There are actually 2 internal clocks built into the Super Metroid engine. 1 clock stops during door transitions and item acquisitions, but the 2nd clock is a continuously running clock which starts ticking after the save file is selected. Now is this 2nd clock ... is a essentially a real-time clock built right into the game itself.

Question for all in-game clock fans, why is this 2nd clock less important? Is it only because it does not determine the minutes shown at the end screen?

When people say "in-game clock" what they generally mean is "timer that the game displays". So yeah, the second clock is less important because its end result is never displayed in normal gameplay.

2. not even to 100% in sync to the realtime emulator framecounter (according to hero)

lag frames cannot be "exploited" to get a smaller timer value (at the expense of a longer movie), and thus it's not relevant if that counter is not completely in sync with the emulator's frame counter. Optimizing the number of frames will automatically optimize that internal counter too. In that way they are "in sync".

samus' hit box radius plays a part in how much lag is added to door transitions. The bigger the radius, the less lag there is usually. I cannot however, explain why it happens.

If it's a good movie and is otherwise worthy of publication, why is "half-publishing" it a negative thing? I do agree that there should probably be some note on the front page/published movies list about it.

Because having its status "upped" like that serves no useful purpose. Keep in mind that making a note in the published movie description would have been perfectly possible without having to "half-publish" this movie; we don't have to have a special permission for altering the description to include that kind of information, anyway.

Even if it serves no useful purpose, it still doesn't explain why it's a negative thing.

Even if it serves no useful purpose, it still doesn't explain why it's a negative thing. Are you saying you'd be happier if the status of Cpadolf's submission was changed to cancelled or rejected instead of published but nothing else changed?

1) not the first movie with different goals to obsolete the preceding one; 2) not the first longer movie to obsolete the preceding one; 3) more optimized and up to date than the preceding one; 4) doesn't prevent a new movie with different goals to obsolete it, it would be much preferred if the decision was justified. I don't have any problems with justified decisions. It wasn't. I've resigned myself, so you won't see me bickering with Truncated about it, but it doesn't make it any better in my book. Does that answer your question?

You see, that really isn't important given that its a different catagory, you could easily invest all that time and effort into a real time run.

Having two different runs would be too confusing for non-fans of the game.

Yes, it's a different category and it's possible to implement the timesavers in a realtime-oriented run, but there is no new realtime-oriented run, and won't be for the time being.

It doesn't make this submission of any less play quality

I didn't suggest having two runs. I suggested this one obsoleting the previous on grounds on being more optimized (and different, not simply "do all the same actions, just better").

Also, it seems you've ignored the other three points; they're supposed to work as a whole

Then why not implement these known improvements? The Metroid TASing community is large

Not a justified reason and "hyhocrisy" as you would call it, a slower run cannot obselete the current one by having different goals, there must be a solid base for all future improvements

All the other three points were unjustified reasons to justify your third point which was your primary argument.

Not a justified reason and "hyhocrisy" as you would call it,

I can't believe what I'm reading. You are willing to spend an incredible amount of energy on making a mountain of this molehill. Well, it's your energy.