In general it's definitely not faster to fight him, yeah. You can just head straight to Dong Zhuo pretty easily. As an optional objective for a run though it's pretty cool.

I've done runs offline of Chapter 1 and that's about an hour, usually under it. Pretty good starting point. On Thursday, I'm going to run Chapter 1 + 2 to see how long that generally ends up being. I think probably we should focus on who is actually the fastest faction for the full game, and just call that the Any%. But I understand people wanting to have different routes to get through the story so that would probably be alright as well.

Boards for DMC4:SE have been updated to reflect the introduction of the Unrestricted and Restricted categories. Rules for the categories have been reformatted as well so be sure to look over those. Thank you for your patience during the update and happy running.

Chapter 1 - 0:56
Chapter 2 - 1:13
Chapter 3 - 0:10

Date 3:32
Itsuki 3:17
Kenshin 4:26
Toshiie 3:28
Hideyoshi 4:20
Musashi 0:43
Motochika 3:31

Hojo 3:13
Itsuki 3:09
Toshiie 3:37
Hisahide 0:12
Akechi 3:03
Keiji 3:08

Akechi 2:33
Keiji 2:09
Nagamasa 4:14
Hisahide 0:12
Xavi 4:44
Hojo 2:55

Toshiie 5:18
Imagawa 4:12
Nagamasa 6:58
Musashi 0:58
Hojo 7:43
Keiji 4:48

Emulator categories for Any% and NMG are up. Also cleaned up some of the rules and such. Rules are subject to change for emu based on future need for standardization of runs.

Good timezone to you all,

Please direct all runs done on Ultimate Enhanced Edition to the new board for that release. Thank you and happy running. https://www.speedrun.com/Gungrave_GORE_UEE

Just so it doesn't look like this thread has gone unanswered, here was the solution provided in the discord:

I'll have to take a look at it, tbh. I took over the board and just sort of assumed things were in order. Apparently not.

M9 skip was already known but the rest is pretty dope. good shit, dude. I might have to do some attempts soon!

Non-expiring invite link for the discord server related to Entropy Effect speedrunning.

https://discord.gg/wSckd9YFh9

That's an exploit, not a glitch. But a damn cool exploit nonetheless. Good job!

Emulators currently are not accepted as PCSX2 does not emulate the game accurately, and PCSX2 in general is pretty questionable as it runs all games slightly fast. If we were to allow emulator in the future it would be a separate category.

Just now seeing this, thanks notifications. Those difficulties are only available in NG+, and Easy is not a difficulty available in DMC2.

This is a general discord for playing Overture. Metalsnake is in here as well as myself. There isn't a section for speedrunning specifically but there is a lot of info on the game and speedrun discussion is welcomed.

https://discord.gg/X2Ep2De3xZ

Self-explanatory. Hub for learning and discussing the game. Also posting runs, streams, etc. This game was long overdue one of these.

https://discord.gg/BvaayfkdGq

Seems like Reply Studios has been doing a lot of bugfixes and paying attention to feedback recently, so they dropped a pretty big update for the game today. Seems like everything in here will be beneficial to runs. I haven't been running or anything and don't plan to again for a long while but this is still cool to see.

Patch 1.03 https://modus.games/SOUL103