There are a couple reasons for this.įirst of all, people are fascinated by what it looks like when the human limits of skill and reaction time are removed from speed running. It turns out that slowing down the game like this and recording a video of a "perfect" playthrough can sometimes be beneficial even to people who have no interest in doing such a thing themselves.
Of course, if you are competing with someone else who isn't using emulation tools, this is clearly considered cheating, and this is the major reason why we don't let you use emulators to record your speed runs here at SDA. It didn't take long for people to figure out that it's possible to record yourself playing a game at a slower speed than intended, then speed up the resulting video to make it look like you're a better player than you really are. Sometimes emulation doesn't work very well, and the game you're emulating will play more slowly or more quickly than it's supposed to. This is one reason why we don't let you use most emulators to record your speed runs here at SDA (it's usually illegal, and SDA as a whole could get in trouble for it). off of the Internet, versus paying to play the game on the Wii Virtual Console, for example. The reason for this is obvious: Nintendo won't make any money if you download Super Mario Bros. Unfortunately, that last part (getting ahold of a ROM) is usually considered illegal in most parts of the world. Thus, you can play the original Super Mario Bros., which has never been released by Nintendo for the PC, on your PC, assuming you can get ahold of the emulator software and a ROM image of the game. For example, if you have a NES emulator, you can play NES games on a PC, a PSP, or other systems. One of those rules bans most forms of emulation.Įmulation means playing a game inside of a program called an emulator. Here at SDA, we have clear and concise rules to keep in mind when making speed runs for submission to this site. Not all speed runs you see on the Internet are made with the same rules in mind.
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