Can you make a speedrun of a single stage while trying an all-stage run?
7 years ago
Greece

sorry for that noobish question, im really new to this XD The question is pretty much in the title. I am trying to do a marathon and finish the whole game in one go and have splits for everystage but there are also leaderboards for every single stage so can i just try to finish the whole game and then just pick out the stages where i had a good run and submit them as single stage runs or if im trying to do an all stage run i can only submit it as all-stage run? thanks for your time and efford to answer me already ^_^

England

What you're talking about is the difference between Single Segment runs and Segmented runs, as well as Individual Level runs. These are all distinct categories, and Segmented/Individual Level runs are NOT eligible for submission as a Single Segment run of a full game. If the leaderboard in question has a Segmented category and Individual Level boards, then by all means submit them there.

Antarctica

It might be helpful to know the exact game you're talking about.

But if I understand correctly, the answer to your question is "yes". If a game tracks individual stage times and you happen to PB in a particular stage while doing an "All Stages run" then you can definitely submit your individual stage PB unless there are rule differences (for example, if a Stage in the All Stages does something not allowed in a single stage run, then you cannot submit it).

It's like how some people do "All Categories" runs of games. The run itself is a single segment run of every category for a game, but if one of those categories, say Any%, is a PB, then they are allowed to submit that specific part of the All Categories run as an Any% PB.

Hopefully that made sense.

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Greece

I was talking about the endless war series (an old flash game i want to start with to get started). There are different campaings there consisting of a few stages and there are leaderboards for running through a campaign and different ones for running through all campaigns in a single run. So i was just wondering if i can try to run all campaigns together and just submit the good runs from campaigns individually (say i play all in one run but want only to submit campaign 2 as a single campaign run). Also sorry but i dont really know what PB or Any% is. i have seen Any% as categories already but didnt look at what exactly it means yet and thanks to you two for the quick answer.

Oh and Drakodan if i understood right what you said i didnt mean to record every stage individually and then add them all together into a all stages run. i want to do the exact opposite

Edited by the author 7 years ago
England

As TImmiluvs said then, in that case you can certainly pick out segments from an all stages run to use as individual levels, you just cannot do it the opposite way, and it's an important distinction to make since full game runs can either be Single Segment or Segmented.

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Greece

Yeah makes sense lol. Thanks for the help guys :3

Ontario, Canada

I've broken IL records of Wing Commander 1 during attempts a bunch of times lol.