What Is Twin Galaxies and How Do You Submit a Video Game Record?

Twin Galaxies is a long-running video game record-keeping and competitive community site where players submit performances, the community votes on them, and recognized results appear on leaderboards. If you want an official-looking record of a high score, speedrun, or level time, you register on twingalaxies.com, submit the performance with its platform and track details, and wait for community evaluation. It is not an instant-verification system: recognition depends on other users reviewing and voting on what you submit.

What Twin Galaxies Is

The site describes itself as a place that has celebrated video game achievements for over 40 years, built around competition, sharing wins, and an official gaming community. Its own framing is achievement-focused rather than storefront-focused: the visible calls to action are to submit a performance, vote on performances, join the community, and compete on leaderboards.

Two names are associated with the site in its own keyword set: Walter Day and Jace Hall. Beyond that association, the site itself is the authority here — the practical takeaway is that Twin Galaxies positions itself as a record archive plus a voting community, not just a scoreboard.

How Submission and Recognition Work

The flow is submit → community evaluates → recognized result. The site's own wording is direct: "Submit your own performance for the community to evaluate," and "Vote on performances" is presented as the path to becoming "officially recognized."

Step by step

1. Register or log in. The site shows a Register / Login entry point. You need an account to submit or vote.
2. Submit a performance. Use the "Submit a performance" action. You provide the game, platform, track, and your result.
3. Wait for community evaluation. Other users vote on submissions. The site labels this as voting on performances.
4. Get recognized. A performance that passes community evaluation becomes an officially recognized result.

What a submission looks like

The live feed on the site shows the fields that matter in practice. Each entry includes:

Other examples show the same structure across very different setups: PC (Mario Luigi DOS, Level 1 Fastest Time, 34.000), Sega Genesis / Mega Drive (James "Buster" Douglas Knockout Boxing, NTSC Points, 3,771,120), Game Boy Advance (Super Street Fighter II Turbo Revival, Points Tournament Settings, 1,355,100), Atari 2600 (Pac-Man, NTSC Game 1 Difficulty B Points, 8,856), and Nintendo Switch (Nintendo World Championships NES Edition, Fastest Time, 10.630).

The pattern to notice: platform and track are separate choices. "Points" and "Fastest Time" are different tracks, and difficulty or region settings (NTSC, Tournament Settings, Difficulty B) are part of the track definition. Submitting the wrong track is the most likely reason a result gets questioned.

Reading the Leaderboards and Ranks

Each submission shows a "Potential rank" before it is finalized. In the feed, results with a potential rank of 1 appear alongside results with a potential rank of 25 — the rank is relative to existing records on that specific track, not to the whole site. A 34.000-second level time and a 3,771,120-point score are not comparable; they only compete within their own track.

Community activity is visible per submission as views and replies. Some entries show 0 replies, others show 3 — replies are where discussion and challenges to a result tend to happen.

What Platforms and Tracks Are Tracked

From the visible feed alone, the range spans arcade emulation, home computers, and modern consoles:

• Arcade / emulation: M.A.M.E.
• PC / DOS: PC
• Sega: Sega Genesis / Sega Mega Drive
• Nintendo handheld: Game Boy Advance
• Nintendo home: NES / Famicom Disk, Nintendo Switch
• Atari: Atari 2600 / VCS

Track types visible in the feed include Points, Fastest Time, and level-specific fastest times, with variants for region (NTSC), difficulty (Game 1, Difficulty B), and tournament settings.

Joining the Community

The site's community pitch is straightforward: "Join community, share achievements, meet new friends and more." The visible entry points are Register / Login, Submit a performance, Vote on performances, and Join the community. For newcomers, the site points to an "Official Book of TG Guidelines" to learn how to join, participate, and be recognized — that document is the right place to check rules before submitting, since track definitions and evidence expectations are what determine whether a result stands.

Practical Notes Before You Submit

• Match the track exactly. Region, difficulty, and mode are part of the track, not optional details.
• Expect a wait. Recognition comes from community voting, not automatic approval.
• Check the guidelines first. The site explicitly directs new users to its guidelines document.
• Your rank is track-specific. A potential rank of 1 on one track says nothing about another.

If your goal is simply to have a verified-looking record of a personal best in a community that has been doing this for decades, Twin Galaxies is built for exactly that. If you want instant confirmation with no review step, this is not that system.