Western Australia, AustraliaAll bosses already fights both bosses so the difference isn’t big enough to justify a new category.
We are also still developing categories and leaderboard layouts. If you want to propose your ideas and put in your input, we have a discord (it’s in the sidebar)
The language doesn’t matter as you’re just trying to beat the game as fast as possible. That should go for all speed games.
What we don’t allow is languages outside English and Japanese as that requires you using an unofficial version of the game but since Japanese has been implemented into the game, we allow it.
If the autosplitter screws up your timer, you can still play the run out to the end as the run can be timed afterwards by the moderators. The main use for a timer is that it shows you and the viewer how long you've played for and how well a run is going, it's just an optional thing that a good amount of people use. All of my runs that were done on switch for example had no timer on screen as it was just inconvenient so I didn't use it.
For the part about your autosplitter, as evan said, you probably have too many split textboxes checked. The autosplitter doesn't look at the name of splits or whether it is at the end or not but rather just when the code registers that you have done a specific task like entering a room transition so it's very likely that you have checked a few if not all of them which may be there because some people split in different spots. Most people do just one for each unique area (castle town, fields, checkerboard, forest, prison, card castle, king and end) but you can have as few or as many splits as you want as their only purpose is to tell you your pace at certain points of the run heck, you can split for every room if you want. The only exception is the start and end so the timing is accurate but if you really want to, you can have whatever starting or ending time you want but it would be really stupid to do that.
This is already known. Since this is a in-game feature, it is allowed to be used in runs. True Reset runs ban the use of this skip and the regular any% allows it.
Amount of active top runners is an awful way to judge how active a game is. At a high level, it can take a long time to PB, I mean I’ve been at a wall for 11 months now still trying to PB in any% lol. Also that doesn’t take into account for all the new runners, I mean we literally just went from 2 to 4 mods like 2 weeks ago partially due to the amount of new runners coming in.
Also for a rule like this, it doesn’t matter how active a game is for top runners if we’re talking about a clarification rule for new runners.
I mean it's a literal feature embedded in the game so I don't understand how people would think that it's banned. I think people don't get the wrist protector because they don't know it exists and that they haven't seen the guide to know it exists. I'm still for it being in the rules for clarification purposes but I also feel like the people who haven't looked at the guide yet have also not read through all of the rules and they probably wouldn't even care about what the wrist protector does.
The rule of thumb I’d say is as long as your recording device can see specific text or number on the screen (like coin count in SMO or star count in SM64) then it’d be pretty much guarantee that you’d be fine but certain games have different rules and some games may not even need video to be verified.
Video games probably exist cause 1 guy just thought one day 'Imagine a game, but on a screen'
then pong was made
Yeah I'd just recommend using OBS since it's not hard to use and it's very customisable but I will note that you don't need the timer on the video as the mods can retime the run but it's obviously preffered.
The rules for games overtime have changed to become more strict so yes some of those games wouldn't be accepted anymore on the site but they did before. If you're asking to get rid of them, it would just be too much effort to get find the games and get rid of them due to the amount of games on the site now plus people may have actually put some time and effort into those games and we shouldn't just take it away their achievements from them.
Yeah it 100% is because the rules got more strict because of newer restrictions in game approvals due to maintanance cost and extra effort to run the site. It's not the community size as community size shouldn't factor in the reasoning to run the game, if a game has a WR that anyone can achieve within a few minutes of playing the game, people will just play the category as a meme, I mean look at Break Dirt in Minecraft (Classic) lol https://www.speedrun.com/mcc#Meme_Categories
