Denver, CO, USALooks good to me, nice work.
Freedom to explore the optimal options is never a bad thing.
I vote 2 since this might catch some popularity among the prolific points hunters
Added subcategories and organized the runs. I need to start charging for my services
In some instances I couldn't get the provided end location to show up at all like both Nobel prizes and Russian hadrians wall
I finished a run with the royal regatta and everything went according to plan. Then this happened -
A few resets later I got the Regatta, woman combo again. However this time India 1900 was simply the right path and not the ending location. Any idea why this would happen?
I agree with yels here. It initially didn't make sense to add millivanilli seconds but now that there is a tie there is certainly justification to add them.
Yels' suggestion for the start time works for me as well.
In my opinion this would facilitate needing a new SRC board specifically for the ABC & 123 cart as it is an officially licensed tandalone release separate from the individual games. Even though it looks like it's just cramming them both into one cart there are changes under the hood and though they might not be drastic changes, it creates a disparity between the games and the easiest solution is to make it a board.
Disclaimer: I have no emotional attachment to my very subpar Popeye runs, that's not what this is about.
I feel like the "overhaul/rules change" was handled poorly and sets a bad precedent overall. Changing rules and rejecting runs based on the new rules when the runs were accepted on the old rules does nothing but punish the runners, and in my instance, for runs that I did 2.5 years ago. That's not what we should be doing. It can frustrate the players and/or dissuade them from submitting runs at all. Why should I submit a run if rules can haphazardly be changed whenever and invalidate them? In an extreme scenario if every NES board did this my entire NES speedrun career would be gone because I used Mesen 0.9.8 (which doesn't even have the run ahead feature, 0.9.9 does and it's easy to detect anyway so blanket banning all versions is extreme) and various FCEUX versions.
Don't get me wrong, I understand that rule changes will happen from time to time. I just think this could have been handled better. I've seen plenty of boards with, right at the top: RULES UPDATE AS OF whatever date - The list of allowable emulators has changed. Please be sure your submissions adhere to the new standards. Runs submitted before date will remain as they were accepted based on the rules at the time.
@NESCardinality and I have been around a while so I'm curious about his thoughts regarding this as well.
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.
@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.
GG! I never even thought about goaltending being faster.
Shout out to Bill "Steph Curry" Cartwright.
The in game timer runs weird. A rolling timer byte goes from 0 to 60 and when it hits 60 it increments up one second. However if the game is paused (hitting the select button) when it hits 60 it goes all the way to 255, back to 0 and back to 60 to try again. You can abuse this to skip one second on the timer, as long as you're not unpaused when that byte hits 60.
Past that you just want to line up in the top center, pause, wait for the daily planet building to show up and hit up to walk in.
I am typically not a fan of having multiple platforms per game even if they're similar. I might be in the minority with that opinion but I feel like it's more organized to have a separate SRC entry for each version of the game.
I would suggest setting up an SRC board for the GB version unless the Loopz community wants it here. In that event there would be a variable per console to keep the consoles separate from each other.
