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2 years ago
Germany

Hey I have a question. Is it relevant which version of the game I speedrun on? I mean is another language than JP accepted?

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United States

The Japanese release is only used for most categories as it has more glitches than international releases. Namely, the Cooking Glitch which is used to make large amounts of money, or to perform a credits warp.

Other languages than JP are absolutely accepted, it's just that they are slower if you're not running Glitchless. About ~25 minutes slower when compared to credits warp strats, and ~15 minutes slower compared to the usual Any% strats.

If you were interested in how an Any% run is done on a non JP version, here:

If you've got any more questions, just ask here or add me on Discord. I'm always up to answer stuff about this game, even if I haven't actively run it in a long time.

Akihito likes this
Germany

Well, I'm interested in the Marriage and Glitchless categorys, so that works just fine then for me ^^

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United States

Well, Marriage% is a lot easier and faster when you can cover the costs of the upgraded house in virtually no time, but it's still very possible to do it without any glitches. It'll probably a more interesting run than what I ended up doing at least.

I've got some old notes and routing for both Glitchless and Marriage% if you want them. They're a bit messy and unedited, but they're not lacking in information- I've spent many, many hours testing stuff for this game, and I'd hate to see it go to waste.

Regardless, I hope you have fun with it!

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Akihito likes this
Germany

I would gladly use your notes, because the only glitchless run online is w/o commentary and japanese, and the last time i played the game was 2011, so my menuing is pretty non existent ^^

O.D.W. likes this
United States

Ah, don't worry about the menuing too much. You'll pick it up as you run. Especially in longer categories it doesn't make as much a difference as it does in raw Any%.

Anyways, here's those. They could definitely use a lot of cleaning and revisions, but they're there. I ended up getting distracted by other games and other projects at the time, and they just kinda got shelved.

Any% NMG + Glitchless Notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-xruDNKK1ExSzwnqdYPfb5iIGb1iK30p/view?usp=sharing

This guide is mostly an upgrade of the old Any% notes, back before JP exclusive glitches. It does contain a good amount of info on how to make do with little money, but really only covers Carmite, Toros, and Greed as those were the original stomping grounds of Any%. (It's a bit inefficient for NMG stuff as well.)

Marriage% Notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b9BFXHURVmwyeJ9FiWiiElNXFaf1FXog/view?usp=sharing

Only a few girls are covered in great detail here, and they're all leaned towards a glitched approach, but there's still a lot of usable info regarding them. Felicity's route is the most detailed, with a decent bit of detail for Rosetta. I have some more specific stuff for Lara somewhere on my computer somewhere, but I don't think it's much different than what's in the document already.

And again, if you've got any questions about what's in the notes, or just want to talk routing, I'm up for it. RF1 was my first real speedgame, and part of me is always happy to mess around with it again.

Akihito likes this
Germany

Thanks alot ^^

Edit: Just read through all of it, damn thats alot of information. Helpful indeed.

Edited by the author 2 years ago
O.D.W. likes this
United States

Yeah, I went in deep on this game back when it was my focus. Routing is my favorite thing to do in speedrunning, and I'd rather spread what I know than hide it.

Three quick things I thought of:

  1. I've heard it's possible to get a reward of 2000 lumber from the Adventure Contest if you do it in under an hour, but I don't think I was able to achieve it on foot + use of Warp and Teleport. Well, either that or I debunked it and forgot that I did.

It wouldn't really save much time though. If it was real, about the only run it'd be considerable for is Marriage% for Tabatha.

  1. I never was able to get the exact requirements to marry Mist: whether or not just beating Greed through sequence breaking counted, or if you actually had to meet all the other story flags.

  2. If for whatever reason you need to avoid a typhoon, passing out the day before might prevent it? I know it does in Frontier, at least, but I don't know if it carries backwards to RF1.

Akihito likes this
Germany
  1. There is a trick to win the Adventure Contest, but it requires 2 Years. You simply have to store the book in your House and bring it the next Year. But I dont know if thats viable in a Marriage% Speedrun.

  2. In the "Forum" I found is the following written: Beat Endboss and your field must be plowed up completly.

  3. Passing out is viable, cus otherwise you wouldnt be able to leave the Clinic

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United States
  1. Hiding the book makes sense, but all that really does is delay the lumber in our case. The only reason why I can think it'd be useful is to get 3000 lumber from the festival in just 2 years so that you can build all the barns you'd need for Tabatha rather easily.

Maybe it's possible to just barely do it if you ride a Silver Wolf. In practice, I don't know if the time it would take to open up access to silver wolves would be any slower than just sleeping through another year. It might be a few minutes faster at best, but without favorite gifts you're going to probably need the 3rd year anyways.

  1. Yeah, I knew this much, I just didn't know if the usual Any% sequence break affected it. We usually just skip the entire game and do only the final dungeon, and I was never able to figure out if we could just do that and it'd still count for marrying Mist. I do know that your whole field has to be tilled at the moment you try to marry her, unlike how the cave pass requirements work.

  2. I would imagine so, but RF1 isn't always very secure. The game letting you sleep on Winter 30 while inside Misty Bloom Cave, or using Teleport to walk around outside during a typhoon comes to mind. I mean, heck, the whole reason we can ACE this game is because the JP version lets you use the A button while holding something with the stylus.

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Vietnam

"Hey I have a question. Is it relevant which version of the game I speedrun on? I mean is another language than JP accepted?" - Akihito I want to reply this. If you were speedrun on a real console then this is a problem. But if you're playing on an emulator, like me, version isn't that matter. At first I don't even understand what the text means in JP, this mod help me on my first whole run so don't worry.

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