Florida, USA@jasper2867 You have to use bizhawk with the mgba core. We all want to be on the same emulator for consistency, and mgba was banned a while back for having settings that were advantageous as far as I know.
The JP version has much faster text boxes so it's the fastest version to run.
@klausbrazilian666 Oops, yes you're right. I accidentally retimed it for the sasuke fight right before the last one, I'm sorry. I fixed the time so it should be correct now
Yeah I agree. I'm pretty sure burned disc doesn't have any advantage, but would be nice to know before confirming it's cool to run on
You have to win the fight against every character on the roster. Each fight counts as a single win against the character you selected as your opponent, so you can't count the support as another win.
@Nighlin Last time you and I were prepping the run for the Lime City marathon, i tried playing on 1.7 and was losing a few minutes to loading times. It could be different now that 1.7 is on a further version, but I think theyre going for more "accuracy" in loads and performance on 1.7 so I doubt it. I think it makes more of a difference because the speedhack settings were default in the rules for this game for 1.6.0, so it gets the load speed buff from that
Yes, this version is allowed. Just note that it may be slower in loading time than version 1.6.0.
Run was completed on a Retrofreak console
UPDATE - 3/6/24 4:10AM CST
One last update to the patch has been made to optimize the cutscene skips to be slightly faster, and practice codes have been added for Saving Anywhere and Forcing Death for Instant Continue. Final Mix PS2 support has also been added.
ONLY THE CODES FOR "Kingdom Hearts" AND "Kingdom Hearts(JP)" APPLY TO THIS LEADERBOARD. Please make sure you enable the codes for the correct versions before playing.
Patches have been updated on the leaderboards and in the video description. Be sure to update your version so you aren't losing time!
How to use Save Anywhere / Instant Continue codes:
DpadLeft + L1 + L2 : Save Anywhere
DpadLeft + R1 + R2 : Instant Continue
Wow, never knew about this being a thing so that's really interesting. Thanks for sharing!
Unfortunately though, in the Speedrun route we don't learn Blizzard until after the trick master fight, so this wouldn't really be usable. To learn it beforehand, we have to find extra Evidence boxes (the wiki says the box for "claw marks" specifically) , and then talk to the Cheshire cat again.
In the speedrun for KH1 Original and Final Mix, we grab the Footsteps box since it is the first and closest evidence box we see and immediately turn it into the queen to start the Crank Tower fight and progress the world. We also use Fire while crank tower is downed to make the fight faster, so it would hurt a bit to use our mp on empty blizzards instead in the event that we did have it.
Hey @Kervzz ! Backwards Compatible PS3 wouldn't be allowed on the same leaderboard as PS2 because it loads games exponentially faster than the PS2, making for an unfair time advantage. The console is also extremely prone to yellow light of death and GPU failure, so allowing it and kind of forcing everyone else to buy one to compete is dangerous for accessibility/longevity. I have dealt with the BCPS3 and its negative affects on leaderboards for Kingdom Hearts 1, DBZ Budokai, and multiple other leaderboards and this is how i've chosen to handle it after seeing the damage it can cause.
I have heard that some games don't load faster on BCPS3, but ive yet to see an example of one that doesn't. If you have the CECHA, CECHB, or CECHC/CECHE models of PS3 with a disc copy of the game, I would say you can do a run and post the video for us so we can check and compare the loads. It likely will be much faster though, meaning it wouldn't be allowed under "Console" and would have to have a category made for "BCPS3" for submissions.
As for PS3's running PS2 game ISOs through homebrew software like Multiman and HEN, this would be a similar situation of saving large amounts of time on loading alone. However, if you do the run on homebrew software it would likely be fine to be submitted under emulator, we would just have to check the loads and hope that it isn't faster than PC emulation. If it is, it would have to be banned as well for accessibility reasons.
PS3 for PS2 games is a very complicated issue, so sorry if that was a long winded answer. Thanks for asking ahead of time!
The game files are not widely available online. If you want information on how to acquire the game, join the discord server and ask us for help. - https://discord.gg/k5wmNCSaVE
Here's a Video Tutorial for how to get the game working once you have it:
No problem. The discord link is at the top of this forum post and under the game title.
It's not widely available online. You have to join the discord and give yourself the digimon role and we can help you find it.
This is the only video of a completed run, found by @nd606. This run was completed by user 太平洋ホエールズ on niconico.
This is the only footage of a completed run I could find, completed by @BiimRTA on YouTube. I couldn't submit this run to the board because at 1:57:09 the footage was sped up, but if anyone wants a reference for making notes or existing strategies you can see their run here.
Valeria has done some runs to get the boards created, so there are Chapter ILs now.
