New timer?
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8 years ago
Texas, USA

First of all, I would greatly appreciate this, as my timer, Llanfair, likes to slow down my emulator, and I'm looking for a new one. I'd also be willing to playtest any beta versions for Mac.

Some things I would love to have would be: -Resizing the window -Customize font size of splits/timer/title/etc. -Custom colors for splits (saving time, gaining time, glod) -Option for icons for splits -Ability to scroll through your splits, if there are a lot of them (such as 100% runs)

I like the idea of splitception, but with runs like 100% that backtrack and do levels way out of order, how would that work?

United States

All split programs out there lack any capabilities to keep track of pretty much anything other than times during runs. Adding a counter would be great for keeping track of things you collect in a run.

Texas, USA

The way you explained the splitception is cool, but I will say that the 2nd way of doing it just sounds confusing to the runner. I doubt I would want to use it myself. I can see myself using splitception for 14 Tali, 40 Orb, and probably Any%, just because they don't do revisits, but just using the normal splits for 100%.

As for the counter idea, the only thing I can think of would be counting gems. Like for 14 Tali, you need a certain number of gems at a few different spots in the run, so gem management is crucial. Maybe have it so that you can put in the splits (just like the time for the level) the gems you want to have at the end of each level. Then during the run, when you split (if the user has checked a box saying this split needs gems) a dialog box will come up, and you enter in the gems you have. It will show the difference, whether you're high or low, so you know how many extra you need, or how many superfluous gems you can skip. You could also use it to count dragons, orbs, or eggs respectively, just have a different key press to add one to that counter. I don't know how necessary either of those are, or if I would really need them, but it might be a nice feature to others.

Texas, USA

Another idea I just had was an average of all your runs. It might be more enjoyable to do a casual run against your averages, rather than against your best time. Just add up all the splits for each individual segment, and average it based on the number of times that are saved for that segment. I'm sure there's a way to save the total, without having to save ever single run's times, as that could take up some memory after a while, but I'm not a programming expert. You should also make it so if you decide not to save the time when you reset, it won't be a part of the average, but that's probably obvious.

Devon, England

Czaus

I recommend you have a look at what livesplit customisations there are and see if you can incorporate into your timer some if not most of those features they have plus any special features that people have requested.

Another thing you should try to do is to make it lightweight on memory so that people with older machines or machines that struggle with livesplit etc. can run the timer while having many customisable options to use and play around with.

If you cant use livesplit and want some images of the options that livesplit I'd be happy to give you screenshots.

Wally.