Posted: 4/21/2017 10:57 PM
Post subject: Game version to pick?
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Sonia
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In the past, some games had revisions released in order to fix bugs or tweak other things. In ROM collections, they're usually tagged as (v1.0) / (v1.1) / (v1.2), (Rev 1) / (Rev 2), (Rev A) / (Rev B), etc. What's the common sense in which version to pick? Should I always stick to the initial, original release and ignore any revisions, or the other way around and always pick the final revision?
Posted: 4/21/2017 11:08 PM
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The basic guideline is: • For hacks, use the latest version. • For other games, the preferred version is whatever makes the fastest or most interesting run (e.g. using revision-exclusive glitches to speed up the run). If there are no meaningful differences, then it doesn't matter which version you use.
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Posted: 4/22/2017 3:16 AM
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Sonia
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Mothrayas wrote:
The basic guideline is: • For hacks, use the latest version. • For other games, the preferred version is whatever makes the fastest or most interesting run (e.g. using revision-exclusive glitches to speed up the run). If there are no meaningful differences, then it doesn't matter which version you use.
I'm sorry, I didn't see this written anywhere on /MovieRules or /Guidelines. Thanks for answering my question.