Richmond, VA, USAI agree 100% Andypanther. If a MML member doesn't join here because they have their own board that 1 less user here. Then if I go from SRC to PBtracker so I'll have one spot to put ALL of my personal bests that's another user lost. From a business perspective your'e gaining users by allowing us to post our PB's here, and losing none since the MML members aren't going to benefit SRC either way.
What I would do is ask the same question multiple times across multiple boards -_-
@kirkq First off, thank you for responding and giving input to this discussion! I know admin work is tiring and time consuming. I completely understand what you mean, and agree to an extent about copying existing runs from other boards to fill a Speedrun.com (from here on referred to as SRC) leaderboard is pretty lame.
However, (to piggyback a little off what I think Cyberdemon was alluding to) I think it's pretty safe to assume that almost (if not every) person who has responded in this thread is a "member" of the Mega Man community, or at least has some level of interest in running the games. With that said, it's hard to suggest that the MM leaderboards represent the community as a whole, and not just a section of the community that chooses on their own accord to not participate here. To me, it seems in poor taste to punish willing individuals here because of what a separate entity (MML) wants to do. I'm curious to know, as I can only speak for myself, but the biggest qualm I have going on here, is I just want a 1 stop shop to post all of my runs in one place. I have a feeling that a lot of the other concerned parties here are after the same thing.
While I would love for everyone to get along here and be a happy family with a 100% up to date accurate SRC board, my greater concern is just simply having a single link to direct my viewers to to see my PB's vs. "well for all of the games I run click ¤here¤. . . . . except for my MM2 and MMX time, for those click ¤here¤. . . . . oh and my DKC run ¤here¤." I would much rather give 100% of my business to one place for convenience over 100% accuracy. The people of MML don't have to like, or accept our board, and that's perfectly ok because we will have our own community to moderate here.
As a member with runs submitted at MML, I can understand their logic of wanting the BEST leaderboards for Mega Man out there, but IMO it's foolish and greedy to expect it to be the ONLY leaderboard out there. However the world doesn't revolve around me, so I would like to know what the rest of SRC community thinks regarding this. How do you all feel about this?
(to reiterate, I'm 100% willing to moderate an SRC Mega Man 2 board if needed)
NOTE: "A couple of these cases have goes something like this: Speedrun.com user who runs the game wants a board and requests it. Community complains that guy outside of community is moderating the board. Community offers to moderate board; community is given moderation of board. Months pass, community decides they don't want the board. Community deletes all the existing runs and links to their board. We could just delete the games instead of leaving the shell board, but that puts us again back at square one. "
Maybe it's in poor taste, but in that circumstance in the future, I would just say "no, sorry, we are content with the way the SRC board is currently operating." Unless our mods are truly not up to par.
Legend of the Mystical Ninja, the game is very fun! http://www.speedrun.com/Legend_of_the_Mystical_Ninja#Any_2_players1
While I do agree that we should have the WR documented, the point of this community (I think) is to accurately keep track of the times recorded by the community.
Notice in each leaderboard the top spot doesn't say "world record!" (forgive me if I'm mistaken) it says "1st" which accurately portrays that this is the 1st place time submitted and approved by our community. In any case, since the admins aren't contacting us here giving their 2 cents, do you all think it would be a good idea to submit a formal request for Mega Man 2 to be added as a board if I'm willing to moderate? Or should we get a little more organized and ask as a group? Or I guess what is the end goal of this discussion other than reiterating the same points ad nauseum?
Gamecube compatibility through virtual console would be fantastic. Online matchmaking would make it even better. I can just smell the Smash Melee tourneys from here.
@Kobe good call, 2,4 and 5 are missing from the classic series.
@i_o_l I agree with you on the just wanting a place to put all of my PB's for consistency sake.
Well, just for organizations sake, we should try to get a list together of who would be willing to moderate said boards. The more organized we are, the less work admins have to do, and the less reasons they would have to deny the boards.
I'd be willing to help out with Mega Man 1-2 and potentially 3-6 if needed.
Has any Admin said anything about this recently? lol I feel like this is the most active thread on the entire forum, and the people that can actually take action are keeping distance while we make the same points circularly.
Welcome to the community @quacker663! Good luck on your runs
I second the Mega Man recommendation, can be glitch heavy as you want and they can be around 30 mins for a full run.
Mine must be pretty bad Kappa
I remember that show! I loved the little innuendos that they slid in throughout.
Konasumi's is OP for it's simplicity and effectivness.
Do mine, do mine Kappa!!! EDIT: wow it looses a lot of clarity since it's shrunken down! I'll try to get a better picture. EDIT 2: much better, the stress post PB'ing is real.
I'm with Kobe, I enjoy seeing others PB because I never feel accomplished about mine. I remember Carnage64 PB'ing Final Fantasy 7 after sticking around for the entire 7-hour plus run, that was a good time.
(forgive me if this already happened, because I didn't read back through everything) How do we go about reaching a next "step"? Can we just set up boards here? Is there an admin. to contact to start setting them up? Do we have people here willing to moderate? To be direct, nothing is stopping us from creating a board and submitting our times here other than the lack of the board existing and people willing to moderate them. If the "outside community board" dislikes it, they don't have to participate.
http://www.speedrun.com/Brave_Fencer_Musashi
It's a fun game, but underplayed.
Wow, y'all are crazy, longest run I've done is Mega Man 2 at about 40 minutes Kappa. I'm learning Mystic Quest which will be a couple hours per run.
With the laptop you could always use an emulator, most have built in recording options.
