Some people may have noticed their runs getting rejected in Olympic Events. The main reason is skipping the second jump on Individual Large Hill. This was never allowed and how it managed to slip by me and the other mods confuses me. After thinking for a few days we have decided to reject runs that don't do both ski jumps for the sake of maintaining integrity of the boards.

I've started learning this game but it lags really bad on my computer and I find that it runs a lot better on my switch through retroarch. Is this allowed? It has different cores for different well known emulators but I thought I might as well ask here to be safe.

As of now, all runs in the top 3 will require image proof. All wr runs will still require videos but runs in 2nd and 3rd place are now required to submit an image showing the time from the minigame.

I looked into it and (at least for the pc version) loads vary from pc to pc. for example the beginner wr on keyboard and mouse loads the first level in around 2 seconds while the all levels wr loads it in 2-2.5 seconds, and my pc takes up to 4 seconds to load it. If anyone wants a comparison video I can make a quick one comparing the 3 examples I gave. using igt would get rid of this problem and make it much fairer.

just a quick update regarding ILs. All runs that claim WR on an IL must supply a video. No exceptions.

I decided to make a quick tas to see where frames could be saved, a theoretical best possible time, and see if I could find anything regarding optimization or the birds. Here is what I noticed.

1. The optimal place to grab the black key is actually from the top left corner. This will mean that the key will be towards the bottom left but it is actually possible to readjust with the screen transition. If you place the key on the perfect spot where it will be on the other side before you transition (pixel perfect to my knowledge which means a 3 frame window) and then hold down left, if you time your up left correctly, you can get the key to be directly left of you which you can readjust from there.

2. When going through the bird patterns I found one that I believe to be the fastest. It starts with both the green and the yellow bird popping up in the room before entering the maze. They will both chase you into the maze but, I found that if you are against the wall to the right and time a left press correctly, the bird catching you, actually loses no time at all. In the tas I only got caught by the green bird but I would think the yellow bird would also catch you in most cases. The reason I think this is faster is because when you get to the castle, because the bird appeared earlier and is in the maze, there is no bird in the room with the chalice meaning you don't have to go over anything and you can easily leave the room.

I don't have a video of the tas yet but I did do a frame count so I could get a time for it. 1911 frames / the 59.922751 framerate of the atari 2600 is 31.891 seconds. I'm working on getting a quick video out showing the tas and I will edit this post when I have it uploaded. I hope this will help some people trying to lower their pb's

If anyone wants the input file you can dm me on discord and I will send it.

edit: got the tas uploaded . (sorry for the bad quality but it was the highest quality I could export it in)

So after having a couple of my runs retimed I realized that the 1st and 2nd place run times would not be possible on a 30 fps video. A frame in a 30 fps video is .03333333333 you get the idea, and neither 32.303 or 32.313 fit as a viable frame. the 2 frames closest to them are 32.299 and 32.332. When I found this out I decided to get these 2 videos retimed and what I found was a lot different than what I expected. Here is the vid of OverworldYT and I retiming the "WR" of 32.303. (he had the editing software and I knew the frames) Because of the vague end rule of "when you bring the chalice into the golden castle," the end frame I came up with was when the square got re-positioned if he goes into the castle and the frame the player loses control if he doesn't. BeatMaster2003 stopped a frame earlier than when the square got re-positioned but I decided to go with his timing because the rules do not state which would be correct. Even with the frame cut off the time we got was 32.432. This is a while off of what he came up with which was .303. After this I decided to retime second place as well because it didn't fit either. The video for that is here . After retiming that to the frames I decided earlier for my retimes (which I can provide a screenshot if needed), the time was .232 which is a lot better than he originally got (on a side note I don't understand how he got .313, my only guess is that he took the .31 on livesplit and added a 3) both these times are way off and need to be adjusted. If anyone wants screenshots of where timing started and stopped for each run I can provide them. If you would like to see the runs themselves with the timer from the editing software, you can see them here BeatMaster: Nestorc: Please adjust these runs and make the rules a little more clear about end timing.

From now on all IL world records will require video proof to prove that no pauses are used in the no pause category. If you need help recording, please message me or LaserTrapGamer on discord and we will try to help you the best we can.

I am looking into running this game but after looking at the 7 star WR I noticed that the player skipped the final star and only did 6. Can someone please explain why this was verified?

I wanna run this game but I could not find a patch for the game. Any help?

if anyone is still active in this game does anyone want a discord for races and such

I was doing my first run of this game but when I entered world 8 the game crashed and displayed a huge error message

i downloaded the game to play it casually to see if i wanted to run it but i can't get it to run on dolphin. My pc doesn't have a slot for an SD card so i can't play this on console and can't find a rom for dolphin. Can someone help me?

I am looking into running the game and trying to route it but it's starting to get pretty tedious and I would like some help. If anyone has already made a route or is also interested in running this game then contact me on discord.

i can't get the game to run as fast as it's supposed to. It lags really badly. Any help?

game plz

I think we should have all 3 parts under one game because technically they are the same game and have one category for all the games any% and misc categories for every part

Me and OverworldYT decided to create a discord server to make things easier in terms of finding new skips and telling about new pbs. If anyone wants to join then here is the link: https://discord.gg/kNhMz8x

i'm having a hard time adding the patch to a rom of 64 and was wondering if someone could send me a rom with the patch already added. Thanks!

i want to run this game but i can not find a download. Can someone link a download to me?