CanadaHey all.
My girlfriend and I have been playing this a lot recently, and kind of a long shot, but maybe someone here knows since finding information on the internet about the SNES port in particular is a bit rough.
Is there a specific way to spawn them?
I read elsewhere it was basically depending on dipswitch settings a 1/256 or 1/2048 chance (depending if it was set to "easy" or "hard' mode) on official arcade hardware.
Any idea if it's just that simple and a 1/256 chance as the SNES port defaults to "easy"?
Thanks!
Survival mode is really fun and I was really surprised to see there was never a category added for it.
Hey there.
Is there a way to remove an entry on a leaderboard (as redundant) if two people end up switching between player 1 and player 2?
An example is actually myself and my girlfriend:
https://www.speedrun.com/keeper?h=Co-op-Low&x=zdnxrpn2-6njq4mjl.mln0380q
We played this online a long time ago, then recently broke the record locally, but in that process (1P and 2P literally don't matter in this game) swapped sides compared to when we did it online.
So now 1P and 2P show up as two different runs and there doesn't seem to be a way to categorize us as the same run without switching sides next time. Is there a way to do this?
Thanks.
I recently played this and am thinking about running it.
Does this game (or the series in general) have a way to practice individual screens? This is actually my first fan game / game in general of this franchise. I really like the mixture of Warioware.
Anyway! Just curious.
I wouldn't mind actually practicing certain screens, but if I don't have that luxury I'll just keep playing and learning over time!
Thank you.
Hey all.
I made a new tutorial (and put it under guides) for Batman today, but I hope in general it helps out a new generation of runners trying to learn this game. It's good for probably <10:10 times, which in my opinion is very strong, and once the foundation is laid for new runners to be around that time, I really hope it encourages more to try for that elusive <10 time.
You can find the tutorial here:
If anyone has any questions feel free to message me on Twitch or to join the Batman Discord!
Happy Batcember. ;D
I created a TAS for this game a few days ago. As of this post, the current RTA record is 3:16 with 1 death. The TAS came in at 2:49 and 0 deaths (only saving 2s on the death I took in the record.) Re-posting this in guides. :)
Some of these room are pretty tight, but there's definitely time to save/pull from in the run if you tried to replicate strats. Hope it helps out someone!
A loooong time ago, someone tried to submit a co-op run that prompted a change in the rules. Sadly, this game barely sees co-op submissions, but in the future, I would like to slightly change one of the rules.
Back then, the runner started a co-op run solo (killed off one of the turtles) then beat the game solo, and tried to submit that as a co-op run. I rejected that run back then, and change the rules to state that each turtle needs to survive until the end of the game.
I think I would like to change the rules going forward: one of the turtles can die at the end at Shredder, but, have to be present on every stage. So as long as each turtle survives each stage, but, one dies at the end, the run is no longer invalid. This still prevents people from running a co-op category solo, but, at the same time, doesn't punish people at the very end who unfortunately die on Shredder (and hopefully, opens up co-op a bit more on this board.)
What does everyone think?
Hello! I decided to make a community server for Bucky today. :)
Feel free to join it!
Hey all. :)
In the last few days, I went through all the runs here and made a variable that shows whether or not a run ended in the infamous Joker glitch.
If you're unaware of what the Joker glitch is, you can understand it here:
But basically, there are some frames where if the Joker is killed on, it immediately skips his death animation and saves about 4 seconds. I added the the variable because it was neat to see at a glance how many runs ended in the glitch, but also what the best non-glitch times are.
And before anyone asks "why isn't the board separate if there's a glitch?" it's because I think, just that. The glitch can be gotten accidentally, and there's really no other glitches in Batman that the speedrun uses to save time. It's just the Joker glitch, of course, right at the end of the run.
@mikethev run is a funny example. Right now the leaderboard, it's 81st place, but he got the glitch accidentally, and if you filter by that, his run becomes 9th best. xD It would create all kinds of strange leaderboards if people got it accidentally, so for now, it's just something nice to see on the side.
Feel free to just leave "Joker Glitch" blank and one of the mods will adjust it if you don't understand!
Thanks for reading. :)
Hey all, on a board I recently created for a new game, the developer himself actually made some little trophies for 1st to 3rd place.
I added them yesterday, and if you click on anyone's individual page, you can see them (they're like gold/silver/bronze coins):
https://www.speedrun.com/user/junkyard_dave
But on the main SRC page, it shows the default trophies:
https://www.speedrun.com/beard_blade
I waited a day thinking maybe it was a site/cache thing and it would update, but it seems no matter when I upload them, they stay the same on the main SRC page. Is this functionality broken? I know it exists on for example, Mega Man X2 (custom 1st/2nd/third place trophies):
Thanks.
Hey everyone!
I recently made a community Discord for this game, here:
https://discord.com/invite/KDJpfVBSjv
Feel free to join it!
Even though I expect this community to always be small, still!
I made a Discord for it today. xD
Feel free to join it. :)
So close to sub 10! <10 in this game is a hard achievement.
Good luck to you two!
It says to me trying to duplicate the request via the tool I made one day ago in the old thread:
"You cannot submit a moderation request because you must have email authentication turned on and your account must be at least 1 month old. To turn on email authentication, visit your account Settings."
I've been the moderator on several games for a long time now and it's always been enabled. Is this the option it's talking about, here?
If so, it's again enabled.
Hello everyone. :)
This little board has seen a bit of activity lately, and when I created it I really didn't expect tons of people to run it. I think, furthermore though, the activity it has seen is starting to make some of the categories very competitive to the point frame counting (from my side) will be necessary soon. In the past, the final timing was when the box appears, but this was unclear and just when the box literally appeared.
So I think there's two options (and I'll go back and retroactively adjust all the times and also write that into the rules):
- When the box appears stating you met a population goal, on the first frame, or -
- When the box finishes drawing on the last frame.
Does anyone have a preference as to where to split?
I would like to hear from everyone before deciding. Thanks!
I know he flees on the 4th turn if you didn't do enough damage, but does that mean you have 1 extra turn and he flees at the END of his fourth turn? Does he always flee at the beginning of the fourth turn?
Is there a way to for example slow him, if he does flee at the beginning, and get extra turns in?
How's the 4th turn work exactly?
I've always just assumed you have only 3 turns to kill him and he immediately runs on the beginning of the fourth, but I honestly don't know for sure.
Thanks. :)
Hey, curious what's going on, as a run is missing or not categorized properly. It's somewhere in the top 10 as Kat and I have recently set quite a few PBs and snuck under (or so we thought) top 10 in co-op. xD
If you check the leader board itself, it says we're in 9th place.
https://www.speedrun.com/user/junkyard_dave https://www.speedrun.com/user/Kat_kunoichi
If you check our profile though, it says we're 10th.
Other people are also wrong:
https://www.speedrun.com/user/SuperHandi (8th on board, shows 9th).
People before like Titanish and 5th are working properly, and people lower on the leader boards also work properly.
I am curious in who has a hidden run here. xD Someone is not displaying properly because likely (I assume from other boards I moderate on) variables were probably updated at some point on these boards and no one adjusted that one run manually, so it doesn't display on the board itself, but it still counts in terms of rank.
Or anyone else know what's going on or missing?
I did ask Bbforky, too.
This is somewhat of an issue on a lot of retro boards I have runs submitted on.
A lot of people are added to boards, which are notable people within a game's community, but on SRC they're basically non-existent as a moderator and their duties. This ends up dispersing the workload onto one person, and if that one person isn't around, submissions hang.
We had this problem on Batman (NES) boards a long time ago. I literally got rid of myself (and asked the site) to remove like 7 people who never approved anything but held a moderator position anyway, but were added to that board, and I appointed new people who were both knowledgeable about the run but more importantly ACTIVE on SRC.
Seems a lot of boards I'm aware of with or without runs are like this and it's sort of an annoying trend.
To maybe clarify: I'm not looking for any kind of immediate resolution or anything to something specific, but I'm curious at what point should it be addressed or brought up. A lot of boards I'm talking about have probably if you check the verified runs, one dude working crazy hard at verifying and staying on top of things and a bunch of dormant moderators.
At what point does this become an issue that should be addressed?
Congrats on all the new submissions as well!
11+ runs submitted in the last day is pretty nutty.
A general reminder:
Feel free to join the Discord as well.
