As usual, the fact that there is no game announcement system, but I'm pretty much the only runner at this point so I guess it's not that big a deal.

After consulting with numerous people in the speedrun and disability communities and asking all recently active runners for input (only one of which responded), we are allowing input redirection and turbo on all platforms and in all categories.

The main basis for this decision is 1. increasing accessibility is generally good, 2. having access to turbo will not automatically give you a good time, and even some bosses won't automatically be easy (and, honestly, "mash as fast as you can to kill this boss" is simply not interesting gameplay), 3. we don't have a waterway skip so this doesn't affect viability of strategies in waterway (though for those not involved in the game who may be following, even if there was it would likely be fairly doable due to the extreme lag in waterway without turbo), 4. i am literally the only runner at this point and know a few people who the mashing in cave story turns them away from speedrunning.

it moves the game away from CS+ and freeware speedruns, however as there is zero overlap between the communities i didn't deem this to be an issue.

use of turbo and input redirection, due to the software involved, will require you to use an input display, and a guide will be posted within the next couple of days on setting up the custom firmware needed to use it and setting up the necessary programs, in addition to a general guide on how to properly set up the system to stream via NTR. guide will be targeted at Windows and debian-based linux distributions - most common arch distributions are simply too unstable for me to concern myself with and if you're on arch i imagine you can sort this yourself, and Mac OS has enormous issues with running unsigned programs. If you have a Mac, this might not be accessible at all to you, but there is simply nothing that can be done about that besides you setting up to dual boot another operating system.

have a lovely autumn evening, friends.

i prefer not using mini turbo but i really don't care either way i think there should be something like: "turbo/autofire yes or no in your submission due to runs being completely different i don't feel it shouldn't be allowed i just propose that's how we sorta make it allowed imo

Rule Change for All Categories

Cave Story 3D

Nintendo 3DS

Puxel64

Easy

Normal

Hard

Ballos

Ballosless

Any%

Console

Emulator

Difficulty

Clear Definition

Time Attack Use

NIQ/Any%

Console/Emulator

New Nintendo 3DS

Cave Story

Leaderboard Updates

What is allowed re: recording your runs

Hi I'm GZ

Discord invite

Adding "segmented" as a category

AntyMew

stoic_rose

golderzoa