counter. If you deal a certain amount of damage within that time he'll go for the chainsaw, or if you leave him long enough he'll also do that, but you wont one cycle him.

But heres the kicker, you don't even need the bullets I had in reality, just so long as you do the damage, I've done it in as little as 5 bullets and the rest knifing. (More bullets =/= more damage, as soon as he hits cap he gets up, easily doable with 5 shots and a knife)

Now once he gets up, be careful. You don't really want to slash him more than sort of 12-13 times or his counter health is now too low for head-to-chainsaw action. I normally slash him a couple of times whilst he's getting back up, then let him grab you, and ill explain that in a second.

Then i'll slash him 8-10 times whilst hes opening the cage, this makes prime health level for one cycle. The reason I let him grab me is because in my testing I found that 99% of the time I didn't let him grab me, he wouldn't one cycle, it could be a literal TINY difficulty modifier, but it does the trick for me it seems (then again, could just be unlucky)

So now you've set him up for it. Stop slashing and keep pushing into that chainsaw corner, as soon as you grab it, keep backing into that corner and thrust attack him, he MUST hit you. When he hits you he's going to clip through you and put himself into that corner. When he does, I've found that you can either just thrust attack, or one slash and thrust, the one slashing seems to be more reliable as of recent testing.

Now heres the thing: Do not miss any chainsaw time, and aim for the head after a couple of seconds. If you don't connect with the front of his body or head, a lot of the time he falls down, which means? You guessed it, no one cycle. You want to drive that bad boy right into his skull, and drive it hard.

Now he's down, don't let up, and don't miss any more hits, as soon as you regain control hold those mouse buttons down and thrust thrust thrust. If you don't get every single tic of that chainsaw damage on him within about 0.5-1 second of him going down, no one cycle. You miss, no one cycle, you position him badly, no one cycle.

And remember, he can still take damage while getting up.

Happy chainsawing!

I had something weird, I didnt get the elevator OOB, but I nearly clipped through the first tanker door as soon as you start the Mia segment. I ran into it while trying to turn the wheel and it essentially pushed me all the way through but pulled me back. That could be something worth noting since if it can be done without pulling you back, that saves time from opening the door.

As stated in rules "all collectibles"

Every single: Mr Everywhere Antique coin File Stabilizer Steroid

That means, get every bobblehead, pick up every file, get every coin and get everything out of the cages necessary, find all hidden steroids and stabilizers. That means, the ones hidden in the fireplace, under the bathtub near the end, the one in the treasure chest via toy axe; as far as im aware treasure photos arent necessary to get collectible items (they give you ammo and a repair kit on easy, apart from the first one that gets you a steroid) but they MAY count as files, so I recommend going to the leaderboards and watching Carcinogen's 100% run to double check.

So, couldn't we just enable parental guidance for the game? I think thats a feature isn't it? Actually considering the games 18+ that might disable the game entirely lol

Actually, Resident Evil is the alternate title for Biohazard.

Back when Biohazard was first created in Japan it was fine to call it that however when they tried to release in the west (Europe & America) they found out there was already a rock band or something who had the name Biohazard trademarked or copyrighted that sort of thing

So they came up with Resident Evil; but because it's been a long time, and especially for global versions they now just call them Resident Evil/ Biohazard or Resident Evil: Biohazard. Might be reading into that ":" a bit too much

Uh, theres no definitive text guide as far as im aware, thats bad for RE7 because well that wouldnt work very well.

Depending on what you're running (Any% NG/NG+ Easy/Madhouse) you can check the world record for each, like Any% NG+ is distortions, Any% NG is mine, so you can just watch those over and take the points down where you need, im happy to give you guidance on anything if you want though, add me on steam if you like