Separate real time and time without loads
7 years ago
Latvia

Otherwise the PC and PS1 records can't be compared properly.

European Union
zolaa
She/Her, They/Them
7 years ago

Let's separate PC and PS1 runs. That will do the trick.

Greater Manchester, England

Sounds good to me :) Although won't I be the only one on PS1? XD

Chile

Hey Guys, thanks for your suggestions.

First of all I'm glad new ppl is joining to this community.

So when Dennis started this game on speedrun it wasn't a huge research about the game or any other comparision. That's the reason that we didnt had separated categories.

With that said, I need to do the studies of the version differences and see if we must separate the versions of the game or if the version differences are not relevant. One thing you need to take in consideration is we are a pretty small community so far. so any change like this could affect the "atraction" for new runners.

In the end, the main categories of this game are the Full Runs, and that's we need to check in first place instead of individual levels, that i'm assuming is the main reason of this topic.

Anyway, whatever we found with the version differences we should make a poll to take in consideration your opinions.

That's all for now

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Latvia

I think the general rule is that when there are PC and console versions for the same game, time without loads should be preferred over real time so the times can be fairly compared. In this case perhaps that would be just the sum of race times? Including the menu times precisely could be pretty complicated without custom tools. The other option could be separating platforms altogether but that could alienate the player(s) of the less popular platform so should be avoided if possible at all.

European Union
zolaa
She/Her, They/Them
7 years ago

I'd say: Race times for segment/level runs RTA for full runs

Greater Manchester, England

I agree with FranZowsky on this one, that only sounds fair really

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European Union
zolaa
She/Her, They/Them
7 years ago

I'd also add arcade championship and single stages. Yes, single stages would be time consuming, but that's the idea behind this site.

Ok, maybe it's really too much, only the arcade champ would be enough for me :)

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Greater Manchester, England

Yeah although how would we speedrun that? Would it be from start of Italy to end of Greece for Novice etc. or would it work another way?

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Czech Republic

Individual stages would be nice.

Poland

ILs (Individual Levels) are nice for comparing setups.

European Union
zolaa
She/Her, They/Them
7 years ago

(Cześć PojeBunny :D )

I'd say the arcade would start at the confirmation at the last selection screen, and end at the finish line of Greece

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