EnglandThat's just the regular method of finding a Drilbur whatsoever that you'd expect people to do casually. He's referring to the method that involves RNG manipulation, the one that not only guarantees that Drilbur will appear, but also guarantees that it's a specific one that you get, with good IVs and Nature.
I'm absolutely no expert on it so I'm afraid I can't help, but I'm sure someone else can provide the resources you need.
Agree that the 'enjoyment' factor being diminished is irrelevant if it results in net timesave. I can approach this in a different way, however:
https://www.speedrun.com/quackshot is a really interesting 2D platformer with lots of little technical tricks, but not many skips to speak of at all.
This changed somewhat when somebody discovered a trick that I expanded on and recorded footage of; we discovered a wrong warp in Transylvania, one of the first stages of the game.
One of the rooms involves scaling a huge sheer wall whilst another wall closes in from the left, threatening to crush you. It takes quite a bit of time to scale the wall, and after the climb it's just a straight rush to the next screen.
We discovered that with some very precise shot placement, it's actually possible to get onto where the left-hand wall is, and you can get INSIDE it and move to the left. After doing this, if you backtrack and jump at a specific spot, the wall starts moving, crushing you instantly but also wrong-warping you to the next room if you jumped in the right place. (?!?!)
Sounds like a pretty cool strat, but there's one problem: The shots required to make it up to the skip are extremely unforgiving, and you'll miss them most of the time when trying to go as fast as possible. This wouldn't be much of a problem, except for the fact that this trick saves ONE SECOND over doing the room normally.
THAT'S a disappointing strat.
On your left you will see that we not only have the Full-game leaderboards, but now we also have leaderboards for each Individual Level, M1 through M5.
This also applies to Bosses and Green Hill until SRcom's infrastructure is a little more sophisticated, so for now just submit all stats for those boards as M1.
I should have made a thread for this sooner, but we now have an active leaderboard for SA2B Category Extensions. There, you will find boards for Knuckles/Rouge Centurion, All A-Ranks, Hero Story Low%, Boss Rush, 171 Emblems and Knuckles x20/Rouge x25
This playlist actually already exists in the Guides section on the left, so anyone who wants to view it can hop on over there.
Yeah, without meaning to diminish your achievement or anything, 'WR' stats that are either uncontested or beat a previously uncontested time aren't generally looked upon with very much prestige.
It's a good start though, and if you can topple any established/more optimised WRs that would be great.
"Also, please don't suggest games I like/have nostalgia for. I don't want to ruin Mario 64 for myself ;-;"
... How would we know which games qualify for this??
Astro Boy: Omega Factor is quite beginner-friendly, by the way.
The thing about transferring magic levels in general is that you only transfer 1/3rd of the EXP to the new character, so there's a decent chance that investing time into leveling the original character is just going to be a waste.
If you're intending to speedrun Sonic games, feel free to join the Sonic Speedrunning Discord. We have a very large and active community, and plenty of people will be willing to help you get started.
Try requesting it by all means, but the site is generally trying to lean away from accepting any old web games, so can't make any promises.
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How is this such a difficult concept for people to understand?
If you wouldn't say something to someone's face IRL because you know it would be likely to piss them off, don't say it in a Twitch chat. The veil of anonymity isn't an excuse to be an asshole to people, and putting a kappa after a douche statement doesn't make it less douchey.
Just interact with people like a normal person, and if you don't know how to do that, then "How do I talk in chat" isn't the question you need to be asking yourself.
That's as may be for games that don't require video evidence, but a "World Record" by definition must be recorded. If there's no RECORD of it, then it's simply unverifiable whether the run exists at all.
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Yes, if you have no video evidence then you have no business claiming a WR.
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Doing runs offline is commonplace, and the fact that a run was not livestreamed is not grounds to call its legitimacy into question. Let people question it all they want, if the recording is genuine, that evidence will bear itself out.
