Thank you. What was the reason for why they were banned and then unbanned?

I seem to recall Hiking Boots being banned in the rules at one point, but they aren't anymore. So were they banned at one point or is my memory wrong?

It looks like Popirea did a run of this category:

This really should be in the main rules (it's currently only in the category extension rules), but what "beating Red" is defined as can be found here, on the PSR wiki. Quoting the wiki:

For glitched categories, the following are the common requirements that must be met to qualify as "beating the game": (a) Being in Mt. Silver on the map Red is in.​ (b) Talking to Red and running his unaltered NPC scripts until the credits roll.

This ruling mainly stems from MrWint's Pokémon Gold Coin Case TAS, which laid out the specific justifications why the above is what counts as beating the game.

There's no video for Any%, presumably the runner submitted a past broadcast which expired (or maybe they deleted the run for some reason).

Bob submitted his run to the main leaderboards but it's not here https://www.speedrun.com/mkw/run/mk36gxxz

you can also run pre 1.6 by creating another installation directory.

Pepega

lower your fps to 30 (both in game and in OBS), and use default window size are two options you can take.

yeah, people have used http://strongholdfinder.com in the past, as well as a modified version of the html that I created to support F3+C commands.

it is open source, but you should add a license like MIT to legally make it (free and) open source. A file named LICENSE with the following text would suffice (obviously replace year and copyright holder).

Copyright <YEAR> <COPYRIGHT HOLDER>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

also, I didn't know the pdf had detailed information on the process, so I'll check that out. original strongholdfinder's 2nd throw location is only 500 blocks away from the first throw (at an angle), so you can possibly use that. finding the exact point of the stronghold isn't as useful because the eye leads to the starting staircase anyway, so you're really only trying to intersect the stronghold.

1. can you license it as open source so others can modify it?
2. is there a way to configure it so it only takes the intersection of 2 throws
3. how is the second throw location calculated?

wtf ok mojang

it will get a 1.16+ subcategory, same with all swords and all minerals

We don't want any more trivial categories on the leaderboard.

what version are you on, and are you using optifine?

this is the seed for SSG 1.9+ which works on 1.9-1.12, is run on 1.12 and has pre 1.14 villager mechanics. your explanation doesn't apply here

before 1.7, achievements were saved globally, thus you needed to exit minecraft and delete the stats file for each attempt