Over the past week and a half or so, our seniors Mothrayas, feos, fsvgm777, and some other staff discussed with me the ambiguity or non-clarity certain rules had.
Some points we covered:
- What do we allow in-game passwords or codes to do in a movie?
- What qualifies as an in-game code or password?
- How are such things branched?
- How do we view different versions of a game when they have significant differences?
- If they don't what does it mean for improvements?
- Where do emulator differences fit in?
- Some updates regarding what we want Judges to do in general.
To this end we added language to our rules clarifying what the rules are for these various cases, according to how we've been handling them till now. If you weren't sure about some of these, please see these updates:
Wiki: MovieRules (
changes)
Wiki: JudgeGuidelines (
changes)
It is important to note that while these changes do make minor alterations to the pre-existing rules, we for the most part have been handling things recently more in line with the updates anyway. These changes are due to feedback of our viewers in recent discussions, and the greater clarity we've had refining many edge cases through many difficult judgments, where we used the spirit of the earlier rules to deduce how to handle the cases that are now clarified.
