getting started

General:

F-zero GX is an extremely hard game to speedrun and takes a lot of practice until you can get a good run.
Patience and time to practice is extremely important if you want to set good times for this game.

There is not any major version difference known yet regarding gameplay. You can speedrun this game on every single version of this game.
The only difference between versions is languages and that you die on the japanese version if you don't make ch. 5 in 40 secs
( this is a very minor difference ).


getting really started:

Here is a list of (almost) all advanced techniques (AT) in this game with a brief explanation: http://fzerocentral.org/viewtopic.php?t=463

The most popular category is maxspeed, hence all categories on the leaderboards are max speed so far, which means some tricks are not really required to learn like spaceflying or snaking.

A good way to get into this game is beating it without any ATs to get a feel for it, but this can be very frustrating.
Whenever you want to start learning ATs, then I recommend following this guide by Vallkyr: http://www.fzerocentral.org/viewtopic.php?t=13780 and learn the most important ATs individually from the easiest to the hardest.

While learning the most important ATs, you can start doing time attack. You will not get a good time on any category without time attacking, the more you play the more your skills improve and time attack or time attack practice is the best way to improve.

You can find some good and rather easy strats for each track on this tutorial playlist by Naegleria: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5UD8kOhQuv8I3IpEU57N1pCAeiYQNr36
However I recommend to  try out different vehicles and strats yourself too and maybe use a different vehicle than suggested, because you feel more comfortable with it, but if you want to go for better times your vehicle choice will be more and more restricted.
Doing research on your own is always good.

Try to improve on each track and get a time you are satisfied with the strat. If you think you need to add harder strats to improve, you can find many strats from other GX players. Here is a list of playlists where you can learn strats from: http://fzerocentral.org/viewtopic.php?p=100364&highlight=#100364 ( and there is still a lot more )

I also recommend to join the F-zero GX discord channel where you can find many other active GX players, that can give you advice: https://discord.gg/0SjuQvhyEztYYVno

Guides and Resources

[Advanced Tech and Story Mode Guide](https://fzerocentral.org/next/old-forum/view-topic?t=13780&page=1#p99722) by Valyssa

[CGN's Story Mode Playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDgME9DN6VlHSfhbKpX5LAOoqYO354kuU)

[AKC12's Max Speed Guide](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yy1bv_G-eI2f7a8whAHOhhULii9DPPtTzrBExWm5sFk/edit)

[Naegleria’s Techniques Tutorials](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5UD8kOhQuv8fjXUpjDl2vSEHuqOOrBw_) / [Max Speed Track Tutorials](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5UD8kOhQuv8Y2acH7q0vj3db100tWXlz)

[F-Zero GX Ultimate Compendium](https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=790C04C699B3F9F3!160&ithint=file%2cxlsx&app=Excel&authkey=!AFnSFSGcYpwxVQE)

[List of MT Points](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kyl0kAi_-NaM9RCPIwThixogTYESL4zdpmbbH_qDlmI/edit#gid=0) (100% Settings only)

[AKC12's Combined Time Attack Leaderboard, with videos linked](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10mZeQrMLaaPMdC0ZeKR2Wk1XtzICG2n4XTw9yyx-dKw/edit#gid=1205021182)

[AKC12's Machine Stats Resource](https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/angelo.coelho/viz/F-ZeroGXMachineStatsVisualized/DetailedSummary)

Speedrunner's Path VH

This video will show you where to go and what to do on the very hard max speed speed run category: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dab4o8Me830

AKC12

E_Dragon

Gy009

F-Zero GX

GameCube

Elite_Spud

JokerTropical

NTSC_J

3commandersalad

USA / NTSC

JPN / NTSC

Novice

Standard

Expert

Master

Mixed

Any Difficulty

Very Hard

Ruby

Sapphire

Emerald

Diamond

Fat Shark

Black Bull

Quick Star-G4

Gallant Star-G4

Various

Blue Falcon

Unknown

Arch Star-G4

Rainbow Phoenix

Twin Noritta

Hyper Speeder

Frost Lynx-G4

Wild Goose

DeepClaw

Cosmic Star-G4

Fire Stingray

FS, QSG4, GSG4

Astro Robin

Mighty Hurricane

Ruby 50HZ

Maximum Javelin-88

Holy Mirage-FX

Pretty Cannon-G4

Difficulty

Machine Used

All Staff Ghosts Beaten

Switch 2

F-Zero

BANEMU

Adding snaking, spaceflying, and other rulesets via filters or page separation?

F-Zero GX Chapter 5 Glitch

50 HZ runs and IGT timing for non-story categories

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leaderboards discussion

Valyssa0

Yazzo

Naegleria

superSANIC

Rmac524

1davidj

Luckymagician

Superboss

ArtfulHobbes

Name	Author
getting started	E_Dragon 9 years ago
Guides and Resources	AKC12 1 year ago
Speedrunner's Path VH	Gy009 9 years ago