Yes. Exciting news for a lot of people. You no longer have to calculate IGT for your runs, but you are certainly welcome to if you wish.
This switch back to RTA timing is accompanied by a new leaderboard layout, in which you must submit under the console that your run was played with. Be sure to submit to the correct console, or else your run will be rejected and will need to be resubmitted. Also, Emulator gets its own category, so keep that in mind when submitting.
Sorry for all the confusion over the past few months, but these changes will likely be here to stay.
About to start recording some runs of this game and submitting them soon so just a quick question. Is Nintendont on the Wii console considered emulation? I USB load the game because my physical copy of Sonic Gems Collection no longer works from all the scratches so I'm not sure whether that would be considered Gamecube console or emulation.
Dolphin 5.0 just came out, and the load times in Sonic R appear to be identical to the console versions now. I haven't noticed any other differences yet. Were the loading times the only reason the GameCube and Emulator categories were split? If so,l I think any runs done on 5.0 should be submitted under the GameCube category now, unless there are any other minor differences I'm not aware of.
The initial reason for separating the boards was because of the PC version having virtually no load times. As it is an official version of the game, we could not flat out ban it. We separated emulator into it's own category as a result of splitting everything else up mainly because it was unnecessary at that point to scrap all of the current emulator runs, as they were only being compared to other emulator runs.
Emulators run differently depending on hardware, computer capabilities, etc. Gamecube emulation is also very unstable/inaccurate. Technically, and in most cases, they would be banned from leaderboards like this, and the only way they will remain is if they are in their own category. Not to mention, if the game emulates slower (even if it is more accurate to the original game) with newer versions, most (not all) people will submit runs on more obsolete emulators to save time.
Short answer: It has to remain in it's own category.
Fair enough, I understand. It would take too much time/effort/difficulty to make everyone note down what emulator they're using, settings, etc. so I guess it's easier to just leave emulator as its own category.
If I understood correctly, when emulating it with Gamecube of my computer I would have to send it to the Emulator category and not Gamecube, for that I would have to have a Gamecube, is that correct?
