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Lincolnshire, EnglandAmoebaUK3 months ago

For clarity given the above, you can't use savestates in a run (if you plan to submit it to these leaderboards), but you can use the in-game save function and reload that save if you want. If you want to take a break from the run however, the time will keep running, so you can't take a break mid run and remove that break time.

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Lincolnshire, EnglandAmoebaUK1 year ago

It's effectively an emulator I believe, so no. Currently the only accepted hardware is official nintendo hardware (GBA, SP, gameboy player for the GCN), GBI (as it still uses the GBP hardware anyway), and the emulator mgba.

thread: The Site
Lincolnshire, EnglandAmoebaUK2 years ago

Not gonna post anything more after this cause I'm clearly egging on the nutjob that keeps starting tons of threads, but there's no concrete proof I can give past the point that the runner @starcrytas is (or at this point it -could- be was, there wasn't much official back in 2014, just an editable wiki page) banned from the PSR leaderboards. You have to go back to whenever that message was added to the PSR wiki (2014 I think, see the link in my comment like 2 pages ago) for the timeframe that he was banned, and passed that all you have is my word/memory that it was 2 emerald runs and a crystal run that he faked. I honestly wouldn't expect many people even from PSR to remember this because it was A ) so long ago and B ) back when the community was tiny, so realistically unless you wanted to go on a hunt for the evidence/info and bug a lot of older PSR runners you probably won't ever get definite proof from that. I posted it because I thought it was worth mentioning specifically because not many people would remember this, and because this other guy was going mental trying to prove he is a cheater (bad choice in the end) To the guy spamming shit loads of videos/threads/whatever if you're actually trying to call out starycry for cheating you're doing a trash job of it, people will believe them now over you just because you're demonstrating how awful a person you are.

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thread: The Site
Lincolnshire, EnglandAmoebaUK2 years ago

I know some idiot has been spamming threads on here for a while claiming this which somewhat dampens the point, but starcrytas is an (old) known cheat in PSR. I know of two cheated emerald speedruns he posted, and from memory I believe there was a crystal run that was removed as well at some point, but we're going back to late 2013 so my memory isn't amazing. Old wiki post with very minor detailing of their ban (and allegations to them doing something in the brawl community which I know nothing about) http://wiki.pokemonspeedruns.com/index.php?title=Pok%C3%A9mon_Emerald/Times&oldid=2829

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Lincolnshire, EnglandAmoebaUK2 years ago

Apart from the very last battle, I'm pretty happy about this run went and about how I played in this one.

Felt much more clean and satisfying than my previous PB.

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thread: The Site
Lincolnshire, EnglandAmoebaUK2 years ago

FWIW the pokemon speedrun community has had starcrytas banned since around 2014 due to cheated Crystal and Emerald runs. Not that this thread appears to be relevant to that any more.

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thread: The Site
Lincolnshire, EnglandAmoebaUK3 years ago

Had someone submit a run with no audio and choppy framerate/lag (I think a top 3 time when they submitted, but the video title started WORLD RECORD), run got rejected. They then re-submitted the run with a longer intro in the video (but the same run) and changed the time they submitted it as (rejected). They opened a new thread called "Omoeba [sic] that's just sad" where they complained I had rejected two perfectly legit runs https://www.speedrun.com/yh10s1/thread/umxyj (they've since deleted their own posts). Later in the thread a moderator of another run lets us know that this runner spliced a run in their game. Finally they open another thread called "Fake Runs Report" (not linking because we locked it and they deleted their own post) where they claimed to be "moderator verifiers" or something, creating faked/cheated runs to "test" src moderators, and well done to the mods for catching them out but "don't tell anyone else because then I can't test them".

Anyway they're banned from the site now, no idea why. https://www.speedrun.com/user/IrreversibleNinja

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Lincolnshire, EnglandAmoebaUK3 years ago

Timings have been updated as above. I've saved a pastebin https://pastebin.com/ai9R9wpD of the previous times if for some reason we need these, but if we decide milliseconds should be re-added for every run we'd have to re-time them all anyway. Of note I had to remove the following runs; PajamaWarriorJohn's 7th place 3:07 (as well as all their obsoleted runs) as the videos have been deleted. lost_ 's 9th place 3:09 for the same reason, however their previous PB 3:11 has an active video, so that remains. Zizanyman's 19th place 3:24 as no VOD (along with all obsoleted runs) TheLastCreeper's 28th place 3:38 as no VOD DaBombzebra's 38th place 3:58 as no VOD

I've also updated the rules to properly define the start/end timings.

Lincolnshire, EnglandAmoebaUK3 years ago

Late as hell reply but yeah that X speed should be Archie not True Double.

Lincolnshire, EnglandAmoebaUK3 years ago

Level leaderboard is sort of pointless when the full game run is ~3mins, and top level runs do the best strat for every level anyway. It would likely just be Hirassy & me at the top of them all.

Lincolnshire, EnglandAmoebaUK3 years ago

So given the response above I'll implement milliseconds for sub 3 times, and remove them elsewhere. Will leave this thread open for anyone with a tied time to request the times be split if they want. Changes will be implemented probably Sunday, unless significant discussion happens sooner.

Lincolnshire, EnglandAmoebaUK3 years ago

Pretty much aligns with my ideas, which is nice, not sure on the tied times though as that could look messy (and in the grand scheme of things would positioning on the leaderboard matter to someone if they tie a 3:10 or similar?) Happy to roll with it if it's what people want though.

Lincolnshire, EnglandAmoebaUK3 years ago

So YH10S has (relatively) exploded since the (now 3 year old) decision to add milliseconds to the entire leaderboard. We're over 50 runners, and I personally think the leaderboard is looking a little messy because of it. We have some times without milliseconds, most with, but most submitted times just get the milliseconds submitted from the livesplit timer, they aren't correctly retimes from VODs that I'm aware of (because it's a lot of work for us verifiers, and personally I'm not too fussed if the milliseconds aren't accurate for a 50th place 4 minute run, where they aren't tying anyone to the second.

So I'd like to see if anyone objects to us changing the millisecond timing to either the top X runs (top 5 or top 10 seems nice), or any sub X time runs (sub 3 being the obvious choice). This would neaten up the presentation of the leaderboard, not require unnecessarily accurate timing lower down the leaderboards but still allow for unties towards the top, and remove a lot of potential work on us moderators having to frame count every VOD going forward.

If the community consensus is that milliseconds should be shown and correct for every run on the board I'm still willing to do that, and correct all the times, but would like to avoid that much work if it isn't necessary ;)

Lincolnshire, EnglandAmoebaUK3 years ago

You should have a spare x speed at that point to throw in (buy 4 at Falabor, use 1 at Rival 3, TnL and True Double, leaving 1 spare) which counteracts the fall. Double RT speed drop is a killer though apparently (I'm paraphrasing what Shiru told me here because I also didn't know).

Lincolnshire, EnglandAmoebaUK3 years ago

You should use the most up to date version at the time, currently 0.8.1 I believe.

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thread: Rayman (GBC)
Lincolnshire, EnglandAmoebaUK3 years ago

Once you beat Mr.Dark, the game gives you a password to use in "Continue" that takes you to the world select screen but preserves your powerups. IIRC you can still use the world map cheat once you've loaded that password and retain your powers, either that or it takes you back to the world map after each level, one of the two.

Password if you want to try this is; CH5G4mS1jD

thread: The Site
Lincolnshire, EnglandAmoebaUK4 years ago

Is it possible to get You Have 10 Seconds 3 https://www.speedrun.com/yh10s3 added to the You Have 10 Seconds series https://www.speedrun.com/yh10s ? The series mod says "I can't add it to the serie I asked multiple times to the admins or sr.com" but I was under the impression it was a simple tag/fix ? Sorry if I'm wrong on that~

thread: The Site
Lincolnshire, EnglandAmoebaUK4 years ago

For certain countries, you can change your flag next to your name in Profile > Edit Profile > Leaderboard Flag, however as far as I'm aware I've never seen an EU flag set before. The only occasion I actually know this happens is for people in the UK; they have the option to either use the UK flag, or the flag of the individual country they set.

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Lincolnshire, EnglandAmoebaUK5 years ago

Were looking to switch the rules around for emulated runs to only be on mgba pretty soon. So yes, but hold on submitting until the switch is done :)

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