Category: spotlight

  • Ban of Popular Brazilian YouTuber Buraco, Top-1500 Ranked Player on Retro Achievements

    Clovergate Prologue, Part Four

    For clymax’s projects, click here. You can also follow him on YouTube, Twitter, or Retro Achievements.

    This incident highlights the same lack of transparency that Moderator BahamutVoid would soon raise in leaving his farewell letter not long after Administrator televandalist’s own resignation letter dropped.

    Global Points Ranking Leaderboard

    Publicly Protesting Against a Known Exploit Seven Months Earlier Presumably Led to Recent Ban from Global Leaderboards with No Communication or Explanation Despite Player Inquiry

    You can follow Buraco on YouTube or RA; for the player rankings, click here.

    September 21, 2025

    The ban took the form of what is referred to as an “Untracked” player status on Retro Achievements.

    Auto-translated captions in English are available via the video settings.

    It is recommended to start at the 20m 20s mark of the video.

    YouTuber Noise de Gole: Is Retro Achievements punishing whistleblowers?

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    YouTuber Luis Link: Only RetroAchievements content creators will be BANNED?

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  • Aflame Family—Recap

    For clymax’s projects, click here. You can also follow him on YouTube.

    Self-randomizing mods compatible with mainline releases in the Dragon Quest series on Nintendo consoles.

    These mods are unofficial and unaffiliated with Square Enix.

    Click on each thumbnail to see the corresponding entry.

    For other families, click here.

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  • Wanderlust Speedrun by clymax

    For the Wanderlust family of mods, click here. For clymax’s projects, click here.

    Wanderlust is the flagship hack of the eponymous family of mods of the Ys series. The hack is available on both SNES and Famicom.

    The Speedrun.com submission is here, or see the video embed below.

    Wanderlust (FC) Any% in 25:35

    Date: September 21, 2025

    Seed: clymax

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  • Ys III: Wanderlust (FC) – Mod Showcase Livestream

    Rando Scheme: Chest Pool, No Dupes

    For the Wanderlust series of mods, click here. For clymax’s projects, click here. You can also follow him on YouTube.

    Xynosaur is a fan of retrogaming who is also a creator in demo/chip music. You can follow Xyno’s work via YouTube, Bandcamp, or Soundcloud.

    Writes Xyno:

    I pass a whole week testing things and not shutting up to my friends about how I will drastically re-route the whole run…I finally have a moment to put this into action !
    Let’s get some WR today ! 🙂

    Update

    The Speedrun.com submission is here, or see the video embed below.

    For the event leaderboard, click here.

    You can check the current event standings here.

    Ys III: Wanderlust (FC) Any% Dupeless in 12:10

    Date: September 21, 2025

    For the full stream VOD, see below.

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