Hey guys! So I have started to speedrun this game a bit on my Twitch channel. I've been slowly working my time down and I am around that point where I am comfortable uploading a decent (ish) time.

After I ended my last stream, I noticed that I had a message about "copyrighted audio" and muting my VOD, which happens here and there as I play music every once in a while on other streams. But then it hit me that it shouldn't have muted anything on this particular stream. Long story short, I went into the claims and it seems that Capcom is what is flagging the muted audio for the levels African Mines, The Amazon, and The Moon. The muting is sporadic and only happens a few times and in a few spots. Of course, as luck would have it, the audio is muted during a portion of my current PB.

To my question: has anyone else experienced this? And if this is a known issue, will the mods be okay with muted portions of a submitted run? I've never had actual game music muted before, to my knowledge, so it seems really strange.

I can offer screenshots of the copyrighted notifications and links to my recent VODS if needed for proof, but mainly I'm just wondering what is going on here and how this may affect future attempts.

So I came here to check out the boards (I played the crap out of this game as a kid), and the boards/times are a bit odd.

For example, the WR for one goal is 15 minutes and 52 seconds. In the in-game video, the time is 15.52 seconds. I'm going to assume that this is the same for the other times on the boards, where the WR is 3 hours, 23 minutes, and 29 seconds. Are these just uploaded wrong or am I missing something here?

Kind of the same thing with the "most goals" category. How can the total goals (11) be kept track of with a time? For example, If I score 12 goals, and the time is uploaded as 12 seconds, then I would come up as second place on the leaderboards?

Could the mod clarify?

Hello all! I just dropped a few new WR times on the boards (pending approval) and I think the boys and I are going to start grinding this game a bit. I'm hoping the veterans already here will accept the challenge and join us!

That being said, I'd like to officially ask for a single player, 40-Man Battle Royal category. I know it was asked for in another thread a few months ago, and so I'm just asking again. We've had a lot of fun with this mode in other wrestling games! The option to play two player is awesome and I love that it is here, but realistically a 1p vs 3cpu or even a 1p2c vs 2cpu has literally no shot of even being close to the current two player times...so let's start some competition and split 'em up! :)

We really hope that this category can be added soon, and I look forward to the friendly competition that is sure to follow in the coming months. Good luck and have fun!

Runners! I think we need to have a discussion. So as of now, all of our attempts at submission times on the boards have been with the submission setting set to "Yes". Easy, right? Well, I was goofing off and changing a few settings around and discovered the "Quick Match" option listed with submissions (the three options are Yes, No, and Quick Match). I didn't recall seeing that before while playing the game, so I decided to play with it and see what it did. After testing, I eventually got a tap out on my first submission, at 6 seconds. This would obviously crush the current WR.

Upon further testing, it looks like the "Quick Match" setting might just add an RNG factor to tapping out rather than having to damage the opponent a certain amount. While playing with the same characters, and the exact same settings, doing the exact some moves, I've had results vary from a tapout at the first submission, all the way to spamming submissions and getting a tapout at the 50 second mark.

So here's the deal. We need to decide if "Quick Match" is allowed or not as a setting. It isn't a cheat, by any means, but also if it is allowed, it would drop submission times substantially in all categories. The only other category I think it could affect would be the Royal Rumble No Ring Out %, which doesn't have any times currently. What do you guys think? If "Quick Match" is deemed illegal, we need to change the category rules to specify that it isn't allowed, because as the rules are currently worded, it is my understanding that this setting would be allowed.

As I mentioned, I have a 6 second WR time on standby, but I didn't want to upload it without bringing it up with @NihilistComedyHour and the rest of the community.

Just for posterity sake, reference, and transparency here is the VOD on my twitch where I discovered and tested these things: My discovery starts at about 1:20:10 and I stop messing with it at around the 2:01:00 mark.

What do you all think?

Hey Slack, now that you are a mod, how about that "damageless" category you mentioned before? I'd love to challenge you at that. :)

Deadguy, I hope to see some good times from you on the boards soon!