Hey Fellow KDL Runners, Old, Current, and New!

I've updated the rules for Kirby's Dream Land: Beat the Game & All Items categories. This shouldn't really impact you or how you run the game, but there are a few new changes to be aware of.

1. Super Game Boy 1 (SGB1) This piece of hardware runs game boy games ~2.4% faster than the original hardware (https://kb.speeddemosarchive.com/Super_Game_Boy_timing). So to try and keep things on a level playing field, those running on SGB1 will need to convert their time (http://nudua.com/convert).

2. New accepted emulator added to the rules. The rule set before only allowed BGB and GamBatte for acceptable Emulators. I've added BizHawk as another accepted emulator. BizHawk uses the GamBatte Core for it's Game Boy emulation.

3. Video Proof Yesterday I made a mistake in rejecting a run that wasn't sub12 because it's mainly a force of habit for me at this point to reject runs with no videos in other games that I moderate. See: 'Rejected' thread (https://www.speedrun.com/kdl/thread/7de50) for more info. So I want to apologize to Wasserkrieger first off. As of now, ALL submissions will need to have a video submitted to be accepted n the leaderboard. There are a few reasons for this: a.) The past year or 2 there has been a lot of 'trust' in other communities with top runners and later we find those runs didn't exist or were dishonest. We've had this happen once in Kirby's Dream Land and I would really like to not have this happen again. So to remove any ambiguity all submissions will need a video submission.

b.) With the advancement of technology, it should be fairly easy to record game footage one way or another. Whether it be through a video capturing software (Amerac, OBS, etc.), through an emulator, or simply pointing a webcam/phone to a tv or game boy. Video submissions don't have to be the highest quality ever, just as long as we can see whats happening, you're good!

Now you might say to yourself.. 'Hey eBC, there are runs without videos from like 1921 on the leaderboard.' Yeah we understand that and as of right now we're grandfathering those runs in and they'll remain on the board until we (the mods/active community) determine best course of action.

The leaderboard is a slight mess still as I'm still going through and updating consoles (this takes a long time for 300+ runs) so please bear with me while I chug through that.

If you have questions, concerns, or w/e please speak up :)

I know I'm new to running and KDL so you can you take me with a grain of salt but, I feel like video submission has become standard fair in speedrunning. I would fully support any effort increase the validity of our leaderboard. Sub 12 imo is a pretty big achievement as I just got sub 15 I did not post the time because I was not recording and I wouldn't count a time I didn't record. I'm not trying to hate on anyone who doesn't have the equipment to record however the minimum barrier of entry is very low these days!