Я, значит, захожу на свою почту и узнаю, что меня сделали модератором игры... в которую я сама никогда не играла и о которой я по сути ничего не знаю. Я не знаю, кто за это ответственный, но... такая себе затея, нанимать в модераторы людей, которые не знают игру. И зачем 7 модераторов для старого малоизвестного квеста?

https://web.archive.org/web/20200217051704/http://www.mking.com/demonstarsm1/help/menu.html

I stumbled upon this manual a couple years ago, initially thinking it was for DemonStar (SM and SM2 are two separate games that came out later, I never tried them). If you go to How To Play > Powerups and Bonuses, you'll find nice icons for all the things you collect as you play. This is where I grabbed the medal icon and used it to make icons for the 1st three places on here (2nd and 3rd place ones are just edits, not legit).

This manual used to be on Mountain King Studio's website but can't be found there anymore. I'm thankful to whoever preserved it.

I also have a manual file that I found with my v1.1 demo (when I was a kid, my father made a disk and saved it on there, we've kept it to present day), but it's in HLP format so it can't be viewed in modern versions of Windows, and it's missing Magnetic Pulse and Mega Laser. Still, I decided to share it just in case: https://www.dropbox.com/s/45ngzf0kie96vhw/DSTAR.HLP?dl=0

I casually replayed the game. It's the same GameTop copy that I speedran before. But when I reached the boss, his level ended almost after half a minute, as opposed to just a few seconds like it happened before. I updated Windows 10 since my speedruns, but other than that I have no idea what could cause this change. And I still haven't figured out how the boss is meant to be fought.

Oh, and when the level ended, the camera randomly went under the floor. https://64.media.tumblr.com/47bf79e75c614b2ee2de4ed089f07eb1/20c323c83089d1d0-78/s1280x1920/5c47610e58fe8a606ee096c46f61b381f044c62e.pnj

Just recently I played the game for a bit, I revisited the profiles I made back when I speedran the game. But when I tried to play again later, the game would crash every time it tried to show the profiles. The only part of the game I could visit was multiplayer racing with both dogs being guests. I reinstalled the game twice, that didn't do anything. I assumed that the problem was with the game's save file, but I didn't know where it was. Out of curiosity I went to AppData\Roaming, where I found Ubisoft\PetzSports with the save file, called profiles.petz! I removed it, and the next time I ran the game it worked fine, though I had to lose my progress.

The game's files contain ORConfig, which lets you toggle fullscreen and select from 4 resolutions. However there's also the file settings.con. You can open it in Notepad and write any resolution you want. This way I could set the game's resolution to match my widescreen monitor (1920x1080), and without any distortions.

Edit: I just saw this file was brought up in Resources, sorry

There's a major difference between runs where people skip huge chunks of the game by abusing developer oversights, and those where they play the game properly. I was thinking Any% could split into 2 categories based on this.

Мне как-то беспокойно тут быть одной, поэтому хочу взять помощника. Но с одним условием: сделайте ран всей игры на среднем или высоком уровне сложности, который длится не более 30 мин. Думаю, это вполне будет по силам.

Я добавила отдельные категории для эпизодов игры (которые можно выбрать на карте), с учётом уровней сложности. Может, кому-то это будет интересно.

А также я недавно успешно попросила добавить на сайт игру "Кот Леопольд: Догонялки". https://www.speedrun.com/kotleopolddogonyalki Геймплей почти тот же.

Впервые за время пребывания на этом сайте я добавила категории для отдельных уровней... или скорее эпизодов? Короче, в пройденной игре вы можете открыть карту и выбрать какой-то кусок для перепрохождения, каждый такой кусок состоит из 3-4 уровней (5, если брать "Клад" на среднем или высоком уровне сложности). Я добавила пробные раны первого эпизода на всех уровнях сложности, чтоб убедиться, что это вообще работает xd

Туда лучше не лезть, а то наверняка ещё долго умирать будете

Я скачала на smallgames точка ws. Я там также качала всякие казуальные игры моего детства... В поисковой строке можно даже не вводить полное название, а просто "леопольд" или "догонялки", у меня тогда игра появляется первой. Есть одна неприятная деталь: файл сохранений не работает. Его дата изменения твёрдо стоит на 2013 году, чтобы я ни делала в игре. При выходе из игры все игровые профили удаляются, но рекорды при этом остаются... Не помню, было ли так с лицензией (которой у меня больше нет).

For all categories (including GBA) I initially chose the moment you start moving your 1st car. I didn't consider that key characters are already moving around as soon as you enter the level. I changed the PC categories' start to pressing the Start key in the Car Select Menu on your first car. The GBA run starts when you confirm your control settings and enter the intro Circusville cutscene.

I'll change the time of my PC - Any% run accordingly.

Я скачала бесплатный шрифт в стиле титров "Ну, погоди!" и, используя его, переделала логотип сайта для профиля этой игры. Я могу поделиться через личку, если вдруг модераторы других игр серии НП пожелают. У меня есть PNG с облаком и без, а также рабочий файл из Adobe Illustrator CC 22.0.1. НО для файла Illustrator нужен шрифт http://psdcollection.ru/shrift-wellwait-regular-kak-v-nu-pogodi/

Вообще я хотела без облака, но оранжевые буквы плохо смотрелись на также оранжевом фоне.

Does anyone know how to add a logo for the series? I googled it and didn't find an answer. I found a good one with a transparent background, but I see no way to add it. I assume a mod for the series would be able to do it, but how would a mod be chosen?

I wanted to simply play through the game and record it with high resolution, so I ran the PS version in an emulator called Duckstation. However, I also experienced just how this version is way more anxiety-inducing than the PC one. I already saw from other runners' videos that you have less lives. What I learned is how much worse the controls are when you jump. You can only slightly change the direction in the middle of a jump, which makes diagonal jumps a pain in the butt. When you collect hearts, the amount you get is only half of what you get in the PC version, and you can't get more lives than you started with. I'm kinda surprised I completed the game without a single Game Over.

There was previously a single Any% category with 3 subcategories for every difficulty. Since we can't really come up with other categories for a game this simple (and the Hare statuettes are usually in places where you can reach them without noticeably slowing down, so 100% would be hardly any different) I removed the Any% category and made every difficulty into its own category. All existing runs (including obsolete) were moved to the corresponding categories.

По-русски вкратце: вместо категории Any% с подкатегориями для разных уровней сложности я сделала самостоятельные категории для ур. слож.. Все добавленные прохождения (включая устаревшие) распределены туда.

These happened in my 100% run on PC with Windows 10 64 bit. In the 1st pic I'm petting the dog's head but the hand is on one of its legs for some reason and it's not moving. Petting still worked. I saw the dog's model break before in a casual playthrough. No idea what caused these.

I wanna do a 100% run so it could be an example, however when I tried it today, the game crashed upon entering the 1st minigame on my 5th car (so I completed over a half of the run by that moment). I probably had longer playing sessions as a kid than this, and I don't remember if it ever crashed back then. This could be related to poor compatibility. I'd like to try this again sometime later.

I have a poor framerate on Windows 10 so I tried out the game in a VirtualBox emulation of Windows XP. I'm a noob at this thing so some games work perfectly, some have issues (mainly stuttering audio) and one doesn't work at all. So, when I tried out this game there, the framerate was the way it should be, BUT! the firetruck and the armored police tank always shot at an extremely short distance, making it extremely hard to extinguish fires and impossible to catch criminals (they'll always escape if not stunned with laughing gas). I have no idea what's the cause since everything else seems to work fine.

Whenever the player beats race records (set by game or their own), a notification appears that they have beaten the record, which hangs for a few seconds and cannot be skipped. To prevent this, the player can set the best records they can BEFORE an All Races NG+ run. Maybe even submit Level runs where the player can take as much time for breaks between races as they want.