I've been around this community for a while now, most of the mods are very much oldschool so they probably don't devote the same amount of time they once did to verifying runs for this game, and while it may appear like they're a bit lazy, it's also kind of a non issue if the runs are verified a bit slower no? After all it's all volunteer "work" to keep this page going, 5 days for a verification doesn't seem like a lot to me, especially if the mods are careful enough to watch entire runs to keep the leaderboards pristine, which might be the case here. Either way if you love running games then keep doing it for the love, your name will show up on the boards eventually
Are there ways to route story mode in such a way that leveling up the turtle becomes faster? Like through the challenges and such? Either way I think that story mode should stay but be either split into new game/ new game+ , only problem being that might end up creating too many categories and then there'll be some dead space in the categories
Yeah, just don't try to dash or run through a door, at one point you'll get used to it, but that's why you see so many doors or entrances being done while using a special or jumping, can't mess it up like that. However if you decide to special a door, for example the stage 12 staircase, make sure you're holding the right button on the Dpad to actually go in
Removing mania would straight up be disrespectful to the last year of speedruns. This patch is hella stale, and yes, while some categories are very empty, the same could be said for characters, maybe we should remove zan altogether from the boards, or the sor1 characters. Boards are fine as it is, better to have more room for people to submit their times than to randomly choose what goes or stays
Getting close!
Thank you Golden, best of luck for you in v06 aswell, going to be an exciting patch :D