Maryland, USA@Mattmatt Could we get an IL leaderboard going for this game?
I just finally pulled off my crazy out of bounds skip for the last level and was thinking it would be cool to do IL runs of the other levels as well to see how fast I can pull off some of the more unreasonable glitches for full game runs.
Just wanted to make you guys aware of the leaderboard for the Game Boy Color sequel to the game. It's pretty fun to run and we could always use more runners!
https://www.speedrun.com/montezumas_return_gbc
Here's the link for the discord as well:
Would it be possible to get an IL leaderboard for individual chapter runs?
Would it be possible to add an IL Leaderboard with a different level for each section of the game (there are 4 or 5 if I'm remembering correctly)?
I've created a discord server for the game. Feel free to join! https://discord.gg/J6VuAqDTzY
@MiT_Epona What are the community's thoughts on changing the name of Any% No KC to just Any%? It seems weird to me that the konami code way to beat the game is currently labeled as Any% when it really should be something like cheat% or password%.
If the consensus is that we want to keep it as it is that's fine, but I figured I'd ask.
Just wanted to let everybody know that Tingle's Balloon Fight (a Japanese remake of Balloon Fight for the DS) has been added as a game on speedrun.com. You can check it out here: https://www.speedrun.com/tingles_balloon_fight_ds
I had a theory about how I could get up to the third floor on the level Switch Tag Team, but it was impossible to test on single player. Well, graveash and I recently discovered it was indeed possible in coop and completed it successfully in a couple runs, however it turns out it wasn't saving nearly enough time to make it worth it (at least the way we were implementing it). Wanted to post it here just for documentation sake though, maybe this could be used elsewhere or implemented better and it could be useful.
I figured out a cheat code to make it so that only the astronaut has to reach the platform for each level. It makes for a slightly shorter run and a fresh new way of looking at the game. Maybe if we could get a couple more runs for the category, we could add it as a miscellaneous category, but for now I'll just be posting my runs in this forum post. There's a lot of room for optimization as this was just my first "no reset" run.
For the cheat, you'll just set the memory address at 08C784 in the RDRAM to 02. Make sure to activate this cheat after the game has started up and you are at the menu, as I think it affects the game booting up if you have it enabled on boot.
So I got the world record using a save state to give me predictable starting letters because it wasn't against the rules at the time, and it was rejected (understandably). Now that the rules have been changed to state that save states are not allowed, you are probably going to want to change the proof requirements for runs. The only reason you realized I used a save state was because I submitted multiple runs with the exact same starting letters RNG (I wasn't trying to hide it and was pretty transparent about it, but future runners might not be).
I just wanted to say in the future that you should probably require a hard reset at the beginning of the run to prove that the RNG was randomized. Otherwise if someone just submits a run, you will have no way of knowing whether it was a savestate or not.
So far I've been able to find 93% of the items in this game, but I am still missing 7% somewhere. I have a few ideas how to get these last items though.:
- It might be that an item or items may be unlocked after beating every mission with an A rank. I've cleared just over a hundred or so of the 118 missions with an A rank, but I'm stuck on the last few as they are a little tricky to get A rank on.
- Some items are hidden and you are supposed to use the 'Metal Detector' item to find them. The 'Metal Detector' is supposed to make your phone vibrate when you are near one of these hidden items. As I am playing on emulator, I can't use the vibration feature. I've already found 5 hidden items just by going around some missions and pressing select everywhere, but these 5 were easy because I knew which 5 missions to look in for these items. Perhaps there are other hidden items that are in other random missions. If anyone knows how to emulate vibration for J2ME games or has a J2ME phone that can play this game, we would be able to look for these items. Alternatively, we'd have to go through every mission and press select on everything to find them which would take a while.
First off, thanks for getting a page for this game. I looked into running it earlier this year and theorized that an any% run could be close to an hour but you actually got a leaderboard made for the game! Second, I did a run for Galactic Conquest mode on this game a while back. Do you think you could add it as a category?
How do you do the super jump glitch where the screen freezes for a sec and then you jump really high? I saw toastmanguy does it in track 1 of his any% run and TheEmeraldEgg does it on his IL run of track 1. I found this on the extreme tux racer page, but I can't seem to get it to work on the normal tux racer. https://www.speedrun.com/extreme_tux_racer/guide/kqpgu
Just wanted to let you guys know that I just got the Gameboy Color version of Montezuma's Return added to SRC. Here's the link to the page: https://www.speedrun.com/montezumas_return_gbc
Why are there currently no Any% or Any% co-op runs right now? Is it just because it's a lot longer of a run? or is there some other reason?
