You shouldn't be using any emulator that runs as smooth as his because the game shouldn't be running like that. Even unofficial emulators lag at various points in this game and it's not just Stage 4 either. Stage 6 is supposed to perform similarly.
I know this because GTNTG ran on Kega Fusionr and his game lagged like it was supposed to. Same with mine and I ran on Mega SG and it also lagged like it's supposed to.
If the game isn't lagging for Senis, that means he is using an emulator that really needs to be banned or at the very least some hard rules on its use such as with retroarch and the whole not messing with default settings.
Oh and the run should be removed but that goes without saying.
So after some sleep I've had some time to think about this. I'm going to check over every emu run again after work today and make sure they all fall in line with this too. The lack of rules on this leaderboard is concerning to say the least but it is a fixable problem.
I have talked with another mod and the runs without proper slowdown we're removed due to being inaccurate to real hardware. Also, I was given mod status for this game and have added the leaderboard's game rules which have allowed emulators listed on there for clarification in the future (which I found from a forum post and I believe has basically been copy/pasted for use on several Genesis boards as said emulators seem most accurate to real hardware).
Also something to mention for the future in case there is an issue with it for some reason.....Senis's now current run on the leaderboard (time of 42:25) looks like it is using the same emulator as he was using in the now removed runs, which I was able to figure due to the same load state message (which also is now explicitly explained as against the rules going forward), but since the run has proper slowdown and seems mostly accurate to real hardware, it seems ok to keep up since rules weren't clearly defined before; but I'd say to use one of the listed emulators on the rules page going forward.
Sounds like the settings were changed and it affected the performance of the game in the lag department.
Oof. Yeah that's something to keep in mind for any new runners that play on emulator as well.
Don't change from default settings.
It will likely create an undesirable effect that wouldn't be allowed to stand on the leaderboard. Retroarch (with the proper cores) is widely accept in the Sega community for accuracy reasons but even retroarch is not immune to that rule.
