Hi guys
There is some things I wanted to cover in a post to get some feedback on since I have some minor suggestions to make, to make the leaderboards look more visually nice and simplistic. If you look at The Grinch leaderboards or DBZ Budokai 1 we use sub categories to simplify and prevent clutter on the boards so basically Any% 100% [PC / Console] [PC/Console]
I am happy to help make this possible I can copy & paste how the grinch boards work here then unmod myself if you are willing to consider this visual change
Secondly wanted to question why Fast Disc Speed is banned, I understand that in the rules it says it doesn't work but I have had several people come to my streams saying that its worked for them in the past, my PS1 copy should be coming soon so I can test this myself but if it does work, could we consider unbanning this rule since it seems kinda silly since no other PS1 games I know of ban FDS. If your worried about loss of runners due to EMU being slower you can always add a subcategory called Emulator so that way people are free to run on what they like!
Love to hear back and loving running this game so far :)
Bregermann, a fairly recent runner, tried out FDS and it crashed when loading the main hub.
Also as a note, the same developers made Jersey Devil which frequently crashes on fds and I’ve tried two different discs.
I think having a "Pay To Win" scenario is better than having emulator be the norm. Almost in every case, boards that exclusively use emulators are shunned. If this game does grab the attention of a larger runner, mark my words you will be constantly ridiculed about banning FDS. What then? I think you need to look into the future of this game.
Both sides of the argument are very logical and no ones really wrong but in the end. I run Grinch and I remember when I started FDS was considered unusable by most since it crashes alot and the grinch is also made by Interactive Mind & Movement. We allow emulators for the grinch however we restrict it to a certain time cap since emulators like epsxe remove a major amount of lag, I just don't heavily encourage the idea of emulators being the main resource to speedrun this game also emulator is horrible due to input delay, and what blue said is very true when a leader boards are mainly emulators they can be looked upon in a negative light
The game can be had on eBay right now for less than 7 dollars with box and instructions. That’s where I got my copy
The game has been released on the PSN store and can be played on both Vita and PSTV, each having their own FDS option. I assume it differs from a ps1 disc crashing on a ps2 with FDS, need to test it though. But Vita/TV fds seems to be slower than ps2 fds for some games.
I'm particularly still waiting for PS2 to have it's own Any%, All Levels and 100% due to it's major differences to PS1/PC. But as for PS1, i have tried on both a Slim 90--- and Fat 39--- and on both with FDS, game crashes on loading screens.
As a quick addition, i don't mind the idea of splitting up emulator and console runs but... don't know if you noticed, but there is VERY little console runs here. Hell, out of all Any% PS1 runs, there's only 1 CONSOLE run out of the 10 that's there. And All Level PS1 only has 1 emulator run too, so a console side of that would be empty right now. I don't mind the thought, but with a lack of console runs, i don't see much point to separating them right now.
I believe the lack of console runs is due them being together, people are more open to download an Iso and get started straight away then paying money for a version which has FDS banned and also lags more than Psxe, by separating people will probably be more open to trying it on console
