Just thought I would make this post because I am cleaning up the boards again and separating console and emu with different rules and I remember some people had some points related to redundant categories. If we can come to a consensus which categories are redundant I can clean them up a bit. Thanks in advance!

Hey everyone just wanted to let you all know that with the inclusion of save states to the runs from here on out, we realized that requiring the emulator startup every time you started over would be entirely too tedious for the speedrun grind. Therefore we removed the requirement to show the emu start up every single time you use a save state. Hopefully this makes everyones lives a bit easier!! <3

Hey everyone just wanted to let you all know that with the inclusion of save states to the runs from here on out, we realized that requiring the emulator startup every time you started over would be entirely too tedious for the speedrun grind. Therefore we removed the requirement to show the emu start up every single time you use a save state. Hopefully this makes everyones lives a bit easier!! <3

Hello runners, stream viewers, and moderators I just wanted to take a moment to introduce myself and the new moderation team.

My name is Max and I have been a part of the RE Speedrunning community for over 3 years now and I love this community more than any other I have been a part of. In my time as a speedrunner this community has been nice enough to help me get set up and learn all of these amazing runs and I am so happy that I get the opportunity to help out another community here on SRC. I know that in the past few months there has been a lot of turmoil and strife within our community and I am here today to hopefully be a mediator for that and lead this community to brighter pastures.

The mods I have selected for these boards are some of the most trustworthy people I know from this community as well as other games in the RE community. They are my friends, but even more than that, they are extremely good at what they do and they understand that community should come first. We even have a few verifiers that have volunteered to help us get out of the backlog that will be getting verified or rejected starting tomorrow.

In addition the rules have been updated just as Hurriboy said they would be on March 3rd, 2019. On that date he asked no more runs be submitted for a while so things could be discussed in that time the leadership changed twice and people continued to submit runs. So due to that I made the executive decision that any run submitted after March 3rd, 2019 will be verified or rejected under the new rule set. As a professor at a University when something is stated and everyone knows about it, and then proceeds to do the opposite the professor gives a zero with no questions asked. Therefore we will do the more lenient thing and instead of instantly rejecting these runs we are giving them a chance under the new rules.

These rules were looked at for days and were found to be the best compromise in a lot of areas including the use of Save States for code generation. These will be no longer allowed and instead the console must be shown on the offline emu runs. A video for the optimal and required setup for recording runs will be added in the resources tab soon for reference. If there are any questions or complaints my discord is on my info panel on SRC and you can reach me there anytime. Work will continue on creating a more active Speedrun Board as well as category extensions that the community wants.

If your run gets rejected I have advised the moderators and verifiers to put the rule number that was violated in order to help you make future submissions better. If you are upset about these changes again please talk to me and express them in a concise tactful manner so that we can have a productive discussion and always remember that a rejected run is never the end of the world. If you did it once I guarantee you can do it again. Thank you for taking the time to read this and I hope to see you out there on the board.

Much love ❤️

Hello runners, stream viewers, and moderators I just wanted to take a moment to introduce myself and the new moderation team.

My name is Max and I have been a part of the RE Speedrunning community for over 3 years now and I love this community more than any other I have been a part of. In my time as a speedrunner this community has been nice enough to help me get set up and learn all of these amazing runs and I am so happy that I get the opportunity to help out another community here on SRC. I know that in the past few months there has been a lot of turmoil and strife within our community and I am here today to hopefully be a mediator for that and lead this community to brighter pastures.

The mods I have selected for these boards are some of the most trustworthy people I know from this community as well as other games in the RE community. They are my friends, but even more than that, they are extremely good at what they do and they understand that community should come first. We even have a few verifiers that have volunteered to help us get out of the backlog that will be getting verified or rejected starting tomorrow.

In addition the rules have been updated just as Hurriboy said they would be on March 3rd, 2019. On that date he asked no more runs be submitted for a while so things could be discussed in that time the leadership changed twice and people continued to submit runs. So due to that I made the executive decision that any run submitted after March 3rd, 2019 will be verified or rejected under the new rule set. As a professor at a University when something is stated and everyone knows about it, and then proceeds to do the opposite the professor gives a zero with no questions asked. Therefore we will do the more lenient thing and instead of instantly rejecting these runs we are giving them a chance under the new rules.

These rules were looked at for days and were found to be the best compromise in a lot of areas including the use of Save States for code generation. These will be no longer allowed and instead the console must be shown on the offline emu runs. A video for the optimal and required setup for recording runs will be added in the resources tab soon for reference. If there are any questions or complaints my discord is on my info panel on SRC and you can reach me there anytime. Work will continue on creating a more active Speedrun Board as well as category extensions that the community wants.

If your run gets rejected I have advised the moderators and verifiers to put the rule number that was violated in order to help you make future submissions better. If you are upset about these changes again please talk to me and express them in a concise tactful manner so that we can have a productive discussion and always remember that a rejected run is never the end of the world. If you did it once I guarantee you can do it again. Thank you for taking the time to read this and I hope to see you out there on the board.

Much love ❤️

So in testing and looking at other runs, I have noticed major differences between how certain emulators run the game. For me personally: The IGT from psxfin is always longer than RTA as opposed to epsxe where it is the exact opposite. In addition, I tried to replicate an exact run as best I could on both emulators and notices that epsxe runs about a minute faster than psxfin, probably due to the random fps dropping that causes lag spikes throughout the game. Is this anything to be concerned about given that it looks like some of the runs on the boards do look like they use psxfin and others appear to be epsxe with all the enhancements. Of course, I can provide all of my testing data for whoever needs it, just wanted to put this forward since I have been testing quite a bit lately with the new categories. Thanks Everyone!!

Hey everyone!! Was just wondering if perhaps having a challenge category like Handgun A only would be a good idea? I finished a run of it the other day and had a lot of fun doing it. It's a pretty tense and awesome change of pace.