UkraineGreat info, thanks! I think speed increases should be allowed in this speedrun, the game will be much harder and faster. And each person will be able to choose their own level of speed, as in Tetris.
Due to popular demand I made a global editing of the leaderboard for a better perception. Now there are only two simple categories, without resets and game overs during the run. All runs with resets, game overs, glitches etc going to miscellaneous, as unpopular. Now should be good :)
It works fine in Steam, but only fullscreen. I have one monitor, so in this case I will run without splits and this is not very good. Anyway I will try to learn this masterpiece and do some runs :)
Hi :) how to run this beautiful game in the Dxwnd window on Win7 x64?
I always check this way. It may not be entirely accurate (due to the frame rate of the video), but at least all runs in the leaderboard were checked with a single standard. Time is time, with a minimum error.
The first frame when menu starts to change and ends when you see Virus 00 in the lower right corner.
I'm for renaming categories too. Many new speedrunners tend to get confused and don't understand why Any is not Any, although it doesn't matter.. Hirexen has the last word.
Recently we found out that in the Japanese version all dialogues are skipped much faster (almost 4 seconds timesave). If someone beat WR on J version, his run will be in the main category or it will be moved to a separate one? I wouldn't want to grind RNG for years and then go to a separate J leaderboard. Like they want to do in Battletoads with Zitz, because he is faster :)
Timesave
Before Freezer: US = 5.472 J = 5.138 0.334 difference
After Ghost house: US = 28.896 J = 25.759 3.137 difference
The last dialogue US = 6.440 J = 6.073 0.367 difference
Total difference: 3.838 (I used turbo buttons for more accurate metering)
PS. Also thanks to Baras441 for finding this kill on Whiskey Weasel, now J version is not impossible SeemsGood
Maybe other games have incompetent moderators if they accepted your run on a phone emulator. They've always been banned since the beginning of time. Even decent PC emulators have been banned lately, such as RetroArch, Mesen 0.9.9, Mednafen etc. Also fсeux is the most suspicious emulator from the list of allowed.
What I hate the most about this game is waiting for the demo. This is the only reason why I don't want to run cnd1, it takes too much time for every reset. But nevertheless I am against save states, because it's like a turbo, something that never was on the original console. Even if save states will be allowed, my conscience would not allow me to use them, lol. :) I've seen a few people just use rewind, but that's even worse imho.
If the game is no different from the original, I think you can use it. But original rom is preferable, ofc
Today was approved a new puzzle game on SRC. You can support a new leaderboard :)
https://www.speedrun.com/magic_jewelry_nes
Magic Jewelry's gameplay resembles that of Columns and Dr. Mario, both of which released earlier in the same year. Sets of 3 or more matching coloured jewels must be lined up horizontally, vertically or diagonally in order to score points, while simultaneously removing said jewels.
I know yeasterday some games was accepted in a few hours, but my first request has not been accepted for 24 days. Is there any difference in the choice of games or was Magic Jewelry just forgotten? It's not urgent for me, just asked out of curiosity. Already 4 runners have done their runs for this game and they are worried. :)
@Sammynorth Yes, because it’s impossible to track. In my pb I used LiveSplit, but many people started out from audio cue. For example, Konatai learned my 0-10 pattern, but visually this is unprovable. In fact, in this game only 0-20 can be considered as indicator of a good skill, since it's impossible to learn and even impossible to choose which pattern is better. In 0-10 everyone can learn some good pattern for WR, it's your choice.
