New York, USASorry for the late reply to this thread, but it sounds like y'all came to an agreement with the arcade rules, so that's good!
Genesis rules look perfect to me! That's exactly what I would have proposed.
Thank you so much for taking the time to update the rules for each platform. I greatly appreciate it! Hope to see more runs submitted soon :)
fairy% sounds fun! I might give that a try on Genesis version.
Milius makes some good points. Again, I am quite unfamiliar with the arcade version aside from playing it casually a few times. I was unaware of any potential RNG manipulation, but that makes sense. I agree I don't think that was the intent so the run stands as WR, but I think future runs should show the starting screen and start the game naturally. Timer still starts on control of Dover, but I do think seeing that would help us to better verify runs going forward. I will revise and add the rules Milius mentioned.
Milius, I just added you as a mod. Sorry I forgot to reply earlier this year and let you know that it wasn't letting me mod you as your account email wasn't verified, but it looks like it just allowed me to mod you. Appreciate you sharing your insight and offering to assist with verifying arcade & FDS runs going forward.
Hi Bufus! Thank you for sharing your feedback and insight. I am honestly not all that familiar with arcade speedruns so none of these factors had even crossed my mind before milliuspyros brought them to my attention.
I agree with everything you've stated. Especially since this is such a niche game to speedrun, I think the rules should remain as lenient as possible. I'll add the 6 numbered rules you listed to the category. Aside from that, anything goes (apart from blatant cheating) unless there are any objections or until the leaderboard grows to a point that it makes sense to split out to multiple categories and get more granular with the rules.
Not sure if 1cc% would be a unique enough category as I'm sure the run would simply be cutting one or two death-warps, but I can create it if there is interest in it. However, perhaps a damageless category would be interesting as it would mean no death-warps. I'm completely open to your feedback as I don't run the arcade version myself. I am curious to hear what milliuspyros thinks as well if he sees this thread.
Great! Thanks for the info and I agree we should maybe consider adding rules or categories for arcade. As it stands, I think it's just not competitive enough of a leaderboard to get nitpicky. I'm just happy to see people playing/running the game, but if it gets a bit more competitive we should definitely consider it.
Would it be alright if I add you as a mod for this leaderboard to help with managing the arcade/FDS runs going forward? Although I've played all versions, I'm most familiar with the Genesis/MD version and could use someone to help with verifying arcade/FDS if we ever get more runs submitted.
Awesome run! GGs! Yes, I was actually thinking that while verifying your run, in regards to the FDS loading time. I think it's fine for now since this is such a small leaderboard, but yes if we get more runs we should definitely subtract load time. Are you planning to run the Genesis version as well? If so, let me know if you have any questions about the run.
Great run! Glad to see a new Wardner/Pyros run. I'm not too familiar with the arcade version, so I'm not sure if those dipswitches affect anything substantial. Sounds like it might be difficulty? If so, this may be something that will need to be addressed as the leaderboard grows.
