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3 years ago
Maine, USA

I have acquired my old GameCube and found this gem in my collection I absolutely love this game! I have been watching speed runs for about 5 years now and I would love to run my favorite game is there any guides for 100%? Or any suggestions on how I should go about running my first game? I hope this community is still somewhat active and sees this thread!

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New York, USA

I'm glad to hear that you have an interest in running this game RusticoPirate! If you haven't done so already, you should join the Star Fox Discord server as the server has active discussions about speed tech for not only this game but for other Star Fox games aswell. In terms of suggestions on what you should run, as someone who has ran Any% for this game, I'd say that you should try out Any% before trying out the 100% route since most of the cool tricks that are in this game are used in that category. However, 100% is still an interesting category to run if you choose to run that on your first go. In terms of guides for this game, I'd get into contact with Celestial Derp to help you out with the 100% route since I've only ran this game's Any% route.

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Maine, USA

Thanks for the reply. I have just recently joined the discord as you recommended thank you! I have been watching Celestial Derp’s Wr Vod to try and duplicate the run I feel like this is the best way for me to learn at the moment. I have learned about the first half of the run so far. I have trouble remembering the little things such as how many scarabs I need and when and other items like that. I will try any% as well I’m determined to learn this game.

Queensland, Australia

If you're looking forward to getting your feet wet as soon as you can, you might want to consider starting off with some Spellstone 1 category runs that are kept under the misc tab. It's basically half of Any% so with what you've learnt already it won't be much of a leap to just jump right into it. It gives you a good idea of what to expect from the game to let you know if you want to keep running or not - which can be a surprisngly time consuming investment if you're concerned about category lengths per attempt like I was.

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Maine, USA

Thanks for the Advice Habble! I will definitely try that out! I’m not terribly concerned about time. That will definitely get me started. Now Does it matter what version I have? I’m using a GameCube with English version of the game. Should I look into getting a wii or should I just get a Japanese version of the GameCube version? Or is text the only thing that is different? I apologize for all the questions ahead of time.

Queensland, Australia

So there are three different versions 1.0 - The original release US and JP disk (Back holo code 0-00) 1.1 - PAL Disk (Lacks access to JP Text and 480p output) 1.1 - The US Player's Choice Disk (Back holo code 0-01)

There's not much difference gameplay wise between region/versions, there are no major glitches locked to a particular version either.

The NTSC game copies actually have data for both English and JP text on them which changes automatically based on your console's detected region (which can be manipulated via Wii Homebrew) so the only version that you can't get JP text on is a PAL disk which has the data on the disk but can't access it since it can't do it's own internal NTSC conversion.

The cutscene speed is a fixed amount specific to the cutscene used rather than being tied to how fast the text scrolls so any overall difference in text speed is only for the gameplay parts where you can mash B through it anyway - sometimes the less overall text in a paragraph batch means less skipping but it's no where near as comparable to a game like OoT where the cutscenes themselves get universally slower.

Because of all this, the fastest to run on is version 1.1 because It has faster loads and a hardcoded 12 second cutscene difference in Dragon rock - beyond that the US 1.1 being able to output in 480p and access to JP text is the gravy ontop which makes it the optimal version.

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