Ok, people. I need some feedback.
An "any%" run of this game has
previously been submitted and rejected due to the game version. To put it as succinctly as possible: though some considered
Original Edition to be a separate game and desired publication along side basic
NES Donkey Kong, the ultimate judgement was to not accept
Original Edition for its own "any%" run due to the extra stage content increasing the overall time, and to just leave
NES Donkey Kong as the "any%" run of the game. That judgment also deemed that an "all items" run
should use
Original Edition over
NES Donkey Kong as it showed getting more items due to the additional stage. So in effect, the decision meant that the site (at least at that time) was going to consider both games as different versions of the same game and not allow side-by-side publications.
I'm asking for thoughts on revising this position.
FWIW, the discussion at the time centered around 2 things: 1) if the games were separate or not and 2) authorship.
For my personal opinion, with the recent loosening of rules as well as changes from a tier based to a class based publication system, I feel that the additional stage in
Original Edition offers enough different content to warrant publishing both "any%" and "all items" of
both games along side each other even though all other stages are (or nearly are) identical time wise.
That said,
if the general consensus is to only keep one of these games for each branch, I'd suggest
Original Edition for both "any%" and "all items" in order to show the more 'complete' version of the game.
TL:DR I think we should publish both
NES Donkey Kong and
Donkey Kong: Original Edition along side each other, but am looking for feedback from the community before making a final judgement on this submission. This submission is otherwise acceptable from an optimization standpoint.
