hi, i’m new here and i wanted to try a Star Cup run, after few attempts i did this : IGT = 8:28.992 (https://imgur.com/Xyx7Nop) - RTA = 9:39.67 we can see that there are approximately between 70 and 71 seconds between the IGT and the RTA We can find this very often in this leaderboard, so, i got intrigued by a few runs that break the "rule" : paintophobia’s time : RTA = 9m47s - IGT = 8:40.688 (around 67s difference) Aresh’s time : RTA = 9:38.82 - IGT = 8:34.234 (only 64.5 seconds difference) (there are some other ones like this) I wonder why these times have a smaller RTA-IGT difference : in my run, i spammed A in each cutscene and skipped them as early as possible, so how did they do ? Is there a possible time range for the cutscenes ? Is this a game version difference or any other thing ? Am i just dumb and i don’t understand a basic thing of the game ? (probably this) thanks by advance for your answer and sorry if i speak in bad english

Yeah faster RTA vs IGT is mostly due because the runner is using a R4 which make his game load time faster. Its a problem with all the GP runs and mission mode. For sure the best way here would be to get the ranking base of IGT and not RTA. But from what I know using IGT will interfere with the settings of the 32 tracks. maybe Goomba or Lanugo correct me here but there is no way of using IGT to calculate rank of GP while having RTA at the same time for 32 tracks runs... no worries my english is also bad. IMO the best way to fix this is to add all the runs like 70 sec compare to the IGT. The problem is that some runs are olders and dont have an image or only have Splits... :/

ok thank you i understand it better now, but wow in the current situation this seems pretty hard to moderate, anyone could do a run and take breaks however they want and then just add 70 seconds :/

Also the software u use can do that difference The load time with the 3ds is different than with the ds which is different than with the wiiU virtual console

There is the same things in others Mario kart game like Mario kart 7 with the SD card vs no sd card Or in 3ds pokemons games between 3ds and new 3ds (like ultra moon speedrun with 10min charging time difference(

So I agree with you in the game with an IGT inside that we can use like mkwii. The major problem in mkds is that we can't view precisely the IGT in versus mode that is the fastest mode for nitro/retro/32 tracks