Recently the idea of allowing Direct3D 9 EX mod was brought up in the Discord server (which you can read more about and download here: https://gamebanana.com/gamefiles/11596 ), along with the idea of allowing a code that will let the player reconnect his controller in case it was turned off without need to quit the game and reenter it (you can enable it via Hedgehog mod manager, the full name of the code is "Controller Hotplugging Support") Until this point we do not allow any mods at all, but given that this mod and code doesn't change neither the game's view nor its physics we're considering allowing them So far the mods were tested by myself, Cybersonicstarzx655 and Frokenok, and for all of us it either seemed to improve the game's performance or just not making it worse, while no physic/graphic changes were noticed So at this forum, please write your thoughts about whether it should be allowed or not allowed with your explanation, and if you can please try those mods yourself too and write your opinion about them, and most importantly, report in case the mod happens to give a different results at any aspect from the original game

To those of you who are wondering, we have decided to no longer support timing method that removes hub world time and loading time from the ADS/ANS categories, mainly because of those 2 main reason:

1. Retiming is a long complicated work that me, Razor and Style used to be willing to do, but we don't have as much free time nor motivation to do this work as we used to have when we started this process.
2. Ever since adding this timing method (about a year and half ago), there were no signs of runners caring too much about the loadless timing method. So from now on, unless some more guys will be willing to do the work and there will happen to be sudden request to bring loadless timing method back, the only timing method will remain time with loading. You can see the archieve of retimed runs up to this point here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VCnEIXo-3sqJqD2fZDKbQ5qGuajGDaJnwCCLcfoJSmg/edit?usp=sharing