I'm just moving my run to the appropriate leader board in hopes that someone will see it and get a better time. I originally submitted to the BTG to showcase some of the flaws (in my opinion) of using IGT as a timing standard. As All Emeralds clearly belongs in a RTA-TBC board, I'm just switching it over and will be submitting future runs to the appropriate board. I'll be leaving the original submission text from my BTG submission below.
No leader board bop, but a pretty decent improvement none the less. Auto Splitter is outright funky with IGT when grabbing emeralds. I think I timed it right.
1 Death in MC2, 3 Deaths in DE. Haven't learned M2 yet, and haven't been implementing HT1 zip at all. Still plenty of room for improvement, plus the obvious emerald routing improvements that I'll need to look into and work on.
[mod note] Video misses last frame of the run, assuming 1:02 IGT and taking first available frame for RTA-TBC]
Hello Everyone!
Over the past week, speedrun community members of Sonic 2 have discussed and voted on a potential switch to the primary timing method for Sonic 2, which has been IGT (In-Game Time) for as long as the game has been ran. IGT promotes a playstyle that abuses pausing, which gets amp
