Hi, I noticed some runs on the board use emulator save states, for example the run of HopeTrash (start of run), Cheesehead302 (visible at 0:28) and Flamesabre (visible at 0:02).
These are Emulator-only features, and disallowed by the global speedrun.com site rules:
Tool-assisted emulator features such as save-states, re-recording, or frame advance are not allowed.
Save states give an unfair advantage to emulator runners as they are able to do a much quicker run restarts, and runners on real hardware are disadvantaged. (Not sure if RNG manip is possible for Shaq Fu but that would also be an issue with save states.)
To make sure that save states are not used, I think it makes sense to require the recording to include the game start/reset (as it is already the case on many other boards).
The rules have been updated accordingly. Also, see the latest news post.
Updates to the leaderboard
A quick update to the improvements being made to the leaderboard.
- All runs have been re-tagged to the correct platform, e.g. GB, SGB2, GBP etc.
- GBi was added as a platform (some runs have already been using it).
- The top runs have been retimed using frame timing (see
