New Jersey, USAHey, idk if any of this sort of thing has been discovered yet in the game but I've been playing around with some glitches recently. Here's a video about it.
Not sure why I felt compelled to talk about it when I haven't found an application in the speedrun yet, but I'm learning something new about this stuff every day so hopefully it will become relevant soon.
Zone of the Enders speedrunning now has its own discord server! You're welcome to join if you've got any interest at all in running either game in the series.
Zone of the Enders speedrunning now has its own discord server! You're welcome to join if you've got any interest at all in running either game in the series.
Howdy everyone. We should start removing loads in our runs for the leaderboard because they're too different across versions. Removing loads would make all three viable (PS3 will still lag but its fine) whereas right now if you aren't playing on a 360 with a hard drive you aren't going to come within a minute of a "good time."
You can't compare IGTs because it's wildly inaccurate and honestly we should just get rid of the IGT column altogether. I beat my PB all the time with a worse IGT, and vice versa. I have no idea what it's counting.
I wrote a script that removes loads since it's kind of hard/annoying to do yourself. It's not very good but I was able to run it on my PS3 and 360 PBs, and found that there's 1m5s difference in the loads between them. That's pretty awful. If we decided to start removing loads I'd get the script into a better state so anyone could use it and then release it. I'd be willing to convert the times for all the old videos on the leaderboard too.
That brings up another point which is that we should turn on run verification. Nothing too bad has ever happened but the top Very Hard run is actually only played on Hard difficulty and if we removed loads we'd need someone checking them anyway.
So yeah let me know what you think. Nobody does more than like 3 runs of this game before bailing on it but I still think we should have nice leaderboards.
