EnglandHonestly I would just use the newest revision of Bizhawk. It's built for TASing, so it aims for accuracy.
Pokemon Red: Gen I miss'd into a Selfdestruct in Rock Tunnel.
Gen I Miss = 1/256 chance Opponent chooses moves completely randomly, so Selfdestruct = 1/4 chance 256 * 4 = 1/1024 chance
Really, really cool videogame.
Good necropost.
Probably because it's a bad precedent to set, regardless of whether he runs it or not.
The likely answer for an Android emulator is no, because there's absolutely no guarantee of accuracy.
Pretty much the only objective benchmark for this nowadays is whether you're in the Discord server for the game/series, which is very likely to exist if more than like one person plays said game.
It also gives an indicator of being "kicked out" of the community if you get banned.
Hello everyone,
I'm the Panzer Dragoon series moderator and have been in charge of the Panzer Dragoon Zwei boards for months, and was now recently added as a Super Mod to this board also, as there were some things that I felt needed changing around and standardising.
I've changed both the rulesets for the categories and the time that each run took:
Rule changes include defining the start of the run as the player starting a new game on the title screen. Previously it was defined as "When the player gains control", which is approx. 17 seconds after this.
I've also changed the point at which time ends, which is the more important difference. Previously, time ended when the final bosses energy bar was depleted, but I do not believe this is an appropriate place to end timing for two reasons:
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The player still has control after this point, as demonstrated in the current Normal WR when the game is paused after this point. The player could potentially fulfill that condition, then pause the game and leave it, at which point the game would never end.
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The time between the final bosses death animation starting and the final fade-to-black is variable based on a variety of factors including position. This changes the amount of time that elapses after the boss is defeated, and as such should be treated as part of the run.
Therefore, I have decided that time should end on the final fade-to-black. At this point, the player has lost control and can do nothing to influence how quickly the game progresses. This mirrors how the rules for Panzer Dragoon Zwei are set out, which I laid out months ago. I originally thought of also using energy bar depletion as the end point but quickly noticed the same issue, that the bosses death time depends on position, so that was not an appropriate place to end the run.
The rulesets and timings of the runs have been adjusted accordingly. Please feel free to ask any questions here or get in touch with me on any of my associated social media platforms.
To be fair, NOWADAYS there is potentially a lot to be gained by cheating. If you somehow had a way to consistently cheat and fly under the radar whilst doing so, you could stand to gain a lot of popularity as a 'top' runner of a popular game, and potentially a lot of money.
In a way, that's KIND of what happened with Mergy in Forbidden Memories. He used a modified ISO and denied it for ages. It's not like any big bucks ever came out of that, but just substitute that for if it was one of the top OoT runners, or SM64 runners. There would be an unholy shitstorm, and rightly so.
Cheating is bad. Really, really bad.
Look, if you know that you can get a time in a game, or even think you "deserve" that time, I understand the temptation to cheat. Why sit through thousands more resets if the game's just not giving it to you, right?
But the thing is, as this case has shown, you will NOT get away with it forever, and you will never be trusted in the same way again. Getting a WR or a super optimised time is an incredibly tempting goal, but it's just as much about the journey as the destination. Part of what makes having those times feel as good as they do is the amount of work you needed to put in to get them. You'll experience very little satisfaction in passing off a cheated or spliced run as genuine, and if your game's community has even a bit of activity, it's very likely that at some point someone will look at your fake run closer and catch you out.
Just don't do it, alright?
Friendly reminder that nobody takes a 'WR' that is uncontested seriously.
If it's a game you're passionate about that nobody else happens to run and you've spent a lot of time and effort optimising it, then fair enough. But if you do a single run of a game and say "Look at my WR", nobody is going to be impressed.
@Pac I do hope the improvement of IL boards is still an ongoing thing, as much as the most recent revision DOES look like a significant improvement.
There are people who are being actively deterred from submitting ILs to SRcom because they don't like the way the boards look. Some are going as far as to say they do not want their stats tracked on the site, and would remove their times if they found them submitted on their behalf.
I can kind of see where they're coming from, but I don't think the IL boards currently look bad. They could just still be 'better', is all.
"Submit Run" is right on the front page of the leaderboard.
@KomradeKontroll That would imply that he has any friends.
@UbuntuJackson Gotta get those free "WR"s after all, right?
@blueYOSHI Boards are getting deleted if they're not set up, not if they don't have any runs. For instance, if someone requests a board and then just doesn't bother to make categories and rules for it. A board is perfectly fine sitting empty waiting for someone to fill it, providing it's set up correctly.
For all you know 100 people could have entered the raffle. In that case, spending your last 5 dollars for the month for a 1% chance to win a controller seems a poor decision in my eyes.
