Final Fantasy X

Wheels

2007-03-05 10:37:11 pm

I'm the keeper of Time.

Oh, guess I'll look deeper into the topic before I open my mouth again.

Gob_Bluth

2007-03-05 11:05:34 pm

Quote:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4525857805614677035&hl=en

Weird, I have it in my account and it is labled "Live", but when I tried to search for it, it wasn't there. Interesting. Do note that on the same day that I uploaded 49/50, I did 45 as well, but for some reason, that took more than one day to process.

It can't be found on search because it's titled "45.avi" instead of "Final Fantasy X Speed Run Part 45."

KADFC

2007-03-06 08:40:39 pm

It was changed on my account, but it wasn't when you saw the video, don't know why it did that. So instead, I just removed the word "Part." And now, it's seems it's working.

Gob_Bluth

2007-04-05 05:52:08 am

Have you submitted this run to SDA and if so, does anyone know if this is going to be accepted on SDA?

kyu

2007-04-05 07:04:14 pm

Wou .. i'm impressed .. FinalFantasyX in less than 12 hours o.O

And i thought my 30 hours for this game were an acceptable time Cheesy

..

VippiN

2007-04-06 06:07:53 am

FF8 & FF12.. Long awaited runs.

Pretty sure all FF's can be done in <15 hours. Wonder when the FF7 & FF8 run will be finished.

KADFC

2007-04-08 10:53:24 pm

I've tried sending messages to Radix and mikwuyma, but I didn't get any response. I'm assuming that they're tired of people asking the same question about over the 10 hour limit, so that's why I didn't any replies back.

Apparently, some how, some way, you can skip the CG/FMV in FFX. It was translated so in UltimaniaGarden. How? No clue. As of right now, I'm calling their "less than 10 hour run" a fake/fluke, unless someone can tell me how they "skipped the scenes." Sorry if this was already posted by me before.

Excerion

2007-04-11 02:10:12 pm

Theres no way to skip cutscenes... Obviously thier run can't be considered as legit...

Red_Scarlet

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Red_Scarlet: 2007-04-11 10:10:12 pm

2007-04-11 10:09:47 pm

"I like to watch"

Is Ultimaniagarden a different site from ultimagarden? I don't see a report for FF10 at Ultimagarden that would mention skipping cutscenes.

Perhaps instead of skipping them, they are simply not counting them in the time.

KADFC

2007-04-12 03:40:29 am

If I misspelled it, sorry. It's the same website as the one before. There's hardly even a report on it or much about the run itself.

However, with a translator, I actually found it a few times. I don't want to try that again, it's too frustrating. You can read jap right? If you look hard enough, you can find it. I remember a part that goes like: "With the new finding that scenes can be cut and the previous attempts on the time attack are under 10 hours, what's not to believe?" I posted this once on gamefaqs, but that topic ran into a dead end. No one knows.

AFAIK, I don't trust the time on that site. There are too many variables and unknown aspects. The report that they gave is close to garbage/crap. FFX's Speed Run on their site are just numbers, nothing more.

Red_Scarlet

2007-04-12 08:34:16 am

"I like to watch"

I wasn't able to find it there before (a report for FF10), so I'm not sure where you are looking to read any actual information there on that game. I looked on the low level and time attack pages and didn't see a report clickable to read.

KADFC

2007-04-12 05:36:27 pm

It's not a report, one of there users posted that comment. They do have a forum you know? Even though it's crappy.

Red_Scarlet

2007-04-12 10:15:05 pm

"I like to watch"

Oh, I've never been to the right page that links to their forum I guess, then.

LaGalo

2007-04-14 09:26:29 pm

Correct me if I am wrong here.... but I thought there was no way to skip the cut scenes in this game. Cut out 100% of the game play and leave in only the cut scenes and it still takes over 9 hours to watch.

Red_Scarlet

2007-04-14 11:49:56 pm

"I like to watch"

Well, I found a bbs or something over there, but it looks like the FF10 topic is gone.

inichi

2007-04-15 01:20:47 am

I found the link to the homepage of Japanese runner, who achieved sub10 in FF10 run, at the BBS in Ultimagarden.

http://members.at.infoseek.co.jp/goburei/

Click FF10 at the left of the page, then you can see his lap time. It seems that his final time was timed at the last savepoint. And it is written that he used PS2's fast recording and a turbo controller. I think probably he didn't skip FMV because a site manager of Ultimagrden said that all the records about FF10 run in our database was posted before the way to skip FMV was found.

Essentia

2007-04-15 01:57:42 am

Everything's better with Magitek

Quote:

I think probably he didn't skip FMV because a site manager of Ultimagrden said that all the records about FF10 run in our database was posted before the way to skip FMV was found.

Does that mean that there is a way to skip FMVs? If so, how?

inichi

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inichi: 2007-04-15 03:52:37 am

2007-04-15 03:20:27 am

Quote:

Does that mean that there is a way to skip FMVs? If so, how?

To tell the truth, I don't know how to skip FMVs in FF10 because I've played FF10 only once in my friend's house.So I assumed that FMVs in FF10 can be skipped when I saw such statement of the site manager of Ultimagarden. I searched it on Google. But I wasn't able to find it. Perhaps, he confused it with other FF.

I apologizes for posting some uncertain information. But I believe even if it is false, still, the lap time of FF10 run would be useful for any FF10 runner.

Lag.Com

2007-04-15 11:59:25 am

sda loyalist

As far as I know, there's no way to skip FMVs in FFX. CD tray opening a la FFIX doesn't work, no combination of button presses... still, yes, any time is useful to shoot for.

Also, it's nice that you can help us decipher some of the useful Japanese pages we'd like the information from, inichi. If you don't mind, could you take a look at this and either PM me the results or post them in the 'best pokemon speedrun' topic in General Chat? I'd really appreciate it.

SantaC

2007-04-16 04:19:05 am

only way to play FFX and skip the FMVs would be to play the game on PCSX2 which isn't allowed anyway.

villadelfia

2007-04-17 09:41:38 pm

You shouldn't skip fmvs in a final fantasy run anyways. They add to the fun of watching it. And they're just as long for every run made, so big deal.

Megafrost

2007-04-18 03:19:31 am

Leader of the Decepticons

From the submission rules:

Cutscenes: If a game lets you skip cutscenes, then you must do so. This is not a cutscene and/or plot site. Runners who have played a game dozens of times to do a run don't want to sit through cutscenes. Unfortunately, some games are lazily programmed and you can't skip cutscenes. In this case the runner goes insane as they count for his or her time.

Rake

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Rake: 2007-04-18 01:31:00 pm

2007-04-18 01:22:19 pm

The other thing with cut scenes is what run wants to see the same cut scene several dozen times while they are trying to do their run especially in a part that requires a reasonable amount of luck and also has a long FMV associated with it

Also on this skipping cut scenes topic I remember reading somewhere that with some of them if you press pause then square you can skip some of them but that mayn't be correct I don't know

Wheels

2007-04-18 02:32:37 pm

I'm the keeper of Time.

you're thinking of FFX2.

Essentia

2007-04-18 03:54:01 pm

Everything's better with Magitek

Well, if skipping the FMVs involves some kind of hardware modification (like FFIX where you have to open the disc cover/tray), then it's not allowed.

The only FFs that allow you to skip cutscenes by pausing and pressing a button are FFX-2 and FFXII.