I've noticed that some of the Challanges have been removed without an explanation as to why they were removed. I checked the declined games list but nothing seems to of changed last time. Is there a reason as to why some of the Challanges have been removed? Some of them were mine and I don't know why they were removed as it didn't seem to have gotten noticed.
Posted Jul 1, 2016, 2:41 PM UTC
Nothing was removed yet; Got a big technical shift happening to try and reduce the problems that keep happening for players on the show. We are switching to Bizhawk for all 3 emulators we were using so I hijacked that form to make recreating old states easier. New ones will need checked still and recreated if I like them.
So, question, after the form is back up, would that mean that if I were to submit a video game challenge, I would need to make a state using Bizhawk, or would a state from a different emulator still work? I ask this only because I'm not the most knowledgeable regarding emulators. I assume this means that it would only work with a state made using that particular emulator.
It won't even let you use the wrong version of bizhawk, or the wrong core in bizhawk. You will need Bizhawk 1.11.6 and whatever core it automatically chooses to make states. This is the case for just about every emulator.
So does this mean there will be new console platforms and games appearing in the show if Bizhawk is involved?
I realize this is a tedious change. I don't make it lightly. We are moving towards a permanent status for the applications we use here, due to the size of the database. So it's now or never on switching away from the Kega Fusion nightmare.