I had my suspicions for a couple of months that the layout randomizing algorithm might have been... "half-assed". Ever since I found multiple times IN THE SAME DAY that the THI star [!] appear at the exact same unreachable coordinates (high above the top of the very steep slope that tops the white rock wall delimiting the starting yard) I felt something wasn't done right algorithmically to randomize objects placement. I also happen to have stumbled upon a 0.5.1 seed in which the CCM layout was identical to the CCM layout that I saw (the very same day again) in the video of one of the previous 120-stars WR from 360Chrism. I chose to dismiss it because this was between two different versions of the hack (0.5 for the WR). A week ago, HOWEVER, ONLY A COUPLE OF ATTEMPS APART FROM EACHOTHER (the same day). I did stumble on two seeds where the layout of Rainbow Ride is identical down to the very last coin as far as I recall.

Seed 22967: Vanish cap leads to aquarium that then leads to Rainbow Ride Seed 26095: Vanish cap leads to HMC that then leads to Rainbow Ride

In between those seeds, the layout of Rainbow Ride is IDENTICAL, from the [!] box pierced by the pole near the start like it's a piece of kebab chicken just about to fall off to the goddamn star AND red coin both hovering over the "handle" of the second blue lego swinging platform.

Something should be done now, I'm sure of it. The randomizing algorithm needs to be reworked. I also wonder what it would cost to change the seed for a 32-bit value.

Here I want to discuss solutions so that this sh** doesn't happen again and I'd like to have some advice:

I was using Radeon ReLive because it was convenient and the performance was great. This one, however... FUCKED ME !!! AFTER JUST 1 1/2 MINUTE OF RECORDING WITHOUT NOTICE. Now I've beaten my PB by a solid 8 minutes but have no evidence of it. I would have passed hunterico just above me in the leaderboard if I did.

So... What are you guys using that does and DOESN'T stop recording for no reason ?

Would it be a problem to use two recording software simultaneously and hope they DON'T SIMULTANEOUSLY FAIL IN THE SAME RUN !? Also, what is the minimum resolution and video quality acceptable for this leaderboard ? I intend to put the backup recording software on minimum settings if I go for this solution.

All in the title. I've been waiting for over 48 hours for my submission to appear on the leaderboard and I've received no news about it.

The first time it took... I don't even know, an hour ? ... for my first submission to get rejected (Youtube upload issues and bull****). I submitted late at night and woke up with an anouncement that it was rejected in the early morning.

But my second time with which I made sure my video upload was successful appears to have been completely ignored so far. In the light of how quick I received the rejection on the first submission, no response in 52+ hours looks abnormal.

Hi, recently I get CONSISTENTLY fucked over by TTC's red coins because there's always one spawning OOB. All my best run attempts are dead so far because of how broken it is.

I am writing this in hope that I can speak to Arthurtilly the author since it seems to be the only way. The solution from the author's perspective would be so braindead simple to implement since he knows his own code in the ROM Hack that it would only take a couple of minutes of his time and save days upon days of wasted attempts.

I would just propose he puts an additional constraint on the randomized objects position in TTC only based on the absolute value of the X and Z coordinates. Assuming the shape of the In-bound area of the level is in fact a regular octogonal prism centered on (0,0) all he'll have to do is check each object is within bounds with condition ( abs(x) < diameter && abs(z) < diameter && abs(x)+abs(z) < diameter*sqrt(2) ? ).

I don't know if this is exact but I assume he knows exactly what is the shape the TTC walls reproduce and if not, he can figure out easily exactly how much.

Right now, there's always a red coin spawning somewhere above a "moving bar" starting OOB.

Thanks for your attention.

Hi, so to make it as short as possible... I have a very serious recurring problem with a ROM hack (SM64) that destroys ALL my speerun attempts lately (several days wasted in total). I know the author updated it a couple of months ago and so might be planning to fix more stuff in a newer version if I can report to him the issue.

Only (additional) problem with that: How the f*** am I supposed to contact anyone specifically on this website ?!?? I know the author is a moderator but I searched a lot on this website in vain looking for a way other than this one (new thread) to contact anyone. I even sent an e-mail twice to the support address and never gotten a reply (it's been more than a month now).