Are you asking for authors that are like Lovecraft? Lovecraft's my favorite and if you're looking for similar authors then his influences would include Robert W. Chambers, Lord Dunsany and Algernon Blackwood would be a good place to start. His writing style has been said by him to have been inspired by Joseph Addison and Jonathan Swift.

If these became available on emu I would run them. However if there is some reason that this isn't already allowed I'm sure it's valid.

The load times are different. The timing would be small but milliseconds would make the difference between runs since it's only one cup.

Sounds interesting. There's a lot of things that could be done for categories and I would probably run this.

If there were more races I'd attempt to participate.

It does reduce lag? Aw man... Well at least that one makes sense then. In that case, it must be fine to mute everything right?

I had a similar concern with the no music cheat. It apparently doesn't change lag or affect the gameplay at all but they still don't allow it. I don't really see a reason but it's up to them I guess.

If the game becomes big enough it should have a separate category.

I would run something easier. Like getting all Chao levels or something with karate or racing or a certain number of Chao. Also how fun a speedrun is to watch has nothing to do with whether it should be run or not.

Super Smash Bros. Melee has the all star modes of different difficulties as categories and they all keep time for you in game and there's no need for a split or any calculation.

I would do runs of getting from one side of a level to another with lucio. It would be an interesting category to have either each level from one side to the other or doing all of them back to back somehow. (Possibly in custom games?)

Wow, had no idea the runs were mostly emulated in the beginning. Could have fooled me with how people treat emulator players as casual.

I'm no authority but I believe the lag/loading time is different and there's not enough interest to include an emulation filter. Maybe someone has a more definitive answer.

You're dedicated. Lol. Nice.

In the rules it states that emulators are too fast so they're not shown. Does this mean that you do not accept emulated runs or just that the emulator runs are filtered?

I've created an excel sheet that calculates IGT automatically once you input the minutes/seconds/milliseconds into the correct fields. What it does is it converts each time entered to milliseconds, adds them together and then reconverts it back to a readable format (00:00:000). Here's a link to the doc with the excel sheet: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B7hVdimfhoQYenpJdHpkdFpxNE0

If anyone is wary about downloading from a source you can create the same sheet by using the following layout and formulas: On each row, the columns are the stages(A), hours(B), minutes(C), seconds(D), milliseconds(E), totals in ML(F), results(E), time of different stages in ML(H). Column F's formula is : =E2+(D2¤1000)+(C2¤60000)+(B2¤3600000) (Would be E3, E4 and so on for the next rows). Column G is: =H2-F2 (Would be H3 and so on down the rows). Column F Row 18 is adding all the milliseconds together and the formula is: =SUM(G2;G3;G4;G5;G6;G7;G8;G9;G10;G11;G12;G13). Column F Row 20 then converts the total milliseconds back to the standard format and has a formula of: =CONCATENATE(TEXT(INT(F18/1000)/86400;"hh:mm:ss");".";F18-(INT(F18/1000)¤1000)).

The sheet that is in the doc is for melee classic but can be changed to the other sorts of runs easily. If google docs is not acceptable for hosting this document I'd be fine with uploading it to a better place. Also if anyone notices any fringe cases where it somehow does not work let me know but I've done some testing and it seems to work fine.

Here are screenshots of the sheet with and without the formulas: This was meant to help but if this isn't alright to post on the forums please me know, thanks!

I concur. I'm also interested in running co-op on this game. It would be nice to have a separate category.

Ah, I see. That makes sense, thank you.

What would be involved in considering a co-op category? I'd be interesting in running it with my friends. Would a general co-op be enough to cover co-op with 2, 3 or 4 people? As far as I can tell there doesn't seem to be much of an advantage with playing with others. Just wondering, thanks.

So runs are still accepted with emulator? I'm just going to assume so unless told otherwise.