Mostly indifferent. Makes sense to clean-up abandoned (or never used in the first place) leaderboards.

Also, with a port, some sort of similarity to the original seems reasonable. Are there any IL arcade submissions?

The community also had a chat about this in the discord server and MiSTer has been enabled as a platform option for submitting runs. Good luck everyone!

The MiSTer is definitely something that can be accepted on the leaderboards. I've been speedrunning TG-16 on the original hardware for years and the MiSTer is nearly identical in experience. With Rondo the loading times are different on the MiSTer so, my opinion, is that it should be marked as emaulation. But, besides that heck yes speedrun on MiSTer!

The Psychosis board is specific to the game mechanics. My opinion for Ninja Spirit is that a unified board is fine as I haven't seen proof that the lag awareness offers an unfair advantage to the player. And welcome to Ninja Spirit speedrunning!

This is a great idea AgentWyvern. It's the Rondo of Blood version of low% and would be a great addition to the main categories.

I'm curious - is the whip crash slow? You didn't use it much during the run.

Hello. The Bonk's Adventure (TG-16) moderators are inactive. Both myself and greatjhon are currently submitting runs and the moderators have not responded in 20 days. DK28 and jeffsledge are great moderators, but, have been inactive for more than a year now (maybe longer). I have attempted to contact via their preferred communication methods (discord and twitter) and haven't received a response.

I would like to request moderator status for myself and EvanGrill. Thank you for the consideration and help in this matter.

https://www.speedrun.com/bonksadventure

Hi DK28 and/or jeffsledge. Myself and greatjhon are starting a Bonk's Adventure grind. Would you mind considering rule proposals? First - Timer start and stop (pressing run and loss of control). Second - emulators allowed such WiiVC, BizHawk and mednafen with turbo as 2 on, 2 off.

Thank you for the consideration. If you would like to discuss further we can move the conversation to the Bonk's discord: https://discord.gg/vEBQeEv

Thank you so much nate! I re-watched the runs as well and can confirm. Love the new timing. May have to try to PB :)

Count me in! Looking forward to re-timing the leader-board with the new methodology.

Last blow makes sense. Originally I thought loss of control, but, that's not easy or accurate to time. I don't mind pitching in and re-timing the current leader-board. Thanks 9volt for starting the thread. Hopefully we can recruit some new runners after this week :)

Whoa! It's worth timing the dungeon shortcut to make sure it actually saves time. Castle shortcut definitely looks like a shorter route. Thanks for sharing!

Hi 9volt and the Ninja Spirit community. I just submitted my first run. Many games start and stop timing around control of the main character. It's a bit tough to stop the timer "at the end of the explosion." Any consideration for stopping the timer on the loss of control of the ninja?

Thank you! As you've probably noticed, a lot of improvement to be made, but, glad to finally submit a run to the category.

Hello LivinLikeLoca. I just submitted a run for the game, however, I am only able to select TG16 in the platform section. I am not able to select TG16 in the category. Any help is much appreciated.

I'm wondering if Intermediate and Expert should be Any% Intermediate and Any% Expert? I ask because other games with similar game modes are categorized on speedrun.com as Any%. May be pointless for Bonk's Revenge as the warps take longer than warpless. Thoughts?

Ha! Okay, revising to sub 27 :)

I think it's a great extension category - fun and easy. I don't think I 'll give it a try until I get sub 28 in Expert :)

I've counted between 7 and 10 hits as well and I don't spin I do one full hit. That's a rough RNG spot.

It's been really nice meeting and watching the other runners of this category. I was wondering if we could add to the rules for submitting a run? Timer start on the game select screen and time stopping on the loss of control of Bonk (once a boss has been defeated). Those rules can apply to all categories. Thoughts?

Hi tjsnhgaming! The timer many speedrunners are using is LiveSplit http://livesplit.github.io/ The software many are using to capture and/or stream the run is OBS https://obsproject.com/

Both are free to download and use. Myself and others are just starting to run BR so I'm excited to see your runs! Let me know if there's anything else you need help with.