Uploaded January 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This run is not valid due to the following reasons:
-Use of an emulator (Use is banned)
-Color Palette #9 is used (Modification is not allowed)

The reason I ran this was to demonstrate the speed difference of using an emulator instead of a console. Harmony of Despair is notorious for long loading times before and after levels, and this alleviates that completely. Furthermore the game itself runs faster in menu and saves almost instantly.
Even with mediocre and sometimes worse gameplay here I still was ahead 1:30 of pb by sheer game performance alone.

I wish "Emulator" could be a category on speedrun, maybe one day

Laptop I'm running this on w/ spec list: rog.asus.com/us/laptops/rog-zephyrus/rog-zephyrus-g14-series