Ladies and gentlemen; boys and girls and fans alike of Bloons TD for select PSN consoles --
Please give a warm welcoming to our new addition of the moderation team: @Jumpyluff!
JumpyLuff is a world re-nowned Bloons Tower Defense player and has acquired extensive knowledge of the Bloons franchise through well over a decade of competitve video gaming. If you are at home reading this forum post, it means that JumpyLuff has superior knowledge (and probably skill) than you do!
He does hands down great work of curating leaderboards for the speedrunning cult. I have gave him the duty of taking the community's suggestions and am forcing him to implement his thoughts of how this should all pan out in the near future. He really doesn't have a choice by now, so he must create spectacular work for the sake of the Bloons TD fanbase.
I have full confidence our new moderator will help guide this community in a smooth direction for many minutes to come.
I am trying to come up with what would be a good image to display as the cover for this game. The image should be similar to these:
I don't think the title screen would be any fun. I've considered a monkey character sprite. I'm not sure if that would make sense though since it does not read the title of the game. If anyone has a suggestion, let me know!
It has recently came to the moderation team's attention that a handful of new runners are playing a version of the game that is not allowed. This version's character moves much quicker and only needs to collect 399 fish rather than 449 fish to trigger the final screen.
Just a friendly reminder, only runs of the original version of the game by XGen will be accepted.
As many of you are familiar with this particular speedgame, Texas Hold'em will have identical hands as the RNG is seeded from the main screen rather than during gameplay. This makes RNG manipulation very easy when loading a certain save state on an emulator. Using emulator tools (such as save states) have an unfair advantage over console runners and are therefore not allowed during gameplay.
Upon close and diligent examination, this run loads a save state via emulation tools mere frames before the run is began:
It cannot be verified that the same hand is being dealt each time as this user does not stream multiple attempts, but it can be assumed this is a possibility in this case given a save state is loaded frames away from selecting "1-Table Tournament."
The problem is that this strategy does not break the current speedrunning rules, however gives an unfair advantage over console runners.
To keep the integrity and sanity of this community, the moderation team has decided to implement a "No emulation tools allowed rule," which is usually common sense and courtesy in most other speedrunning communities. The preceding speedrun has been deemed invalidated for the time being.
We will not let malicious emulator runners break us. We will not stand down.
http://www.speedrun.com/run/y675jepm
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a hitman! This user will be awarded a WHOPPING $10 USD for the first human to achieve the unthinkable; completing the first run of "Bloons Insanity Any%" in 55:57.This man is pioneering our way into an undiscovered realm of speedrunning. Who knows what lies further down in the belly of this wretched beast of a game?
Going forward, may the 4th of July not only commemorate the State's independence as a nation, but remind us speedrunners the glorious day we were set free as a united people from the ever-taunting slave master called Bloons Insanity.
I am humbled to have been able to witness this monumental defeat on this day.
I have zero tolerance for people trying to cheat their way to the top. Earlier today I received a run, and frankly what I watched was quite obscene. I really did expect more from this user, as I felt they earned a title for the WR holder after making their way to 2nd place less than a month ago. But instead of grinding attempts and figuring out faster methods for the enrichment of the community, we get a slap in the face from this user, Pagsi, as he/she attempts to splice out a couple cheeky seconds during an animation cutscene in hopes nobody will notice. Below is a video I made as evidence to warrant this user's ban from submitting runs in the future. I hope I'm wrong, but this is how it appears.
Hopefully it's a new strategy that no one else knows about. Or hopefully this user is playing a different version of the game than the rest of us. But his/her previous PB video had the same animation timing as everyone else.
Please do not let this message come across as an attack, but rather a learning experience for us all. I hope this user responds below with a case for this being legitmate, and we can move on.
Disappointed, f1
15 days ago the challenge was placed. Several attempted and all failed, so the take-home prize has been DOUBLED:
http://www.speedrun.com/Speedrunning/thread/hyf6y
"Bloons Insanity" is looking up at us from the bottom-most pit of hell; laughing at us, taunting us, spitting at our faces. We cannot take this abuse anymore! Whom will be the one to take on the quest and pierce their blade of blood and sweat through the fiery belly of this laborious speedrun? Will it be... you?
Full-game Any% run - $10 Full-game Any% No UDM run - $20
https://ninjakiwi.com/Games/Bloons-Games/Play/Bloons-Insanity.html
No special equipment required; as it is an online web game. I will contact you for PayPal details after completion. Good luck, everyone!
Your requirements: -First person to send a completed run to the Bloons Insanity leaderboard -Video livestreamed to twitch.tv -Completed all 50 levels continuously in real time
Bounty expires 31/12/2017 23:59:59 pm PST.
[UPDATE]: Bounty collected on 4/7/2017 17:48 pm PST by dha with Any% in 55:57
15 days ago the challenge was placed. Several attempted and all failed, so the take-home prize has been DOUBLED:
http://www.speedrun.com/Speedrunning/thread/hyf6y
"Bloons Insanity" is looking up at us from the bottom-most pit of hell; laughing at us, taunting us, spitting at our faces. We cannot take this abuse anymore! Whom will be the one to take on the quest and pierce their blade of blood and sweat through the fiery belly of this laborious speedrun? Will it be... you?
Full-game Any% run - $10 Full-game Any% No UDM run - $20
https://ninjakiwi.com/Games/Bloons-Games/Play/Bloons-Insanity.html
No special equipment required; as it is an online web game. I will contact you for PayPal details after completion. Good luck, everyone!
Your requirements: -First person to send a completed run to the Bloons Insanity leaderboard -Video livestreamed to twitch.tv -Complete all 50 levels continuously in real time
Bounty expires 31/12/2017 23:59:59 pm PST..
[UPDATE]: Bounty collected on 4/7/2017 17:48 pm PST by dha with Any% in 55:57
These are not PC games, they are Webgames. Please change or add the platform "Web" so it can reflect properly on speedrun.com
I am placing a bounty on a completed run for BLOONS INSANITY on the Webgame Hitlist!
The game is kicking our arses now -- mocking all of us with its empty leaderboard:
No special equipment required; as it is an online web game. Whether it's "Any%" or "Any% No UDM," this game must die. You will earn $10 USD upon submission of an Any% No UDM run, or $5 USD upon submission of an Any% run. I will contact you for PayPal details after completion.
https://ninjakiwi.com/Games/Bloons-Games/Play/Bloons-Insanity.html
Your requirements: -First person to send a completed run to the bi leaderboard -Video livestreamed to twitch.tv -Completed all 50 levels continuously in real time
Bounty expires 31/12/2017 23:59:59 pm.
I am placing a bounty on a completed run for BLOONS INSANITY on the Webgame Hitlist!
The game is kicking our arses now -- mocking all of us with its empty leaderboard:
No special equipment required; as it is an online web game. Whether it's "Any%" or "Any% No UDM," this game must die. You will earn $10 USD upon submission of an Any% No UDM run, or $5 USD upon submission of an Any% run. I will contact you for PayPal details after completion.
https://ninjakiwi.com/Games/Bloons-Games/Play/Bloons-Insanity.html
Your requirements: -First person to send a completed run to the bi leaderboard -Video livestreamed to twitch.tv -Completed all 50 levels continuously in real time
Bounty expires 31/12/2017 23:59:59 pm.
This theme looks absolutely horrible and hurts my eyes when I look at it too long. It has nothing to do with the game either. Why the random blue?
Please at least change it to the default theme before I take this issue to Pac
This theme looks absolutely horrible and hurts my eyes when I look at it too long. It has nothing to do with the game either. Why the random blue?
Please at least change it to the default theme before I take this issue to Pac
Hello authorblues,
For this series' organization sake, can we change this game's URL to "speedrun.com/monopolynes" so the series can be changed to "speedrun.com/monopoly" instead of that directing to the NES version of the game? I think that would make a lot more sense as far as the URLs are concerned.
Thanks
Hello,
As a big fan of SNES and Monopoly speedruns, just let me make a couple of observations as far as this series' organization goes.
The big thing is the timing methods. How come the timing on the SNES version is different? Starting the timer "when the vault opens" sounds very random. It should probably be at New Game or when you enter your character's name and the game begins like any other game. That would make the games consistent with each other rather than one game starting in the middle of a cutscene.
The URL for the series page should be "speedrun.com/monopoly", not the NES version. Perhaps make the game URLs "speedrun.com/monopolynes" and "speedrun.com/monopolysnes" or something to that extent.
And for god's sake give these games a theme! These pages are so boring to look at, and they're MONOPOLY games! They're classics! They deserve to look nicer than this.
Take these requests with consideration please. I speak for all fans out there. Do this speedrun.com series some justice!
Hello, The Weakest Link community!
A question for all the players out there: where does timing start and end? Walkers12's run begins after he skips the cutscenes, but then ends after he has been eliminated, and after his character is finished speaking. So it's like half SDA and half RTA which doesn't make any sense.
Shouldn't timing start as soon as you select game difficulty? I think that would make the most sense, if we're sticking with RTA.
And where does it end? After the character is done with his speech and the screen fades to black, or as soon as Mrs Robinson excuses you from the room saying "goodbye?"
Thank you for your patience :)
We have lost someone very close to us. Someone who will be forever missed in the Spyro community an the speedrunning community as a whole. We have watched him grow from the small Spyro 3 streamer to the massive speedrun.com/spyro supermod he has grown into. We will never forget all he has done for the team, and will let his actions push us into accomplish even more great things. From the bottom of heart, Kjelstrupandreas, I will miss you as a Spyro mod.
Also welcome aboard Nerffrip as the NEWEST Spyro mod. Don't mess anything up, my good pal.
I am very confused, why are runs being approved with no video evidence?
If I knew I could just submit fake times with absolutely NO proof of the gameplay, I'd be doing that left and right just like jako6601. Every time I see a run submitted by jako6601 I'm not going to believe it's valid since it's most likely fabricated splits with a fake time. I have no respect for cheaters like jako6601.
I am mortified by the moderation of this community and what it's become. Frankly, I feel absolutely sick to my stomach.
Are we allowed to skip the menu in between deaths using an auto clicker? Nothing's listed in the rules and it was accepted as a WR so I'm assuming it's allowed -- but wanted to make sure.
