Western Australia, AustraliaI have decided to add a variable for now to seperate the versions (very easy to revert the change), I will tackle into the IL boards when I have time but theres alot of runs to flick around with so have only done full game so far, also touched up the look of all the budokai pages abit to give it more colour and personality!
This was something I have been meaning to look into, I could propose making the same changes as I have done for Budokai 1 which seperates the original game from the HD Port. In terms of SSD's though I don't know the legitimacy of installing one from that generation I am quite certain you need to jailbreak your PS3 to properly install one or do some very parculiar method which was not intended by Sony or Microsoft.
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Could Dragon Ball: Devolution please be added as a 'Webgame'
SRC Page: https://www.speedrun.com/dbd
Requesting: https://www.speedrun.com/kh3ce to be added as a Category Extension to https://www.speedrun.com/kh3
100% agree hmu on Discord and we can discuss a plan Saiyanz#1938
I have done it for you @Daniel_1RD
I do agree with Thomc comments and believe PC & Console should be seperated as PC has a much bigger advantage when it comes to its hardware (load times). Also we will have to consider a load removal for PC at some point to keep the competition at a fair playing field
My submission is only going on a week so I am happy to wait out the full 2 weeks but the moderator for Chicken Run has not been active on the site for 7+ Months. I wanted to propose coming on as moderator as I would like to make some improvements to the page and add another member from the community to moderate incase either of us are on holiday or away.
Another thing I wanted to mention was Console capture
Now I know DS Capture Card companies no longer exist so you basically either buy a ds with it from a third party site or you homebrew a 3DS/2DS and stream the gameplay to your pc. The issue I hear with the homebrew method is that it overclocks your 3DS/2DS which may cause the game to run more efficiently and with less lag, I have no reason to confirm this just morely lets say a rumour for now. Keep in mind 0 testing has been done for this however I am going to homebrew my console soon and test this myself if it is the case should we just outright ban that method of use or filter it again or?
Due to recent discoveries with GreenTY's methods on emulating Re:coded the mod team is in strong consideration for now seperating console and emulator as seperate leaderboards on Days & Re:coded and allowing particular changes to emulator settings to have more consistent loads and lag between other emulator runners.
Originally when emulator was pushed by myself and Draz around 5 years ago the main argument was that emulator was considered to be equal if not slower than console which seemed fair competition wise and also allowed the game to be more accessible which would help the games growth with runners. Although not many new runners came along Jel was one of the first to approach me with issues emulating Re:coded. Since I was eager for new runners I allowed him to modify his emulator so it would be runnable, so naturally when Green came to the scene he applied the same methods which is fair since WR at the time was the only person using different settings which was apparently saving time on lag reduction and loads.
The only alternative solution is to force default emulation settings like was intended from the start and sadly remove Jel and Green's runs to create an even playing field, which I'm strongly against since these 2 are very dedicated to Re:coded and it seems unfair to take their hard efforts away. However changing the rules on the emulator settings will now make most runners times minutes handicapped since they have not used the settings change, but I believe if the game is more accessible I strongly push for the growth of the DS Games since they are insanely fun to run
On top of that Zwanzig recently achieved WR in COM Sora Story using VBA Emulator, from our knowledge VBA has been considered a perfectly fine and competitive emulator to use for most GBA games so I believe leaving Emulator and Console combined should be fine.
At least now both of these ideas are open for people in the community to discuss and give us feedback before we make the changes.
Pros
- DS Games are more accessible and will run more consistently the same between each runners emulators
- More people will have the chance to run the games
Cons
- Existing runs will be handicapped and lose time to new runners due to not applying the new changes
- A lot of category leaderboards will become empty due to the splitting, but can be filled when new runners come along
Thanks guys! The Mod Team
Hi Guys been a while
Just wanted to post some ideas and get some feedback.
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First topic is emulators, I am glad to see we use IGT now and I am happy to continue down that venture for Mission Mode but I ask myself should we allow emulators? With emulators it is alot easier to cheat, as well it is not official hardware and load times are all different (which can be a huge advantage if you run 100%), I am happy if we keep all existing emulator runs as 'Legacy Runs' but make future submissions only available on console, still iffy on this one but some feedback might help.
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Next topic relates to the previous but wanted to see if we would like to get Unlock All Characters/Unlock All Levels added that way people can speedrun the Road Rage mode but not be stuck investing countless hours 100% the game
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Last point is we will need to consider separating these new categories plus 100%, since in the PS2 Port you can exploit many infinite coin loops to achieve the goal and that might make the run really lacking in excitement or skill
Examples (Mainly the first link):
I have recently done a merge of the Kingdom Hearts series to condense and simplify each games leaderboards. I did send an email requesting deletion of the pages that will not used anymore but realized that maybe getting in touch here might be more effective. I will link below the games I wish to be deleted, thanks for your time
https://www.speedrun.com/kh-j https://www.speedrun.com/khfm2 https://www.speedrun.com/khcomj https://www.speedrun.com/kh2-j https://www.speedrun.com/khdays-j https://www.speedrun.com/kh2fmhd https://www.speedrun.com/khhdddd
Currently routing Monstropolis myself and my main issue with that idea (a great one btw) is that there are some thunder focused heartless in the world so not sure if the time save would be enough, out of all the fights the first forced fight seemed like the biggest issue, but with the new Ralph strat in KoC w/Water Cufflink you can now waterza the small unversed and get the fight more consistent
Just want to throw out some of my own opinions on ideas of how I'd like to see the board. Things to quickly note yes I am a series moderator but my opinions will not be the final say in what happens, I would just like to get feedback on if my ideas are good one or need rethinking.
For starters my main concept as some know by now is simplicity, I am not a huge fan of separating every intricate difference for a speedgame. However logic needs to come into play if say the JP version was vastly different to ENG and was faster because of it I 100% understand a separation being required.
I vouch for the idea of having a tab on the side of runs on leaderboards showing if the runner ran with a HDD or SSD rather than building separate leaderboards for them. From some research I found buying an SSD for the game is only slightly more than what the actual game costs in retail I will leave some links as examples below. In the end if the community would prefer separate leaderboards I am 100% okay with that. Quick note I don't really have all the data to show how much faster an SSD is so only take this first point lightly since I could easily change my opinion.
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/XDdxFT/adata-xpg-sx850-128gb-25-solid-state-drive-ssd-sx850-128g https://pcpartpicker.com/product/6yKcCJ/samsung-860-evo-500gb-25-solid-state-drive-mz-76e500bam http://prntscr.com/mgi9ci
Second opinion is I believe we should ban DLC keyblades in its entirety, you may be asking why I would want that? My main reason is it would be the most unfair speedrun category to be competitive with due to the fact that majority of people did not buy the game 2/3 different ways to unlock every DLC keyblade, hey maybe someone did and if that's the case they would have the best advantage. Just for clarification (Amazon Keyblade = Fire/Xbox = Thunder/PS4 =Blizzard), I believe until they release the DLC in a separate purchase should we bother with a leaderboard for it so that way everyone can be on an even playing field for that specific category. The other plus to doing it (once again don't have a lot of data) but if hypothetically PS4 and Xbone were similar in speeds you could have it merged, where before you would have to structure it separately due to DLC reasons.
Lastly I imagine every console is different in terms of speed for loads and wont post what I overall believe should happen since once again don't have the data but keep this last point in consideration. A singular category lets use 'Any%' as our example right now on its template design has: PS4, Xbone | Beginner, Standard, Proud, Level 1 Beginner, Level 1 Standard, Level 1 Proud | No DLC, DLC, that is a total of 12 seperate leaderboards for just a singular console alone, now its easily possible to have a leaderboard for every console type but I worry that the spirit of competition could die when portions of the community are split apart into various different credentials. Hypothetically if we were to leave the design as it is now but have PS4, PS4 Slim, PS4 Pro, Xbox One, Xbox One S, Xbone One X, that would be a total of 72 different leaderboards for Any% alone, now obviously I strongly doubt it would come to that and i'm sure PS4 and Slim, Xbox One & S have probably no difference but just wanted to leave that info out there so the best decision can be made, I completely get the argument with the Pro and X. My question is if say the Pro and X was the same could we possible merge the 'Pro consoles' together and the 'Standards' together maybe? Love to hear feedback because like I said at the start I don't know a lot I just love simplistic designs whenever possible, hope everyone enjoying the game and keen to see what you guys do with it :)!
Just to add onto munny stuff in Toy Box Rizz was mentioning, there is a chest above the entrance of the Toy Store (inside) which has a Petite Ribbon, pretty sure it sells for 750 off the top of my head
Doll Fight is where we already have Fire Cufflink so for Beginner I doubt that method would be used, still a cool find though
@cannonballkuriboh The Moderation team decided on a 2 week embargo before allowing run submission on the game to be verified, this is to prevent fans from spoilers and to not rush people to speedrun the game right away.
That can be considered Xelnas, should we have it as its own Category Tab or filter in with Any% and other categories but maybe make Standard and Proud Misc so they don't show unless you 'Show All'
