AntarcticaOh yeah, I forgot NTR was a thing. That would be an option too.
Your title says 3DS but all of your posts say DS so I don’t know what system you’re actually talking about.
If it’s a 3DS and you used an emulator like Citra (idk if that emulator is even done enough to run full games) then it was probably rejected because the emulator isn’t finished or accurate. The only other option is a very expensive 3DS capture card (hundred of dollars).
If you’re talking about a regular DS, if using emulator make sure you’re using approved versions of an emulator (the mods can give you some versions that are allowed). Otherwise, unless you want to spend hundreds of dollars on a DS capture card you’ll need to record it by pointing a webcam or something at your DS while you play.
Hopefully that clarifies some things.
PS: if you want to put a picture in the forums, upload it to a site like Imgur and then paste the link here, it should usually auto embed.
A Gamesaver can, but it can also severely mess up the RNG. The sd2snes can do save states through some custom firmware (it’s like sd2snes USB or something like that, I don’t have my computer on to check). A super Everdrive might be able to do them, but I don’t have one so I don’t know for sure.
Glitchless already bans damage boosting and whatnot (Bug Limit allows it).
Since discussion on this has died down and the remaining mods never addressed this, it’s pretty obvious that a lot of people are in favor of some kind of change related to moving to game specific mods and away from our current setup.
Myself and 2 other mods who are in favor of this switch will move forward with building “teams” of people to mod each game based off of the form that Draz submitted. If we need a couple extra people for some games we’ll probably ask them individually if they’ll be interested. Our goal is to have this cleaned up and implemented by the 17th (next week).
Thanks everyone for feedback and discussion on this topic.
You’ve neglected to say what country you’re trying to switch to, but a while ago rules were put in place that you couldn’t select an East Asian country unless you are actually in that county.
That was what was proposed in my solution. If that wasn’t clear, my bad. My idea was to do just that - anyone who mods KH2 would mod every version of KH, same for KH1 and BBS. The handhelds is where it would get more specialized per game.
Splitting up the mods any more that that would be silly since for the big titles like that there isn’t enough differences to warrant it.
EDIT: I just realized you were talking about Draz’s form. I think that’s just an oversight on her part as she threw it together. If we go this route in the end, then it’ll probably be what you and I said - a KH2 mod will mod every version of KH2, and so on.
I can’t speak for Draz, but I’d say if you’re putting your interest down for a game like KH2 or KH1, it’s implied that it’s for all versions when they are similar enough to each other.
Blue Balls is an attack from Agahnim (where he sends out a ring of exploding blue balls that can’t be used to damage him). Getting them, especially a lot, is random and bad luck since it wastes time over getting the normal attack that you can use to damage him.
As for what the glitch abbreviations mean, EG is Exploration Glitch and I’m not gonna comment on the others because I can only gusss since I know like nothing about the glitchy side of this game.
Xpost from myself in discord:
So I’ve said this to various mods already, but I’m not going to put myself down for anything. Mainly because this was never about me and I don’t want it to seem like it is. I’ll help rebuild the LBs but then I’ll leave it up to the mods who remain (which will probably be Sonic as series mod) and anyone in the community if they want me onboard for anything (whether as a game mod or a series mod or whatever).
For the inactivity thing @JHobz mentioned - I got that data by going to each mod’s profile and looking at their “Last Online” in their Info section. This data is updated (to my knowledge from what I’ve seen, it may not be the exact case) when a user performs an action on the site, even if it’s just browsing pages.
People like yourself who always have a tab open, show as “Last online” usually within the last hour or two. But for other mods, that shows as multiple weeks or a month or more meaning that they didn’t perform an action on the site in that long. That’s how I got the data. I saw cases where 4-5 mods had that “Last Online” as a month or more ago at some points so that’s where my statement came from. It was a little generalized so hopefully that clears it up.
As for your points about requests being ignored, it wasn’t so much that I thought a deaf ear was being turned per se, but more that whatever discussion was had never got back to the community or the person requesting it. An example is 0.2 - the mods decision and reasoning not to split the categories was never made public; the community never knew this. This is where the impression of being ignored came from. I’m not gonna guess as to where this communication broke down and was lost, but it got lost somewhere.
As you step down, I want to again thank you for everything you did to get the boards here. You and I haven’t always seen eye to eye or been on the best terms, but you’ve done a lot for this community and we owe that to you.
EDIT: Hobz posted his novel right before I posted mine. Whoops. I’ll address one of his points in another below this one.
Long post incoming after some reflection and feedback on my OP.
For a while now people (both mods and regular community members) have expressed a dislike to treating the mods as a single entity instead of calling out individual actions. After some reflection on my initial post and discussion with others, I feel like some of that accountability is in order. I initially didn’t want to name names to avoid what would seem like a personal attack, however, in the effort of more transparency on where these problems lie, I’m going to name names now (especially now as the mods in full hopefully address this soon).
Sonic - don’t need to say anything here, great moderator who clearly people want to stay on
Faye - former moderator, but a great one. She helped whenever she could and pushed for changes before. Myself and I’m sure others would love her back for DDD or more.
Draz - another great mod who helped when she could, although slightly inactive because of real life. However it’s obvious most people want her to stay on for the handhelds.
Toji - without him the community wouldn’t be here, but it’s long been known he was only added because he created the initial google doc. He hasn’t really done anything for the LBs and last year he caused a lot of problems by ignoring rules and admitting to intentionally trying to irritate community members. He’s been crucial to the community, but his time as a mod has passed.
Hobz - a long time mod who was instrumental in getting the boards set up here. However, he’s incredibly inactive on the KH LBs. He’s incredibly active with various other communities and speedrunning related things, but aside from checking the forums, he doesn’t do much for the LBs.
Saiyanz - a popular runner and great guy, but he has faded from the community a lot. He’s not very active in general and he mods a lot of games, so his priorities may no longer lie with the KH LBs. I know he wants to return to the games, but he has long since stopped verifying runs and paying attention to these boards.
Biz - we all know who he is, but he is never around. He’s notorious for not logging into the site for months (4-8) at a time. I don’t know if his number of verified runs ever really got passed 2 dozen. He has a busy real life and is dedicated to streaming, so he just lacks the time to be an LB mod effectively.
KHfan - the mod who verified the PS2 HDD run. Yes, I know this was a mistake, but like my OP said, it was a big one. I’m not gonna reiterate that here.
Ninten - a great runner and guy, but another mod who disappears a lot. He’s verified a couple runs I can remember, but often leaves the site for a month or so. Is semi active on discord, but that also varies. Also the mod who defended the PS2 HDD run being verified by saying he would have verified it too and admitted to not closely watching runs to check for inconsistencies when they are longer. This is not a good stance to take as an LB mod.
Dax - great guy, but is very busy in other communities. He’s a great friend and member of the community, but doesn’t do much for the LBs. Similar to Ninten he has verified a few runs, but is mostly inactive on these boards. Tends to leave the site for multiple weeks.
BB - another runner we all know, but he’s one of the mos inactive LB mods we have. I don’t know if he’s ever verified a run, he left the site for over a year before and has currently been gone for over a month. He’s said himself he’s not 100% focused on speedrunning and that’s more than okay because he’s loving what he’s doing. But without that focus, you can’t be a mod.
That should cover everyone. Again, I can’t stress enough that I’m not trying to burn bridges and I still want to remain on good terms with everyone (I hold no ill will towards any mod). But I feel like genuine accountability for mistakes and inactivity is required here. The mods are not a single entity, they are individuals who make individual mistakes. Hopefully now all is transparent from where I sit and we can move forward with some changes soon since it’s clear a lot of the community would like something fresh for these boards.
I understand the concern about there not being enough runners to cover the handhelds but I don’t think that’s as large an issue as it seems.
There are plenty of people who know ReCoM and by extension can probably help with CoM. Same goes for ReCoded - there are probably people like Hyper and Jel who know enough about the game to be mods and help with it for when you are away (and Saiyanz for Days). Plus, Sonic is always around as a last resort even though he doesn’t know as much as yourself about those games.
I believe we could make moderation for the handhelds work for when you’re gone for long stretches of time. Plus, those games are notoriously under ran so runs probably won’t be submitted for them very often and that gives us time to iron out the best situations for them.
Big Dick Nick is going to get his own statue like Rocky at this rate.
That city is going to need the national guard lmao. Cars are on fire, people are shooting guns to celebrate, its unreal. 5 years of school in that city and I still have friends who are massive fans. I wish I was still there to see his go on.
Reposting https://www.speedrun.com/user/superbowlx so it triggers a new post notification here
For the mods at AGDQ thing - when I took count of inactive mods on 1/16 I took into account AGDQ. I wrote down 5 mods who had been inactive for quite some time. 3 of them who were inactive for a long period of time didn’t go to AGDQ. The other 2 were at AGDQ but they were inactive for 15-20 days prior to AGDQ starting. Plus one of those 2 mods hasn’t logged on after AGDQ now either.
So, yeah, I accounted for AGDQ before labeling someone inactive on 1/16 since that’s a time where people aren’t expected to check the site as often as normal.
I don’t really know what you’re asking.
Are you asking how to play a PC game in windowed mode? If so, googling “PC game windowed mode” yields more results than I can count (I’m not gonna provide a link because idk anything about PC gaming and what method is correct/the best).
If you’re asking about something else, then you’ll have to more specific on what you’re trying to resize. If it’s an emulator window or something, you can just resize that like any old application.
I’m glad to see others share my concerns and are looking for a similar change.
While we wait for the mods to address this, I’m gonna post a few comments from the discord that people shared on this topic. I’ve used all of my artistic ability to hide the names/faces of those people who said something in discord but not here (don’t want to bring attention to them if they don’t want it). Sorry for no auto embed, mobile Imgur sucks.
But so far it looks like the option of removing all mods (except for a single series mod to start the process) and rebuilding with Game Specific Mods is the most liked choice right now.
