GermanyThat glitch is pretty odd, will try to reproduce it next time I pick up the game. There is no reason not to abuse glitches in speedruns unless it's glitchless specifically. :P
Very nice WR indeed, especially with the Pro car. I thought Pro would be worse than Rookie in Wrecking because of the awful grip which turns and flips you over on every contact. But apparently it's not that bad.
With new strats, sub10 has been breached for PSX. So PC would easily sub 9 now I believe. But I can't get that crappy program to work on Win10. Too lazy to setup a VM :P
I'd love to switch over to real hardware too, but PAL just blows.. need to get NTSC hardware then.
so confirmed PS1 speedrunning is a hardware mess. Console vs emulator, PS1 vs PS2, PS2 vs PS2 Slim. Great :D . And mednafen is on the slow train, as well as several ePSX versions.
There was no option other than PS1 in the submission form. Other platforms are now available and assuming I got that right, I changed thebpg13s current run to PS2.
I think it might be this https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=546&v=oV6XrTtBNC4
Even though it's called "Stock Car - All Races", the main goal of this run is still to win the championship with an additional condition to finish all races. So for a ruleset that is valid for every run in this category, we need to find a spot that marks the definite end of the run.
Fair enough, if you didn't press any buttons after crossing the finish line in UDS and you had enough points, you'll see the winner screen. But if you didn't have enough points, you won't and the run isn't over since you're able to restart division 1. If you reset at this point, it's your choice. But the ruleset must be valid regardless of this choice.
For that reason, the earliest part in the run where we can definitely put a cut is the winner screen.
Greetings !
I discovered a problem recently with the Stock Car - All Races category which will need a change in the rulings which I believe is the best solution to everyone. The problem is as follows:
While reviewing the run by josef733, it turned out he got some DNF ("did not finish") flags on his driver stats even though he crossed every finish line in the races before retiring from menu.
After some emu testing, I found that this is caused by retiring BEFORE waiting for the black-white flag with the "Race Over" text to appear, not caring about the finish line being crossed or not. So technically it seemed that the game had not recognized these races as being finished and thus invalidated the run.
However the game still recognized the races as "complete", because retiring early usually gives you a rank penalty, but here the full points for the current rank while crossing the finish line have been granted. So I consider this an ingame bug that it gives you DNF flags without any retiring penalties and it should not be used as an indicator when to call a run "finished".
The ruleset has now been changed so that you have to cross the finish line before retiring from the menu instead of waiting for the "Race Over" flag to appear.
Also please note that you stop the timer on the "WINNER" screen, not on crossing the finish line on Ultimate Destruction Speedway.
I have now separated the PSX and PC on the board for every category. It looks like it's quite a bit overblown with buttons but it's the only fair way since the platform differences are too heavy to combine them into a single board imo.
I'm afraid seeing the winner screen is mandatory.. You could survive all races in Division 1, but not gain enough points to win the division. That would not count towards "finishing the game".
But in exchange some good old nostalgia. What a glorious grey box that thing is. :D
Added ILs for Time Trial submissions. Also added a field "car" to be selected on submission (Rookie / Amateur / Pro) since we use quite different ones.
I was thinking about that already. Would be handy I guess. I could add them as IL no problem.
Would be cool to have you back on board :P You play the real thing on a PS2 ?
I added new sub-categories to Stock Car so you guys can now submit runs including either any or all races.
The requirement is racing all tracks until the black-white flag appears. That means - since you can not restart a race - if you die on a track you have to either do the current season over or reset the entire run.
The already submitted runs for Stock Car have been filed under the sub-category "Any races".
Happy driving !
Thank you.
Greetings.
I was about to do another run of the NG+ PC category. But before my practice run I forgot to duplicate the NG+ ready file and just used it up, so now I have no file where I can technically start a NG+ from without playing through the entire thing again.
I just have a file with 0:00:00 playtime that starts the opening cutscene on select. The only difference is that the settings (main char selection etc.) is being skipped which isn't part of the run anyways. I wonder if this would that be good enough to start the run from ?
Thanks in advance.
A good idea imo. Would get rid of the AI scoring RNG and shift it over to driving skill.
Greetings, I have added "Broken Sword 4: The Angel of Death" to this site and would like to have it added to the series.
I knew this problem would occur sooner or later. I guess I delayed it to be a little too "later".
I was wondering if there's a way to merge the two platforms into each other.. speaking of Crime War.. just ignoring everything outside the levels wouldn't be fair since weapon selection should be timed. Removing the time for every "loading" screen ?
As you probably know, the game can't load level 28 and softlocks because it cannot place 82 viruses in the stage. I thought it might be interesting to get there asap, starting from Level 20. Unfortunately there's a lot of RNG involved, especially in the levels 24-26. Sometimes the layout won't allow you to break the top virus row.
What do you think about it ?
