Is that something that should be tracked? The site can now sort by descending order so you could just put the ingame time as milliseconds until a better implementation happens sometime in the future. (by real time would be a nightmare to moderate since frames would matter and you can't time that accurately in many cases) Imho it would be nice to have for some hard levels like 8-4 with 316 remaining and of course it would be added to Lost Levels too, which has many challenging ILs. Some rule details (savestate at start, warp exits, starting big/fire mario, PAL, all-stars, ... allowed/seperate category/banned?) would have to be worked out, but right now I wonder if it's wanted or unwanted.

I agree for sure, levels would certainly be very helpful in some cases, even for routing. So my answer is yes I want it. This should be very handy on lost levels.

I think yes, that would be a good idea I guess. "Some rule details (savestate at start, warp exits, starting big/fire mario, PAL, all-stars, ... allowed/seperate category/banned?) would have to be worked out, but right now I wonder if it's wanted or unwanted." Savestate at start => Good idea Warp exits => Of course, but in another category like 1-1 1-2 1-2 (Warp) 1-3 1-4 ... etc because having multiple goals for a single category is most of the time a bad idea. Starting Big/Fire Mario => I think it should remain as small mario. It can seem stupid, but Big/Fire Mario is an upgrade, and does depend from your playstyle. It would be a lot of damage boosting though. Small mario would bring more equality. As an example, for Half-Life 2, the ILs are done with the map command, which means no upgrade nor healthboosts even though some maps are started with 100 health sometimes. PAL => If we could make different categories, that would be great I guess but else, yeah, PAL is good. All-Stars => Why not but in a different category since the game engines are different.

Thanks for bringing more innovations in Super Mario Bros community :)

I added a preliminary 1-1 with rules and categories. Tell me, if I should change something.

[quote]Warp exits => Of course, but in another category like 1-1 1-2 1-2 (Warp) 1-3 1-4 ... etc because having multiple goals for a single category is most of the time a bad idea. [/quote] If you just go by warp or warpless, 4-2 is still completely different between the warp to world 5 or to world 6 and very slightly different between the warp to world 6 and to world 7 or 8.

Test is such a good player, isn't it ?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KvH7ZYzuVdgWsi165M5i484cBtZVCVk982cg4nUO8K8/edit#gid=1435266689

no. :)