Case Study: Leaderboard for Tetris (NES)
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Are you a competitive player?
Enjoy climbing leaderboards?
Want the leaderboard to link to your gameplay video?
Our Based Boards got you covered.
Nowhere to Play for High Score
Players to this day have a surprisingly dismal selection when it comes to climbing leaderboards for score in their favorite classic console games.
Although there are sites like Speedrun.com, the site does not support high-score rankings. The site does not support auto verification either.
Although Steam supports official auto leaderboards, it appears that the number of official emulated titles with Steam leaderboards is little to none.
Other sites like Retro Achievements support fan-made auto leaderboards. However, critical exploits such as emulator pausing remain unresolved (for more on this, see section VI of NeonHenchman’s post here). This undermines the integrity of any leaderboard on the site.1
This is where Based Boards come in.
Exploit Eliminated
Our community at FFV Central is pleased to announce elimination of the gameplay exploit of emulator pausing in our Based Boards and Based Badges offerings.
This feature is brought to you by clymax, who is the author of the controls improvement hack for Tetris on the Famicom. He is also the author of the modernization fork of Megatris on Uzebox. (He also holds the badge for ten all clears in forty lines on TETR.IO.)
In-game pausing remains allowed, of course.
For a demo clip using Tetris just as an example, see below.
Our growing list of games, both modded and unmodded, supports this feature.
Not just for scoring but for speedruns and achievements too.
So, what are you waiting for? Log a high score on one of our leaderboards today!
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