Let me preface this post by saying that I am aware this is a hot take.  If you disagree with me, that’s fine.  This is not an attack.  Your opinion is valid.  Let’s keep discussion civil!

With that out of the way, this has been bothering me the entire time I’ve been running SM64CoopDX.  At this point I’ve been running CoopDX long enough that I think my opinion is informed and valid.  My buddy and I even held the WR for 2P Vanilla 120 Star for a few days–so this isn’t the opinion of some rando, but of someone who deeply cares about and is pushing the game.

I propose that* any one of the following* changes should be made:

1.) The “Pause Anywhere” server setting should be Disabled for speedruns on the leaderboard

2.) or, there should be separate leaderboards / categories for “Pause Anywhere” being Enabled or Disabled

3.) or, “Pause Anywhere” can be allowed, but the behavior of the pause menu should change so that, like in vanilla SM64, you cannot Exit Course while airborn–you must be touching the ground for this option to appear on the menu. This change would need to be done either with a mod or a feature request to the developer.

I've been running this game and following the forums for years and I just have to ask... what is with all the "new category idea" threads?

I'm not even trying to be a jerk here. I am just genuinely amazed that this has been a consistent thing for years, despite the mods making it abundantly clear they will not consider category ideas submitted through forum threads.

For those who post these threads...why? Have you gotten bored with Any% and the dozens of other categories that exist? Do you really think there should be more categories?

I notice a lot of the ideas that get posted are basically just Any% + some arbitrary thing... so like, is it for memes?

Is it for clout? Do you want to be able to say, "I came up with an official speedrun category"?

Is it newbies who just haven't read like a single other thread and really want to create a category for one of the above reasons?

I dunno man, I'm just genuinely trying to wrap my head around this. I've been speedrunning for years and have never had a "new category idea". I feel like we have so, so many great categories to run. And if you get bored with SMO, there's like infinite other games you could run too...

I'm not trying to discourage peoples' ideas. I'll just say this: If you have a new category idea, just go through the following steps.

1.) Ask yourself, "Is this idea distinct enough from all the other existing categories? Or is it just a slight variation of some other existing category?"

2.) Ask yourself, "Is this a category that I can genuinely see a lot of people wanting to run? Like more than once as a meme?"

3.) If you answered yes to both those questions, try routing and running it yourself. See how it feels. See if you stick to your original answers or if your answers change.

4.) If you still think your idea is solid, go ahead and submit it through the proper channels--not through a forum post. It drives the mods crazy--and they're the ones who you really need to convince, so...

Heyyo,

So I tried to use the Google Drive link to download v2.3 but I get a message saying,

"Sorry, this file is infected with a virus.

Only the owner is allowed to download infected files."

Not sure if it's real or not but it won't even allow me to download...

Hey guys, I'm a huge casual Pikmin fan who is thinking of getting into speedrunning Pikmin 1. I have put dozens of hours into both the OG GC version as well as the Wii NPC version (which I own digitally on my Wii U).

I really enjoy the Wii's IR motion controls for Pikmin and think they may be the definitive best control scheme. Plus I really enjoy the QoL features of the NPC version (slightly less stupid Pikmin, being able to switch Pikmin with the d-pad, etc)

However I also really like C-throwing on the GC version and find the controller very comfortable.

I haven't even played the Switch version so I am not really aware if there are any benefits.

My question is, between GC, Wii/WiiU, and Switch, which is the best version to speedrun? Or rather, which version do YOU speedrun, and why?

So I had an idea. Now, feel free to tell me I'm an idiot if I'm wrong, but is it not possible to beat the game only collecting the one mandatory treasure on the first day?

Think about it. You could keep grinding the first cave, collecting dwarf bulborbs until the debt is paid off.

You wouldn't even need to get purple pikmin. The whole game could be beaten with red pikmin only.

Has this ever been attempted? Even as a joke?