Hi :)

First of all, I don't know if I'm in the right subforum to post this, but this one seemed the most appropriate.

I have a little question about the API : I'm trying to fetch the personal best for many players in a game which has sub-categories under the categories (for information the game in question is ALTTP, but it's the same issue for other games with sub-categories).

When I try to get the personal best from a given user, I can filter by categories, but as there are many sub-categories under one category, I still get several runs. That's why I would also like to filter by sub-category, thus by variable, in order to get only one run.

For instance, to get the world record for a category/sub-category couple, you have the option filter var-{variable_id} (as explained here : https://github.com/speedruncomorg/api/blob/master/version1/leaderboards.md ).

I wonder if there is a way to do the same via the users/{user_id}/personal-best URI, of if there is another way ?

Thanks for help !

You can make emulators appear on the leaderboards if you click Filter > Emulators > Shown. But as far as I remember there was a discussion on "do we not hide them anymore since there is Wii U VC which is faster ?", but I don't know the outcome of this conversation. Emulators are hidden by default because faster than most platforms.

I read all the posts above, and even if I'm not very active in the community, I wanted to share what I have to say, even if it doesn't seem "legit" ^^.

What happens here makes me think of a similar stuff which happened with ALTTP. Maybe some of you have heard about the YBA, or Yuzuhara's Bottle Adventure. It was a new glitch found in ALTTP which completely threw up the old classic "Any% No S+Q". Indeed, the glitch was not contradictory with the category rules, but it completely changed the route and the legendary WR at the time would be easily beaten.

There was a discussion around the glitch, a bit like this "Seashell duping" stuff, and after that, the community voted to create another category and to rename the existing one. This way, the famous "No Major Glitches" appeared from the classic "Any% No S+Q" and the new route was called "Any% No S+Q No OOB". People who liked the classic way of speedrunning the game could continue to speedrun the game the way they liked, and people who wanted to speedrun the game with this brand new glitch could too, with a leaderboards for each category.

My point is, why not doing the same thing for 100% ? You could rename the current hundo by, I don't know, "100% No Seashell Duping", and another one "100% with seashell duping", or any name you want (I'm bad for finding out names for categories :p). This way, people who want to speedrun the good old 100% category will be able to, and people who want to duplicate the seashell will be able to too.

Sorry if what I propose here is considered a stupid way of settling this, but still, it would be the better alternative for me, better than arguing whether or not to accept seashell duping, because you could keep both categories ^^.