Tag: NES

  • FFR Rando Marathon: Winter 2026

    Presented by Final Fantasy Randomizer

    The Winter 2026 edition of the FFR Rando Marathon has been announced by FFR admin DarkmoonEX.

    Says DarkmoonEX:

    Hello Everyone!

    December 3rd to 6th, the Final Fantasy Randomizer (FFR) community will be hosting the fifth annual Winter FFR Rando Marathon to raise money for the South Carolina Firefighters’ Burned Children’s Fund Foundation, a charity dedicated to easing the recovery process for pediatric burn patients and their families in South Carolina. 100% of all proceeds will go to the charity.

    The marathon will run from December 3rd @ 10 AM EST to December 6th @ 11:59 EST.

    Regarding the marathon format, DarkmoonEX continues:

    All randomizers are welcome to submit runs. Every marathon has been a wonderful mix of amazing communities/randomizers that always show up to support the marathon and new ones that join us for their first time, and we can’t wait to see who will be helping us raise money for the BCF in December!

    Over the last 5 years we have been so grateful to raise over $60,000 for charity, and hope that you can be a part of such an amazing event.

    Submissions are open now through October 31st, 2026 @ 11:59 PM EDT.

    For more info, see the resources below. If you have any questions, you can find an FFR rep on the FFVC Discord or on the FFR Discord. You can also reach out to clymax.

    Resources

    Volunteer form for submitting runs for the event [link]

    Rules and Guidelines [link]

    SC Firefighters’ Burned Children’s Fund [link]

    FFR Twitch [link]

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  • Based Boards Update: Eliminating Emulator Pause as a Gameplay Exploit

    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.

    1. We need not even delve into how Retro Achievements does not appear to be anti-censorship or anti-control, as our Clovergate coverage should show. See also Why Join FFV Central? here. ↩︎

    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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  • TASer HappyLee Banned by TASVideos

    Alleges Abuse of Power by Moderators

    You can follow TASer HappyLee via YouTube or X.

    Original Post: http://youtube.com/post/UgkxjoAbvRuzjjzZJCD8SntFb9zUiih52KwT

    Tweet: https://x.com/HappyLeeHL/status/2093013050278457534

    Bilibili post (in Chinese): https://www.bilibili.com/opus/1241606978685370433

    August 26, 2026

    I got BANNED on TASVideos, AGAIN. This time, maybe permanently.

    I was first banned in 2023 for defending my TAS work. This time, I was banned for making arguments such as, “TAS should use TAS timing, not RTA timing.”

    The abuse of power by certain staff members is sickening. They attack and ban people simply for expressing opinions they don’t like.

    I joined TASVideos in 2007. It’s fair to say that I have contributed a great deal to the community over the past 19 years.

    Under its current terrible management, TASVideos is no longer the place I once loved. If talented TASers are not treated with respect, I would advise others to leave soon.

    If anyone builds a better TAS community-one with more common sense, respect for its contributors, and freedom of expression-please let me know.

    Since they’ve done this, don’t mind me calling them out for the rest of my life unless they unban me and apologize.

    [Editor’s note: for the forum topic that presumably led to the ban, click here.]

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  • Terranigma – Rebirth Trailer

    The Quintet Action RPG that Never Saw a Stateside Release on the SNES

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    Coming to modern platforms in early 2027. Wishlist on Steam here.

    Players who wish to play in English on the SNES at 60 fps have the option of using the Japanese version with the NTSC patch here.

    https://youtu.be/e5rWXIzACtM

    Interestingly, all copies of the trailer were subsequently taken down. A few days later, a presumably changed trailer was finally posted:

    Update on September 19:

    Opinion of Davidvinc RPGs:

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