Running on iQue Player
5 years ago
Bristol, England

From reading your threads, it seems like you're unsure whether running on iQue Player would be allowed. Has this been decided yet? For me it's either iQue Player or PAL through an Everdrive, so I'd quite like to know if this has been decided yet. A couple of notes on the iQue Player:

The CPU is about 1.5x the speed of the N64; combined with significantly faster RAM access, this tends to reduce lag a lot, if not entirely. Would this be important for anything?

"Burst access is actually faster than a real N64 cartridge, but 32-bit word access is much slower because it still requires the hardware to decode a full AES block each time." (not from these forums, don't worry) - I don't entirely understand this, but could it reduce loading times? Or make them slower, I don't know...

And in terms of other people with iQue Players that don't own the full version of this game so don't want to run it: we can reset demo timers now.

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GhillieGuide
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5 years ago

The IQue player is legal for Time Trial Completions but not legal in Championship mode speedruns due to the lack of accessibility and inherit framerate/loading time advantages. In addition Everdrives and Flash Carts are banned from use in all categories. Please refer to the rules for each category as they are up to date with community decisions.

I suggest if you have a PAL n64 submitting using an actual cartridge as they are cheap and we are welcoming players onto PAL, If you just want to compete in Time Trials you are welcome to submit runs on the IQue Player. Comparing your IQue championship times to the runs on the system from myself and Shibbypod without submitting is another option.

If you have any other questions let me know, it is advised that you join the discord if you are interested in learning this game to gain access to top players. Here is a link: https://discord.gg/YVdf99F

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GhillieGuide
He/Him, They/Them
5 years ago

Load comparison to fastest n64 version

No known advantage in time trials for IQue player

Edited by the author 5 years ago
Bristol, England

Hmm, OK, thanks. I just did a few tries on Sunny Beach 3lap, and I got 72nd place, so perhaps if I put some time into it this could be a fun speedgame for me. About accessibility: if only Everdrives or emulators were allowed, as the iQue Player ROMs were released recently... And, er... I don't have an AV splitter and my only capturing device has quite a lot of lag. Is there a better solution for recording?

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GhillieGuide
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5 years ago

Informally we want to encourage competition on the n64 releases as the best players have played on n64 for 20 years. Competing on N64 means you are able to compare yourself to the very best. Other versions are welcome in Time Trial and only IQue is banned from RTA. To allow IQue to be compared to the other versions would allow a limited number of players to gain an advantage and give other players invested in RTA an incentive to move away from the traditional methods of competition on N64.

Emulated Wave Race 64 has been discouraged for not only the load time/frame rate inaccuracies but also because of the accessibility of console versions. It's one of the best selling games on n64 and was also released on VC. In addition it's one of the cheapest n64 carts.

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