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Re: Rayman 1 speedrunning

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A new run has just been validated on speedrun.com!

PS1 - 100% in 01h 15m 28s by kronkie10 - 1st place

Submitted: 11/03/2025
Platform: PlayStation
Region: USA / NTSC
kronkie10 wrote:Damn you Mr. Stone...
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Re: Rayman 1 speedrunning

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Wow, nice work Kronks!
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Re: Rayman 1 speedrunning

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Congrats kronkie, another 4s down! :partyhat:
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Re: Rayman 1 speedrunning

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A new run has just been validated on speedrun.com!

PS1 - 100% in 01h 22m 36s by Hey_Jase - 16th place

Submitted: 18/03/2025
Platform: PlayStation
Region: USA / NTSC
Hey_Jase wrote:Wow. I am so pleased with this run, a major improvement over the previous pb, very small amount of mistakes and i believe my first deathless run. Played really well throughout, missed allegro clip and final hit on mr stone, but not too much other than that, very excited to keep going



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Re: Rayman 1 speedrunning

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A late GG kronkie. 😊
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Re: Rayman 1 speedrunning

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Nice effort Hey_Jase!
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Re: Rayman 1 speedrunning

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New runs have just been validated on speedrun.com!

PS1 - 100% in 01h 19m 32s by Zarcatus - 8th place

Submitted: 16/09/2020
Platform: PlayStation
Region: USA / NTSC
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All Magicians in 55m 36s by Zarcatus - 3rd place

Submitted: 21/09/2020
Platform: PlayStation
Region: USA / NTSC
Zarcatus wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvwooaa ... 0KKmTnYcpm

Lost my sanity and 30 seconds to Stormer Skip. A 54 is definitely realistic
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PS1 - 100% in 01h 22m 34s by Hey_Jase - 16th place

Submitted: 26/04/2025
Platform: PlayStation
Region: USA / NTSC
Hey_Jase wrote:Probably my cleanest run so far, starting to get quite consistent now. Some unfortunate errors in crystal palace and mr darks dare meant it only ended up being a small pb, but i'll take it. Bigger one coming soon hopefully
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Re: Rayman 1 speedrunning

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Great one Jase! Rayman 1 is a very hard game to run!
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New runs have just been validated on speedrun.com!

PS1 - 100% in 02h 29m 46s by SREveryPS1Game - 48th place

Submitted: 11/05/2025
Platform: PlayStation 2
Region: USA / NTSC
SREveryPS1Game wrote:Missed a cage in one of the eraser levels, but otherwise I think this was reasonable.
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GBA - Sax% in 27m 00s by Mieslwd - 1st place

Submitted: 15/05/2025
Platform: Game Boy Advance
Region: EUR / PAL
Mieslwd wrote:The timer was 2-3 seconds too late in the beginning so I added a few sec to it. comes to 27 min flat.

WR!! Hard game bud fun!! GG


Damageless - 100% in 01h 27m 33s by somyeol - 9th place

Submitted: 03/05/2025
Platform: PlayStation
Region: USA / NTSC
somyeol wrote:not sure if the settings are correct, feel free to reject, inputs are on the bottom left
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Imagine making one mistake fighting Mr Dark on damageless, probably has happened at least once :oops2:
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A new run has just been validated on speedrun.com!

PS1 - 100% in 01h 22m 24s by Hey_Jase - 16th place

Submitted: 20/05/2025
Platform: PlayStation
Region: USA / NTSC
Hey_Jase wrote:Still shocked that this run was a pb. After the awful crystal palace & failing stormer skip skip, i had honestly given up hope in my head, but kept going anyway and made up a lot of time in the last 2 levels. Rest of the run must have been fairly decent. Much bigger pb coming soon i hope
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Re: Rayman 1 speedrunning

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Good one Jase :)
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Re: Rayman 1 speedrunning

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New runs have just been validated on speedrun.com!

GBA - Sax% in 22m 08s by Ronald - 1st place

Submitted: 31/05/2025
Platform: Game Boy Advance
Region: EUR / PAL



PS1 - 100% in 01h 21m 08s by Hey_Jase - 13th place

Submitted: 30/05/2025
Platform: PlayStation
Region: USA / NTSC
Hey_Jase wrote:I can't believe how clean of a run this was. I can only pick out a couple of small mistakes throughout the whole run, the biggest one being the death in eat at joe's losing 20 seconds. Other than that this was the best I've ever played by far, and straight after a big pb. Extremely proud to get a time like this after only starting 6 months ago. So so happy with this run!
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Damageless - 100% in 03s by somyeol - 3rd place

Submitted: 18/05/2025
Platform: PlayStation
Region: USA / NTSC
somyeol wrote:used the newest version of duckstation for this run because my old duckstation messed up my inputs, lost like 30s to loads
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Re: Rayman 1 speedrunning

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Damageless existing still amazes me.
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Re: Rayman 1 speedrunning

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New cool speedrunning tutorial by kronkie (Dream Forest):

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Re: Rayman 1 speedrunning

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A new run has just been validated on speedrun.com!

PS1 - Sax% in 20m 35s by LoLmedoc - 15th place

Submitted: 10/06/2025
Platform: PlayStation
Region: USA / NTSC

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Re: Rayman 1 speedrunning

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Sax%? :lol:
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Re: Rayman 1 speedrunning

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It's a neat category and definitely the easiest to get into. You should give it a try! :hehe: I should also run it again some day as I've never really tried it after switching to PS1.
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Re: Rayman 1 speedrunning

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Zarcatus wrote: Mon Jun 16, 2025 10:15 pm It's a neat category and definitely the easiest to get into. You should give it a try! :hehe: I should also run it again some day as I've never really tried it after switching to PS1.
Are you allowed to run it on PS3? I could definitely do it because of how little grind is required.
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Re: Rayman 1 speedrunning

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That's awesome! You can select "PlayStation 3" as a platform when submitting a run to the leaderboards so it very much seems like it is allowed.
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