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