IG Timing ?
6 years ago
Haute-Normandie, France

Hi,

I don't have a Wii anymore and I play Mario Kart Wii on Dolphin. I've read threads about loading times and as a Trackmania speedrun mod, I think IGT is necessary on MKW. There are 2 official supports, Wii and Wii U, they don't have the same loading timing and the speedrun must reward the faster racer instead of a better menuer. On all Trackmania games we are moving from real time to IGT, we can do this for MKW and MKW speedrunning will can be a thing. It could open MKW speedrun to emulators' users, like Crash Team Racing for example, it's the same rankings for PS1/PS2/PS3 and emulators.

Edited by the author 6 years ago
Texas, USA

IGT can work. It could also be like Metroid Fusion and have RTA and IGT but with IGT determining truly what place you're in.

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Gelderland, Netherlands

Except if you really care about the game and/or are getting decent enough you should get MKW on the wii itself. Without RTA you can take breaks and technically can complete speedruns that took longer than a week.

Haute-Normandie, France

Technically a speedrun is a single segment. If you take one break, it unvalids the run. But I understand your point, and it's possible to RTA w/o loading times like many speedruns.

Edited by the author 6 years ago
Texas, USA

First, ยค Invalidates. Second, taking a break isn't banned, it's just unoptimal, but not banned. Pausing the timer however, is not allowed and is corrected.

Haute-Normandie, France

I mean a timer pause, not a personal break. My english is bad, sorry. In any case it's sad to see MKW unspeedrunable with Dolphin.

Rhode Island, USA

wouldnt this invalidate older runs?

Rhode Island, USA

Even tho loading times are different, how does the console differences award a better menu-er?

Rhode Island, USA

How did you figure that out? :P He definitely didn't even come close to explaining that properly.

Texas, USA

Better menuing is good to save a few seconds.

Rhode Island, USA

-(There were 2 before this [note-to-self])

Anyway...

^Yea but how can you be a better menu-er on a different console? The console change itself wouldn't change that. Both have same menu's to navigate.