Plus if you can see the percentage going up and you know that skipping certain items keeps that percentage low, then it should be pretty easy to determine the lowest possible percentage you complete the game with, and then you don’t need to call it a generic “Low%” and you can actually call it after the explicit percentage (kinda like how Metroid Prime has 21%).

Of course if that lowest percentage is also the fastest way to complete the game, then, well, you just have Any% and it’s moot anyway.

I mean you can run a game without it being on the site, so go ahead and run whatever you want. But games don’t just magically appear on the site, someone has to request them and they have to go through the approval process to make sure they meet the requirements. I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make with this thread.

If someone truly wants to do that, they should have the mod submit it on their behalf and have them submit the runner as “anonymous”.

I could see opening that up to the user as a way for people who are banned from submissions to circumvent that by submitting a run without revealing who they are. Rather than complicate things for mods when approving runs (or to rework the approval process to reveal a hidden runner anyway), it’s probably better for the mod to take care of it so they can properly verify who did the original run.

If the game the OP is playing uses IGT then recommending LiveSplit isn’t really helpful at all.

If you’re asking how to setup a recording or stream of the game, then you can do that using OBS or other broadcasting software. Then it’s as simple as just capturing the gameplay from your emulator.

Don’t stop the timer, or pause it rather than close the program. If you close the program, it’ll start back up at its starting point (0.00 usually).

You can do your first run whenever you feel like doing your first run. There’s no magical formula that says “if you practice x hours for y days, then you can do you first run in z days”. Some people practice a lot before doing runs, others barely practice at all, it’s entirely up to each runner when they feel comfortable enough to do their first run.

Non video game activities are not allowed on the site nor will they ever be accepted.

[quote=Me, literally in this same thread] There’s multiple threads on this already in this forum. The site is under new ownership and donating is currently not available. It may or may not be added again on the future per the new owners and their decisions.[/quote]

I’ve never heard of Epic Screen Recorder so I can’t vouch for that or comment on that. If you’re looking for recording/broadcasting software, OBS is the defacto standard nowadays and works well on most computers/laptops.

Currently, yes.

https://www.speedrun.com/seoscandinvpa/allposts

You can delete your own runs, just not until your account is 7 days old. And also, I would advise against deleting pending runs, even if you get a better time as most people usually like to see their progression on the site.

$50 is a little low for an HDMI capture card, so I don’t have any recommendations for one in that range. Closer to $80-$100 might open up a few more options. Maybe someone else has one they can recommend.

No, you cannot do that. Timers are separate programs, they can’t run when streaming from the Xbox app. You will need a capture card so you can capture the gameplay in something like OBS and then you can build a layout that includes a timer.

https://www.speedrun.com/requestgame

Please read all the rules before submitting a game request.

Promote it passively - do runs, lower the time, build a community discord server and try to grow interest, pitch the game to a marathon of some kind (doesn’t have to just be a GDQ).

That’s really all you can do. Going around spamming a link to the LBs or saying “hey check out this great game” is more likely to get you banned or ignored because nobody likes that type of advertising.

I have never been more ashamed of myself that I forgot that a Wii can okay GameCube games considering a I did that a few weeks ago with my Wii.

It should be noted that if you do not see a Player Two box on the submission form then the category/game does not support multiplayer runs and if someone assisted you with your run then it would be invalid. Runs are intended to be single player unless otherwise specified.

Not that I know of no. Nintendo has never made a backwards compatible system that I can think of aside from handhelds so I don’t believe any emulator has built any functionality like that.

Your Sega one is a unique scenario because I believe all of those games are either backwards compatible on a Genesis or are add-ons to the Genesis (which would mean that it was probably easier to just code the add-ons into a single Genesis emulator).

I don’t really understand what you’re asking. Are you looking for one emulator that can play games from multiple systems? There isn’t really an emulator like that, unless you’re doing something like Bizhawk that can inject different cores to handle different systems. But that’s still technically a different emulator, you just don’t need to download as many individual programs.