The reason that I wanted to bring this back up is because mid-game pausing is used in many other games on competitive sites (SM64, Megaman, etc.), and not only that, but there is evidence that old players who made times before this site was created used it as well (Hirano comes to mind).


There are only a few circumstantial advantages of mi-game pausing, but it can still come in handy and lower some times further still; things like:

- Luigi Circuit rain puddles - In his WR, Hirano MT's into them, pauses the game, presses B, and releases B as he un-pauses it to go back into normal speed without losing speed from pressing B.
- Snow Land ice puddles - See above.


So here is the big question: does it really need to be banned if it is used extensively in other competitive games and barely has an impact on the times in this game, or did everyone just get carried away with over-strict rules that (in some cases) weren't that well-thought-out at the site's release?

Do you mean, pressing Start button while running?
I never tried that in any MK game because I always thought it was slower... And it is, especially for MKDS, MKW, MK7, MKDD and probably SMK (and MKSC?)

you can prove it if you notice no slow down after a puddle hit.

I must admit, that wasn't taken into consideration when it was banned. It was banned because it was on smk and because it doesn't feel proper like what mario86 is saying.

If its a tas then you do everything to achieve the best time but for a driving game it seems quite abnormal (as is the abspinshroom tech).

would there be any situation where you could pause, redirect the dpad for a nbt set up? Probably.. i dont know but i think it should be banned as its essentially glitch abuse (in the mander case).

I think thats quite a legitimate reason to pause. If it doesn't alter the impact of the game. I know luca has often pointed out that there are situations where you could pause, hold R and then unpause to be able to get boots after tricky button combinations.

no, not at all, you might not even notice it.

It must help most where when you need to go from left to right or the other way quickly and jumping in a straight line would take you off course/the best racing line. Pausing, holding R and releasing pause would give you that benefit of switching without the hop in the middle.

I talked about pausing in MKSC a couple of times.
Using the pause, you can press and hold the jump button w/o jumping.
The advantage is that you can perform a ZZMT in less space (the Mt does not charge while you are in air).
Fenner used it in some of his live vids.

Edit:
the vid showing it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mDEthReqHc