Hello everyone!

I know this forum is basically dead at the moment, but I figure I'll introduce myself anyway. My name is Keverage, though I've also been known as Kmacc on sites such as TSC. I've been running Sonic R since 2006 with IL's, so I know this game pretty well.

Since I got into speed running and playing this, I always wanted to have a definitive ranking for this game. I had considered making a google doc, but just never made the effort, as activity in the game is obviously low. With the emergence of this site, I decided to take on the task of compiling times for each of the four categories of Sonic R, so we can have a more wholesome ranking table.

I have a spreadsheet with a bunch of times from 20+ runners, which I got between searching twitch, youtube, pbtracker, and SRL. Some of the times (mostly the better ones) have video proof, while others don't (mostly SRL raced times). I just wanted to try and take a step toward getting every known time, no matter what the source. I just have a few questions that if a mod could answer, it would be greatly appreciated!

1. Is it possible to put these list of times onto these rankings even if the person doesn't have an account? Would it be necessary to get their permission to include their time here if they haven't submitted it themselves?

2. Is there a way to submit a time and make it go on two different category tables? ie: I submitted my 15:18 100% (No OoB) time. I don't have a standard 100% run yet, so would I have to re-submit that as 100% as well, or is there a way for it to just carry over? That would assume there is no time in that other category, or it beats that time in that category. I ask this because many of these people race mostly with No OoB, but technically No OoB fits the rules of standard any% or 100% as well, so times should go to both charts if they are No OoB and the players' best times for those.

I look forward to helping make the Sonic R rankings the best they could be. Maybe it'll even spur more competition, and people will realize this is actually the best Sonic game ever :3

It's possible to submit times for people who don't have an account on here, but you need to be a mod of the game for that. And permission isn't necessary in my opinion but it would be nice. As for the second question, I don't know.

Hm... We don't have rules for this, but I'l go into making a ruling. For now, you're free to add No OoBs times to both categories, since, technically, they both apply. However, this is only to fill in times, so don't go crazy with it. Since they were No OoBs times to begin with, I'd rather not see both categories filled up with the same times for two reasons. One being that people will follow suit and add one time to both, which I, personally, find silly. So, just add a small amount (maybe the top 5) and remove them when/if the category gets a few submissions within themselves.

I'll add you, Keverage, as a mod for the game for the time being. I know this is more formality than anything, but just make sure you don't abuse the power or anything. Just thought I'd add that. (Time being meaning IF a problem occurs, demodding will happen, but if not, it's permanent [don't take this the wrong way either, as it's just a formality... Sorry about coming across as an a-hole, lol])

I'll probably skip putting them on both charts for now if that's how you feel; it's something that could always be done in the future because the times will be available on the charts. I do see what you mean how it could look silly though, like even 100% runs could count toward any% if the person doesn't have an any% run, and that seems a bit weird.

I'll probably update the times later this week (Wednesday or Thursday) because I'm a bit busy with working right now and I do want to watch all of the VODs available to make sure everything is correct and see if anything is emu or externally loaded via homebrew or whatever else (faster load times).

If it makes you feel any better, I''m a mod at mariokart64.com and I've been writing news updates for the Mario Kart DS section for over seven years now, so I know a thing or two about modding and such. That being said, I don't need to stay mod beyond updating these times onto the charts, so if I get unmodded there's no hard feelings OpieOP

Just wanted to reply now to say I've filled in the charts with everything I had. Obviously a bunch of the runners aren't registered here on the site, and also a bunch of the runs had no video proof, but the better runs tend to have videos. Some times were extracted from people's twitch profiles, so I couldn't get a proper date. Also, I set any run in which I didn't know the console to Gamecube, since that's by far the most popular version. There's a few I marked as emulator due to the load screen being a few seconds faster each time (which is what happens with emulator or homebrew'd sonic r).

If there are any problems or whatever, let me know! I tried to get everything in as accurate as possible.

All right, awesome. Would you suggest banning emulator? Also maybe you've mistaken them for the pc version.