My Speedrun
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5 years ago
Oregon, USA

Your speedrun is currently undergoing a thorough and rigorous analysis, as we take run verification very seriously.

Oregon, USA

Quick question: Is the commentary on your submissions being delivered live as you are completing the runs? To clarify, you are talking while playing the game at the same time, correct?

Oregon, USA

I had a few experts take a look at your submissions including someone who actually makes TAS videos for educational purposes, and they all came to the same conclusion that your submissions are TAS videos, which we obviously cannot accept.

Frankly, there are additional reasons we would have to reject your runs anyway:

  1. You're using some kind of "pixel smoothing effect" on your emulator, which many mods will reject outright because such videos are too easily prone to manipulation.

  2. The frame rate of the videos is really choppy, which doesn't make sense because these games run natively at 60 fps. A choppy frame rate also leaves the door open to video manipulation. This is also an issue in overall quality control in maintaining a clean-looking leaderboard.

  3. The TAS expert who looked at these pointed out that there were an inhuman number of frame-perfect maneuvers executed, which was additional evidence to him that the runs had to be tool-assisted.

Furthermore, there were a lot of "red flags" that would make any mod suspicious of your submissions, which is what caused us to take the time to look so closely:

  1. In your Street Fighter II Chun-Li run, a video player bar briefly shows up at the bottom of the screen at the 2:37 mark. It appears as the though the commentary is being delivered live, but clearly, the run is just being replayed in some video player application while you're talking over it.

  2. Your SR profile had no verified runs of any game when we received your submissions. While that alone certainly won't disqualify you, mods tend to be on high alert when they see a brand-new SR profile claiming WR times.

  3. Your Twitch channel is linked on your SR profile, but it's empty. No followers. No videos. No proof you've been running the games. If you don't even broadcast, there's no reason to include this.

  4. Your YouTube channel has multiple alleged "WR speedruns" of Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat titles all uploaded within a week. Clearly, that's HIGHLY suspect and will raise a few eyebrows.

  5. We have already received word from other gamers in the retro community that you are being accused of using a turbo controller and submitting TAS runs to other games as well.

Hopefully we have demonstrated that we take run verification very seriously here on the Street Fighter boards. We like to see nothing less than a good, clean match.

Tropio, Sanjihimura and 6 others like this
Québec

Feels good to know that we have a great reviewing crew here. Unlike Fester's Quest mods or Pit-Fighter mods lol. Great job at looking thoroughly through this. BTW Zangief forever.

Sanjihimura, Gurg.Derpson and 3 others like this
Kumamoto, Japan

I had the same issue on the dragon ball games. It seems I should remove the runs. It was bothering me he did things that would require not just luck but near perfect and the ai somehow not reacting correctly.

If your friends who make TAS could look at these videos it would be greatly appreciated.