Hello. I want to run this game in the near future; but I notice the rules say "- Fastest speed is banned." on both level and full-game leader boards... yet every run listed appears to be in the fastest gameplay speed allowed in the options.
I don't particularly care which way it is myself, I'm just wondering which I should actually be attempting before I put in a great deal of effort.
Thanks.
I'll give a detailed reply when I'm not on my phone, but in short the actual fastest time is an uncapped framerate, which makes it bound to the CPU.
If I've understood you correctly;
This is acceptable?:
But using something to make the game operate at even greater speed is banned?
Also, so is there an official stance on using the fanpatch version of the game on cncnet.org?
I was going to do MSDOS, but realized the game was remade for Windows later, and the version runs faster in general.
Okay, finally on PC.
I have noticed the fastest bottleneck on some games while others are uncapped. This is something that's left me confused since it's varies from computer to computer. The idea is that the uncapped framerate speed is banned. The speed that everyone uses so far has been the one where the in-game timer goes at 4x the speed of real time, so if you need a reference point, there's that.
If you would like to run on MSDOS, you're free to do so, though you would be greatly limited in your functionality.
Sounds like an similar issue with DOSBox and cycles (although, it's not an issue with RA on MSDOS because the game as internal timer that caps game speed regardless of processing power).
I will check when I'm home later to see if my version runs at similar speed or if there is a way to cap it do so or something.
However, I see there is another old thread about this but there doesn't seem to be a clear answer. I wanted to use the patched version of the game that is available at cncnet.org.
It appears their is some uncertainty there as to whether this patched version of the game constitutes it's own category? Should I go ahead and work on and submit a run for that, or wait until a new category could be made?
It'll likely be marked by version. Go ahead and run it for now.
