(Read second updated post)

As we all know NTR tends to make loading screens faster by 1-1.5 seconds and this game is filled with them sadly. However, I am going to be personally timing these out and until then I ask to those who stream on NTR to hold on submitting runs until this is done.

We don't want to create unfairness on the boards but we don't want to exclude anyone either because video proof is a good thing to have. This will take awhile since I need a fairly large sample size. If you happen to submit a run, it will be rejected and your rejection notice will come to this thread to understand further as to why. Once this is all done you will be able to submit to the boards just fine, I am getting started with this extremely soon and take me a few days to get it finished so expect next weekend for the okay.

As for emulator, not a lot of known about it but it seems to emulate fairly well but currently like NTR we ask not to submit these at this moment. Assuming it is okay, I will likely ask everyone to use Nightly builds of citra.

In the meantime to catch up on any other information or updates along the way, head to the Luigi's Mansion discord which is linked on the panel to the left.

After excessive testing, all NTR runs will get 20 seconds added back to their runs as this is how much NTR is saving over the course of the run. This was examined with numerous runs (thanks Justun and bluehits for some of the help with getting video content) for any% between both Norman Mansion and Hidden Mansion. However, for other regional releases (EUR/JPN) I'll have to retest those as well and including any new categories that are added to the main leaderboard itself.

Co-op runs will not get any time added back to it since NTR streaming does not work with the original hardware (and local play doesn't work with it). Boss Rush will also not be affected since we use IGT which is unaffected by what NTR does but I did test some of the bosses just in case in the gallery.

Emulators will be treated as it is on the original Luigi's Mansion leaderboard which means after a certain amount of time runs of it will be rejected, we are not entirely sure what this limit is just yet and we would also consider lowering that limit as the game gets more optimized. We also do not like the idea of people being able to remap their controls as it creates an unfair advantage towards players on the original hardware and can also potentially lead to tricks/glitches that are only possible on emulator.

Quick note about NTR;

NTR doesn't really work that well with the original 2DS/3DS, I do not recommend installing it on these as it won't work that well. If by chance you do get it to work, the streaming method will only give you maybe 5fps and the reason for this is because NTR uses the extra memory/speed the New 2DS/3DS has to provide a good experience.

There is also something called HzMod, which doesn't make use of NTR but it still doesn't give good FPS and it crashes on most games.

Also keep in mind that NTR does not work locally which means if you want to use this to stream and do co-op runs, it's not going to work because the software uses the local wireless of the 3DS to stream the data and the 3DS will toss you an error about it being in use.

So in summary

NTR - New 3DS/2DS - Yes. NTR - Original 3DS/2DS - NO. NTR - For EITHER version for CO-OP - NO.