PolandI think not, since this video doesn't show exactly full one run, but it is an edited video formed by merging two different videos (which means the run is segmented). I'm not a mod, though, so I can't say I'm 100% certain that your run would be rejected.
I'm planning to buy Castlevania Anniversary Collection on Steam. Are there any problems with this release? I heard some people complaining about sound issues or not precise emulation (though they did not explain in what way it was imprecise).
Another question I have is about the leaderboard. Is Castlevania Anniversary Collection treated normally on the leaderboard, like the other runs? To be more precise, is it allowed to submit runs played on PC's version of this Anniversary Collection that would eventually (after being verified) be on the same leaderboard with runs played on original NES version?
I saw three runs made on PC that made it to the leaderboard, but still I would like to ask about the status of Castlevania Anniversary Collection (at least its Steam version) in terms of submitting runs and hypothetical differences between its releases (Steam version vs. GOG version, in example).
Thank you @TaruPanther and @Oxknifer for your responses!
I thought those positives might've been false reports. Like I said, this is an useful and popular app used by many people in the world of speedrunning, so that was the first sign to think it is safe to use. It is easy to use and doesn't seem to do anything besides measuring times (and indeed it doesn't do anything besides that), so that's another argument for it being completely safe.
What's more, while there were several "false positives", famous and known for their efficiency antivirus engines like Kaspersky or Norton found this software's files as completely safe (as I remember, Norton only marked them as not popular, but safe to use). I'm not saying that Ikarus which detected the .exe file of this app is bad or something, but I was curious why it marked a file that looks completely fine as malicious, along with several other antiviruses.
In most of cases I encountered on VirusTotal, "false positives" were only in few cases, like one or two, not seven as happened with Slush Puppy's Retime Tool. Anyway, out of pure curiosity and to assure myself in 200% (lol) I spoke to Slush Puppy directly. That issue of some antiviruses detecting files creating in Python and turned into stand-alone executables, is known by many developers and users and for some reason, a lot of antiviruses seem to see anything made by pyinstaller as a virus of any kinds. Here's the link provided by Slush Puppy: https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues/2988#issuecomment-343674665 if you are also curious like me and want to read some more about this issue.
Anyway, it was good to hear that this software is completely safe to use. :) Like I said, it's very useful, simple to use and user-friendly. Problems with not being able to time and/or retime runs as precise as it is possible by runners who are not that much into video editing are no more, thanks to this tool.
Hello! I've got a question about boosts that can be bought in game with those coins you can gather during the run.
Are boosts such as armored helmet allowed to use while doing a run? If not, then are there any exceptions (boosts that are allowed), or the run have to be without them?
Hello. How about creating one more category called "Death" or "Death%" that would work like already existing "Hat" category, with that difference that it would require to lose the game by basically dying in any way?
Times could be measured with the first frame after tapping start/retry button, as a starting point, and could end with the first frame of "game over" message.
What do you think about it?
In order to measure times of my runs as precise as it is possible and in the easiest possible way as well, I tried out Slush Puppy's Retime Tool. From what I heard many moderators use it during the verification process of new runs.
So far I am really satisfied with it. It's easy to use, precise, user-friendly, doesn't require to download a video to time a run.
However, after I downloaded it from he source at https://github.com/Slush0Puppy/retime and tried to run it, Windows warned me that app is of unknown origin (...), but I ignored it and launched it, since I didn't have any worries about this popular software used by many speedrunners.
SPRT worked completely fine and my antivirus software did not find anything suspicious or something. I have a habit of checking downloaded files with VirusTotal, so I checked SPRT as well. I was pretty surprised to see that it had 4 threats detected as a .zip file and 7 threats (malware, trojans, malicious software and such) after I checked the folder after unzipping downloaded catalogue. The file which caused the most problems, according to VirusTotal, was the main one, I mean: !speedrun retime tool v1.2.0.exe
Anyway, moving straight to the question I wanted to ask: why VirusTotal's scan found not one or two, but several possible threats in that file? Are they really false positives that sometimes appear when you scan various files (i.e. from GitHub), or are those files really infected? I don't believe it's the latter since this app works completely fine, is very popular (I am myself thankful to Slush Puppy for creating that kin of helpful software), doesn't require any special permissions or similar stuff, but I wanted to ask just to assure myself in 100%.
I would like to say "hello" to everyone. :) Some weeks ago I have become interested in speedrunning and lately I decided to try it myself. So far I enjoy it. My favorite platforms to play are PC and mobile devices.
My current goal is to reach a time below 8 minutes (any%) in DuckTales (Disney Afternoon Collection). With this goal reached I will be ready to share my score with everyone on the leaderboard. Until then I will stick to other games I guess.
