Hey everyone, Felah here. Lately I've been thinking and discussing with fellow speedrunners that it would be good to have more than one category to speedrun on the CSR mod (all bosses is not possible because well... frogs), since it's somewhat sad (at least for me) to have only 1 category for such a nice and fast way to navigate through the game.

So i thought, since FF X can have a Nemesis%, why can't we have Ozma%.

With that idea in mind, i wanted to propose an Ozma% category which would be from new game until last hit on Ozma (same principle as last hit on Necron).

For anyone intersted, here is a trial run and my notes/guide.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hgJ4BEgCSJ8ooggfGiAfPjCZW-ryGVX4kI5qSYWJ8G0/edit?tab=t.0

Forgot to add... This was done on the HD PC (steam) version of the game, since i'm not that familiar with the PSX version of FF IX, but i'm pretty sure an alternate route for PSX is possible too (just more heavy for encounters, and i'm guessing different exp route).

Im all for it

Should note that there is a a CSR Fix in Grimsalads all bosses guide, to make frogs work in CSR (if you wanted to do all bosses)

Having done a Semi Hundo run on CSR Recently, its certainly possible to do

I am for it too. Though would be nice to keep the memoria bosses in the category and keep it ending on Necron. Only for the fun RNG values.

@Beeker13 Yeah i heard something about that fix for the mod but from what i know, if someone already asked for the mods to add a category for it, it still hasn't been approved. So i worked with what i had at hand >.< . But yeah if it's added i would for sure run that all bosses category too (already doing the normal one so might as well).

@Sylleath The thing is (and in line with what Beeker13 mentioned), if the frog fix for CSR gets approved, then the run would be essentially an all bosses (minus little details) just without Quale, which is like the run i use to practice all bosses with CSR. So defeating Ozma and ending the run at disk 3 content instead of finishing the whole game goes more with the category name (just my oppinion though, the final decision is with the mods. Even if the run doesn't end up with the ending rules i envisioned, that's ok too. Having these kind of conversations and helping grow the FF IX scene is also part of the fun).

I'm all for it too.

I have the Switch version. w/ Booster is the only category I've run.

I tried an Ozma% run with boosters, and I had a lot of fun.

I love Chocobo Hot & Cold. So I'm happy that it's part of the route.

Here's my run if anyone's interested:

Great run! Like i commented on the video, it's always nice to see new ways to play the game we love.

At first i was like: but how's he gonna damage Ozma, is he gonna do the friendly monsters quest for the range?

But when i got to the battle, i then went ooooooh that's right, he can use any ability even if it normally does 1 damage and it will be 9999 hahaha, so i was really surprised since i never did boosters runs (might actually do one in the future now).

Again, great run, had a good time watching it :)

Thank you so much!

I realized when I found the 9999 booster affected those abilities too. I'm glad you are interested in boosters runs.

I hope we can have Ozma% in the future.