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A momentous day for SaGa Frontier runners! This has been a several week-long grind by sangorou, one of the best SaGa Frontier runners right now. Watch the run here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/601226479
This is the first time Riki's Story has been completed in under one hour RTA (it's been under one hour in TA for nearly two decades). Sangorou has held the world record in this category for 5 days. The first world record time he set in this category was 1:00:29 on April 19, 2020, beating the previous world record of 1:01:32 by clowps by over a minute. This is his second world record in the game and the first world record he has taken from the best SaGa Frontier runner right now, clowps. The other world record he has is Asellus' Story in 44:40.
A couple things to note: his timing method is different than the one used on speedrun.com. Like the other runners on niconico (the Japanese equivalent to YouTube), he starts time from power on and ends time when the final save menu appears. Although turbo is allowed on the niconico leaderboard, almost every SaGa Frontier runner in Japan, including sangorou, opts not to use it. This record can be lowered by over a minute, but it would require incredibly good, almost perfect, RNG and consistency. As far as I'm aware, he plans on lowering this time to a 58:5X before he even thinks about submitting this to either the SRC or niconico leaderboards.
If anyone has questions about his run, fire away and I will do my best to answer in full.
This is the first time Riki's Story has been completed in under one hour RTA (it's been under one hour in TA for nearly two decades). Sangorou has held the world record in this category for 5 days. The first world record time he set in this category was 1:00:29 on April 19, 2020, beating the previous world record of 1:01:32 by clowps by over a minute. This is his second world record in the game and the first world record he has taken from the best SaGa Frontier runner right now, clowps. The other world record he has is Asellus' Story in 44:40.
A couple things to note: his timing method is different than the one used on speedrun.com. Like the other runners on niconico (the Japanese equivalent to YouTube), he starts time from power on and ends time when the final save menu appears. Although turbo is allowed on the niconico leaderboard, almost every SaGa Frontier runner in Japan, including sangorou, opts not to use it. This record can be lowered by over a minute, but it would require incredibly good, almost perfect, RNG and consistency. As far as I'm aware, he plans on lowering this time to a 58:5X before he even thinks about submitting this to either the SRC or niconico leaderboards.
If anyone has questions about his run, fire away and I will do my best to answer in full.
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