AntarcticaThis idea has been pitched before and I think one of the challenges with implementing it is that it won’t be accurate at all because people can choose whatever country they want. So it would really only be as accurate as users are honest, which kind of creates a feature that won’t be as useful or believable as it should be for a ranking system like that.
Are you asking how to display the timer and the game in a video? You’ll need to use software like OBS to build a scene that captures both for recording/streaming. There are tons of tutorials online that will do a better job explaining how to use OBS than I will.
If you’re asking about making the timer start and stop automatically, that’s called an autosplitter and those needed to be coded by individual communities so not every game has one. Those also tend to be for PC games, bit games running on an emulator so you’ll probably end up splitting manually for your game.
Maybe try another downloader and see if any of those work? I’ve never heard of those two you listed, I download all my videos with youtube-dl and I’ve never had a problem unless the video itself has a drop in it. I used to use Twitch Leecher which was also good, but I haven’t touched that in a while.
If nothing seems to work then I would guess twitch has something messed up on their end.
Uhhh you probably don’t lol. XP is probably way too old to run anything like OBS, and I can’t fathom a reason why you’d even be running XP in 2021. If it’s because a game is only available on XP, then you’re better off running it through a VM on a modern OS recording with modern software. You’d be hard pressed to find any modern applications that support XP.
[quote=Merl_]I have a life outside of this website.[/quote] So does just about everyone else here. This is irrelevant, it's a known variable that volunteer work like this requires time, and if you don't have the time to do it fully, there is no shame in not doing it. This is why site staff have continually stepped down - they lose the ability to dedicate enough time to the site and the requirements of their volunteer role. [quote=Merl_]I don't just sit at my pc all day long. I'm willing to verify runs, as I said, but each run can take a while to verify, so verifying a bunch of old, obsolete runs is annoying.[/quote] But you're not verifying obsolete runs, you're verifying runs that, at the time, were valid PBs. Just because they were beaten later on doesn't mean that they should be auto rejected. This build's off Liv's point - seeing progression is huge to people, it's why users like the WR graphs and want them to be improved. As a moderator, you shouldn't get to decided that by default, only a runner's best attempt is taken from all the other perfectly valid runs that were PBs at time of submission. [quote=Merl_]Many games ask that runners finish their attempt session before submitting runs.[/quote] I have literally never seen nor heard of this rule existing. I would love examples of this, because this seems like such an arbitrary, pointless rule. Who defines a "session"? Is it 1 day, 1 hour, 3 hours, 1 stream? What if it's all offline attempts? There is zero way to validate a "session" that a person did. [quote=Merl_]Finally, game has 6 mods. We don't need to add more.[/quote] Clearly you do need to add more if the current 6 mods can't be bothered to verify all legitimate runs.
And to @6oliath point, yes, there is a section of the Moderation Rules on the site that explicitly says not to do what you and the other mods are doing. [quote=Moderation Rules]Please do not reject runs just because they are obsoleted by a newer submission. They still go into the database to show history over time.[/quote] For your reference: https://www.speedrun.com/moderationrules
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Back to the topic at hand, I wouldn't even have separate categories for this game if I was setting up the LB, it doesn't make any sense if the runs are 99% identical. It would essentially be RNG-hell because you would need to get the random bad ending for the fastest Any% time, but having separate categories when you have no way of knowing what category you're even running until the very end just doesn't make sense to me (my 2 cents anyway).
I would recommend using broadcasting software like OBS instead if you wish to build a capture that has more than one source on it. My guess is that whatever built in screen recorder you're using is only picking up one source, rather than multiple (or maybe the game is covering LiveSplit). OBS is the defacto-standard for recording video when you want to build a layout that has a game and other sources as well.
[quote=Merl_]In a game I moderate, new runners will often submit several runs at the same time, which can be very annoying, especially if there are other runs in the queue. They'll do their first ever run, submit, and then do attempts, pb, submit, pb, submit, and repeat that several times over the course of an hour or so. Most of these runs I reject for being obsolete, because us mods have other things to do. I understand that some people care about progression though. If it does bother you and you really want the runs on your profile, just message the mod who rejected the run and ask for it to be verified.[/quote] I mean this with respect, but what "other" things does a mod of a game have to do than....moderate the game? If you're getting annoyed by submissions, then you probably shouldn't be moderating a game (or at least not moderating one short enough to see many completed runs in under an hour).
It's the literal job of a game mod to moderate the game and approve runs, so choosing to reject runs just because you don't have time - or even worse don't want to watch them all - seems like a good case for adding more mods to the game if it's that busy or find mods who have the time. What you're describing is no different than what a runner would do if they PB'd only once a day - do their first run, submit, PB, submit, PB, submit. Like that's exactly what a runner is supposed to do, what difference does it make if they get those 3 PBs in an hour vs. over the course of 3 days? If the game is short enough to PB that many times in an hour, then this volume of runs should be expected, and the moderation team should be ready to handle them. Putting the onus on the runner to say "please accept all my runs" is a terrible idea in my opinion because most runners expect all their runs to be accepted by default, they don't expect to need to ask to have that happen; they just assume "If I PB, then my run can be submitted and accepted".
Yeah that game seems really odd to truly provide a random outcome. I have even more questions on top of what Oreo said like: is one ending longer/shorter than the other? If one ending takes more time than the other, I can see why splits for that would be inconvenient, but idk how an LB would even handle that scenario then unless they have different categories and you don't know which category your run is appropriate for until the very end. If they are identical in length, then the splits don't matter, you still end up with the same end time regardless of what "ending" you got.
I'd be really curious to see the LB for this game, or just to know the game, because multiple, random endings is a really strange (but neat?) concept to me.
You would need to buy an internal capture card - one that connects to your motherboard via PCIe. Those types of cards tend to have very little to no input delay because the connection directly to your motherboard provides much faster data reads than USB (even 3.0). The downside is they are more expensive and you need to be able to open your PC to add it into an open mobo slot (which obviously isn't possible for someone using a laptop for example). Since you currently have an Elgato, here's an example product from them
https://www.elgato.com/en/gaming/game-capture-hd60-pro
But there are many other brands out there to shop around for. There's other brands like the VisionRGB-E1S - which takes a DVI input for RGB - from Datapath that some retro streamers swear by, but those are usually really pricey. There's a lot of research that has gone into optimizing video output from retro consoles and usually all of it involves RGB, upscalers and/or some capture card like that that can take in the analog signal for maximum quality. It also tends to be very expensive just because optimizing analog video to the best quality with the least amount of lag is just expensive due to the nature of the components required to do it correctly. It's really not required or worth it unless you are obsessed with that kind of stuff and love it beyond the hobby of speedrunning.
https://www.speedrun.com/Ethan70/allposts
Questionable website link (a UK Area Code lookup?). The post is coherent (albeit it a bad opinion lol), but the URL is strange.
That user was also banned from the site, so before you start doing things involving them or their runs you might want to talk to the site staff about that because it could be considered ban evading on their part which could result in consequences for you as well.
I was actually answering the question I assumed was being asked legitimately. For all we know the question was when a game counts as released so it can be requested on the site. The answer to that is exactly what I gave - when the full game is released. That’s because people try to request games when they are released in early access or beta, not when the full game is released (which is what they should be doing).
But yes, that second post is even more confusing and vague than the first so we’re going to need clarification on whatever you’re trying to ask.
Every game has its own rules regarding what is allowed it not allowed. Always check with the rules for the game and the community to find out what’s allowed and what’s the best strats are.
If you’re asking for an opinion, my opinion is that if the game offers a feature that makes it easier, then might as well enable it. It’s a built in feature after all.
Yes it has to be a speedrun. Don't just "try to complete the game" as mentioned above, that is not good advice. Site staff will reject requests that don't show an attempt of being an actual speedrun. They want to see effort and, preferably, some semblance of strats and routing. If you just submit a playthrough that completes the game that might get rejected if it doesn't show an attempt at being a speedrun vs. a normal playthrough.
Edit: the post I referenced above me was deleted.
[quote=The Game Request Rules]For your request, we require a video of a full-game run played by you. We strongly prefer such a run is not a segmented run, and may reject requests if they are segmented runs. If a game is heavily based on Individual Levels and does not really feature a full-game run, a playlist of an overwhelming majority of the IL's for the game is acceptable. Submissions which do not meet this criteria will be rejected without being considered.[/quote]
Like Liv said, you’re probably always gonna have some input lag with a USB capture card. My setup doesn’t have anything more than maybe some frames, at least nothing noticeable like a second or more. Most of that reduction in latency comes from the OSSC and RetroTink doing 0 lag upscaling. My capture card also doesn’t add a ton, just the few frames I mentioned above.
