I appreciate it. My copy of the game should arrive tomorrow and I'm looking forward to even just playing through it again.

I appreciate you uploading your notes, I really hope we can get a bit of a revival going for this game!

Hello folks!

I'm a new runner to 3DDGH. Played the game years ago, and been waiting for an opportunity to speedrun it! I just reobtained a PS3, got a splitter and waiting on the game to arrive early next week, then I'm diving into relearning the game and then posting some speedruns.

Hope to see some action here, because this game is a banger!

Anyone sitting on any documentation for this game at all and down to share some notes?

Cheers runners!

Easiest way to sort this out (I would think) would be to take the runs that are done without modification to chat now, and compare them to several runs with chat modifications. If the chat modifications show obvious signs of time save, then uphold the ban. If they don't, then at least the community knows and text mods can be used.

In my experience with various speed games over the years, these things often come down to taking the initiative and testing to see. If someone is using a text mod, and it provides no advantage, then the community as a whole now has access to that information. Same if things turn out to have a noticable advantage.

TL;DR - Mod your text, do a few runs and see. Analyze some text heavy portions of the run and compare timing.

Solid answers, I appreciate it. Sucks there was so much misinformation. It would seem to me that the worst part is the non-static load times between Switches. Such is technology though.

Hola fellow runners. I'm brand new, just dipping my feet into speedrunning this, and I had some questions. I was told today, that running on Cartridge can cost between 3-4 seconds per race. Just wondering if that is correct?

I'd also like to preface my next question with the statement that I know I'm new, and not practiced, so I'm not asking this because I believe it would give me any edge. I'm genuinely curious why this game doesn't offer a cartridge category, and one for digital. There's a few categories that have a cartridge runner in the top 5, but the vast majority of the top runs are digital. Would it serve the community better the separate submissions moving forward? Assuming a 4 second loss for loading for cartridge players, that's a 1 minute four second loss just over the course of a Nitro Run. Like I said, I flat out just need to get gud, and I look forward to improving as I play, but curious as to why the separation hasn't happened before now? Other prominent games have done so in the case of games that use original hardware and those run on emulator, in cases where the emulator is shown to run faster or slower.

Honestly just looking for discussion here, not trying to ruffle feathers.