Analog to digital (A2D) inputs should be banned

Players (including myself) should not have to buy some 3rd party adapter to gain an ‘easy’ time advantage that otherwise wouldn’t be significantly more difficult. Entry to the game should not be made more difficult, even if it’s currently only top players buying it.

Having access to analog (even if just cardinal directions) has more benefits than making frame-walking rta viable.

Allowing A2D is pretty significant for finding new strats. Having access to static 100 values would make it so you can turn angle-dependent tricks to a tricks that only depend on pressing the button at the correct frame. A2D will be a more integral part of the run when it eventually gets incorporated into other movement/trick options. I believe this would make quick turns much easier as well as insta-sideflips and speedkicks that are fully optimized.

I believe this is a significant change to Mario, since Mario speedrunning began A2D hasn’t been popularly used by players, and I believe it’s not that it’s a new topic, but runners in the back of their mind decided not to do it because it would make it not competitively fair as opponents would then have to get the same tools and it would significantly change the speedrun.

Disadvantages Difficult to verify that A2D was used. -- I don’t think this is a huge problem. A2D can’t be used in blatantly obvious places. Runs already have frame-walking. -- I don’t think the fact that some current top times use the framewalking matters, I don’t think they should be invalidated. Using framewalking saves little time. The fact that framewalking has been used in a few top player’s personal bests should be not considered when deciding whether A2D should be banned. If A2D were to be banned it should be now before more runs use this A2D.

Besides these disadvantages, I don’t see advantages on why A2D should be allowed.

Additionally, if it isn’t banned, then I also don’t think there should be a filter to separate runs. I think this would only separate the leaderboard, and would make the world records feel less significant as you have to consider whether they used A2D or not and people would have differing opinions on what the ‘true wr’ is.