Wisconsin, USA@the_kovic This ruling was reversed by community vote as of 3/6/2022. Everdrive and Wii U VC inject are currently allowed as long as it's done using an officially released rom.
EDIT: Oops, the decision wasn't done via community vote, rather mutual agreeance via discussion amongst runners with no dissention.
I just realized our global ruleset was not updated with the Wii U VC injection verbiage. I have added it: https://www.speedrun.com/dk64/guide/c0xtz
If you have a DK64 rom, we allow injecting it onto the Wii U VC. There are instructions on how to do this here: https://dk64practicerom.com/install?guide=wii_inject
Sorry for not replying to this sooner. It is currently not allowed, but we (the mods) are evaluating how it affects the run. The FOV slider included with it certainly won't be allowed to be changed if so.
Today I have passed over all speedrun.com super moderator rights for the Shining series to BowieTheHero. Please message him for any leaderboard inquiries regarding the Shining series.
Thanks guys!
Hi,
We recently demoted a category on the main leaderboard to the category extensions leaderboard. Is there any way to move the runs easily, or will it need to be done manually?
Category in question getting removed: https://www.speedrun.com/dk64/full_game#Any_All_Keys
Moving to here: https://www.speedrun.com/dk64ce#Any_All_Keys
It's been discussed before, but realistically the community determined that its too hard to define rules for a category like that, it would end up being way too arbitrary in what would and wouldnt be allowed.
Crazy Taxi speedruns discord where you can discuss and get help with Crazy Taxi speedrunning!
Absolutely integrate high scores on the website. I'm sure it's like it with other games, but specifically with the Crazy Taxi series, there are some challenges in the game that are score attack challanges while others are time attack. If high scores and times are split up it would make games like Crazy Taxi super messy. I am 100% for option 1, though I am not opposed to purchasing highscores.com and redirecting to speedrun.com
Sorry for the super late response. The reason for this is because unless theyre all blank it will still load data from the other profiles during the run, which effectively does not count as a run from a blank file.
The mods have a round table to determine it. All of us are familiar with what times are possible at what skill levels so if a submitted time is found to be suspect it is brought up and discussed with all mods.
I've been talking to PAC to implement a system where only a WR run would need to be verified but nothing has come of it yet
Unfortunately there isn't really a tutorial video, but a lot of the run is just becoming familiar with the techniques listed here: http://www.crazytaxi.net/skills.html
That website describes the techniques used in the speedrun in great detail, and can be used along with watching some of the Crazy Taxi speedruns available on Youtube to learn the run at the moment. If you have any further questions don't hesitate to ask.
I highly recommend practicing and running on Wii U VC if you have access to that version. You are still able to set up a savestate + multiple save files
Is it possible to add an option to add text to the run submissions page? For instance, I'd like to add something along the lines of "A video is strongly encouraged"
We have a Discord group where DK64 speedrun discussion takes place. You are free to ask questions and discuss on this forum, however in the Discord you are sure to get a much faster reply.
You can join it here:
Additionally, judging by your post history, you should reconsider going around to random games you don't speedrun and asking for categories to be added, especially the games with large communities like DK64. Generally, these communities' leaderboards are dictated by the people who have been running the game for years and years and put in countless hours of effort into the game, so doing what you've been doing comes off as pretty rude
