$310 for the next person to break below 3'11, time limit of 310 days. This bounty will end Tuesday 3 May 2022 at 12.30pm BST. Should nobody achieve it in this time, it will roll over to something else in future. From experience, 3'10- is a whole other level to 3'11 so this one has to be properly earned. I'm currently grinding for 3'10 or 3'09 but it won't invalidate the bounty if I get there.
$190 total, for the fastest three new runs, time limit until 1/1/2022 at 12.30pm GMT:
$100 for 1st, $60 for 2nd, $30 for third.
(Edited) This bounty excludes the current top 4* players on the Africa course since the other 2 are already at 3'12. JkL has an old PB well below 3'16 and is grinding the top prize. Any other player is eligible.
Rules:
Play using emulator at 60fps. Console runs a tad slower, so I want to somewhat even out the fairness, though I will still accept and encourage all new runs from consoles outside of bounty. Ideally use Bizhawk or RetroArch. Fusion goes nuts on SHOG, you would be seriously disadvantaging yourself with that. Please use a physical 3/6-button controller if you can. Feel free to stream your attempts, I would love to be around to watch and support you, our little game needs more love stream-wise.
!Other emulators may not be reliably accurate. Please research and ask if in doubt, because if an emulator is significantly slow your run may not count for the bounty.
You can use Rev00 or Rev01. Almost all top runs prefer Rev00 - it has more responsive steering, and an uncapped frame rate, leading to speedups/slowdowns in the course of play - this can be particularly helpful in trafficked sections. By contrast Rev01 has a smoother framerate, but the steering isn't tight so it's better suited for beginning runners.
Unsure which version you have? https://tcrf.net/Super_Hang-On_(Genesis) will explain more.
Use the standard bike, do not use any passwords, savestates, or time hacks. Do your runs on the default normal time and difficulty. All runs will be verified by me then cross-verified, and we have experience of rooting out cheats.
Good luck to all!
This post will be updated as time goes by to show the current standings of the leaderboard for this bounty.
As of 12/7/21 the new run bounty has one leader:
Gustavo_Kennedy 3'20"260
As of 23/8/28 the new run bounty has Gustavo_Kennedy in first place, and Shime in second at 3'21"960. Nobody has a third place run yet!
Congratulations to our four new runners on the boards! Although Gustavo_Kennedy came in fourth place due to the time limit, later in the day he achieved a new PB time of 3'19"46 putting him in the top 10 on the board!
In third place came CecilMonk, $30, a WR holder in Top Gear, who has recently
