This topic is for the purpose of discussing #6738: Ubercapitalist's Wii Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn in 5:15:51.62

Oh boy, I feel bad for whoever has to Publish this.

I have been following your WIPs. Weak Yes vote because I don't like step-based RPGs that much.

Also, unchecked Config/Wii/Use PAL60 Mode.

This shouldn't even affect sync at all, considering you used the North American version, and this setting only applies to PAL games.

You should provide more information regarding your run. For instance I think its important to tell which version of Dolphin you used.

For instance I think its important to tell which version of Dolphin you used.

This is mentioned in the submission page (it's Dolphin 5.0-10833). What's actually more important is which version of the game you used, as there's two different versions of the North American version floating around....and the MD5 hash specified in the DTM is all zeroes. The ISO filename you provided doesn't tell me much, as it's just the game ID (see the page on the Dolphin Wiki).

I have updated submission with version info.

This movie ends with initiation of attack against the final boss. This allows a cutscene to play out and stops when user input is needed to scroll text.

Please provide the complete input. Regardless of which version will count for the timing of the run, and whether the submission is or isn't published, this is a common courtesy to the encoders who should not be expected to optimally finish the game in your stead to capture the ending in its entirety.

I have uploaded revised movie file here, which ends input after "Fin" screen.

Here are my notes after watching the run: - An enormous amount of time is lost due to TASing from power-on, as opposed to SRAM where you can turn map animations off (and have access to hard mode). This is somewhat understandable given TASes using SRAM are uncommon. However, map animations cost an enormous amount of time, easily over an hour, and is one of the main reasons this TAS is slower than the normal mode transfers RTA WR by over 2 hours. - The run uses outdated strategies compared to modern RTA runs found here. In particular, the RTA WR for normal mode transfers is 3:10:58 (see here). Again, somewhat understandable given you were going by my segmented run on speeddemosarchive. However, speedrun.com is widely known as the universal leaderboard for speedruns nowadays, so I'm surprised you didn't find it. The Radiant Dawn page on speedrun.com also links to the Fire Emblem speedrunning Discord (see here), which I encourage you to use should you make another TAS. More general notes: - Trains units that don't need to be trained (ex/ Micaiah, Nolan). Training Edward in particular cost a massive amount of time. - Over-use of paragon, leading to lots of unnecessary level-ups - Lots of unnecessary skill re-assignments, especially with adept and vantage - Unnecessary supports, which cost a bit of time every instance they're used (ex/ 3-11 Haar x Ike) - Gets items from the base that aren't needed (ex/ restore staff, renewal) - Uses coins on forges that don't need stat bonuses - RNG manipulation favors near perfect level-ups (often overkill) over critical hits Given all these issues, I unfortunately have to vote no.

Vykan12: Thank you for the feedback. I will withdraw this submission for now, and if I redo will work with the references you provided.

om, nom, nom... 'twas dry