Hello speedfriends, the Chrono Trigger community want to invite you to participate in the Chrono Trigger ‘Defeat Magus’ tournament we will be holding starting March 1.
This is a great chance to pick up the game and have some fun races. We have created some video tutorials and route document specifically for this tournament which you can find below. Any other questions you might have you can just join the Discord server we’ve opened for the tourmanent and ask away!
There will most likely always be someone online who can help you with any questions you might have. We will also be announcing on Discord dates to setup the races, etc... This is a long tournament so for each race you will have 1-2 weeks to race your opponent (See FAQ). So please join the server, it kind of is required to make it all run smoothly, you can download Discord in case you don’t have it already.
We give runners a period of time to get in touch with their opponents, set a date and race based on the dates we set at the start of the tournament (You can see them beside each of the rounds).
As soon as runners give us a Date&Time we will update it in the Matches section and we will make a note if it’s going to be able to be restreamed on Twitch.tv/egranjerry or if it’s going to be only on the respective runners channels.
The restreamed race vods will be uploaded on Youtube a couple of hours after the race ends: Vods Playlist.
Video tutorial made by ElGranJerry.
Google document with the route.
Pattern for all the bosses.
I’ve seen Chrono Carts (US) go for over $100 online, do I have to buy one to race?
You don’t have to do that! Luckily Chrono Trigger emulates pretty well so you can race on Emulator (Check SRL for banned emulators list) or get it for the Wii Virtual Console and race! If you are going to use emulator you can use Snes9x 1.53 or Bizhawk if your computer can handle it.
What are the rules for the races, do I have to stream? What do I have to do before racing?
Streaming is required for this tournament, you have to stream every race you do, it will also follow SpeedrunsLive rules.
Here’s a list of steps on what to do in order to race:
You will be given 1-2 weeks depending on the # of entrants the tournament gets to setup a date and time with your opponent, so communicate with him and set it up. We will let you know via Discord in the Announcements tab who you are racing and the deadline to race beforehand (We will also be giving you your opponent Discord name and his prefered form of contact to make communication easier).
Let us know in the Discord server in the Race Date-Time tab the time and date you chose to race your opponent.
We will be restreaming some races to Twitch.tv/elgranjerry with commentary from runners, so we will let you know if that is the case for your race.
Race! Open up the channel on Speedrunslive.com with the goal set to Defeat Magus and start the race at the date and time you stated! (It doesn’t have to be exactly at x hour but since people will want to watch the races we encourage you to be as punctual as possible).
Report the results to the Discord Server in the ‘Results’ tab. We will update the bracket accordingly waiting for all of the racers to do theirs as well.
Once all of the races for that round are over (meaning everyone has raced), the bracket will be updated and you will know who you are racing next. So go back to Step 1 and repeat!
What is SpeedrunsLive channel? How do I race there?
SpeedrunsLive is a website speedrunners use to race, if you’re new to this please read the FAQ over at Speedrunslive.com/faq. Basically what you have to do is setup a nickname (Preferably same as your Twitch Name) and join the IRC channel. Once you are there you can create race channels and the results will be saved in the webpage. This is just another way for us to make sure the players did finish with the time they stated and we can compare SRL time to the time in their stream if there were to be any incongruences.
I’ve never speedran Chrono Trigger before, where does the time start and end?
Normally for runs we start the timer from the first screen after we reset (Pendulum), for the race we will be starting the time here (See Img. below) As soon as the timer starts you can select 'Wait' and start the run.
The timer stops as soon as Magus takes a knee. When you defeat Magus you get xp, coins, etc... Then about 3 seconds pass and Magus takes a knee, right there the timer stops (See Img. below). The reason we do this is to have a fixed ending point for everyone running this category.
I’ve never ran this game before… am I going to be racing against the 1st place in my first race because of this? If so, then I might not join just to lose… :(
Don’t worry, we will try to be seeding the bracket in a way that at least your first race will be against someone with the same or similar skill level as you. Obviously if you start winning or go to the losers bracket you might run against a few of the better players but don’t get discouraged! CT is a very volatile game and anything can happen ;).
How long is a Defeat Magus run going to take me? Took me 3 weeks to get there as a kid.... Am I going to be up all night???
Not at all! A great Defeat Magus time is around 1:50, so if this is your first time running this game and you followed the tutorials/route posted above, you will be done in under 2:40 hours for sure. With the times only getting better from there!
I am loving speedrunning this game! Are there other categories I can speedrun?!?!?
There sure are! We have Any%, Any% No LSS, 100%, All Endings and NG+ so pick your favorite. You can go to www.chrono.wikidot.com to check rules for this categories as well as times/routes, tutorials, etc... We also have a page on www.speedrun.com/ct but we only use that to update times, the notes are on the wikidot page.
I am new to speedrunning, what program do you use for the timers on the streams?
Most runners use Livesplit. The page has an FAQ on how to use it. It’s really simple to setup.
