Hey guys,

Over the next couple days, I'm going to be working on cleaning up the layout of the leaderboards, and that will involve moving a lot of times.

Some of the changes: Main Full Run categories are going to be: Challenge Stage 8 Million Points Stage 255

All 3 of these categories can be seen as a "full game" for different reasons. CS8 is the canon ending of the game and where all Challenge Stages loop. On Namco Collections vol 1 they even added a "Congratulations," and official end and credits to the game. Million points is where Japanese players traditionally ended runs, as once the score rolls, it's impossible to add it to the in-game leaderboard, so score tracking in Japan ended there and the game was considered "beat." And Stage 255 killscreens and crashes the game on default settings, and is one full loop of the game.

I'll be importing all the other times to a Level leaderboard. It will take some time, I'm going to do the categories with the most runs last as to make sure I get them all right and preserve them. I don't know if this will cause a lot of notifications and confusion, but if you get a notification saying you have a new run submitted, that's what it is. It's me migrating everything.

Hey, I host videos occasionally for some players who don't use Youtube, but stream and save to Twitch. But it's becoming a bit combersome to donwload, reupload, give to them, etc.

Is it acceptable to make a "redirect video" that is a filler, and has links to the games on Twitch in the comments section below?

We have recently been having head to head races to 1 million. Can we also make that a track on here?

We have been playing on "any rank/difficulty." I know someone had said "Hardest" is default settings in another thread, but this not true across ports. Most ports start on "Normal" or Rank B. Arcade1Up emulators and many others start on Rank A. It's unclear if the original were A or B, but I believe they were A. At the time, B was not called normal, it was called "2nd level of difficulty."

D way only used because it was arbitrarily decided that's what should be played for two tracks, Marathon and Tournament settings. A and C will reach a Killscreen at level 0, B and D will continue forever.

... So the moral of the story is "it's complicated." We've recently moved more towards inclusion, i.e. our group let's anyone play on any settings, since the default settings were likely the easiest, and if you want to make things harder on yourself, more power to you. There is a slight chance you actually gain a speed advantage at higher ranks since bugs come out faster earlier, but that's as of yet unproven.

For Race to 1 Million on this board, I'd accept any decision. If you want the consistency of Rank D for all, that's cool. If you want to make it "any%" style like we already play, that's cool, too.