Split the Game Boy version between SGB and GB
8 months ago
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Hello! Recently I've doing some reserach on this game and discovered that the Super Game Boy version is slower comparing to the Game Boy due to having loadings between levels, making it unfair to everyone who wants to run this game on the version

So I'm requiring that, if possible, to add a category to the SGB or just split the Game Boy category into 2 different subcategories, to make it more fair to everyone.

Thanks for reading and have a good day!

Norrbotten, Sweden

The Game Boy is the system that the version was targeted for and therefor acts as the frame of reference. Every other platform that can play this version but at different speeds should either be:

  1. Not allowed. This can be platforms where the emulation is not accurate enough, or simply runs too fast.

  2. Adjusted for speed, in very few cases.

  3. Played at the runners own discretion. This is also true for region differences, and it wouldn't make sense to separate them into different categories.

As for the second point, the SGB1 actually runs faster than the GB. Many GB game boards still allow runs for it because the hardware is almost exactly the same except for this, but usually the runner needs to re-time their run by a factor of 1.024. It is therefor interesting that it would somehow be slower in this case, but I think the answer could be the custom border and sound font that the game uses for the SGB. Bottom line, I don't think it merits a different category.

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