New Mexico, USAHello everyone, I'm MigratingPig, Supermod/Speedrunner for the game Iggy's Reckin' Balls.
I'm speaking on the behalf of the small community. We have a pretty big problem regarding the layout of our page because this game has way too many unique ways to run the game. My question regards the page itself rather than the game, so I hope this is the right place to ask.
Real quick regarding Iggy's Reckin' Balls, This game has 11 different worlds with 10 towers each. Each world is categorized as a run and we do have each runner run on Hard difficulty. Starts when you select the world, ends the moment the final checkered platform on tower 10 is touched. Now these runs range anywhere from 7 minutes to 30 minutes, with an average of most worlds being 22 minutes.
Apart from the basic runs. We also have full difficulty runs, because running all the worlds on Easy only allows the first 6 worlds. Running on Medium is 10 worlds. Running on Hard is all 11 worlds.
We do not have 100% quite yet but it's been talked about due to a potential length of 9-10 hours on a good run.
Then we do have a separate category for each Individual levels so all 100 levels have their own category apart from the main ones.
There's a JP version of this game where every tower is 2 laps. Some towers in the EN version are 3 laps.
Now here's where things become much more questionable. A glitch was found a couple of years back that allows the runner to completely skip a lot of platforms. It's a bit difficult to pull off so after some talk with a few other runners, we went ahead and split the categories to include No Major Glitches and Any% so those who do not wish to learn that glitch may not need to, plus that glitch may in fact crash the game on the N64. Then add all of those separate categories to the JP version since you can perform the glitch on the JP version.
Then just last year, the game was added to the NSO, which is much more stable than the 64 version. However, there's input lag on the NSO version compared to the N64.
I've had other potential runners message me asking me about splitting the two versions N64/NSO so each one can have their own categories because the NSO loads worlds better BUT they do have different start cycles and can cost some runners time all because of different tower start cycles.
Now with splitting up these two categories, we essentially have far too many game categories which does not look clean for the page at all. My question now would be if there's any better way to actually clean this up and to make it look more presentable without actually losing potential runners due to not having one version versus the other. If anyone has any way to clean this up, I'd love to hear your thoughts. You don't need to be a runner for the game, maybe you have some advice from your own games about fixing this.
Thank you in advance!
Verifying this by comment, when slowing down the video and going frame by frame, 0.930 is when the first frame of her victory speech.
Moderation Comment: As stated by PD4FR in discord, and as you all can see, the time they hit the platform vs the end time are not the same. Grappling downward somehow glitched the timer to continue compared to the time they actually landed on the platform. This is very strange to see but will allow it.
So we never thought we'd actually get a runner for the JP version of this game.
With this in mind, we have added new running categories. Why are they split from the US version? the JP version has a maximum of 2 laps for every level while the US version can have 3 laps making certain runs faster. With this in mind, we have split up the categories.
Us mods are still around :) Feel free to submit your runs, we're just not actively running at the moment. Hoping to see more runs in the future!
Thanks for this! So we did find a couple of differences, however, like any emulator, the game crashes. I did submit a couple of findings to Forest of Illusions, hopefully they'll add those soon!
Alright so the leader board does look a little different now. I've gotten a few complaints about how messy it has been before, which I take full responsibility for, but now the new category is "Individual Worlds"
So when submitting a run that's just a specific world of 10 towers, just select "Individual Worlds" and under category of "Worlds" select the world you did!
It's pretty basic. If you guys have any questions, comments, or concerns, please feel free to reply here or DM either myself or one of the mods. Maybe any idea to make this look even nicer than it does now, let me know!
NOTE: Some runs have accidentally got lost along the way, however those were early on and were caught immediately. A couple of runs were lost but the individuals affected have been contacted or will be contacted here shortly. If you believe a run of yours is missing, please resubmit them!
Thank you! I fixed it, however those other runs seem to be lost for good :/ 1 of the runners is a mod as well so they'll be resubmitting, and another run that was lost on accident was from a user from a couple of years ago, i've made an attempt to contact them, but not sure if they're still around.
Hello, so I am a moderator for the game Iggy's Reckin' Balls and lately we've been getting complaints about how messy the leader boards have been which is completely understandable and decided to clean it up. When adding a new category with sub categories, I was able to transfer my run over, like no problem. However, when transferring another user's run, their run just disappears. Like nowhere to be found. Not sure if this is a glitch going on, or even part of that issue where it may take a little bit before runs appear on the leader boards.
I only tested it with a run missing on "individual worlds" "Iggy's Challenge" and only my run made it over, not 2 others.
Thank you in advance
I also couldn't fit it all into the main forum, but for those who had runs on Easy and Medium prior to this change, we will honor your run onto the leaderboards even though they did not meet the "Hard" criteria. We can't let your hard work go to waste which is why we accepted it. :)
However, new runs will be required to run on Hard. You do not need to get 100% on the runs, just complete it as you're able to.
Also for those who had multiple runs on Easy and Medium, we accepted your best run of the two and rejected the other. Apologies for the inconvenience of seeing your run rejected. :(
Not many will see this, however I feel it is important to let the Speedrunning community know about the recent changes we've made to this game's leaderboard.
We have removed the difficulty on this game and decided to just run on Hard. This decision was made by the moderators because we felt the leaderboards were a bit too cluttered and very difficult to follow. We also felt as the RNG that is associated with the difficulty to be very minimal and pretty much unnoticed that runs did not feel affected by this.
RNG is going to happen regardless due to NPC's that love to get in your way and get items that will harm you, and those items cannot be turned off unfortunately. The difficulty shows no change to the items but does show change to the rubber banding effect the balls have. May change the course of the run but you shouldn't lose a significant amount of time with the rubber banding.
Thank you for understanding, feel free to ask any question you may have!
@Oreo321 They got the weird white square around them in dark mode. I've tried removing them from the original image however they still appear. As you can see from the bottom image that i posted that they look like they uploaded correctly, however when i view the ranks in the actual leaderboards, that white square around them still lingers. I'm not entirely sure how to fix the problem at that point.
I mean this is appearing on my end, if it's nota appearing for anyone else, that'll be nice!
So i'm having a little trouble here with uploading theme ranks, is there a certain size or type of file that can only be uploaded to get the image to work? It shows up that they're uploaded correctly, however the actual ranking proves that is not entirely correct. Here are the images. I also hope i'm asking in the correct area, if not, my apologies.
EDIT: The game is Iggy's Reckin' Balls
Hey guys, what is up, I am MigratingPig, a Twitch streamer,
I speedrun Iggy's Reckin' Balls, current world record holder for majority of the categories. I thought I'd introduce myself in hopes we can potentially get more runners into this game. It's not a new game but it's a game on life support and hoping it gets revived.
I do speed runs of the game often, though not all the time, if you're interested in learning how to run the game, you can check out the discord and most of us that run or actively enjoy the game are there. (it's a small discord, but we're trying to grow)
I wrote this before I started to run. I’ll gladly take back what I said lmao.
I wanna point out that after a few months, one of the mods has returned about an hour ago but only has a somewhat inactive twitch account, it wasn’t a supermod and only two runs have been verified. Am I going to have to wait all over again?
Hello again, sorry to bother you folks like this again, however it’s been 2 weeks since I sent a message to the super mod of iggy’s Reckin Balls and haven’t heard back at all, also have 4 of my runs that’s been pending for over a month and a couple more for longer than 10 days. Should I give it another week?
Thank you!
One last question I forgot to ask,
It seems that the supermod for https://www.speedrun.com/Iggys_Reckin_Balls had his twitch channel inactive the entire duration of the 21 since he never had a "last streamed" date except some clips from 2 years ago indicating he's never streamed for more than 14 days at the time. Now, it remained inactive until Monday, which is really unfortunate since that's been the 3 week mark of my first run published for it. My question is how long should I actually wait for the response? I messaged him Tuesday, and still waiting for a response. I am a bit concerned I may have to wait for sometime before he actually responds, I am an active speed runner for the game as well since I stream the game.
Thank you.
