Let's dig up a rather old topic and look at it in a different way: As documented by 2 threads in this forum, back in the day mugg was comparing Tycon's run to his own and came to the conclusion that Tycon's was recorded at a wrong framerate. I did some comparing on my own and came to the conclusion that it is mugg's run that is sped up. For the 3 segments that I compared so far, mugg's recording is running 0.8% too fast. I used the in-game timer as a marker, comparing the segments between the frame the timer switches to 399 and the timer switching to x for 1-1, 2-3 and 4-3, x being 361, 268 and 206 respectively. I compared the runs of callumbal, TheTycon, arkanias566, darbian and 3 of my own runs to that of mugg and arrived at the following results:
The empirical evidence clearly shows that mugg's run should be retimed as it doesn't seem to fit the speed of any other used platform (SGB2, GBP, BGB emulator). I believe this is a recording/encoding issue, rather than a platform issue so it should be safe to assume that the speed-up is consistent over the whole run. I will still compare more segments to make sure that this is the case. By dividing the correct consensus time for a segment by mugg's time for the same segment we get a coefficient. For the segments I timed so far, this coefficient would be ~1.008. With that we can recalculate mugg's time (12:45 x 1.008) and would arrive at a time of 12:51.7. I'd like to hear a few opinions on this matter. Cheers.
So I have been trying to get into this game but what does this mean? what emulator should I bee using?
This thread has nothing to do with emulation. Apparently, there was an encoding issue with mugg's run that resulted in an inaccurate run length. Accurate Gameboy emulators that are allowed for this game are BGB and Gambatte. Runs performed on inaccurate emulators (like VBA) will be rejected. There is no way to retime or adjust such runs because the inaccuracies usually also concern load times and lag emulation. If you stick to the 2 aforementioned emulators on their standard settings you're good to go.
