Hello everyone! Today is April 15th which means the speedrun.com leaderboard is now live! Feel free to explore the categories and submit any runs as well!

Now that the leaderboards are live, we would like to provide clarification on certain topics brought up/discovered in the community discord recently:

1. 'Torpedo Storage', or collecting torpedoes on another save file before starting a run, is allowed.
2. After beating 7-5, the game puts you back to Luke's Island for a final mission, however Episode 8 has already unlocked. We are unsure if leaving early here will still cause the credits to play after beating all 9 episodes. We plan on testing this very soon and if the credits still play, leaving episode 7 after beating 7-5 will be allowed.
3. We are aware of vastly different load times that are present between different runners on the PC version. Because of this, a PC load remover is currently in the works and will hopefully be implemented within a week. Because console will be unable to use this load remover, in order to keep competition fair we will either be separating console runs into separate subcategories or we will be manually removing load times from console runs. This is to be determined in the near future. PC runs will not have loads manually removed though, they must use the load remover.
4. As of now, we are not looking to add anymore categories to the leaderboard. As the game continues to grow and get more fleshed out, we may add more categories. We may add Story Mode single episode runs in the near future though.
5. We strongly urge people to please read all the rules of every category they plan to submit to. Just because it was a rule on a spreadsheet/something we said in the discord does not mean it is the same rule on the final leaderboard.

Any updates to leaderboard rules will be indicated in the speedrun discord, please join at: https://discord.gg/W9YVpNXgDE