Ohio, USAIf you guys want that, I can make it happen. I simply added the rules as agreed upon by the community. just let me know by liking this post and I'll change it after I finish moving in a few days.
But just to be clear- is this gambatte only? I don't run on emulators at all so I don't really know. How should I word the new rule? The same was Pokemon R/B does?
The changes have been made! Thank you all for your input on this issue, I'm glad we could come to a conclusion that the community is in agreement with! Thanks for your patience and I'm sorry about all the runs that had to be rejected due to rule changes <3
For other games that require proof of emulator, it is usually customary to record the entire window. You can easily avoid the black bars by changing the size of the window.
As for the vote, how would we go about that? Maybe a strawpoll posted in the discord?
Thanks for doing those tests, guys, it definitely helps. Personally, my opinion is still the same. That being, it depends on whether you want to wipe the current emu runs. If you guys are okay with wiping the current emu runs, then I'd be perfectly fine with merging the categories, only allowing certain emulators that we know are accurate, and requiring that all emulators capture the program as well, to show proof that they're running on the program they say they are. The reason we would have to wipe all the current emu runs is BECAUSE we'd have to add the rule about capturing the program. I'm not personally a fan of "they can use inaccurate programs unless they get a good time."
That's just my opinion, of course I'd love to hear from the other mods too. You guys seem passionate about merging the categories, so I'd like to do whatever makes you guys happy. It's just the age old question of to wipe or not to wipe a ton of standing runs. Maybe we could hold a community vote?
That's not how it works. Either we make a rule where you can use a specific emulator and it all goes under one category, requiring all the old runs to be deleted, or you just keep them split and all the old runs can stay.
You can't pass a rule requiring all runs to show the emulator they use and then just give all the old runs a pass from the rule
If you guys think that a certain emulator is exactly the same as console then I have no objections at all, however, we would still have to require all emulators to show what emulator they are recording on through the entire run in order to verify the proper emulator. This would still reject 100% of the current emulator runs and delete them from the leaderboards which is what I was trying to avoid. But if you'd prefer allowing specific emulators under one category then I am 100% in support of that.
Sorry, my apologies. I actually had forgotten who did the run, but that's really no excuse. My point was that the run was nowhere near as technically good as the console runs, yet was over a minute faster. Those two things don't add up. I should have said it in a nicer way, though.
Hello! I'm the mod that split the categories. I messaged totalled to become a mod, and when I did, I showed him a list of the ideas I had for the community. One of which was splitting emulator and console. He agreed outright, and told me there was no completely accurate GBC emulator. Here is a screenshot of exactly what he said to me.
I wasn't aware there was a discord for the community or that the community was even active, because he was the only mod I could get ahold of, and I had 3 pending runs that hadn't been looked at in weeks, and when I became a mod I saw a run that was even older than mine that hadn't been verified either. So, because of the feedback I got from a moderator and my own personal judgement, I made the change. I was only added to the discord later on, after I made the change. No one in that community cares about HHHU anyway, it's essentially an HHHH community.
I urge you to compare my console WR run to the Emu WR run. The Emu WR is actual shit. He makes word mistakes everywhere, and even says the wrong word to Jingle, TWICE. It is NOT a minute faster than my time. He makes a million more mistakes. If you want to say I'm biased, fine. The second place japanese console run is better than his, too.
It has been brought to my attention that there may possibly be an emulator that runs GBC accurately, or "close to accurately" (which is not good enough for me imo), however, that is NOT ALL EMULATORS. If you guys are THAT insistent about merging the two categories, then we would have to make a rule that only allows a certain emulator, and the video must require the player to have the emulator in frame the entire run.
Because that rule would need to be added, we'd have to delete every single current emulator run (none of them show the emulator frame). And that's NOT what I wanted. There are a crap ton of emulator runs, and I'd hate to just delete them off the face of the earth. Who cares if they're in separate categories. Just beat the emulator WR (it won't be hard to do), and you can say you have the emulator WR. Just leave them in separate categories. It's not gonna kill anyone.
