Timing
1 year ago
Congo

I don't understand how timing works at all. So I use citra because I just prefer using a keyboard over a circle pad. I used livespilt, in the exact same pace as the WR is super mario challenge 1-1 and I'm already at 11 seconds. How does timing work? Does it use the in game timer? If so, why not use more accurate timing like livespilt?

Australia

Hello, individual levels (IL's) use in-game time (IGT) while other categories use real time (RTA).

I think the main reasons for this are: IGT has been the standard for years I think mostly due to convenience. It's nice to have instantaneous feedback after completing a run. Additionally playing on a 3ds can make it difficult to figure out the exact RTA time of runs and retiming IL's is generally a bit too time consuming for the mods.

The main downside of IGT are some levels having lots of tied times on the easier levels and some levels having different stratergies to fullgame runs because of screen transitions, and powerups e.g., W11-2. However, despite the lack of precision IGT is the standard across the majority of Mario games for IL's.

The Moderators might have a better explanation but that's why IGT is used.

If you're interested there is a list of all the fastest IL's RTA as of 1st of March 2022 put together by Charbunny. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gROleFgqnC5h3auMUw2REGzrJ7Ctse348491ej0l0WA/edit#gid=0 I have outdated a few of them...

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Congo

interesting, thanks for the response

United States

Pengo's answer is spot on :) For 1-1 specifically the difference is due to the pipe transitions pausing the in game timer (but obviously not pausing real-time), so the livesplit running in real time gets desynced from the in game timer in the top right corner.

Congo

But then again as Pengo also said, the leaderboard for levels like 1-1, all runs submitted all looks the same with the same exact time of 11 seconds (which btw isn't even hard to get) which makes learning tricks in specific levels not all as rewarding but idk this community is small so it probably makes sense for it not being timed with a real timer

Edited by the author 1 year ago
United States

There's definitely pros and cons :) Getting close to the next second barrier can be really rewarding, but yep we do have a lot of ties. The tricks do matter for a full game run so we do still have a place for them in our community! And it's style points :)

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