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  • Dragon Quest VI: Aflame Vanilla Any% Chaos Speedrun by MarthSR

    Whirlwind Four-Job Fiesta 2026, Dragon Quest League, Division III

    You can follow speedrunner MarthSR via Twitch, YouTube, or SRC.

    We at FFV Central are pleased to congratulate MarthSR for earning the title of Aflame Record Holder, Vanilla via his speedrun submission to the Aflame leaderboard.

    This title was formerly held by clymax via his mod showcase run here, which has a time of 2:22:52 in the category of Vanilla Any% Order.

    MarthSR’s speedrun submission is here, or see the video embed below.

    Aflame Vanilla Any% Chaos in 1:19:24

    Date: August 9, 2026

    Seed: SPEEDRUN

    Team: FF4 Ultima

    Despite running on chaotic settings, MarthSR manages to achieve a significant improvement of more than an hour over the previous record.

    Mod and Event Info

    The romhack is the Aflame respinner for Dragon Quest VI on the Super Famicom here.

    The run was submitted as part of the Whirlwind Four-Job Fiesta event here.

    So, what do you think? Is DQVI: Aflame a mod you’d consider picking up for speedrunning? If so, what are you waiting for?

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  • English Fan Translation of Ys III Remaster Released

    Wanderers from Ys (PS2)

    You can follow Kaisaan’s projects via Twitter, the web, Ko-Fi, or Discord.

    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.

    Announces the project lead and prolific Ys modder Kaisaan:

    Here is a mod showcase stream courtesy of Xynosaur.

    For those who don’t know, Taito partenered with Falcom to “remake” Ys III, Mask of the sun and V on the PS2 (only released in Japan of course)

    We got the Ys V translation in the beginning of 2026 and Ys III’s fan translation just got released a couple of days ago…

    I really hope this one is better than the remake they did for Ys V lol (you can watch the stream I did on Ys V if you wanna see the trainwreck that it is lol)

    An additional announcement was made by Kaisaan:

    Wanderers Boss Rush Contest

    This is a big one. To celebrate the release of Wanderers PS2 English, we are having a contest!
    This version of Wanderers has a Boss Rush mode (unlocked after beating the game once on any difficulty) included that records your final time, so let’s see who can get the best time!
    Rules:

    • Record a full, unedited run and upload it to #wanderers [channel on The Dandelion Discord]
    • Don’t cheat, we reserve the right to disqualify any entries that we suspect to be cheated
    • You can submit as many runs before the deadline but only the best time will be counted
      There will be prizes for the Top 5 fastest times with 1st place getting 1 year of Discord Nitro Basic! 2nd-5th place will receive 1 Month of Discord Nitro Basic (Thank you so much to Etokapa for funding the prizes!)
      You will have until to submit runs!

    So, what do you think? Comment below, or come check us out on Discord.

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  • Whirlwind Fiesta Speedrun by Casual Tom

    Whirlwind Four-Job Fiesta 2026, Division I

    For more info on the Whirlwind (Four-Job) Fiesta event, see here.
    For more on the Whirlwind mod for Final Fantasy V, see here.

    Casual Tom, an avid Mega Man player, is a streamer and content creator who focuses on blind playthroughs of romhacks while occasionally throwing some speedrunning into the mix. As a staff member of Final Fantasy IV – Ultima, Casual Tom often features Final Fantasy mods on his streams. You can follow Casual Tom via YouTube, Twitch, or SRC.

    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.

    Fiesta Any% in 1:27:22

    Titles Awarded: Fiesta Conqueror 2026

    Date: July 12, 2026

    Event Seed

    Team: FF4 Ultima

    Congrats to Casual Tom on the title!

    Bonus Video: Shinryu

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  • Mega Man 2 Randomizer Tournament 2026

    Livestreams Hosted by SpeedGaming on Twitch

    Casual Tom, an avid Mega Man player, is a streamer and content creator who focuses on blind playthroughs of romhacks while occasionally throwing some speedrunning into the mix. As a staff member of Final Fantasy IV – Ultima, Casual Tom often features Final Fantasy mods on his streams. You can follow Casual Tom via YouTube, Twitch, or Twitter/X.

    The upcoming race tonight will feature Casual Tom, last year’s tournament finalist.

    To watch the livestream, use the link below.

    https://www.twitch.tv/SpeedGaming

    For the tournament bracket, click here.

    The randomizer can be found here.

    Says the tournament organizer ICharlieboy:

    Welcome to the Mega Man 2 Randomizer Tournament

    The tournament is open to players of all skill levels.

    The seed will be provided to you 10 minutes prior to the race.

    To participate you will need to be able to stream your gameplay (either from a console or emulator).

    Please familiarize yourself with https://racetime.gg/mm2r as it will be used for official timing.

    In the case of a tie, Admins will review the race.

    Admins reserve the right to review any race in which players finish within 3 seconds of each other.

    Reviewed races will be judged via frame count and if no clear winner can be determined it will be requested players play a tie-breaker game.

    You will be expected to join a Discord server, which we will use as our main source of communication.

    The matches will be streamed, with commentary, to the SpeedGaming Twitch channels.

    After a race players may choose to be interviewed, if there is time. 

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