Fein-Life

I'm so hyped to play v.9

This is my third favorite game of all time, but this is my second favorite hack of all time - maybe my number one favorite... It's tied lol.

Would it be possible to get a copy of v.9 for me to play and check for errors, typos, OPness and balance? I'd like to stream it too

Ah! Hey thank you.. I'm really new to this and I'm struggling to get a timer to display on OBS on a Mac computer

Meteor is very hard to critical for Max damage and it doesn't have a sound that let's u time it better.

Characters can have more than 5 spells - I found this out when I had peach learn darkstar and Ultima, the game creates a second page.

Hey community! I've finally set up a few ways to stream, although it's not the best quality or the best looking - the gameplay will be good.

I will be helping people by doing live demonstrations and tutorials of anything you may need help with.

Currently I'm going to be doing speedrun on HM Super Mario RPG Armageddon for smithy and both boss runs.

I'm also going to be streaming another great hack - Final Fantasy 6 - Return of the Dark Sorcerer.

My twitch name is FeinLife

5 hours ago, Darkkefka said:

Sorry for the late reply. There was once a boss in v.8 that was pretty much like that, but she was too much luck based to the point where auto-life was created. There will e plenty of RNG based fights for you to deal with once hard mode is out.

 

Awesome! Do you have a release date? And can you add more spells than 5 to the mages? And last but not least, can you make Geno meteor better or easier to critical with?

Doomsday, Would you be able to send me your Speedrunning template you use or show me where you get it from? I don't know where to find one or how to make it yet. (P.s. the one that shows your times)

Make Other spells usable. only 4-5 spells are used really throughout a whole play through. Also, can you add a swap shop that allows the swap between coins, galaxy coins, Frog Coins, etc..? And last but not least.. can you nerf enemies Crit attacks like meteor, Dark spells that autokill, etc?

Aside from that, I'm playing this game religiously everyday and I just setup my stream today for Hardcode speed running  

I find that the mine kart and Midas falls and booster hill are hard... How did you get so good at them - especially 13 flowers at the hill

And why was 13 flowers so important, why was 60 coins so important (I understand there's an extra text box over 60(

I'm started setting up streaming capabilities. Apparently you can use a reflector to stream from your phone - to your computer - to twitch.

I'm restarting the run again.. too many savestatess trying to figure out if it's possible to beat these assholes on a low level. The axem rangers are very hard on level 12 and requires some RNG luck because of Dark... Punchinello requires perfect blocking.. I feel like after that, the last real hard battle is crate and grate guy, and maybe the cake only because of the high damage. Once you get peach it's fairly easy.

Then, it's trying to find a way to beat smithy without the Celebi route.. I'm not sure if it's possible though.

I'm struggling with arrow Head...

What's keeping you from doing HM runs?

After I publish mine you gonna go beat it? Haha

Ok, so it is possible to beat him at level 10-11. Luckily (even though it requires good RNG) it's at the beginning of the game -so a reset isn't a big deal.

Im trying Mack again until I find a way to beat him at the lowest possible level - 10.

On a side note - as soon as dude man tells us about the start and stop times for the boss rush, I'm going to do them. I'm all prepped up and waiting I'm Bowser's keep..

I've only beaten Xion 8 times and it alone is at least a 40 minute fight. So 24 hours is reasonable.

Not to mention you will need top of the line gear which is obtained from rosalina, terra, dawn, and may... And lazy shell of course. Then on top of that, the minimum number of items Ive been able to use vs him is 3 hyper guards, Celebi, shalas ring (when at lower defense) and 8 karacolas, and 6 USS.

The 24 he part was me just guessing because the latter half of the game is much harder and time consuming than the smithy half.

In order to beat Xion you have to be able to survive 3 attacks while blocking and you can't do that until 238-240 defense. Idk if you can beat him with less BUT the lowest I was able to defeat him with is 230 defense and that was with save states.. so RNG wise - it's theoretically possible with less defense but much harder, and if you lose, you might as well reset your entire file...

Fight Mack again... I think you forgot that they will wipe your party out even with USS on hardmode.

I don't see you beating him lower than level 18 at best... Not without godlike RNG .

I've played vs Mack over 40 times on HM And I can't beat him consistently until level 18-20

As far as Celebi and master ball, I was out of order there.. sorry. I don't see a faster way to beat smithy other than getting Celebi and getting enough defense to stop his first attack - and obviously his later attacks.

I'm obviously not at your level on the routing and consistency, but I have great timing on attacks and blocks, it's not enough .

As far as Bowser, yes you can beat him sooner, but from what I find it's actually faster to level up their and use Rosalina and the fact that you respawn close to the enemies, than waiting u til later.

They also are easier than goombas, faster animations, and give the same exp. Your Bowser fight is also fast and hammer bro.

But, i digress. I haven't found a way to progress at a lower level yet.

I'm sure it's easily possible with enough practice. 

For the Xion fight the route would be grinding for the lazy shell, and getting to 240 defense as fast as possible... He's relatively easy after that.

It takes about 5-6 hours realistically to get to smithy on hardmode.

Mainly because you can't beat Mack with mallow without grinding.

Maybe you can do it faster but it's way too RNG in the early game.

I've played through hardmode 3 times since I started the speedrun process and I've gotten drastically better at timing which obviously allows me to approach areas at a lower level.. BUT one mistake and it's game over. There's no forgiveness in HM as you know...

So, the current route I have is basically:

Get to level 3, defeat Bowser

Get level 19 or 20, defeat MACK

As soon as you get the master ball, get Celebi.

Get peach darkstar asap (same as your run)

Get 3 diamond mail and level at least 1 up

Get the item Collector

Buy at least 10 poison shrooms

Farm Daisy (which will also level you up a lot - 100 exp. Per battle total) using Celebi

Get 1 adamantite and 2 demon mail and

Level them up

Defeat smithy

Thoughts?

I think I have a hardmode path but it's really long... I think a 1 day HM Xion is possible... But it would take close to 24 hrs

Doomsday, do you remember where to get the Item Collector? (Thing that increases drop rate of hidden monster items)

1 hour ago, WolfBladeEJ89 said:

if you were still interested in boss rush runs.  They way it is currently set up, you can prep your party before hand, going in with whatever weapons, equipment, lvs, etc.  The only rulings are that time starts at the start of said rush and that time ends once the rush ends.  

These were just meant to be extra little fun categories if people wanted to do them.

The main runs laid out currently are Defeat Smithy (end of 'story mode') and Defeat Xion (the true final boss).

No emulator functions can be used.  Play as if you were playing on actual console hardware. 

 

As far as other categories or ideas, I have not really received any suggestions from the community to consider at this time.  But thank you for your interest in speedruning this game.

Wow awesome!

I'm definitely going to do boss run speedrun - but is there one for hardmode? I only have access to them on hardmode and I don't think it would be much fun on easy..

As far as suggestions on speedrun categories, we were discussing 100% speedrun options and what that would actually entail.. thoughts?

I'm currently mapping out a hardmode speedrun route (and yes it is really hard...)

I figured it would be faster to get to a point of surviving ultimatum than to get strong enough to kill him prior to using it.

I'm not sure how much HP he has on HM or what turn you have to kill him by.

I'm practicing right now and I think mandatory CELEBI as soon as you get master ball is the only way to get the items needed to progress - especially to a 100%

As far as level grinding, I think gold dragons are optimal from what I've found so far... Idk. 

What do you think is the minimal setup for smithy?

I know from experimenting that you need a minimum of 227 defense in order to survive ultimatum. 

I was able to reach him at level 44 with Mario, 80 peach, 50 Bowser. My defense is 144 and the entire party gets wiped on his very first attack in his first phase.

So now I'm on a mission to find and equip the minimal gear and have at least one player reach 227 defense... Thoughts?

Side note: for Terra you need 230, Rosalina you need 235, Xion you need 240. Everyone else can be beaten with less than 230.