Yea, The WR for Tiny Toons: Busters Hidden Treasure is indeed cheated. And the only moderator of the game is the cheater himself. his load times are faster with video proof posted before me. Me or Joeybaby69 should get mod of that game.

You guys do know that BIZHAWK has tasing capabilities inside of it right? but you're allowing that? also basically the runner used a core option to overclock the core. which is a core option, not a retroarch option. therefore you banned retroarch? EVEN the standalone EMU has the SAME option but you're still allowing it. IF you runahead 1 frame on retroarch there is literally no advantage. THIS IS NOT a retroarch problem.

Also this is how Tenebrae (mod) and even the classic sonic leaderboards mostly handle our leaderboards with retroarch. Emulators:

No save states or other emulator-specific functions. Not even for reset!

Please specify the emulator used. Different emulators handle the lag differently.

Allowed emulators: • Genesis Plus GX (RetroArch, BizHawk, etc.) - Recommended, but faster than console • BlastEm (stand-alone, RetroArch, etc.) - Seems more accurate than GPGX, still in development • Fusion 3.64 - Deprecated, but allowed for accessibility and ease of use

Emulator comparison https://tinyurl.com/y5fb8r2d

Analogue Mega Sg:

The buffer options screen must be shown. If using the "Zero Delay" buffer option, time will be multiplied by 60/59.9228 to account for the frame rate difference. This will also be done if the options screen is not shown.

Also please look at the emulator comparsion. in more times then not. FUSION is faster then RETROARCH (GPGX). You really shouldn't be banning emulators that are more accurate to console. You're literally banning something that is more accurate just because the core has overclocking options. It was never retroarch. Running ahead 1 frame does nothing but give you less input lag. Running ahead 2 or more frames is easily noticeable and makes the game choppy and skips frames. run ahead 1 frame does not do that. Anyways In all my games I speedrun and the games ive seen modded. Retroarch is always allowed because its very accurate to console. Most accurate afaiko. Getting rid of it is only turning away runners that dont want a huge advantage over console like fusion has. Anyways theres my rant. I do believe the rules i posted are basically the best rules though. Thanks to tenebrae for the great rulesets.

Yea angel island start thing should be allowed since it changes nothing at this point. And yea, ban all the emulators that have a tas function lol.

Any emulators that have a tas function/replay movie built in should not allowed. (IMO)

So the emulators i do know about, Fusion and Retroarch, Seem like a good fit. I'm not knowledgeable on any other emulators unfortunately. But currently these are the 2 most popular emulators I'd say.

I think input display is a fine add on to the rules. it takes 2 minutes to get it. I think frame counter is fine even though it is a bit annoying. I'd really rather not use frame counter but if there's other choice then We'd all have to.

Streaming+using livesplit should just be recommended but not enforced as a rule. (this is the more proof you provide the easier it is for the Verifying Mods)

Are there any other suggestions of adding on any other rules that i missed?

I honestly think we just need a visible reset with text. This hard reset soft reset notion seems very pointless. IF the run is legit and the runner didn’t cheat. It seems pointless just to reject it because they didn’t follow a rule then didn’t change their gameplay. As long as they didn’t have level select on either. These rules do nothing but make it inconvenient for the player. A cheater will ALWAYS find a way to make it around the rules no matter the rules. The only players getting harassed and harmed are the legit runners of the game. Let me tell you, Runners just wanna play the game and have fun. Runners should get rules that are beneficial, not some rules just to turn them away. I do agree with lake though that some of these current rules shouldn’t really have to be followed because it’s only inconvenient and a chore... it just stops legit players from playing. If a cheater wanted to cheat. They will do it regardless. Hard reset, soft reset. They will cheat. They don’t care what the rules are. I feel like since retroarch is the best emulator for runners that’s non tas. It really should be up to the runner if they want to add on for more proof. The more proof you put the faster it gets verified and more trusted a runner would become. Less proof. Slower verification and more scrutiny. I feel like regardless it’s a verifiers job to figure out if it’s been cheated or not in a way. So to sum up. Retroarch=good. If you want to show frame count and or input display and or live stream etc... this should be your choice if you want to add a little bit more proof and evidence. Not a requirement. Obv the less proof you show and the less known you are in the community. You’re setting yourself up to be asked questions etc.

Since not much is known and it’s going to take 3-4 months until the update is live. Probably not much to worry about atm.

Voting for Patched/Unpatched. People are already calling these categories Patched and Unpatched. They have been for a while now. Also, Its a better way to separate the categories to better find which run is which. If somebody wanted to watch a certain run on Unpatched they shouldn't have to sort out all the newest version runs as well. But this helps determine which run is which. Currently people are only running 2 versions. PATCHED and UNPATCHED. I do not think there is a reason for people to be submitting the same runs in both categories.