The difference is in level count: All Golden Trophies plays main-game chapters 1-12, while 100% plays through every single level in the game, including bonus levels, which aren't required to get all golden trophies.

Yeah, the purpose of learning a randomizer kinda defeats the entire purpose of a randomizer run, basically rebranding it into a fancy any% run.

The discord is much more active with the runs either way, this place has been pretty much inactive for the longest time. I should've linked the Nexomond iscord to this leaderboard ages ago, I'm gonna go ahead and do that now.

Hey! Sorry but I doubt a randomiser category is feasible for the leaderboards since there are just too many variables that would change between runs. You can do those for fun between other runners though, I've done multiple randomized races against others in various games, but none of them ever competed for a leaderboard time, they're just meant as a fun novelty to spice up your speedrunning experience.

Actually, you can, but there are some quirks to it. If you wanna have a save file for practice, you can make an ArmorGames account and login through their site. This way the save file is stored online and afaik CAN'T be wiped. However, if you wanna run this game, I'd suggest actually downloading a separate browser for it (for example, if you use Chrome, download Firefox, and vice versa). This is because the data for the save file is saved to the website you're playing on. You can wipe it by wiping your browsing history and your browser's cache. I'd not recommend doing this on your main browser since it does in fact wipe the save data for ALL of the flash games you've played, as well as all of your saved login data. Exactly why I'm recommending a separate browser for flash game speedruns, this way you'll keep your browsing data for your main browser and you'll be able to speedrun this game with the ability to wipe your save files.

Heya! I'm thinking about running this game and I have two simple questions to ask:

1. For recording the game, can I crop out the site I'm playing on and just stretch the game feed to fill the screen?
2. During the speedruns, would it be possible to do Quick Matches, for example a Deathmatch of any kind? Asking this one since I have some strats with it up in my mind but I'm not sure if I'll go through with them since they might just not be worth it, although it's always a good idea to ask. Cheers!

Ah, I see. I actually noticed that as well. I remember he did hold a record in any% and then just vanished. Since the discord is now gone, I could try and help run one for the game since I do have some knowledge, I just can't seem to reproduce some of the glitches that that user was able to perform, but I guess I'll be able to find them via researching the game. Anyways, cheers for the response and have a nice day/night! :D

Hey, I remember this game had a speedrunning discord server. I wanted to try and join it recently, but the link seems to be dead.

Was the server deleted? Or was just the invite link replaced for whatever reason? I'm curious since I wanted to learn more about the 100% runs and the Text Storage runs and I thought I'd join the server to try and ask about it, but since the server link was dead, that wasn't an option.

So, I've been watching the newest PBs by maitrecraft1234 (congrats on the PBs btw, really nice runs!) and I've noticed something. Even though Maitre's run was using a very similar route to my run, and even had more mistakes than the current WR, their current pb is only a second behind the WR run. This made me really curious as I didn't know what could've caused this kind of time save. And then I noticed something:

Load times. Turns out Maitre's runs had fast load times, faster than the ones in my run, causing such time save. This is a bit of an issue in my opinion. It values load times over actually skillful gameplay, which makes a massive impact in a run like Bounce Tales. This brings me to two ideas, one worse, one better.

1. Make all times submitted on the leaderboards not include load times (worse, less time investment needed) - This would allow for rewarding actually skillful play and allowing the WR holder to keep their WR as long as their run was actually the most skillful of them all.

2. Make all times submitted on the leaderbords be displayed in two different times: with and without load times (better, much more time investment needed, potential leaderboard rebrand needed). This would allow for people to see the fastest run overall and the fastest run without load times, rewarding both low load times AND skillful play. It would require a bit of work to upkeep but would allow for fair competition between the players.

This issue is never present in single-level runs since load times don't affect those runs.

Alternatively, we can all go the Sonic The Hedgehog way of handling timing of runs and time runs according to the timer on the top of the screen. Additionally, some extra time loss could be added per death to accomodate for that, but this may be even more of a hassle than the other methods, so this is the biggest maybe from all of these suggestions.

All of these are suggestions that I think would allow fair competition during the runs of this game (as much as this game may be kinda a meme run it's a game of my childhood and I absolutely adore it).

One more thing from myself: As small as this community is, how about making a Bounce Tales Speedrunning Discord Server? I think that would be cool for people looking to get into running this game/discussing things happening on the forums/on the leaderboards.

Cheers!

Ah, I see, thanks for the clarification. This really helped clear out my questions about the category since if you had to start from a new save file it would basically be an All Eggs run with some room for error while collecting the eggs. Thanks for the fast response!

Hi, I've got a question about the All Levels category, well, kinda 2 questionbs but whatever.

1. Can a NG+ save file be used to run the game? Best bet answer is no but might as well ask.
2. (The main question) Can a already finished but not yet 100% completed save file be used to speedrun in the category? (For example if someone didn't get gold in all stages and didn't unlock Superbounce yet). This one is my main concern since this would change how the run plays out, from a collect most of the eggs to be able to unlock the stages speedrun to a basically any% + 3 stages speedrun, since there's a huge difference between the two. Cheers!