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If you want to submit RTA with your emulator speedrun, here are the requirements:
Use Bizhawk with mGBA core and proper firmware. Find Bizhawk here. We cannot link to the firmware, but a quick Google search is usually enough.
No emulator-specific functions used: No fast forward, slowdown, savestates etc.**
Full video of the run.
Before the run or at the end of the run, you need to show the following settings in your submission video:
- mGBA core (either in status bar or settings; example 1, example 2) (If you are playing on Bizhawk version 2.5 or newer, you can skip step 1.)
- Proper firmware (example; make sure the hash matches this one)
- Bizhawk version. Avoid using 2.4 or 2.3.3. Use the newest version if possible. (Help -> About)
- **Soft or hard reset visible at the beginning of the video. See this topic for details.
If showing these settings at the end of a run, please wait until "see you next mission" is on screen at the end.
Setting up Bizhawk, courtesy of Dragonfangs
Tutorial for showing settings, courtesy of Destructor
(Longer and more detailed version, if you want to be on the safe side or need some help with screen capture in OBS: Link)
If you have questions, feel free to jump into our Discord server and ask: Link
If you do not follow these rules, you cannot submit emulator RTA, but you can still submit IGT, assuming your run is single segment.
Currently, emulator RTA is not allowed on the leaderboards (EDIT: It's allowed now, check the other sticky post for details). This is because emulators historically have had inaccurate RTA compared to console, often being faster. Since Zero Mission primarily goes by RTA now for a bunch of reasons, this means the leaderboard currently is a bit of a mess, unfortunately.
Using bizhawk and particular settings have shown very promising results, however, and so we hope that it is accurate enough that we can allow it for the leaderboards sometime in the future. In this thread, I hope to collect data that will help us determine whether or not the data for this particular emulator with the correct settings is accurate enough to allow on the leaderboards. I also want console data though, so even if you play on console, feel free to contribute.
HOW TO HELP If you want to help, make a single post in this thread that you edit with runs. ALL OFF-TOPIC POSTS WILL BE DELETED.
Specify at the top of the post whether you're playing on console or bizhawk.
Make a separate subheader for every category. If you're running a different route than the top runs, please don't submit. 100% is a little complicated, but either of the current best RTA routes will do (early/late brinstar, early ice).
Then simply post times under the right category. It doesn't have to be PB runs, it can be any old run, but we're mostly interested in somewhat competitive times - keep this in mind. Post in the following order (simply list them off):
RTA - IGT - version (EU/NA/JP) - bizhawk version Notes: Notes should be whether or not there might be any discrepancy between your RTA and IGT. IGT doesn't run during text, door transitions, etc, so that's why we're mainly interested in runs using the "correct" routes. If you do things very differently from the top run(s), don't post. If you simply have a few extra doors, forgot to skip a cutscene, etc, make a note here.
Well known RTA/IGT discrepancies you should note: Early farm or not in Tourian any% brinstar super or no in any% Late/Early Brinstar in 100% Sam strat Extra doors of any kind Any pauses (If you fail glass tube in 100%, consider not submitting it, since that's a hot mess. Same goes with anything else that involves shorter transitions.) Try to be as descriptive as you can, in any case.
I'll make a sample post to show how it's done.
The project might lead to nothing, but ideally it will serve as a good base for allowing emulator RTA.
If you do not know how to setup bizhawk, please refer to this video by Dragonfangs - ALWAYS TRY TO GET THE LATEST RELEASE.
If you have any questions regarding this, please make a separate topic. Feel free to claim a post now that you edit in the future. If you don't contribute any data, post will be deleted.
