In my run I made sure to show the whole process of starting the game before the run and showing the empty "load game" screen, just for maximum transparency. Dunno if it makes sense to make something like that a rule. I feel like we can be pretty relaxed with our little niche game atm ;)

Btw it doesn't say anywhere which version of the game you're on, right? I technically don't even know which exact version I was using, only that I didn't apply any patches, so I assume it's 1.0.

I thought about this as well and basically completely agree.

I'd even say make "no rng manip" the main category that's shown by default and just call it any% or beat the game or w/e. Then have the rng manip category on a second tab, because 1. it requires that old arcane version that not everyone has access to and 2. is kinda gimmicky. (It's fun to route though!)

Personally I don't like runs with cheats (and in this case the run is neither particularly fun nor popular) so I'd just get rid of that, but at least change the name of the main category to something other than "no cheats"...

I've seen people put a second video in the comment of the run, like here: https://www.speedrun.com/Metal_Storm/run/z118jnrz The link probably just auto-embeds, but not sure about that.

cool run btw!

There is currently no leaderboard for the SEGA version, but if you submit a run a moderator will probably create it.