https://www.speedrun.com/gradius_rebirth

livesplit and OBS

https://www.speedrun.com/venomspider-man_separation_anxiety

oh it links to ones profile too, guess that still is the best alternative regardless then : )

im aware, I chose actively not to. I personally don't have notifications turned on for getting mentions in forum threads, I can't speak for what others have. Therefore I figured it'd be better if he contacted by message. It's just by cheer luck that I chose to check this thread again that I noticed your message

https://www.speedrun.com/user/maxylobes knows a thing or two about horror games, maybe you could send him a message

Unless there's a difference in gameplay for PAL versions, categories are not generally made for them - that's a timeloss runners just have to deal with. Then there's games like Blaster Master where PAL is the fastest possible version due to a region specific glitch, which forces a new category.

https://www.speedrun.com/blaster_master#Any%25_PAL

zsnes should def be banned, there are better emulation options today. I don't know of any serious snes leaderboard that accepts it

Feels about time to establish proper emulation rules, I myself plan to submit runs in the very near future. If you're unaware of what's generally allowed, check Contra III leaderboard. I'm also gonna include this

http://tasvideos.org/EmulatorResources/SNESAccuracyTests.html

Likewise if you check CV4 which is much more popular and competitive than this game generally. You can spot "ZSNES (all versions) and SNES9X (1.43 and below) are banned."

Doom is one of those special cases where they do keep tabs on records through their own webpage if I recall. I'm not into the series so I can't remember where that would be, if you join their discord im sure you can get some answers. @AltimaMantoid

Good game/speedrun - https://www.speedrun.com/moon_crystal

Bad game/Good Speedrun - https://www.speedrun.com/ghoul_school

Good Game/Bad speedrun - https://www.speedrun.com/metal_storm any% is horrible.

Seen accuracy test sheets up and to this revision, never past it. No idea if later ones are actually more accurate or not. Likewise I have co-op in mind as a secondary agenda and am wondering which revision are preferred for it.

Snes community itself is none existent, hoping to get lucky here.

I got me a NES classic controller and fetched me an adapter from raphnet to connect it to USB.

practice, practice, practice

Castlevania 2 NES can kill Death in 1 hit, as well as dracula in 2 hits.

I also don't know if its for you, but you have https://www.speedrun.com/shinobi_ps2 and https://www.speedrun.com/nightshade for PS2. https://www.speedrun.com/loi could also be another project for you.

Metal Gear series, maybe Tomb Raider?

This goes for essentially every game you speedrun. Some games enemy behaviors are locked upon soft resets for instance, so for those games you have to hard reset by turning the power off then on for console. Always read the games rules you're running for. Including a reset in your video is an extremely common practice.

Is it a typo? Did he refer to https://www.speedrun.com/vvvvvv

^ pretty much this. While alot of games will have rules based on single-segment as its arguably the most common way for runs to be done. Some leaderboards still have segmented categories or Indivudal Level based ones. Completely depending on what game you're looking to run.