So I was reading the the MP Point Farming Guide by DrRank and I have a couple of things that I don't really understand.

Your best bet is to play Party Mode (Battle Royale) on DK's Stone Statue with 30 Turns. Set the CPUs' initial difficulty to Easy, and give everyone (including yourself) a 3-Star handicap.

Handicap stars don't count toward MP points, so shouldn't you give yourself a 0 handicap? I mean, it's only 30 points lost so maybe it's no big deal. Also giving yourself 0 means you'll always be in last place meaning you'll always be picked for friendship spaces.

On the last turn, set all the CPUs to Expert

why? I've done this and never gotten any MP points for CPU difficulty so what gives?

So I only play this game casually, but I wanted to ask if this has happened to anyone. When playing a 30 turn party mode game (battle royale), the minigame roulette chose the game, faded to black. and just stayed black and softlocked. There is no sound, the home button still works so it's not my 3DS that crashed. Reloading the game and the saved party will play through the turn and still softlocked. After taking a break it finally worked again so I'm wondering if the cart overheated or something? it doesn't feel hot.

just wondering if anyone else experienced this black screen softlock before. In all my time owning this game for years, I've never had this happen to me until today

I have a glitchless run of 5:11 which is on the leaderboard, but it used to be on the CE board. This run is missing from my own profile even though it is still on the leaderboard. Anybody know how I can fix this?

Hello everyone. I'm a fairly new runner to this game, been practicing some stuff casually. But I was wondering which category I should be submitting to if I ever get a run I'm satisfied with. I'll give you a quick rundown of what I've been doing.

-I've been playing all stages. -My cart is version 1.1 -I've been using barrel short cuts and bonus room short cuts where available -I have not been using any glitches like wrong warps, super jumps, or infinite mid-air rolls etc.

Personally, I felt this would fall under the no major glitches category, but I am just wondering...what are the allowed "minor" glitches?

Mainly asking because I want to know where my runs fit and stick to that category.

"Your moderator request for [insert game] has been rejected. Reason: Please resubmit with a screenshot of you attempting to contact the moderator"

And just how am I supposed to send a screenshot in the submission form when you don't have a "upload image" option???

Also, do you expect me to rewrite my entire request from memory with the screenshot? I hope you keep records, SRC, because I'm just going to call it follow up and leave it up to you to figure it out.

I think it is a dumb Idea that, in order to request categories or other things related to games, you have to actually contact a mod via DM. Why can't you just have a system where your message goes to the entire mod team of a game? It's less personal and it also makes the entire mod team know about a desired change and not just one person. What if you end up contacting the laziest inactive mod of the team? Waste of time if you ask me.

I don't usually torture myself with this kind of stuff, but I wasn't going to let this challenge pass me by. But I thought of a possible Low% route to this game and I think I may try and record it...eventually lol.

The Self-Imposed Rules

--You are only allowed to use your gun and spear. No special weapons are allowed.

--You cannot collect any Spear, Gun, or Jump Power-up items.

--You may collect the following items: Points, Blue and Red Medicine, Shield, and 1-Up.

--If you opt to kill an enemy that drops special weapons, you can still collect it since you won't be using them anyway.

--Use of Vehicles is allowed.

--Use of warp levels is allowed.

--If you collect a power-up, you must suicide and restart the level.+

--You may continue after a Game Over since it is inconsequential to your power-up status.+

+This is how I played this run. but I am open to the idea of collecting power-ups or game overs being treated as run killers that force reset.

Notes and Info about the run.

--I opted to use both warp levels for this run to make it easier. Metal Head is probably not that bad, but The Cliffs is very slow to begin with not to mention if you aren't careful with your health, you'll be almost dead by the time you reach the boss.

--Magma Mountains boss (Arachnoid) took a while to figure out a pattern since unlike in the Any% route, you're stuck in the pit with him and his turrets. Take out the turrets by freeze-spear combo then attack Arachnoid on the left or right side of his body under him. His fire ball attacks can never hit you from that angle

--Vehicle enemies present a challenge in terms of the no-power-up rule. Frozen enemies have a 10% chance to drop an item (according to the official instruction manual) and vehicle drivers are no exception to this drop rate. Because use of vehicles is 100% required for the final level (5-2), and items that drop from vehicle enemies are almost impossible to avoid (hover craft is the only one I could avoid items with), it brings up a question of what to do in the case of an accidental power-up grab. Which is why brought up option above of the suicide rule or the run killer rule.

All in all, it was a fun, albeit frustrating run, and the final boss was no joke. Luckily it is possible and there is a method to the madness.

(edit: SRC text formatting loves asterisk, so I'm using "+" instead)

Since I have no video proof, I'm not posting this as official, but I did get this time (with loads) and wanted to show it. I'm not sure how In-Game-Time is calculated but it like a 2h 37m. A whopping 17 minutes.

JuH0rse's actual twitch channel >>> https://www.twitch.tv/juh0rse

Twitch channel linked in JuH0rse's spotlight article >>> https://www.twitch.tv/juhorse

For as bare bones and predictable as ELO runs this site with the typical ads and subscription BS and making changes nobody asked for, they do one thing right.

They don't highlight famous speedrunners. They highlight literal nobodies.

XD

Just posting this because I feel like it.

At Buckeye Speed Bash 2022 while playing in a practice room, I achieved this time of 5:37. Unfortunately, I was not recording at the time since I was...well...just practicing. I'm actually quite happy I did this because it tells me one very important thing: It is possible.

A few things stuck out to me in this run. For one thing, very few time losses from long putts. Usually if I lost some time it was needing to make very short point blank putts. But more importantly was getting a chip in from the fairway on Hole 18 on the 3rd shot. This is very rare and also very situational, but somehow had all the luck in the world I needed when no camera was watching.

Long story short, I'm going to be getting back into running this for my target of 5:3X. I do not care if I don't match the 5:37 I got at BSB, I will be happy to see a :39.

My strategy going forward will be to be as perfect as possible through at least the first 9 holes. At the very least, starting hole ten with a time around 2:40-2:45 will give a legitimate shot. That number is based on the splits I made from my 5:44 run which ended hole 9 at 2:46. There last 9 holes have as much time to gain as they have to lose, so hopes are very high going forward. But strong start means you have some time to sacrifice losing on the tougher holes or not getting the perfect chip in on 18.

I recently acquired a new CRT tv which has a clearer screen than my last one. For those that don't know, I do my runs by recording a video of the tv screen.

This new TV has a small issue with cutting off some parts of the top of the screen like the words "Score" and "Time". is this an issue for submitting runs.

So what made SRC finally crack and accept this game? I wanted to submit a solo run, but I was advised against it because everyone else that tried to get this game added failed.

Just saying. I tried to and was rejected.

I'm doing some research and I would like to know when SRC was created or founded.

https://www.speedrun.com/news/667-2021-4-8-the-4-55-barrier-broken-in-super-mario-bros

the article begins as follows "Speedrunner Niftski broke the 4:55 barrier in Super Mario Bros. on April 7. The previous record has stood since September 2018."

Correction: the previous record was set on Feb. 4 2021 by Miniland

Later in the article, its correctly states: "For comparison, the last second barrier to be broken was back in September of 2018, with Kosmic’s 4:55.913."

I'm guessing the writer got the two mixed up in his head.

If games are inactive for a very long period of time and never get run, is there any chance that SRC staff would remove it from the site? Probably a dumb question and one I'm sure has been asked before.