That's a legit attainable goal. 1 for every of the 5 apps, or per 1 of the 10 maps. What do you reckon?

Did you do any runs yet or would you leave "the form" to the rest of the community?

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Uhh... You are assuming recording software has timers in them. This is not the case.

As for timers; everything would do, but most people use livesplit as it has cool speedrun features, such as milliseconds. And personally, I use scrcpy to mirror my phone screen to my computer so I can capture that. Enjoy :)

Hey, welcome!

To answer your questions directly A) You don't need a capture card per se for speedrunning. Pointing a webcam at the screen is okay enough. B) If you don't know how to use OBS (and by extension any other streaming software), there are a million guides on YouTube that can help you forward.

But, this assumes that you want to compete on the leaderboards. You don't necessarily need this to speedrun, you can do it offline in the comfort of you just doing it in your room. However, to have your name on the leaderboards, you do need to show proof of your skill, and do need the above. But don't think that speedrunning REQUIRES a capture card and OBS knowledge and so forth.

Hey, I just checked it out For the 117% categories, the idea is the same. From what I can see in vods, the runs are basically the same.

You need 15k gems to get into Super Bonus Round, and 20k to be able to fight the sorceress. Why this was written differently, I do not know. But it's not "fight the sorceress".

@waffle not really a response I was imagining from a mod for a legit question

The runner is asking if they can press Shift + Z instead of Alt + F4, so 2 buttons still. In most speedrun communities, this is allowed Runner is NOT asking "can I press the Z button to do an ALT + F4"

Buttons are merely an example.

Relative inactivity

Is an autosplitter. They split at every end of chapter, so you need more. It'd be handy if you could either configure it or that it tells you how many splits you need. I think 12?

Better question: Why would it not be allowed?

ETM that just throws you into a brawl with 7 monkeys. Something about that feels adventurous. There's a lot of stuff I like, but definitely ETM.

I did look at the payment option. I realistically can't because I don't have a mastercard/visa, and getting one does cost me more money than I'd like. Outside of PayPal I can only pay with iDeal in the Netherlands, and I don't think you'd go for that since it's NL only.

Welp.

As for premium itself: It's not all bad of course. As @Daravae mentioned, the name is difficult to see, people who don't want ads do that client side (mostly because it got ridiculous). Access to beta is always fun, but I'd probably keep it chronological for now. Next to the forum, maybe a supporter-only channel on the discord (im not on, but soon).

Q: How long will the annual special go for, and will that stay on that price, or will it be 30 dollarbills now, 42 dollarbills next year?

My onion is that the BF should have its own page, because when I see that "superplayer has beaten the WR in Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury - Super Mario 3D World", that's just nonsensical. Just like how Xenoblade Chronicles: Future Connected is split from XCDE.

But, this should've happened from the start, it's way too late now without SRDC staff help. So I agree with Cactus' vision wholeheartedly due to lack of my vision being doable.

Also, is there any overview over what kind of online integrations LiveSplit has?

Layouts should be personal, but you can always offer a fun and nice layout and splits already in the resources tab, which would be .lss and .lsl files.

As for "setting up", a video could definitely help, but there already are soo many "start speedrunning" guides over the internet, even in the Knowledge base of Speedrun.com

Consider pointing new runners there, or the video you will make that's specific to Eye of the Temple. Or the text guide I just saw you linked :P

I guess this game being how it is and has evolved, indeed has way too many edge-cases that could ruin the fun of leaderboards, even though they are trivial in and upon itself just as many other RNG-like games. Not to discredit the work you are doing.

For the time being, we will keep playing the way we are right now, because it's more fun for us, understanding that won't compete with the boards. And hey, if we ever do have a streak where all 3 evidences are needed for all 6 small maps, who knows.

Thanks for a healthy discussion and your side of the story :)

I'm just here to say that I disagree with the ruling. There is a clear difference with "start map, guess and go, in the hope I am correct" and using deduction to guess the correct ghost, and a verifier can (should) see the difference. If it's evidence X and Y, and it clearly does trait B (the instahunt from demon would be very, very funny, but another example is the obake's clear 6-finger fingerprint) would still be "playing the game intentional". I'm actually practicing trio runs for a marathon showing, but I just disagree with not being able to go speedy while clearly showing a "minimum effort" in an any% run. If it were called "3-evidence", I'd be less inclined to question the ruling :^)

You don't need to follow the rules to be able to do speedruns, that's the beauty on it.

But due to unfair stuff, don't expect to be on the leaderboards.

For this specific game, yes, it definitely is a little bit faster, for an any% run, this results in about half a minute faster. This doesn't translate well to ALL games, but it definitely does for Ape Escape 2

I assume he's a new runner in general, in which case, all the normal things apply;

Make notes that helps you, even though Oneshot already has really good notes already. Practice, even practice segments. Fortunately this is a short enough run.

And, don't reset when you make 1 mistake. You will always make mistakes, and practicing the end is way better than practicing the start of the run.

Tell your profile that you're from England, rather than England, United Kingdom. This is intended behaviour.

You can see I'm from The Netherlands, but if I'd choose North Holland as my REGION, nothing would change on the board, but on the forums and profile, you'd see the North Holland flag rather than NL.

Short: Country dictates flag on boards, region just shows on profile and forums

Adding categories is the easiest thing to do. But instead of claiming it is in the best interest of the community, you should probably state your claim and tell us what it is you wish to get added.