I wonder if there could be a resurgence of runs for this game, now that Tomato's finished his translation patch of it? Seems such a shame that the spiritual precursor to the M&L series doesn't have many runs.

I feel like any of the top M&L runners should have a fairly easy time getting decent times, and it doesn't seem to be too long. I've played through most of it now, and it's a reasonable difficult level.

Some masochists did runs of Sonic Shuffle. I'd thought about it myself, but after a single board took me hours to complete, I decided against such a course of action.

I'm also still somewhat surprised by the people running Kaizo-type games.

When I was planning on running this category way back, I didn't initially get the one skip and that happened to me too. I thought I'd wrecked the save file at first.

I thought as much.

I'd figured Zors'd done something like that, but I didn't know how/what to look up. I'll check out the video when I get the time.

Thanks!

Thinking on the recent trend of coinless runs of various Mario games, I have the question: is it possible to beat Rogue Legacy without getting any gold at all? I see runs of various numbers of deaths, no sword, etc... My guess would be "no," but I haven't watched enough runs lately to gauge well.

I know I certainly couldn't. I'd love to see a video on it, though.

The any% rules have this: "Basic turbo controller functions are now allowed for text mashing, but not the use of a macro to input super jumps," so it seems that it is against the rules.

The other categories mention that there are "No other restrictions other than the use of cheats/emulator tools" but I can't imagine that Low Level or Beat Culex would allow that either.

What system was PSN performed on, and what was the drive type? I'm curious to see if HD vs. SSD would affect this game. Also, did that mean there was no load time for room transitions in PSN?

By JP, do you mean JP PS2? Also, PS4 owners have the option of SSD, and I know from other PS4 games that it can be advantage sometimes.

Practice on emulator until you can get a legit set up, I'd say.

Out of curiosity - what about PSP, PS Vita, or PS TV? I know from my casual experience with the game that it runs decently on the PS TV. That said, I don't know how frame rates or other stats would compare for an actual runner.

I assume it's just because nobody's done it or posted it yet.

I wanted to check in to see if you guys knew about the Director's Cut for Sonic 3D Blast? Lately, one of the devs from the game has been posting about it, and he's working on a DX for the game. I've only played the game casually, but some of the changes sound pretty nice.

I just saw SethBling's latest video on Super Mario World, and he used pre-initialized RAM by hot swapping two carts of the game. Is there an analog for Mystic Quest? I don't think there'd be a way to do the SAME thing, but what about doing something with the RAM before the run starts, a la the partner trait glitch?

Engime is either the French for "enigma, puzzle" or a typo of "enigma." Therefore, puzzles.

Edit: In that case, why isn't it just "fists%, Sophia% and enigma%?"

Hey! I'm researching for an article for The Dreamcast Junkyard, so I have a few questions for DC speedrunners (and runners in general):

1. How active would you say the DC scene is? I'm fairly new to both communities, so I'm in the dark right now.

2. Is it a common theme for games that originated on DC to be ran on later versions/ports?

3. What brought you to the DC for speedrunning in the first place?

4. What is the "hidden gem" of DC runs, in your opinion?

Thanks!

I'm curious about if/how the runners or glitchers have gone about looking into arbitrary code execution or wrong warp for skipping Pazuzu. (I'm not super familiar with what it would entail, just that it involves talking to one of the girl companions and getting on to Captain Mac's ship.)

Is there a limit to how far you can take the inventory glitch?

Since I don't know how to disassemble code, the only way I could help in the search would be lucking out while goofing off in game.

I like 3 a lot.

Out of curiosity, what's the consensus regarding the recent PSN/PS4 release of the game?

Thanks! I'm also thinking of running this game, so this guide'll help me decide if I really want to or not.

OK, one more question: what timer did you use for the video? I've tried a couple (llanfair and Time Split Tracker) and they don't show up when DOSBox is full-screen.