For those who aren't on the Discord server, this will come as sudden news, but the game is now officially divided between glitchless (No Glitches) and Glitched runs. By default, all current runs have been tagged as Glitched. If your top run is a currently a glitched run but you would like to submit a glitchless run, now is the time to do so. As I write this, I am about to head to bed, and I'm prepared to wake up tomorrow to verify a lot of runs. This is also your time to try and quickly grind out the best glitchless time you can, for those of you who have used glitches from the start (if you're interested in doing so, of course).

---Quick FAQ for questions I've anticipated---

Q: How do I know which category my run is? A: If your run uses any glitches, including DD, Skip Bunnies, and any future glitches discovered, it will have to be in Glitched. This does mean that Skip Bunnies runs will be grouped in with DD runs, since defining runs individually per-glitch would fragment the leaderboard too small.

Q: My run doesn't use glitches, but is under Glitched. What gives? A: Part of my agenda when I wake up is to go through existing runs and double-check where they belong. If you see your run in the wrong category, do not fret, simply wait a day or two and check back again. Once everything is in the right place, you won't have to worry about it again.

Q: Why? A: This decision came from a surprisingly large number of the Discord server members agreeing that a glitchless category would be preferred. If you want to reliably voice your own opinion for future site changes, I heavily suggest joining the server at https://discord.gg/ZKE4TgBBDv

Q: What about pending runs? A: I will fix the tagging for the runs that were waiting verification before the change, it shouldn't be a problem at all

Feel free to ask further questions on this thread, I just wanted to post a full announcement so that everyone who isn't on the server would be informed as well. Happy dodging!~

Hey everyone! I'm happy to see that there were quite a few runs submitted over the last few months while the previous mod was away, it's wonderful to see there's still interest in this game!~ As some may have seen, the old moderator has been removed, and I have been assigned mod instead! As of posting this, all submissions have been reviewed, and I'm now working on polishing up the rules/formatting on the leaderboard. Nothing major will be changed for existing runs, but I do want to make sure that submissions look as polished as possible. Of course, nothing will change without the community agreeing on it first! That's why I'm making this post. Below are the changes I would like to make, and I want to hear your thoughts on them.

1. Game Audio required for top 3 runs - A lot of the runs I went through either had muted audio, or music, rather than game audio. Some runs just had oddly distorted audio. Lacking audio generally makes runs a little bit more suspicious, and it makes strange visual artifacts a little harder to dismiss. Besides, I don't see many reasons why a runner would be unable to record game audio. If there are external circumstances that make it impossible, I would be more than willing to accomodate to the best of my ability.

2. Ditch RTA entirely? - although the board already kind of reflects it, RTA isn't used for this game. As such, I don't see much of a reason to include a timer at all in recordings. I'm not saying to ban it, and I'm not saying an RTA timer should invalidates submissions, I just want a final statement as to whether we should bother including it at all. 2a. sidenote - if you guys do want to include RTA, then we'll need to come up with standards for starting/stopping the timer. As of right now, there aren't any firm timing rules.

3. The Double Damage Glitch - The topic has come up before, and I'll raise it here as well since I'm using this board for direct discussion on changes. Should we make Double Damage runs a separate category? or a variable on runs? I was considering making it a variable for now, so that I could quickly mark current and future runs in preparation for the case that the categories do get split. My personal opinion is to keep the categories together for the moment, unless/until the game receives a plentiful number of runs both with and without the glitch.

Those are the 3 things I wish to discuss with you guys, so please feel free to pipe in! Also, don't be afraid to suggest changes you'd like made!

This post is to serve two purposes.

1. Potentially, forum posts notify moderators, and might cause Risible to log in
2. Asses the demand/activity of the game

Today, I notice Risible has not been active for 9 months, and when I went to make a request for new moderation I saw that PickleWickle has already made a request to gain moderator. Personally, I'd be happy with that decision. I don't think I would make for a very active mod myself, but I would also like to see a new mod. I don't feel like anyone would object to this, but it should be fair to have some level of discussion

I've tried to get my own Portal set up for the Chaos%, but I cannot get it to work properly. The video on here only gives the link to the .bat file, not the AHK file, which is easily remedied, but the .bat file seems to act differently than in the tutorial, possibly due to an update or something similar? The issue I am having is stated in the comments of the same video, but it hasn't been replied to with any solution. It reads: "After selecting my cfg folder, for a brief moment I can see the chaos% title screen before the batch file closes on its own. Any ideas whats going on? Any help would be very appreciated."

Is it possible that the .bat file has had an update, and as such there needs to be a new tutorial? or is this is misinstallation on my end?

I might be wrong but based on the explanation that's been given about how the game functions/how the double-damage glitch activates, I have a theory on how to carry it over between phases: If you have two tiles on the board, and manage to leave them there until after the boss changes, wouldn't picking them both up THEN continue the glitch? And even with one, do you think there's a flag in the game that says whether it can spawn another damage tile after the boss's transition? I would say, when the boss is down to his last hit, take the oldest damage tile and leave the most recently spawned tile. the game might spawn a second tile and then you would be able to pick both up? Obviously, I haven't read the code, and I haven't been able to create the glitch myself in normal gameplay, so I cannot test it, this is just hypothesis based on what information is given about the glitch in the guide for it.

So, due to site complications, my original post was not actually posted. Here's my best recreation I watched the first place run, and noticed that the setting for "Limit framerate" in Projest64 was unchecked. To my knowledge, that means the game is running at a higher speed (almost double). The audio is noticeably sped up, as are the animations. Now, I could be very wrong, and it could indeed run at just the same speed, but as far as I can tell it's essentially PJ64's version of turbo

when is the cutoff for video proof needed? After playing the game a few times, I set a record that I can't seem to beat while recording. my best lies at 7:04, but if video proof is a requirement across the board for the game I will submit that time instead.

Hello! I'm Charlie Creston, professional indecisive human. I make electronic music as a hobby and develop video games on my own when I can, and I've got that little bit of 'special' salt to tie it all together. I'm really interested in getting into speedrunning, though I have very little intention of aiming for any records. I'm mostly hoping to increase my patience and get better at games as a whole. I'm focusing on Super Mario Bros. for the NES, but I'm looking for suggestions on what would really appeal to newer people. Personally, I favor older games, ones that could be emulated without hassle. As a side note, I can't think of any full games I have actually beaten, aside from Mario Kart for the Wii, even though I grew up with an NES, all three american Mario games, and plenty of other major titles. I am sincerely that bad.