Item Tracker & Rules
7 years ago
Languedoc-Roussillon, France

Hi everyone,

Is an Item Tracker mandatory to make a run valid ? Also, what exactly is mandatory ?

Thanks in advance

Isle of Man

I think he was asking what is valid, not where to get the tracker :)

While I don't think it's "required" I believe having a timer on screen + item tracker makes validating the run for everyone easier as the seeds can be tested and time is easy to track (doesn't require a retime apart from maybe adding/removing from the start/end).

If you submit a sub 1 hour 7 char run with no timer and no item tracker ( for seed verification ) it will be scrutinized heavily seeing as how people had been stuck at the 1:30-1:40 time for a long while.

California, USA

Just to confirm - does this tracker works well with Afterbirth? Asking, since its name is RebirthItemTracker.

Languedoc-Roussillon, France

Edit: Partisan, Yes the tracker works with Afterbirth no worries.

Thanks for the answer sillypears, i understand my question wasn't so clear.

To clarify i may ask it like this, "to make a run valid on the leaderboard" :

  1. Is an item tracker mandatory ?
  2. Is a timer Mandatory ?
  3. Can a run record on local recording will do or is it mandatory to done it live on a broadcast platform ?

I understand those questions may seems dumb/obvious but i can't find the answer anywhere so ...

Edited by the author 7 years ago
California, USA

^ To add on to this train of questions, if I messed up on timing the start and end times for my run, would I just retime it by watching the vod and timing it regularly? (I was probably off on the beginning by 4-5 seconds, and at the end by a fraction of a second)

And does it matter if my timing was off on my splits.io if I post the correct total time with my submission?

Edited by the author 7 years ago
Isle of Man

@MagicDiner

  1. Is an item tracker mandatory ? ¤No, not mandatory. See my explanation above for why it's useful¤
  2. Is a timer Mandatory ? ¤No, not mandatory. See my explanation above for why it's useful¤
  3. Can a run record on local recording will do or is it mandatory to done it live on a broadcast platform ? ¤I don't see why not. If you have the entirety of the run as a local recording and upload it to youtube, there is no reason why it isn't valid. If the item tracker/timer aren't part of a local recording however I think it would make it very hard to validate the run though, since it's very easy to splice together a bunch of runs without those being part of it.¤

@shatterglasslol You can absolutely retime it afterwards. Retiming could be done that way, or you can figure out how far off you were that caused the timer to be out of sync and correct it.

Languedoc-Roussillon, France

Thx SillyPears