Hello there! Another year has passed and similar to last year, I am taking the opportunity to sum up what happened in this game's community.

Leaderboard Changes

Another year, another leaderboard change. We were always accepting DS runs, but until this year none got submitted. Since the DS version is pretty similar to the GBA version, but just slower due to flight sections, we decided to split DS and GBA records. One could have removed the flight sections to get a comparable timing, but this wouldn't encourage players to perform well in said sections. Also, load times could differ and there are small changes between versions here and there (a list of differences can be found at the bottom of this page). Now, each platform has it on tab. To further reflect these changes, the DS identifier has been added to the game's title. Please note that the Any% category is exclusive to the GBA since the warp glitch is not possible in the DS version.

Records

A total of 35 runs by 6 players have been added this year, with many new records in between. As a small recognition, here is a list of every player that was able to call themselves a record holder at some point this year. All the record holder superseding took place in the All Levels: Anakin category this year.

All Levels: Anakin (GBA)

• StarFalco64
• ManofmanyChins
• moonyohz (lasted less than a day)
• Superposition (lasting since Aug 28)

All Levels: Anakin (DS)

• iamsnake (lasting since Jun 28)

TAS

At the beginning of this year, I published my last iteration of the Any% TAS that finally broke the 10-minute barrier! It clocks in at 9:59.774 with the timing used on the leaderboards. It improves the previous TAS by about 6.5 seconds. Also, it got submitted and published on the TASVideos website. A writeup about the route can be found here and I hope it can act as a guide for the Any% route.

Other media

Thanks to StarFalco64, we got an accurate comparison of the different language timings that can be found here. As previously only assumed, now we know for sure that Italian is for sure the fastest language in the All levels: Obi-Wan category.

This concludes the year and there is nothing more to say except Happy New Year!