Hi everyone.
For the sake of clarification, we've decided to add these rules for our leaderboard.
-Submitted video must show reset or game over screen from previous run before level selection screen.
This is to prevent emulator players, should they decide to get a specific random seed by starting the game at a specific frame in the level selection screen, from using savestate to skip the waiting time and thus gaining an unfair advantage over console players.
-Game audio must be presented during the whole duration of the video. Playing with music type OFF is fine, but game audio must not be turned off altogether.
The reason is that game audio is a common way to detect inaccurate emulators or cheated runs.
Please take these rules into account when recording and cropping your videos for future submissions.
Regards.
Both of these rule changes make complete sense. The first is already implemented over on the Tetris (NES) leaderboards, and the second I've implemented in every leaderboard that I moderate, so both are definitely acceptable to me.
Also I advise everyone to keep an uncropped local recording of your PB run at least until your submission is approved. In case you didn't crop the video properly or Twitch decided to mute your video, I'll be able to help fix your submission.
More rules updated.
-Functions that don't exist in the original console and may provide an advantage over the original console (e.g. suspend point) aren't allowed.
Because suspend point works the same as savestate. Please always top out or reset to start a new run. This rule is worded as such to cover other unfair functions we still don't know of.
-For additional rules, please consult this google document, https://goo.gl/pYN6AR
