Nice. I've never seen that before.

Interesting...it's not working for me either. That's the first time I've seen it broken before.

Sounds good to me.

I added the link to the game page.

If you do create one and send me a link, make sure the link never expires.

You all are more than welcome to create one. I don't want to run it though so I'd prefer if one of you did it. I don't use discord as often as I used to so I wouldn't make a great mod for the channel.

I'll put the link on the game page if you all create one.

I just updated the leaderboard to use milliseconds. The time has been whittled down so much already (under 4 minutes now) that I have a feeling eventually we're going to need the millisecond column. To keep me from having to re-adjust the entire board when the time comes, I've decided to go ahead and implement the change now.

I'd gladly run DP on PC w/the fix if I could get the game to run anymore. I've tried everything known to man to get my PC version running on Windows 10 and I can't get it running.

It keeps asking for a "Sonic Cineplayer Decoder Pack" but I've installed every decoder pack in existence and it doesn't fix the problem. As far as I can tell, that decoder pack goes with some ancient software (Roxio) that used to be included in WIndows and I guess I don't have it. I also can't just find the decoder pack anywhere. I've tried every fan patch, every recommended fix, every solution online I can find and this game will not launch for me.

The only other thing I can try is creating a Virtual Machine and running it in there. I'd actually rather run the PC version as it would be the easiest one for me if I could get it to work. It used to work well on my old Windows 7 laptop but on my PC, I've never got it to run.

Mello is willing to open up a channel (or channels) for us at Friendly Premonition if we don't want to just create a new server. Just throwing that out there.

There are lots of people there that are knowledgeable about the game. Having them in the same server as us might be useful but completely up to everyone else here as to whether or not we do that. I understand since it's not our server we have less control that way.

It's not a dedicated speedrunning discord but my pal Whitney (@chemi_ro) on Twitter has the Friendly Premonition discord for all things related to Deadly Premonition. I can ask her to open up a speedrunning channel for us if we need a channel.

EDIT: Mellonnaise is the owner of Friendly Premonition. He'd be the main person we'd have to ask. But that might be the best place for us since it's already a dedicated Deadly Premonition discord.

Ah ok - I definitely misunderstood then. As far as I know, we're all already doing that but making it a rule can't hurt.

There used to be a discord. Not sure what happened to it.

I like starting the timer just before you move for the first time personally. I like ending as you go through the checkpoint at the hotel at the end of the game but I suppose ending it at "Yes I'm Ready" at the end might be a better ending spot if we were voting on it.

I just checked my notes. I made note of where the crashes occur so that I could try to prevent crashes myself by quitting out of the application. If you haven't run Origins then you should know the game usually crashes a minimum of 2 times throughout the run. If you watch Squiddsey's former WR, the first crash occurs at 1:29:34. My game ALWAYS crashes within 5 minutes of this area. The second crash occurs late in the game after you run around town as Emily following the dog. To prevent the second crash, when Emily reaches the phone, we save the game, then quit the application to avoid the late game crash.

The first crash is usually unavoidable. Even if you close out of the game. I've tried. The 2nd crash is usually avoidable if you close the application where I said to.

A clean video without cuts is absolutely impossible. The former world record had a crash in it and a quit (to prevent a crash). My video also has at least 2 crashes. I've attempted Origins about 30 times and there has never been a run where the game didn't crash. Usually at least 2 hours into the game.

If you make it a requirement that the game can't crash or we can't close the application to prevent a crash, you won't have a leaderboard. It's that simple.

All,

I hated to make this change and reject any runs (including my own) but after re-watching my own run and a new submission, it became apparent that there are parts of the game where you literally can not tell what is happening because the game is just too dark. As a result, I have rejected all former runs and will now be requiring the use of the flashlight. It is located right next to you when you start and barely adds any time on. I was able to do a run just now in 3 minutes and 54 seconds which is already better than my previous PB without the flashlight.

Ordinarily I'd be loathe to make a change like this on an established leaderboard but there were only 2 runners (myself and the new submission) plus the game can be completed in under 4 minutes so it's not a huge hassle to ask someone to please run it again.

I sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused though. If I had realized this would happen, I would have done this from the beginning of the board.

Droogie4Ever

Actually I'm watching the WR now and they say that in their previous PB they lost about 10 minutes because of crashes so I'm assuming crashes are ok. If I had known that, I definitely would have finished some of these runs that crashed on me. I didn't realize we could just keep going if that happened.

Well in that case wouldn't a crash be acceptable as long as the timer keeps going? It's basically the same thing.

Yeah but aren't runs single segment? Wouldn't that mean any restarts or crashes would invalidate the run?

How are we completing runs on Switch?

I've attempted about 20 different runs now on the Switch version and it ALWAYS crashes in the exact same spot. It's about 2 hours (or 2 and a half) into the run. Always within 60 seconds of the exact same spot. I've tried the digital version and the physical version.

So I guess my question is...how is everyone else able to complete a run without the game crashing? I've tried occasionally for months now and it crashes without fail during every run. It's super frustrating.

In anticipation of the upcoming Switch release (release date is to be determined right now) I've added Switch to the platform list. I've also added other regions for PC and Switch since apparently I neglected to do that the first time around lol.

Let me know if you have any questions. We'll have to wait until the game releases to see if there are any differences that would cause us to have to separate the leaderboard. For now, we'll leave it as is and we'll revisit it when the time comes.

The console versions are all allowed as well. The only thing not allowed are mods. You can't mod the game, you can't use the Enhanced Edition for PC (which is essentially a modpack that you can download), etc.