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After some months, I finally got a Slim PS3 to mod it and play the Ratchet & Clank Randomizer, an amazing mod made by bordplate and released this past March of 2022. The idea is simple: when you activate the mod, the location of all items, gadgets, weapons and infobots gets randomized, so you can get the Thruster-pack in a Gadgetron Vendor or you can pay 150k bolts on Rilgar to get the Sonic Summoner. Who knows! It’s random! The only rule is that infobots are randomized in their own separate pool, so you will still get no new coordinates on Aridia, for example.

With that being said, the randomizer was originally made with speedrunners in mind, making the majority of runs completable only if you knew and could pull off most if not all speed strats. The most recent update has changed that to make all runs completable with casual logic, always granting the needed gadgets to complete all paths in the intended way. However, having to do some speed tech is fun, and thus I messed around with the code to tweak the requirements for some items, removing the need for lots of gadgets.

This is the run where I test this logic for the first time, with no specific seed, just to try it out! As you will be able to see, though, the PDA is a possible way to get a lot of other items, and the randomizer tends to put it early on, making the run a bit boring after so many PDA flips and jumps... Hope you enjoy this regardless!
-- Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/alados5

R&C1 RANDOMIZER PLAYLIST
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQRPm2uMscWJQVkX6zEtlpZw-pQg02Dv9

R&C1 RANDOMIZER MOD (by bordplate)
https://github.com/bordplate/rac1-randomizer

R&C1 MOVEMENT GUIDE (by ThaRixer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8TG2sCofwM

TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Intro
6:00 - Racman functions
11:16 - Randomized Run!
2:54:20 - Run ends!
2:54:49 - Trophy Shenanigans
2:55:34 - In-game Recap
2:57:16 - Graph of the run
3:02:52 - Closing thoughts & Outro