''Cartridge Tilting'' in speedrun ?
8 years ago

I was on the web when I discovered that we could create glitch by going back up slightly the corner of a cartridge. I thought at once that that could be interesting for the speedrun. For example, I saw that we can skip some passages with this technique in Oot.

That looks like a rom corruption but I think that it's legit because technically we only use the console, the game and the gamepad.

This kind of process seems to be able to be reproduced on emulator, but according to what I understood, the result would not be faithful to the console.

So, what do you think of it ? Could we use that in speedrun ?

If you're interest, if you don't know what is the ''cartridge tilting'' or if you're just curious, please I have this link and video for you :

http://errors.wikia.com/wiki/Cartridge_tilting

Have a nice day ! :)

United States

If it's an N64 exclusive game then I don't see a problem. However, if the game is a port (eg. Toy Story 2) then it should be banned. But according to the SR community I'm stupid so don't take my advice.

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Victoria, Australia
stoot
He/Him, They/Them
8 years ago

Different communities will think different things. Just ask around.

United States

I've never heard of anything like this being allowed as it falls under hardware manipulation. And no, console resets don't count as hardware manipulation it gets handled by software :P

There might be a misc. category that allows these sorts of things though.

Bavaria, Germany

as always: !!!heavily disclaim it!!!, and if necessary make it its own category. done

@battleonfan1 ''If it's an N64 exclusive game''

It's not peculiar to the N64, you can recreate this phenomenon on other systems, with other cartridges but its useful application is not assured for every games. All cartridges will not react in the same way, some modify the sound or/and textures during your play, certain games freeze, others erase your save, and some can break your game or/and your console. All this also depending from the moment where you are in the game when you use ''cartridge tilting''.

@battleonfan1 ''However, if the game is a port (eg. Toy Story 2) then it should be banned.''

For me, a game is a game, no matter if it's a porterage, unless you speak about a unofficial porterage, there maybe.

@Ihavenoname248 ''There might be a misc. category that allows these sorts of things though.''

To add it into misc. category is a good idea, but you do not believe that we could also use it in other categories as in any% for example ?

Québec

@battleonfan youre not stupid, youre just delusional.

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Nova Scotia, Canada

hardware manipulation, not likely

What is the opinion of the moderators on this subject ?

England

If you're talking about the mods/admins of the site, I would imagine they're impartial to it because they have no reason to be presiding over the boards here. Whatever is allowed, is allowed by the mods and the community of each individual game and is solely their choice.

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France

No need to say more, Ozotuh summed it up well

I imagine that that depends of every communities and rules which they fix. Well I'm going to discuss with each of them. Thanks for your answers. :)