Updating rules
5 years ago
European Union

Hi

The rules might need a little bit updating. They still mention the Genesis version etc.

I'm also wondering why certain versions are excluded/banned/not recommended. Speedrunners typically want to use whatever the fastest version is, and banning an official version is never a good thing. If some exotic version is significantly faster than the others and it bothers someone, it can be listed as a sub-category instead of using some other method like level leaderboards. This was probably mentioned in some other thread.

Adding more options for submitting runs would also be welcome (such as Difficulty, Version).

Edited by the author 5 years ago
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Cumbria, England

I agree with everything you say except for separate difficulty options. I think that would be a bit arcane since the RNG is going to prune a lot more good runs and it's already quite a slog to get something respectable on easy with the way bike positions change. Probably it's best to just recommend all new runners play on Easy in here, and stick to defaults over in Genesis.

France

Hey So if i play with official Sega Megadrive EU version i can’t submit the run ?

European Union

I wasn't saying that different difficulties should be separate categories :P But the more information the better. Not everyone plays/wants to play on easy and it might not even be an option in the official re-releases.

@warhammiche, there's another leaderboard for the MD port.

Edited by the author 4 years ago
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