Well you can do with this info what you want. Just thought to share this info :) Not sure if people can recreate it but never the less its fun to know :D

From like around 4:33:00 is when the boss fight ends and stuff happens that probably triggered it and after that you can see that I was unable to pickup items or get hit but I myself could still shoot. I was using the Retron 5 to play the game but don't think it would be the cause of the "glitch" completely.

Hey. Thought I would ask but somehow in the Pal Megadrive version of this game I got this glitch that made me invincible/deleted my hitbox or something. The timing this happened was when I beat stage 5 boss and probably when the stage ended I happened to use a special at the correct time. Would this be a thing ? :D

Yeah we should have corrected that way earlier then this. The runs should be slightly retimed and corrected because this can happen. The real best point to end time would be the "when you lose control of the character after beating wylde 2". At least in my opinion. Just because of this predicament. Cause since you don't enter credits and not get the fanfare that the game is cleared you technically did not beat the game.

Don't really mind the whole thing. Always iffy though on some emulators and the new bunch of sd card reader cards that who knows if they are actually better or not. It just leaves all the guess work out if its only used on the real consoles and real cart but alienates the people who can't or don't want to spend the money on those mentioned things.

I think Elmagusses guide mentioned this initially that its risky to change weapons when zooming out of of a screen because there is a high probability that this will happen. That is why it was recomended to only do so when the game is loading the screen back and not when its "closing it". Happened to me a couple times and realized this is why it was not recomended

Just as a weird question if anyone has had this happen.

I have two saves which have used the any% glitches up to pazuzu. Recently I tried to save over those saves except it basicly hardlocks the game. I can enter these saves when I start the cart up but if I try to save over them it always hardlocks the game. I tried going further in the game on those two saves and then save over them without any results.

So is my only option just to open the cart and take out the battery for the saves to get erased at this point?

Yeah. I've been hunting out those bosses on Arcia pretty much since I think of her as the easier of the two. Some bosses are still a nightmare how they work (like the stupid shield knight oh god that guy just never seems to make any sense). But most stuff just need the bullets to be used well. Deathtome also at one point I noticed the "hit the weak points of summon things" so that kinda speeded up the runs a bit xD But yeah. Also learning how to endure the whole run while hitting the shoot button like crazy helps. One time, my arm was like sore for a week after doing 3 arcia runs in 2 days. Its hard to keep shooting constantly. And the part about me being in your face with strats would still go better if I wouldn't get hammered by the Bosses. Plus abusing the "when bosses start attack and take huge dmg" also helps.

Will just probably have to try sieg again and try to get things to work with the experiences. Will take time though and probably wont have it right now since trying to lessen my backlog of games :D

I've Tried running Sieg but for some reason i just cant get things to come together and kept kinda trying at one point but totally failed. I Could give it a try again but playing with Sieg is just so annoying with how little effect everything he does seems to have in the game. Though I am probably just still bad at it and feel like that but that is how I felt every time I tried to do this :D

Well crap that actually helps like a stupid amount xD

Load times is the only difference and we can just take that out of the time anyways so no real reason to do that

Sooo I've been going by the Charecter select as the timer starter for sometime now and never actually noticed the upon gaining control part sooo i got like 6-7 seconds of retiming needed on my runs on easy and normal.

Edit: Correction it seems to be about 11-12 seconds

Yeah xD Sorry. Just saw rejected thing about it and the snes boards having been fused into this one at one point so just came to say bout that xD

Yeah for some reason The Snes asterix run i had got rejected now so i am freaked since some of you just fixed the "problem" with blending the Asterix nes and snes games to the same leaderboard. But what the heck is happening is beyond me :/

I Still love FireStriker (Snes). Got the game to under 20 minutes after a lot of pain and suffering but still would like to see more people try the fun :) Thats why i got it to ESA but no luck :D Also The Flintstones: The Treasure of Sierra Bedrock deserves more love. So many good games that have no real fame :)

Is it not just the simplest thing to cut out everything that happens between the moments you gain control of herc and beginning of the victory animation (fade out on the pegasus run since it has no "victory animation"). Its not that relevant really to time the score tables in my personal opinion.

Sooo we doing this then ? Or someone doing check ups on the performance of pc vs ps somemore? We could at least do the loadless times for the ps list ?

Eeeeh requiring a certain emulator is kinda bad as an idea but having the knowledge of the "best" emulator and settings for the chance to be even with everyone else would totally be fine. Still a huge shame that the actual console is slow as heck :/

Oh and btw if we are doing categories at this point emulator and actual ps console should be a different thing too since emulator is way better on load times then the actual console.