Baltimore, MD, USAYou can't mash much faster on a keyboard. Moving your thumb is a lot faster than moving your fingers. It makes almost zero difference the moving between left and right. Not only is there not a single point in the run where that would actually save time ( pressing in the other direction faster doesn't matter as long as you end up in the same location, which is usually a matter of where you decided to press left rather than how fast you press it), but even if it did, it would be a couple of frames. Maybe in a 100% run that would add up to almost a second? I think it's obvious that the difference is insignificant and not worth banning emulator over. I don't think it's a slippery slope what constitutes as "significant" in this case. And I should ask again what the inaccuracy between emulator and console is.
How is it not accurate to the DS? From what I've watched, it looks exactly the same. It isn't sped up at all, if anything there's a bit of lag, which is already a reason not to use emulator. And assuming that that's the only difference, it shouldn't matter what console the game is played on. If there are no advantages to it, and it's the same game, there's no reason to seperate it. A speedrun is a speedrun no matter which medium it's done through as long as that medium doesn't have any significant gameplay differences from the original release, and I don't think desmume does.
What about having both emu times and "official" times on the same leaderboard is unfair? A speedrun of the game has the same validity no matter which console was used. There are no major differences that require a split in leaderboards.
Idk what you'd call it, but I think this would be an interesting category because it gets rid of tons of monotonous grinding and adds an interesting element to the run, even if the RNG is horrible. Plus it's a feature of the game that can be used to achieve a goal faster, so it's basically a "true 100%" category
@PikaPlayer It's fine, when someone's new to a site/community it makes sense that they wouldn't understand the etiquette.
you can sort of manipulate dice rolls by throwing the dice in a specific way each time
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