Now that the board for sotc 2018 has been up for forty-eight hours, I have removed all ps4 videos form this board and deleted the subcategories. I was as careful as I could be, but if I mistakenly rejected something that was done on the ps3 or ps2 please let me know so I can buy you some tomatoes to throw at me.

After taking a poll in the discord, the community has voted to revert to starting time at difficulty select. The rules for any% have been adjusted accordingly.

Since we're just getting started with the remake, the rules are probably going to be a little fluid for the next few weeks while we figure out things like where to start timing and whether or not to go by IGT.

I appreciate everyone's patience while we sort this stuff out.

A note on IGT vs. real-time: the ps4 streaming feature complicates the use of real-time as a timing convention, which was not an issue on previous versions of the game as the feature wasn't present. Feel free to weigh in here on which timing convention you think should be used and why.

Now that the new page is live, we will no longer be accepting submissions of ps4 runs and time attacks at this page. All ps4 submissions should be made to https://www.speedrun.com/sotc_2018.

On Tuesday, February 13th at 6:00pm CST, I will begin deleting the existing ps4 submissions from this page as well as removing the ps4 subcategories. We will be contacting those runners who have already submitted ps4 content about resubmitting those runs to the new leaderboard.

For individual time attack submissions, please include the timer as it is displayed after the colossus is dead.

give us some time to get everything situated, and we'll start moving everything over.

The current consensus is that we'll be making a separate speedrun.com page for Shadow of the Colossus (2018). The creation of that page has already been requested. For the time being, I think it's best to go ahead and accept anything ps4 related so that people can show off what they've accomplished so far. Once the new page is live, we'll be deleting the subcategories and getting everything moved over there. Runners submitting before the new page is up may need to resubmit after. We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

ps4 rules: I believe what we're looking at goes like this:

1. For full game runs, timing starts when skipping the opening cinematic and ends when the end-credit cutscene triggers after Wander falls into the pool. Timing uses RTA conventions, and the runner must display a third party timer which may not be paused during the run. Emulators are banned. PS4 and PS4 pro are both acceptable, as are SSDs. The new boards will include columns to denote hardware, but we won't worry too much about it right now.

2. For Time Attack runs, rules will remain as stated for ps3/ps2 or as close as possible.

3. Individual Time Attack submissions should include the input that starts that particular attempt (retry or challenge or whatever it is) and final time will be what is displayed on the in-game timer after the colossus is dead.

Once the new page is live, the rules will be refined to more accurately reflect changes made to the ui and menus, but for now use your best judgement to handle discrepancies.

You may get notifications about me doing random stuff for a few days, which I apologize for. The ps4 version is going to need a seperate leaderboard, and I'm going to try and firgure out how to optimize the page layout.