The basic premise starts with a glitch called incense glitch which I have known for a year or so; if the 'Incense has lost its effectiveness' text box pops up while you would hit a loading zone or other trigger, instead the text box cancels out the trigger, potentially allowing you to walk around through out-of-bounds. I had hoped that some day, this would allow us to walk around through out of bounds and get into Nivora without breaking the ice, and potentially skipping Usha, Uru Mais, and even (some of) Sol. Sadly, that doesn't seem to be possible.

However, during testing, Trance found that it was possible to skip all three dream sequences in Uru Mais, and found RTA-viable setups which I confirmed worked (with minor changes) on a slim PS2 console. It's also possible to skip the Jette fight completely by having a text box pop up when he would show up to fight you, as shown in the video above.

Altogether, this is expected to save about 11:30 in any% and 7:30 in 100% (can't skip Jette because of Master Course glitch, and also because by fiat I decided 100% should include all bosses, including Lapis and other "optional" bosses). There may be other possible skips yet to be determined.

Still holding out for an item cloning trick, but I'll take what I can get. (Being able to easily and quickly clone Power / Miracle Waters would be the holy grail of the run.)

I don't know if there's a dedicated thread for this, but I noticed that my stream ( www.twitch.tv/driftingskies ) isn't appearing on the Streams page - I checked it out about an hour into my stream and I didn't see it at all. I don't know if it's a UI thing where I can't see my own stream, or if it's one where my Twitch page isn't hooked in to the streams widget just right. Any chance an admin can look into this?

I posed this question on my stream, but it's worth formally going ahead and hashing this out:

What exactly should we define 100% as?

I propose the following definition: ¤ 260 / 260 items (All of the items the game keeps track of on the endgame screen) ¤ All characters with 22/22 magic ¤ All characters with 15/15 Arts (note that this is a requirement for 22/22 magic)

This does not include: ¤ Earth Egg (100,000 coins at Sol) ¤ Water Egg (20,000 points at Buma fishing pond) ¤ War God Icon (50,000 points at Sebucus fishing pond; beating Master Course does count toward 260 items) ¤ Evil Talisman / Evil Seru Key (though we will of course get Evil Talisman as in any%) ¤ Level 99 / 9,999,999 EXP ¤ 0 deaths / 0 escapes.

Anyone else care to accept or tweak this definition?

I'm having a bit of trouble with some moderation. I moderate the Legaia board right now, and Legend of Legaia is a really long game and few people want to play a 12+ hour speedrun.

In order to try to rectify this, I've started to get the community (read: myself and about two other people) to look at a shorter run which only plays the first quarter of the game (about 2:30:00 of it), to be used as a race / competitive category among fans of the game who don't want to do RTA's that last all day, as well as those who passionately hate the slot machine part.

However, I'm not exactly sure how to create the category. It's by definition not a full game category, but neither is it an IL, and as a result, I'm having trouble figuring out exactly where to put it and set it up so it is visible on the main page. If anyone has some idea how to fix this, I would appreciate it. Also, I think this is the right place for this thread, but I could be off a forum or two... Sorry about that.

This is Drifting Skies. You may or may not know me from other sites.

I run Legend of Legaia. I am also working on the side on a few other games - Legaia 2, Wild Arms 3, and Star Ocean 2/3. As you can probably tell, I like to play long RPG's. This probably means I am either incredibly stubborn or I just hate myself that much.

In any case, I've been around here and there for a while, but I guess I never introduced myself. Maybe this fixes things? I don't know.