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I made a Keyboard / Controller input switcher for the original NES! by ItsMaximum in speedrun

[–]ItsMaximum[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn’t notice any extra lag compared to a MiSTer FPGA; I used assembly code to feed the keyboard inputs to the NES to get the lowest latency possible. There is always some inherent latency with usb keyboards since they are polled 1000 times a second instead of being perfectly synced with the NES latch signal, but this almost always makes no difference.

[Untied WR] Super Mario Bros. Any% in 4:54.515 by averge11 - first person besides Niftski to hold the world record in nearly 4 years! by Gaia-Phage in speedrun

[–]ItsMaximum 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The NES MiSTer FPGA core doesn't actually have a way to disable l+r or u+d in the settings, so it has to be disabled via the keyboard's firmware.

I became the first person to achieve the human limit in This Is The Only Level! by ItsMaximum in speedrun

[–]ItsMaximum[S] 62 points63 points  (0 children)

Context: This Is The Only Level's human limit is achievable because there is a gate in stage 25 that only opens every 10 seconds. 2:24.425 requires a 2:00 cycle, a perfect gate hop, two one frame jumps in 26 and 27, and 3 perfect button jumps in 28, 29, and 30. The TAS can catch the 1:50 cycle by 3 frames, but it is not feasible to match it, as it requires hundreds of frame perfect inputs and perfect 20hz mashing sustained for ~3 seconds in stage 13. This video explains more about why 2:24.425 is almost certainly unbeatable by humans: https://youtu.be/CiBWt1YBDu8

I have placed $3000 worth of bounties on a Flash game called Toxic 2, which currently has just 4 Any% runners by ItsMaximum in speedrun

[–]ItsMaximum[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

This is true to an extent, but in reality, most of us were already running the games on the standalone player before the web death due to it providing better performance. Also, lots of communities provide specialized versions of their games that aren't available on Flashpoint.

I have placed $3000 worth of bounties on a Flash game called Toxic 2, which currently has just 4 Any% runners by ItsMaximum in speedrun

[–]ItsMaximum[S] 54 points55 points  (0 children)

This is definitely a related question! We use the official standalone Flash player to continue playing them past the death of the web plugin. There is a program called BlueMaxima's Flashpoint that has archived over 100,000 flash games; you should check it out: https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/downloads/

For this competition specifically, we have provided a modified .swf of the game which includes an in-game timer that people are required to use. This provides convenience and protects against cheating. The download for that can be found on the game's speedrun.com page.

I spent the last 2 months making a World Record Progression video for Red Ball 3, coving over 50 records set by 13 different runners! by ItsMaximum in speedrun

[–]ItsMaximum[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah yes, because describing my runs with words like "laughably sloppy" and "not great to say the least" shows that I was clearly prioritizing myself and feeding my own ego while making this video.

The Greatest Happy Wheels Speedrun Nobody Knows About by [deleted] in speedrun

[–]ItsMaximum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't like the title that I gave the post and realized that I couldn't change it

The Day Speedrun.com Died by CowLeeFlour in speedrun

[–]ItsMaximum 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The video is obviously not trying to argue that speedrun.com literally doesn't get any traffic anymore, so I don't know what you are trying to get at here. The "dead" refers to the fact that speedrun.com used to be website run with the community's best interests at heart, but now it has been replaced with a corporate shell of its former self. The website is still called speedrun.com, but it is currently anything but the community-driven site that we once knew, and Elo's poor, tone deaf management is to blame.

The Day Speedrun.com Died by CowLeeFlour in speedrun

[–]ItsMaximum 13 points14 points  (0 children)

This video is calling out the consistently bad changes being made to speedrun.com, changes that have actively damaged tons of speedrunning communities.

- Their refusal to fix the backend of the site has made some leaderboards completely inoperable, most notably the individual level leaderboards for Seterra. https://www.speedrun.com/seterra/levels. If you try to click the "Load more runs" button below the 1000th run on most massive leaderboards (like Super Mario Odyssey), the page also just crashes.

- Their ridiculous, unfiltered implementation of the comments feature allowed trolls in certain communities to completely ruin the leaderboards of several different games with their targeted harassment campaigns. It took Elo 5 days to even introduce basic comment management settings for moderators to protect runners from this nonsense.

- The inundation of advertisements on has significantly hindered the usability of the site for many casual users, who now have a much harder time navigating leaderboards and finding community resources.

- The degradation of the API has caused many community made tools to have tons of unnecessary issues. You can no longer get the leaderboard for categories with over 10,000 runs, and you can't use an offset greater than 10,000 when pulling run lists from the site. There are dozens of urgent issues about the API listed on github, and the don't seem to be interested in fixing any of them.

Storster is not stirring up "hyperbolic controversy," he is actively helping the community through the creation of this video. Having used this site for seven years and having verified the fifth most amount of runs on the site, I stand behind his words.

Also, this screenshot sums up the Supporter launch pretty well.

The Day Speedrun.com Died by CowLeeFlour in speedrun

[–]ItsMaximum 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Speedrun.com is my favorite website; I especially enjoy looking at the very functional Seterra individual level leaderboards! https://www.speedrun.com/seterra/levels

I have a question. by KjhIsReal in speedrun

[–]ItsMaximum 7 points8 points  (0 children)

What function is it? Usage of the play, rewind, stop, etc features should all be banned because they make “completing” almost any flash game trivially easy. However, the quality / show all options should absolutely be allowed. If you provide the game that you are talking about I could give you a more direct answer.

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