Rules?
6 years ago
England

So I wanted to start speedrunning Monkey Island games because i love them so much and figured id start at the beginning, but only one run has been submitted and i was just a bit uncertain of the rules that i should be following to compete for the best times etc.

At what point do i stop the timer? (Just as i beat LeChuck? when the cutscene begins?) Am I allowed to speed up the subtitles with the ScummVM settings?

Im fairly new to the whole speedrunning scene so i apologise if im asking stupid questions! Go easy on me, I need an idiots guide haha!

United Kingdom

Hello Fens, welcome to the forum and welcome to Monkey Island speedrunning :D

I am also interested in what the rules are for MI1 because I'm going to start running this very soon. Why have they not been defined yet?

Going by Cryptones video it appears the timer starts when the Lucasfilm Games logo is skipped and ends when the game fades to black after the final cutscene.

I'm OK with this, but I would rather the timer stop when you make the very final dialogue choice, (just like it is for Monkey Island 2 speedruns)

Also, as far as I am concerned, you can speed up the text as much as you like, because it doesn't matter. You should be using Period (.) Key to manually skip text, which is much much faster.,

England

Ah ok! Thanks a lot.

I guess I'll stick to what Cryptones has done with the timer, but id also prefer if it stopped at the final dialogue choice, but never mind!

Im looking forward to becoming a member of the Monkey Island speedrunning community!

United Kingdom

Ok, so I don't know if anyone else is aware of this, but if you Press Ctrl-W during gameplay it asks you "Are you sure you want to win? Y/N"

If you select Y (yes) the game skips to the end credits, with a screen that congratulates you (You win) and proclaims you scored 800 out of 800 points.

Now, what would stop anyone from submitting a run with this included and getting a 2 second time? Common sense would dictate that it is stupid and would not be allowed, but when there are no rules this can happen!

Can we please get some rules established? Something simple like what I said above, "Timer starts when the Lucasfilm Games logo is skipped and ends when the game fades to black after the final cut scene."

Thanks in advance Mods.

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Germany

I have a request: While it seems obvious to you, could you please add that Ctrl+W is banned?

The reason for this request: -One big part for me about speedruns is knowing about glitches, cheats like this and arbitrary code execution in games... while I agree that such a run run is not worth doing/having a category for, I would at least like to know about the potential for such a run when looking at the any% rules (so it would be documented without looking at the forums for a game)

Lower Saxony, Germany

Do I have to play on the English version? I could beat the run probably, but the sword fights would be much easier in German for me.

England

I believe you can play on any language you like

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