AntarcticaFor what it’s worth, the site doesn’t allow the sharing of ROMs. I don’t think I’ve seen anything explicitly said about an emulator itself, so that’s probably up to your discretion.
In order to request the game you’ll need a run of it done by yourself. You’re not allowed to take existing runs done by other people for requesting the game.
More than likely the game existed a year ago but probably had no runs so site staff cleaned it up and deleted it which is why the link is now dead.
Some games specify equipment when they ban say the use of turbo controllers. Usually, there isn’t any issue with 3rd party equipment if it doesn’t provide an advantage, but you’re still best off asking a mod before submitting a run.
Make a post in the forums for the game, join the discord if there’s one, message a mod on social media, etc. and ask your question(s) to them.
Maybe I’m thinking of a different topic, but I feel like this topic and concern were brought up before. I could be getting my topics confused though.
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To my knowledge, you’d need a way to hook into the memory of whatever game is running on the emulator and then you’d have to make the autosplitter for it the same way you’d make it for a PC game. But that’s a big maybe, I don’t think I’ve seen many autosplitter a for emulators because it would involve a memory viewer program to do it and that leads to questions of verifying that someone didn’t cheat and use that viewer during the run.
I think dividing up the series mods that way is a good idea since they can step in to help on the games they’re knowledgeable about. As for one super mod per game, I think that’s good for the smaller games in the series, but I see no harm in have an additional one for some of the bigger games in the series (1, 2 maybe BBS and now 3). Having two super mods on those games just kinda covers the game in case an influx of runs happen and the one super mod is away for some reason. But honestly, either way, 1 or 2 would probably be fine since it’s kinda preference in what we think is necessary.
Additionally, if we find just having 1 super mod per game leads to issues, we can always another or the one super mod can add another. Is kinda like a “try it out and get a feel for it” thing. We can see what works and what doesn’t work, and adjust from there.
One brief thing about Series mods because this was a critical piece to my proposal a year ago and I think there was some confusion on what I meant. I want to reiterate it and try to maybe clarify how I see it.
KH should have 1-2 series mods at most and no more. I think the role of a series mod has been confused as the community has grown. For large series like Zelda for example, a Series mod only exists for the purpose of adding games to the series and setting up the beginnings of a moderation team on new games. That’s it. They should have no other role than that and they should only be mod on games they actually plan on moderating.
What KH needs is more Super Mods. Super Mods on games have the ability to add new mods (which is their only ability over regular mods). Right now, I think the only super mods are the series mods which is why they exist on every game. This is backwards. The series mods should be appointing a couple super mods on each game so they can handle the moderation team on the game going forward. That’s what KH needs more of. For a long time the series mods were the only ones who had this power, and I think dividing up this power got confused in my original proposal of this and led to where we are now. It should be up to the Super Mods on the games to build their mod team and it’s who runners should go to with questions or concerns.
Additionally, these super mods on the games could appoint Verifiers if they need help with an influx of runs. For example, if KH2 gets slammed with runs and some of the mods are away from the site for something, the super mod could temporarily appoint Verifiers. They would help verify the backlog of runs, and then they could be removed once things slow down.
I think that’s where we need to get to - series mods do absolutely nothing if there isn’t a new game coming out. Instead, they let the mod teams on the games do their own thing led by whatever Super Mods the game has. Right now it’s like we’re trying to go to game specific mods because it makes sense, but we still have this dependency on the series mods existing everywhere. I think we need to break that dependency to really be able to set up the games correctly for moderation.
Not to intrude on site staff here, but I’d say Discord or Twitter would be highly recommended as those are both popular and relatively easy to contact someone on.
Mario games are often filled with precise inputs and movements, as are most platformers. So, if those types of games are not ones you excel at, Mario runs might not be for you. Some might be easier to learn than others, but getting really good at any of them will be difficult.
People know how I feel on this topic so I’m not going to beat a dead horse that I laid out a year ago.
Instead, I’ll point out a couple things I disagree with in Desa’s pastebin:
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1-2 days is NOT unacceptable and many game would kill to have that level of response. KH games are long-ish, they take time to verify and assuming the mods are doing their due diligence and actually watching runs, then verification can take time. Anything up to a week is fine, more than that, and a gentle reminder might be in order unlesss it’s a really long run.
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Nobody is under any obligation to submit to the LBs, if someone doesn’t want their run on the LB, that’s their choice. Additionally, mods shouldn’t submit runs on behalf of anyone. I don’t submit to various LBs including KH for a variety of reasons, and I’d be pretty pissed if someone added my runs without my permission. However, this topic has been hotly debated on this site and people will never fully agree with it. It’s a topic that everyone has a side on.
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A brief comment on Gamebrain’s response: no, legacy mods are not fine. Mod is not a title of honor, it’s a job. If you don’t do your job, you lose your job. Granted, this is a job for your spare time, so if people need time away to handle IRL, that’s fine and happens. But at the same time, you need to occasionally do something, you can’t just do nothing for years and expect to still be a mod. There’s no shame in stepping down if someone doesn’t have time, but you cant just leave inactive mods all over the place. It creates clutter and makes no sense.
That’s all I really have to say. I either don’t have an opinion on the other stuff or I’ve said my feelings on it before.
I love this community, watching it grow from a couple dozen people in a Tesmspeak to where it is now was incredible and it’s amazing to see the progress in the games and the community through marathons, GDQ, and milestone runs. I’ve been vocal and passionate about speaking up about these things in the past because I see the stuff that people have issues with and I want to see the best for this community and these LBs.
I still believe this community is going through growing pains with this kinda stuff, and I hope that we can iron it out and make everything as good as we all want it to be.
As a side note, as the one who addressed this topic a year ago, I can say it’s definitely better now than before, even if there are still problems. We have some dedicated mods who always strive to do what they can for the LBs. Saiyanz has always tried to enhance the boards and the community, and Gamebrain, Rebel and Jel have done excellent work since coming on board. And there are older mods like Sonic and Draz who have always done great (if I didn’t mention your name, I don’t think you’ve done bad, I just named the first few that popped in my head. Others have done amazing work too). So, like I said, we still have stuff to iron out but we’re getting there.
Looks like the game has a 1-2 week embargo, so you've got maybe another week before categories are made and runs are accepted. I'd join their discord server, I'm sure you'll find more info and the starts of routes in there. Or ask in the game's forums for more information.
For downloading Twitch VODs, I use Twitch Leecher which can be found here: https://github.com/Franiac/TwitchLeecher/releases
For downloading YouTube VODs, I use youtube-dl which can be found here: https://youtube-dl.org/
youtube-dl is really powerful and can download VODs from a ton of sites (including Twitch). The one downside is that it doesn't have a graphical interface, so you have to use it on the command line/windows command prompt and it can be tricky to understand if you're not used to using programs that way. But it's not too hard to use or figure out, you basically just need to type "youtube-dl URL " and then put the URL of what you want to download and it'll download it to whatever folder you're currently in. It's got a ton of options if you want a specialized run, but in it's simplest form, it's just that. I recommend reading the documentation though.
The option for 2FA needs to exist. Making it mandatory for mods and optional for everyone else is fine, but I also see no harm in requiring it for everyone since even a hacked regular user account can cause major headaches for people and mods (although hacking a non mod does significantly less damage for whatever it's worth). But it's pretty obvious we need something for it.
But please, for the love of god, make April Fool's jokes grounds for removing mod powers. I'm so tired of seeing themes and backgrounds become major eyesores and fake runs are just plain stupid. None of it is a joke, it's just an excuse to vandalize a board for a day. Twitter is already un-usable on that day because of fake strat videos, I don't need this site to become the same way.
[quote]The web site was hacked[/quote] Maybe this is nitpicky but the site itself was NOT hacked, user accounts were hacked and it led to some vandalizing of the board.
I just wanted to clarify that so people didn't think their data or their accounts here was compromised in any way - they were only compromised if a user had a password leaked on a separate site.
You don’t request, you just do it yourself in your Settings https://www.speedrun.com/solidmax/settings
You can only do it once every 60 days though.
As always with this topic, here is my go to guide on what hardware is needed to capture composite/s-video
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Op8aK2RecKhjRJB7juOvwUjkXwBbL1eipxUpixBS2c4/mobilebasic
Click on “Submit Run” on the game and fill out the form accordingly. It’s pretty straightforward. Just a note that this site doesn’t host videos, your video needs to exist on a website to be viewed (preferably Twitch or YouTube).
