Hi. The Klonoa speedrun community is trying to switch to animated trophy icons (base files are in the .gif format). So far they seem to display correctly to people... except for me (coincidentally, the moderator who is adding them).

I'm using chrome, these gifs display correctly when opened from / dragged to there. And they do correctly animate, when viewing them from the customisation panel... alas, that's as far as it is willing to go. To me, they show as still images on the board (or just about anywhere else really). Right-clicking > opening those ones up shows that they've been turned into .png files (when they should normally be .apng, at least that's what other users where this works tell me). Strangely enough, these files, when instead opened from the customisation panel, have the SAME extension as their public self, that is .png, yet they unexplicably work ?? In short summary, to me these .gif files when uploaded all turn into the same .png file extension that work in one place but nowhere else. Other people were able to see the change and the animation almost instantly after I had pushed it, so this shouldn't have anything to do with latency... ?

What could be happening ? How can I avoid this ?

Link to the board : https://www.speedrun.com/klonoa1

A few weeks ago, we had started brainstorming ideas about customizing the looks of the DtP and L'sV boards. What you currently see is our finalised concept, and we would like to know what you think of it. Thanks to Nazzareno for his continued help with this.

Are you okay with it ? Is there a problem, or/and are there modifications to be done ? Ideas ? Do you think that it goes against the spirit of night mode ? Comment your opinions below.

[FORGET ABOUT THIS] I'll leave this open until this saturday at 23:59 (roughly four full days from now).

This thread has been created in order to discuss the viability of a name change for the glitchless category.

Glitchless has been added around the 20th of november 2018. Its full conceptualization is to be attributed to Elsiz, eight months prior.

The reasoning behind its creation were the following :

• Due to the sheer amount of skips that had to be learnt in order to ensure a high spot in the rankings, ans also because of their rough nature (being particularly difficult to pull off, a few of them being run-killers, and causing the flow of the game to be halted), they were eventually seen as tiresome and frustrating to top players to use, and uninviting to beginners. Not very fun stuff.
• A significant portion of the game (most notably the entirety of Vision 6) was bound to never be played again by runners because of those skips. It was a real waste.

Now that that's explained, one might wonder as to why the category was called this way. It doesn't have much to do with glitches. Well, that part was just not taken care of very well. And because of that, it is bound to confuse people. In fact it already did.

So the question is : Do you agree that we should change it to something else ? What would then be the new name ? "No Major Skips", "Any% (no skips)" ? Comment your opinions below.

I'll leave this open until this saturday at 23:59 (roughly four full days from now).

A few weeks ago, we had started brainstorming ideas about customizing the looks of DtP and L'sV boards. It's not anything complex, we just took some official artwork and mirrored it so that Klonoa's head isn't blocked from view due to the game's cover. But we would still like to know your opinion about it.

Are you okay with it ? Is there a problem, or/and are there modifications to be done ? Ideas ? Should we loop the current image around ? Comment your opinions below.

[FORGET ABOUT THIS] I'll leave this open until this saturday at 23:59 (roughly four full days from now).

Hi. I and the Klonoa community have been recently meaning to change the aesthetics of some of the boards that we hold. The problem we encounter is that the foreground image sometimes just doesn't want to display. The file itself is correctly uploaded, but the site doesn't load it. I first played with the setting like yesterday evening and it worked fine, but then a couple hours later it just wouldn't get shown. This noon I saw it working again, and right now it's acting stubborn. I don't know what could cause it. This is the board in question, it's supposed to have moving clouds at the foreground : https://www.speedrun.com/klonoa1 Is this behavior normal ?

This is a thread meant to determine a course of action based on the answers of the community about this question.

I will leave this "open" for one week until the 14th of August, at 23:59 UTC+01:00 Paris, where the changes will be applied (Most likely by Harutomo but we'll see later).

Anyways, I don't speedrun this game nor know a lot about PS2 emulation, so this opinion isn't very relevant. But PS2 emulation fundamentally doesn't look to be accurate enough to be properly comparable to real console. And its restricted accessibility doesn't help it being used in the first place, so is it all that necessary to allow room for it ? Don't really know.

[thread renamed from "Concerning a "Timing rules" definition update", for more clarity]

This is a thread meant to discuss the idea of updating the "Timing Rules" definition, aimed at all categories using it. This came to be because its instructions are unclear. Most specifically the latter portion of it, "and ends upon the fade to white after defeating Nahatomb.", which does not really indicate when to end the run exactly. It is confusing for new players, myself included because I had interpreted the rules as if it was required to time when the screen is completely white. Whereas most experienced players, have been timing on the moment Nahatomb's health bar was exploding, and for a long time it seems like. The decision will most likely go towards this way, granted if the majority stands for it.

Here's my take on how these rules should be read like : -Timing begins the first frame the player is starting to move, after getting past the initial cutscene in the first Vision. -Timing ends the first frame Nahatomb's health bar is either disappearing or exploding, during the fade out to white in the final phase." Now it's your time to decide, what do you think should be done ? I will let this thread open until the 31th of July at 23:59, after which the outcome will be pursued.

Hi. Does this site enforce regulation over how a run category is defined under it (Such as RTA timing, proper language...) ? If yes, where can I read about them ? Or, is the choice exclusively up to decide by the community of the game leadeboard in question, along with its moderators ? What is the consensus about this question ?

I apologize if this topic is unnecessary, as the question may have been answered somewhere else already. I'll understand if you simply direct me to somewhere else, or remove the topic after a while. To be honest I never ever checked this part of the site until very recently (My account was created in late-2017), and so I'm not very accustomed to the whole thing yet.

Completely unrelated subject, but for some reason browsing the 36th page of this side of the forum leads to an error message.

For each of these categories, you will find the game's level selection screen showing all scores at once, and a playlist with all gameplay footage related to them.

Top : https://imgur.com/a/pkDWU / https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1GOxYfabbWIL7HSngRghzjdtiomesKtb

Lowest : https://imgur.com/a/zV8pa / https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1GOxYfabbWKXO8dhU0o65IU7Xc9O5koh

I'll respond here whenever something gets updated.

I decided to remake this thread in order to include a "lowest" score section, because while the main game was known to be possible to beat without grabbing a single dreamstone, there wasn't a single word about the two extra stages, which I plan on covering up in the near future. I included Agne567's 0 dreamstone run - which he gave me permission to - into the playlist, so that I don't have to spend a lot of time recording my own footage about all the other stages, even if it would be cleaner to watch. Maybe one day.

[17 january 2023 : this guide is very bad and there currently aren't alternatives. Also, IcKY has expectedly been answered in the server]

[At the 23 June of 2019, the guide in question was now moved to the "Guide" section of this leaderboard. This topic remains here so you can discuss about it] Hey. I have been planning on creating a ressource guide on this game for quite a while now. It took really long to make but the thing is done, at last :

Feel free to ask any questions about this, either right here or at the comment section.

For each of these categories, you will find the game's world map picture showing all scores at once, and a playlist with all gameplay footage related to them. I'll respond here whenever something gets updated. (nvm I won't)

Top : https://imgur.com/a/6sjc7 / https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1GOxYfabbWLV8ukRqJ65z5IpHyWbTRMt

Lowest : https://imgur.com/a/aaCrd / https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1GOxYfabbWLtw7nm2G-JMh6QyiW7HeF3

For each of these categories, you will find the game's world map picture showing each scores one by one (just like in DtP), but also an explanation for each of them (Since I do not possess gameplay footage about either of these) :

Top : https://imgur.com/a/xsymR

Lowest : https://imgur.com/a/aB7O6

There scores may be improvable, but I probably won't return to them anytime soon.

One project I had for a while. Planning to document every triggers from every single ennemies in each visions (when that's possible of course). So far I've done 1-1 and 1-2, and the former is avayable here : https://imgur.com/a/3470z

Latter one should come soon, if not today. Please tell me if I forgot any.