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Supporter'Ello. I notice many games might have a page that covers a game over a multitude of platforms, while others might have separate pages for individual consoles. I can see different scenarios where either choice might be most appropriate.
What I've started to come across recently playing really old games, particularly using DOS as a starting point, is that some releases have been ported to a number of consoles, handhelds, and obscure computers of yesterday land. Consoles and handhelds are generally sufficiently different in my mind to justify their own boards on a lot of cases. A SNES/Genesis port may be different but sufficiently enough to put together... various GB's and such.
Generally, I use (MS-DOS) when necessary, or sometimes exclude the parenthetical if the other versions (NES)/(GB) are already marked.
However, coming across more and more games that MS/DOS + Amstrand + AppleII + literally think of the most obscure eletronics from the 1980's. They can vary quite a bit, as you can imagine. So many ports had to be adjusted to the specific hardware used in the machines. Additionally, literally no runs them (I will at some point more often, but, yeah it's clearly a rare thing).
So my question is literally boiling down to this: Is it appropriate to use as (CPU) as a marking for a game page that's specifically handling all computer variations while leaving the console versions on their own pages? I mean, part of me doesn't want to make a page for a game for Commodore 64 and MS-DOS, just because a NES page already exists; something along those lines.
Longest time up now is 3h 05m 23s, but I remember my first couple of runs took like 4 1/2 hours on stream, I just never submitted the runs. Been working on the original Lemmings game complete play through, and that full run will likely be 5-6 hours. :gulp:
Generally 100%, all bosses/temples, low% and glitch-less categories are equally interesting to me; same for certain open-world type stuff like GTA all stunt jumps.
Busy since it only took me a few hours to get all the boards, rules, info, set up correctly.
Having a little trouble finding the right thing. Any help is appreciated.
Segmented runs are clearly not cheating, if that's what someone is doing and they aren't trying to pretend like it's an RTA run. That being said, it would make no sense to put them on the same leaderboard if one is supposedly easier than the other.
I was going to say ask the mod and then I realized you are one, lol.
Um, I mean it's really up to you. There only looks like one release of the game to me, so I'm not sure what the "older version" is exactly. Like, it's literally v1.0 no updates/patches of the game strait from the box while the others aren't or something? If that was the case, it seems like a subcategory for versions would be appropriate.. v1.0, and 1.5+ or whatever the situation is. Seems like it would actually be hard as hell to play a racing game twice the speed, but I guess if there is a demand for it, I don't see why not.
Aw shucks, I done gone rektd myself.
Lol, @Jhugomega the correct link is below, but the categories aren't there, but I imagine that's probably a better play to request than the main SMB3 page. Hard to imagine why anyone would be against it in particular, and sort of surprising it's not already up and ran. Sorry for the misread on my part.
https://www.speedrun.com/Super_Mario_Bros._3_Category_Extensions
Already exists in the category extensions:
They are rare now-a-days because it's a lot easier and cheaper to handle and upload larger videos. To me, it just seems like a TAS lite (or appropriate for level leaderboards). I'd rather watch some using frame by frame save states than watch someone use 10 minute interval save states. The former actually produces an optimal time.
Lol, I'd suggest bringing that up in the bugs section of discord.
Had similar issue before, and I believe it's one of those things slowly in the works.
Just need to record the video and upload it somewhere, basically.
For PC games you can use free software called OBS to record and stream (if you want) footage. For Consoles, you have to purchase a capture card for your computer that can... well capture the video image from the console and send it to your PC so it can be recorded or streamed (if you want).
Family Feud (for SNES) was a game page. I requested an old MS-DOS version, and got it.
Now both just need to be added to a Family Feud series that does not yet exist.
Occasionally, I imagine button mashing can be useful if you are trying to buffer.
