CanadaThe glitch (to my knowledge) is completely random, the spamming left/right and/or up/down is just a way to warm up my fingers to react to whichever direction the dad I want to grab may spawn. pretty sure you will see this in almost all of my past sywds gameplay.
I agree with the suggestion of splitting the leaderboard because of version differences. To be honest, just the first cutscene skip glitch alone is enough to split the leaderboards. It's a logical change and you've gone through the work of showing the differences between the two versions. The differences seem to be more than just a cutscene skip here or there. There are seemingly different movement limitations being put on the newer version of the game. The problem with splitting the leaderboard, in my opinion, is the lack of active players. Split leaderboards will split the current player base, which is already relatively small (to my knowledge). I understand there is a sizeable Japanese community/discord that plays the game but I just don't see it often because I'm not Japanese, lol. That RTA event definitely showed me more people played than I thought and made me a bit sad I don't have as much time to play now.
In summary, I would actually be fine with a version-separated leaderboard. I think it should be done sooner than later, as it will need to happen eventually. I would just play the most populated category. Which would hopefully be the latest version. I don't know how I feel about the current first cutscene skip glitch in the previous version. It is interesting and saves time, but I have qualms about it.
good finds! Was wondering how tukishiro did the cutscene skip at the start to beat my record. And I think I agree with your idea of splitting the game by post/pre-update (if early version and current update are vastly different). A version tag (like how SM64 does JP,US,PAL) could also be an option, so choosing the fastest version is known and available.
How did you do that cutscene skip at the start? That saves like 40 seconds!
pretty clean! might come back and try to take some of these back, at the least monterrey :D
please dont take the moderator rant personal :(((((((
