Yo. :)

This game has seen some new runners recently and the times have been pushed down appropriately. In the time this board was created, there was multiplayer categories for 2P, 3P and 4P that have gone totally unused. I removed these categories (for now) to prevent there from being tons of categories where no one is running anything. Sadly, and very SADLY, this game lacks online co-op, so local co-op between 2P - 4P is probably going to be quite rare. I'll add probably a co-op category again and just place them under miscellaneous for now until runs are submitted.

The old category ("Any%") saw some evolutionary growth which was cool to see from the run standpoint. A few players started noticing the potential within Doris in particular, and quite frankly, Doris is a monster truck. xD What she can currently do is unparalleled compared to all the other characters, and the current record video (20:25 by ArcTheLadder) shows her potential. I wondered at the time about making this board if characters should be separated instead of grouped together, but yeah, reaffirmation was there to separate after the run that was submitted today.

I think over time as people optimize character-specific routes or strategies it'll be impossible if they're all grouped within the same category to remain competitive for the characters themselves. It's quite possible (let's pretend this Doris run was perfect, for example) at 20:XX, that Annie having an equally perfect run might clock in at 22:XX at best. So, to encourage individual character routes, individual character growth and individual character strategies, I separated the characters into their own separate categories today in hopes that it allows other character use and growth and avoids people being forced into just using Doris when running this game. Hopefully over time as people continue to use certain characters, the individual routes continue to become optimized.

As an addendum, some rule revisions were added:

• No changing characters throughout the run, obviously. You can't Doris through a run then switch to Annie at the very end and submit the run under Annie's category.
• "Beginner Mode" is banned on the Switch version. Beginner Mode grants the player infinite lives.

Community Discord for both Reloaded and the SNES versions can be found here: https://discord.gg/fJMrrQP

SNES boards: https://www.speedrun.com/Wild_Guns

(I'd encourage anyone on Reloaded to try out the SNES OG.) :)

Thanks for reading. =)

Any questions or feedback let me know.

And on a last foot note: I manually adjusted everyone's runs into the proper categories to reflect the above changes. I SHOULDN'T have broken anything, but if you notice something is wrong with your own run (filed under the wrong difficulty or something), please also let me know.