I will admit, i'd be very interested in Extra 100% being even just a Misc. category. Even though I haven't recorded any runs (I lack any sort of capture device to do so short of emulating the game sadly) it's one of the modes I always go back to whenever I replay the game just to see how good of a time I can get. Plus i'll admit I didn't realize there was a page on here for this game, so i'll probably look into the any% and 100% routes for the proper strats just to see how I can improve myself.

I'll admit the main reason I feel Extra 100% interests me more than 100% is due to the fact all the levels are unlocked by default. Yes you have to do them all eventually, but I like it simply because it gives options for the run. Sometimes i'll save the boss fights of the worlds until later when i've finished most of the levels or have certain powers I feel can make beating them easier, and sometimes i'll just do the levels in a different order either to freshen up the experience a bit or see where I can get certain powers. I will admit the pause and exit issue with the timer isn't the best, since people could technically take the miliseconds off their time by doing that and cut off time that the technically didn't save, but otherwise the ingame timer itself almost makes the mode feel like a sort of way to get introduced into speedrunning the game. (It's definitely what made me interested in wanting to speedrun this game eventually, I can say that)

I'll admit i'm mainly asking this beacuse me and some other people were planning on trying to race the game peach-only without warps, but i'm honestly serprised there aren't all levels versions of the single character runs. I'll admit I don't run enough to be able to say much on the matter, but I was just curious about why single character all stages isn't a thing?