Hey Guys

recently I came up with the idea for something new regarding FF9 Speedruns and would like to hear you ideas,thought and feedback.

I was thinking about a category mainly and only about the Chocobo minigame "Hot&Cold". Basic idea is to start on a savefile where you havent visited the Chocobo Forest at all and progressed at least up to the point where you have access too the airship.

So the maingoal is find every chocograph in the forest, lagoon and the sky garden and find the treasures on the world map.

Time starts: When you enter the Chocobo Forest Time ends: When you found the last treasure on the overworld (24/24) - No matter which one, depends on which one is faster OpieOP

Allthough this ending is kinda anticlimatic the ending could be also killing ozma, which, with the items you get during this sidequest, should be possible. Maybe even a better ending. Ideas?

Let me answer a few question that came to my mind you might have :)

Q: A savefile without the Chocobo? A: Yes, its easy to get, since you dont nessesarily need the chocobo during a normal run (it just takes a bit longer)

Q: Why do you need the airship? A: You need at least the Hildegard 3 to be able to find the last two chocograph pieces.

Q: Why not include the "Dead Pepper" Spots? A: That would mean you have to do this on Disc 4 (cause Island of Light aka Zidane's Ultimate Weapon and the Mists might makes it a bit harder OpieOP)

Q: How long would this run take? A: If you dont count the preparation. I would say 2 hours on average.

I made an example run so you can see what I mean. Let me know what you guys are thinking. Even if you dont make it an official category (yet, cause we would need more runners for that) I wanted to present you the idea and I will probably run this category anyway. But feel free to let me know what you are thinking either here or on Discord SoBayed

Have a good day

IndDragPack