@WhatsFrog The description of the game clarifies that it is a jam game. It doesn't help that the creator hasn't updated the game since.

It's kind of a vague reasoning since it might be difficult to find criteria that work for all games. I think it's more of the little things; no acceleration in movements, for one, is immediately suspect.

@Ivory don't forget you have to read through those Khan Academy videos as well follow good ol' Sal's voice

Not to clamp down too much on your fun, but three separate posts on the topic is getting excessive.

By the way, the last time this concept was brought up, it was rejected; site staff felt that following users on other platforms would be sufficient. I don't expect that answer has changed.

Filters are already built into the site. Filter -> Videos -> [setting] on your leaderboard of choice.

@Endstarky Not on this site, as others here have already said.

An indirect method could be subscribing to said runner's YouTube account and enabling notifications.

Worst comes to worst, you may want to consider running your (presumably Flash) game through other means, like Flashpoint.

The time would depend on the skill of the runner and the accuracy of the emulator. If both were good enough, it could be less than five minutes. Just being on a calculator doesn't make much difference by itself.

Given that issues with IL implementation have been around for years, 40 days is a short time frame to expect the devs to change this and anything ahead of this in their backlog, no?

You should look into the existing emulators, because many accurate emulators for older consoles (third and fourth generation) exist. Take a look at BizHawk, for instance, which compiles a bunch of emulators for tasvideos.org. Newer consoles don't have this because modern hardware is not powerful enough to accurately emulate the hardware directly (to oversimplify). If you are serious and committed about helping, consider joining one of the teams working on newer emulators. I wouldn't recommend toiling for years by yourself. Alternatively, you could just try to convince leaderboard moderators to allow emulation (in separate categories where platforms aren't accurately emulated yet).

There's no one way to represent this; ideally there might be a Flash platform but we don't have one. You could use Web (Emu), just Web (in place of the word Flash), or PC (if you were playing on a PC). I personally use the last method on the games I moderate—though I don't currently mark things with emulator, I would mark emulated flash (i.e. using Ruffle, not the official flash players) as emulated.

This seems unintended, I would ask a moderator for the leaderboard to make sure HDD is not set as a default variable.

Which is why I prefer runs hosted on YouTube. Worst comes to worst, the retimer can screenrecord the entire run into a new video and retime that.

@Garsh I can only guess that the site recognizes that 74 seconds is 1 minute and 14 seconds, so it's changing the seconds value but not the minutes value, which would be unintended. Are you typing 74 into the seconds box, or 1 into the minutes box and 14 into the seconds box?

I'd also recommend halfcoordinated, who for similar reasons speedruns with only one hand. Look into controller rebindings for single-hand play.

Score points have also lost relevancy in a lot of modern games and genres. Playing games quickly (and improving your skills to be able to move quickly) is not only more natural than an arbitrary points system, but timeless.

You'll want to request the game if you want your run to be on the site. Make sure to read the rules.

Even so, that game (and its developer, jmtb02) are some of the most popular on Flash, and the developer's works are more polished than many other webgames. It's not directly comparable to the game on this thread.

Regardless, @PASRC is correct: the rules do not apply retroactively.

Might as well add that the restriction refers to the length of an average playthrough, not a speedrun. SMB does not take 5 minutes to complete for someone new to it.