This topic is for the purpose of discussing #1928: girfanatic501's GBA "first track" F-Zero: Maximum Velocity in 02:47.35

I haven't played MV much, but I can notice right away some errors in your run. You should land smoothly after the jumper by pressing down, and you shouldn't replenish your energy, you don't need it. I don't know which is the best time with that car, but the WR is 1'48"01 (with Jet Vermilion). I look around on youtube & found a run of 2 minutes with another car. I highly recommend you to use a different car (though you would need to unlock the cars first). If you have any question, I also recommend you to ask on MFO's forum. It might not be very active, but people will surely help you ;)

I think that you can use a password to access all cars, because such a password exists in F-Zero X, and I know passwords exist in GBA games to access all difficulty modes, like Monkey Ball for example. So you should really look into if a password is possible; if not, unlock it and use start from SRAM movie file. There's a few GBA runs where that's accepted. This, plus smaurai goroh's mentioning of how it's not optimal, makes me also recommend to redo.

A redo is definitely recommended. I could easily waste that time, real time, if I wasn't constrained to a keyboard for playing. As for that jump, yes, hold down. Not only do you land smoothly, but you can cut off a bigger chunk of the track. As for unlocking passwords, there is one for the jet vermillion in this game. You can grab a password generator from http://caitsith2.net/fzero_password.zip (Source code is included.) (Every name you use, has a different password required.) Conveniently, the password for name "LOL" is "02=T4PL=M?YJ"

My opinion is that submitting only one track of a racing game is like submitting only one fight of a fighting game, or one stage of a platformer. I.e., incomplete for all purposes.

A couple of years ago it might have been acceptable to submit one track of a game, since there was a lack of frame advance and memory watch adding to "this genre is so hard that you're gonna be taking at least 2 years spending every waking hour just so you can produce an acceptable run of every track in the game". I honestly don't see why racing games should get speacial treatment in this sense much like having 1 level in a sonic game.

om, nom, nom... blech, stale!