Hey I noticed when looking through this old runner's videos that he has a faster IGT than the current record holder Albirex for the category mentioned. He also used 0 saves and there's no significant footage missing between each of the 7 videos from what I could see. Could be wrong though. I downloaded his original videos, put them all onto the same timeline in Premiere, then exported the final product to Youtube. Now the only discrepancy is the fact that a PS Driver isn't shown and we technically don't know if he played on a PS2 or PS1. But I can tell you for certain the runner lucianoRX ran a variety of games for SDA back in the day and always played his PS1 games on the PS2 for obvious reasons. Also, I saw Albirex's run and he didn't show his Driver number at the end. Does the rule not apply then? Anyway I hope the mods can settle this and see if Luciano's run is truly legitimate. Sources for what I mentioned will be down below.
The Complete Run: (NOTE: at the end of this thread the run was confirmed to be spliced, so I took down the video. If anyone needs access to the link for the future I can PM it through Discord, but for now it will be unavailable)
The Original Playlist Which Contains The Source Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3FDA0C2BB84855EC
P.S. If this run is deemed not legitimate I will take it down/delete it for obvious reasons. And not to spread misinformation. Also, if I seem ignorant I don't really run RE2. I just have been editing together Luciano's relevant runs so they can be viewed by a modern audience more easily. He really is a talented player. The only other discrepancy I could notice is the absence of door animations. But this was something he did for a couple of his videos due to length restrictions on Youtube for the time period.
Albirex's shows the PS Driver version when he resets the console at the start of the video. lucianoRX's run is impressive since its from 2007 and I can tell that he doesnt have Fast Disc Speed enabled for some reason. Anyway normally I would agree that this run would be accepted but he did remove the door animations so we have no way of checking if he ever spliced the run and just ran any% to get the time he got and 0 saves.
Been watching the run to the croc and I've found something weird. After he takes the first bite from the croc he goes down to caution. This should not have been possible from my understanding. You start with 200HP and caution starts at 100HP. He took 2 bites from Misty on the bus which is 7+7, 1 acid from G-Embryo which is 7 and then a bite from the croc which is 60. 7+7+7+60=81 so his HP should have been 119.
Now it is possible that the croc did 80 damage which he does on Hard Mode but our damage charts say otherwise. It's also possible that I missed a zombie bite which would've done 30.
Oh okay. I definitely missed Albirex doing that at the start. Sorry! Are you gonna give your final verdict once you're done watching the video?
Oh wow never would've noticed that. Thanks for pointing it out! Might be due to capture issues? And yeah I never intended to go into a debate. I just wanted to know if this was legitimate or not.
So I rewatched his run from the beginning to croc. Only damage he takes is 2 floor misty, 1 Embryo Acid and 1 bite from Croc. No healing was done before croc and he still manages to get to caution.
I also wanna say that I tested this myself. I downloaded the American version of PS1 RE2 DS, used Cheat Engine to see my HP value and took the same damage as lucianoRX and I ended up having 119HP after croc bite.
I can now confirm that this guy did cheat by splicing different runs into 1 video.
666Deadhunter has also pointed out that there was some weird things in his Dino Crisis 2 Speedrun but according do 666Deadhunter lucianoRX deleted his questions on youtube.
Last I found is that during the credits you can hear the buzzing noice from the analog signal but it suddenly disappears when the final screen is loading and you can cleary see/hear that that has also been spliced.
Run will not be accepted.
@666Deadhunter @Carcinogen
Thanks for taking the time to confirm its spliced Darazan! I will take down the video now.
