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!

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!

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!