The following rule changes are effective immediately.
Video evidence is now only required below a certain threshold,and In-game time is not required for RTA runs that are not below this threshold. The thresholds are the following: RTA runs: All tracks:34m RTA Circuit Mode Any%:12m RTA All Tracks(New Game):36m RTA All Easy Tracks:7m 30s RTA All Medium Tracks:7m 40s RTA All Hard Tracks:7m 40s RTA All Bonus Tracks:12m RTA ILs: Thunder Park:1m 40s Lost Island:1m 35s Arctic Circle:1m 45s Greek Isles:1m 35s The Far East:1m 40s Lake Powell:1m 50s Ship Graveyard:1m 45s Venice Canals:1m 35s N.Y.Disaster:1m 40s Nile Adventure:3m 20s Castle Von Dandy:1m 45s Catacomb:2m 5s Hydro Speedway:1m 45s
Easy/Medium/Hard/Bonus track segments from Circuit Mode runs are now allowed for their respective individual boards,provided they are timed correctly and no tracks are skipped.
The boards have always allowed using PS2 and PS3 backwards compatibility, but the platforms available when submitting runs didn't reflect this.
So now, they are available. Existing runs will need to be updated to reflect this change, so expect runs to go out of visibility and back while this is ong