I’ve been practicing this one for a couple weeks on dreamcast and I didn’t realize why I didn’t have the same gundam options like in the leaderboard runs, I realized that the 2 releases are pretty different actually along with the arcade release.

The Dreamcast version came with 2 discs, disc one is what Im playing and that’s the arcade original federation vs zeon, you have more limited gundam options 3 instead of 5 and there are no space levels. You have to clear less levels to complete the game.

the second disc of the dreamcast version is the DX version, this is the version on ps2, but where these differ are the dreamcast version doesn’t have a story mode and instead both discs have online play on dreamcast which is still online to play on a real dreamcast over 56k modem or the flycast emulator I think has online play now(and crossplay with Dreamcast consoles)

I realize it’s not much different but the arcade and dreamcast have theoretically faster versions of the game since there’s no distinction between arcade original and DX releases

With the new Rainbow Cotton re release I just wanted to document a few changes I noticed that effect the speedrun of this game

-No more Auto centering

-fairy gem power has been decreased by a lot, boss fights especially take a hit here, mid level boss in world 5 used to take 2 gems, now I can’t even beat it with all 5

-Fairy targeting got a huge improvement, no complaints about this at all

-collision is improved so you don’t fly all over the screen, this helped sometimes though to get away from attacks so I’m mixed on this change

-cannot play without cutscenes/have to skip every cut scene

-the mid level boss in world 5 is at least twice as hard, not sure what they did balancing wise

-the final boss has an invincibility shield that makes you have to play the whole boss sequence, before you could defeat the boss by the first stop, in the remake the boss is at 75% health at this point

So while the remake is beautiful, well done and a welcome addition to my modern library, the speedrun isn’t really doable on the new consoles because the developers added a few features that kill the run pretty early on.

Since it’s Christmas I’ve been looking for Christmasy games to play and I found the Xmas level from the Dream On 4 demo disc, along with the Dream on 11 demo disc having the summer level, it’s like dlc for the game but given away in magazines. Wondering if we could get those on the board as well! I got a 2’44”28 in the Christmas level last night so I wanted to see if anyone else even knew about them!

So I’ve been playing The Textorcist a bunch lately and wanted to get into running the game, I don’t have the pc version just the recently released Dreamcast port so I was wondering if there could be a separate category for it on the leaderboard. The run could probably follow the same rules as the pc version I think but the difference in load times and a few differences in boss patterns would make a Dreamcast category make sense.