All GPs is definitely a valid category, I just personally think All Tracks is probably more enjoyable. But in terms of how the GPs exist within the game, it totally warrants them to be a category.

My suggestions for a category list would be: -All Team Races -All Solo Races -All Team GPs -All Solo GPs -any% -100% and then should it be neccesary, there could be subcategories or a variable for glitchless / glitched.

Regarding timing, I think the best would probably be to have Ingame time as a main timing method set for the game. For the "All X" categories, you can just easily add up the IGTs for the tracks, so that all platforms can fairly compete with each other. For any% and 100% youd just have to leave the Ingame time field empty so it just sorts by real time. Maybe for the sake of fairness you can add new subcategories for just those categories that split up the leaderboards by platform

1. on May 19 Frokenok did a run of All Solo Races and ended with 1:26:49, I have a run of All Team Races in 1:23:28. Hypnoshark did an attempt on any% but didn't finish it afaik. Werey also posted in the Sonic speedrunning Discord about having done a 1:25 in All Solo Races on the 23rd. These are the only runs I know of 2.-3. Autosplitters need to be manually made for each game, and I doubt anyone's made on yet. Traditional autosplitters only work on PC games cause they read the game's memory

regarding what I said earlier about categories, I just realized the Grand Prix in this game don't even include every track and that some are duplicate. Then it would probably be better to have an All Races category rather than All Grand Prix, where you just select each race individually

also All Cups should probably be split between Team Grand Prix and Standard Grand Prix

I havent beaten the game yet but it seems like habing the same categories as for Transformed should work. All Cups that would be played as NG+ amd then Story mode any% and 100%.

Regarding loads, removing loads for consoles is gonna be a problem so it might be useful to make subcategories for each platform

The only way to fix this would be to get rid of the platform separation altogether. The overview page that shows all IL records in the grid isnt set up very well for having sub-categories like our PC/N64/DC separation, so it only displays the first of these sub-categories. To see the records on other platformd you unfortunately need to click on the level and manually go to the tab for the other platform. This is unfortunately just the way the site is coded, but I'm sure we'll get new PC records submitted soon so that it wont be as empty

I didnt time loads either but in my experience Dreamcasts tend to load very slowly especially compared to PCs, so I probably have a disadvantage. But honestly I don't mind keeping RTA

ingame time would fix the load time differences between Dreamcast and PC and also between different PCs. The downsides to ingame time are it ignores all menuing (which honestly I would argue is at least to some degree part of the run) and it's less accessible. For a very short category like Driver's Test, ingame time might work. But if there are any plans for like full game runs or something that take much longer, IGT seems unreasonable to me, not only cause it would be a huge pain to calculate, but also because a long full game run would have more emphasis on menuing and routing which would not be accounted for by ingame time.

it just makes your hitbox more narror so you can maneuver between obstacles more easily without touching anything. Usually gets used while boosting, so you avoid hitting things and getting the boost cancelled

Welcome, good to see you! If you use Discord, there is a server linked in the sidebar where the community hangs out, we'd all be excited to see you there

I think the DS version would probably be a vastly different game than this version. It would probably best to request it as a new game on the site. You can do that by going to the Games page and clicking "request a new game"

Moderators can submit runs for other people, but "regular" users only submit for themselves

My guess for that would be that the lap that you first trigger from the transform launch counts as glitchless, since you dont really skip anything of the track. But I'm not a mod so I dont make the rules

3D Sonic games typically dont have glitchless categories cause itd be too arbitrary to define what exactly is a glitch and what not

Check the "Individual levels" tab on the left, that should be what youre looking for (these boards are really dead tho cause theyve only recently been added but that doesnt mean people cant start using them)

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i'm not sure I understand your question, but there's always gonna be some damage somewhere on your Racer. Droids repair parts over the course of a race, and the maximum number of droids you can have is lower than the number of upgrade parts you can have, so having some parts of your racer damaged at any time is unavoidable

In Sonic Adventure 2 we were in a similar situation. We added IL boards here on SRcom, which were previously hosted only on an external site. We copied over the top recorded runs manually ourself, and from there on just kept it up as a separate board for anyone to submit who wants, and now both leadeboards exist parallely and get used

I would suggest to add the distinction of Glitched and Glitchless in 100% and All Cups as well. It exists in any% and in my eyes should exist in the other two categories on the same grounds

since I recently got back into this game, I've just messaged werster about adding new categories and adding a dedicated moderator for this game (instead of only Sonic series mods) and I'm hoping it can be sorted out soon

Probably the best if you moved over the runs that are currently on the full-game leaderboard yourself so you don't rely on the (potentially inactive) runners to update their submissions.

I'm not sure if it's possible to edit a submission and move it from a full game to single segment category, but you can definitely delete the existing runs and resubmit them yourself on the IL boards

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