I'm sure this has been brought up many times. But I wanted to address it here, on my own accord.
Firstly, when it comes to records, SR.com is #1. So much so, that many runners refuse to run Mega Man games simply because they don't want to use the Megamanleaderboards, which is sad that it comes to that, but it stresses the need for changes to be made regarding the Mega Man game series.
I'm sure both leaderboards have their reasons for keeping the games separate. But not everyone knows about the Megamanleaderboards. Whatever the reason, there has to be a simple solution.
Perhaps something as simple as listing each Mega Man game and then placing a link to the Megamanleaderboards site, so people know it exists. Or perhaps it's far more complex, such as talking to the owners of the site and working out some sort of merge or API to sync between. I do not have the technical know-how to suggest something further than that. However, I strongly feel that something like that needs to happen.
If all my speedrun records are on SR.com, then why should I be forced to use the Megamanleaderboards.net site just for my Mega Man records? It seems wrong and inconvenient for everyone, both those who want to see the records and the runner themselves.
As I stated previously, I'm sure this has been brought up more than once. And therefore I am sorry for repeating what has been presented in the past. However, I believe there is a solution somewhere.
Thanks for your time.
Just saw that the Mega Man SR.com page now says "The community is tracking this board at megamanleaderboards.net until a time at which API synchronization between the two sites is developed or circumstances change."
I feel like that's exactly what I was hoping for. Thanks :P
I love it when games like MM8, or MM1-6, or X4 ban the fastest version and have 21362136 categories that are horribly set up and displayed on their own site! Too bad no one is willing to port them over to speedrun.com and make them legible and not ridiculous! Oh wait...
http://www.strawpoll.me/13714357 - Here's a poll for us to use as a way to determine what kind of demand there is for classic Mega Man leaderboards on Speedrun.com. Maybe if enough of us use this to show we really want it, we'll convince someone to do something about it. That seems like a better option than waiting around for API synchronization 'cause I think we all know that's not happening.
Here's the thread discussing this (for the classic series), from 2 months ago: http://www.speedrun.com/mega_man/thread/dtpsq
Classic Mega Man games on Speedrun.com when? Four months have passed and API synchronization between the two sites has not been developed to my knowledge. Can we get an update? Who's working on it? What circumstances have to change? I very much hope 2018 will be the year of complete classic Mega Man boards on Speedrun.com
I would like to point out that the same is happening with the Halo games, they have a separate site and this is shy I have not decided to run any of the halo game yet.
