New York, USATo quote a post from BenInSweden in the Classic Sonic Speedrun discord: As always, the video I use for why we disallow bizhawk: this uses some of the same "proofs" that other communities have to prove-not-a-TAS. But has some Lua scripting running in Bizhawk that would be very hard to prove against (without modifying BH), that does a few extreme things with the run.
The reason it is not allowed is not due to an accuracy issue, it is due to its TASing capabilities.
The mod team is aware and are working thru submissions to check for errors. The issue stems from the fact that you can only enter the time in ms instead of cs in the form, so people for example will see 16 on their screen, with SRC reads as 016 instead of 160. Mods are supposed to catch that and correct, but we sometimes overlook it by accident, as it's easy to do.
I assume he is pointing that out so they can change the Social Media SRL link to redirect to the correct URL, as the old format will no longer work properly.
Not sure if it's been mentioned, but I'm staring at a run on the Kirby's Dream Land boards that shows as being run "tomorrow" under Recent Runs instead of today.
Rules have been added for use of the decomp version. For the most part, this mirrors the rules for S1/2 2013, with the addition of a few rules regarding the restart function. These rules were added to avoid giving an unfair advantage in situations where restarting would provide a faster time than exiting a stage, while still allowing it in situations where it provides no difference than exiting to the main menu. These rules can be found on the SRC page under Game Rules, but I will copy below. Please note that if any further situations are found where it would provide an unfair advantage, we will take a look and potentially add more changes.
Decompilation Rules: All runs must be completed on version v1.1.2. The version must be shown on screen either before, during, or immediately after all runs (full-game or IL) The Refresh rate must be set to 60fps. The Screen Width must be set to either 320 (4:3) or 426 (16:9). Any use of the Dev Menu during runs (with the exception of using the F2 and F3 keys for ILs) will void the run. Use of the Restart function is banned under the following circumstances: -All Times Stones category -Using the function while in a time period different than the present in Zones 1 and 2 (allowed in Zone 3) -In All Good Futures AFTER the generator has been destroyed
Hi, below is a message posted in the discord server 2 months ago regarding this. Since then, there's been a lot going on unrelated to this, taking up much of our time, so it's been on the back burner. I've gone ahead and started downloading the required stuff today so I can check this out to give feedback to the mod team. I don't have a timeframe, though I'd like us to come to a final decision sooner rather than later so people aren't waiting around to hear. So far it's been a bit of a pain for me tonight, but I'll keep trying to get it figured out, and it not tonight I should have more time this weekend to hopefully play around.
Hi all, a message from your mod team here.
Recently, we've taken note that some people have begun doing runs on the decomp version of CD. Previously, specific rules were set up for Sonic 1 2013 and Sonic 2 2013 regarding this, however as nobody had expressed interest in using the CD decomp, rules were never brought up by the CD mods. We've begun talking to look into this, however since it does take some time (we all have other things going on), we're recommending pausing using the decomp version for speedrun.com submissions until we've had a chance to do our due diligence and come up with proper rules regarding this version.
Any questions, feel free to reach out to the mod team(Madtaz, flying fox, Zaxon, Finalflame).
Thanks
"5 years is a long time"
These runs were submitted to this website much more recently than 5 years ago. While he initially stole the runs that long ago, he still claimed they were his own as recently as 2019. He had plenty of time to rethink this and pull, or even NOT submit them. He did neither of those.
Probably a simple oversight. I've gone ahead and added it.
Liv, may I present to you, the beginnings of the Sonic the Hedgehog series. Two Sonic 1's in 1991, two Sonic 2's in 1992, all different games. When you figure out why they thought that was a good idea, please let me know.
I certainly like the new theme, however, I am disappointed with the decision to remove the ability to add custom themes to game. I do hope at some point you'll reconsider that as an option that can just be turned off on a per-user basis (unsure if you could do that previously), as some communities put a lot of work and time into making them look good.
Hello. I'd like to request mod for Sonic Eraser https://www.speedrun.com/Sonic_Eraser . Recently myself and a few other people routed the game and have begun doing runs of it (mine is now pending). The current mod that requested the board over 2 months ago has not logged on since or posted any runs of his own. He does not have a twitter that I can contact him on and has not posted any related content on his youtube (I check for anything Eraser related).
Turns out my knowledge on mobile devices is non-existent. After review, Android has been added, and the rules have been amended to clarify how it is to be timed (same as iOS, as the milliseconds bug present in numerous versions was fixed in these), which includes adding up the milliseconds at the end of each level.
Sorry for the confusion.
It is already added as "iOS". Any runs done on Android are submitted under that tag.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, in part because I don't remember WHERE I said it. Sonic 3 Complete would be it's own game under the Sonic Fan Games section of the site. There is nothing stopping anyone from doing that.
That is correct. I believe it's been stated (either on one of the SRC forums or on the discord) that this will not be changing.
The rule was changed some months back so that the entire window did NOT need to be captured anymore. As long as the hard reset is shown then it should be fine, since most of the emulators (or is it all of them?) will have text at the start so the mdos can know what emulator is being used.
You can always submit a "glitchless" time to the main leaderboard. Not everyone on there does the same set of glitches, and some people do race without using them intentionally at all. There is no reason not to submit those times to the board.
