You may remember when Plankboii made an astonishing feat and "killed the any%" with his 1:52. He stated that the movement was "flawless and clean". Not that I totally remember what he said, but it was along the lines of that. HOWEVER, even though the movement was perfect, there is a new discovery that resurrects the any%: refreshing. ONE refresh can be made which save a total of 3 seconds. That being said, NOT ONLY IS ANY% ALIVE, BUT ALSO CAN GO AS LOW AS SUB 1:50!

you do gotta note tho, that we can't pause during cutscenes, so that's a down side.

True, but if you do it on the right version, even without the pause, you can save up to 3 seconds

Believe me: I have tried it myself and timed how long it took. THEN, I took the WR run and timed the whole capsule process. That is how I came to that 3 second conclusion, although it can be more or less depending on your SWF player.

There is no rule against pausing if that's what you mean.

Also, calling a category "dead" is not accurate in this case. A dead category refers to a category no one cares for anymore. Not a category with a really good wr. Though that does play part in weather people want to submit or not, people still want to do the run. Therefore, not dead. Just a board with a really good run on it.

well, plankboii said "pausing during cutscene skip's are not allowed", we even did a strawpoll, no results yet. But yeah chryoyo, I really think it's BS.

The poll's results, Faustas, have not come in yet. I will check them now, and we will see.

pausing the game would only waste your time unless you were to use it somehow like in sm64 i fail to see the issue

Basically, what we do is that we exit out of the game during a cutscene, reload the game and you'll be over from one side to the other, plankboii disallowed us to use pauses during a cutscene skip, even tho it would gratefully help in terms of runs.

i do remember this. though my general rule is if you can do something without extensions, it should be allowed. either way, it seems like no one really cares. so i suppose it doesnt matter.

Poll results have already come in - pauses are not allowed.

it's still BS, it could be a huge save, I'd still vote for it to be allowed and I do care about it.