Just recently Nach implemented my old request of
auto-reporting the time difference for publications that obsolete something.
So now, when you pick the movie to be obsoleted from the dropdown list when you're publishing something, in addition to copying the description and movie classes from the obsoleted run, it will also report the time difference in the form of a
frames module:
Improved by [module:frames|amount=3522] seconds.
Exceptions are DOS, MSX, GameCube and Wii. DOS and MSX framecounts are artificial, as those systems don't have reliable constant refresh rate and can change it on the fly. The site parses their real time instead and synthesizes the framecount out of that, assuming 60 fps (while most DOS games run at ~70). GCN and Wii framecounts that the site parses are input poll counts, the actual time is determined by the tick count, which isn't part of the usual submission info. So for these 4 platforms, the improvement is reported as
plain time difference:
Improved by 1:58.70 minutes.
Do not the leave the automated report as is!
1. Rephrase it to fit into the actual description.
2. Add the intended region (ntsc or pal) as the fps argument:
Improved by [module:frames|amount=3522|fps=ntsc] seconds.
That will make the site use the framerate from the database for the platform the movie belongs to.