Denver, CO, USAI don't think codes should be allowed.
"but Char, Win lose or draw allows codes" while this is true, these are different games mechanically. Part of this run is seed manipulation to get a known puzzle and even board if your timing is solid. WLD literally shows you the puzzle code that you're on in the options so I'm assuming the decision was "let people not have to reset forever until they randomly get the right code" since IIRC there is no way to manip it in that game. This game is different and has more moving parts.
I did some TAS work on the light side when I was strat hunting initially and never found anything fast enough to be competitive.
That said I am not infallible as a TAS author so I definitely encourage you to dig in and see what you can find!
I'll throw in my support for a longer category as well even if I don't run it it would be cool to see.
I'm always down to add categories if they make sense. This certainly makes sense. Will add it soon.
Looks good to me, nice work.
Freedom to explore the optimal options is never a bad thing.
I vote 2 since this might catch some popularity among the prolific points hunters
Added subcategories and organized the runs. I need to start charging for my services
In some instances I couldn't get the provided end location to show up at all like both Nobel prizes and Russian hadrians wall
I finished a run with the royal regatta and everything went according to plan. Then this happened -
A few resets later I got the Regatta, woman combo again. However this time India 1900 was simply the right path and not the ending location. Any idea why this would happen?
I agree with yels here. It initially didn't make sense to add millivanilli seconds but now that there is a tie there is certainly justification to add them.
Yels' suggestion for the start time works for me as well.
In my opinion this would facilitate needing a new SRC board specifically for the ABC & 123 cart as it is an officially licensed tandalone release separate from the individual games. Even though it looks like it's just cramming them both into one cart there are changes under the hood and though they might not be drastic changes, it creates a disparity between the games and the easiest solution is to make it a board.
Disclaimer: I have no emotional attachment to my very subpar Popeye runs, that's not what this is about.
I feel like the "overhaul/rules change" was handled poorly and sets a bad precedent overall. Changing rules and rejecting runs based on the new rules when the runs were accepted on the old rules does nothing but punish the runners, and in my instance, for runs that I did 2.5 years ago. That's not what we should be doing. It can frustrate the players and/or dissuade them from submitting runs at all. Why should I submit a run if rules can haphazardly be changed whenever and invalidate them? In an extreme scenario if every NES board did this my entire NES speedrun career would be gone because I used Mesen 0.9.8 (which doesn't even have the run ahead feature, 0.9.9 does and it's easy to detect anyway so blanket banning all versions is extreme) and various FCEUX versions.
Don't get me wrong, I understand that rule changes will happen from time to time. I just think this could have been handled better. I've seen plenty of boards with, right at the top: RULES UPDATE AS OF whatever date - The list of allowable emulators has changed. Please be sure your submissions adhere to the new standards. Runs submitted before date will remain as they were accepted based on the rules at the time.
@NESCardinality and I have been around a while so I'm curious about his thoughts regarding this as well.
