Since some people haven't noticed/probably won't notice, Im making this to let everyone know that a week ago I uploaded Emulator Packs for CoM, CoM J, Days, Days J and ReCoded under the Resources tab for each game.

These packs contain approved emulators as well as ROMs for each of the games (ReCoded also has a GOSU file included). This was meant to make it very easy for new runners of the game to pick it up as they would have all of the stuff right at their fingertips to download and start playing.

The only thing is CoM packs don't contain an R/R save, so a player will have to create that on their own for right now. I'll eventually get to making one myself and including it though.

Just wanted to let people/prospective new runners know that these exist.

I uploaded an emulator pack to the resources for this game. It contains JP and English ROMs as well as two accepted emulators. I does not yet contain an R/R save so you'll have to playthough Sora's Story on your own to create one (I'll eventually get around to making one and uploading it).

Also, timing for the game is start on confirmation of a new game and end on last hit on boss. For what it's worth, every KH game has this timing aside from BBS which alters it's start time slightly.

Good luck and happy running.

http://www.speedrun.com/user/boabugay

As far as I know, there is no way to add a timer like Livesplit to a stream when its coming directly from the console.

You'd have to take the video after it's been streamed, put it into a video editing program along with Livesplit and time/record it that way. Its a cumbersome process and isn't worth doing if you don't have to. And for what its worth, you shoudnt be required to have a timer on screen anyway, it's nice for viewers but hardly required.

You should both be able to post times under different accounts while providing a video link to the shared Twitch channel. And if by linking the Twitch account you mean attaching it to both of your profiles, I'm not sure if you can do that. But sharing a Twitch account won't be an issue for submitting times, it's just a video link.

1. There is a thread for asking to be mod of a series, it's in The Site (pay attention to the first post in the thread for rules on requesting mod).
2. People have lives outside this site you know, sometimes they don't verify runs every day and with AGDQ just finishing people are traveling home. Maybe the mods are busy, don't expect people to cater to your "run a day" goal.
3. The series mod for Atelier, PinkPajamas, just got home from AGDQ.
4. Nice job acting like you're better than everyone by saying "I've heard it's too hard for most Americans" (and that whole final paragraph). Always good to slide a brag in when making a selfish post to complain a week wait for verification in the middle of the biggest speedrunning event. (/sarcasm)
5. Twitter exists as do other forms of messaging, you can always reach out to mods of a game to ask them to update your run (or even mod you if they need help).
6. Making threads "just to complain" especially when you're new to the site is a bad look. Especially considering you kept bumping your first thread to talk bad about a long time user even after they stopped responding.

TLDR: have patience and don't shout "SHAME" and create threads to complain when a mod has a life outside of this site and doesn't verify your run right away, that just makes you look selfish.

Emulators being allowed is a community by community decision.

In general though, older games like NES/SNES allow emulator because those consoles are emulated very accurately. Newer systems like PS2 usually never allow emulator because it runs much faster than a real console.

If you have a question about emulator being legit, you can double check the games to see if submitting an emulator is allowed.

OBS and XSplit are the most common used programs for streaming to Twitch and other platforms. They also have the ability to locally record instead of streaming which will just save the video on your computer and then you can do whatever you need/want to do with it.

There is also a Discord link in the Super Mario World forums, so you should join their server as well. Im sure they have a ton of resources and people there who would gladly help you get started and answer any questions you might have about the game.

Depends on the game. If the game shows the in game time at the end screen (ie. BBS) then it could be viable. But for games like KH1 where it doesn't, the last reference of in game time is the final save point.

So, at the end of the day, we still need to have this discussion because when 1.5+2.5 comes out IGT won't be viable. Plus if we did do that, we'd have to change the rules for other games to keep with the consistency and editing the runs to IGT can be near impossible if the VOD doesn't show the end screen with the time.

This has nothing to do with PS4 vs PS4 Pro because any differences between those in terms of loading is most likely much smaller than SSD vs HDD.

One step at a time.

Glitching is within the boundaries of the game though. A glitch is something inside of a game that you exploit to do something unintended. Basically using faulty programming or oversights to do something unintended, but only by using what's available to you in the game itself.

Using a debug code like you mentioned is cheating because that is external to the game and is something you're adding to make the game play differently. Things like game genies, crooked cart, and hacked ROMs are in that category as well.

Emu can load faster or slower than your computer so it doesn't make sense to have it as a category since it'll differ for almost every person based on their computer

Then ask the moderators or post in the game forum to find out if there is anything specific that is banned from the category/game. Sometimes games have only a handful of runners who all know each other and all know the game so they forget to add the rules to the page, maybe hearing from a new runner will remind them to keep those types of things up to date.

1. Speedruns contain glitches unless categories restrict them.
2. Define modding. Modding a console to play a game from a different region is allowed (usually). Modding a console to play a game faster than normal is not allowed.

http://www.speedrun.com/user/kinmylee

Emulation rules differ game by game. For most NES games, emulators are very accurate and will be lumped in with console runs since emulation neither saves nor loses time. I think (think being keyword) Nestopia is fine, but I'd check the game rules or check with a moderator just to make sure. Usually they'll have emulators that are legal and those that are not. For many more recent consoles like PS2, emulator will never be allowed because it runs/loads much faster than console. But for older games like NES/SNES era there are accepted emulators. There is a thread here http://www.speedrun.com/Speedrunning/thread/19h43 that users have been keeping up to track a list of valid emulators. You can use that for reference.

As for anything else, pretty much ask in the game forums and you'll probably get a much better answer because you'll have people who moderate/run the game there and they'll know it better than anyone else.

While on this topic, having emotes with regular words as names can be annoying.

For example, Lotus (L o t u s). A game I'm active in has an area called L otus Forest and trying to create a guide for it with that name in it creates issues because I either have to change capitalization or address it differently. If emotes like that could be changed to be a more conventional :<emote name>: it would be great.

It doesn't do component, it just does s-video and regular av. I don't know about affordable component capture cards.

But if you're still interested, you can find it easy on amazon https://www.amazon.com/I-connection-video-capture-GV-USB2/dp/B00428BF1Y

As far as I know, yes. Whether or not the 3DS virtual console is accepted on the LBs for those games is another story. Looking at the Zelda 1 LBs, I see Wii VC is accepted but nothing on the 3DS VC. You'll want to check with the LB mods about that version before doing runs to make sure they are allowed (or find out why they would be disallowed).