United StatesBig 20 Race March 2024 Main Page:
https://thebig20nes.com/race-18/
The Konami Code for extra ships is allowed!
50k Points can usually be achieved before the stage 2 boss fight.
5000 Point scoring "Hotspots", could be useful in routing and saving time:
http://arcanelore.net/articles/lifeforce/index.html
Puwexil just informed me there are runs on the japanese version which finish around 2:30 for the glitchless no manipulation category. The route is 1 Beast 1 Robot. I hope to find more information on this soon. If I find speedruns that are legit after a review and comparison, a new category will be created for the differing national versions of the game and those runs will be added to the corresponding categories.
All the new strats that Intovariance and myself have devised are now included! Enjoy!
https://www.speedrun.com/final_fantasy_legend_3/guides/7f542
It seems that you can win the Dahak battle very quickly! From what I can tell here there was an HP underflow that instantly ended the fight after Dahak used swallow. Not sure how this works yet but I have some ideas, Blitz might be related.
So I figured out what happened here I think. As far as I can tell, no one else has made this discovery yet.
During a recent stream, I was experimenting with meat drops in FF Legend III speedrunning. I did not get the monster I wanted at first, so I went to the talon to use the flushex. This is supposed to change monsters and beasts to humans, but it turns out, that if you are a monster class, it might turn you into a beast instead of a human first! I have to do some more testing, but the important part of this is, once you have the flushex, you may be able to save a ton of time and RNG by using it to transform into the ideal beast evolution for the speedrun, which is Air type.
This opens up several more possibilities and increases your chances for a successful run. Something this game is known for being absolutely brutal for is the RNG and requires it in many pivotal points of the speedrun.
Here is the clip of it happening, and the monster/beast chart which shows that the Air type monster, Griffon, became the Air type beast, Sylph, which can be found here: http://shrines.rpgclassics.com/gb/ffl3/transform.shtml
One minor improvement I have found is to buy a Samurai Glove in Cirrus if you have enough gold. This can prevent the Succubus monster from being stone gassed at Agron, which is quite helpful. Open to any additional suggestions!
Per the request of runners here, Easy and Easy Co Op categories have been added. All the current runs have vanished. Not sure why, I moderate several leaderboards on speedrun.com and none of the others have done this. Might be a bug or something.
At any rate, feel free to resubmit any runs you may have to the corresponding category.
It is finally up, I hope someone may find it useful for the speedrun.
After a long time of inactivity, cleaning up the categories at last. Glitchless category will not allow the gold underflow glitch and Talon2 glitch into Goht area. Maybe we will see a new WR soon!
Anyone else think it would be cool to start a score based category? Ideally you would have to score enough to unlock the Burst weapon by stage 8, in addition to scoring afterward.
This category would not allow for the stage 1 cheat to unlock all the weapons as they must be unlocked normally. As I recall it takes a massive score to get the Burst weapon, not sure how much though, does anyone know?
As for how to obtain such a score, maximizing ammo, accuracy and efficiency, in addition to knowing where to camp to gain points, such as at the end of stage 2, midway through stage 4 after the base entrance is blown open, or stage 6, is important.
Theorizing a way to breathe life into running this game! What do you think Drum?
We have a new WR run that has been submitted for Glitchless by Paul.
I feel this now is again the time to bring up the aspect of dividing the leaderboard categories based upon the console/emulation used. We know that SGB and SGB2 will run slightly faster framerates than GBC, GBA, or other types of console/emulation.
While not a concern in the past, now, as we have more activity and active runners than ever before, it is coming back up for debate. Over the course of an hour and a half, and from what I have seen in testing, two runners can have the exact same things happen during the run, however, on SGB or SGB2, the estimated time difference is a whopping 2+ minutes.
This will most likely be put to a vote should the mods/runners here feel it required. Until then, the matter remains up for debate.
Should we add a category for completing the Scenarios? If so, should they be individual, all scenarios, or both?
Darkwing Duck has a time delay on his start for running this game. It is generally more accepted among speedrunners to do so. By doing so however, we alter the currently submitted runs.
I say we put it to a vote. We will re-examine this after 2 weeks time, plenty of time for anyone interested and active to vote.
Sadly, there was no way to do this, without losing the runs that were submitted. I ask everyone who submitted a run to please do so again. I am currently going through the records we had and will update the leaderboard to the best of my ability.
Speedrun.com has not been cooperative, it has taken nearly an hour just to get to this point, as I am often dealing with the message of the site being overloaded, and the updates I try to get done are lost, leaving me to start over from scratch. This is another reason I have waited until this point to overhaul the leaderboard, as I expected there would be issues. I moderate several leaderboards, and as they become more active, they are updated. However, for some reason the interface has changed on the website, and I have the exact same layouts in the mod settings for the popular games, such as Rock N Roll racing, with detailed categories and consoles. It is not working for this leaderboard however. I have contacted SR support to attempt to continue resolving the issue.
I ask for understanding and patience until we have all the runs back up on the leaderboard, I am working to the best of my ability to meet everyone's requests here, alone.
Recently, SR.com user hebereke submitted some information regarding differences between Mechwarrior USA and Battletech. A submission with this information was offered, however, there was no speedrun video attached, however this was submitted recently to our leaderboard, I will attempt to confirm in the future. @ hebereke, if you see this post, perhaps you can elaborate further?
From what I understand, you cite the differences in the timing of the games yes, between US and PAL releases of the game for official speedrunning? If this is the case, then if we get enough runners for that category, it can certainly be added.
Toorima has expressed interest in joining the mod team here.
Personally I am all for it. The amount of runners continues to gradually increase, he has put in a lot of time and knows the game extremely well. Including routing for just about every category. He is also an honest runner and a long time friend.
With the approval of Catklaw and Deln, I will proceed in making him a mod.
Ive been playing a lot of Kratus boss hacks, super fun. Got runs of each character. I think it become somewhat popular and it has a very good feel mechanically.
Here is my PB for Abadede on Mania, the enemies are much faster and craftier, however so are 3 of the 4 playable boss characters. Zamza is just awful.
Welcome to the team and thank you for assisting us in the upcoming overhaul!
Lots of runs coming in recently, some have had their splits timing off to start. If you are able to program the offset please do so as it assists me to verify correct times! Its great to see the leader boards are active here! Keep the runs coming all!
