Bushido Blade 53.817 RTA bad ending Utsusemi by LynnCarius (emulator run)
1Ran on duckstation 0.1.7836.0 emulator. This SRC board really needs to be LTR (load time removed) for sake of fairness. And ALL emulation runs should show stats (frames, speeds, input, etc). LTR time is 18.717 (1123 frames)
While I'm happy that this run happened, I'm not happy because it felt free and a cheap way to beat a speedrun WR. This run is more of a proof of concept and trying to see what speed settings were needed to compete with the RTA runs vs my PS2 slim hardware. I went back and did frame count of the top 2 runs for the category to compare everything and verify that the settings used did not affect the actual gameplay vs load times.
"WR" run prior to this run was also run on a different version of duckstation, only controller input displayed, 19.267 (1156 frames) LTR. By setting my Read Speedup to 10x (doesn't affect game speed, only load speed) and Seek Speedup to infinite/instantaneous (again, not affecting game speed, only load times). I could get a time close to that time without changing seek speedup, but it was more than 3 seconds. Prior WR time to Intecksss run was 18.533 (1112 frames) LTR by PEPENPAPONTRO
I am being transparent with my settings for the emulated run because I do not think this speedrun should have load times factored in, and ALL speedruns done through emulation should have stats displayed during the run. For reference, the default settings had comparable timing to my PS2 slim 1:34 RTA run of the same category (1162 frames, 19.367 LTR)