For more info on the Whirlwind (Four-Job) Fiesta event, see here. For more on the Crosswinds mod for Final Fantasy III, see here.
NeoKakarot is a fanatic of JRPGs, anime, and DOTA with an especially soft spot for games by Nihon Falcom. You can follow Neo’s work via YouTube or Patreon.
Writes Neo shortly after his playthrough of Final Fantasy III on the Nintendo DS (playlist available here):
Today we are playing Final Fantasy III for the NES on this stream, but it’s not a normal version of the game.
For you see it has been modded by @cIymax and is called Final Fantasy III Crosswind!
And I will be “speed running” it if you catch my drift.
It should be a fun time!
So, mark your calendars for Wednesday at 8pm Eastern, boys!
Update
The Speedrun.com submission is posted here, or see the video embed below.
Brought to You by the FFVI: Worlds Collide Community
The Final Fantasy VI: Worlds Collide community is hosting the latest iteration of the Ultima Derby event. Says event organizer Drinks Glue:
The Ultima Derby officially returns October 17th & 18th and we’re currently accepting sign ups!
There are two ways you can participate in the Ultima Derby Relay Race and help raise money for fantastic causes:
1.) You can volunteer as a runner or restream team member (Or both!) using this form and signups will be filled out into race matchups & restream duties based on your availability with the Ultima Derby flags.
2.) Interested in playing in the Ultima Derby but with different FF6WC flags? Or what about a different game? You can submit your own submissions (here) to participate in the Ultima Derby! Submissions should be 1v1 races with commentary.
Blueimp, a speedrunner and a trusted member of the DKC speedrunning community, has supported the community by creating a practice hack for DKC 2 (which you can check out here). You can follow Blueimp via YouTube, SRC, or Ko-Fi.
A crowdfunding campaign has just been launched for the DKC speedrunning community to reap the benefits of having practice hacks for popular speedgames DKC1 and DKC3.
The campaign has a target of $1,000 and is already 43% of the way there as of this writing.
If the target is met, Blueimp, recognized for developing the freely released practice hack for DKC2, will take on developing and releasing the new practice hacks.
Just like the existing practice hack, the new practice hacks will feature quality-of-life (QoL) features for speedrunning, such as the following.
Level warping
Retry on death
Retry on pressing L/R while paused
On-screen info
Options screen; and
Recording/deleting your best level times.
These features can be seen in the following demo, which was graciously provided by Blueimp to readers of FFV Central.
To support the campaign, please check out the Ko-Fi page here.
Disclaimer: these practice hacks are unofficial and are not affiliated with Nintendo or Rare.