Great, thanks for clarifying fred!

Death warps? What are those? ^^

Hiya, planning to run the game without any desire for a super optimised time. Just wanted to create a space to ask/discuss about the permission to use Red Code, as I noticed it's only used in the WR so seems to be a recent rule change. I would value other runners' thoughts so that a consensus is reached before I run with or without it.

I ran Mercs GEN both Arcade AND Original Mode for NissanTV marathon #2! I believe this will be the first time Original Mode has ever been showcased as a speedrun at a live event!

I ran Owlia any% for NissanTV marathon #2!

I ran Strategy Mode (Arcane) for NissanTV marathon #2 - did some editing to show off all characters.

https://www.speedrun.com/support/tickets/new and just add your own username/info in the drop down rather than someone else.

I respond as a runner of SMS. If mods/site staff decide to limit involvement from me or other second parties to prevent stress/site fires I would be happy to withdraw.

0. Quoting SRC:

"Site Bans

The following are examples of bannable behavior. It is by no means an exhaustive or complete list.

Account impersonation

Splicing and/or faking/falsifying runs for any reason"

On this basis I request you to report yourself, simply because this is preferable to me as an outsider to the issue doing it, or worse, forcing a game mod to do it in the circumstances outlined above. I would object to your self-removal of any such run under these circumstances since it has broken src rules and should be dealt with by them not us.

When I request this, I do not intend to overwrite or ignore the concerns presented in the appended document, rather, I wish to clarify that the course taken to highlight them is itself actionable.

As a layman to other ports of the game I cannot comment much on the specifics of the platform mentioned. I can glean/suggest that there may be a benefit to discussing adding mods with knowledge/experience of these other platforms where necessary. I think this might just be a case where a game has sufficient variety across many ports that any of us with knowledge in one area might recuse ourselves from modding unfamiliar ports. Perhaps better and more public communication on these issues would be of help.

Having said all the above, I am aware I may be repeating or parroting any discussion in the Discord linked in the game page info. Although I am not in this server I would like to request that any discussion takes place here, rather than there; again to enhance transparent communication and make judgements/information more readily available for passing runners and viewers.

I've submitted a run for Beat the Game - I started timing on gametime select and ended on the whistle when the final game was won.

Thanks for sharing that Theus! I had no idea. Board Boosters has been running the game in February 2025, so I've signposted that port to them as someone might be interested in it. However, it would require checking whether any differences exist or it's just a code port of the original versions.

Excellent run!

Thanks threecreepio! Sorry I didn't respond sooner, inertia is a hell of a thing.

I intend to retime all runs in the coming days for consistency. I'll make a sticky post about this once I'm done. It will make timing clearer for future reference across any platform.

Realised after I submitted my run that three of us on the board unwittingly ran the game at NTSC even though it was PAL exclusive on SMS. The Game Gear port was worldwide so there's a reasonable argument to grandfather in permission for that. It's a common practice in many other SMS/GG games (Marble Madness, Trivial Pursuit etc), but can I just say sorry to Oreb for not realising - I'm sure you'd be easily able to equal your performance on NTSC if you wished, however, if you feel like it'd be fairer for the rest of us to re-submit at 50fps, I'd be very open to that. Discussions welcome :)

I'd be interested in running this, if you could do a guide/tutorial!

So the trick is easy and very safe. Here's a setup video.

Get to the gnome screen.

Go DOWN as far as you can so you're hitting the rock.

Move LEFT to the river screen.

On any of the frames where the screen is fully black, change to holding DOWN RIGHT. You MUST do this before any fraction of the screen loads in

Then you have infinite time to press 1 and transition back to the gnome. Once on the gnome screen, press RIGHT. Boom, Gnome Skip.

So basically you have always got an 11 frame window to achieve this. You can also PAUSE while the screen is black to be super safe if you want to.

Hello all!

I will be running the C64 any% Secrets Allowed category for RGLtv's Jankuary! https://horaro.org/jank25/schedule

https://www.twitch.tv/retrogaminglivetv

I have no idea if this is the first EVER appearance of FQ in a marathon but I'm utterly delighted and I'd love to see any of you there cheering along.

Never played the game, would love a guide that explores weapons pros/cons, general strategy, etc!

Played the game as a kid, so quite familiar with it, but would love a tuto that expands on routing options, safeties, potential hazards/solves etc :)