Like the title says, this is to help the mods who are not always around and prevent any headaches to mods and runners.

If you have a need to discuss a certain run, please feel free to join the discord and chat there, we would love to have you! (:

Posting this here cause not everyone who runs this is in the discord. Under every category it now says this.

"Turbo is now allowed as of 6/7/21 in all categories, but it must be noted that it is used or else the run will be rejected. Controller or hotkey Turbo is allowed, please specify in the description of the run. "

Also, it took work, but all runs (both PB's and obsolete) on the leaderboard are now marked as no for turbo for the variable. Any new runs submitted, even non PB's with turbo can be marked correctly from now onwards.

I've been meaning to change this for awhile, but got busy. But this is to even the playing field from mashing to making matches the actual separation of times.

Also, there is no need to run with turbo if you don't want to. But it is there to help alleviate the strain Custom Robo has on our wrists after a run.

Any questions, pop them here, or drop by the CR:BR Speedrunning discord. (:

Hey all, just wanted to elaborate on the "Marathons Run" misc tab for the leaderboard.

First off, credit goes to where I first saw this idea, and that is the Darkest Dungeon SRC board. They cataloged their marathon runs to showcase their amazing runners and their marathon runs both charity and for fun. So good job on credit to them on the amazing idea.

I always loved how passionate speedrunners get when prepping for a marathon or a tournament and they practice and do their match, but 99% of the time, there is no change of PB'ing in the run cause its a marathon setting and either between being safe or showcasing something to the crowd its hard to get a PB. So now we have a non-competitive leaderboard to showcase their marathon runs.

It is still a slight WIP as of now, and I'm sure I can put more categories in there when we have a chance. but for now its any% Vanilla runs. but we will expand more.

more details on how to submit are under category rules under the "Marathon Runs" tab. Any questions or requests for things, contact one of the SRC mods on here or on Discord and we can work it out.

Heya,

I'm currently in the process of playing through this game casually still. But I found a few things which I wanted to bring to attention of any runners. Sorry for all the twitter links, I recorded all these with the switch capture.

First, found that I can do a bomb jump with the regular bomb on the bottom and a remote bomb on top and a well timed jump, and I ended up getting the broken blaster early essentially after the lab was unlocked and having 10 moonstones for the repair. https://twitter.com/Shauny7188/status/1343640092364005377?s=20 https://twitter.com/Shauny7188/status/1343640681810599936?s=20 https://twitter.com/Shauny7188/status/1343640810521206784?s=20

but I've had access to the blaster for all the bosses after the first kobold fight in the castle.

The second thing I found was a weird quick kill to the robot. https://twitter.com/Shauny7188/status/1343377996904767488?s=20 From what I could gather, I got stunned and put inside, and me mashing a became a attack prompt even though I wasn't using any stamina. I think it was from both of us being stunned at the same time.

both of these things I found are on the current switch patch. but yeah, wanted to pass this along incase it could be useful for others.

This will be a vote to allow the community to decide what will happen with the leaderboard. We have thrown the idea back and forth, and acted on it once to make Garuda on its own section to the leaderboard to allow for more fair Any% runs.

But as of now, we have again an option to listen to the community to decide what will go down, so for 2 weeks we will allow voting via this forum page, and if you do not have a SRC account and wish to get a vote in, please message a @moderator on Discord and let them know what to post on your behalf.

As of right now, many of the mods are confused cause we all ruled out that Garuda was this OP. same time, its the game, so how can you stop the game being nice (for once) So this is what we have come up with.

But please keep this to a supporting argument and a vote, if need be we can open up another forum to allow discussion. of course, please keep things civil.

The options for voting are Yay/Yes - to split the leaderboard Nay/No - To keep the leaderboard whole N/A - To vote, but not on either side.

So for example for a post in supporting

Yes for splitting the leaderboard

again, if you want to list reasons why not, we can make a forum post for discussion, but I mainly want to see why people support their vote and it keeps it easier for counting the votes for/against for us.

Voting will be for 2 weeks, after which we will go with what the community decides. (:

Also, even if you are a viewer of tournaments, your able to vote (if you don't want to make an account again just message a mod) all votes matter, and you should feel like your voice is heard. I always want this community to be community driven.

With that said, polls will close 3:30 PM EST on August 11th.

Like the title says. We're here to vote on two things. First thing to vote on, Splitting Any% in Galevnus to have DLC or no DLC. This is self explanatory, should any% allow the Free DLC items provided?

Second thing is Timer Manipulation for IL runs. This is when a runner utilizes loading screens to manip the in game timer (IGT) to thinking the time isn't going down while the new monsters load on the map so the quest time doesn't reflect what the quest looked like. This might make it so IL's will need full videos to prove that no manip has been done.

Please keep in mind these few things BEFORE you post. Calling out runners and mods are out of the question. Remember, we are all human, and we can disagree with each other without taking shots. So please read you own arguments carefully that they do not do that.

Feel free to post as much or as little as you want. You can post just "Yes/No for Split", or "Yes/No for Timer manip". There is no need to show a argument, a vote is a vote.

If you want to elaborate, feel free to post what you want in regards for your argument. Give your reason why. If you have no say, feel free to say that as well. But I would love to hear from any and all runners of the game. Just don't post against others.

Most importantly, remember that this is not a discussion forum. this is for a vote, so don't make more than one post. I would like to see this just be a vote, the argument on WHY, and that is it. If needed, we can make a discussion thread as well so we can keep this one clean so we can easily keep track of the votes on each side as well as peoples arguments.

We'll have the vote go on for a week. Starting from 2pm EST today (June 22nd) to 2pm EST of June 29th.

Heya, I was just wondering if the Nintendo switch could be added as a platform. The Nintendo Switch Online app got updated with the Japanese and North American versions of Rygar as of the 20th.

I did a run of Rygar via the Japanese NSO app and can't really submit it since its not listed as a valid platform to submit it with and was just wondering if one of the mods could change the valid platforms for anyone who would want to run it via the switch NSO. (:

Hey all, I know it has been awhile. First off, I want to say that after testing load times between Gamecube, Dolphin, and the Wii (both with Progressive Scan Mode on and off) offline for awhile now and talking it over with the other mods for awhile we are allowing Emulator runs to be on the leader board by default.

But it comes with a caveat though, while I was testing out the load times, there was a small, but distinguishable time save for Emulator which is constant compared to consoles. Its nothing spectacular by itself but it does add up. The loads going into areas, out of areas, fade in and out of menus and into and out of battles, Summed up on average a run will save roughly 55 seconds compared to the Wii or GC

The GC is almost like Dolphin but still has fluctuating time saves compared to emulator which can be more steady in the double battles, Also the Wii may be the consistently slowest overall with progressive scan mode turned on causing loading times to increase

So, if we will state right now that emulator runs will be allowed on the leader board, but any run under 2:05 will have to be done on console either Wii or Gamecube, a ~50 second time save at that point is a lot to compete against at with that range, so please be aware of this. This shouldn't be too much of a issue right away, but I want this to be addressed from the get go and not sprung up on people when they run this game. As of posting this, no Emulator run has gone below sub 2:09.

We didn't feel like we should just add X time to Emulator runs since the times are still unknown based on computers and performances, just as of right now we do know that the load times between Emulator and Wii and GC are different enough where we are comfortable to allow them on the Leaderboard by default, but we feel this is a good compromise to help new runners get on the Leaderboard.

If there are any questions be sure to let me know, I'll be working in the background for awhile getting things updated resources/guides wise and what not for the Speedrun page, as well the Custom Robo Speedrunning discord, which should now be linked on the page. (:

Heya,

I took a look around the forums and didn't see a thread about this. Since the switch has now paid online, the "Nintendo Entertainment System - Nintendo Switch online" collection of NES games were launched I've been playing Donkey Kong NES on and off. I was wondering if the switch was a valid platform for speedrunning Donkey Kong. And if it is, could it be added to the platform list?

cheers. (:

I can't believe its been so long since I made this versus making a forum post. Awhile ago, I made a walkthrough for new runners interested in seeing what this game is like as a speedrun and what goes into each day. I divided it up mostly by the days in the game.

If you have any questions, or requests for further videos or follow ups please ask and i'll do my best to fulfill those requests.

Here is the link to the playlist. (: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLraTclMiZq5dAOvDZVxqTkrMQkFPBqs3S