whenever you like, but pressing new game must be in the video so it can be retimed.

No

with the new layout, leaderboards which have emulator runs hidden by default are showing emulator runs by default.

With regards to warpless small mario - nobody had replied to my post about it so I assumed it was fine to change it. Also if that isn't a misc category, what do you think is?

Due to the amount of time emulator saves it is ridiculously hard to beat your time on console. If your suggesting to do runs on emulator then that is backwards thinking - console is the real game and should take priority over an emulated game.

I'm not trying to change everything but even if I was, at least I'm posting in the forums and asking people's opinions instead of going ahead with everything (like adding warpless small mario in the first place).

Not everyone can run on console, yes, and emulated runs can still be submitted to the leaderboard. They would just be hidden by default.

This would make a lot of sense as emulator saves a significant amount of time over console in this game. In any% it saves roughly 18 seconds according to my calculations. In warpless and 100% it would save a lot more.

I haven't brought this up before because there hadn't been a good run on console. Now I have a 12:16 I think it's unfair that the run is listed as second even though it is a better run than the first place time.

This is not banning emulator runs - they can still be submitted and will still appear on the runner's profile and if someone clicks show emulator runs.

If nobody has posted meaningful objections to this change within the next few days, I will implement it.

Now I see "warpless small mario" has been added and I think that should definitely be a miscellaneous category (if even a category at all).

I think maybe the e-Reader Level categories should be miscellaneous categories rather than main categories as they are an extra thing not in the main game. Also I think it would make the leaderboard look better with just the 3 main categories.

Thoughts?

No problem man, thanks!

So one of my runs was rejected because I used save & quit. I didn't know this wasn't allowed because there aren't any rules defined. So it would be nice if someone could add some rules. Maybe like this:

-Timing begins when you select "Mario" on a new file. -Timing ends when you go through the door after defeating Bowser. -Save and quit is not allowed.

I am also wondering why save & quit is not allowed as this category is any% which means no restrictions.

The emulator is clearly sped up in this video, you can hear from the music. So I would not say this is the world record.