United StatesI believe a 100 points category would eventually have the same timing issue as regular friend connection where the difference would only lie on how fast you can mash a button and how fast your game loads. To avoid adding anymore categories like this, I would prefer not to add a 100 points category
We had a discussion about Chop Chops and decided not to add it (for now) because of the framewar, retiming, etc. which plagues minigames like Flag Footrace and more.
The rest of the minigames can be optimized so easily that they're not really worth adding.
I actually do plan on adding lose categories here, which includes Match-Up. Obviously we're not going to add everything from the full leaderboard in losing form.
Oh right, I've mistaken Lofty Leap for the minigame where you jump the logs. That definitely can't be added for sure.
Chop Chops and Zombie Tag are a maybe. Lofty Leap would instantly be fully optimized since it's easy to dodge all the objects. Face Flip would also instantly be fully optimized since you simply have to reset until you flip three in a row. Obviously this is ironic since there are minigames in the IL board with the same logic in mind but they were added a while ago and learning from the past I would like to put these kinds of minigames on hold for now. This is definitely subject to future discussion.
Challenge Clover Hunt is already in the leaderboard under the "Challenge" category.
Thread is locked. If you have a suggestion, feel free to tell me in the Discord server or create a new thread. I believe the process is simpler that way.
If you go to the leaderboard for Flag Fracas multiple players and controllers, you will see that the only time in the board is by N/A, meaning that the category is invalid. speedrun.com doesn't have a feature where we can get rid of categories for specific minigames yet.
The reason why multiple players and controllers is invalid for Flag Fracas is because none of the players can affect each other's times since they are in separate lanes. Because the other players can't contribute, the run is only submitted as the winning player and put into the 1P category.
Game audio is not required, but please have it on if you have it available. It makes it easier for us to verify the run.
Also, I can add a rule requiring in-game audio if the community would like that. If it happens, I'll keep the runs that were verified before the change.
"Timebug" happens when the in-game time is not equal to the real time. I first found this when looking at AlKoTho's Silverstone lap times in GT class during their career mode speedrun.
I decided to investigate further. I took a race three of us did (Springfield in GT class) and compared our first lap IGT to our first lap RTA. I timed the RTA by taking the first frame of the first lap (basically when the timer first goes from .00) then taking the first frame of the next lap. Here are the results:
AlKoTho (PC, 30 FPS) IGT: 1:38.94 RTA: 1:38.333
alchemistake (PC, 30 FPS) IGT: 1:42.62 RTA: 1:41.367
AdamLikeScars (PS2, 30 FPS) IGT: 1:42.26 RTA: 1:42.333
Since it has been roughly a week since the first post, I decided to apply the changes.
NG and NG+ have been removed, PRO season NG has been renamed to Any%, and GT season, GTS season, and the newly added PRO season are NG+.
After this, I retimed the GTS season runs so that they fit with the new rules. PRO season is blank since it is new, so feel free to submit runs from your Any% videos if you'd like.
Yeah, you would do single seasons with an existing file.
I am unsatisfied with how the Career category looks. Currently, there is the three classes in a variable and NG/NG+ in another variable. I feel like this could be simplified though.
My idea is to have one variable with an "Any%" (basically PRO Class NG), then have single seasons for each class which would be NG+. I would like to consider other ideas from the community before I make a decision.
It's absolutely OK if your platform has faster/no loading times since I expected that to happen. It would be great to have something that removes loading times though!
I've been having a hard time trying to pinpoint when the fanfare starts, especially in videos with not-so-great quality, so I've changed the time ending to when your final score starts to turn dark right after it is being calculated. I chose this because it is the first sign that your score is final, and it is an instant and dramatic change in color so it is much easier to pinpoint the ending frame.
With that being said, I had to retime every Friend Connection run to align with the new rules. Some changes in ranking happened, but nothing of significance in my opinion since 1st-4th has not changed.
Emulators are allowed, they are just hidden from the leaderboard by default. This has been in effect since the beginning of 2020 but I may have deleted the forum post announcing it.
I've made some updates for the past few weeks that I think would be important for you all to know.
I have moved some guides to resources and added a new guide, check it all out!
Along with the re-arrangements, I have modified the main rules. The updated main rules include the reset timing policy. This was established years ago by GamingLand but it made no sense to me until recently, so most runs that used restart in 2020 and early 2021 likely didn't face the penalty, and I apologize about that. If you have a run that was put under these circumstances, don't worry about it. I will start enforcing the restart penalty though.
I lastly added PAL names for 3 minigames and made the rules for all ILs look cleaner.
Hey y'all, so we just did 2 significant things to the CPU Difficulty variable. This was made possible due to some tests made in the category extensions leaderboard.
NEW VALUE: N/A N/A basically just replaces the blank values. This makes the leaderboard more professional and easier to understand.
VALUES NOW OBSOLETE BY EACH OTHER When the values obsolete by each other, only your PB will show up regardless of CPU difficulty. This makes the leaderboards look much cleaner. If you want to see an obsoleted run you did in a different CPU difficulty, you will need to filter the leaderboard by the desired CPU difficulty. I created a poll for community approval, and a 10 to 4 majority were in favor of this change.
I cannot confirm or deny if submitting runs through LiveSplit works, but there are alternatives for recording your run. submitting your videos with Google Drive would be a valid thing to do. It seems that you used that method for your Wii Play speedruns and it worked out. Recording your screen with a phone and having your LiveSplit timer on the side works too.
@Cmdr good idea. I will make sure to add that soon.
@Scrapz unfortunately, after reviewing the run, I will have to turn down your suggestion. Sheep Crossing is a locked 60 second minigame and Jangle Wranglers is a locked 30 second minigame, therefore the only factor changing times significantly enough is Ram Jam. At that point, people might as well just run Ram Jam in the main leaderboard. I apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.
Balance Boat all difficulties, suggested by SR.C user bendersrus, will be added soon as well.
