Hey, I'm trying to do some runs + learning how to do scripts and stuff, but I'm a bit confused about doing the save warp. Maybe I understood incorrectly how to perform it, but this mod has 2 maps, so the save warp can only be done from one map to another. The problem is that there isn't a location that is the same in both maps, so if I do a save from any point in map 1, and then go across the trigger to map 2, the load of the save warp will appear out of bounds, with the character unable to move and the screen bugging/showing the map 2 from outside. Given that I can't move, the game just softlocks, so I was wondering if I was doing something wrong? Is there a way to move by using a script? Am I missing something? Or is it not possible to save warp on this mod? Thanks.

Thanks! It was a short, but fun experience. :D

Fair enough.

Hey, I was considering doing some runs of this, but the rules seem to be way too specific and restrictive, like you have to show way too many things in order for the run to be verified. I get that this game can be easily exploited, but there are so many requirements it gets confusing. So I was wondering if I could avoid recording my hand during a no exploit run since it would be a bit of trouble setting it up. Also, is the exploits category really necessary? I mean, there are exploits that would basically make the game play on it's own/press 1 button to win, which doesn't really work for a leaderboard, specially since it says "changing the game's code" counts as an exploit. It really isn't a very competitive category, since it has very little to none gameplay. So imo it should be deleted. Finally, I was wondering what does the Mobile category mean: Am I supposed to download an emulator and play it on my phone. Any of the 3 versions? Or is there an specific version designed for mobile? Also, again, I would be having trouble recording a hand cam for this category, since I'd record the hand with my phone in other categories, but in this one I need the phone to record it's own gameplay.

So yeah just wanted to throw these questions/suggestions. I'll probably do the runs anyway but I wanted to see if it was possible to make it easier for me to setup and prepare the runs, and also make the leaderboards look better and be more accesible / less confusing. Thanks.

Hey, I'm trying to re-do my run that was rejected before, and also want to run 100%. But there are some things I wanted to adress:

1. The game keeps bugging in the DOSbox version and the highscore at the end softlocks the game, not allowing me to write any character. So I can't write my gamertag, and given that an average run takes like 30 mins, it's pretty frustrating to have the run rejected because of a glitch AFTER beating the game. Could I write my name on another part of the screen to showcase it's me? Cause it's a really dumb rule that makes everything unnecesary harder, besides I'm the only runner so far.
2. In regards to the 100% category, could I do it without destroying the UFOs? They are extremely hard to hit, they spawn randomly and only serve the purpose of giving extra points. So they are not even real enemies, unlike the bonus levels. Again, the run becomes tedious if I have to reset everytime an impossible UFO randomly appears.

So yeah, I think making those 2 changes would make the leaderboard a lot better.

Hey, I was considering doing a run of this, but I'm a bit confused about the 100% category, since there aren't any rules about it: Does it mean to unlock all achievements? Or just to complete every single level/state? Also where would the run end? Since the game doesn't seem to have an ending.

Thanks! I'll probably submit some runs later.

Hey, I was wondering which game this would be, as there are a lot of speed pool games. I found one on itch.io, but there is also an android one too. So which game is this leaderboard supposed to be?

Also, there isn't any rules, so I don't know what I'm supposed to do exactly on each category.

Hey, I would like to run this game. Could you guys add categories?

Sure, no problem. I managed to do/find everything in the game. The only things I'm missing are the fight I mentioned earlier, and I can't access the final castle (It says the door is blocked or something like that) and there is also an island on the first map that is blocked by an orb, don't know how to get there, or if you are even supposed to given the game isn't finished. So yeah the only thing left I can do is that fight, but the fight is impossible since every attack always deals 0 damage to the chaos spirits. If there isn't a way to beat them, then I guess I can end the run there, but please confirm it to me if possible, thanks.

Hey, I was planning to run this game, but I can't even beat it: I got 6 chaos emeralds, the only place left is the "trap" fight against Ross, Alanna, and the other 2 + the chaos spirits. I tried all attacks, but none of them seem to work, everything does 0 damage. How do I defeat the white Chaos spirits? I don't know what else I'm supposed to do and I haven't found a walkthrough online or anything like that.

Also, the Perfect% category sounds quite insane, it's extremely easy and really RNG dependant to lose a character in the second arc. I don't think that really works as a runnable category.

Hey, I did some runs of this, but I still don't understand the no sprinting categories. What does Sprinting mean in this game? How do you do it? Pressing the shift button makes the corners of the screen go black, but it doesn't seem to change anything related to the gameplay, is that the "sprint"? So yeah, what does sprinting means, so I can do runs for the other categories correctly.

Hey, so after running this game on all difficulties, I noticed some of the categories here are kind of unnecessary: Deathless is extremely hard (almost impossible) given the mechanics of the game, not only the speed + controls, but there are even some levels where you depend 100% on luck (Like level 19), and also there are some levels like 22 where it bugs and you die because of the character getting glitched on a spike while the level loads. Also, it's kind of dumb to put it as a separate category, after all, the fastest run possible will always be deathless, so a deathless run would always be WR on any%.

It also doesn't make much sense to include ILs leaderboards as most of the levels take 1-5 seconds to complete, and in some of them you just have to press 1 or 2 buttons in order to complete them. It just seems kinda unnecessary. So yeah, I just think that Deathless and ILs don't make sense and should be deleted imo, after all there is way too many categories for a game that has only 1 runner (Currently only me).

Hey, so I was planning on running this game, but I have some questions about the categories: I tried doing Gemskip (no double jump in this case), but it seems that you can't get over the last wall on 3000m without double jumping. Is there a way to do it? Or is Gemskip impossible in this game? Also I was wondering how many mushrooms were needed to 100% this game, as there are no rules currently on the categories. I found 15 mushrooms + a key that doesn't seem to open anything. So I don't know if I missed one or if that's all.

Hi, I was planning on running this game but I'm actually a bit confused about the category since the game is on japanese. There doesn't seem to be any "Tournament Mode" in the game, so which gamemode is the category referring to?

Hey, so I've been trying to speedrun the MVS version of this game, and it seems the fastest way is by trying to do the Infinite combo for Kyo, as it's shown in the current WR.

I've been trying to trigger it: I do the kick jump, then a punch, but whenever I try to start the combo with the next kick the rival always seems to block it. Is there something I'm missing? Or am I just too slow? How do you trigger this combo correctly?

I targeted this leaderboard because I did a lot of runs on it lol. Yeah, I figured the console games are the ones that make the most sense to keep out of all of the ones I mentioned. I personally find placeholders really dumb so I just wanted to address them because I think they are completely unnecessary in a speedrun context imo. Still, some games like the Virtual Fest, or Pokeduel or Rumble Rush should be deleted, as they literally don't exist anymore, and nobody did an actual run of them. I mean they are permanently unplayable, they are just filling up the space.

As for the "dumb" categories, the fact that there are other dumber categories doesn't mean that the ones here can't be dumb. Including the Rhythm game doesn't make any sense, there isn't any highscore or speedrun to do as it is an autoscroller (and a very easy one at that). Pokemon Art Academy is a great game casually, but it's extremely boring as a speedrun as you don't have to do literally anything. It's just being included for the sake of it. I just think that because you can doesn't mean you should.

But yeah, I'm just proposing all of this stuff, you can do what you want, you are the mod anyway, I don't mind if you want to keep them, but I just wanted to address that it all looked very messy and unnecessary.

Also don't know what categorize means.

Yeah, I get your reasoning, but it still sounds very stupid to mantain the leaderboards for them imo. This shouldn't be a museum for every obscure pokemon game, it should be a leaderboard where everybody can submit a run to, which isn't the case here.

Yeah, but my point still stands. If they aren't available now, then they shouldn't have a leaderboard right now. If they are somehow found, then it's at that moment that they should be added. But right now they are just filling space just because. They are all empty categories with 0 players. This is a speedrun leaderboard, not a wikipedia for every single pokemon game (lost or not).

And yeah that is a trailer for Pokemon PC Master, but there isn't any file available online of it, so the game cannot be played. Even if there is old gameplay footage, there is no way of playing it right now.

I get what you mean, but if a game is lost then it shouldn't have a leaderboard until it is found. Right now there are like 7 or more empty categories that are just filling the space and make the leaderboard unnecessary messy. If they are found then they can be added, but I find it really dumb to include them when it's literally impossible for anybody to run them at the moment. They are just leaderboards with 0 players for no reason other than including them for the sake of it.

The japan issue isn't that it's in Japan, the problem is that it makes it harder to access it, and thus it's harder/almost impossible to make the leaderboard competitive. This is even worse for the arcade games, where you not only would have to be in Japan in order to do a speedrun, you would have to go to a physical arcade store, buy a token or whatever it's called to play the game, and then be able to record it at the same time. It's just a lot of factors that make it almost inaccesible for most people, outside or inside of Japan. Of course people in Japan can speedrun, I'm just saying that I don't think it needs to have a leaderboard, that's all.