Hey, everyone. I created a load remover for this game, and it is now available in LiveSplit. Feel free to use it for loadless timing on the leaderboard if that's something you'd be interested in. Thanks!

Hi, everyone. I am not a speedrunner, but I was inspired by darbian's stream to write a plugin for LiveSplit to use with frame-rule based games. He pointed out to me that wooferzfg has already written a plugin like this, but I think mine makes a couple of improvements. First, my full source code is posted on GitHub, and I'm happy to accept pull requests from anyone who wants to contribute. Second, my implementation uses a much more precise calculation for the frame rule:

The equation to calculate the frame rate of the NTSC console is: ([frequency of CPU] ¤ [# of PPU ticks per CPU cycle]) / (([# of PPU ticks per scanline] ¤ [# of scanlines]) - [odd frame idle skip]) (1789772.7272727 ¤ 3) / ((341 ¤ 262) - 0.5) = ~ 60.09881389744

The equation to calculate the length of a frame rule is: [# of frames in frame rule] / [frame rate of console] 21 frames / 60.09881389744 fps = ~ 349.42453333334 milliseconds

Here is a link to the GitHub project: https://github.com/blairmadison11/LiveSplit.FrameRuleSplit