Mario Runs Suggestion (Intro Sequence)
2 years ago
Germany

I dont know if somebody already came up with this but I have a Suggestion. How about running the Mario Categories without the Intro Sequence but the timer starting at a time where you starting Gateway 1 at the same time as if you would run with the Intro?

To set up the timer I compared the length of the blackscreen in a normal run and if you click on 'Play this File' after you saved and ended at Gateway 1 in the pause screen. I dont know the exact seconds but the blackscreen in a normal run is a little bit longer (about 7s) than after saving and ending in Gateway 1 (about 6s), which is the reason why I set the timer accordingly.

I also looked on the best possible time you can have a the start of Gateway 1, which is, as far as I know, 4:57m. And if you subtract the length of the blackscreen (about 6s) of this, you come to the specific start time of 4:51m.

And this variation would also facilitate the grinding of the Categories, because you do not have to watch the Intro Sequence over and over again, which would cost way less time.

The only thing to remember is: To use it after a failed run again, you have to go back to the title screen through the "Home"-Button.

For illustration purposes here a video of using this variation:

United Kingdom

How do starbits work there? I would assume if this idea was used there would have to be rules about how many starbits there were in the save file.

Yeah, I can see this working, provided that the mods agree that this would be fair (for different languages etc) and have decided exactly what to start the timer on.

Germany

Well, I looked it up again and if you set up this variation, that is when you save and end in the pause screen in Gateway 1, none of the collected stabits will be saved too. On the file you use stands '0' Starbits, which means that you have to start a run without starbits. I guess therefore there do not have to be rules for starbits, a run works as well without these bits from the intro.

Los Angeles, CA, USA

I'd be down for this. This makes running this catagory far more enjoyable. The times may have to be verified by moderators, but yeah I don't see how this could be an issue other than the parts where you have to LJ, but that's pretty much an autoscroller anyways.

United Kingdom

Quick update (this idea was discussed in the discord yesterday afternoon):

A few people like this idea, so they are going to do runs of it and submit it as a category extension.

The mods have agreed that if this becomes competetive as a run on the CE boards, they will hold a vote to have it added to the main boards.

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Germany

I dont want to bother anyone or badmouth the work of the mods, because I have no idea how much work the mods have, but according to the post by @mrmonkey049 there should be a category extension with a few runs on the CE leaderboards.

Now, after one and a half weeks and after none of this has been implemented, I wanted to ask again: what is the status of this right now? Was there no time for this before or is there any problem or something else?

Canada

I am a Moderator of the Category Extensions and here is the status on the category being added: We only add categories if there is runs by 3 separate people and currently we have 2/3 runs. After 1 more run of the category is done with video proof and a request is made here https://www.speedrun.com/smgce/thread/yg33h the category will be added.

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