What would you even consider to be required for 100% completion? That would have to be a community discussion for what would be required for the category.

I'd say our orientation should be the categories in the menu: -100% of blocks -100% of beans -100% of music Most of tgese are easy collectibles and some of the music has to be unlocked by completing archivements in the information booth. If I remember it correctly you'd need to do 400 battles and beat 400 enemies. It is somewhat of a grindy task but you can easily get tons of progress just by fighting things in your path. The other 2 tracks are found by completing 20% of beans and 50% of blocks which are required anyway so those are easy ones. You'd also need to beat the final boss and the final boss in Bowsers minions to get the last few tracks. Tho personally I think we dont need to play bowsers minions cz that could be really exhausting and speedrunning that mode doesnt proove that much skill and precision like the maingame does. So I think having 92% in the music category seems reasonable.

Things I wouldnt really count as 100% are unlocking all difficulty levels in minigames, all of E Gadds drinks, sidequests and all epqipment. I dont see any reason to do these. Id just stick to the collectibles which have a statistic shown in percentage.

I cant exactly say how long it will take but when I did a fast unoptimized casual run I needed around 12 hours to beat the final boss along side everything else besides some archievments. I remember doing these alongside some grinding in the mix and I ended up having everything in less than 24 hours only counting by the ingame timer. The bowsers minions mode is not counted in if I recall. If youll find an optimized route to collect everything in the maingame you maybe can beat it in 11 hours or less, if done quick and the archivements can take one to two additional hours.

Thats my hypothesis. I am replaying the game right now, so I'll be able to give more accurate analysis soon. Ot might be a bit different cz I had poor routing and I revisited places early and came back one more time.

Overall I think this can be a fun category, running throught the world, collecting stuff on tge way and then backtrack when you got every ability. Good battling skills can be also really usedfull if you have way to beat bosses fast. Saving even one turn is a good time safe

Okay... Here's just one question before we look at anything else: are you going to do at least 2 speedruns of this category? I ask because a lot of people suggest a 100% speedrun category without ever actually doing one themselves, I only know 2 people who've done any kind of 100% speedrun of the Mario & Luigi games

(Also I think 100% musics including bowser's minions (especially because there's no Bowser's Minions category), and the things that can only be done once (EGadd drinks, collecting the highest reward of minigames (Casual Coral, for example; getting 9 Hee Beans isn't collecting it once but IMO I still think it adds to the run to do these)) should be included if I were to do a run. If there's a rank system like in BIS through PJ, get highest rank too (note: I would not be doing a run for a while if I were to do one))

Just noticed this is just a reply to a thread lol but whatever.

I would like to give it a try for sure tho Im not really good at technical stuff at all so I dont know if I can set up anything.

Aside from that I will help out a lot in the theoretical department of that, since I already have some good ideas in terms of routing and other usefull ideas.

I dont mind throwing in the Bowsers Minion quest alongside completing every minigame level and getting every EGadd drink once. If we are going that far then I'd include every archivement too.

Again I would like to do a run and I may could get around the technical stuff but even if I do my mom wouldnt let me play a game for 20 hours straight, for good reasons ofc. Idk if thats a thing but if it was possible to do segmented runs of it then this would be way easier.

I cant tell for sure but I will defenetly try it out and if not I will still provide as much theoretical brainpowers to get a lot of progress done in that way