United StatesA Discord server for speedrunners of mobile games https://discord.gg/rnM925V
A Discord server for speedrunners of mobile games https://discord.gg/D5gZYrs
A Discord server for speedrunners of mobile games https://discord.gg/D5gZYrs
A Discord for all speedrunners of mobile games https://discord.gg/D5gZYrs
User @Brian , who appears to be the most recent Any% record holder, submitted three obviously spliced IL runs to the Flappy Golf level leaderboard. I'm reaching out because this seems to be a fairly high-profile speed game, with over 100 unique runners in the Any% category, and I think it's likely he cheated here too. I would encourage any active mod in this game to re-evaluate his submission for signs of splicing and remove it at any sign of doubt. Thank you
The community leaderboards for lowest flap count and King of the Hole is at Cyberscore: https://www.cyberscore.me.uk/game/1453
The community leaderboard where users compete to get the lowest flap count is hosted on Cyberscore: https://www.cyberscore.me.uk/game/1793
https://www.speedrun.com/fg2/thread/3eghf
Post by @Pokemonmaster888:
Hey Flappy Golfers! I noticed speedrun.com recently added Flappy Golf 1 and 2, and I've been watching things progress here for a couple of weeks. If you aren't aware, a community for Flappy Golf 1 and 2 already exists and we have a multi-purpose Discord server where we communicate about high scores and fastest times (mostly high scores at this time). Most of us come from Cyberscore where charts for flaps mode in both games and time mode in the 1st game exist.
That said, you guys are welcome to join the server and I can add a speedrunning channel or two in the server if you want to make it your base of communication. The server has been around since October 2016. Any questions can be directed towards me. Take a look and hope to see some of you around. ?
With @RockinJack18 's recent Gravity Lab run, there was a unanimous decision among all active mods to add a way to distinguish Any% runs achieved on Mac vs. runs achieved on mobile.
The reason we split the leaderboard is because it is possible to do multiple flap inputs per frame on Mac, which isn't possible on mobile. This difference in it of itself isn't enough to warrant such a change on the leaderboards, but RockinJack18's run showed us that Mac users can exploit this capability to use setups that are next to impossible on mobile.
As Flappy Golf 2 becomes more and more optimized, we can foresee Mac proving to be the superior platform for Any%. All of @PuzzleKing 's runs have been marked as having the Mac control style, which has resulted in his obtaining many uncontested records (when filtering by control style). RockinJack18, of course, holds the WR for Gravity Lab Any%
While technically Mac has an advantage over mobile in Gold% and Superstar% as well, we have not split the leaderboards there because we don't (yet?) have evidence that the advantage is significant enough to warrant a change in the leaderboards.
Happy flapping!
For the past few months we've had a rule in effect making the use of a microphone mandatory during a video-recorded run.
One thing I've found is that sometimes after completing a run, the video will save without the microphone audio, even though I turned on the microphone before pressing the record button. (I run the game on iPhone 6S). This is why for some of my recent Gold% runs (Oil Field, Roller Coast, and Portal Mag Land) there is no microphone audio.
Since then, I've discovered restarting your device before starting a recording session will guarantee the microphone audio saves correctly. I know that these runs are indeed single segment, but since they don't follow all the rules, I was wondering if I should leave them up or take them down. Thoughts?
Basically, we need to add one frame to all times on the leaderboard. This is why.
We're taking the timestamp of the end frame and subtracting the timestamp of the start frame. However, this leaves us with the wrong result.
Let's use the task of counting pages in a book to explain:
Start page: 1 End page: 10 List of these pages: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Number of pages: 10 = 10-1***+1***
I will update the timing guide
I was adding each hole from @AyrtonTwigg 's Golf Land Any% run and my Golf Land Any% run, and I noticed something weird.
Based on the times I submitted to the new Individual Hole Leaderboard, I should have the Golf Land Any% Full Level WR, not @AyrtonTwigg.
@Msbmteam sum of holes: 33.747 seconds @AyrtonTwigg sum of holes: 35.15 seconds
@Msbmteam "time without loads": 45.883 seconds @AyrtonTwigg "time without loads": 45.483 seconds
The reason why these results are different is because "time without loads" includes the time between the frame that "Loading Hole ___" disappears and the frame the flap buttons appear onscreen.
Here's what I mean ( @AyrtonTwigg on top, @Msbmteam on bottom)
I will be retiming every run without loads and updating the timing without loads guide.
So I just timed the Golf Land Gold% runs without loads. It turns out my run was faster by a little bit despite having a slower time with loads.
But it doesn't show my time on the Level Leaderboard. It shows @MrSSFireball 's 1m 02s 900ms time on the Level Leaderboard, but when you click on that grid square, it shows my 1m 02s 733ms time as first. Is anyone else getting this glitch?
Say you create a new variable in the Edit Game page. Is it possible to hide it on the leaderboards if it is empty? I only see a checkbox for "Hide empty time columns"
On our rule page, it seems some of the CSS styling we set in the theme editor applies to the rules, but some of it doesn't.
In the following photo, you'll see that H1 and H2 take on what we set it to. But the white background, black text, links, and button look like the default CSS styling for a website. Can this be fixed?
As of Nov. 21, 2017 we have a new rule in place. For now, this applies only to those submitting runs on iOS and Android.
- If your video was recorded with the built-in screen recording feature on your device, the video must have sound, and you must have the microphone enabled. If your video was recorded with a camera, make sure the screen is reasonably visible.
How to record with microphone in iOS: https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/record-iphone-ipad-screen-ios-11/
For Android, I suggest using AZ Recorder: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hecorat.screenrecorder.free&hl=en
We apologize for any inconveniences this may cause. Thank you for your understanding.
Just so everyone knows how to do it, I made this frame counting tutorial. Timing runs to the frame is fast and easy:
Edit: You can use your normal keyboard.
Why is the current High Score world record considered legitimate? The link in the submission text is broken. Also as an aside, I have an objection to using photos as evidence for a run. Someone could easily photoshop a picture to make it look like they got a score higher than they did.
For all the runs on the leaderboards so far, I think all of them are legitimate. However, with the current rules, it is theoretically impossible to tell if a submitted run is a segmented run or a single-segment run.
This is why I'm suggesting the following rulechange for iOS and Android: If your video was recorded with the built-in screen recording feature on your device, the video must have sound, and you must have the microphone enabled. If your video was recorded with a camera, make sure the screen is reasonably visible.
This is because a video with a cut will have an obvious line on an audio spectrogram of its audio:
Video with obvious cut at around 6 secs:
Spectrogram: 
Spectrogram (zoomed): 
Videos that are true single-segment runs will not have a break in the spectrogram.
The reason the microphone must be on for this technique to work is because the game audio is non-continuous, whereas audio from the microphone always has some baseline noise level that shows up on the spectrogram
Game audio (without music) vs. mic audio: 
Game audio (without music) vs. mic audio spectrogram: 
Thoughts? And does anyone have any ideas for PC and Mac?
