You are allowed to make your own race file.
Here's everything that's required for one: https://www.speedrun.com/mmextras/thread/0yb49
We don't specify how much magic you must have at the start, though if you want a full meter shoot skull kid first with a bubble, then break one of the green pots and fill your meter.
Emulator runs are accepted, but only with certain emulators and as long as your time isn't within 15% of the world record.
I added these categories to mmextras. There's separate sub-categories for the younger and older beaver.
😬 It's even worse than that because I was thinking of OoT where they do have a 1.2. But yeah, JP is actually 1.1.
If you plan to submit a run to the leaderboards it needs to match an official release of MM for the Wii. This means you must use either the JP 1.1, US 1.0, or PAL 1.1 versions. You are not allowed to inject an older N64 rom (JP 1.0, PAL 1.0), a debug rom, or a rom from the gamecube releases. Similarly, you can't speedrun on user-made custom roms (for example KZ or faster quest), unless you're submitting to a leaderboard specific to that rom.
That being said, if you want to speedrun on something like faster quest or KZ for personal gratification/practice no one's going to stop you, and would even encourage it. It's ok if one of these other wads is installed on your wii as long as you aren't using those specific channels for the speedrun.
The glitchless rules follows the main leaderboard glitchless categories.
You can find them at https://www.speedrun.com/mm#Any under the glitchless tab. If you have any specific questions on if something is allowed or not feel free to ask here or on the discord.
Hi, for now I think we're going to accept runs for whatever category you decide to submit to as long as it meets the rules for the category and general submission requirements (i.e. be separate runs of the same route if you want to submit to two different categories).
Deku mask does count as a mask. Same with any of the other transformation masks.
I've finished retiming everyone's personal best runs and the times should be all updated on the leaderboards. If you find any issues with a time, please let me know.
There was some general confusion about when timing ends for various categories. These have been updated for categories which do not end in completing the game.
The general goal is to have timing end on frames where it's very clear when timing should end, so things like ending on the fade in of a textbox appearing have been changed to some point where there's a very clear transition.
See the individual category rules for the exact rules.
As a general summary:
- On categories which end with obtaining an item, mask, heart piece, or anything which appears above your head, timing ends on the first frame the thing appears.
- On categories where you obtain song(s), timing ends on the frame the text of "you played x song" appears. This frame is very clear and appears instantly in one frame. Note that if you could skip this cutscene (for example, NWBN), then timing optionally could end on the first frame where you successfully pull off the skip. For song of soaring NWBN skip, this would be the first frame you re-pull out the ocarina.
- For bottle contents you catch by swinging a bottle timing ends as soon as the bottle icon updates to reflect the new bottle content. This could be on a B or C button.
- Great fairy reward timings are a bit strange since there isn't really any general way to describe the timings. See the individual category rules for these.
- If you're performing a fairy reward cutscene skip (notably for Great Fairy Mask, Quick Spin, and Great Fairy Sword), then the timing ends on the first frame you enter the out of bounds water. This is actually a few frames before you receive the reward, but there's no clear indicator for when the frame of obtaining the reward is.
I will be going over all existing personal best runs and updating the timings to match these new rules. Please bear in mind this will take me a while since there are almost 200 runs for me to re-time.
