Hey! I'm very interested in speedruning this game, however by watching these runs I'm unsure of a couple things, for example, in Caldoaxa when the beetle is trapped by the stairs to grind, what stat's level are we trying to get to. If I could get the route explained to be that would be great. Also, I'm unable to captute footage on my DS or 3DS, will recording with a camera be alright as long as I show both screens?

Never mind lol I found it. New to Speedrun.com so I didn't know it would be posted anywhere

Dang, I haven't checked this in years so I had no idea people would even post here!

So ya, for sword route I try to just get strength to 27. You can potentially do lower, maybe 25.

And ya record however you want. Technically running on the actual hardware is the optimal way since blowing in to the mic does way more damage with the balloon decal than doing it on emulator.