AntarcticaCreating multiple categories for different routes of the same category is just bad. Whether you do EG by clipping outside of Link’s house or in the castle with the S+Q method, it’s still EG and it’s still the same category of Any%.
The only difference is the route you take to get the EG. It’s the same glitch, just a different t of activating it.
@2Scrubby I’m not sure what rules you looked at, but it states clearly in the rules on the ”EMU” categories for SM64 what emulator versions are required. [quote=the EMU rules]Emulator-specific rules: -You must use either Project64 v1.6 or OpenEmu (for Mac users). All other emulators and versions (such as Mupen64 and Project64 v1.7 & v2.0+) are banned.[/quote] So maybe you looked at the rules for N64 or VC and didn’t see these rules. If there are multiple subcategories for a game, make sure to read the rules for the subcategory you’re submitting to.
How would you do that?
Unless there’s types of pinball machines I don’t know about, all you’d be doing is going for a high score and there sites better than this one for that.
@lozplyr89 wrong thread, you’re looking for https://www.speedrun.com/The_Site/thread/be179
You can’t change it yourself, no. Only another super mod (which the game doesn’t have) or a full mod/admin can fix it for you.
@ZenicReverie well okay then, since you insist.
You missed the points because you used Gone Home as an example game that violates the quality standards despite the fact it was added 2 years before those standards ever existed. It’s already been made clear that yes, there are short games on here that might not get passed the proof standards now, but they were added years ago when no measures when in place.
All games will start with one runner yes, but for all of these short dime a dozen type games, it’s very unlikely they’ll ever get more than that 1 runner (like myself and others have said, we’ve seen this already before these standards were considered). Obscurity alone doesn’t always lead to rejection, but when the obscure game is a point and click game or is only a minute long, that has a pretty good chance of being turned down.
Finally, yes, every game boils down who can go the fastest, but for VNs, it’s literally just who can point and click the fastes which isn’t really much gameplay at all. There’s a difference between going fast with gameplay that’s only a point and click and something more complex then that. Plus, this all goes back to what Liv said a few posts up.
Just like Komrade and others have said, so many communities have started on their own sites or Google Docs or w/e. If people are really passionate about these games, someone just has to create their own LB grow their community from there. Yes this site helps with that, but nothing stops someone from doing that for a game they like to run.
I literally said in my first post that the rules should be posted somewhere for clarity.
[quote=Timmiluvs]I don’t know if these standards are published anywhere (if not, they should be)[/quote]
That first quote you took was me talking about this thread - people explained multiple times here what is considered “low quality” and yet somehow people in this thread still claim to not know. Anyone reading this thread should know what will get rejected.
I think you missed the entire point of everything I said so ¯_(ツ)_/¯
This topic comes up like once a week, I don’t know how anyone can explain the reasoning behind this any clearer. Right now, everything regarding quality is up to the discretion of site admins just like everything else on the site.
The main point to rejecting VNs and short games that can be completed in a couple minutes is to prevent clutter mostly.
VNs aren’t speedrun-able because it boils down to who can click the fastest. There’s really not much routing or competition in games like that since it’s an incredibly simple type of gameplay.
Short runs that are barely a couple minutes are rejected for a similar reason that they become uncompetitive fast since there isn’t much gameplay or routing involved in them. Plus, games like this are often obscure games that very very few people will ever know about and as a result those games never get more than 1 maybe 2 runners.
The idea behind being more strict on quality of games was to prevent this clutter and to prevent games getting LBs where only 1 person ever does a run. This stems from the fact that there were users in the passed who spammed requests for these short, obscure games just so they could claim a WR.
This site can’t host every game (and it already moves slow sometimes) so they have been trying to move towards these standards for games being added. I don’t know if these standards are published anywhere (if not, they should be), but it’s basically determined at the discretion of the admin approving it if they feel like it meets one of those criteria.
EDIT: also, the reasons some types of games like this are already on the site is because they were added long before these standards were put in place.
[quote=Red5rainbow]Usually emulators aren’t allowed in the same main speedrunning category as a non-emulator run. It might be allowed in a different category but I don’t know. I doubt too many games will put in a whole seperate category just for emulators.[/quote] This is just not true at all. Emulators are allowed for just about every major console pre N64/PS2/GC era because they are quite accurate to real hardware and there aren’t any category splits. Sometimes, like with N64, emulator is still allowed and not split out for some games but only until a certain time is met (other games like SM64 split it out).
Any emulators for newer consoles are usually banned for being very inaccurate or will in rare cases get their own category if the community wants it enough.
No, anything that requires external anything (hardware, programs, code files) should be, and usually is, banned.
I can write Lua scripts to do almost anything in NES, SNES, N64 games and then run them against the game. That doesn’t make it ACE, it makes it TAS.
ACE is executing your own code, written within the game, when the game is running. External code files aren’t so much ACE, they’re closer to TASing.
That’s actually an interesting idea. I didn’t know it had an HDMI input either
^ after that, you point a webcam at the TV (assuming it will let you capture it in watchable quality, preferably with audible audio) or you buy an HDMI capture card to capture the gameplay.
DDLC is a visual novel. 3am At Krusty Krab is a short, flash-like game.
Neither of those get accepted on this site. Regardless if those games have horror themes or are horror games, they are still types of games that don't get accepted on the site.
Sword and Shield are not required for the Ghoma wrong warp. All that’s required is a bottle with something re-catchable inside it.
Pre GIM, the sword and shield were skipped. Look at an 18:xx run from Jodenstone or Narcissa (if you can still find it) to see what a run was like with just a deku stick. That route is still the route for low% for what it’s worth.
