Right now these boards are using Real Time (or Real Time Attack - RTA) as it's main timing method.  This game however features an In Game Timer (IGT).  I was thinking that we could use IGT as our main timer as it is more fair.  The reason it is more fair is the fact that not all consoles load the same way.  Some are faster and some are slower depending on hardware.  Using IGT would eliminate the variances and show more true skill.  The game does not show your time unless you check your game stats at the television in the hangout.  We would have to go and check at the end of the run the time of each chapter and add them up to get our IGT (due to the fact that the overall time counts time in the hangout and not just the chapters).

I have not tested the In Game Timer to see how accurate it is so we would have to test it before we tried to use it.  Some games IGTs are not very accurate and the speed community ends up using RTA, even though the game has an IGT.  An example that comes to mind is Jet Set Radio Future.  In that game the timer isn't accurate enough to use.  For example on JSRF I could have an IGT of say 2:00:00 and a Real Time of 2:15:00.  Now another person could have a Real Time of 2:13:00 but still only have a 2:00:00 IGT, therefore not accurate.  I am wanting to weigh the goods and bads of possibly implementing IGT into our board as the main timing method.  Of course we could still have RTA as an option to fill in, but the records and such would look at IGT.  This would eliminate loads as a factor and (if the timer is super, duper accurate throughout each platform the game is on) we could possibly eliminate consoles differences and have one unified World Record that all consoles would fight for.

I have always been an advocate for IGT as I like everyone to have a fighting chance at getting a record.  Some people may be better players overall, but their hardware could keep them from getting a record when using RTA, I think that is no bueno.  What are your thoughts on this?  Do you know anything about the IGT of this game off the top of your heads that could solidify or debunk this idea?  Let me hear your ideas!  ^_^

Never mind this.  I remembered when making this leaderboard why we never used the IGT.  The reason I chose to do RTA was due to the fact that the IGT only shows minutes, no seconds.  Due to this, someone that has a chapter that is 9 minutes and 0 seconds would be the same as someone that has a chapter of 9 minutes and 59 seconds, which is obviously unfair.  So therefore, RTA it is!  Sorry for not remembering that sooner haha  :P

I posted these on my old account, just fyi.

Timing Method

Auddy

The Warriors

PlayStation 2

ItsKalu18

TheBigMoz

StoryModeGaming

Console/Emu

Sucker

Bopper

Hardcore Soldier

Unleash the Fury

Hardcore

Furies

Platform

Difficulty

PlayStation 3

PlayStation Portable

Xbox

PlayStation 4

PlayStation 5

Discord

Submitting IL's From Full Game Runs

PSA:  Remove your clock capacitor!

Disc Version Variable / Softmodding Tutorial

Discord link no longer works

YogiBearback

NitromantoHDTR

itsatlas