@Keondibs completed file, a new file wouldn't make any sense since you need to reach garden which is 45+ stars and be 2 hours long, hence missing the whole point (shorter category, playable easily in 1 hour or less)

@Yoshikiller109 NG+ is IL run Fate of the Universe, in Bowser's Galaxy reactor

or have a category with the normal stars and not the secret or comet stars, just regular missions

So, again, the idea is shorter categories. That would not be very short. Anyways, I still recommend a mod just makes a category extensions page.

@Alaeus yeah that's what I was thinking just wanted to make sure we were on the same page

I just tried a sample, no reset run of all the secret stars just to have a ballpark for the time.

It ended at 46 minutes for me but i don't deal with Dusty Dune usually, so without completely screwing up that (5 minutes lol) i believe it can easily go under 40 minutes with some optimization.

I'm gonna be honest, I don't think the game is active enough to warrant any more categories or a category extensions leaderboard. What I do think what could be a very interesting, fun and active category is if we could somehow remove the downtime, sort of like SMS fast any%. We would need someone to develop that though and I have no idea if it's possible in the first place.

I guess you could say this game isn't too active but I feel like it would have much more potential to attract new players if there were shorter categories

would be cool to have full stars IL (though by full stars, does prankster comets stars counts? this would be RNG dependent, because of how the comets appears).

I'm currently waiting for my capture card to arrive but i'm definetely going to speedrun ILs, and full star ILs if it gets implemented

wait what do yoou mean by full stars? also comets are not RNG dependent, just hard to keep track off. Otherwise running main categories would have been nearly impossible

I mean, doing the whole Dome (for example in the Terrace, Good Egg Galaxy + Honeyhive Galaxy + Loopdeeloop Galaxy + Flipswitch Galaxy + Sweet Sweet Galaxy + Bowser Jr.'s Robot Reactor).

Oh and i'm a newbie here, I thought comets were RNG dependent. My bad. For this, should we count hungry lumas stars (though I think this is meant to be runned on full saves, so) and comets?

You already have full dome IL's but you start from a completed save file wich means you don't have to unlock any stars, comets are counted, hungry luma's are obv not (cuz they're not in the dome and theoratically not even linked to the dome (since they warp you back to rosalina and not the dome they "belong to")

oh ok i'm blind my bad, between all the levels I didn't see Terrace RTA (and other domes).

by the way, NG+ could be something :

• Start from a full save
• You need to do 60 stars (and because all levels are unlocked you can choose a more optimized route)
• Then end up by the last bowser fight.

@mrClousKirby some people have already ran that but it's not an official category ofc, it's called "all main mission" or sth

Wait all main mission?

Another idea I came across : LuigiRescue%.

• Start from a new save
• End when you touch the star of the "Luigi and the Haunted Mansion" star in Ghostly Galaxy.

I fear that would be a short any%, using same strats etc.

I think Luigiresque would be a good one

When I get my capture card i'll make a run or two of LuigiRescue%. Might explain it better

Hello. I am just a person who has gotten decent (not really) at speedrunning this game. I got pretty interested when I saw this forum becuase I never have 3 1/2 - 4 hours in a row to do a full speedrun. I've never recorded my stuff(maybe I should), but I decided to tryout this new potential category of LuigiRescue. I got slightly less than 1 1/2 hours, but i timed it using iphone stopwatch and recorded my splits on this document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MeriF0TGAElunvfyNn9qASvcmvXJvy9_gIMti75-YyE/edit?usp=sharing Also, my routing probably sucks too.

I still find secret stars a better idea tbh. Less time, more sense, strats not seen apart from 120, observatory routing and movement almost completely different from other categories. Luigi rescue is any 21 stars, it might be good for practice though.