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Minor change to leaderboards.md: Clarification of game speed hint #291

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Expand Up @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ The best place to start is to look at existing leaderboards and break it down to

The **Title/Description** fields are quite obvious.

The **Type** is "Time (Frames)". The value we're tracking updates once a frame, and the Genesis runs at 60 frames per second. (see not below for systems that run at other speeds)
The **Type** is "Time (Frames)". The value we're tracking updates once a frame, and the Genesis runs at 60 frames per second (see note below on [Value Format](/developer-docs/leaderboards#value-format) for systems that run at other speeds).
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The actual URL is https://docs.retroachievements.org/developer-docs/leaderboards.html#value-format. I don't know if the ".html" is implied and will be added by the conversion.

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I'm a bit leary about saying "see note below" when it's the note on the linked document. Maybe just "see note on...".

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The actual URL is https://docs.retroachievements.org/developer-docs/leaderboards.html#value-format. I don't know if the ".html" is implied and will be added by the conversion.

The style link he has will get built to the right url when it's built and deployed.

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I'm a bit leary about saying "see note below" when it's the note on the linked document. Maybe just "see note on...".

The link is to a paragraph far down below, but still on the same page (leaderboards.html), that's why I kept the below (which was there originally). But it can also be removed if it doesn't fit.


The **Lower Is Better** flag is checked, then the one who makes the shortest time will be the #1.

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