Okay, referring to the thread about dgVoodoo. @Mogul mentioned DXWnd which he uses to make the game run and @If_And_While came up and said it's not allowed. Out of the blue. Why is a compatiblity tool randomly banned and that ban is not stated anywhere on the leaderboards? It feels like wandering through a mine field where each tiny thing that lets you play the game can also invalidate the run. And again, what are the reasons to ban DXWnd specifically while dgVoodoo, which also messes with the game to make it work on modern systems, is fine? Am I okay with tracking the framerate with GeForce Experience or is it going to invalidate my runs as well because duh? Is Windows 7 okay or do I have to upgrade to 10? May I ask for a nice and clean list of banned softwares and reasons for their bans instead of random answers to threads? Thank you, everyone.

I mean, since we are talking about using the atuosplitter to have perfect RTA. Starting with the in game time would just improve the accuracy and save like three seconds.

Got it.

The rules for RTA start should be changed, though, because the autosplitter doesn't start on the difficulty selection.

It sounds great! I can prepare the icons, if you wish. Is there any specific resolution they must be in?

Duckstation should be the one, but whait for the Mods to make it official. Same for using it through RetroArch: it sounds fine for me, but I don't know.

Yeah, I agree about not deleting runs, my bad.

I think they have to get deleted. The times are just not comparable to the other emulators. One minor thing that I hate about the others, though, is that they all emulate the game very slowly. The run already takes forever because of all the garbage between camera angles.

A full run test sounds quite difficult to perform, but the test is still mandatory, in my opinion, for the PSN platforms. Eventually we could do the same on PS1 and PS2, since there was an argument on having those console together as well.

https://www.speedrun.com/dino2/thread/6ogks/1#1ojgo

Hi, everyone. So, here are five emulators being compared. Why are we doing this?

• To see if IGT is consistent across emulators and, possibly, comparable to what we get on PSN platforms. The dream would be being able to reunite PSN and emulator in the same category, ruling them with IGT and keeping the competition nice and fair.
• To see which emulator is faster (if IGT stays consistent).

The consists in playing the very first segment of the game (which is very linear, no surprises, not too much RNG) and saving the game, so that we get to see the IGT displayed on screen. Note: there was some lag in a couple of tests.

And yes, ePSXe, bad, oh no. I don't care, it's for science.

The results are interesting:

• ePSXe and PSXJin are the fastest of the bunch and also have faster IGTs, which look consistent between them.
• Mednafen, BizHawk and DuckStation are quite slower but still close one to each other. Their IGTs, again looking consistent between them, are slightly slower than what I got on ePSXe/PSXJin.
• The RTA-IGT gap on ePSXe/PSXJin is around 22 seconds.
• The RTA-IGT gap on Mednafen/BizHawk/DuckStation is around 26 seconds.

This test unfortunately proves that there are inconsistencies across emulators. I would suggest, and I think this is what @If_And_While wants to tend to, to find a single emulator solution. Next steps that come to mind are:

• Gathering similar recordings of the game on PSP, PS3 and PSTV and compare the times between those and with the emulator times.
• If IGTs are different even across PSN platforms it's going to be fun :D
• If IGTs on PSN are consistent (= we can consider them all on the same level, comparable, competitive, fair) verifying if one of the emulators has IGT comparable to PSN.
• If yes, considering the possibility of having that emulator as the only one allowed and reunite the categories.
• If not, keeping the categories split (but again, in this case I would suggest having only one emulator).

I have just finished testing all the emulators mentioned.

Hello! I would suggest mapping your controller to keyboard with a third party software like JoyToKey,

@666Deadhunter, @MisterDodi, we are all still waiting for an answer here. It's not the first time a thread ends up with you ghosting and it is not funny.

It is looking great

We also have a video comparison, just in case anyone needs more proof of the gap between PSP and emulator:

https://mega.nz/file/tJBGxbDC#gJMpSg6mueqSWxjVCL7_h1ZmwyDZumbLmMv9ZTfUxME

@Dimension_Bomber, overwriting RTA with IGT is still a viable solution, at least in my opinion. Keeping things like they are now means killing the Emu leaderboard.

Gadhium's boss fight has dark colours and it's quite a sight.

I think Glitchless is a smaller group than No Major Skip. A glitchless run is automatically without major skips, but a no major skips run, depending on the game, might feature minor skip. Are they all glitches? I don't know. Glitchless has various skips that are not glitch.

@RapixOnGaming, I'm perfectly aware that you can overwrite the RTA with IGT manually. I wrote it several times before in the thread. It is not a matter of having a more experienced moderator, especially because we already have two experienced mods. @666Deadhunter, I run the game, therefore I talk. The situation I see is that you are not willing to change anything in how the leaderboards (specifically the Emu one, let's ignore the others) are working. Is that correct? Why? Is everything all right with Emu category, right now?