this is basically not quite all purple coins. I don't see the need for it

region of the switch not the game. there are no regional differences in game copies

you get into a tricky spot defining glitches. is the fast bowser kill a glitch or a clever use of intended mechanics. same goes for things like snow dram, 2-D skip, dino skip, (not in any% but) coin duping in cascade.

things like moon clip are definitely glitches, FMS is a glitch because it was patched. but i'm reasonably sure glitches can't save more than 3 minutes in any% (depending on what you count as a glitch ofc).

if you want to run glitchless any%, make a rule list and run it, but I would be surprised if it ever really took off

this category is bad by design. as previously mentioned, a bigger speedrunner will have an easier time. "maybe you only do 40s balloons" great! just get your ten thousand followers to make 40s balloons within 1s of the starting area and then you've broken the system. additionally, even if all attempts had to be not streamed so you can't get help, the category is pure rng, you can't optimise rng. it would be like speedrunning 10 coin flips correctly guessed in a row

if you want to run this gimmicky category, don't let anyone stop you. you should run the game how you want it to be ran, but these categories ultimately aren't very interesting and rarely get ran past the first weeks of creation

these gimmicky categories aren't that interesting but if you think it would be interesting, you should submit a run. mods dont make empty categories here

not really no, the gap between 2 hours and 1:20 was comparatively short time wise, but 1:10 to 1:00 was most of the progression in tech and you don't really emphasise that

depends on where you're uploading it to, also i highly recommend you get on the smo discord and ask there, where you might get an answer instead of waiting around for hours of nothing

there has to be a handcam otherwise the category is entirely mute. it should be 1 hand total otherwise part of the challenge is gone

what restrictions would there be on what you can do in the main game? because otherwise you can just get really out of the way moons + do world peace to leave the fastest possible moon set there, whilst other people won't have the same moons available? or is that kinda the point

because no one has completed it yet. the wr is getting like 623 moons iirc before taking damage

sounds interesting sure, but mods here dont add empty categories, so unless you run it yourself, or convince someone to run it, it likely wont be added

mods here dont make empty categories, but if you'd be interested in running it and putting up a video i'm sure it could be added

1. you did not have to do it
2. sub hour has been confirmed possible since the video however many months ago, and since then the any% btt has dropped a full minute

this sounds like an IL but this is no where near to a full category.

also you can skip 90% of it by jumping precisely and not using the moving platforms

sphinx clip is impossible on 1.2 to current knowledge

dark and darker side makes sense because they've been done, but i dont believe anyone has actually done talkatoo AMNPG, and i dont think a category will be added if its just gonna be empty

so its basically world peace unless you're using different save files, at which point a lot of the run is going to be swapping save files and not fun for anyone

FMS is a version exclusive to 1.0, making every version that isn't 1.0 about 30s slower, rpobably more given the new set up for FMS. however, 1.0 has the fastest physical load times, so unless 1.1 or 1.2 is digital, there is a further time loss. 1.2 cannot do turnip clip or sphinx clip, but other than that any differences are minimal for any%. for aum/ 100%, 1.2 is fastest as it has hint arts worth 200 coins each, and 1.1 is faster than 1.0 as the coin duplication glitch was introduced in 1.1 and kept with 1.2

i suspect if the emulator does somehow get good enough and someone can make an auto-splitter to cut out performance differences in load times, then it could probably have its own category, but it honestly doesn't need to be discussed now because it affects no one