Not a speedrun.
My first time beating NG2’s Mission Mode on MN using only the Dragon Sword :)

My fifth PB. Training from Christmas to New Year. Last speedrun of 2022 :)
I died three times and I had a huge waste of time in Chapter 9. A perfect run could be sub 2h15m, but I'm happy with this for now. Hope you enjoy!

Great news, great news! Last night before new year's dinner I was testing Dragon Sword on an iPhone DS emulator. It was terrible, crawling at 15-20 fps on my iPhone SE (1st gen, 2016). BUT, at dinner I asked my mom for her iPhone XR to try it in, and it worked GREAT, only slowing a little bit when r...

I take back part of my last post, specifically calling the criterion “dumb”. I hadn’t considered the reason for its employment could be to not open the gate for future submissions like mine. Requesting full run submissions does seem arbitrary to me, but I couldn’t think of a better way to ensure ver...

An arbitrary and somewhat dumb criterion, since it means any Survival runs that just get lucky (luck being a big factor in Survival), and weren’t recorded from the beginning are automatically left out of the forum’s leaderboard. The want to “approve” scores with arbitrary criteria when the game itse...

Done. I made them public but unlisted in my channel. The 3 links are a few posts above, starting with this one:

Grayson1048 wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 09, 2021 1:33 am

Just made Falcon's Talons Rank 6! :)

11,938,030 - 1:02:05 - 621 kills

Bigalski wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 29, 2021 7:27 am

Nice job!!

Forgot to reply, Bigalski, many thanks :)

Hello Goomba. Listen, since you’re a mod know, would you mind updating the boards with my scores? I did them last year and requested for the boards to be uploaded, but I never got a response. (I made the youtube evidence videos private, but I can make them public again for confirmation, if needed.) ...

For my money, the PS Vita version is by far the hardest version of NG'04. The combination of the the lack of bumpers, the super sensitive joysticks, the dreadful shooting controls and being unable to break out of grabs, put this version on a league of its own. I had never suffered this much when gri...

I’m at 2.5 playthroughs at the moment. New Game on Hard, New Game on Nightmare and littles bits of all missions to get collectibles. I’ve unlocked all but 2 achievements: Hell difficulty and Quartermaster. My thoughts are: I regret having avoided this game out of prejudice for 8 years. It’s really n...

I was recently convinced to finally give Yaiba a shot and I decided to record my first playthrough. I asked MasterNinjaRyu to join me for a dual commentary, since I know next to nothing about this game. It came out okay :) For anyone interested, you can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

I forgot. I asked my cousin to record the Sigma leaderboards on his Switch, so that we could have a complete, proper leaderboard with all platforms included. However, he said his Switch is jailbroken, he didn’t acquire the games in the most legitimate fashion, and his settings prevent his Switch fro...

So my cousin Frank came to visit last weekend and he brought his Switch. He suggested it would be interesting to record another NG Trilogy run but this time without any previous training and showcasing a different combination of the NG games. I was easily sold on the idea :D However, the fourth diff...

Thank you both! :) JTB: Yes, man, 10+ hours is insane. On newer consoles and better skills I think it could be done in about an hour less. I don’t think anyone will watch it in one sitting. I complimented you for several tactics, so I hope you enjoy the run! Murphy: It’s weird to think of myself as ...

Finally finished editing/rendering/uploading/processing! The past Saturday 4th I did a marathon speedrun of NGB, NG2 and Razor’s Edge, all on their highest difficulty, back to back. Took me close to half a day and two months of training, but it’s finally done. I added many comments in iMovie, includ...

hmmm good question, i remember getting all my NG 2 saves back after resetting my xbox cause of cloud saving, i cant remember 100% for NGB tho... but i think it was the same with NGB... if anything happens, the console just synchs with ur cloud and everything is on there again! BUT u cannot backup l...

Thank you for your sympathy, all :( MURPHY: Yeah, man. I knew from my previous experience they couldn't be transferred, but this time around I didn't even transferred them and they still got corrupted with the new motherboard. It's a damn shame the NG files are so finicky. FARNHAM: I'd guess I'd go ...

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My 360 slim started crashing recently, freezing even before launching games, during the X360 logo screen or the Home interface. Got it to service, with the same guy who's given service to my consoles since I had a GameCube, he has my complete trust. (His shop used to be recommended in the Mexican ed...

Thanks for the interest, JTB. I almost always speedrun glitchless, though, so you won’t find any OOB stuff on this run. All the OOB stuff from
Vanilla IS present on Sigma 2, though, and then some.

I went to visit my cousin Frank's family for the Easter weekend, and he let me use his Switch to record this run. Routing on Friday, trained on Saturday, recorded on Sunday. I searched both here and YouTube and didn't find another MN speedrun, so I think this one's World's First. PS: I like Sigma 2 ...

Format B is much easier, as I was able to record this on my first try after the trial run. I underestimated the last weapon, though, just as I did yesterday.

Attempted to complete the Acolyte Round in all 4 Format A missions on a single segment as fast as I could. I actually never had played the Survival missions going for speed, and it does make things quite different. Format A is the hardest one for me, and I even had to move up the Kusari-gama because...

NG2 Category Extensions are now available in speedrun.com, modded by yours truly and I added unwary too. Right now we've got three categories, all from Mission Mode: 1) All Medals, with Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron variables (Obtain all 24 Medals of any one type in a single segment) 2) Survival Aco...

It's all good, Farnham, I didn't take it personally.

I appreciate your replies, everybody. It let my post rest for a few days to allow for more people to express their opinions about it. Of course, truly replying to each of you would make for an extremely long post, so I'll keep it short and answer with only a phrase or two for each, but know that I d...