Hello, currently, the rules for the X-Men 2 runs do not specify whether a hard or soft reset should be used to start a run. The current world record (A-Frame's run ) does a soft reset.

I do not have any solid evidence that there is a difference, but from my observations, runs with the soft resets have some issues:

• Sometimes, there are sound glitches, like Siberia stage background music bugging out. The bug persists throughout the game and causes a soft lock: .
• The background music on the Fortress 1 stage (climbing the pyramid) is sometimes slowed down until you reach the boss.
• Avalon 3 (falling down stage) background music starts playing and overlaps with background music in Savage 1 (going up and down trees in a swamp).
• Other rare issues include screen freezing in Savage 4 (the second purple stage with a 9-tiled door at the end) and soft locking the game.

The runs with the hard reset seem not to have those issues. The Fortress 1 stage glitch is annoying because I rely on the sound queues for skips.

However, if we consider allowing hard resets, we need to determine if the timing for a run start is the same as when we use a soft reset (-2.73 seconds).

I'm unsure how the question of whether to do a soft or hard reset is usually addressed, so I'd like some feedback.