Hello!

We are hoping to reach a few racers to celebrate our new Twitch Channel announcement and we are celebrating with a 1 Day MRCE Single Elimination event!

Rules are as follows:

• Character: To be Decided but likely Sonic
• Category: Live Event Backup (In case of a crash or 2 game overs)
• Timer: In-Game
• Version: 2.2.12 or 2.2.13
• Mod version: v0.4

Get the mod here

To sign up please visit our signup page and put what days you are likely free in the coming weeks/months. We are looking to host this in around 1 months time so somewhere in that region.

Remember this is all for fun so please tag along for the fun of it and to spread good will! This will be a neat event and we want to see you there :)

Any questions please ask here or join our discord server and ask!

Hello!

We are hoping to reach a few racers to celebrate our new Twitch Channel announcement and we are celebrating with a 1 Day MRCE Single Elimination event!

Rules are as follows:

• Character: To be Decided but likely Sonic
• Category: Live Event Backup (In case of a crash or 2 game overs)
• Timer: In-Game
• Version: 2.2.12 or 2.2.13
• Mod version: v0.4

Get the mod here

To sign up please visit our signup page and put what days you are likely free in the coming weeks/months. We are looking to host this in around 1 months time so somewhere in that region.

Remember this is all for fun so please tag along for the fun of it and to spread good will! This will be a neat event and we want to see you there :)

Any questions please ask here or join our discord server and ask!

Hello.

Before I made a tutorial on how to submit a run for a character that was not on the board, since Speedrun.com's recent changes this is no longer possible, please follow these steps to get new characters added to the board:

1. Click Submit run
2. Enter category as usual
3. Keep character as "Dropdown for characters"
4. Enter time as usual, if you're submitting an Individual Level speedrun then only use the In-Game time field
5. For video if your run is RTA then please provide a link to this and ensure the run is done in Marathon Mode with In-Game time selected. If you cannot do this you need the custom game data found here
6. If your mod is an older version of a mod please select "Legacy" under the mod version, otherwise keep this the same
7. If your run is an individual level then please provide the link to your .lmp replay file, if you cannot get into Record Attack because the game is saying that it is modified then revert to step 5
8. Regardless of what run it is, submit the master board link to your character and the version (if it is an older version).
9. Click submit :)

Hopefully that helps, ideally you'd just add the character yourself but that has been changed for the worst :C

Hello,

I'm a moderator for the SRB2 games, and one of these includes our infinitely expandable "Category Extensions" leaderboard, where users can submit runs under "User Defined" and add to the list of names. This worked well until recent changes, now it seems that users cannot submit like this, but this isn't our only issue.

We CANNOT change the boards. Under "Variables" if we wish to add, remove, or reorder the list of characters, we get this error. Not sure what's prompting it, but it stops us even changing the variable from a "sub category" (what it should be but seems that user defined submissions were removed from here) to an annotation which may fix our prior issue but for that we don't know.

I reported 2 bug reports of this, it got "Approved", whatever that means in this scenario, I still get this issue, I've not been messaged regarding it. I posted to the Supporter forums and got no answers so I'm coming here. Not sure why our boards can no longer be maintained but obviously it's not great for us for it to be malfunctioning this way so hopefully someone can respond.

Thanks,

K

Update This situation was resolved. Thankfully a site mod helped me out, we had a name simply called "-" removing the quotation marks, it worked before for the way we had our board set up before but nowadays if you have a variable like that one then it'll return this error. Thank you to Meta in getting this solved.

Hello,

The new change to the leaderboards has just been released and with it we wanted to move the order of our variables for SRB2 Category Extension since the character names are to be in alphabetical order. After finding it and trying to save it is saying "Value URL is missing" but I'm not sure what URL it is that it's talking about. Is this a known problem or will this be fixed going forwards?

Hello all,

This will be my last post on this page as a moderator. Me, Lemin, Refrag and Ors, have all decided to move on from the world of moderation. It could not be on greater terms, though! We've loved seeing people improve in this community, find out crazy strategies and just having a good time, which is the most important thing we could've asked for in any community.

The moderation team will be a lot smaller going forwards. Please give the new team the time and respect they need to get through this. Also don't forget that the team is looking for appropriate candidates to help in moderation, if you think that is you then please reach out to any of the remaining moderators! It will be most appreciated.

This community has been around almost 9 years! 5 if you include the dedicated SRB2 Speedrun discord linked on this page. It's been an incredible time, could not have asked for a warmer place to be around and I am so glad we got to see it get to this point.

Take care of yourselves. All the moderators who come after us remember our old ways of being: don't slave away to being a moderator. This is a volunteering position, to help the community, but not something you need to stress over. That was my job ;) but yeah make sure you look after yourselves as number 1 and the rest will follow. Thanks everyone :)

Hello!

Thanks everyone who submitted runs to our impromptu Google Docs sheets and I am sorry for the wait. This has been a long time coming and I'm happy to finally be able to present our new Board which will be the main hub for all things modded characters and some things category extensions.

We're aware that the board doesn't look as straight forward as it could so I made this tutorial which will hopefully help you all when it comes to submitting runs and seeing all available runs on our page.

Please disregard all the old links and use this one primarily as it will be easiest for us. When submitting, if your character is not listed and you need to enter their name manually then please link their Master Board link (we won't accept other links at this time) and attach your lump file with some sort of hosted link like Google Docs or the auto hoster we have in our discord server.

Thanks all and any questions please ask :) However best to ask in our Discord as sadly this doesn't always send me the alert that someone's responded. Take care y'all!

Hello,

As the setting stands, to create a variable when you set up leaderboards it can apply to "Full Game, All Levels, Full Game and All Levels" which is fine, however if you apply to "Full Game" your only options are "All Categories" or one particular category. It's hard to get stuff to be set up conveniently like this as some categories wouldn't have every variable (Such as a category for one of our games extensions which would only want character Sonic as a small example). It just messes up the convenience when you have, in our case, a lot of variables for different runs as we can't just exclude it from that board, we'd need to painstakingly re add every single one of those variables.

Hello,

I understand the decision to make a change like this can be deemed as cool or whatnot but we did a few test comments on one of our games and the moderators don't get informed at all about new comments, so we now need to manage moderating both runs and comments which we can't see (which is infinitely harder with 180 categories like Sonic Robo Blast 2's IL's) so can we please just be given the option to opt out of comments for boards we moderate? I don't like the idea of someone posting something hateful where I won't see it but it may still impact the original poster and I think that the boards that opt in should be given a separate notification system for comments being left as it will of course clog up what notifications come in already being runs submitted, forums posted etc.

Thanks and hopefully this comes to fruition. Just feel like this system is far too fragile, unfortunately.

LITERALLY DISREGARD ALL OF THIS WE NOW HAVE CATEGORY EXTENSIONS LEADERBOARD WHICH INCLUDES MODDED CHARACTERS LET'S GO REDDIT WE DID IT

Hello everyone!

It's been a bit of time since we expressed interest in getting a leaderboard set up and now we have a way to try and bring this to light with a mock leaderboard which we will convert if it gets enough interest in the community. I will be telling you all how to submit to that leaderboard now.

First thing's first we want to have all the modded characters of interest in one place so first check that your character of interest has been submitted here Character Submission and if you don't see them then make sure to submit using this link Submission link

Keep in mind that we REQUIRE the link for the board page where the modded character resides otherwise we will not add them to any leaderboard.

After you've made sure that you have submitted make sure you have this custom gamedata file saved to your SRB2 folder and load it whenever you do a run custom gamedata I am not entirely sure if this is required to be loaded all the time but it doesn't cause any issues if you do this.

Now that you have the custom gamedata you will be able to run the game in Marathon Mode and also Record Attack but you will want to make a copy of your "gamedata.dat" file and rename the copy: custom_gamedata.dat The reason for this change is to make sure you don't have to play through the entirety of the game again to unlock all the levels.

Now that everything is hopefully installed we will have submissions of your run sent to this link Runs and you can submit either a Full Game run which MUST be recorded and MUST be in Marathon Mode (In Game Timer) or you can submit individual levels in which case in the field that says "time" make sure you clarify that it is an Individual Level speedrun. However, the individual level also have a strict rule and MUST be accompanied by a .lmp file. These .lmp files should be saved somewhere like a Google Docs folder and then linked into the submission. If you have multiple lump files then be sure to send them all at once to avoid repeat submissions.

Once you install the mods listed previously and have at least loaded Record Attack as any character you will have a directory that looks like: SRB2 2.2\replay\custom_gamedata This directory will have ".lmp" files in it. You want the file that says "best time" for the run of your choosing (if you have any issues with it then check out this forum post where I explain what the map numbers mean) forum help

Once we have a few additions I will make sure that the submissions have been made visible both here and on the Discord server. If you do want to help with the discussion then make sure to head over to our Discord and make sure to join in on the discussion and ask any questions where necessary.

Hello everyone it's been a long time coming but I am pleased to announce that we believe to have a way to get a feasible leaderboard for a large majority of modded characters. The plan will require a lot of invested interest to succeed so we need your help.

Anyone who has wanted to run as a modded character then please fill in our short Google docs form and also join our discord server to stay involved in the action regarding all of this. link

It's crucial that when submitting these characters you also attach the boards that they originated from as we want to be able to link every available character to a credible download link and not some dodgy reupload so make sure when submitting that you have the link to hand.

Thanks everyone and hopefully with enough interest we can get this up and off the ground! We will need a lot more attention though so inform anyone you know who may have wanted to speedrun in the past but couldn't.

Hello everyone! I have made a guide for users to hopefully grasp how to submit to the leaderboards and remove ambiguity but I understand people may still have questions. #Guide https://www.speedrun.com/srb2/guide/4ckg4

Whilst people can comment on the video for help I thought to have this thread open too just in case anyone needs it. If anyone needs help on how to actually upload the file I attached a link in the guide video description on how to do so simply. Thanks all and hit me with your questions :)

So I'm noticing at the end of the final wave which I end with a Monkey Beacon it seems to not actually show the reward on the usual screen, and I'm not sure what's triggering this glitch as before on web to clear this you'd only have to fire the Beacon again but on Steam it doesn't actually allow you to. Me personally, I think if this happens in a run the run should still be counted as the run technically does end in the same place, the reasons being that Flash is going to be removed from browsers soon so the OG run won't be up any more and I feel, personally, that it hinders the whole idea of tower defence strategies if it is caused by the Monkey Beacon as I feel players should be able to use any combination to beat the game and not be set back by a pointless glitch. But I am free to have my mind changed if someone else thinks differently :)

Hey all,

As confirmation in case other versions are released, the current version for speedruns on this game are from this link: https://mb.srb2.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=10699&d=1497324161

About time that one was made but here we are at long last! Anyone is free to join, whether they just be interested in the game or are interested in learning, there's a lot of great people here who can teach you whatever you need to know :D https://discord.com/invite/fDctxQP

Hello everyone,

The talk for IL's for the main game being placed here has been discussed for a while. It's a fantastic idea to have this board act as one that can hold the Individual Level leaderboards along with the full game leaderboard, and I'm going to be discussing that here with you all today.

This game is in some of its last updates of version 2.1, there likely won't be many more after this, which indicates we can expect a big game update with version 2.2 some time this or maybe even next year! With this being said, and the way this site handles IL leaderboards, I've felt it best that we add them to the site after the version 2.2 is released. It's much easier to switch the Full Game RTA runs over to 2.2 and have the boards look nice, however having multiple different versions on the IL boards, in my opinion would ruin the aesthetic of the leaderboard and might create some confusion. Also we wouldn't need to worry about importing over old records from the main SRB2 website without any of the runners permission.

I hope this helps anyone who was feverishly waiting for the addition of these boards, it will be a great addition and with it being so fresh then we can hopefully take over as the main site to host these runs. Thanks everyone and look forward to what you all say in the comments!

Hello everyone,

As of the 31st of January 2018, the rules for submitting runs has changed so that all runs must be done on the most recent version of the respected category (which at the time of writing this is 2.1.20). Hope you all get on with the change, the previous runs done on lower versions will be kept on the site as they were done way before this rule change was implemented but future runs being submitted on those versions will be rejected.

Thanks all and get running!