One week is WAY too short for contests. I love the contests, but it's basically impossible. Sure, someone could get lucky and discover new strats or skips, but it's unlikely in a week. Most people aren't even on here everyday, they will see the contest around day 4/5 or later. This is why I will only do contests if the game is like $5 or free. I'm doing the Peggle Nights contest and it's really fun. It's already over though and I just started memorizing moves to the point where id have a half way decent decent run. If the contest was at LEAST two weeks or longer, I'd probably actually have a chance. A week is NOT long enough to learn an entire games mechanics enough to beat a seasoned player in real time. All the current winners have previous runs. Yes, this makes sense because they have more skills, in game time etc. but it's also because the contest is only a week.
Call me a sore loser if you want, but I am enjoying Peggle Nights and obviously like contests in general.
Nice!
I actually tried to beat this recently and was on really good pace and then at the end there were 3 items left ... I just ended up with horrible RNG and ran out of time.
Alright I'm going to leave everything the same for now and if we get a few more players I'll separate the skips from the no skip runs. Enjoy the weekend everyone. Seacrest OUT!
There are a few active players recently so I want to really fix everything on this moderation page and also pin down the rules in a concrete way. Please leave feedback and requests in the comments. Now would be a good time to apply for mod if you want, although I am fairly active so it's not really needed right now.
RULES:
Time trials need to be "default". [I don't really see myself changing this rule it's very fair].
Time trials use the in game timer.
Full game runs need to use livesplit [or alternative tool that accurately measures milliseconds].
Full game runs begin when clicking "ok" on the cup select menu and end when crossing the finish line on the last course.
Skips ARE allowed on ALL RUNS. [Should "skips" be a separate category? I don't think so, but it is on vanilla SM64]
ALL emulators within reason are allowed. [Should I only allow Project64 etc?]
I'm going to verify this run because it's not an actual rule [might add it] ... but please don't upload any more replay videos as runs. Thanks.
Very nice!
I need to redo my full game runs, they are really bad LOL
Nice! I do my mushroom boost in the same spot on this level.
