Pennsylvania, USAI pitched the hell out of Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness, I don't think i've ever written such a pitch, and unfortunatley donation incentives don't get put in public view.
As for what caught my eye, benstephen's submission of The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. Muh favorite handheld zelda and really hoping this is the year for it
With that name, I fully expect you to be the next yoshi's island 100% wr holder
I believe just golderzoa, no one else has done a run that fits the rules
How is it going world record holder of Mega Man X6 for the sony playstation Cyberdemon531 aka Johnald
Oh man I've been hoping for the same for 2 years, it's getting to the point where I wanna offer a huge bounty for some huge new sequence break but I can't afford it ;;
I haven't done an introduction since I think 2012 on the SDA forums but here'll be a more proper one since I use this site exponentially more and love it so much. It'll be a little longer cause I'm not really "new."
Hello, I've been a speedrunner since early May of 2012, but I've been following speedrunning since August of 2011. I got into the community by being a troll in twitch chat (mostly Mofat, you don't understand how good it was to ruin his chat back in the day, oh man) and one fateful day I messed with Iqunlimited and somehow that led to Carlsagan getting me to the SRL irc. It's....not something I recommend doing but it's best decision I've ever made.
I run a variety of games, from short games like Mega Man X, to long RPG's like Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness. In addition, I time attack F-Zero GX, one of the hardest and fastest games to run, and I'd say I'm pretty darn good at it, Rank #8 in the world and got to beat a few of CGN's times, several of Iowa's times (nearly 10 year max speed #1 runner), and had held 5 different course WR's (4 at one single time, 2 currently).
Minor things about me:
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First capture card was a chinese broken audio easycap 2.0.
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I discovered the consistent way of bonus skips in Yoshi's Island 100% by spitting an enemy within 12 frames of the goal ring (timed by carl sagan). This method was pretty huge at the time since it made bonus game's no longer RNG for all but 2 courses, so effectively consistently saving 15 minutes or something ridiculous.
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I did the first ever Doppler Stage 2 boss explosion skip on console for Mega Man X3 100% ( a Japanese runner did this on Uosnes a year prior but didn't know till much later).
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I've once owned every WR for Yoshi's Island and Mega Man X3 simultaneously in 2013 (my only ever tied WR was still my X3 100% time with Nero).
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I found 2 useless glitches in Star Fox Adventures
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My goal for speedrunning is to run at least one game from every major game series and hit a top time in it, but it's not my end all goal.
As for what I do on this site, well I moderate the Star Fox series. I don't really verify a lot of runs, but I try to keep each game's moderation team solid and w/o issues. I put it on myself that, if a run goes past roughly 5 days, then I'll help verify said run. I also remove moderators due to inactivity of more than 2 months (I believe in checks and balance for small series moderation, but we, the star fox community, have yet to have any issues, drama, requests for mod removals, or anything ever brought up in the moderation thread except that one instance that was a site bug I think).
In addition to this, I mainly just wanted to say thanks to everyone reading this for being a speedrunner. I hope new runners read this because I started out speedrunning just like any of you, and shortly after starting I found a major element to making one of my favorite speedgames and best speedruns out there drastically less RNG heavy and more competitive.
New runners strengthen a community, introduce new ways of thinking, and generally make it more fun to continue being a speedrunner. Who knows, you yourself could be a leading factor into motivation someone to improve, find new ways of glitching a game, or just have a friendly competition to see how far each of you can go.
Long read but I've been wanting to write this for quite a while, just never really knew how to do it. Thanks for reading and here's to more years to speedrunning and community growth.
A fellow Pennsylvania speedrunning, what's up yo
Need a game to run? Either pick one from your favorites, or give consoles you enjoy and I'm sure we can find speed games that fit you.
Real talk every single thread Rus replied in was god like
We have this same issue in star fox assault. Basically what we do is assume IGT and RTA are the same, so both fields should be filled to include whatever is the preferred time. Though....this would be nice to have fixed later but its all I can say we can do for now
Good read, but more to the point, this thread shoudn't be used to debate on whether a mod is worth keeping his position. This is a last resort contact, for games that have inactive moderation. If the issue is major enough, I'd assume direct contact with site mods would be more preferred since it'd keep other people from coming in and stirring up drama. Don't really see any other fixes to this, but it's pretty simple to tell if a moderator is abusing power / ignoring community.
SSD's in PS3's are legitimate. A Solid State Drive by definition is a storage device, so its valid. Wii U and PS4's use them, same with PC's. I've set my Naruto Storm Revoluton PB using the PSN version on a SSD.
Twitch subscribers to be specific, and a few of the exception users like my Milk
I would love to keep track of all my pb's on this site, but that won't happen until an api connects the 2 sites together (zelda series at least gives a damn to keep this site used).
It's the "communities" decision to wait until both sites can connect, not to forgo using this site.
If you look it up, you'll probably see quite a few games are on this site and have times on it. That shows you who at least cares to keep their games more widely accessible to others. If you really want, just go on the mega man leaderboards website, find the moderators who are in charge of said games, and ask them to do stuff over here.
Put your times on megamanleaderboards.net , there's no need to maintain 2 leaderboards manually that's why you wont see up to date stuff on this site
A simple solution to this would be a "proof request." Would be a neat feature to add one day in the event we see unsettling stuff such as....people having suspicious times or people who shouldn't get a certain time due to skill (you get the picture).
Alternately, there SHOULD be a mandatory video requirement on this site if it were up to me. Most games give users a "times under XX:XX must require video proof," but that's only for games with many runners. Games with little to no runners generally have more lax rules.
That's my opinion on the whole thing.
AS for the lazy proof aspect, just don't submit if you aren't going to care enough to build credibility for your game community.
you should probably link your run instead golder, one day ill have to challenge your time
