!!! Rejection Reasons Descriptions This page provides some guidelines and descriptions of reasons used for submission rejection. *Game choice: Bad game choice *Unapproved hack: Submitting a TAS of a hack without prior approval (before September 2009 only) *Version ** Run should be done on another console ** Run should use another version of the game *Optimization ** Bad optimization (sloppy) ** Fails to beat all known records * Entertainment: Fails to entertain, even with opportunities to do so * Incomplete: The movie fails to beat the game * Goal: ** Bad goal choice ** Does not respect restrictions imposed by its own goal ** Bad difficulty (should be hardest without good reason to do otherwise) ** Other kind of bad game settings * Emulation: ** Too severe graphical/audio glitches ** Exploits emulation bugs ** Uses a suboptimal emulator (usually an old version of an emulator) ** Doesn't seem to sync for others * Mode: ** Not choosing optimal GBx hardware for a GBx game ** Forcing a PAL game to run in NTSC mode ** The movie starts from a saved state or SRAM ** Other kind of bad hardware settings * Unauthorized: ** Unauthorized submission ** Plagiarized run * Troll: Being a troll submission or something comparable listed as rejection reason * Joke: ** Submitted as a joke ** Submitted on April Fools day (and not serious) * Other: Other reasons * N/A: No summary entered