Kentucky, USABump. Would love to see the 8-Bit Anthology board or PC platform option get made/implemented. Thanks!
Hello Beyond Shadowgate community.
I am a speedrunner and moderator for Shadowgate 64. Recently, a new potential runner asked about a server for the game and I realized there isn't one for any of the games or the series to share resources and such, so I made one. I know you all are highly inactive and it may go years before anybody sees this, but I wanted to invite your community to join the server. I will happily create channels for Beyond Shadowgate and give moderator roles to any mods. Not obligated to join of course, but the invite is there!
Hello Shadowgate Returns community.
I am a moderator and speedrunner of Shadowgate 64. Recently, a new potential runner asked about a server for Shadowgate 64 and I noticed that none of the Shadowgate games have a place where resources and such can be posted and shared. As such, I made a server. I am inviting the entire Shadowgate series to share this server as well if desired (not obligated to join of course).
That being said, if you do indeed want to join, I will happily create channels for Shadowgate Returns and give moderator roles to your mod team (or rather, just dnkcafe I suppose since that is the only moderator lol).
Hello Shadowgate NES community. I am a speedrunner and moderator for Shadowgate 64. Recently, a new potential runner asked where they could come to mingle (such as a server). As such, I have made a server to facilitate this. Before doing so, I wanted to check and see if you all had a server first, and it doesn't seem you do. As such, I made a Shadowgate 64 Speedruns server.
I would like to invite you all to host your resources and such on the server if you would like to (not obligated of course). I will happily create channels for Shadowgate NES and give moderator roles to your current moderator team. Happy gaming y'all.
I know this community is largely inactive, but I have made a server to host information and resources for Shadowgate 64, and I felt it appropriate to invite other Shadowgate fans and runners too. Please feel free to join the server and I will happily create channels to facilitate Shadowgate (2014).
I have ran Any% at several marathons in the past year or so, but this was the largest event the game has ever been shown at before. It seemed worth archiving here.
Quit Game strategies have now been banned in every category other than New Game Plus. As such, the particulars of Quit Game strategies have been clarified on the NG+ board as to what they allow i.e. when you may quit out, which does have some small level of variance in regatds to Beginner's Bar, Tubular City and Mac-Race.
I will wait for seven days from the initial posting of this thread. If nobody has chimed in by then, the above rules will be implemented. Funnily enough, the only thing it will effect is it will invalidate my current Switch Any% time.
Additionally in regards to the various Xbox versions, if we notice at a later date that there is a significant time difference between them, we can adjust the leaderboard accordingly and split between those versions even further, but for now just a single tab for all runs done on Xbox consoles is a great start!
In the past year, a new strategy has been implemented to save time in the Switch version of the game. This time save may also apply to PC and Xbox as well, but I am unsure. Here are the details.
When beating a level, the "World Complete" stamp appears. In all cases, the game then takes a few moments before going back to the title screen/book. It was discovered that quitting the game and reopening it once the stamp appears is faster than waiting for the title screen to load.
This brings into question the validity and use of this strategy, as a level isn't considered "Beaten" within the game until the title screen loads upon finishing a level. As such the small community in the discord server seems to have come to two conclusions related to the tech.
- Since we allow the use of pre-beaten files for running the game, the tech should be banned for Any% and 100% runs to more naturally progress through the game.
- Since New Game Plus runs have the levels beaten already, this new tech should be allowed for NG+ and be pushed as far as possible.
Before implementing any rules regarding the ban of a strategy, I wanted to raise the issue here as well for open discussion. Thanks!
Hello all!
I have been speedrunning this game on Switch for a couple years now and have recently been added as a mod. As such I wanted to say hello and also note a few small changes I have made just for transparency.
- I have clarified some rules for 100% New Release. Specifically on the Switch and Xbox release, there is an additonal Space level. I updated the rules to include that for those versions.
- I have made a note in the rules that Kiwi 64 is NOT required for a 100% run.
- I have updated the timing method for the Space level to say that timing ends upon reaching the ship since there is no "World Complete" stamp at the end.
- I have retimed the 2nd place 100% New Release Switch run to remove the addition of Kiwi 64 being played, bringing the time from a 23:24 down to 17:24.
- I have added an additional tab for Xbox runs since the game has also been released for modern Xbox consoles. Hopefully this encourages some new Xbox runners to run the game!
- I added some general info under the overall game rules that just reiterate a few things for extra clarity.
If anybody has any issues with these changes, I am glad to discuss them! Happy running folks
I could just be bad, but best I can tell the invincibility glitch is patched on the Switch release. Can somebody confirm this for me please? It would be super appreciated.
Something worth noting (curious as to if it has happened to others). I got hit with two DMCA strikes on Twitch for streaming this game and doing runs. 
Hello all.
I was wondering if a full game category could be added to speedrun the Ranger mode. Thank you!
I am running on a modded Wii loading up via USB with Nintendont btw for reference. I saw the forum post saying that everything was retimed to remove load times, but the times on display do not reflect that change best I can tell, so I was just curious. Thanks!
Would I submit such a run as GCN (Emu)? I don't really run on anything modded ever so I also want to confirm that, sorry for all the questions!
Hello. I am learning this speedrun and I notice that there is a major time difference between PS2, Gamecube and if you play Gamecube on a Wii. I wanted to ask about how this has been dealt with before or if it has, and if not, would a leaderboard splitting the various consoles be in order? Thanks!
Hey guys. You should join the Nightmare Creatures discord server!
I have started running on N64. Basically, the oob clips do work but they aren't quite as reliable. There are less load times, but some fight properties seem a little bit different.
