After reading this again maybe you're on about something like the following:

It's known that the ZSNES emulator does not emulate lag properly for SNES games. Using that emulator to do runs could result in an unfair time advantage due to the reduction or elimination in lag. If this is kind of what you are talking about, then that problem is addressed by banning the emulator the submission of runs.

We don't permit the use of emulators that would knowingly give someone an advantage over the original console.

We allow emulator runs as long as you don't do any thing with it that you can't do with the original console. You mark that you use an emulator when you submit a run if you used an emulator.

I guess I'm kinda confused by this question. Are you asking us to allow runs using emulator using functions that you can't do on console, like speeding it up?

Nothing stops someone from creating an IL leaderboard elsewhere. If someone wants to do that, then by all means, go for it.

But why just the any% levels?

The ILs and the user-defined categories have become a management nightmare. It wasn't an issue when the community was smaller. However, the community has grown much larger (much more than I imagined it ever would) and it's still growing at a rapid pace. Keeping all of those around isn't feasible long term in my opinion. There are currently around 40 mod defined categories and 50 user defined categories. That's 90 categories. It's very difficult to manage and it's hard to know what all is out there so we don't end up with duplicate or overlapping categories.

If you have good ideas for categories, AD2 created a category request thread in the Category Extensions forum. If we approve, it will be added to the leaderboard.

Could more mods be added? Sure, but that doesn't really fix the problem.

I'm sure someone will submit a co-op warpless run at some point. I've had thoughts of trying that sometime when I meet up with another speedrunner again.

After quite a bit of discussion, the mods have decided to implement some requested changes to the leaderboards.

Runs under certain times will no longer need to be streamed. We understand the myriad of reasons of why a run might not be streamed, such as age, anxiety, internet issues or time restrictions, so the rule has been removed to accommodate those who cannot stream. However, we still do highly recommend streaming runs if possible.

When verifying high level runs, we reference previous attempts, practice sessions and the like to gain confidence that a high level run is legitimate. The more we have access to, the better your chances are of getting a run accepted. Therefore is it recommended to keep local recordings of attempt sessions which can be uploaded upon request.

We have decided to remove the IL boards starting in 7 days. This should give everyone time to look at or backup something there that they may want. This decision has been made because these boards create a high quantity of runs for mods to verify, delaying verification of other categories, use inaccurate timing and in most cases don’t provide any extra information. Removal of individual levels isn't a new concept, as the mods of SMB3 and SMW have also removed their IL boards.

A document will be made to preserve some of the more interesting individual level strategies using the in game timer, which will be accessible in the ‘Guides’ section on speedrun.com. We have also added a frame counted 8-4 IL category to the category extensions leaderboards that can be found here.

So far runs that use a save-state to return to the title screen have been tolerated, but future submissions that use it will be rejected. This goes for all save-states including the virtual console "restore point". Runs currently on the leaderboard or in the submission queue will remain.

The following categories will be removed from the boards:

• user-defined categories
• Beat All Levels as Mario and Luigi
• All Underground Zones
• All Water Areas
• All Warps Deathless

“user-defined categories” lead to some very silly or arbitrary categories being added and resulted in a lot of verification work. “Beat All Levels as Mario and Luigi” is simply the game beaten twice with different sprites and already better covered by “Both Quests Warpless” or “★8-4 Warpless”. The other 3 have very few runners. As with the IL leaderboards the boards will remain for 7 days to allow people to look at or backup the information. Remember, you can still run the categories and post your runs to the internet, they just won’t be tracked on speedrun.com. You can use the Category Requests Thread to request categories from now on.

Thank you for reading the changes to the rules. We have thought long and hard about these, and want to make the leaderboards as good as they can possibly be. If you have any questions, please ask them below, and a mod will get back to you soon.

Unless this has changed, ZSNES and SNES9x versions below 1.5.3 are not allowed. Bizhawk is fine as far as I know.

One of us will post an announcement likely in the coming days about several changes to this game.

You'd probably want the one that's not Rev A. One difference I'm pretty sure is in SMB2-US, you can do quick pauses to try to skip the freezing of the characters until the door appears when you kill a boss. I feel like there may be some other notable differences, but that's the only one I can think of right now.

I'm not familiar with emulators for android and iOS. Is there documentation/tests somewhere that provide the accuracy of those emulators? Namely framerate.

Changes are likely coming regarding ILs, so that's why they have not been verified.

If I understand correctly you want it to show the WR for say a Luigi run? Assuming that, here's what you need to do.

On your splits, go to the "Additional Info" tab and set your character.

Edit your layout and edit your "World Record" section. There's a section that says "Filter Leaderboard By" and put a checkmark in the "Variables" section.

Hope that answers your question.

Yeah, this is probably not the best place to ask as I feel people don't check this as often as say discord or SRL. Either of those two places would much more likely get you results.

Aside from I don't see the point of this category idea, I don't feel like any mod is going to want to verify a submission and count to 1000.

You can resubmit with a legitimate speedrun video for any of the runs that you have previously submitted.

Some words of advice for you.

• I can't think of any game that would allow the use of savestates. It has to be played all the way through. If you game over, you may use continues using Start+A on the main screen for SMB1. That's fine.
• If you have questions or something isn't clear about the rules, please ask. We're more than happy to answer your questions and we get asked questions frequently.
• Don't spam us with multiple submissions. It doesn't speed anything up. In fact, it slows us down. We get your submission the first time and we will get to it when we can. There are currently 27 runs awaiting verification and SMB1 is a popular game these days.
• If you make a submission and realize you made an error before it gets approved or rejected, you can click on your username at the top right, and view profile. Then on the left click on "pending actions" and you can see your submitted runs. You can go back in there and edit it.

Did you manage to scroll the screen somewhere earlier in the level?

It's all in the effort to try to curb cheating and illegitimate runs. Not accusing you of trying to do that. It's just we have people who try to submit other peoples runs or a TAS or submit times that aren't even possible.

I don't know what the specs on your internet is, but it might still be possible for you to be able to stream it. You don't need a high quality stream by any means, it just needs to be streamed. Even streaming it at 360p is fine.

I doubt there would be any bending of the rules for not streaming a run under the current thresholds.