Want to throw out some thoughts as to what I see as the best route as of right now, if anyone wants to come in with opinions or possible optimisations then go ahead.

First part of the game I think is a rush to the beam laser - I'd start by immediately filling up with food at Lave (remainder being textiles - by the looks of things the stock/prices available initially at Lave are fixed), selling it all at Leesti, buying computers there, and then starting a run to and from Diso, returning with primarily beverages, food to fill the cargo bay if needed, then when more money is acquired you can look to switch to furs if they're on sale at less than 60 credits for greater profit margins

There's greater potential if you want to deal in illegal items, three things (robot slaves, rare species and firearms) will upgrade you to offender, which may result in greater attacks from bounty hunters but if you just defend with missiles you should be fine. Slaves work great on the very first run out of Diso if you can get them at under 10 credits, otherwise the profit percentage-wise is better on food and beverages work out about the same in terms of credits per ton. Firearms look to be pretty much comparable with computers for profitability so can be ignored, but rare species in the Leesti to Diso direction might be viable, although volatile. I wouldn't buy for more than about 45, but they'll frequently sell for 80-100 credits.

Defend with missiles early on. The pulse laser is pathetic and if you get into a fight it's quicker to just take the hit and missile the other guy immediately. Diso and Leesti are both pretty safe planets so it's fairly rare that you're forced into a fight which is the primary reason why I suggest this route to stay safe while you rush up to a beam laser.

You probably want to get the large cargo bay almost ASAP to maximise trading profits, but clearly you don't want to buy it at the first opportunity as it's pointless without the money to fill it. I would wait until you have enough cash to fill up with beverages, complete another round trip, then buy it - you'd be starting at about 500 credits, that'd get bumped up to about 600 at Leesti when you sell, which ought to be enough for 8 tons of computers which'll sell for around 750. You'd then get knocked down to 350 upon purchase, but you're back up to a comparable spot fairly quickly from there.

Then it's a case of rushing to the beam laser. It costs 1k but you get 400 back from trading in the existing pulse laser. That gives you some money to continue trading with it, but I'd wait until you're up to about 1300-1400 while docked at Leesti, then buy it and we move on to the second half of the run (new post)

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Typically do runs without a timer - had a situation yesterday where OBS dropped connection briefly, so the run (all stunt jumps if relevant) is split into two VODs. Fortunately the issue happened during the drive to the mall while doing Shakedown, so it would be easy enough to work out the real time somewhat accurately - probably just going to do another run as the run was shit anyway, but if not, would the run being split over more than one vod with a short missing period be an issue?

Picking this game up again having played it as a kid back when it was first out, tournament % doesn't really interest me and 10 goals isn't something I'm interested in grinding, so if anyone wants to do something different try this - it's an extension of 10 goals, you also have to win 10 fights.

Timing starts at the same point as 10 goals on selection of the teams, and ends either when the tenth goal is scored or you land the final punch in the tenth fight you win, whichever is later.

I'm posting runs to Twitch (day 1 - , day 2 - ), I'm going to try to bring this down to sub-9 having got 9:12 earlier today, first run of the second video. I'm guessing it will be possible to complete the run within the first period, the 9:12 I mention above starts the last fight with over 12 minutes left in the second period, assuming the opponent AI doesn't unnecessarily screw you over I'm going to say it can be done.

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Thinking of doing a 100% run some time in the near future, at the moment I'm just derusting the game, and as I only ever did any% fairly badly way back in the day, actually learning the missions that I never did as well as the locations of all the packages, USJ's etc then working out some sort of routing.

I don't intend on doing any sort of duping or other major exploits - how long would you all estimate a first run to take? To give an idea of where I was at back in the day, I'd got any% down to just over 2 hours back when Cone Crazy was still a run killer and nobody had worked out free assets etc. Just wanting to get an idea of whether I can realistically get it done in one sitting

So I'm trying to get Vice City to stream, and I'm having a similar problem to what I think Fatzke had a while back, whereby I'll get part of the VC window going on top of where Livesplit should be when I've got the VC window active - there's an example in my past broadcasts (sixfour64, tried to link it directly but twitch says no)

I think this is kind of a known issue but I can't for the life of me google to where the solution is