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[Wolf]

http://www.twitch.tv/caracarnvi/new

Caracarn is doin a speedrun of FF8

doing really well so far, there is no previously established time, so whatever he gets will be WR I think.

[Wolf]

My bad, the WR is actually 9:43 for the english version

He's still doing pretty damn well tho

[LD50]

9 hours?

shit, i've spent longer than that on the first beach farming those fucking fish for ap.

[Wolf]

9 hours?

shit, i've spent longer than that on the first beach farming those fucking fish for ap.

ikr? I remember farming the fuck out of that game, not to mention Triple Triad and other faffing about.

Turns out that 8's monsters scaled to your level, so he's just running through, using limit breaks, constantly almost dead.

[Wolf]

[LD50]

i knew they scaled already, but sound strategy. it's about how i went through the game, except i'd be casting triple on one person, aura on three people, then limit breaks till the end >.>

selphie's limit was stupid op >.>

and i remember their hot dog obsession.

[Wolf]

He got the record, btw.

But since the other run was PSN No-disc run, and his was a genuine PS2 disc run, he got the WR for a disc-change run.

Woot technicalities!

[No-Danico]

The game breaks when you junction 100 death spells to Squall's blade. Like, Sonny Chiba with a gun that shoots chainsaws, break.

And he still came in about thirty minutes under the last record. That’s damn impressive.

[Wolf]

The game breaks when you junction 100 death spells to Squall's blade. Like, Sonny Chiba with a gun that shoots chainsaws, break.

And he still came in about thirty minutes under the last record. That’s damn impressive.

Damnit

Now I have to get FF8 again

I must shoot chainsaws

[Galactus]

FF8 is my favorite game. I didn't get to watch the speed run... too bad.

[SpleenBeGone]

Someone needs to do a speed run of FF9. >.>

[Wolf]

Someone needs to do a speed run of FF9. >.>

watched one last night

check here every once in a while

http://www.speedrunslive.com/ or http://www.twitch.tv/

[SpleenBeGone]

Ah, nifty. What kind of times are those?

[Wolf]

IIRC the FF9 run was ~9 hours too.

[LD50]

9 has a built in reason to speed run.

fucking excalibur 2.

[Wolf]

http://www.twitch.tv/puwexil

Running FF9 right now.

[The Robstar]

I bought an original copy online for $18, never played this one so I'm willing to give it a go.

Should be fun

[Krankykoala]

i dont think i ever made it through for an excalibur II. IMO its a poorly implemented idea for the ff series. Most ff games the more time you put into it the more likely you are to discover the hidden things like that. Running for excalibur II ruins the whole rest of the game.

[Bowsette]

I was told (not sure if it's true or not, however) that Excalibur II could be obtained via a sort-of cheat method, where the game considers 100 hours to be the limit, and so the timer rolls back. That apparently made it possible to get the Excalibur II without doing a super-speed run. I never tried it though, since I managed to finish the game in about 40 hours >_> Didn't feel like grinding for 60 just to test that.

[SpleenBeGone]

I was told (not sure if it's true or not, however) that Excalibur II could be obtained via a sort-of cheat method, where the game considers 100 hours to be the limit, and so the timer rolls back. That apparently made it possible to get the Excalibur II without doing a super-speed run. I never tried it though, since I managed to finish the game in about 40 hours >_> Didn't feel like grinding for 60 just to test that.

I don't remember the hours rolling over, I think it just stuck at 99:99:99, but I could just be remembering it wrong.