France- User profiles : all good
- Leaderboards : all good (on the ones i manage atleast)
- Series pages : "Edit series" button isn't highlighted
This is awesome news ! Thanks for finally adding it !
That's a hard question because i liked way too many lol
Though, the ones i still remember, because i REALLY liked them are :
Hamtaro Card Captor Sakura Totally Spies
Heyo.
Some emulators are allowed, some other ones are banned because of being too inaccurate compared to consoles. If you're curious about which emulators are banned, or usually allowed, you can check this old, but good topic : https://www.speedrun.com/Speedrunning/thread/19h43
But asking about emulators being allowed, and if so, which ones when learning a game can be a good idea as well.
As for the legal perspective : Technically the emulators themselves shouldn't be illegal, however for the roms themselves, that'd be different. Though roms that came from official shops (for example: Virtual Console on eshop) aren't affected : you buy them, it runs an emulator that nintendo or whoever made the console you're playing on made with the rom inside it.
Merry Christmas.
Not sure if this has been mentionned before, but with the new markdown system there are some issues if you add images in category rules :
As you can see, the image goes outside of the box.
Also, another thing i've noticed : so you have the lists, you can see the little circles (or whatever they are) next to each element of the lists ; If you haven't edited rules in a while, the circles won't show and you'll get a " - " instead. However, if you go to the settings, edit and save, the " - " changes to circles.
EDIT : It seems like the images going outside of the box comes from lists, because for each list element it adds some padding to the right. Images aren't resized as well, so if they're too big, it gets even worse.
Hey hey
[quote]Anyone have some tips and resources to get started?[/quote] A good start would be checking the leaderboards for the games, there's most likely resources on them. If they have a link to a discord server, you could join it and get in touch with the community.
[quote]if you play a PS1 or PS2 game on PC emulator, does it count as PS1 or PS2? Or do you need to physically play on a PS1 or PS2?[/quote] When you submit runs, you can check an option that adds "EMU" (for emulator) on your run. Checking it would be what you wanna do.
However, you'd want to ask the community for each game to see if they accept emulator or not, and if they do, which emulators are accepted. Though PS2 emulation isn't that good afaik. As for OPL (Open PS2 Loader), which lets you play PS2 isos through HDD or USB on an actual PS2, you should always ask the game community. It's not always accepted but there are exceptions (such as Haunting Ground / DEMENTO for example).
[quote]how do you get a timer on that thing?[/quote] The timer is always a separate program, on PC the best one atm is LiveSplit. Basically, you start it, you set things up, and then when streaming or recording (for example with OBS Studio), you add it as a source so it shows on your stream or recording.
you should probably ask this in the ds1 forum (or discord if they have one), you'd get more answers
[quote]Easy to get them when there's very little competition[/quote]
That's actually not always true Some games, despite having small communities or next-to no competition, have pretty optimized times
- Add basic rules so the discord / forum / community place doesn't become a sh!thole or a place where people just spam non-stop
- Try to interact with others, as in : ask what everyone thinks when changing rules (on the community place or leaderboard), adding categories, or suggest things
- Stay open-minded in general especially for the above things ^
- Try to keep things simple : personnaly in my case that's about everything related to the community ; routes should be simple to read, or atleast have some visibility stuff (colors, italic, bold parts) to make things easier to understand, rules should be simple to understand as well, and the community place overall should be easy to navigate (text-channels on discord should be straightforward, users shouldn't be spending 90% of their time thinking "what is this channel for ? should i post here at all ?")
There's definitly more to be said but that's all i know
Though one extra thing i like to do is checking on twitter about the game itself and interact when people mention it (for example sharing patches that makes the game playable on emulator, share some unknown facts, etc) It's a small thing to do imo and it's not really related to the speedrunning community itself (more like the game's community as a whole), but i think it's good, especially considering some people that have played the game before could join the community, as well as people that never played before, but heard about the game instead (which is why having a simple and easy to read route is very important imo : veterans should be able to see what's special about the route, and newcomers should be able to understand the basics : how the game & route works, and what are the priorities when it comes to saving time)
Overall this can be a lot of work, but i think it's worth spending time on these things : someday it'll pay off Also it'll get easier once people join the community, the hardest part is the beginning because you might have to do everything yourself
it's just like fighting games : use what you feel the most comfortable with also we have no idea which game you're talking about
i've watched nightcry on twitch before was interested in buying it but the controls and lack of polish made me change my mind
the game isn't bad but i think it's not worth the full price in its current state
About emulators, we had a topic about them, a long time ago https://www.speedrun.com/Speedrunning/thread/19h43
You'll probably find some answers about which emulators people uses in it, though things might have changed a little
Anyway, it's probably better to just ask the moderators of the game directly, just in case
[quote]how was it??[/quote]
Haven't played it myself but i've seen it entirely a lot
It's good i'd say, though i personnaly prefer the first one 2 is more open-world oriented, it also adds some nice stuff to what was kept from the first game (items, abilities, etc)
It's definitly worth trying, especially if you've liked the first game imo
