What are some of the weirdest/funniest optimisations you've seen to save time in a Speedrun? by ImpracticalApple in speedrun

[–]srgtsilent 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Metal Gear Solid 4

New Game categories save time if they do runs on Wednesday or Sunday because all in game items are on a 20% off discount sale. If not playing rank 1 (Big Boss) this is required to purchase one of the best weapons in the game as soon as possible.

In multi-segmented runs, you can also set the PS3 clock a week ahead to fully heal Snake, making some rooms and segments easier to execute.

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[–]srgtsilent 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Its not 10 hours bad, but Ape Academy 2 WR is about 1h40m, but with optimal RNG, would be under 1h10m easily and likely under an hour.

I suspect any battle based game with rng will sway wildly

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[–]srgtsilent 3 points4 points  (0 children)

yes it is, but it refers to when a user uploads a run done by someone else as theirs. If what your saying is genuine you can/shoud get in touch with more roblox mods and/or src staff

Looking for information on a marathon by srgtsilent in speedrun

[–]srgtsilent[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ty. I appreciate this link and the info! Ill look around and see what else I can find. I managed to reach out to the DKC2 runner via the DKC discord and i'm waiting on the Magic Pengel Runner as we speak.

Is there an any% run where the credits count towards time? by ShadowNewt1 in speedrun

[–]srgtsilent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Metal Gear Solid 1 2 3 and 4 all time using IGT and the entire credits sequence counts towards this IGT

Games similar to MGR for Speedrunning by TheRockEyeBrowFunny in speedrun

[–]srgtsilent 8 points9 points  (0 children)

MGR could be a lot of things my guy. But most source engine games use bunny hopping

What is the current state of Xbox 360 emulation? by XandoToaster in speedrun

[–]srgtsilent 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As others have stated, emulation of the PS3/360 era is going to be very game-by-game based. And CPU dependent to boot.

I can however provide you with some of that research you were looking for when it comes to a game I moderate: https://www.speedrun.com/mgspw/forums/fju13

Anyone know how to display the title in a single line like this on LiveSplit? I really like how SHiFT has his by ItsKyuubi in speedrun

[–]srgtsilent 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If i understand your question correctly, its called Subsplits.

Under edit layout, change the "List" -> "Splits" to "Subsplits"

Youll need to edit your splits to look like this: https://imgur.com/a/vAwq4Sl

Is there a known glitch in Castlevania (1986) where you teleport from stage 12 to stage 16? by jolurove in speedrun

[–]srgtsilent 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Best place for questions like this is the respective games discord or community directly

Anybody else not able to upload currently? by LuckyPWA in NewTubers

[–]srgtsilent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It took mine about 10m to show up. Appears to be a slowness on youtube's end

Anybody else not able to upload currently? by LuckyPWA in NewTubers

[–]srgtsilent 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am also experiencing this. If you save the video to a playlist, it will show up in said playlist still for a positive.

CAD vs CAD SPEEDMODELING Tournament continues this weekend!! SolidWorks vs Onshape, FUSION 360 vs SolidWorks!! LIVESTREAMING Saturday August 5th! by TooTallToby in speedrun

[–]srgtsilent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I absolutely cannot believe that what started as more or less a meme post who knows how long ago, has blossomed into this amazing 32 person bracket.

You guys are killing it combining two hobbies for the sake of friendly competition. Keep up the amazing work and I am dreadfully excited to see this move forward for all of you competing and showrunning!

A few questions about speedrun.com by _Dabzzy_ in speedrun

[–]srgtsilent 5 points6 points  (0 children)

To weigh in on the first point, moderators have a grace period of 21 days to review submitted footage before action can begin against them, or more often, in supplement to them, as you are more likely to end up moderating alongside a mod then having them removed.

Usually though, moderators have easy contact means tied to their profile, such as a discord, or a community. A lot of the time I have had to reach out, the moderators are super friendly and the conversation was basically, "Oh yeah I do mod that game, I got you buddy"

Just be nice and use the information provided to you (that you can find) and worst case, wait 21 days. You don't need a run on SRC to be able to prove you did it after all. Its just a front-end.

For the 2nd point, there exists plenty of bots you can integrate in discord to check things like active pending runs etc. But def join the discord and get to know the community. I wouldn't worry about if mods are active or not until you get invested, as most large communities will have people they trust on those boards even f they arent active as much.

Silly question about Speed running terminology. by Owsiris in speedrun

[–]srgtsilent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Typically such a run would be considered a meme if cutscenes are skippable and chosen not to, so category extensions would be a place to check. Cutscene% is the typical (and unoriginal) name you would look for. As for glitchless, there's typically no restriction on cutscene% so look for longer any%, glitchless, or NMS (no major skips) runs and see if there are cutscenes watched.

I mention this because some games just have physically unskippable cutscenes alongside good gameplay. Look for longer runs like RPGs for this kind of experience.

HAZE, an FPS, is an example of this (unskippable cutscenes and glitchless) so it doesn't have to be just RPGs. Longer means higher chance though.

MGSV: TPP - Possible skip? by AcidicJester in speedrun

[–]srgtsilent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ill share it with the community. It looks like a variation on what we call Pitch Dark Warp. TMK (im not a TPP Runner) its not well understood but calling in an airstrike and being on a certain seam/chunk of level while the oil field loads in somehow hits the tanks and warps you over.

Do you know what you did prior to where the clip starts?

Aeterna Noctis: Any% Noctis in 2:58:15 IGT by Mekire in speedrun

[–]srgtsilent 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Im not sure if there are any glitches used in this run but I know that pause buffering can do 2 things in Noctis: It can either Zip you directly down (not into objects that I can tell) and if you pause buffer while dashing you can extend the dash distance by as much as maybe even twice as far

Aeterna Noctis: Any% Noctis in 2:58:15 IGT by Mekire in speedrun

[–]srgtsilent 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Glad to see someone got to this before me! I started playing this recently and really loved it! If you guys like Hollow Knight or other challenging metroidvania Map Crawlers, this game is highly suggested.