Absolutely not. You'll have to practice just like everyone else does.

Such as?

We do not accept online emulators, you can refer to the rules to see what's accepted.

I tried it out, this thing isn't anywhere near accurate at all.

We will consider the idea.

I've considered making a sticky FAQ post with section headers and all that good stuff for some time.

However, I also have come to realize over the years that a lot of people don't bother trying to read or search for something on their own, they just want someone to hold their hand and spoon feed it to them. Pretty much all of these questions are answered in the Resources section on the View Rules section.

I realize this viewpoint may come off to some as very pessimistic and maybe even a little mean. I deal with this at my full time job very often as well. I'll email the doctors about important information regarding a change that affects them getting logged into something and they won't bother to read it either. I can make a notice with flashing colors and 72pt font and I'll still get "what email? what notice? I didn't see anything."

That being said, if you guys honestly think doing this would be beneficial, then I'll create it when I have the time to do it.

The official stance is that we don't really care what you use as long as you're not using functions that you can't do on an original controller: turbo, the ability to press both Left and Right at the same time, etc.

NES controller to USB adapter? Sure. Dance pad? Sure. Guitar Hero controller? Sure. (I have actually seen this done) SNES controller? Darbian used to do that I'm pretty sure.

This game does have framerules, but it's quite different from SMB1.

This game runs on framerules of 256 frames instead of 21. These affect enemy patterns, such as when pink birdo will shoot eggs which is once every 256 frames so you can make small mistakes in some scenarios and still not lose time if you don't miss that 256 frame window (cycle). The game does not wait to end on a framerule like SMB1 does. Additionally, the framerule system is not cumulative in this game. What I mean by that is that it resets at the player select screen at the beginning of every level. How quickly or slowly you beat a level has zero influence on what patterns you will get on the next level.

Hopefully that makes sense.

Pro controller is fine.

Four mods have timed this run plus the two other people in this thread (one being the runner) and all are coming up with the current accepted time. It's possible for the site to have the frames shifted by one but still give you the correct time when the correct starting and ending points are selected.

There's no issue on our end. I'm closing out this discussion.

I have added this to the Resources page.

I'm convinced that something isn't quite right in your process.

Youtube-dl does not give you a 60FPS video by default. You are aware of that?

Using the site, I got 476 as well, but using 3 different programs on my computer they all show 475. Regardless, I still get the same timing for all methods.

The timing of the run is correct as it stands.

The start frame is 475, not 476

Please provide more information on why you think the current accepted time is incorrect.

I retimed myself and come up with the same result as the mod who verified it. 2:33.930

You can buy a USB connector for NES controllers such as the following:

https://stoneagegamer.com/nes-to-usb-adapter-tomee.html

I have never heard of this kind of setup. Something seems really weird about that.

A quick and crude retime gives me 2:46 as it was verified. Message the mod who verified your run directly. You can click on his name and send him a message through this site or you can contact them on Discord. There's not really a need to make a thread on the forums.

If it's not in the list, it's not allowed.

If it's not on the list, it's not accepted.

@ZachGSpeedrunning Maybe my post was too long. Let's make it super short. No video = automatic rejection, and you cannot get around it. Full stop.

@Mingura666 Removing verified runs that have had their videos removed is something that's pretty low on the priority list for us and we haven't really actively enforced that to be honest. If the run did have a video and we accepted it at the time, then it was valid at that point or we wouldn't have accepted it. This leaderboard alone has over 5,700 runs and we would need an automated tool or script to identify those as this point.