Goddamnit, Rhombu in with the snipe.

3 hours is not a reasonable time to expect moderators to verify your run. The site guidelines recommend chasing up verification after 3 WEEKS. The mods are people with lives just like you, and they do moderation on a purely voluntary basis. Just wait it out, it ideally should not take longer than a couple of days, but for future reference hours is not worth complaining over. Your run's not going anywhere.

Yeah, it was decided a while ago to disallow all game modifications as a standardisation/anti-cheating measure. Same with the colour mod, don't use it.

Timpz specifically referred to unofficial emulators right above you. If you're going to go out of your way to run an unofficial emu from a homebrew software, then I don't even know wtfuck you're doing. Just play an official emulator version like Virtual Console if you're that adamant about playing on Wii.

You have mod powers on every board of the site.

F-Zero GX was my first, and I'm best at SNES Sparkster.

I can't think of anywhere this would be useful in a run sadly. Climbing takes a long time, and we just ignore the emerald hunting in Lost World.

There is literally another thread in this forum asking the same sort of question, which multiple people responded to stating why that won't happen.

The save/load functions should still be mapped to Left and Right on your keyboard regardless of controller mapping, try that.

About time SOMEONE made a thread about actual current speedrunning events.

Predctions/hopes/fears about what will/won't make the cut?

I've already voiced elsewhere that I hope Breath of the Wild doesn't get in purely because of how new it is. It deserves a few more months of work put into it and then being shown at AGDQ18, in my opinion.

I'm of course hopeful that at least one of my submissions will make it in (Sonic Adventure 2/Undertale/Sparkster) but as for other games I specifically want to see:

Digimon World 1 by Raikou: This is a really impressive run utilising extensive RNG manipulation. Anyone who knows this game probably remembers it as being very cryptic and difficult as the game does absolutely nothing to teach the player of the overall objective. A speedrun really trivialises this game to an almost hilarious extent.

F-Zero GX by 1davidj and Naegleria: This is one of the few games I would like to see as a staple entry in every event. Pure madness, and a Time Attack race is a sight to behold. It's hard to describe just how high the skill ceiling is in this game.

Freedom Planet by Fladervy and Revolucion: This is a mind-bending run to try and keep up with, and a race is even moreso. If you like Classic Sonic, you'll love this. Plus the physics are... INTERESTING. And not always in a bad way, either!

Megaman Battle Network 1 by PrismaticBlack: I've wanted to see this game at a GDQ for years, and that was BEFORE the run was heavily RNG manipulated. Now that it is manipulated, it's a whole different experience. Every single element of RNG in this game is controlled by the player now, creating a run in which the runner can literally announce ahead of time every 'random' event that's going to occur.

Since everyone else is giving game updates, suppose I'll chime in even though I don't really know what to say other than:

Sparkster: I still hold WR, and regularly am on 19 pace almost every run.

SA2B: Sub 40 is fucking free.

Undertale: Haven't played Genocide THAT much lately, but you don't forget how to execute the route and difficult fights. Sub 1:10 is free, where 1:15 is estimate.

Assuming you have the game correctly set up to run, i.e disconnected from Steam:

Download the save files, extract them to any external folder Copy the files from that new folder, and paste them into your local save file. This is located at:

(User) > AppData > Local > UNDERTALE (Undertale_linux_steamver if you're on Linux build)

AppData is Hidden by default, so you'll need to enable Show Hidden Folders.

People still run this game??

(I'm aware that evidence of this time exists elsewhere, I just fundamentally disagree with it remaining on the leaderboards without verifiable proof that any person can see)

I have no idea why anyone would say that.

Sounds good in principle, though this wouldn't work for games in which ILs are fundamentally different from just playing the level during a fullgame run.

@Amateseru

When it comes to very famous games like the ones you've submitted, you've just gotta be absolutely on top of your game if you 'expect' to get in. I was confident that all 3 of my runs would have a great chance to get through first cuts, but only because I'm the highest-rated submitter for all of them (SA2B race notwithstanding).

If I had average ranks for the runs I submitted and the WR holder submitted the same games, I would fully expect my runs to be rejected across the board.

A timer is not strictly required at all, it just makes it more convenient for tracking your own pace.

As a general rule of thumb, self-verification should be avoided if there are other moderators for the game. It's alright to self-verify if you're the only one with the ability for that game, but it should generally be avoided otherwise.

Feel free to use that superior intellect to beat, well, any of my times. I look forward to verifying 'em.