Hi, I was planning on running this game and noticed that there is a more than substantial difference in how the CPU plays depending on how you set up "Difficulty" and "Damage level" in the options, independently from the difficulty selected when starting a new game. Maybe the rules should include showing the option screen to make sure that you're not running the game on Hard mode but with the difficulty set to a 1 star, it kind of defeats the purpose of playing Hard mode otherwise.

Hi guys, What do you all think about adding a 265 Rounds category to the leaderboard? For those who don't know, even though Wario's Woods is virtually an endless game, 256R is where the game can't go further, as if you beat 256R, the next round the game will send you to is going to be 256R again, and again, and again... For this reason we can kind of consider it to be the end of the game, and I've personally been toying with the idea of making the suggestion to create a 256R category and trying a "1R to 256R" run for a while, but it's a long one and quite the commitment, and I didn't want to potentially have a category with no runs submitted. The reason why I'm now suggesting to create a category for this run is that I found out just a few days ago that @YuaRyuc actually completed a 256R run, and I would love for it to have a place on the leaderboard, also in hope that more people would be inspired to give this madness a shot. Since Yua completed the 256R in Type-B mode, I would personally just add a 256R category for Type-B for now, and once a first Type-A 256R run is completed as well, we could add Type-A too. I know of course this would not be a popular category to run, but I know for sure that it would be a fun challenge for the runners who decide to commit to it, and since, on top of that, someone already managed to successfully accomplish it, it would only be fair to give it a proper display in my personal opinion. Let me know what you guys think!

Hi all, I have been thinking for a while about suggesting to change the rule that establishes when a run is supposed to end, as I personally think it would be a good thing, so I would like to hear the opinions of people who ran/run the game. This change would only apply to the categories "20 Rounds" and "50 Rounds". The current rule states that the run "ends on leaving level 20/50", which is very arbitrary both in terms of wording and in terms of timing. My suggestion would be to let the run end on the frame when Round Clear appears on screen: this would actually make the timing much more precise, and the job of mods easier, and will allow us to frame count runs more precisely whenever that becomes a necessity. Beside, checking how the game works in the TAS editor, it is easy to see how even the game itself considers the round completed on that frame: the layout of every round is in fact predetermined by the frame you end the previous round on, and the frame the game considers to do so is exactly the frame when Round Clear appears on screen. In case this change was approved, runs that have already been submitted would be retimed, and, as I already checked, there would be no changes in terms of ranking, so everyone would keep their position on the leaderboards. I would like to know what runners and mods think about this, so we can make a decision all together.

Doubt anyone else here experienced the same, but maybe someone has run into a similar situation and can help me understand what happened.

I was casually playing through the game, reached Area 4, explored it all or as much as possible anyway, and hit a wall since I couldn't figure out where else to go to progress, so I got to the top of the elevator room and stood on the top platform for a while, thinking of what I hadn't tried to do yet. I then got distracted and didn't look at the screen for about 15 seconds, only to find out when I looked back at it that the screen was flashing with black and pink stripes, and at the center there were two flickering sprites of what seemed to be bosses I guess that I couldn't quite recognize. I couldn't do anything on that screen, tried to press everything I could, and "start" was the last button I pressed; it brought me back to the first room of the area as if I had normally died, but the room was partially glitched and the game completely frozen, and I noticed that all my stats (level, exp and HP notably) got reset as if all my progress was lost. I then reset the game, selected "continue" and the game brought me back to Area 4 but all my progress was indeed gone, making it basically impossible to move on and eventually try to replicate whatever happened.

None of what I just described was recorded unfortunately.

If you guys have any idea as to what could have possibly happened, feel free to share it, otherwise thanks for reading if you've made it this far.

Hi all, Over the last weekend I found myself being unmodded from the Batman: The Video Game (NES) leaderboard; in that same time frame, junkyard_dave had to undergo a similar treatment, getting demoted from the status of “Super Moderator” to “Moderator”. Nobody ever warned us about it, nobody ever tried to reach out to us to communicate this decision, nobody ever expressed concerns in the way we managed runs verification or any other action relative to the moderation of that leaderboard. After strenuously trying to gather information, reaching out to people close to us, forum posts and all, we managed to find out that that measure was taken after an unmentioned group of people reached out to the moderators of this website expressing complaints regarding a rule change based on an inside joke and alleged disrespectful messages associated to rejected runs, in the light of which one of those moderators thought that taking measures was a “necessary” act. The other two Super Moderators of that leaderboard were actually preemptively warned about this measure by garadas21, Content Moderator on this website, who was the same person who forwarded the complaint of that unmentioned group of people to Full Moderators and Admins; I'd like to point out how he could have reached out to me in several different ways if he had wanted to, as we also happen to share the same native language, avoiding the risk of information getting lost in translation. Now, not only do I consider those accusations just not enough to demote Dave and axe me, and lead me to seriously question the good faith of the moderator(s) that acted on those accusations, but I also feel extremely concerned about it all, since the entire exchange of posts on this website between Dave and the Admin kirkq was deleted today, because moderators thought it would be better to solve stuff like this in private; the problem is that in this whole exchange of posts, never once were we ever redirected to the moderator who acted on those complaints or to the people that forwarded those same complaints, so even though I fully agree on solving these issues behind closed doors, both for a matter of practicality and for personal inclinations, I would still necessarily need to know who should I go talk to so that I could address these issues more properly. I personally dislike this “code of silence” kind of logic, as there should be no reason not to be transparent about this sort of thing, and it doesn't make me feel safe either, as it looks like partiality in moderators' judgement is an actual thing, which just shouldn't exist in this context, as we're here to speedrun videogames after all, not to appease personal frustrations and generate feuds. I wrote this post to raise awareness, not to attack anyone, as it's not the first time within the retro community that people use their “power” or other people's power to harass and create unpleasant and uncomfortable situations; I hope for a greater transparency in the resolution of future issues like this one, I believe it's possible to make it happen.

Hi. I talked to a few other members of the community lately, and we all think it would be a good idea to start requiring a video proof when submitting a run to this leaderboard, also as a consequence of the fact that submissions are now more frequent than they used to be, and new runners are taking an interest in this game, and I personally think if there's a chance to make things more legitimate, it's always wise to take it. Do you guys think we could make this happen?

Hello :D

-Ohon's Low% run seems to be gone, there's no video anymore; could someone provide an active link or update his submission? -Is the Ninja Gaiden Discord server still active? It looks like it suddenly disappeared for whatever reason, so if somebody knew something about it, I'd be curious to know what happened.

Thanks :)