Hi can anyone give any tips for a newbie learning how to speed run ape escape 2? Also, how to I log my time officially?
Hello!
First of all, welcome! I would recommend joining our Discord (there's an icon in the top bar), since we have a lot of avid monkey catchers there, who might know a thing or 2. A link is here: https://discordapp.com/invite/8CQxxBT
To start of with the first question, if you click on the word "Guides" at the top of this page, you see a few guides. To self-advertise a bit, I would recommend the "Any% Video Tutorial" for a ~2-ish hours video with a full on explanation by me. Next to that, there are the "Banana Bunches of tips and setups", as well as Essential tutorials for additional written or specific things. Questions can of course be answered within the discord.
And logging your time officially, requires a video recording of your speedrun. This can be done with a capture card, which is a device that is connected to your video console, computer and a screen, so that you can play, and record that at the same time. Or, you can use your phone or webcam and record a video with that thing pointed to your TV if you want it a bit cheaper. As long as the video is clearly visible, and the audio is also clearly audible. After that, you can upload that video to YouTube (or another permanent-storage video website), and submit on the leaderboards.
A lot of beginner-questions can be answered by visiting the Knowledge Base on speedrun.com, which can be found in the top bar, if you click the "MORE" button
Ps3 version is fastest, but im not sure if its possible to buy it on ps3 anymore, i tried finding it on english/japanese playstation store on ps3 and i didnt find it, it was probably a psnow game back in the day.
The second fastest is ps2 japanese, but remember that you need to have a japanese ps2 or a moded one in order to play it.
Then the slowest are ps4/ps5, they could get their own category in my opinion, because theyre way slower. And you cant switch gadgets without going to the menu. (If you choose ps4/ps5 i recommend making youre MTU 600 so it moves a bit faster.
@EliasF The game was never able to be bought on the playstation store for ps3, the ps3 runs on the board are using a backwards compatible ps3 to play the ps2 disc. PS4/5 also isnt as bad as you think, it has faster loads than any other option, but the time loss from being on the PAL version of the game is incomparable. Its definitely not a bad option to start, and it is the most accessible. As for MTU speed, this would only effect if you're playing the game via PSNow? I don't see why this was mentioned as the game is natively available to download on both ps4 and ps5. Keep in mind though the game has VERY bad graphical glitching on PS5.
