That is a glitch, so i would imagine the answer would be no. No skips of any kind that are unintended

Hey all, I've been speedrunning retro games since 2013 and been avid gdq enjoyer ever since. My friends are like minded and always thought, why aren't there more live events on a smaller scale? Just a bunch of friends hanging out, bonding over this hobby and having a great time.

So last year I said f it, I'll do it myself. I set up my living room, got my friends in my couch, and ran through 10 games on stream in one sitting. I'm the only actual speedrunner of my circle of friends so I had to do it all solo. So I need some help.

This year, I'm calling out to anyone in the NYC area to come hang out with us and run your favorite speed game with me! We don't have many requirements other than a strong preference for a retro title, but that can all be arranged later.

Our goal is simple: hang out, have a drink (if inclined), and go fast. This is strictly 100% for the love of the hobby, and nothing else. We like to have fun and banter as well, parody, etc. So there is zero pressure.

We hope someone out there is as passionate as we are and is willing to take a chance to meet like minded people.

Here's our event from last year. If any of this seems like it could be fun to you, please reach out.

A little late but I'd love to get involved and meet with other NY speedrunners

Been looking at a few different N64 cartridges on EBay and I may have found something I didn’t expect. There may be a 1.0 and 1.1 version of the N64 game. I’ve seen carts that have either xA and xB stamped on the back of the carts (x being numbers) but it’s hard to be completely sure since I’m going off of pictures only and haven’t even seen a real copy of the game before. Just something that may be interesting.

Interesting, I looked at my cart and only see a '22' stamped there

posting to an ancient thread but, are you talking about pressing the 'walk' or 'stealth' button? I recently found that on my own while messing around. Surprised no one incorporated this until niw

He did it again

The popoff is the best! GG

That'd be super helpful

Pure joy! Sub hour!

Well done!

Right. I was tipped off years ago that holding up+left or up+right on the stick is faster than just holding straight forward. It's about 1.5x faster running speed. Only issue is that GameCube is the only platform that has this weird effect. Gamecube is also the only system that requires two discs for the campaign, so it wastes time swapping to disc 2 after Singapore sling.

Despite the disc swap, having faster running speed over the course of the whole game is just so much extra time saved. That's why I suggested dolphin. Check out my PB video and you'll see how I run in that version

If you use PS2 version, you cannot strafe to go faster. Gamecube has the fastest movement. But yeah, use whatever you feel comfortable with

really not sure. Youre asking for gamecube emulation right? I would say use dolphin and show the emulator window in the video

Yeah man go for it

Emu would be fine. Obviously I can't imagine it wouldn't be faster than the wiiU. Console load times are horrendous. That being said, how would emulator work exactly? Mouse click for touch screen functions?

Hey all! I've been asked many times in my youtube videos "How do you run so fast"?

I always chalked it up to the PC version of Zombi just being faster by default. The console ports of Zombi seem to run at 30fps, and the PC version can hit 60. So it might naturally follow that this is the reason. But its not.

Here are my specs for reference:

GPU- Nvidia 3060ti

Monitor- 165hz Acer predator

I did some testing to see how exactly why the running speed varies so much and this is what I've found. Lets call the running speed of your character on Xbox/PS4 "default" run speed. I used a fresh install of Zombi on Steam.

1. No framerate cap in Nvidia control panel

RESULT: Default running speed

2. Framerate capped to 60 FPS in Nvidia control panel

RESULT: Default running speed

3. Framerate capped to 100 FPS in Nvidia control panel

RESULT: Significant running speed increase.

4. Framerate capped to 165 FPS in Nvidia control panel

RESULT: Even more significant running speed increase.

Evidence: you can test this in the starting area of the game, where you run from the first horde. The moment you can control, start running to the ladder. If you have default running speed, your character will get tired and stop running just before getting on the ladder. Now test again with a higher framerate cap. You will see that you can grab the ladder before your run cycle is depleted.

Conclusion: You can speed up your characters run speed to a significant degree, I'd imagine about 30% faster, by manually setting your FPS cap to your monitors max refresh rate. This will only work on those playing on a high refresh monitor such as 144hz, 165hz, 240hz, etc. I would love for someone with a 240HZ monitor to perhaps test this further, since I dont have one.

On a competitive level, this definitely bends the playing field quite a bit, leaving console players at a significant disadvantage. I am wondering if the leaderboards have to be split up yet again.

Let me know your thoughts on this. And please, if you can verify these tests on your hardware, I'd appreciate it. This is only supported on monitor refresh rates higher than 60 hz. Thanks

EDIT: So Jackyrite tested this out a bunch further for me and found that it DOES NOT matter if you have a high refresh monitor. You only need to set the max fps internally to 165-170 for maximum speed. After that, it seems to have diminishing returns.

Glitch less category now added!

Sub 35 let's gooo

THANK YOU all for testing it and uploading some content to show it off. I for some reason dont get notifications when people reply to posts here, i have to fix that. So my suspicions were confirmed that only the 'Zombi' port is capable of this glitch most likely because of the way the inventory was changed. I tried to mess around on the wiiU version but couldnt get anything to dupe. On wiiU, the items are maps on the touchscreen and have to be dragged to quickslot 'boxes'. You can't select weapons with any buttons, you have to physically tap the screen with your finger.

There was a item dupe glitch for WiiU when it first came out where you drag items in a certain spot on the tablet while using the blue box in the safe house. Then it got patched away pretty fast. Theres still vids on youtube I think.

Anyways thanks for sharing

Tested only on PC version. Please reply to the thread if you have this game on PS4 or XB1!