I agree that I have zero reason to be a mod of this game, so I am resigning effective immediately.

I'm on board with mods not being allowed to verify their own runs. We can put that rule into effect immediately.

To be a bit more detailed:

I'm assuming that what you want is a higher standard for the verification process. I am not categorically against this, but can you provide some more detail about how you would change the process for how mods should verify runs?

I have long admitted that I don't spend all that much time verifying any individual run. I am willing to spend more time, but not orders of magnitude more time, like if we were required to watch VODs in their entirety, especially VODs of lesser quality runs.

An example of a run that I agree should probably have undergone more scrutiny was Aliens's recent offline 0:59, which contained a lot of lag and was verified only 1 minute after it was submitted. I am absolutely not accusing him of cheating, I'm only using this as an example.

It's mainly to prevent spam

0-00/0-01/0-02

I don't think this is really necessary but I guess I'd be fine with it. I wouldn't really want to be the person that had to and watch old bad runs to see if they were done on PC or not though, and of course there's no way to know if a run was done on 0-01 at all if they don't do Arboretum gate skip.

Platform

I have always interpreted "platform" to mean the platform the game was intended for. To me, adding a Wii platform option would be appropriate for trilogy runs if we wanted to have a combined leaderboard, but not for running vanilla GCN prime on a Wii. However, there are other games such as Super Mario Sunshine that do this, it wouldn't be unprecedented.

Segmented runs

I have shared my thoughts on this matter many times but I supposed there's no better place to reiterate them than here. The main reason I don't support them being on SRC is that SRC does not have infrastructure for it that would consider adequate. If we had the capability to set up the leaderboards so that SS runs are shown with the segmented runs but not vice versa, then I would be all for this. But that isn't possible, and despite a SRC full mod's assertion that it's on the to do list, certainly I doubt we'll ever see it.

There have been a few ideas floated around about how to get around this issue. One is to add a segmented category and require that the run actually be in multiple segments. I think this is a bad idea mainly because the leaderboard it would present would paint a highly inaccurate picture of the state of the game. This is what it would look like right now:

1. Justin (0:52)
2. Jack (0:53)
3. M177 (1:00) (no video but grandfathered in)
4. Bartendorsparky (1:01)
5. MPzoid (1:03)

No T3, DF, Claris, Verallix, Edzan, Missa, RealBread, R_Web, Icefire, Remi, DCR, Aliensqueakytoy, or Morse despite all of those people having better any% times than MPzoid, and in a version of any% that has superseded segmented any% if they are the same time or better since the dawn of speedrunning. I would not be at all in favor of creating a leaderboard for segmented runs if that's what it would look like.

The other option is to manually duplicate every SS run submitted. This is actually what I did for a while when I first made the leaderboards. It was a terrible experience. Eventually I gave up on it because not a single person had even submitted a segmented run in the half-year-to-full-year period I was doing it, and we do have the google doc for posterity.

tl;dr I'm not reading that wall of text

If I had to rank these ideas based on how palatable they are to me, I'd say platform followed by 0-00/0-01/0-02, neither of which I would I get all that upset about. Segmented runs with SRC's current (lack of) infrastructure would happen over my dead body.

Doing the escape sequence with the elevator pre-scanned, the turret missing, or anything else that would not be possible the first time a save file entered the escape sequence are now banned.

Runs that made use of these things before this rule went in effect are grandfathered in and will not be removed.

This stuff is only banned in the frigate escape category. It would still be allowed in full-game runs, although I don't know why anyone would ever want to do that.

Let's say I mod a game that has normal and hard mode difficulties. Is it possible to set up the LBs so that when you view the hard mode LB you only see hard mode runs, but when you view the normal mode LB you see BOTH the normal and hard mode runs?

This is only a hypothetical example, but this is the type of functionality that would be highly useful for some of the games I mod.

Drakodan is correct.

The Metroid Prime speedrunning community has a combined discord server for all three games due to the massive overlap in the player base.

https://discord.me/metroidprime

The Metroid Prime speedrunning community has a combined discord server for all three games due to the massive overlap in the player base.

https://discord.me/metroidprime

Edit: this is no longer the case. See Dyceron's message below.

The Metroid Prime speedrunning community has a combined discord server for all three games due to the massive overlap in the player base.

https://discord.gg/7H7pc5EbKN

https://discord.me/metroidprime

You don't have to be good at speedrunning at all to go to a GDQ, but you pretty much have to be a top player to actually perform a run in the marathon. I went to SGDQ last year and had a great time, and nobody would ever confuse me with being a good speedrunner.

You could check the wiki and see if there's anything you want to contribute

I'll just say that we've been waiting for the ability to hide the seconds in IGT for nearly 2 years and it hasn't happened yet

I'm going to mod you to this game

Ok so here's the deal. I don't know anything about this speedrun or the categories or the history or anything. As far as I know none of the current mods speedrun this game, so I think it would be prudent to add someone who knows what they're doing as a mod. I'm going to discuss with the other supermods who we're going to mod. Stay tuned.

Oh, it says the guy's name in the title of the thread. Looks like Mr_Shasta approved it.

To be honest I'm pretty sure none of @Mr_Shasta, @mobiusman, or myself have ever run this game so we don't know much about what is and isn't allowed. I don't know who corey042 is but he doesn't appear to be very active.

We should probably look into adding another mod for this game.

I don't know which runs are the ones you guys are talking about.

Who has been approving these runs? (It wasn't me.)