Hello with our community we are many new runners into Speedrunning BW2 Manipless at this moment, and there is a big difference of time depending on which support you are running.
Base* : - Physical N3DS/3DS/DS with official game
Compare to :
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Physical N3DS/3DS/DS with flash card, you save approximative 10sec for each save ingame because it's instantly done > Not a big deal in PB attemps, only for races but it's ok.
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MelonDS Emulator is really close to Base* with really really small difference, maybe a little bit faster on double/trio combat because less laggy - Seems legit to us to keep it ok but it's up to you
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DesMUME : MORE THAN 5MN FASTER ! compare to all of the other supports - No chance for physical players to compete against that.
Solution 1 : Ban only Desmume Emulator from support allowed, it's easy to do + we keep all the players from Emulators and Physical support in the same leaderboard to make something cool for everyone and fair in term of Gamespeed.
Solution 2 : Split this category with "Emulator" / "Physical" if you prefer to do so, for physical players to have at least a goal and a chance to do something in this category, otherwise no point at all for them. But with this solution we lose the regroupment of all players into one leaderboards, on a game which is not the most played pokemon game.
Solution 3 : Do nothing, that force everyone to play on DesMume to be competitive, it's a bit sad for physical players (personnally I would give up the category)
We are creating some sort of hype arround this game with new rootings and many new players, many races to come and surely a tournament open to everyone soon, we would be very happy to see an evolution of the RuleSet please,
Galino.
I agree that something should be done about this. My preference is solution 2 since I def think that emulators should be separate from physical but I also see your point that there aren't that many runners to begin with.
