bro i answered you 2 weeks ago
When I made my posts here, I tried looking for this page thinking it was a forum post. It could be useful for discussions like this in the future.
https://www.speedrun.com/knowledgebase/site-rules
It seems to cover this sort of thing and others pretty well.
Cool opinion. They've got it set up this way for a reason. Just because it's not the way you like it doesn't mean the situation you described isn't covered. External cheating devices are still against the rules even if you have to click a link to read the full rules.
Maybe you could go harass the mods at https://www.speedrun.com/darksouls since they do the same thing!
Yes, it does. There's a link to General Rules and it's number 6 on there. Also, imagine allowing SOME gameshark cheats but not the ones that are TOO fast.
VI. Cheating and Consequences • A submission is considered cheated when the player uses the following methods in the submission: - In-game cheat codes, unless the category requires it or the cheat is purely cosmetic - Manipulating the in-game timer - Cheating devices, i.e. GameShark, Action Replay, Game Genie, etc. - Any emulator-specific functions, i.e. save states, frame limiter, overclocking, etc. - Tools to combine segments of runs or attempts - Claiming a run by another player as their own • Any submission using such methods will be rejected or removed. If a player submits additional cheated runs, all of their runs will be removed from these leaderboards and, if they have runs on leaderboards outside of the Spyro series, those leaderboard moderators will be contacted.
This might be the hottest take of the century.
If you have interest in any flash games at all, please visit this link: https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/ It's an application called Flashpoint. Most flash games are accessible through the client instantly for free.
https://www.speedrun.com/muppets_party_cruise -> https://www.speedrun.com/muppets (thanks @shinuu)
I don't think anybody genuinely believes that would've counted. A speedrun of a 1v1 game should imply that you're winning, but in case it wasn't clear I've added it to the rules.
Post your run here when you do it and the category will definitely be added. :)
These still aren't examples of games where they're allowed by default. There also aren't very many rulesets that tell you that you can't use a gameshark or you can't use savestates on emulator, it's implied. In game cheat codes usually fall into that as well.
I'm not saying that sentence shouldn't be in the rules, it is probably best practice to do that, otherwise you'll waste one person's time having them do a run with them just to have it rejected and added to the rules anyway.
There's a spot for splits here https://www.speedrun.com/peggle_deluxe/resources
You don't need tied WR or anything to submit a time. As long as it follows the rules you're fine. :)