Hello everyone! I am proposing a rule change related to when the timer is stopped for any% and Beautiful Wife runs.

With most other games, the timer is stopped on the frame that you have completed the run, but with these two categories, it is stopped after watching a cutscene which does not require any user input to complete. If the cutscene is skipped, then extra time would have to be added artificially.

I am proposing that the timer be stopped as soon as the final cutscene starts. The times of all existing runs in these categories would be updated (about 17 seconds faster for any% and about 25 seconds faster for Beautiful Wife). This will also solve the issue of accidentally skipping the cutscene.

Let me know what you think, or if you have any suggestions for rule changes or clarification.

Hello there! I believe indeed that this change would bring those categories to be more in line with other games.

Taking for example one of the games I run, Spider-Man 2000, it has exactly the same situation: at the end of the last level, immediately after finishing you get a cutscene that requires no inputs to complete (but you could also skip it manually), and in that case we stop the timer at exactly the moment the cutscene begins. As you mentioned, this avoids potential headaches when accidentally skipping the cutscene and I personally think it better represents when the user input really ends.

tl;dr I vote yarr!

Sure, lets do it. Although i don't believe its a good idea to add time if someone skips the cutscene, i think its a run invalidation. But with this change, it doesn't have to be.

I agree with this change as well, I think ending it on losing control of the character makes sense

Okay, I've changed the rules for both those categories and corrected the times for every run. I based the new time off of the first frame in the video where the cutscene was shown. Let me know if I got any of the times wrong and I can take another look.

I've also cleaned up and clarified the rules for all other categories. Any rules that apply for every category are in "Game Rules".