Colorado, USAYou can click the "view rules" button to see what emulators are allowed. Don't ask how or where to get a ROM on the forums.
If it's obvious what emulator is used in the video, I let that slide.
I don't disagree with you on the last post @Darpey.
I do disagree about some of the other mods being worthless. While you don't see verified runs from some of them, that doesn't mean that they don't contribute. We work collaboratively in Discord looking at runs that seem off or we want extra sets of eyes on. It comes up more often than you might think. While they might not do as much work, I feel that it's unfair to say that they don't do anything at all and should be shown the door because their contributions are behind the scenes and not reflected in numbers.
I suppose if you wanted accurate numbers for the number of verifications done, you'd need to make API calls to include SMB1/SMB1CE/SMB2J/SMBANN, accepted runs, rejected runs and obsolete runs that were either accepted or rejected.
I'm probably not much help because I don't play on emulator. There's some scripting that can be done that can communicate with an emulator to automatically split. Someone else on here might have better information for you. It's something I've never really investigated as it's something I'll never use.
What do you mean by automatically skips the split? Can you elaborate on that?
For starters, I don't see youtubeman's comment as offensive or disrespectful. If it had been only a few hours or a few days, then I would feel differently about that. 17 days is quite a while and I don't disagree with him being frustrated along with anyone else. I'll admit that sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who's doing much on here. A couple of the new mods have been helping out, but we still have quite a bit of volume to go through and I'm also pretty certain I do at least 75% of the verifications most of the time.
Quite a few of us are busy with IRL stuff, but I can't and am not speaking on behalf of everyone else. I'm only speaking for myself. I work a full time job, and a couple of side jobs as well. I'm 34 with a gf, so I have a lot of adult things that most certainly come first before video games and video game related things. That being said, I do as much as I can for the community, and a lot of that is moderating these forums and verifying runs. I'm an active mod for: SMB1, SMB1CE, SMB2J, SMB3, and SMAS. There's a lot of submisisons across all of those games I moderate, but honestly the largest portion is for the first two. This is an increasingly popular game. some days I don't have time to verify any and some days I can get a lot verified.
I'm not defending anyone with this statement, but do remember that we volunteer our personal time to verify runs for a video game. Time that could be spent with friends, family, streaming, etc. We are not paid to do this (there's a few people who think we are).
I ask that you not hop in people's streams and ask them to verify runs. Especially if your run is very new or you do it repeatedly. I DO find that about as disrespectful as saying that you're going to watch someone else's stream to the person you're currently watching. I have people come by or DM me fairly often about verifying their runs.
I typically verify runs starting with the oldest and working my way to the newest. You can wait in line like everyone else. I don't like to play favorites and skip over other runs to verify a time that's either really good or a run from a big name in the community. Why? Because I believe that's the most fair. Why should I skip over newcomers and less experienced players? It does not matter to me that I get to stamp my name on a run that's great or from a popular player. My personal focus is on players new to the game. I'll sit in your chat and explain the game and what I think you should do for strats. I sincerely hope that my efforts over the years have helped promote a welcoming community. I don't want my actions to suggest "well your time isn't upper tier, so it doesn't matter."
Moving on to responding to some of the other comments.
17 days is not acceptable. In my opinion? No it's not.
Sometimes we do have runs that will sit there for a while because we're trying to figure some stuff out. Sometimes for potential cheating, waiting on additional information, etc.
Would I be open to having additional mods who would be active in verifying? Sure. That's not my sole call though.
There's more work to this than I think a lot of people realize. It's not just a 5 minute dedication for every any% run. What about warpless?
We do get flack at times and I'm sure it won't be the last time. It's part of it as we're never going to be able to placate everyone.
If you have questions or concerns about your run(s), it's best to contact us privately and work it out that way. There could be some kind of miscommunication that could easily be resolved instead of taking it to the forums and pointing fingers.
So wrapping this up, I'm just stating my thoughts and I can't speak for the rest of the mods. This is how I see it and how I do things. Some people might like it and some people might not and that's fine either way. I'm not here to win approval and be everyone's favorite mod. I'm here to do the best I can and help the community and be as fair about it as I can.
Like I said, feedback from the community is important in my opinion. Whether it's positive or negative, it's helpful to identify what we're doing right and what we're doing wrong as long as it's discussed in a civil manner.
My stance is a little different. Some people do like to have all of their runs verified to keep a progression, even if they have already beat it. We should probably come up with a protocol for situations like this.
If you don't care about old PBs being verified, then deleting them would be the best answer and is very much appreciated.
I'm a person who likes a progression of PBs, so I understand for those who want all of them verified.
Also, @RT_1, you need to either edit one of your rejected runs to get it resubmitted or submit a new one altogether.
Alright, let's chill for a bit before this thread starts spiraling out of control attacking each other. Everyone can express their opinions in a civil matter. If we all can't do that, then I'm locking the thread. Feedback from the community is important. Both positive and negative, let's just keep it civil.
I have responses, but I'm in the middle of cooking dinner, so I'll try to get back to this in a bit.
It was clearly submitted twice. If you look at the rejection message for the other one, you did not specify the emulator used in your run.
Please don't necro the forums.
If you don't know what that is, it's posting a response in a dead thread. If there are no responses in weeks, months, even years, just leave it alone unless there's a really good reason to do so. It clutters up the top of the forum with threads that aren't relevant anymore.
I don’t use the spreadsheet. I use the screenshots file because it covers about everything I need. To more directly answer your question, yes, that should be fine.
Based on the title I think he meant console.
You can find the timing resources on the resources page: https://www.speedrun.com/smb1/resources
A lot of people use the newer spreadsheet, but I still use the screenshots and do the math as it has more patterns, especially for runs in the 5:00-5:03 range.
I've been meaning to make a video tutorial explaining all of this as a lot of people don't understand it that well.
Soon™
If you're a beginner for this category, while it's not a bad thing to know how to do this, I feel there are likely more basic gameplay mechanics to sharpen up before you put much focus into this. I have a 5:01 and did not do the walljump.
We have discussed that a bit but haven't come to a conclusion. Switching the scene or showing the border after your run is always appreciated. We will reject runs that do not list or show the emulator used.
