Alright, good. I think the only thing left for my routing concerns is the shield upgrades, as far as I can tell you, gain them automatically through the course of playing the game. (Boss gifts?)

A quick note, if you don't pick up the bottle near Uncle, you can purchase one from the grassed off house for 100 rupee. Getting it in the beginning would be the most optimal in terms of route but would increase RNG dependence, but you could get it on the way to Crystal Desert when you dash through Kakariko and I think that it would probably be slightly faster overall.

Oh wow, Acmlm hittin' me up with the facts once again! Thanks!

So, at 44:40 twitch vod (44:30 run timer) you pick up the arrow, do you know definitively if this does anything? I'm pretty sure it actually is just a single arrow as this is the only noticeable effect that occurs when you pick up the item. It certainly is different to the other arrow chests as their arrows point upwards.

So, I had thought about running a 100% run, but have been unable to find the last medallion.

So, the medallions that currently exist are the Ether medallion found in its correct place.

The Quake medallion found where bombos should be.

As far as I could tell there isn't a way of getting the medallion as one would in the original game as there is no ring of stones to throw a pot into.

To verify that the medallion exists, I was able to find it using FCEUX by memory address searching and it is definitely within the game's memory along with a large amount of strange items likely left over from their development period. (the "level 5" sword is the red tunic, and the "level 6" is a shield, the "level 3" tunic is a different green tunic) the item also surprisingly works.

Fantastic work Acmlm, I'll test this out for myself later.

Edit: Just did it, it worked. It was so easy I don't know how I didn't reproduce it before.

Hey everyone,

so like every great discovery, this was made offline without local recording and thus I have no proof or evidence to demonstrate or reverse engineer. Lame.

So, I was playing Ice Palace at the location where you have to lift the skull and place a block on top of it to open the lower door. I had not yet placed the block on the lower floor, dashed into the skull, and the bottom door opened. I cannot remember the things that proceeded it and I posit it to the community to have a go and see if they can find it.

This would save probably 5-10 seconds.

Sure, sounds fun. I'm really interested to see what routing you have done as to me my route seemed to work well but no-one has contested it yet. Perfect dodges and shots should certainly change up some of the routing choices.

I think that one looks absolutely fantastic. Great work.

Oh wow it says it was just released on 6th Jan 2018!

Have you played it? I think there is a description error as you cannot play as Chris in the "official" release. I don't have an account nor an emulator, so I don't want to bother setting all that up as I'm not going to use it.

I'm curious as to how complete the translation is. It says 1.0 which would imply fully translated. I wonder if they did brute force translating, where you replace characters with an alphabet and then search for it using a hexadecimal editor or if they read the Chinese first.

Edit: The official release on pacnsacdave's website says indeed that you cannot play as Chris. He also states that the script in the translation is based off of the original script for the US version of the PS1 game.

Thanks for the enthusiasm! I think you might have overdone the shadows though. After looking up online, the original resident evil font is Impact (which Waixing copied for their famicom release) and has a solid displaced black shadow, the white outline appears just to be to show the black shadow.

I think if you take the impact font, use a solid red colour with a black outline, and a solid black shadow with a white outline, without blurring or embossing effects, and that it will be great logo. I think simplicity is key.

Either that or you could go whole hog and try to shop the famicom logo.

Image from old thread that doesn't exist anymore:

Thanks! It was my understanding that there was a dump from a multicart that also did not crash, perhaps that was misinformation and it was using this patch.

As the romhacking.net original page for the page is down, would you happen to know what in particular is changed in the patch? We don't want to give any unfair advantages. Of course simply being able to play the game bridges a pretty big advantage over not being able to, ha.

Hello friends, so on a few of my runs, when I reloaded my weapon it did not deplete the ammo. I observed this twice, once with the shotgun and the second with the pistol. I have no idea what triggered this but it's a pretty huge glitch if it can be exploited correctly. I haven't mapped out how much damage each weapon does, but if it's anything like the real game, then the grenade launcher which can be obtained extremely early would be a huge boon to the run.

The second might be me misremembering but I think in a casual playthrough I was able to go through the door above Barry in the dining hall without talking to him but I've not been able to replicate it. This would save maybe 5-10 seconds.

Some of you might ask why emulator is separated from real hardware runs considering this is quite a rare game to find.

The reason is that due to the non-standard nature of this game, emulation has proven to be inadequate with more than one version of the ROM in circulation; one crashes, one does not.

The other factor is that the game lags quite a bit on console when many sprites are on screen (see just after you get the 4-sided crank) which will be quite a significant difference in real time.

Opinions are welcome, and I hope you all enjoy this meme game with me.