Kentucky, USASo I made leaderboards for all of the levels, but wanted to get opinions on the proper timing convention before accepting new runs.
My intent was to allow submissions of stage clears that are done under many conditions, which is to say a level clear could be done in a speedrun or individually with no further context. So I wanted a standardized timing that could apply for all stages.
The timing I want to propose is as follows:
- Starting with the 1st frame when the stage name is displayed. So "1st S T A G E" for stage 1.
- Ending on the 1st frame when the "C L E A R" text is displayed.
The ending timing is pretty standard at this point but this would adjust the starting time as allow submissions from either speedruns or individual level practice.
Runs would still be required to provide full context so that it is clear that Create mode or other methods aren't used to achieve the time, but not all of the mandatory video footage would be included in the leaderboard time. This would lead to the existing TECTONICS runs having their times adjusted.
Here is an example:
Kamey's run of 6:25 would be adjusted to become a 6:21.04
Also I have enabled decimals for the level runs.
I wanted to post a thread to discuss this. The exact start and stop time for runs isn't typically critical to get exact frame accuracy on, but since raids_shine submitted the following Any% with Warp run, I think it is important to state the exact start & finish time.
The start time is from menu select:
This frame is from exactly the 13.00 second mark [Frame #312] but based on audio I'm not sure if the exact frame would be this or the next frame.
The time stops when the text "C L E A R" appears:
This frame is at 1:07.21 [Frame #1613].
Thus, this run is 54.21s long.
I wanted to get other opinions since this run seems basically optimal so I'm not sure if 53s is possible. Many years ago when selecting the end of the run, the initial idea we had was when the play loses control which would be a few frames prior to the CLEAR text, but we chose the CLEAR text as that is a more consist method. If the start & finish times are adjusted a few frames, menu select to lose control, this run could potentially be frames faster. At present the run would need to be 6 frames faster to be 53.xx long.
Can you add console options for the leaderboard? PS2, PS3
Also would tracking in game time be worth while?
Instead of Any% and 100%, perhaps Polpo and Putica can be the two differentiating categories. As 100% doesn't really make sense in context of this game to be an objective.
