Hey lloyd if you're planning on doing Nero/Dante NG run than I wish you a good luck man. That being said you start off with new game. Fresh save file. Meaning you have to delete your main save. Because that's camcop for ya. Anyway you know the rules. Costumes really don't matter. No DLC use for red orbs, blue orbs, and Super costume. Other than that you're good to go.

Because I speedrun on the ps4 I just use a timer on my phone. Mainly splits are for keeping up with your time. Seeing if you're losing time, gaining time, or being constant. That's but it for splits.

Other than that contact me in youtube if you have some questions.

-NumberZero90

Also lloyd something I haven't mention up earlier is that there is a DMD catagory you can speedrun. I forgot to tell you that :(. It's just a NG run with no items and no super costumes. Just letting you know

Yes lloyd. With all skills purchased. So no need to limit your skills. Also it's in the miscellaneous catagory. Click there and click Nero/Dante NG+ DMD. AND boom leaderboards. Not many people are interested in running this catagory but I hope for the best that you could run it and beat my record. See ya. Also good luck on mission 15 SoS.

Also my DMD run is shit. I'll be improving the run soon... as soon as I get my DMD missions completed ^~^

Idk why. I mean super costume is the only way to fight through the floors fast enough. Sure it is just abusing yet that's all we have to do. Unlike me though I don't want to use super costume. If people at least know the mechanic of each character then there won't be any super runs. Yet they do cause they think that's the only way to abuse the mechanics to get the WR. I'm not too sure about this because I don't know how to work this thing but I'm going to make separate catagory for super costumes. I mean it's unfair for those who put time and effort on speedrunning the palace w/o super costume. Like max act. It's not that hard. Just practice and that effort will become a reward for experience in gameplay. I'll try my best. For now do what you got to do in speedrunning lloyd.

About my DMD run, it's shit. I mean I haven't really plan it out through out the run. Like dagon for Dante is really mediocre. So I'm planning to update the run if I have time. Good luck again to you man.

Also lloyd if you're planning on doing a NG run, than I recommend using a flash drive or hard drive or whatever you use to stack up files on with that device. If you use it you can have a back up save file having all of your stuff safe. If you don't use it than all of that effort will become to waste. Just use it so you can practice your tech in DMD and you don't have to restart all over again

As a Bloody Palace runner, I have to agree...I would prefer the super costumes to be their own category. I use it in my runs because essentially I have to, but I would run it without if there was a separate category for it.

Nothing is stopping you from just doing the run. Once you finish a run, then request the category from the mods.