New Jersey, USAI run this on a version of Chromium that I downloaded before the Flash shutdown. I also saved an HTML file of the website I played it on which included the .swf file (so you can always mess with it and play at your desired dimensions).
When I play, I first open the browser, then change my system date and time to a date before the shutdown (I just change year to 2020). Then I click on "Click to run Flash player", then click allow, and it runs. Then you can set your date and time back and proceed normally.
Looking at the video we are pretty certain that the video itself was sped up. If you look at the timer he used it increments by 1 every frame and goes onto the next second at 24, yet it was rendered at 30fps on YouTube. My suspicion is that instead of frame interlacing in the rendering it instead sped the video up. The video it has been replaced with was my re-rendering of it with the "proper" timing (i.e. stretching the video out by a factor of 1.25 to have the timer match realtime).
If you look at his other videos with the same timer like this one: you will see that it's similar but instead of the last number stopping at 24, it stops at 30, and the video itself seems to be playing back at a normal pace as well. So, I feel that this change in framerate is why the video appears to be sped up — because it likely is. His movement in the original video seems to be very, very erratic and far too fast for what I felt was feasible, especially considering his latter half of the run + general lack of runs in the category (and no handcam either).
Unless someone else finds any evidence that this video is not sped up or Dryden himself would like to dispute this, the time will be left as is.
My guide covers everything I do in this video
you can literally press tab to instantly lose lol
There are a variety of options, including standalone flash players and custom HTML webpages. If you want, I can upload the standalone player
the question is where can the extra 5 seconds be saved? Sum of my best splits is roughly 4:05 as well and this is even with a 10.3s 1-34. You'd have to finish sonic and the bomb at 9 second timer to even have a chance at it imo
Sure but I feel like that would fall under the definition of an emulator.
In any case, I think that a redefinition (or at least a clearer definition) of emulator in this context needs to be made.
Then will we need a rule change? I feel like it would be a bit silly to not allow things like Flashpoint or other Flash players, as the HTML version patches a lot of bugs that are used in current runs that the dev doesn't plan to fix (e.g. right/left-clicking interactions with the cursor hitbox, the double-click to skip Q105, tabbing to instantly end the run, etc etc).
Even then the current flash emulators I find problematic as right-clicking and then left-clicking to get rid of the window only does that and does not input a right-click into the game, meaning that for things like Q56 where right-clicking is abused to see the cursor, we'll need to double click every button after the initial right-click which is not only time consuming but results in mouse instability (or at least it does for me, I could just be bad xd)
As of now the best option I've stumbled across is downloading an older build of Chromium (not Google Chrome) and praying that it will still support flash post-2020. I read online in various places that it should but don't quote me on that. But I'm sure we can find a way to keep the category alive (or as alive as it's ever been).
Personally I don't see the 4 minute sub happening anytime soon. atm I think sub of best splits is 4:06. I think a near perfect run on Q102 could maybe save an extra second and various other optimizations saving 2-3 seconds would still bring us down to a 4:02-4:03, which I genuinely don't think will happen for at LEAST months. If a sub-4 min happens without any major breakthroughs in glitches, it will be at least a few yrs from now, and even then I'm not really sure
