A while back I thought of creating an unofficial category for the Sonny speedrunning community. Glitch%'s goal is to get to an undefined zone as quick as possible. To do this you have to die to the first stage and click reload. This works because the player never had any opporitunity to save before stage 1.
My run here:
Woah, nice find! Don't think any other categories need a rename probably since the rules of Any% and Any% Glitchless state you need to "trigger the final cutscene as quickly as possible" which isn't achieved anywhere here. Pretty cool nontheless though :)
If this Glitch% were a category, it looks like an awful grind to be honest, since it's pure RNG. I do like the find. Maybe it can be exploited to actually get to the credits. I'll definitely look into it.
After a quick test it turns out that it actually loads the old save that you overwrite to create a new game. I don't have a open save file, and deleting cookies doesn't work either, so I'm currently testing it in incognito mode.
A report on my initial findings: You can click on the world map to get out of Undefined Zone, and into every zone in the game. Here you can enter all shops, all story fights and all training fights. The story fights can't load enemies, and so you win after a single turn. Then you level up, since XP has become NaN, and you can pick any amount of skills. Money has also become NaN, so you can buy and absorb any item in the game. Probably if this becomes an actual strat, the quickest items would be physical piercing ones from for the assassin, since they also give speed. You also become a destroyer, even if you didn't pick it before, which is interesting. Now, if we can do this as a setup, and continue the game, that would save about 10 minutes on any%, and about 15 on 100%, but I haven't found a way to continue the story battles, since none of the enemies load. All the training battles do load, but the ones in zone 4 have the same lvl as you, which turns into NaN for some reason, and that crashes everything. You can save the game, but you can only return to it repeating this strat.
Quick update: It turns out that this is easier to do than you might think. Before the game starts, you can turn off autosave, and then you can load the save if you die at any point before saving. This does mean that you can progress before using this glitch. However, none of the progress gets saved, since the entire point of the glitch is that you load an empty save. I can't seem to find a way to get back into the actual game though, and I've tried basically everything. It does feel like there should be a way to use this, so I'll keep trying.
