https://discord.gg/0ePDppd9djuPisZp

This where most discussion about mzm happens these days, feel free to drop by!

Apologies if this has been suggested before, but: lots of games seem to be moving towards having dedicated discord servers to discuss runs instead of old ways like irc channels and skype groups. It would be nice to have a place on a game's sidebar where you can link a server invite.

I just noticed the category rules now say "Timing starts from Samus first moving". Just so you're aware, when I first set up this page and imported runs from m2k2 or wherever, I standardised them to file select timing, as there was a mixture of both. If people want to use SDA timing, that's fine, but just so you know, most of the runs on the board will need to have ~7s subtracted from them.

I am of course an outsider but my personal preference would be to use file select timing for consistency with other metroid games.

EDIT 3/7/17 Now that we are allowing emulator RTA (and the boards are already using RTA by default) it doesn't make much sense to have the cutoffs be in IGT. All the new cutoffs can be found in the individual category rules.

If you submit an IGT-only run which is "good enough" to hit a cutoff it will probably be rejected. But there's really no reason to submit IGT-only any more.

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I have already discussed this with several ZM runners, but it's not written anywhere on this site, so here's a quick post about it:

Currently, any new runs with an IGT under 30 minutes (any%) or 56 minutes (100%) require a full video (NOT a screenshot of the ending) or they will be rejected. This rule is not applied retroactively to old runs.

These cutoffs are arbitrary and could change in the future, but they're what we're working with for now. I know recording sucks for a lot of people - particularly as we encourage you to play on console rather than emulator - but hopefully you can understand the need. Merry christmas!

While I would be very happy for deertier.com to migrate their leaderboards over here, in the meantime I think www.speedrun.com/super_metroid should probably be taken down. I don't really understand why the request would be approved in the first place, given how well-established the external leaderboards are and the fact that as far as I can tell dragoncraftt34 has nothing to do with them.

for me, leaderboards have started only showing the top x times in each category, where x is a number that seems to be varying arbitrarily - for example, SM64 shows 16 runs for 120 star and 20 runs for 70 star. If I tick "include emulator", the number of runs shown decreases. what's going on?

Is this a good place to request this? For example, NightSky, Knytt Stories, and Knytt Underground could be grouped together under the series "Nifflas".

Currently if you enable in-game time for a game, you can only submit a run that has a value for both IGT and RTA. While in an ideal world this wouldn't be an issue, I would like to be able to add old unrecorded runs for which one of the numbers isn't available.

I also couldn't see an option to change the default sorting from RTA to IGT, which might be an idea for some games.

Thanks!