Isle of Man@Liv Boy rejected, rules updated, and dag nabbit... I mean I'll hold on to the mod title without going rogue about it, doing what I can, but stay tuned for more cases like these in the future - im sure >_>
So some weeks ago, I reached out due to lack of activity from previous mod on https://www.speedrun.com/The_Mask - your response was to make me one, which I advised against due to lack of knowledge when it comes to the job of it. Well we got a submission in - only problem is that this was played on some emulator with "RetroAchievements", this is a new thing for me and I dont know about accuracy. Its not a competitive time so its not a big deal, but I have no idea what to make out of it.
I'd still hope that you'd assign someone with more experience than I when it comes to moderation to help out in these matters. Rantron still isn't reliable since he can go off grid for weeks, and he moderates like 500 games...
Edit: The run itself is legit from what I can tell, I've just never experienced this platform before and have no idea what software was used and if its been looked into
We had issues defining this during the week of learning the game for RGR, and the purple bubble were too hard in practice to accurately get a timing for to begin with. I ended up going by Joka's example, hitting with a -0.85 on what seems to be the most consistent way of timing the game from an RTA standpoint. If that needs to be added with 0.03 though, that'd be new for me. But I find using that spot as a starting point is the easiest.
I'm just coming off from running silius and metal storm with deathwarps - now gradius get them too :D
If mods would add it under level leaderboards inside this already existing game board, I dont see why not. I enjoyed going through these myself, like you said - the in-game boards are typically always hacked from day 1.
@Bokoblins I'm scared :'( I have no experience in regards of frame counting and whatnot, I would not advice this to be a permanent solution as I dont really see myself as qualified honestly. I did update the current WR since it was beat by the same guy whom previously held it - should be a legit run but I would be unable to tell.
I do need to test out the game a bit more to determine when character control is lost for timer to stop for defining rules, but at some point - even the current WR should be re-timed as such. He seemingly starts timer upon character control, but timer should be including stage select as you have control during that portion already.
Cant get ahold of Rantron for The Mask. SRC inactivity for 18 days, no responses on twitch or discord. I know the guy moderates a ton of games and I would rather see someone else take his place to lighten the burden if possible (i dont have myself in mind for this though). There's an improved WR time by the current WR holder that was set years ago and should be added, likewise I've wanted to discuss defining rules for the game. I know its adviced to also create a forum thread on the game page itself before resorting to this page, but near 3w inactivity and no responses on discord/twitch will hopefully be enough to have someone look into this.
https://www.speedrun.com/The_Mask
Improved WR:
Ya im having the same issue (using google chrome). The play console disappears for twitch vods when I try to view runs. If I manually go into runners profile and open their twitch account, looking up the video myself - it works perfectly.
Can't watch it from SRC somehow though.
I mean its pretty common sense. Imagine emulating an actual NES controller. Dont use turbo buttons and dont bind keys so 1 key = A+B+up+Select or anything an actual NES controller can't do in real life
Got notifications back, but im still getting white pages quite frequently.
I can confirm, not getting any notifications since 2-3 days back from any game I'm following. Likewise, sometimes when I visit a games page, the background is missing and is completely white instead. Using Chrome as a browser. I know @Sathdresh and @strizer86 have had issues as well.
Shouldn't matter since he framecounts it
Their solution would be to create 3 new game boards? If people are so against having All-Star runs under All-Stars, Id rather keep it as it is rather than creating 3 new game pages in need for moderation. I may have misunderstood what they meant there, but I'd have to put my foot down for that personally.
I will say 1 thing about SMB1 boards though, all-stars is put under misc. Maybe that could be an option, and take out the ACTUAL smb2 nes categories under a new tab?
The leaderboard could use some work for sure, I think "Any% 1 character" with sub categories would be better than what we have today. I also personally would rather have all-star categories on the all-star board, its a bit annoying to get notifications for times I dont care about when im here for the NES game only..
But I leave that to the mods
Should be worth mentioning for future reference - THIS IS NOT the GoW Speedruns Discord
This is where the magic happens - Join the HYPE!
(sticky and lock please)
I disagree with the idea of VC by default being split into emu, thats not what this topic is about skavenger. Thats prob how you can classify the idea of VirtualConsole per se, but in practice for speedrunning - the difference is severe.
I wanna hear other peoples thoughts on the matter though, as we've already had our discussion :P
