@lackattack has a run pending in this with a time of 5s. This time save is due to pressing A to play the cartoon vs pressing start. There is a clear difference between pressing A and pressing start. Per the manual - "To view your cartoon from the beginning, press the start button. (To view from the current frame forward, just press the A button)" Pressing A excludes the title screen, so I would say that the full "cartoon" hasn't been played in that circumstance. The game itself even says "start = play" so it's intending you to play the entire thing with start. Using A almost seems like a preview as opposed to a "finished" product. I'm a huge fan of outside the box strats (hell that's what CharStrats are) and I like Lack so this isn't malicious, this is just me spending more time and energy than I should on a meme game that surprisingly has more than 2 runs on it haha.
So I'm posting here to collect thoughts on the matter before making a final judgment on this, but I'm leaning toward the A button start being "incomplete" unless someone wants change my mind.
Hah, well it definitely fits the rules description currently on the category. I just wanted to submit the run to make sure the rules reflected that you had to push start to watch the cartoon in full. If milliseconds aren't part of the time (i'm not sure why they aren't) then it doesn't really matter
Rules have been updated to clarify that. Milliseconds have been added and I'll be retiming all runs this morning using the first frame of fadeout as the start frame.
I think I stumbled across this when I ran it. I decided I must be crazy since it was faster than all the runs on the board... now with the retimes, I need to come back for the frame I lost!
