IGN has received a lot of flank from a lot of readers over the past few years. However, I believe we can all agree that its “developers react to speedruns” category is truly amazing. And a couple of days ago, IGN shared a new video in which Star Wars Rogue Squadron 2: Rogue Leader devs react to a 40-minute speedrun.
Since I’m a big fan of speedruns (in general) I really had to share this video with you. Yes, this was a console game though technically, you can play it on PC via emulators.
Star Wars Rogue Squadron 2: Rogue Leader is an action game from Factor 5 and LucasArts. This Star Wars game came out in 2001 on Nintendo GameCube. The game spans all three movies in the original Star Wars trilogy, and you play as either Luke Skywalker or Wedge Antilles.
Enjoy!
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always love seeing speedruns
For those who want to try those Gamecube games, they’re perfectly emulated with Dolphin and I highly recommend them.
I have all three Rogue Squadron games (the first on PC) and they’re among the best Star Wars games ever made.
By the way, if you want to see another great “speedrun developers reaction”, you should look for “Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time Developers React to Speedrun” on Youtube, it’s pretty entertaining as well. Haven’t tried that one yet, but it looks cool.
When I tried playing them on Dolphin they were pretty rough. For some reason the Star Wars Factor 5 games on N64 and Gamecube have always been tricky to emulate, especially the N64 ones.
Maybe you can try to look for “[UNOFFICIAL] Ishiiruka-Dolphin Custom Version”, that fork works better for some games.
But personally, I don’t have any trouble with Dolphin 5.0.
On the other hand, yeah, I always ran into various problems with Nintendo 64 games… I’ve heard the best N64 emulator in 2021 is m64p, but I haven’t tried it.
Rogue leader and rebel strike are still not perfect on dolphin in term of speed and crashes even on top end overclocked cpu’s, even the emulator devs acknowledge that those games are very hard to emulate for some reason.
john: pc games only and no dlcs
also john: check this speedrun of this gamecube game
insane graphics for gamecube.