United StatesWe now have a more reliable way working to get this running on a lot more PCs. I will try to get around to making a video of this new method at some point. Until then, this is a quick summary of how to do it:
Download DGVoodoo, and extract it into the Toy Story 2 install folder (commonly C:\Program Files\Disney Interactive\Toy Story 2). Now you must copy the 3 .dll files within the MS folder from the extracted DGVoodoo files into the root install folder for Toy Story 2 (same as above, commonly: C:\Program Files\Disney Interactive\Toy Story 2).
From here, run the dgVoodooSetup.exe as an administrator, then click the Add button near the top right of the window, and add the root install folder for Toy Story 2 (again, same folder as mentioned above). Once you've done this, you can set the settings in dgvoodoo to match these screenshots:
Just a couple notes about those settings: For the setting under "Adapter(s) to use/enable", you can first try to set this to your system's GPU (could be a dedicated card or an integrated GPU such as some intel graphics). If you do this and you are still getting the error message "unable to enumerate device", go back and change this setting to "All of them".
These settings will launch the game in windowed mode, which is preferred by most people. If you would prefer fullscreen, changing the radio box in the general tab from windowed to full screen SHOULD change it to run in fullscreen mode.
Ok, after you've set DgVoodoo's settings to reflect those screenshots, simply click the "OK" box to close DgVoodoo. Now you should be able to go back to the install folder, and run "toy2.exe" to launch the game properly. If you get an error message that is not the "unable to enumerate device" error, you may have to run toy2.exe as an administrator for the game to work properly. You can do this by right clicking on toy2.exe and clicking run as administrator, or simply by creating a shortcut to toy2.exe, then editing the properties of that shortcut to tell it to always run as an administrator (when launched through the shortcut).
Once you have done this, the game should launch to the resolution selection screen. Here, choose your GPU in the first option (whether this be your dedicated gpu, i.e. Nvidia Geforce GTX 980 Ti, or your integrated graphics, i.e. Intel 6400 Graphics). Make sure that it is selected for Hardware Rendering, then select a resolution of 800x600 for optimal load times (for some reason, the resolution seems to have an impact on load times, regardless of how fast your computer is). If you're simply playing casually, feel free to pick any resolution you would like.
This will get the game running. In order to further optimize the game, you need to actually limit the max framerate of the game in your GPU driver to 30fps. The game will try to run at 60fps by default, which can cause issues, such as disks not tracking properly, zurg dodging way too fast/far, etc. The process for nvidia cards is to download and run nvidia inspector, click on this button showed in the picture:
Then you must change the following setting under Toy Story 2 Action Game, as shown in this gif:
http://i.imgur.com/NnDWTRr.gifv
This should hopefully get the game up and running smoothly on PC.
As I said, I hope to eventually make a video detailing this process, being a bit easier to follow along, but this post will have to suffice for now.
Toy Story 2 has a regular PSN release as a PSOne Classic, meaning that it can run on PS3, PSP, PS Vita, and PSTV when purchased through the PSN store. I can confirm that it runs on my Vita, however the input lag is beyond atrocious and is literally not playable even casually, let alone competitively in a speedrun setting. I could compare load times on my vita, which in theory should be the same as PSTV loads, but it's not worth the time because no one would be running the PS Vita/PSTV version anyways due to the input lag.
(And just as a side note, I'm not even joking when I say I think I get better response times literally streaming games from my desktop to my Vita with moonlight/nvidia gamestream over my local network vs playing the PSN version of Toy Story 2 on my Vita)
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This thread is fine if you want to continue posting questions here. For the beginning jumps, take it slow. Once you get on the last dumbbell-thingy, take your time to turn around and jump carefully. For the roof rat, wait until the rat stops moving before you jump, and you can also spin before you jump to slightly extend your hitbox. The wall rat is just a troll sometimes. Practice and a bit of luck is the only thing to help you there.
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This is a known glitch called the blackout glitch. It definitely will happen occasionally when starting out, but when you become consistent with the proper route, it essentially never happens. When learning, it can definitely be a pain, although it's definitely more of an uncommon occurrence. It shouldn't happen all that often, but I'm sure it will show itself to you again a few times as you continue to learn
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After you learn it, elevator hop is actually not TOO bad. Some notes for a beginner: Practice and make sure you can get the timing for going up/down the elevators correctly, as this is by far the most important part of the level. Remember not to activate the elevators with the buttons until AFTER you've gotten the rat on the ceiling in that room. Then when you jump down to get the rat on the wall, if you miss it first try, you can come back to it later. This way if you miss the wall rat, you don't have to mess up your elevator cycles. Just note which elevator platform colors you should be hopping on to make it easier (yellow on the left, blue on the right, purple on the left to the rat to purple on the right), you actually can get up quite fast with the proper route. Another note for beginners: Don't worry about grabbing the coin from the spider boss. It's FAR more important that you grab the token during the cutscene, because if you don't you will have to wait for the elevators to go down then up before you can get into the token race. Elevator Hop actually is one of the most flexible levels as far as coins are concerned, so there are plenty of backups you can get, including practicing getting all the coins during that token race.
P.S. I don't really run the game too much anymore, but I was the one that basically entirely routed 30 and 40 token (even though my actual runs for both categories are trash lol), and I'm definitely around. I try to check this leaderboard/forum about once a day, so I can help answer questions as well.
I would like to request to remove PassiveBobOmb from the mods of the Toy Story 2 Leaderboards (http://www.speedrun.com/toys2). He hasn't been active for over 1 year and has said that he will no longer be playing or being active in the Toy Story 2 community at all. He has agreed to this, since he has said he is no longer/doesn't want to be active with Toy Story 2 any more. Thank You
This category has been added and battleonfan's run is submitted
Brandon, he was asking how to defeat him the normal way, not the speedrun strat. The normal way would be to run backwards so zurg chases you, then turn around and spin jump up. Or just charge a full spin and hope you get a little lucky if he runs into you or something like that.
4790k @4.7Ghz 32GB 2400mhz CAS 10 2x980 Ti in SLI
Still doesn't work with my setup, but if that can get it running on more PCs, then great! I'll play around with some settings and see if I can get any sort of emulation to work. My current theory is that the game WILL in fact run natively on any modern card, but there are initialization problems. I think it can be fixed. I will look into it when I have a bit more time, but it's looking good.
No, the reason that it doesn't run well on modern PCs has to do with how the game was made, it's not something that can be easily fixed. Basically it's just using a really old version of DirectX with a bunch of depleted features, so as you get more modern hardware/software, those depleted features stop working entirely which is what causes the issues. Basically the PC version is a sort of a port of the PS1 version (which was the original version developed). In order to actually get it to run well on modern PCs properly, then entire port would have to be redone, basically from the ground up, just utilizing the engine and assets from the PS1 version.
Edit: I no longer think this is the case, I now believe it is an initialization issue
Basically any sort of modern Nvidia card isn't going to work with the PC version period, no matter what you do, even through things like virtual machines with emulated old GPUs, it just won't happen. You can still get it running on your computer, although it will be a tad more of a hassle, but here's how to do it:
Go into the bios on your computer, and find the option to use external graphics (sometimes called PEG). You need to switch this to use your internal graphics (basically the graphics chip built into your intel CPU.) Upon doing this, save and reboot. You will now need to unplug your monitor(s) and plug them into your motherboard since you are now using internal graphics. Boot up and run the game like normally and it should be fine.
On top of this, to get it to run better you can use DXWnd to run the game in windowed mode, and make sure you check the optimize cpu checkbox when adding Toy Story 2 (sometimes called reduce CPU load) as well as the hybrid mode checked. This will help to run the game smoother as well, so I would recommend it even if you don't want to run in windowed mode.
Lastly, you can get the game running even smoother if you run FRAPS in the background. Don't have fraps show your FPS or record or anything, just literally having FRAPS running in the background doing notihng while playing Toy Story 2 helps it run at a more constant 60fps for whatever reason, so yeah.
Any% 30 Token and 40 token are the same for some levels, but not all of them (AH, AN, CY, AnG, and ATB are all different between these 2 categories). There is definitely some overlap between categories, but there's no way to exclude certain levels from different IL categories.
Um, they already do, and always have had all these categories. 
Maybe I just don't understand the question? Could you clarify? Because right now you can already submit an individual level time for each level in all 5 different categories.
I agree, but the tutorial level videos take a long time to make. Like that first video in the series easily took 5+ hours to make, and I don't have a ton of time, but I do plan on finishing them at some point. Regardless, my first video that introduces the mechanics of the game is still great for anyone looking to get started, and they can simply follow the route of a past run, as they should know all the game mechanics to be able to do so.
Discord for live discussion here: https://discord.gg/0yDqPvBZfrHdIS1r
(Mirror for all links) http://pastebin.com/X5L2qBA4
TS2 PC Trainer: https://www.speedrun.com/static/resource/znkwt.exe https://mega.nz/file/PhUVnaSL#yP7SQQreZyqT9RbK9ZYewMgTLEsXoo8WqvvQHdD8cu4
Install TS2 Cheats: http://www.speedrun.com/tools/Install_TS2_Cheats_o4kqe.zip https://mega.nz/#!WwNFFIpC!guJmr9UJlxauFIGCsIbtUUbc8nYBGMXljEY2pcckDp0 http://www.mediafire.com/view/nuf115h57sdo8ud/Install_TS2_Cheats.bat
Modified Project64.cht (with extra TS2 Cheats): https://mega.nz/#!zwdCmAbY!vNcZz77KEKbctAa05idvdHKfIrVGGEFeNKVQarZPUdU http://www.mediafire.com/download/0z3565izcq0ob75/Project64.cht
Blank 30 Token Splits: http://www.speedrun.com/splits/Toy_Story_2_Any_N64_Blank_wtvaf.zip https://mega.nz/#!7wNRDJaR!CTzDygo_q5HZLEFhlwjqoeGgw52HJFN7mdubB75aHDA http://www.mediafire.com/view/unbpgny7by339y9/Toy_Story_2_Any_N64_Blank.lss
Blank 100% Splits: http://www.speedrun.com/splits/Toy_Story_2_100_Blank_5n0rb.zip https://mega.nz/#!v081DB6a!YDswmjj-rNC5toS5eLBkKmkb1CiEVm-grAuMPZlfBkQ http://www.mediafire.com/view/06szcakk1680tki/Toy_Story_2_100_Blank.lss
WR 30 Token Splits: http://www.speedrun.com/splits/Toy_Story_2_Any_N64_WR_1nzwf.zip https://mega.nz/#!G80QHLya!QBf-Y-IheWc20xLOT6CYJW7Cfi7E_EZGCGIyTuDczv0 http://www.mediafire.com/view/u4birco0qkwtd7k/Toy_Story_2_Any_N64_WR.lss
WR 100% Splits: http://www.speedrun.com/splits/Toy_Story_2_100_WR_ohspg.zip https://mega.nz/#!rl01FDKR!Bf_gHCcjnFazoYYEN7T7uibX5YUvJ67lI8oaaGlhQ4U http://www.mediafire.com/view/ma74r21ldtb7ka4/Toy_Story_2_100_WR.lss
PJ64 Starting Savestate: http://www.speedrun.com/saves/Toy_Story_2_U.pj1_qorc7.zip https://mega.nz/#!P9FRzLrQ!F-pdWAl3inK0CgfmQw0t32MbgBnc7iXcd7IL4-0-INw http://www.mediafire.com/download/79alsc8d4cqr645/Toy_Story_2_%28U%29.pj1.zip
PJ64 100% Savestate: http://www.speedrun.com/saves/Toy_Story_2_U.pj2_k2t3h.zip https://mega.nz/#!rwNTXJQI!b_74a3HgNPYpiVZlP2XUtUEjssk4nS78YBaONQpUfi8 http://www.mediafire.com/download/wz9t49059dl2obd/Toy_Story_2_%28U%29.pj2.zip
Coin Counts For Every Level: http://www.speedrun.com/toys2/guide/9pi83 http://pastebin.com/CZ4nufgi House: 93 Neighborhood:99 Construction: 72 AnG: 103 Toy Barn:71 Space land:89 Elevator: 63 Penthouse: 72 Airport: 72 Tarmac: 88
Item Counts For Every Level: http://www.speedrun.com/toys2/guide/fxpc1 http://pastebin.com/cEvSHjDG Andy's House: 93 Coins 6 Batteries 3 Extra Lives 1 Green Laser Andy's Neighborhood: 99 Coins 5 Batteries 1 Extra Life 1 Green Laser Bombs Away: 0 Coins 4 Batteries 0 Extra Lives 0 Green Lasers Construction Yard: 72 Coins 4 Batteries 2 Extra Lives 1 Green Laser Alleys and Gullies: 103 Coins 3 Batteries 3 Extra Lives 1 Green Laser Slime Time: 0 Coins 0 Batteries 0 Extra Lives 1 Green Laser Al's Toy Barn: 71 Coins 5 Batteries 1 Extra Life 1 Green Laser Al's Space Land: 89 Coins 3 Batteries 1 Extra Life 1 Green Laser Toy Barn Encounter: 0 Coins 4 Batteries 0 Extra Lives 0 Green Lasers Elevator Hop: 63 Coins 0 Batteries 0 Extra Lives 1 Green Laser Al's Penthouse: 72 Coins 5 Batteries 1 Extra Life 1 Green Laser The Evil Emperor Zurg: 0 Coins 0 Batteries 0 Extra Lives 0 Green Lasers Airport Infiltration: 72 Coins 3 Batteries 0 Extra Lives 1 Green Laser Tarmac Trouble: 88 Coins 5 Batteries 1 Extra Life 1 Green Laser Prospector Showdown: 0 Coins 0 Batteries 0 Extra Lives 0 Green Lasers
Tarmac Puzzle Light Patterns: http://www.speedrun.com/toys2/guide/jwbev http://pastebin.com/2e8ggDXv B_ _R 2 3 4
BG _G_R 4 2 3
BG_R BGY_ 1 4 3
B_Y_ BG 4 2
B_Y_ YR 4 2
GY B_Y_ 3 1 2
_G_R GY 3 1
Y_ _G 4 1 2
YR _G_R 4 2 1
R Y 3 4 1
N64 Cheat Codes: http://www.speedrun.com/toys2/guide/crln4 http://pastebin.com/zNbQGpHX Go to the main menu of the game, and enter these codes by doing the following inputs with the analog stick. You will here a sound play confirming once you have entered the code correctly. Note - This does not work on PC
Level Select UP, UP, UP, UP, DOWN, DOWN, UP, UP, DOWN, DOWN, DOWN
Power Ups DOWN, DOWN, DOWN, DOWN, UP, UP, DOWN, DOWN, UP, UP, UP, UP, UP
