Hi all! I was inspired by the SGDQ run that Glitcheress did, and I was wondering how to get started. I have a copy of the game from way back, but I figured emulation would be a much easier way to do streaming. Is there a guide or any advice for getting started with this game?

Well, I would recommend looking into routes for each stage. Also, brace your thumbs, it's gonna get rocky

Hey, it's cool to see someone interested in running this game unfortunately we don't have a guide video or a tutorial written up, but you can join us in the katamari speedrun discord https:/​/​discord.​gg/​tfQEskB where we have a WLK channel. I'd recommend running on console if you can. Composite capture cards can be pretty cheap, an I-o Data GV-USB2 is about $35 on amazon (it's what i use) and there is a good guide online for how to set it up for streaming.

This game does not work very well on emulators. I don't think we've explicitly banned it, but that's because no one has done any serious runs on it. I'm pretty sure that you'd be at a disadvantage compared to console if you tried running on that. Since you have a copy of the game I'd recommend getting a capture card, they're super cheap since HD ones are more popular these days.

I know its been 2 years but if you want to run this and have to play on emulator then on PCSX2 i would recommend using the Balanced Pre-Set + the speedhack that is rec for processors with 3+ cores, I have a very shitty PC and that keeps it around 60 FPS. The only issue I have is with ALAP 5 but the lag only becomes unavoidable after 500m