Changing Moderation
6 years ago
United States

I'm changing moderation for this game over to some well-known community members with knowledge of the game.

This board is a bit excessive on categories when compared with the rest of the site NES games. The categories are also highly isolated making it difficult to find and compare runs.

The site does not specifically standardize these things, but we're looking at coming up with some basic expectations for NES games. The wider NES speedrun community wants to implement some basic expectations for NES games on the site.

Edited by the author 6 years ago
Canada

if we need to minimize catergorys then permanitly get rid of 9 phases 23 phases and all the keattekita catergorys that would get rid of 6 catergoys OH and if thats not enough then you guys can delete 10 and 8 phases as well no matter deleting 8 phases would make us lose majority of the runners mostly cause most people run that catergory. but yea thats my take on this or whatever lol.

Canada

i said to get rid of 23, 9 and everything PAL and Keattikita because only one person runs on each of those leaderboards and the level leaderboard isnt really a thing either. but i do hope you guys keep 100K because thats a favourite of mine and JoshKeys.

Victoria, Australia

Right, I'm just going to throw my hat into the ring once more. There are 3 versions on the NES/FDS. Normal (US/JPN/PAL), Keattikita (FDS), Serie (German)

Of those 3 versions there are 2 major categories. Normal: 18 Phases Keattikita/Serie: 23 Phases

And there's obviously the player count. Are you playing 1 or 2 players?

It's like there was this an entire thread dedicated about this last time, which went way longer than this.

So what's the problem then? The fact that it has misc categories that are suitable for a shorter run? The fact that it does what all the other Arcade NES TASes does which is have a Score limit?

I mean if you want to go that route of "knowledge of the game". Mappy is wrong. Galaga (NES) is wrong. Galaxian is a joke (it's literally 1 round). Pac-Man (NES/Arcade) is absurd.

If you take it down to what each and every Arcade port that exists and their categories. Mario Bros. is the most consistent out of all of them.

I'm sorry, but I don't see why the necessary action was taken to actually do this to Aqua at the current time.

Now I will note this. I can still be wrong about one category. Keattikita's 23 Phases. I'm still playing that down to memory. However it's different to both Serie and the NES version.

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Victoria, Australia

RottDawg if you're here for shitposting get it right.

Main Categories is 12 total. And then you have 8 misc categories total. (10 Phases still shouldn't exist, but I digress)

I've already justified the split in the subcategories and explained about it already. So i guess [quote=RottDawg]the problem then[/quote] Is that you're only here to shitpost and not to actually contribute to anything that's going on here.

Edited by the author 6 years ago
Canada

I think they just want to minimize categorys, and i gave suggestions but no action has been taken yet. also im gonna go get some sleep, night.

Victoria, Australia

[quote=AquaBlake]I think they just want to minimize categories[/quote] That's honestly stupid then. Cause the only proper outcome besides not doing anything, cause this is stupid is to make the Serie its own game... Even though technically it already is part of the right game.

[quote=AquaBlake]and i gave suggestions but no action has been taken yet.[/quote] And those suggestions aren't good, they're damaging. Let's just kill an entire game off, that's such a great idea. </s>

The options is strictly separate 'em or leave it alone and go deal with the other boards that are much worse. Because this is so minor which makes it stupid that this is being considered.

Edited by the author 6 years ago
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Canada

After discussion and due consideration, I've taken down some categories. The 100K category will stay up as requested. I have made a complete record of everything that has been taken down, so that if there should ever be a section on the site for the runs that were on foreign systems, they will be readily available. There was also some excess content on the North American version that wasn't necessary. For example, the "8 Phases" category ends with the completion of a bonus round but the "10 Phases" category arbitrarily ended 2 levels later for no apparent reason, so it has been removed.

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New Hampshire, USA

Why not just make a CE game for Mario Bros. and add those categories there? And a bunch of other categories you may come up with too.

Canada

there is no reason for me or any other full mod to make a Category extension for a game that barely 5 people play anymore. plus no good ideas for categories anyway.

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