MexicoYour response didn't answer my questions, instead you just evaded them.
Developers looks for all ways possible to make gamers get hooked with their games, one of them is adding unlockable content to keep you playing the game for as most time as possible to unlock additional stuff. It's simple logic
Not allowing to use the unlockable characters simply voids the state of "fair" speedruning, as you're limiting people to only use the default characters instead letting them use any other character they want (including the unlockables).
"basic and default" simply makes no sense in actual speedrunning scene, where most speedrunning boards allows using unlockable content in their speedruns. We're not anymore in the TG era where a lot of non-sense things were not allowed to do/use (like glitches, etc.), making that these things just avoids people from giving a try to this as a speedgame.
The other characters are already part of the game, they weren't added by mods or third parties, meaning that like other last years/recent videogames you need to play to unlock and being able to use them, so avoiding them for runs negates the developers' work (and at any point I said they were "originally selectable", I asked something different). It's obvious that for those who're planning to run a game will play and practice it a lot, meaning that there's a good chance they also unlock those characters.
And since my questions were not answered I'll ask again:
Does choosing between the Eastern or Western version affect gameplay?
Is there any (real and logical) reason why the 31 unlockable characters are not allowed to use?
Is it possible that a different category(ies) for the rest of characters can be added to the board?
Thanks in advance
Hi. I've been interested into running this game but I have some questions about it:
Does choosing between the Eastern or Western version affect gameplay?
Is there a reason why the 31 unlockable characters are not allowed to use?
Is it possible that a different category(ies) for the rest of characters can be added to the board?
Thanks in advance
YT link (since Twitch vods will be deleted due to highlights time limitation):
I don't remember who I told this or if I mentioned it in another G&WG forum but, just do a run of that and send me the vod to add the category
Sorry for late reply. Both emulators have been acepted in May this year. I suggest to join to Quackers Speednerds servers to discuss anything related to the game as we barely keep an eye on this forum
@Marsh_GL But your runs shows "Quack Attack" on main screen, meaning that it's the PAL version
I've said some time ago I was gonna test the PSN release but never done it. The reason why PAL PSN has more runs is because PS2 version was released for PS3 only in PAL regions and PS2 games released on PSN have faster loading times than a PS2. I have an English account so I may buy the game to test it in my console and see if it gets displayed at 50 or 60hz. Back in 6th gen days PAL games began having the option to run at 50 or 60hz, and the titles that don't included that were sometimes optimized to be a bit similar to 60hz running at 50, and sometimes they were not optimized
I assume that PSN gets displayed at 50hz but since I haven't played the PAL PS2 version I can't say something about that. My tv supports both 50/60hz images so that shouldn't be a problem
Another thing to mention is that PS2 is CD based, and CD PS2 games uses to have slower loading times. And as I've said before, PS2 games released on PSN uses to load faster on PS3 consoles, making those release a bit faster in loading times
Remember to add the emulator used in your submissions
List of accepted emulators, based on our testings and allowed for most PS1 games are these: • DuckStation (At normal speed, without any loading acceleration) • XEBRA • BizHawk 2.5.2 or newer • mednafen • RetroArch (Beetle/Beetle HW) • ePSXe 1.9.0, 1.9.25, 2.0, and 2.0.5
BizHawk Setup: Games can only run under the cue format. • PSX > Options • Select either mednafen mode option. • Config > Speed/Skip > Audio Throttle To verify that you are running with Audio Throttle enabled you must hit the increase/decrease speed keys [plus/minus] it will display a message on screen.
RetroArch Dedicated Rules: You must show settings of the core settings before/after the run. Your settings must match this: • CPU Dynarec: Disabled (Beetle Interpreter) [Default] • Cycles: 128 (Default) • GTE Overclock: Disabled • GPU Overclock: 1x (native) • Skip Bios: Disabled. • Access Method: Synchronous • Loading Speed: 2x (native) • PAL (European) Video Timing Override: OFF Recommended: Keep PGXP Disabled Custom settings are allowed for anything that isn't mentioned such as resolution.
Runs submitted before this post that used not allowed emulator will keep being part of the leaderboard, but using those emulators for new runs are not allowed.
Hi. Along with a friend we are leaderboard mods for a game where we have been dealing with a runner who does not follow the rules, making that we reject their runs. We explained them the reasons why we rejected the runs but the runner just spam our DMs here and in Twitch to call us "stone heads" and treating us like if we were incompetent to manage a leaderboard, which has no sense for us as the new rules we added were based on their suggestions but looks like now they don't agree with the rules they were looking to implement for the game
Their attitude is the main problem, as if we keep rejecting their runs they keep insisting in submit them, and if we don't approve them they still spamming our DMs to a point where is annoying to deal with them, so I wanna know what we can do about it
For now we have been considering into banning them from submitting runs for that game, but due to their attitude nature we don't know if site mods and/or managers should look into this and try to look for a solution for the situation
Thanks in advice
Hi. Sorry for late reply
I never considered that category, but if you wanna give it a try, go ahead. I'll open it at some point. Only requirement should be to show that you're playing on a clean file
Sorry for late reply
Sure. Clasisc mode can be added. When I get some free time I'll try to add them. Feel free to run it
Hi. I was trying to add a game to a game series, but instead of adding it a new board was created and I cannot find the delete game button. If the duplicated board can be deleted and the game can be added to the game series I'm gonna appreciate that
Board that needs to be deleted: https://www.speedrun.com/httpswww.speedrun.comgawgmulti
Game series: https://www.speedrun.com/gawg Board that needs to be added to that game series: https://www.speedrun.com/gawgmulti
Hi everybody. We're organizing an Any% Tournament and all people are welcome to be part of this.
I tried to play this on an american PS3 some years ago through Disc Swap and audio wasn't played. I assume that on a japanese PS3 or using an original disc game audio can be played.
I can add the platform but just to play using game CD and music needs to be played. No CFW will be allowed to play an injected VC version
For a long time, obsoleted and commonly banned PS1 emulators were used on Pepsiman since those were the only ones that played CD audio tracks for levels, but thanks to MrMonsh was discovered that a simple solution to this issue was to load the .cue file instead of .bin, meaning that emulators like PSXfin and smartphone ones now are banned.
You must also state what emulator is being used when submitting your run and always remember to load the .CUE file to get CD audio tracks. If your version doesn't has the .cue file or it doesn't play game music, you can use the version shared in Resources.
List of accepted emulators, based on our testings and allowed for most PS1 games are these: • DuckStation (At normal speed, without any loading acceleration) • XEBRA • BizHawk 2.5.2 or newer • mednafen • RetroArch (Beetle/Beetle HW) • ePSXe 1.9.0, 1.9.25, 2.0, and 2.0.5
BizHawk Setup: Games can only run under the cue format. • PSX > Options • Select either mednafen mode option. • Config > Speed/Skip > Audio Throttle To verify that you are running with Audio Throttle enabled you must hit the increase/decrease speed keys [plus/minus] it will display a message on screen.
RetroArch Dedicated Rules: You must show settings of the core settings before/after the run. Your settings must match this: • CPU Dynarec: Disabled (Beetle Interpreter) [Default] • Cycles: 128 (Default) • GTE Overclock: Disabled • GPU Overclock: 1x (native) • Skip Bios: Disabled. • Access Method: Synchronous • Loading Speed: 2x (native) • PAL (European) Video Timing Override: OFF Recommended: Keep PGXP Disabled Custom settings are allowed for anything that isn't mentioned such as resolution.
Runs submitted before this post that used not allowed emulator will keep being part of the leaderboard, but using those emulators for new runs are not allowed. Those runs will be retimed at some point to add the time that saved compared with another emulators or a real PS1.
If you have an emulator suggestion or any additional questions feel free to contact leaderboard mods on Discord.
As Boyks said, Ahmed have been harassing mods and game runners. They used to tag them for no reason in Pepsiman discord server while most of the time their messages were appropiate for DMs instead of public messages. When they had the Any% WR they started to spread negativity about the game, mentioning that the game was dead and nobody was gonna beat their times (and some months later their times were defeated). We asked them to stop, something that they haven't done, so after talking with all mods we decided to ban them, remove their verifier role on the leaderboard and banned them from the Discord server (although they weren't banned of submitting new runs to leaderboard). After that Ahmed deleted their runs from the leaderboard and has been trying to avoid their Discord ban accesing with multiple accounts just to keep doing what does they have been doing since last year, and recently we decided to removed their ILs times
If site staff wanna talk with us about the situation we are open to dialog. We have enough evidences about the situation. Ahmed weren't banned for no reason
When I was trying to do my first BTG run I accidentally discovered a way to skip levels (like in NES version).
Looks like some stages has an item that looks like a ball with wings (or a golden snitch). If you defeat an enemy and you're lucky to get it you can skip stages. At the moment I was able to find 3 of them.
First one (Timestamp: 22:16) makes you go from B18F to B12F and the second (Timestamp: 38:16) moves you from 05F to 09F:
When I was uploading my run I decided to give a try to a BTG attempt again (offstream) and accidentally found a 3rd one that makes you go from B09F to B02F:
I don't know exactly the pattern that you need to follow to get those skips and/or if you need to defeat specific enemies to get it, this is something that need some testings. Plus I think that probably the item can spawn in another stages.
That's what I wanna avoid since I don't use to have the emulator on the same spot all the time. Every time I open it I use to move it since the position where I have it don't get saved, and I don't wanna keep cropping the display capture all the time.
If I complete a run can I activate the display capture to show that I used an allowed emulator??
