Just to correct one of the points you made Timmi in the olden days of SDA there were lots of comments of people just posting their splits with no video proofs what so ever and we'd just cheer them on and tell them to keep improving and how they could improve their runs etc since streaming was barely a thing and youtube was kind of a pain when you were playing 9+ hour games (Hell SDA didn't even accept games larger than 4 hours for years). There were obviously speedrun videos etc when it came to WR and new glitches being found but back then it was more about getting your run verified on SDA than it was to get WR or be competitive.

Also if you want a laugh you should have seen all the hoops we had to go through to get a DS game submitted to SDA before the DS capture card came about. The DS forums in general are kind of a good example of what I mean when I say people just posted strats and their times.

Personally I'll always be on the side that gets me more Days / CoM runners because lets face it I'd whore myself out for more runners if needed. However I also understand that the leaderboards need to be something official for people who see this as something that is competitive rather than just self improvement / going for "The perfect run".

Edit: A final point I want to make is that a year or two or fourty when KH3 and 2.8 come out they will be able to be streamed without the use of a capture card. I honestly can't see why we'd ever accept a run for those without video proof but I will still defend DDD runs without video proof due to how expensive / difficult it is to stream that game. There is no golden rule we can apply to the whole leaderboards it needs to be done on a case by case basis for the most part.

Adding a $10 bounty for Re:Coded NG+ that is sub 1:10 Also adding a $10 bounty for KH2FM beginner mode that is sub 3:36

Bounties and Kingdom Hearts speedruns are a tale as old as time. I'm sure any of the old guard remember the giant $1000 bounty on KH2 or even the smaller $10 ones on Days / KH1 expert, even more recently the only reason I actually picked up Re:Coded was to steal Toji's $20.

So with that rich history in mind lets kick things off again - Lets bring back KH bounties. If you want to put money towards a category being beaten or a glitch to be found just post here and I'll update this post as necessary.

Active bounties:

$30 by Karxrida for a Deathless 2FM Lvl 1 Crit Any% that's sub 4:20.

$25 by TheNannerpuss12 to the next person to get a 1:06:xx in Aqua critical any%

$20 by ProtagonistJake to the next person to WR in KH2FM any% crit while having final form

$15 by ProtagonistJake to the next person to WR in KH2FM any% beginner while having final form

$1 by Rebelwatt to the next person to find a 1+ minute time save in KHFMHD

Claimed bounties:

$100 by JHobz to the first person to find a useful, reproducible clip that becomes part of the speedrun route in KHFM HD Beginner Any%. Must save at least 5 seconds and be 100% consistent.

$50 by JHobz for a KHFM HD Proud any% that is sub 3:10

$15 by Drazerk for a KHFM HD Beginner any% run in 2:44 - Claimed by BloodyBizkitz

$10 by abandonthemyriad to the next person who gets sub 1:16 in Aqua Beginner - Claimed by Nanner

$10 by Drazerk for a KH2FM beginner mode run that is sub 3:36 - Claimed by Liquidwifi

$10 by iiSalad for a time better than 14''66 on Port Royal Skateboard Minigame KH2/KH2fm

So saiyanz is an ass and found probably one of the biggest glitches in the series. We have vertical screen wraps in Re:Coded which potentially will allow us to skip large portions of worlds. As a result of this I'd like to rename the No GOSU category to No Major Glitches to include the OoB / Screen wrapping shenanigans. This change would aim to keep the spirit of the category in tact. However we still can't call it glitchless because the Donald Thundaga glitch happens way too easily and it'd be stupid to invalidate runs over that.

Videos of the glitch:

While its potentially a good idea I can see some issues.

My main concern is what about people who use their splits as their notes like me?

Take my re:Coded WR for example: http://www.speedrun.com/run/dy42x2dm I know for a fact without having so many splits I'd likely mess up somewhere and I've seen varies runners do the same thing for Sardonix ring in Kh2 / Puppies in KH1.

Personally I think expanding Rebel's idea of a "world leaderboard" to be a better idea for this maybe importing the idea into the leaderboards like I'm doing with the 358/2 ILs - http://www.speedrun.com/khdays-j/individual_levels

GBA CoM can also be streamed from a gamecube rather cheaply as well so its not really a handheld (Gamecube load times are actually faster than a DS lite). Also the fact IGT can't be used for CoM due to the soft resets for moogle trips and splits are pointless for a whole bunch of different reasons.

For those reasons alone I'd say video proof should be required for CoM (Twitch removed my highlights for my CoM runs so I'd say if there was video proof at some point that it should be allowed similar to BB's 2.5 record that way if Twitch implodes and we all lose our highlights we can at least have times on the leaderboards )

While it wouldn't be the greatest but seeing as we accept it for DDD I was wondering if a screenshot of the IGT would solve the issue of proof? I know in Re:Coded / Days saving and loading takes up to 20 seconds each time so a segmented run is always going to be slower than an RTA and I believe Ghostwheel said something similar about KH2 having a time penalty each time he saved and loaded when he was doing his 100% standard run.

Maybe add that with a picture of your splits to confirm? as it'd be very weird if someone had a 15 minute roxas section for instance (Saying this I know I'm the worst given I have 1 second splits in my Re:Coded WR because I can't be bothered to bind skip split).

Obviously i'm all for video proof for any top 20 run. At that point there really isn't a reason you can't just local record and upload. Hell I used to stream using a $3 webcam because DS cap cards suck to get.

IGT was dropped from 358/2 because it differs horribly across systems / regions. PAL loses 2 minutes on the credits alone which has no game play elements involved which is really silly. I believe its the same for Re:Coded but I'll test it when I have access to my computer again.

Another thing is I have no idea if GOSU actually effects IGT given you're using a different file etc but it could be potentially messy. I know on average that Re:Coded is like ~6 minutes slower IGT than RTA timing.

Also IGT requires you to actually skip cutscenes for an optimal time after you've done the final hit on the final boss which is another factor to consider as I know I personally like to let the final cutscenes play out after a PB although I don't really mind either way its just a few more button presses.

If you just want it being an optimal thing I'm pretty cool with that since we already do it in Days and that has the most issues with its IGT.

Kingdom hearts 358/2:

I can have a donation incentive between the three difficulties start at Beginner to Standard to Proud. At most beginner / proud would add 10 minutes from standard in a worst case scenario. $200 per difficulty seems reasonable maybe higher or lower.

Infernal engine blindfolded $10 seems okay Final Xion blindfolded $10 again

And a bid war for any of the optional missions in the game the longest would take 5 minutes but most would be 2-3 minutes.

Can also have a bid war between which language is played. Options are English, french, Spanish, Italian and German

While I personally don't care if you change it or not the runner for Kingdom Hearts 358/2 should be myself rather than any% standard.

However its funnier being any% standard so if you want to keep it as that go ahead.

I found out what causes the softlock on day 321 in Kingdom Hearts 358/2 so the estimate can probably come down to 3:45

20 hours to reach level 100? Is that estimate right because it should only take around 5-6 hours for a fresh account and maybe shorter if you are doing a NG+ run.