Post subject: Pokemon Yellow/Crystal/Emerald/Platinum theoretical question
Joined: 12/29/2007
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Theoretical question: As can currently be see on the site, the paired versions of Pokemon games are considered similar enough to be the same game, so a run of Red can obsolete a run of Blue, and so on. My question is, would the "third version" games listed above also be considered the same game? If someone made a fully optimized "just beat the game" run of, say, Emerald, it would naturally be slower than Ruby/Sapphire due to extra cutscenes/storyline elements/etc., but would it be accepted at least into Vault or would it be rejected due to being slower than Ruby/Sapphire? Other notes: - The currently published Yellow runs don't answer this question, as their goals are actually faster to perform on Yellow than on Red/Blue. - There's this Yellow run, but it was rejected on the basis of entertainment before the Vault existed. - SDA considers "third version" games to be different than their paired counterparts.
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I think it would be okay so long as it shows something new off. If the crystal TAS route is exactly the same as the gold TAS route, for example, I doubt it would be accepted for minor differences.
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