So, today I retimed the top 6 0 Star runs, reasons for that were that more accuracy seems to be needed. Along with this there was a minor timing rule change, the official timing does not start directly on the reset anymore but on the first frame of the actual title screen appearing, this is because runs can be retimed more easily and clearly then and there is actually a small disadvantage for a few runners if it starts earlier since I have been noticing that for some runners the title screen appears after for example 0.9 seconds while it only is 0.6 seconds for other runners, this difference seems to be ridicolously unimportant but it is still an unfair disadvantage this timing change gets rid of,

Furthermore there will be a retiming of the entire 20 Star leaderboard. The timing there will not be on file select anymore, it will be from title screen, a run that starts on file select will most likely get 7 seconds added to the final time.

Other retimings for rest of the 0 Star leaderboard and the 80 and 130 Star leaderboards will happen soon.

it seems like thatd be a little difficult to time it on the first frame. That sounds like thered be an even bigger difference in timing. why dont you just time on file select?

A visible clue for starting the timing, such as the first frame for the title screen, should help a lot with timing a run accurately. Of course this might be a little inconvenient for RTA, and for me it's totally understandable if players want to keep starting their timer from restart. This change is just to make retiming easier, while not affecting the runs themselves at all. Also, we want to have the times on the leaderboard look similar to what they were. Changing to file select would change that by many seconds instead of under one second like with the 1st frame title screen timing. Traditionally, all the start menus have been a part of the speedruns (vanilla sm64 for example).

Starting the timing from file select like in 20 star is probably related to how the category used to only be a race category, where it would make sense to start the timer from selecting a file instead of a reset since slow resets can occur.