ValhallaWell I'm sure this incident will cause someone to look into belmont's revenge at least. Probably before and exchange of WRs. CV1 community out right rejected the AC version so I'm not exactly motivated to do the testing myself lol.
I'm sure that has something to do with it, but any reason is good enough to actually explore a new version. If it's found to be faster, I figure that'd be a good thing. I mean how many "retro" leaderboards have multiple versions of a game running against each other? Seems the AC version was dismissed before anyone has done any proper testing, which I'm glad to see is actually being done some what now.
I'm just saying, I thought running fastest version was a normal speedrunning thing, at least that's how most leaderboards used to operate. I'm not sure when that changed. It's not like we're talking about a large leaderboard here, either. The game has had 6 runners in 6 years, 2 of which are active, only 1 of which is running the AC version. If there was a time to divvy up a board, it's not now, imo.
Sounds like the anniversary collection version is the version to run then. At least that makes sense to me. Run the fastest version, I thought that's what we did around here. I guess splitting such a tiny leaderboard is a better idea, though you probably want to do it for emu and super game boy, cause there's differences there as well, but ultimately I'd say let it rock.
At a glance that video didn't prove anything in particular, but there's not much I know about whatever that game is.
Regardless you should post this here: https://www.speedrun.com/mario_combat/forum or in the game's discord server.
Pick a game you really like, one you don't mind playing for 8 hours a day.
Most likely not
i crushed komradekontroll down to this, soon it will just say "k"
Considering how easy it is to cheat runs, no.
Yeah rules can be a tricky thing is the problem. In this case the game just didn't have rules established at all, likely due to lack of popularity. Making changes to a LBs rules after a run is submitted is more common than you'd think. Best example I can give is imagine a new trick is found that shouldn't be allowed in a certain category. Well the rules don't say it's not allowed, so you could submit that run with that trick, and argue that it should be allowed.
That example is quite petty but years ago (and it probably still happens) people would do that occasionally on SRC. Another example would be maybe original hardware and emulator are allowed to compete until something is discovered that gives one the leg up on another. The leaderboard would likely need to be split at that point, but there would be a moment where those with hardware might have a distinct advantage, before rules were changed.
My point being that all of this isn't really that big of a deal. 99% of the time just working with the moderator is the key to success on SRC. If the rules aren't properly established I would just mention it here in the forums. They'd probably even give you mod status if they feel it's appropriate.
Like I said before, it's preferred to get permission. There are some runs that are like 10 plus years old and those runners left the community a long time ago. I would submit their runs for them for historical purposes. Trying to reach out to someone that left the community years ago every time their run is posted somewhere sounds like hell.
Moderation isn't a job, it's volunteer work. Moderators often get things wrong, or they don't complete leaderboard rules for various reasons. In the case of an obscure title it's common. Mods have real lives outside of the internet. I've seen forum posts go months without responses. I would give him a chance to respond. Sounds like his checks are fair enough and you're offering to prove your setup so maybe just leave it at that.
Maybe I'm not seeing how to do this, but I can't? I'd like to remove myself as a mod for the Bloodstained series regardless.
