This is a tough call. On the one hand accounting for the time lost due to a technical issue in a legitimate run is a fair thing to do. On the other hand this brings forth a system open to abuse. There's a fair bit of RNG in this game, particularly with enemy spawns. What's to stop someone from alt+F4'ing if they get bad rng and claiming a crash? To this end I vote no to applying this rule to shorter time categories. As for lengthier runs, I can see it being allowed, but that isn't my field so I abstain from passing any kind opinion on them.

Welcome to what little community we have.

The categories are intended for ng+. At least I assume so, that's how we've been doing it on black swordsman. I suppose you could run it on new game and submit it there.

Sorry for the late reply, it's not against the rules if that's what you're asking. Also grats on the ng+ wr. Now be chad and use Zodd.

I know this game is pretty dead, but just in case anybody comes along (like I did). On the mission "The Brand's Guidance". If you go too fast through the 3rd part (after opening the first two gates) the boxes will be glitched and you'll have to wait a sec for them to be destructible. I'm not sure how fast is too fast, and if it's even a 100% guaranteed glitch. I've had this happen using the hawk of light feather on zodd, which can reach pretty insane speeds.