darker side had frog skip and no frog skip because they reflected version differences and its a strong case that you need to actually play darker side.

IP clip saves a few minutes over the course of an 8+ hour run which is insignificant and should not be a different subcategory.

the one split i can see that might make sense is including all purple coins in all moons because some people feel strongly about it, but given its only a few runners it still isn't really justifiable

pressing M once you die and start to fade but before the end screen appears puts you in a dead but invulnerable state where you can still collect diamonds - might be useful for 100% once i put up a proper proposal for it

every time you have to load the main "overworld" of metro on 1.3 compared to 1.0 you save a full second - slots is only faster on 1.3 or maybe breaks even, bullet billding does save time on 1.0 but not as much

upon 1.3 release the difference in any% between 1.0 and 1.3 was about 5s.

since then we've got better routes that make better use of the fast loading times so its probably closer to 10s.

technically you can get wr with 1.0 but its both slower and harder because of the skips

hot take. but the category rules should be decided by people who run the game / category

"i have been informed" can we get a better source on that? the switch can overclock during loads but only in docked mode which should always make docked faster.

Or do you have a comparative video of some loads?

@sknoll18

8 is still not a lot of runners dude. Most ce's are made and ran a few times within the first month then rarely touched until someone decides they want a record.

previously, there were subcategories for 10,11,13,14 or w/e it was at the time. 14 caps was cool and actually had quite a bit of interest but the rest were ghost towns.

low% does exist but its pretty much TAS only due to how difficult some of the ways you skip dashes / jumps are

lack of interest.

13 is the most easily accessible and 3 is the current known limit. having more categories would divide an already low interest even lower

you can submit runs using your phone as a camera.

a capture card is not required but a continuous recording is required

tl;dr

all 1.0 glitches save about 50s.

1.3 digital has way faster loads which save about 55s (now optimised to save closer to a minute)

so its faster and easier as you don't have to do things like double sphynx clip or turnip clip.

do you have any intention of running this category? right now the rules sound very very open and not perticularly well defined

so to clarify: you start from a luncheon file then go back to cap/cascade and touch 5 moons go to next kingdom etc.

this sounds hard to keep track of moons

https://www.speedrun.com/smoce/thread/ze0h9 please submit through the form

so its any% but cap is a bit different, lake varies a little, and thats it?

i don't think this is different enough from any% to be viable as a category

can you please clarify when time starts and stops? its not entirely obvious right now as someone who has not previously heard of this category.

also presumably it starts from a completed any% file?

would it start from a savefile that has or has not beaten any%? it matters because of madame brood

so it starts from world peace as thats the requirement for breaking moon rocks.

would check point warps be allowed if they were got before the run starts?

otherwise it could be interesting, if arbitrary

god% sounds like a bad category as its just any% then do a different thing.

toadette% would suck due to requiring 800 moons - at which point its nearly aum

hint art% - literally dark side but with some moons afterwards that would require multiple kingdom visits

hint art% 2 - just as annoying

balloon world% - online won't exist forever and is susceptible to exploits

balloon world max% - same problems as above but more so

vr% - switch cannot be recorded in VR mode with a capture card

cat mario/peach/rosalina% - hard to track and verify, also likely not interesting

all costumes - just coin grinding + most purple coins and i believe you need near to 500 moons to unlock most outfits...

all help signs - hard to track and i can't imagine it'd be that interesting.

as a general note. mods don't add categories unless you have a run first - which is why all flags RTA exists - someone actually did a run.

so the person who's never submitted a run to any SRC board has got wr? yeah ok buddy