I have created a autosplitter that knows what level you are on and splits but still looking into a way to remove loads and at the moment you have to manually split at the end as we do not split on the level end instead when hercules animation stops. It also auto resets on the main menu. I use it in my latest PB.

The PAL version runs a lot slower. Would strongly recommend NTSC. I think PAL runs at 50hz and NTSC runs at 60hz. If you plan on speedrunning tricks like clipping dont work on PAL because of that.

The main reason was that the amount of interest was low and the time it takes to frame count is a lot. On PC we have a load remover so it makes it the most fair without needing to put a lot of time into verifying the ILs.

also keyboard was never banned you just have to show the inputs while playing.

I am confused on why specifically the first six levels? and not five or seven? finding levels fun is subjective and doesn't make much sense creating category for x levels because you like them more then others imo. Like Jumpy said there are IL leaderboards so you can grind the levels you like.

I could understand having extra categories if the route was different compared to the any% route but its exactly the same and any any% run could just be edited and then submitted which makes 0 sense.

The whole game is fun imo. The tree can be boring but doing it fast is still possible and the consequence is falling. Why not the first 4 levels or 5 levels? There are IL boards if you want to only do specific levels.

If cutscenes aren't working it will be an invalid run due to time differences. Have you tried this method of running it on Windows 10?