Hey all! We are proposing some changes to the ruleset for submissions to src as below. This is to make things clearer and easier to both time yourself as well as verify. Note that existing runs will still be valid (but will be retimed accordingly).

Proposed Ruleset:

Game must be played from a fresh, initial save file. This will show the opening cutscene which must be included in your submission. Don't forget to back up your data via USB/Cloud storage!

Timing starts upon selecting "Series Quests" from the main menu. You can change settings beforehand (timing, stream overlay etc.). Timing ends when seeing the "Clear" text at the end of "Special Battle Arrangement" in the "Theatrhythm Series".

After your run, please show all stages cleared in Music Stages with Clear or Perfect Chain status.

You must use standard mode and stick to your chosen difficulty for the whole run, except for Supreme (where if Supreme difficulty is not available, use Ultimate difficulty).

I'll be running this Thursday next week, so I was wondering if we can add a leaderboard for it?

-turbo -boosters allowed -English for 7 and 9, Japanese for 8 (as per free language choice for FF8 HDC leaderboards) -timing: FF7 new game to final hit on Necron

Hey everyone!

So I'm finally getting into speedrunning this properly (I did segmented runs some time ago, meh). Will be running both PS4 and PSX any% no slots. Working on learning the run at the moment, slowly but surely but got a few things I want to make sure about when I do get round to attempting full runs.

1. Saving in case of dying. Mainly before those oh-so-lovely run killers (Bottomswell, MK, Jenova Life, Demons Gate, Schizo, CA... you know the ones). Is this allowed, as long as the timer keeps ticking over? At least for my first few runs, could be the difference between making a full run or not.

2. Saving and resetting with regard to things I'm good at messing up at the moment - Junon marching, Zolom (although this would be point 1 after 3/4 failed attempts), CC skip (getting better at that but hard on PS4) and probably more. Does this need to be hard reset, or is "Quit" and reloading a save allowed? I see stuff about formations and soft-resetting, does this mess it up? (I won't be running it with steproute, not to start with anyway, but don't wanna be getting runs invalidated).

3. Can capture card quality affect run eligibility? Mainly because in my early attempts of running, I can't really get anything above about $40, which sure will let me stream (and avoid PS4 broadcast blocked screens of course), but might be poor quality - are there other implications?

4. Can I take a break without it being a cutscene? Again, timer still ticking and stream/video still running, just no movement on screen for a few mins?

I'm a way off even trying a full run yet (just practicing and chatting to people on my lonely Twitch channel) but I'm excited for when I can finally start giving it a solid go and join this epic community - if I can ever pull it off lol!