United StatesIf you have any hangups on third party solutions and you have any 5 screw games you don't like, you could use the Nintendo made adapter built in to one of those to play Famicom games.
I've done this for years.
Are you using the "always on top" settings in Livesplit? If not, if you're covering the timer with the game window or another window, it wouldn't show up.
Hey @AquaBlake, I noticed that the PS1 section doesn't have a spot for PS2 under console and in the rules it says PS1 only.
Not sure if this means that PS2 is not allowed for some reason, or if PS2 is just not in there by accident.
Yeah, hmm, I usually have no problems with that version capping windowed mode.
I keep forgetting that the game I primarily run on DOSBox is one of the few that is locked to a bizarre 47.5 fps no matter what settings you try. @Tenka has the right idea, showing the settings with a crop from the desktop is the way to go. Adds credibility.
If that doesn't work for you due to that lag you mentioned, I'd ask about your video card next. What kind, and whether you have hardware encoding on in OBS.
Yeah, I don't hear it. It could be a specific frequency that the set doesn't like that's causing it, or maybe even interference or volume.
...Or... Game's haunted.
Might want to ask the Star Allies forum. There's forums in each game's section.
The timer is really just for you. It helps you see how you're doing. Nothing more.
You could also go to the local Goodwill and buy a second monitor. They're usually 20 bucks.
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Folks should really move this conversation elsewhere. It's disruptive to the function of this thread. And I'm about to disrupt it more with this, but...
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I feel this needs to be said as a couple people have made mention that communities don't matter or shouldn't matter to leader boards. While I personally agree with the sentiment that leader boards should be impartial, there's no magical gnomes that maintain leader boards. There's no cyberpunk novel A.I., and no magical guardian beasts tasked with world record keeping for video games either. Communities maintain leader boards, communities ARE the leader boards. Communities are who you are competing against and helping find new strategies. Community is the very foundation of this hobby, and saying it doesn't matter is fundamentally not understanding the who and how of why leader boards exist in the first place. Therefore, no matter what your opinions are, leader boards are community based. That said, communities are human, and humans are flawed.
I think everyone agrees in theory that everything should be about the content of the run. That's not the issue.
The issue is you are asking the admin team at SRC to effectively seize control of a board, kick the community that runs it out (used to run it, really, since it moved off site), and appoint you or someone else favorable to you a moderator of it just so you can display your runs somewhere. You'll be the only one using that board. Why should they do this? What does it get you? And why not try to engage the community (other than the mods you pissed off) at the other site first? Why is anyone here obligated to help you over the community over there? What authority does SRC have to do this really, when the actual community has no say in this?
I don't know what boards you're looking at here, but from my perspective, the admin team here almost always sides with the majority of the community when it comes to stepping in when moderation comes off the rails. Their function is to facilitate communities figuring out their leader boards themselves, even if that means that the community chooses to make leader boards elsewhere, and SRC giving up oversight. That is what impartiality looks like.
I've said my piece.
Dude, you are not owed a platform if you pissed off the community behind the board. SRC does not owe you a place to put your runs just because another board is mistreating you. Boards are community based, not ruled by the site mods, and no one here can do anything about an external board anyways.
And frankly, your comparisons are at best tone deaf and offensive.
Well, uh, @Silentsigil and I run at least one game in common, and I'd have to agree with him. Pretty much everything we both run should be more popular.
Heck Tyrian 2000 is literally free, Xanadu Next is super interesting, Castle of the Winds has so many game breaking bugs to choose from and is bizarre to watch/play (there's literally three main methods of movement too), the PC version of FFIV is uh, FFIV and still a main line Final Fantasy game, and the Darkstalkers series is the freakin' Darkstalkers series.
Deranger is cool. Looks a little like the Darkstalkers 3 system font. Not the most easily read thing in the world, but decent compared to a few stylish others.
Like the title says, it might be be interesting.
Gold Lightan and PTX-40A are likely the only characters really capable of sub 10 times, so it might allow for some more varied strategies.
Folks are telling you to build or buy from a custom builder for a reason, but if you simply must have a brand name, non-used PC, try an HP Omen. They're fairly reasonable comparatively. I personally still think the mark up is insane.
Laptop Solution: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=1TS-000D-02RT9&Description=hp%20omen
Not gonna run games at anything over low-medium and stream, but is affordable, portable and pretty. If you're speedrunning though, you really don't want your graphics to be on medium-high settings.
Desktop solutions: Intel: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA6V66WD8543&Description=hp%20omen%20desktop&ignorebbr=1&cm_re=hp_omen_desktop-_-9SIA6V66WD8543-_-Product
Has an NVMe SSD and a main 1TB drive. Graphics card is capable of solid medium settings in most games if you really must have them at that. No Monitor.
No SSD, worse Graphics card, no monitor. Will barely run things on medium settings for most games.
Yeeeeah... No. The whole innocent until proven guilty stance is great for courts of law, but not here. You can and should be able to reject or delay the approval of a suspect run pending a skill check or more detailed analysis, especially when the runner has no prior history with the game.
Otherwise it's unfair to the other runners, and the community.
Maybe an image of the timer with a link to a video on a more lenient platform would do? That way it's not embedded on the site. But perhaps even a link to an image host with yet another link in the description of that host to a supporting platform might be better. That way nothing is directly associated here. You'd really have to ask the site mods what would be an acceptable solution though.
Excuse my ignorance of the genre, but are there explicit games that require a lot of skill? I'd imagine there's some out there with a lot of bugs, so I guess speedrunning in that context isn't much of a stretch there...
