Hello friends!

I am still trying to find bugs and glitches for a little game called "7 Blades" for the PS2. A friend of mine and me are currently the only runners for it and we don't have any previous speedrunning experience.

We had a fun little session over the weekend to try and find glitches and bugs to make the speedrun more consistent or faster, but the game seems to be really stable even tho it sucks in so many other ways 😁

Please just read through our findings and give us some ideas what else we could try.

1. ) Ego perspective "stops" the character

In the PAL and Japanese version of the game we found a glitch with the ego perspective you can trigger by pressing "select". While the camera is zooming in to get you to the ego perspective, you can input for example a jump or a special attack. If you do it with a special attack, the end animation of that move triggers when you cancel the ego perspective, but the attack does not hit or deal damage. If you jump at the right moment when the camera zooms in, you will be slightly above ground. This has the effect in the PAL version that you can use the 4th blade to make your helicopter move and actually gain height. It is possible to get through the ceiling in a certain level to get into the floor above. Sadly that's not useful at all since you are supposed to run down in that specific level. In the japanese version (which is older), you can use that glitch as well, but instead of just being slightly above ground, you are still considered being on the ground, so you can input a second jump, or use a special/super move mid air. If you use a special or super move, you will be pushed to the ground mid animation. We did not find any situation where the extra height would be helpful yet. Technically there is a level where you have to go between two floors multiple times, but the extra height is way too low to reach the other floor.

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Hello dear speedrunners and glitch hunters,

With this I open a bounty hunt to find glitches for the game "7 Blades" for the PS2. It doesn't matter if it is the PAL or japanese version.

Since there are no known glitches or heavy exploits yet which help in a speedrun, any glitch or heavy exploit which is helpful in a speedrun will be rewarded.

The game has not seen a lot of speedruns so there should be a ton of room to improve. You can look at the world record run as reference.

I do not have an unlimited fund (because I am just a single person) so the rewards will be categorized as follows:

• If you find any glitch which has not yet been used in the world record run and actually saves time (atleast semi-)consistently => 20$
• If you find any glitch which completely breaks the game and shaves up minutes of the current strats => 80$ to 100$ based on consistency
• If you find a consistent strat or exploit/glitch for stage 3.1 (the beach; also called "Strand" in the world record split) => 20$ to 50$ based on how much time it saves
• If you find a way to make the auto scroller faster or consistent in stage 15 (currently it seems random how long it takes and it kills a lot of runs) => 40$

To keep it fair please answer on this thread with your findings/results then Savedro (the world record holder) and me (the second person to run this game lol) will confirm them.

After confirmation I will post on this thread who earned the price.

Rules:

1. The result must be as easy to understand as possible. Just text is allowed as long as we can confirm it, otherwise we would ask for a video of the trick in action.
2. Payment will be done via PayPal or a giftcard of your choice. If I can't buy a giftcard of your choice or use PayPal, we will default it to an amazon giftcard.
3. If someone else already found a trick for the same part of the game you are about to post, the first person will get paid, unless you save siginifanctly (atleast 30% more time save) more time than the first person, then I will reward both of them to keep it fair
4. If my funds run out because for some reason you guys find a lot of tricks, I will stop the bounty hunt with a post in this thread and might resume it at a later point
5. Runs can and should be done on emulator to even the playing field for everyone.
6. You have to state in your post if you did it in the PAL or japanese version.

If you have any further questions please just ask away in this thread or contact me on discord "david_dabmaster", I have a Luigi profile pic, hard to miss.

PS: I know the bounties aren't big, but the speedrunning community for this game specifically consists of 2 people

Thanks!

Happy hunting

Hello dear speedrunning community!

I was wondering if it is allowed to set bounties to find strats/bugs/glitches or anything useful for speedruns on this forum, or if you know any website where I can put them on?

Thanks!

Greetings fellow speedrunners and glitchhunters!

I recently started speedrunning a game with a friend of mine. The game is called "7 Blades" for the ps2. We are using the pcsx2 emulator and it works perfectly fine and we had some decent runs. We found some strats here and there to optimize routes and trying to remove some rng in enemy behavior.

Sadly we did not find a single glitch or bug in the game so far which would be useful to a speedrun. My first idea was to look around in every map to find a way to get out of bounds or find a way to manipulate enemy patterns since they are hecking agressive in that game (especially the PAL version). Especially one of the latest levels in the game... It's an auto scroller but it takes a random amount of time to finish, sometimes it even takes up to 3 minutes more (!) in a speedrun which is under 1 hour.

So I am here to ask for advise or tricks on how to find useable glitches or a way to manipulate the auto scroller to make the run more consistent or even faster. I would really appreciate your help and wouldn't mind showing my gratitude with a giftcard or something if you can help me find stuff. I am really passionate about the game (even tho is pretty bad lol) out of nostalgic reasons and because no one has it on their radar which makes it kinda cool to me to run.

PS: The PAL vesion is currently much faster because damage is wayyyy higher then in the japanese version for some reason. The japanese version is also older and runs on an older build/version, maybe there are glitches hidden in the japanese version which were patched in the PAL version.

Cheers! David

Currently there are some bottlenecks which make the run pretty inconsistent. Especially the little spiders and bosses like Shadow are overwhelmingly difficult to kill fast and can often only be brute forced with the red power bar.

We need ideas or new tech.