WalesI'll look into it more over the next week or so. I did this as a temporary thing, as we'll have to properly analyse and dissect it all. For what its worth at the time of my decision I had watched some of my old console runs and found that VI Refresh set at 4000 which is what Panini had his set to, would load faster than hardware would load.
Will update this post when I figure some things out in regards to potential standardization and the like.
I was watching Panini's stream and I noticed that his game was loading 7 seconds on Atomic - Pacifist, I thought something was off so I looked at one of my records, and noticed it loaded in 10.8 seconds or something.
At first we thought it was a plugin issue, then we discovered that it was a VI Refresh rate issue.
VI Refresh rate doesn't exist on PJ64 1.6, but it does appear on PJ64 2.3 and later. As a community we need to discuss what to actually do with it. As of writing we are discussing it in the discord.
Edit: Instead of banning PJ64 2.3 and later, along with whatever other emulators have the ability to change VI Refresh. Thinking of just straight up banning the alterations of VI Refresh Rate, since it heavily effects load times. and we should be able to know when its been altered, especially since we could just compare runs.
Finally.... Where do I even begin?? As originally suggested by InfiniteVoid316. (https://www.speedrun.com/extreme-g-2/thread/hln8u - this is the original instance of a category split request so to speak) we now finally have a leaderboard split for "Standard" and "Pacifist" runs, no idea on when the "PC" and "N64" leaderboard split will happen, could be next month, could be never? I don't know.
If you notice any of your runs missing from the leaderboards, please let me know and I'll re-verify them as soon as I can, but most if not all series runs should be correctly placed on the new boards.
Updated the category rules a little too, so it now specifies between Standard and Pacifist
My first run... An ancient run from 2018, at the time it was 7th place which was last. I removed it sometime last year since I didn't feel it meet with my standards. Since this run, I've broken numerous WRs in all 4 Extreme-G games, and even claimed a Tied World Record on Perfect Dark's "The Duel" stage on the Agent difficulty, which the maxed time is 3 seconds.
I've come a long way over the last couple of years... Here's to the (hopefully!) many more years of speedrunning to come!
Hey! I'm glad you considered Extreme-G, since we allow both Emulator and Console runs you can use whichever you please.
We time the Series Runs in Real Time, while the in-game timer is accurate, it doesn't account for time between levels and menuing speed. There are ways we can tell if someone isn't being genuine with their runs and submitting times.
We use the in-game timer for level runs, FLAP/Track Time. Which is pretty self explanatory.
If you have any further questions about the game you should join the discord, We would be happy to answer any questions you may have. I hope this kinda helps!
New categories are up, Pacifist falls under misc as of right now unless demand calls for it to become a non-misc, Duel will be updated with all times from the 100% runs that have been submitted, when I have some more free time.
I will be testing things for the idea of PC version, as the XG discord is still a bit unsure of what to do with it. Possibly will split the categories as N64/Emu and PC
Been discussing with the Extreme-G Discord about a potential "Pacifist" category for a while now, problem is it'd get lost in conversations and we'd all just forget about it.
Now with that being said I will be adding it very shortly, the rules will be fairly strict but fair. While I am at it, I will be adding a "Duel" category since it hasn't been added yet and its only fair to add Duel since it is a single player mode within the game, and we run it in 100% so I don't really see an issue with adding it and submitting/verifying any runs that have been done within the 100% category.
All ILs have been updated to use In-Game Time, so every single time that has been submitted has been updated to the new format, this is to make XG2 ILs fall more in line with the rest of the Extreme-G games. InfiniteVoid suggested this a while back in one of his time submissions, but since there was only one XG2 mod there wasn't much that could be done.
From what I've tested... it seems GolgAhri uses Counter Factor set to 1, which makes the game virtually lagless. 1.6 is best as I've used different versions of PJ64 and anything above 1.6 doesn't yield the same results, as console loads by 9 sec and CF 1 PJ64 1.6 loads by 10 sec. It might be to the point where I'll have to start actually using emulator properly to keep up.
I second this, I think that it should be possible for people to submit times for both versions of the game giving people that don't own the n64 copy the ability to submit times.
Sorry for being late responding to this, I wouldn't see why it would be a problem. It IS a speedrun, I thought of something like this before but dismissed it as I wasn't quite sure if it'd work. I'll have to see what I can come up with.
Been so busy that I've not had the time to post this.
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