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8 years ago
Wisconsin, USA

Yes, you are allowed to obtain the cards through cheat codes. Would be a bit rough if we somehow enforced having to get them "legitimately." The pocketstation is allowed for runs using the Japanese version of the game.

Pennsylvania, USA

Alright, thank you for the info.

Victoria, Australia

What emulators are we allowed to use for runs, anyway? Epsxe is absolute shit and I can barely even get it to record/stream properly at all with OBS so...what exactly is acceptable? Xebra? Something else?

I simply say this because there is no actual list here and nothing seems to be mentioned other than mentions of EPSXE 1.8 and earlier.

Vermont, USA

Greetings runners,

So, a question. I'm running this game on my PS2, and I just recently found out about the RNG manipulation that was recently added to the run (sick!). However, it would appear that the top runs on this site are done with emulators. I don't know the frame-rate difference between the console and the emulator, but I imagine there would be one? I understand frames somewhat, but I'm not too sure about console differences, or performance on my CR-TV versus someone else's gaming PC.

Is there anyone out there who runs the Any% (no card duplication), with RNG manipulation on the PS2?

Can someone give me tips to stall your opponent when they are getting the upper hand? Watched a stream and saw they correctly predicted (Heishin 2?) would play Wall Shadow in defense, instead of another very strong attacking card. And what can you do to save a few seconds?

Germany

I tried to start running world tournement and i have no idea how to duplicate the beginning of the WR run. I talk to that blue dude and i should do 2 times "keep listening" and then "run away" and then "keep listening", but after "run away", i get into the town seletion and not the next cutsceen. what am i doing wrong?

Wisconsin, USA

You're supposed to keep saying "Keep listening." If at any point, you "Run away," it will take you to the overworld.

United States

Hey, sorry if this is old news, but I bumped into a topic on Neoseeker that talked about a way to get card drop 000 by during a duel removing the FM disk and replacing the disk with another one. After winning the duel you will get this drop. Then you go and put back the FM disk to proceed. I haven`t seen any mention of it in here so I though it could be something new.

Getting this drop 000 causes the last card in your deck to become its ID + 256. For example, Ancient Tool which is ID 124, will become 124 + 256 will become 380 which is a Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon. If the new ID surpasses the value 722, you will get a glitched card, which can be quite interesting. Some of these cards close to 5000 attack points.

https://www.neoseeker.com/forums/3085/t2211984-new-glitch-to-get-any-card-you-want/ (BEUD) (BEUD on mobile) (glitched cards)

Lithuania

Pretty sure that's why opening a disc tray during a run is banned in this game.

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Scotland

PovkaLTU is correct, this glitch is known about in the speedrunning community.

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Indonesia

Hello, I have a question regarding New Game+, I saw there is a save file for 100% Japanese version to speedrun NG+ but How do I open it so that I can load the 100% JP file for me to speedrun. Please help and reply.

Indonesia

Never mind, I figured it out.

Queensland, Australia

so I can't find any mention of this around here, but how do different platforms compare to each other timewise? since it's psx I would figure that ps2 fds would be a whole lot faster than emulator, but seeing just how mixed the leaderboard is I would like to know if

  1. there is no difference, or
  2. nobody cares because it's Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memeries

pleas help

Croatia

Yeah there are actually some difference, ps2 90k fds is faster than emu, faster loading times . Depends on the category you want to run, ng+ ( ntsc J ofc) for the other ones is the same, it is all about the rng at the end of the day.

And yes we care since it is Forbidden Memories :)

Germany

Is playing on keyboard allowed or do you have to use a controller?

Ohio, USA

You are absolutely allowed to play on keyboard if you don't have a controller.

Fun fact: ExarionU, who is the record holder for 5 and 15-card mod speedruns, plays on a keyboard.

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Philippines
kaiten619
He/Him, They/Them
8 months ago

is bizhawk allowed to use for speedrunning this game or is it still inaccurate?

Ohio, USA

Bizhawk should be permitted if I recall correctly. I believe it runs on the Mednafen core, which is permitted by the leaderboards.

Bavaria, Germany

Hey guys :)

I just came across this game and recently bought in on ebay.

I think it will take a few weeks until my first serious speedrun, but I have 2 questions, hope you can help me out:

  1. I am going to play on the Playstaion 2, so no emulator, Therefore is it allowed that I just film the TV screen or do i really need to record a video of the actual game on the PS2, I saw on Youtube its possible to record the PS2 with some adapters and stuff, but would maybe like to avoid it.

  2. I have the game in german language, it is still valid to speedrun or does it need to be english?

edit: I just played the emulator version the first time, I think I will stick with that, but still would be nice if somebody could answer my questions.

Thanks :)

Edited by the author 5 months ago
North Brabant, Netherlands

Roky,

You are definitely allowed to simply film your tv, as long as the game is visible and the audio is audible throughout

The German version is allowed for speedrunning, however it is significantly slower to the point where it is completely uncompetitive. All PAL versions of this game run at 50fps instead of 60. If you do end up playing on emulator, I would recommend the NTSC-U version of the game instead for this reason. On console I can understand giving speedruns a try on your native version since you would have to import a US copy and possibly mod your console to play an out-of-region version, but on emulator there is no reason for you to use the German version.

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