-First, I'd like to dedicate this run to my cat, Spot, who passed away a couple of days before I recorded this run from Feline Leukemia Virus (quite the oxymoron, isn't it?). He sat on top of my chair on numerous occasions to watch me get frustrated at the game's randomization 'feature', and watch me break a few DVDs in half because they were all loaded with failed attempts (namely, getting the Magnum in the Police Station instead of the Grenade Launcher). Sleep well, little buddy. You left us too early. =[

I also want to thank Tom 'sshplur' Nguyen for going out of his way to mail me the runs from Shin's site on DVD, the rest of the Survival Horror runners at SDA for all being very inspirational players, and Goda from Shin's site for his video of the Japanese version at 1:14:44.

Lastly, I'd like to thank the SDA staff for maintaining this wonderful site, and Damien 'Dragondarch' Moody, who posted the original 1:24:53 run, thus giving me a time to shoot for. I wanted to shoot for sub-1:20, but it takes a retarded number of retries to manipulate the randomization, so I decided to go ahead and submit it with 1:20:42 (4 minutes 11 seconds isn't a bad improvement). Anyone else is welcome to try shaving off several more minutes, if they are masochistic enough to endure all that luck manipulation. Q_Q

Originally, this was a project for my YouTube page, and for the hell of it I decided to post up a topic on the forums to see what I could do to make the run look nicer. I then learned of a video by a Japanese player at Shin's Biohazard site (http://homepage3.nifty.com/shin3) named Goda. After getting the DVDs from sshplur, I used Goda's run to find ways to improve the current run.

One big thing I decided on when I started was to use my original PlayStation (SCPH-9001) instead of my PlayStation 2, because PS2 lags up in Door Opening sequences and other loading screens. I learned of this after watching Dragondarch's run and realizing that my copy of the game did the exact same thing.

It was impossible to keep up with Goda's run using his direct route, because there are many differences between the Japanese version and the US version of the game; in particular, load times (I've tried running this version of the game both on PS1 and PS2, and the load times still didn't match the Japanese version), text differences (not much time lost there, perhaps 20 seconds), and the fact that the Japanese version is slightly easier than the North American version (It takes 6 bites or so to drop into Caution in the Japanese version, and 4 in the North American version). I had to make adjustments, like picking up an extra First Aid Spray or two in order to keep out of Caution status, as your footspeed drops slightly with the slight limp.

With my route, I know I could've shaved off enough time to get sub-1:20, but due to the bad Graboid (Grave Digger) fight and the Hunters in the park, I had to make-do with what I had in this run. Everything else, like the Nemesis fights in the Clock Tower and Garbage Dump, went very well.

Enjoy =D