I was curious on if anyone had any experience with running this game on a native FDS but with a drive emulator and noticed there was a "Flash Cart (for FDS)" section for giving time so figured it was worth asking.
I like practicing segments and parts on an emulator for convenience but always try to go back to native hardware whenever I'm doing full runs if I can help it. Getting a driver emulator (specifically the FDSStick) has been on my purchase list for some time, so I figured this would be the direction I would go with rather than buying a GBA cart and the idea of using my Murasame disk for speedrunning gives me a heart attack after replacing the last drive belt... along with much more likely loading time loss.
Does anyone know what the load time differences are between GBA, WiiVC, FDS and FDS on a drive emulator or flash cart? Thanks for any help!
This is something that's on the proverbial TODO list but nobody has gotten around to yet (mainly due to this run not having a lot of interest). If more competitive times start being submitted that would probably help make figuring out load times a higher priority. I can't speak for Pres, but I know that I'd be more likely to spend time working on that if there were more activity.
At this point though, things are still pretty stagnant around here so I personally would be less likely to spend much time on it. Plus, I just flushed a bunch of hours into the autosplitter and wiki and kind of want to just spend some time actually running the game now XD
That's completely fair, I can see the somewhat stagnant game being a bit of a demotivator. If anything I'm a collector first and a speedrunner second (lmfao) so it's not out of the question that I can just get both the drive emulator and gba cart and do the testing and post findings. I think with that I'd have access to every legal form of play.
...I probably should uhh... start running it first outside of a few casual refresher playthroughs and online research but I'm trying to find myself an excuse to play it on the FDS and half the fun is labbing stuff anyways haha.
The reason I haven't done any load time work yet is that it hasn't mattered much. It doesn't matter what the load times are except in a competitive situation where it determines who has the record.
As soon as it matters, I'll get the work done. I will not allow hardware to give someone a competitive advantage, not on my watch.
FDSstick, FDSemu, Powerpak, Everdrive, real FDS, VC, doesn't matter what you run on. I'll equalize it.
