Missouri, USAI am helping put together a speedrun tournament for this game during this month. The event will play out live on https://www.twitch.tv/puzzlespeedrun on Saturday the 20th starting at 2pm EST and will finish within a few hours. If you're interested in playing along, join the League of Puzzle Speedrunners Discord server! https://tinyurl.com/LeagueofPuzzleSpeedrunners
It has been brought to the mod team's attention that a recent run submitted to this board has been alleged to be a TAS, a tool-assisted superplay, passed off as a legitimately human-performed RTA run. The evidence that has been presented by the accuser will be shown here for your review. They are free to put their name on their comments in this thread if they wish. Additional evidence has been gathered upon further investigation of the matter. My editorial responses to these points will be presented in [brackets].
The run being questioned is the current Endless, 99,999 points Hard record by Raidabel0w: https://www.speedrun.com/panel_de_pon/runs/y86gk9nm.
Point #1: This is the account's only submitted speedrun to this website. [It is not the user's only submitted speedrun to this website. Previous runs to this leaderboard have been submitted under the name Rika_Furude, an account that has since been deleted--see the first place 99,999 points Easy run: https://www.speedrun.com/panel_de_pon/runs/ylne2rxz. Generally, a world record run should be under a greater degree of scrutiny than most other runs. They reflect on the community as a whole. I did not verify this run so I am not aware of the amount of scrutiny that it went through during verification.]
[Here, the names Prierè Tsumerai Ame, Rika_Furude, and Shippai all intersect with each other. Remember these names for later points.]
#2: Timestamp at 0:10. The HI-SCORE is 2000. Prior runs from this user have shown that they soft reset, showing a high score of 99999. See this run: https://www.speedrun.com/panel_de_pon/runs/mkv2o21yhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88nvYi4z3Uk?t=9
They either were hard resetting, or this was their first attempt from boot. [You must game over after power on to change the HI-SCORE. If you pause and quit, your HI-SCORE does not update. If you reset before game over, your HI-SCORE does not update. One could quit the run if they know that it will not beat their best time before it finishes. Resetting between attempts would be tedious, but not unheard of. I often do this for a better presenting final video, but not always with Endless.]
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If you're not already a part of our Discord server and want to test your skills against the community, signups for our 2023 tournament are open the rest of this month! With 1P Stadium, Marathon, and Spa Service tournaments, there are multiple ways to win. Everyone that joins is guaranteed to enter a raffle for a piece of our crowdfunded prize pool!
You must be a part of the Discord server to coordinate matches with the other players. Join us here: https://discord.gg/invite/0ZHoUXwTddfKwz1t
This was not expressly stated in the rules before today, but it is usually understood in the speedrunning community that you need a video to demonstrate that you actually did what you claimed to do. In fact, this very site's Twitter once Tweeted "no vid, no did."
Submissions have been previously rejected for having no video available and will continue to be rejected going forward, but now the rule can be seen on the Main Rules.
The 2022 Pokémon Puzzle League Speedrun Tournament is OPEN! There is a 1P Stadium tournament open to sign up for all this month as well as Marathon and Spa Service tournaments you can sign up for until they begin in October. Prizes are available for all of the tournaments.
Happy puzzling!
The League of Puzzle Speedrunners is having their first minor tournament next month. It's a VS COM tournament!
The tournament will be held for one day only on July 16. To join and get the full rules, go to the League of Puzzle Speedrunners Discord: https://tinyurl.com/LeagueofPuzzleSpeedrunners
The 2022 speedrun tournament signups are now OPEN! Signups will be open all month long. Matches start March 12!
https://smash.gg/tournament/tetris-attack-speedrun-tournament-2022
It was discovered in the GDQ Hotfix tonight that the glitch to skip straight to the World Championship Final does NOT work on the European version. If you want to finish in a timely fashion, use the American version.
https://puzzlegeneral.challonge.com/PPL2021
Sign up on Challonge, record a run, and submit it to the leaderboard (https://www.speedrun.com/pokemon_puzzle_league) this month to enter. Players and staff requested. If you enjoy Puzzle League / Panel de Pon games, please join us!
https://puzzlegeneral.challonge.com/PPL2021
Sign up on Challonge, do a run, and submit it during this month to qualify for the tournament. Join us!
Seeing as how the game doesn't actually start until you select whether you are a king or queen (existing saves do not get overwritten until you do so, either), it does not make sense to include it in the timing of the run. Therefore, the rule has been changed to start the timing of the run when you select King or Queen. All existing best runs with video have been adjusted accordingly.
https://puzzlegeneral.challonge.com/tournaments/signup/YkZtBSA6g8
This is the first year that our community is holding an annual Tetris Attack tournament. Our last tournament was in 2018 and I'm here to defend my crown. Players of all skill levels welcome! Sign up and find out everything you need to know to play at the Challonge link above. Tournament starts in March!
Signups open all February long! Play on all of the VS levels!
https://puzzlegeneral.challonge.com/tournaments/signup/YkZtBSA6g8
I was just sent this message from @Vraieliss:
Heya - been working on getting a Monster Rancher 2 Any% run recorded and finished, but having to emulate and the resources given Kato file doesn't work at all with Mednafen. I found that the PSX game "C- Contra Adventure" does give a Blue Kato too though different starting stats. Wasn't sure best place to try to note that for others...
Signup here: https://challonge.com/tournaments/signup/cUL25e4NHt
Players and volunteers wanted! Signups open all this month!
Puzzle General's 2020 speedrun tournament of Pokemon Puzzle League is now OPEN!
The first PPL speedrun tournament in three years also falls on the game's 20th anniversary of its release. Players of all skill levels are welcome to take part in this historic event! We also welcome volunteers to help run the tournament.
Everything you need to know about the tournament is listed on the signup page. Signups are open for the entire month of August.
https://challonge.com/tournaments/signup/cUL25e4NHt
If you have any questions, ask them in our Discord server for the quickest response: http://discord.puzzlegeneral.com/
As a result of the discussion linked here, Endless mode speedruns performed on any version of Panel de Pon that do not utilize a scoring glitch of making combos of at least 32 panels are now valid to submit to this leaderboard. This includes runs on the original SFC/SNES release that do not use the glitched combos as well as runs on all subsequent releases of Panel de Pon.
This change does not affect other modes.
If you are interested in participating in a tournament for this game starting next month, please check out the Challonge page: https://puzzlegeneral.challonge.com/PPC2019Groups
Prizes for top finishers!
https://www.speedrun.com/post/e73pc
Please refer to the above post for background on why the rules are changing for this game. There are no active runners for this game that do not play Pokemon Puzzle Challenge, thus there was no need to also post the poll here.
As a result of these changes, the following times have been removed from this board:
Normal
Vyseoflegends9002 (“Vyse”) 4m13s 4/27/16 (banned emulator – PlayGuy)
Easy
Vyse 3m04s 6/8/18 (banned emulator – PlayGuy) Vyse 3m21s 4/27/16 (banned emulator – PlayGuy) Vyse 3m36s 3/21/16 (banned emulator – PlayGuy)
To summarize the changes to the emulator usage rules, here were the OLD rules:
We use SpeedRunsLive's rules for emulator usage. This means that Visual Boy Advance (VBA) and VBA-M are currently banned. Please see this FAQ: http://www.speedrunslive.com/faq/#caniemulate
And here are the NEW rules, effective immediately:
Effective March 26, 2019: --New emulated runs must be done on one of the following approved emulators: -BGB ( http://bgb.bircd.org/ ) versions 1.5.7 and up -Gambatte ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/gambatte/files/gambatte/ ) r571 -Gambatte-speedrun ( https://github.com/Dabomstew/gambatte-speedrun/releases ) r649 and up -Bizhawk ( http://tasvideos.org/Bizhawk.html ) versions 2.3.1 and up with the Gambatte core selected --Emulated runs previously submitted must have been done on a version of either BGB, Gambatte, or Bizhawk. --If a verified run is discovered to have used an emulator that is not approved, the run will be removed. --To verify that an approved emulator is being used, runs must satisfy at least ONE of the following requirements: -The emulator window must be fully visible on your video. -The run’s comments must list the name and version of the emulator used. --To capture the window in OBS, use a Display Capture.
If you have any concerns over these new rules, please let one of the mods know.
The Puzzle League speedrun community has grown tremendously since the original Pokemon Puzzle League Skype group started around six years ago.
With that growth, however, comes a greater responsibility to ensure that everyone participating in the leaderboards is on a fair playfield. To enforce this, the moderation team started to verify new run submissions last month. In the verification process, we also came to realize that our rules for emulator usage could use some updating, that we should develop our own rules instead of relying on those of another community.
In the coming months, we will revamp and/or clarify our emulator rules for every game in the Puzzle League series. Due to current community interest, we will start with this game and Game Boy Tetris Attack.
To that end, we have created a Google Form poll that ask about important factors to be considered in the formation of our rules. We invite all Pokemon Puzzle Challenge / Game Boy Tetris Attack speedrunners to complete this form in order to gauge what the community desires. Please read the entirety of the form and answer each question carefully. You will not be able to change your answers once you submit them.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeWwdo8qL5EZYE6PX3p00dlYbDm76-x669_sVzZMxNNpYdyqg/viewform
Please use this thread to discuss the issue. This thread will remain open for as long as necessary to gather the opinions of this community.
