I made a savestate for psxfin emulator from which you can route the pc version a while ago. It will load the beginning of midgar and have the stepcount behave similar to the steam version from that point onwards. Creating new saves and loading them is no problem. I've been asked about this quite a few times recently so maybe just put the file in the resources section or something.

https://download1502.mediafire.com/voi3rumae4ng/vgmalhuidnje3bc/PCstepcount.psv

It can happen in The Legend of Dragoon speedrunning, due to the imperfect playback of the PS2 Slims emulation layers for PS1 games, that FMVs actually randomly go away. I have witnessed the same issue even on some PC Emulators to randomly occur which is one of several emulation specific bugs this game seems to have. Since that is unpredictable and not even necessarily due to bad hardware I suggest that we just add the time of the skipped fmv, should that have happened on a run. That behavior I am used to for example from FF7, a previous Any% Console WR was treated that way. I did thus accept kyos run and edited the time to match as if the opening FMV had played.

@everone for future submissions, if your run skipped a movie, just look at the WR to tell how much time you lost, add that time to your submission and add a small comment why submitted time and displayed time in the Vod dont match.

Greetz mates, have fun.

Did the XP Exploit get patched? I free the prisoner, I wait until 100XP are added, I use Dusk till Dawn and the cage is empty.

I bought the game over uPlay.

For the lategame it is useless anyway but for early XP it is necessary. Siwa leveling costs 11minutes for a handful of XP. There is no problem killing the first Boss in lv2 with the Mace counter attack. The leveling before Alexandria isnt great either.

The children hide and seek for 900 is ok, the rest in that place rather not.

Thus I am interested how exactly the exploit works. Is there a possibility that I did something wrong or is it no longer possible?

Hi guys, I see there is a similar thread but its like 2 years old so I thought I rather make a new topic.

So I was wondering why the only accepted emulators are epsxe, Xebra and Mednafen. I dont know any emulator at Spyro2 that doesnt run considerably slower than a PS2 with Fast Disc loading. I made some runs using pSX 1.13 and I already lose 5s from leaving glimmer until gaining control in summer forest over a console run so why is that run not legit for submission.

The problem I have with the suggested emulators in the rules is that they lag like mad, especially epsxe. The input lag is horrific and when Im streaming or starting a local recording this is amplified making it very hard to play properly. pSX is a rather lightweight emulator that doesnt have those issues and at least at Spyro2 it is way slower than console so I wonder why it is not allowed to use it.

Also I wonder if the rule on epsxe version 1.9 is intentionally banning the current version 2.05 or if it is outdated. Thank you!