If you've read the rules for any run, you'd know that "Text Storage" (TS) is banned. But what is that?

A long time ago - at least a year ago - Pyatters finished a run in Australia, because the text message that says "you beat the game" popped up after he completed the level. This caused a lot of confusion between the runners at the time, however it was not considered the Any% record, as nobody knew exactly how it worked.

Awhile later, after other runners activated the same glitch, thug2 runners slowfreq and Chrno got in a call and worked out why the glitch happened: after you beat the game regularly, a text message pops up that says you beat the game. However, you can quit the game before that message pops up. The flag for that text message needing to appear is still there, and will appear at the next opportunity it can. In Story Mode, this is after an end-level text message pops up. In Classic Mode, it can be triggered, for some reason, by viewing the goals list.

The community decided to ban this glitch for two reasons:

• It doesn't actually beat the game. Even though it says you did, it doesn't. We can verify this because, when the message says you beat the game, it also gives you a list of skaters that you unlocked. Because only the message popped up, and you didn't actually beat the game, the characters never actually get unlocked. That means, although it says you beat the game, it's lying to you.

• It goes against the spirit of what the runs are for. What you could do, if this glitch were allowed, is start a game in a longer category (see: Story Sick), save, quit, do a Story Easy run, activate the glitch, load your save, and then activate TS. So, even if the message did actually complete the game, it wouldn't be allowed anyway.