Definitely hope to see more runners playing this excellent game!!

I've been attempting this myself for an event at the end of the month, but if all goes well hopefully I will be able to beat it the first time within the span of NES Odyssey.

I'm happy to bounce tips & tricks off others here in the forums to accomplish this mighty feat, the game is brutally hard and it might just take a village to beat a Metro-Cross.

The runner actually has a YouTube account now

Hello, new mod for this board. I have amended the rules to follow the generally accepted vernacular, but with all things if new information is brought to light regarding emus or any other part of these rules they will be properly discussed and decided upon.

As always, looking forward to seeing some new faces running this game. Board is slowly being overhauled, so if there are any other requests or suggestions I am happy to discuss.

I am in favor of at least 2 regularly active users taking over, hopefully someone who is motivated.

Hmm, can a banned moderator still moderate? Seems like no, but I do wonder.

Hey all, just wanted to update on the recent deleted WR. The runner was found to be cheating on MANY other runs and after reviewing their run here it was clear they didn't play the game and took advantage of the trust given by others. Don't be like this person, cheaters will always be discovered.

New rules incoming ASAP.

Best part about the updated site is the archiving feature. Saved us some hassle when the Popeye board fell into chaos due to miscommunication; fortunately the new site structure made recovery easy.

I always felt like the term "any" percent was almost too loosely defined and here we have a good example of when the term comes into conflict. If you guys need any help with clarifying the verbiage in the rules feel free to reach out to me, always happy to lend a hand.

Seems to me like something as big as deleting an entire category should have been put to a vote. We get new mods and all of a sudden big changes are being implemented without majority vote? The board was just fine the way it was, no reason for this.

If people want to run Extra Speed, LET THEM!

Hello! Sorry this post has lingered so long with no reply. The categories may be in need of some more organization/fine tuning and I am sure we can fit in the EAA category along the way. I will try and raise it with the current mods, though I can't give a timeline of when the organizing might happen, we will make a forum post to announce that the whole board is "under construction". I can make an EAA board so you can submit your runs if you are still playing the game, and again, sorry for the length of time it has. Since I have become mod for this game I have reached my limit of games followed, so I don't get notifications for this game...yet!

Yes, we are going to add a proper category for C64 as soon as possible.

Amazing! Don't stop!

Very excellent question! I will be sure to update the rules after this busy weekend, but for now yes after finishing the crag level you will stop the timer. I will settle a proper start & end time and retime all the runs so everyone is on the same level. Thank you for prompting me on this, it needs a big update.

This morning I made an amendment in the game rules concerning the use of FCEUX. It is under review and not currently banned; unless another mod can affirm that there are known versions that SHOULD currently be banned this will include all versions, so this rule is likely going to change once or more until a solid decision is made as we learn about how these things work. We will do our best to achieve this goal as soon as we can and to the best of our abilities. Until then, please continue to enjoy this wonderful game!

Great run!

Love that his has joined the server, right along with Araiguma Rascal!

Fortunately the steps are being taken to make sure things are put back in order. I will say for everyone, brkmnly & DoritoBreath have both done a lot of the math when it comes to understanding frames; far beyond what I currently know. All the new implementations done during the overhaul were discussed at length in a group Discord in the weeks & months since I was added as a mod and the original forum post about needing the overhaul was made. One thing that we obviously failed to discuss was grandfathering old runs in, because it just makes the most sense to include those runs. Since brkmnly was added we should have also made sure to post in the forum (though that was planned, i promise you). Again, I was taking too long in working on the updates and felt the need to have things finished much quicker.

We'll get it fixed and make it right again, then we can celebrate with a Popeye race. What is everyone doing at the end of December after the holidays?

Thank you for sharing your concerns Char. I am also hoping for feedback from NESCard as well and ASAP we will have a roundtable discussion about this. Keeping this reply brief for now, just so I don't come off like I'm speaking for the group. Very valid points made here, so I want to make sure this is handled the right way. Especially since I'm the one who began the overhaul in the first place.

I can field that one. To answer your question, yes it would invalidate a run (if such a run exists on the board please reach out to one of us for discussion). Since we don't have any deep understanding of how/when RNG becomes active in this game we have to assume that loading a savestate after a reset would have effectively locked in the current RNG seed. This means that the run itself wouldn't be measurable on the same grounds as the other runs, but I agree the wording of the rules should reflect these things. Rahvin & myself can attempt to coordinate this effort and settle the verbiage in the days ahead, but I can only speak for and offer my own time. We will get this settled as soon as possible :)

Excellent run! Happy to see you stick with the game and keep pushing your time down. A worthy ending, GGs!