Jesse, your motivations are your own, but your motivations matter when you're asking someone else to take actions on your behalf.

If you're waiting for the board to exist before you start runs, then yeah, that's a sign you're doing it for the wrong reason.

https://www.speedrun.com/The_Site/thread/rxi9q

Stuff like this is why I worry about bullying, and think there should NOT be comments sections for runs.

Sounds like sour grapes to me. You got beat so you imply dishonesty.

Yeah 'turning off self verification' is dumb and won't prevent fraud. It just makes fraud harder to detect.

In fact is there even any fraud in this case? Since when is skipping a cutscene fraud? I thought that was called speed running.

SMBX is an engine, not just a game. Trying to cram every game ever released for SMBX as a category is absurd. SMBX should be a series.

I vastly prefer stiff dpads, especially for those one frame taps. But whatever's more comfortable for the runner is what matters.

kirkq: I'm sure you had good reason to go reject some Kung Fu runs, but Turbo wouldn't help you get a good time in Kung Fu. It would hurt. Mashing never helps.

FurryWulfz,

You raise a good point. This is where knowing the game and watching the run come in. It's not perfect though. Nothing's perfect. What you ideally need is the combination of live witnesses (which live streaming serves to substitute for) and a good recording.

I do a tap with my right index finger onto the dpad.

I don't think it should be allowed to have two different inputs for the same button in the run, no. One or the other.

Highly anticipated games sometimes get added before the final release don't they?

Badly encoded to the point where you can't accurately frame count is the same as not working, in my view. Badly encoded video would be an easy way to try to pass of a splice, or even would be the RESULT of a splice.

Well, you can't actually verify, let alone accurately time, a run that doesn't have a working video, as that's indistinguishable from a splice.

What I do to ensure people are doing it correctly:

1. I have detailed rules up for everything.

2. I promptly answer questions. Everyone knows I'm available for and promptly answer questions here, on Twitter, and on Discord. I build whole websites for these games.

3. I do offer retimes if people ¤ask¤ for them, such as when there's a tie on the board.

I ended up teaching all the top Kung Fu runners, back when that game was hotly competitive, how to retime their own runs. That way I wasn't a single point of failure for the community. A moderator doing the job well becomes a resource for the runners of that game, without mechanically spending 30 minutes downloading, 45 minutes watching at 2x speed, and 5 minutes timing every random PB. That's not where the value add is.

Yeah, no, I reject your claim that it's disrespectful. In my experience, from what actual runners actually tell me in the course of moderation, people are glad to get their runs on the board, and ¤don't¤ want to put moderators to the trouble of having to spend hours on them.

If you make a federal case out of every PB, then folks start getting reluctant to put their random PBs on the board, because they don't want to be a bother.

So that may be your theory, but there's no actual evidence that it's disrespectful.

Drakodan, not for #45 on the board. It's not important.

And spidersponge, if you can do that without slowing things down, more power to you. Stuff like that is why people burn out and then runs pile up on the board.

Yes, use a tool such as youtube-dl or streamlink in order to download the video

How I verify:

If a run isn't a WR claim, make sure the video exists of the actual run, and press verify.

If it's a WR claim, then here's my process:

1. Download the run
2. Watch the run to make sure it follows the rules and does nothing shady
3. Load the video in avidemux to time it
4. Correct the time and press verify

Please move Marathons below Games in the forums. There are so many Marathons now it's ridiculous.