I have the Limited Run version of the game (I'll be playing the LR blue cart on an Analogue Pocket for my runs), and the 0hp glitch isn't available for runs that are on hardware (meaning the game does factor in fall damage, and you will game over if you fall and reach 0hp from the fall). It might be best if there's two different leaderboards for how people are running the game (ROM vs hardware). Thoughts?

Got any footage? would assume it is the same file as they put on the website as I dont think we've had any patches. Feel free to DM it to me at welshTCG on discord if thats easier to.

I'll be streaming it today or tomorrow (once I finish learning the route...I only got my copy yesterday) and can get a clip then!

Here's me falling into a trio of holes and dying each time, haha:

Thanks for the video, Defiantly something has been patched vs the released game in January , been trying to find the game on secondary markets but no luck there, Have you tried bombs on NoFungus?

I've been trying, and unfortunately not noticing any damage difference - it's arguably taking longer to try the bombs than just spamming sword slashes. I'll capture some boss footage at some point tonight for reference (and to make sure I'm producing accurate samples).

On the bright side, I do have access to the bomb skips over holes...small victories, haha!

Thanks appreciate it when you get around to it, do you have any way to dump the GBC cart? I've been trying to find it on secondary party resellers but no luck over here

Hey Asuka, welcome to Hime's Quest speedrunning! As Welsh said, none of us have our hands on it, so having some way of dumping the game via whatever means would be fantastic, if possible. That way, we can have more eyes on it to assess everything. As it currently stands though, if bombs do truly work 100% the same after more testing (can skip and still hit Nofungus for 4x damage than sword swings), then I don't believe that is enough to warrant a separation. While not dying to fall damage is somewhat of an advantage, you're already limited with the amount of tries you have with the amount of bombs you can work with anyways. Of course, there are niche times where it can let a run continue with the additional attempts the glitch would provide, such as getting a health upgrade, but that's only really relevant in a no-reset setting. PB attempts at a high level would aim to not fail the skips as much as possible anyways.

Now, even if the bombs didn't do more damage, I think full separation would only make sense if the original version we all played on wasn't so easily accessible via either browser or the rom they provide (which can also be played on hardware). If this was more of a situation where the game was only distributed physically and Crunchyroll's physical version differed from Limited Run's physical version, then I would be more inclined to agree with a separation.

Despite all this, I don't think it hurts to add it as a variable to make the distinction at the very least. Either way, thank you for sharing your findings! I look forward to whatever else you find in your testing and wish you the best of luck with speedrunning Hime's Quest. Please feel free to reach out to any of us if you have any questions about the run. :D

Minor update, we got patch notes from developers on twitter for 1.1, skate managed to reach out, we're hoping they release 1.1 on the website since will make everyone life easier

"We definitely patched the pits and I may have tweaked the HP of a few bosses. Changes were very minor. Sorry to speedrunners."

Hopefully have a resolution soon :)