Otherwise, there might be some software that you can run on the DS that will dump video while playing, but this will interfere with the speed of play, as the DS will need to execute more calculations than it already does.
Imo, the glitched are really what make the pokemon speedruns shine, so I'd have to stick with Red and Blue (due to the masses of glitches known on those two).
Xvid is a lossy encoding IIRC.
The main problem with SDA is that they can't prevent cheats as they claim they can. This is truly the root of the problems.
SDA accepts segmented runs too. Also, what do you mean by 'elitism imposed'?
Submit good runs to Speed Demos Archive.
In Mega Man 6, when you die, the level tileset is not reset and the Blizzardman and Mr. X 1 stages have different tilesets. Ergo, it's not possible to die in one level and then end up in another level without significant graphical glitches. I'm pretty sure your memory is just playing tricks on you, or you're remembering a dream or something.
I checked out how level data is handled in MM6, and concluded that in order to return to the Blizzard Man checkpoint, the Mr. X 1 stage level data would have to be in between the checkpoint and the end of Blizzard Man's stage. Obviously, it's not there. And that's not even getting into further complications, such as tileset issues, how the level pointer would direct you to Mr. X 1 and back, how the Mr. X level intro could play and what the Blizzard Man spikes could have to do with it. tl;dr: Denied.
I was going to download Pokémon Battle Revolution sometime in the future, but my antivirus program detected a Trojan program in Pokésav. I won't make a project for the 4th generation in Pokémon. Anyway, I can still do a project for the 3rd generation with Ciro's Pokémon Maker. I hope that program doesn't fall victim to a Trojan program like in Pokésav. For the generations 1 and 2, I use a GameShark.
Is it just when saving the game via the save option, or do savestates do it as well?
Using these cheat codes are mostly comparable to hacking the game. They allow you to force ANY given address in the RAM to a specific value. Some codes work by forcing the address where your hp is stored to the maximum amount, resulting in invincibility. However, games were never designed to be tampered with in such a way, so it is very likely that any given cheat code will crash the game. I hope that helps.
Likely the game just isn't designed for the main character to be changed like that.