Community Rules

Avoid posting the same content multiple times or spamming. Each contribution should add value to the discussion.

Content must be appropriate for all ages. No explicit, violent, or offensive content is allowed.

Use your real identity or a consistent pseudonym. Fake accounts and identity impersonation are prohibited.

Participate in constructive and respectful discussions. Debates are encouraged but must remain civil.

Help new members and share your knowledge. A strong community is built together.

Report any inappropriate content or behavior to moderators rather than responding aggressively.

Keep your contributions relevant to the discussion topic or article category.

Write thoughtful and well-articulated comments. Avoid single-word comments or those without added value.

Criticize ideas, not people. Personal attacks and insults result in immediate sanctions.

No form of discrimination, racism, sexism, or hate speech is tolerated on the platform.

Verify your sources before sharing information. Deliberate misinformation is sanctioned.

All submitted scores must be achieved through legitimate gameplay. Use of cheats, hacks, exploits, or any form of assistance is strictly prohibited.

To be valid, a score must exactly correspond to the format used to achieve it, including platform, game name, group name and level name. All submitted scores must exactly correspond to the score displayed in the game. If the game saves the score, it is the saved score that prevails over the score displayed during the game.

Submitted scores must have been achieved by you and only you. Multiplayer is prohibited. If other characters or elements controlled by computer have an impact on the score, it is forbidden to replace them by non-AI players (such as a second, inactive controller). Developer scores or scores originally saved in the game can not be submitted as your own scores.

You must have finished the level you submit a score on.

A score value of 0 (zero) that you have not achieved yourself is prohibited.

Case of compilations
In particular, if you achieved your score on a compilation (several games sold in a bundle), you MUST post by default on this compilation and not separately on the original games.
Exceptions: You are allowed to post your scores from these compilations if and only if these 3 conditions are met:

• the compilation is strictly identical to the original game (gameplay, options, characters, bonus),
• the compilation was released on the same platform as the original game,
• it is specified as allowed in the Specific Rules of this game.

Case of Virtual Console and Mini consoles
If you are playing a version of a game with different gameplay options from the original game (such as Mini or Virtual Console), you MUST post on these new versions, not on the original games.
If savestates or rewinds are included into a game or platform/system, sold like this and legally, they will be allowed.
But note that if these games are an official emulation (which VGR allows) of older original games, then VGR will separate them from the original game, due to the gameplay difference brought by these savestates or rewinds.

Please respect strictly the type of platform or console, and game you played on.
Attention, proof requests (picture or video) could be more frequent, for these different versions.

All of the following are prohibited:

• Cheat codes
• Action Replay or equivalent system
• Unofficial emulated games (emulated games: replicated game on a platform it had not been developed for). Official emulation (on Virtual Console [Wii] and Nintendo eShop [Wii U, 3DS]) is authorized, as well as games on console allowing backward compatibility games
• Continues (continuing a level after a Game Over screen) if they don't reset or lower your score
• Unofficial patches, mods or other game elements
• Modifying a game, a controller (pad), a console or a game accessory in order to improve scores or facilitate their realization
• In a general way, any practice which isn't integrated in the original game or which makes competition between players unfair

Glitch: A video game bug allowing the realization of unplanned gameplay, such as passing through walls or modifying timers.

The following types of glitches are prohibited:

• Glitches that can only be realized on some versions of a game or some platforms. A glitch must be achievable by any player
• Glitches that freeze the timer

As they are unexpected, glitches and their consequences are very different depending on the games so it isn't possible to define other general rules.
Any other glitch is authorized by default, unless there is a rule specified on the record page (functionality to come). All specific rules displayed on a record page are prior to the rules defined in this Agreement.
If there is no indication nor rule, you can ask an administrator for more information or inquire on the forum. It is possible that a glitch could be unknown from the VGR team and could be prohibited after a case study.

Scores should be accompanied by valid proof (screenshot, video, replay file) when possible. Proof helps validate achievements and is strongly recommended.

• A proof not containing all visible elements to clearly and specifically identify a record will be refused.
• When the game or system options allow, the French and English languages are preferred, as are the International System units (distances in m, speed in km/h, weight in kg).
• Any type of conversion which doesn't come from the game is prohibited.
• At any time you may prove your scores by uploading a picture or a video displaying clearly your score and the corresponding level.

The submission of a record does not imply proving it immediately.
However, starting from 300 (three hundred) scores submitted on the website, you are required to maintain at least 3% (three percent) approved scores in order to submit further.
Even if proof is not required on VGR as an obligation, any member must be able to prove each score sent, over the long term.

Any member is permitted to send a proof request to another member, at any time if there is doubts about the legitimacy of a submission.

• If the proof request is justified and approved by an administrator of the website, the member which receives the request has 2 (two) weeks to provide proof.
• Any reported, unproven submission following this 2 weeks period will be deactivated and can only be reactivated if a proof is submitted and validated.
• Starting from 30 (thirty) deactivated scores, a member cannot submit new scores any more.
• A disabled score cannot be deleted with a request of a member, unless very restrictive exceptions where huge effort on proofs must be made (this will be fixed case by case by several VGR Administrators, in the mutual "win-win" interest).
• A maximum of 5 requests for proofs per day is possible

First offense: warning. Second offense: temporary suspension. Third offense: ban.

Certain behaviors (severe harassment, illegal content, mass spam) result in immediate banning.

You can contest a sanction by contacting the moderation team with supporting evidence.

Repeat offenders face more severe sanctions. Infraction history is maintained.