So I've been lurking on this site for quite some time now, and I finally decided to make an account because it's high time I actually do some actual runs of my own.
My earliest experience with speedrunning was back when New Super Mario Bros. for DS was the newest Mario game; I'd trade it back and forth with my siblings to see who could complete the game the fastest in one sitting (iirc the lowest time any of us ever got was like an hour and 40 minutes). There's still a handful of games that I've been playing long enough, and know enough about, to be able to play for relatively long periods of time without getting bored. The longest I've ever continuously played one game in one sitting was like eight hours. Really the only thing that's stopping me is that I'd have to buy all this equipment and stuff just to record and time everything. I'm not a tech guy at all, and I don't even really have much of a desire to stream or show off or anything like that. My aim is just to have a bit of fun here and there, and I don't know if pouring all this money into it would be worth it.
So for now I'm just gonna feel out this community some more before I start buying stuff. I'll start by reading a bunch of other posts to get a sense of what things are like around here.
@Quivico Ah, that's cool! I never knew that capture cards were optional. I don't know how I'd get a good angle with my phone or how I'd time it, though. It's also recently come to my attention that some games actually do allow emulators to be used, and I'd probably be easily able to record that if I found a game I like that allows it.
