so because DS capture cards are so hard to come by and they are banned for the RTA sections of the games, i wonder if you guys would like an emulator category. Basically it'll be secondary leaderboard next to the original RTA categories. Any thoughts?
for now I can only record decently on emu; not sure if I'd definitely end up running it, but I would certainly be more likely
I would be happy if emu runs got accepted. I personally prefer if emu runs were part of the main categories but hidden by default.
I'm strongly opposed to having a main category split with emus.
First, I think there needs to be testing done first to see if it's really something that can be compared with the actual DS or not. Desmume has been known to be really inaccurate/silly, though it's proooobably fine for KSSU?
If it's reasonably accurate (subjective), then I'd rather just have both console and emu be on the same leaderboard (preferably default emu to hidden, but it's nbd).
If it's not "reasonably accurate" (again, subjective), I wouldn't be overly excited about allowing emulators since I personally think we should discourage it, but I would be OK with having a SUBcategory.
EDIT: I think a reasonable compromise (which I've brought up to kinnin privately) is, for now, allow emulator runs on the same leaderboards as console, but hidden by default. This opens up the opportunity for people to show interest with running on emulator, but also not directly making unfair comparisons to console. In the long run, if there's enough emu submissions to prove there's interest, a subcategory can be split off.
so as far as i know, desmume is fairly accurate with how much faster it is. I can safely say that over the length of MKU Spring Breeze it saves .375s every single door transistion. Which means that there's a certain consistency to it. Otherwise i would never even suggest this change.
there are also a few newer emulators that we've never tested, MelonDS, no$GBA. And i'll be testing those as quickly as possible. (Basically when i had some sleep)
so i tested both no$GBA and desmume(again) and they're significantly faster over 50 door transistions, think about 15s each. no$ is actually faster than desmume and probably a little more stable in running. I couldn't get melonDS to run so rip testing that :P
I'd like to run a Kirby game at some point in the future, even if that means comparing to only emulator runs, or doing some math to see where i rank on DS leaderboards. So a separate category, mainly for simplicity's sake, for emulator's only would be gucci.
