Right ok, that makes sense. Thanks.

I wanted to confirm video evidence. Are you forced to record the whole thing? I obviously now know it is a common feature in speedrunning, but I wanted to make sure. I thought recording just the final part of the chapter 10 (maten soranaki's battle alongside the timer after credits would be sufficient enough evidence)? Is it? Or no?

I mean, I think we should just leave it. It takes like 2/3 minutes at least, (definitely more) to download it and just seems like a waste of time (the equips are good, but are redudant kinda quick)

I really, really appreciate you coming back and taking the time to reply, but not too sure if some of these changes are good. A lot of people don't have the capacity/ability to record the whole run and then upload it than people like yourselves sadly. So either we just keep it the same or this category will be a deterrent for those wanting to speed running it simply because I highly doubt a lot of people can actually record this.

Basically yeah like an amiibo. It has a nfc chip built in that can be scanned in with a joy con to give various equips/op items

So I was speaking with some other people today about this, and I wanted some clarification (I did not utilise it on my first run that was submitted today in case it as forbidden). If you have Bandai's arks (especially the daily ones called 'DX arks', you can receive loads of dolls, exporbs and a lot of equips). I assume this is forbidden, because it gives an unfair advantage to those who have bought these arks, but I wanted this to be clarified. Are we allowed to scan in our arks into the game, or not?