So recently I was talking demo in a stream about crown% and I have a few questions I would like to have answered if possible.

1. Do you need all celebrations pictures( I imagine no but i just wanna check)

2.when does timer Start/ stop

3. Is s rank required

4. If I run crown % can I submit the 100%portion as a 100% run and then the entire run to crown%

Thanks. Look forward to doing runs soon!

So I went and timed which version had the fastest load times. I timed multiple section where either the world map or the next section of a level loads in. The average load time for each platform is listed below

1. PS4 - 0.62 seconds 2.Xbox One - 1.43 seconds
2. PC - 1.94 seconds
3. Switch - 7.23 seconds

overall it might not seem like a huge difference between platform but assuming we have 26 levels (including bosses), one level being split into 5 mini levels, PS4 could save about 4.8 seconds over xbox one, 39.6 seconds over the switch and 7.9 seconds over PC in just one level. Over an entire run PS4 from only entering and exciting level (not counting boss stages) would have about 78 seconds of load time compared to PC's 244 seconds, xbox ones 180 seconds and the switches 15.1 MINUTES

so if you ever want to run this game very seriously I suggest getting the PS4 version as it saves alot of time over each other version, but for me I'm just gonna stick with my version on the switch

From what I've seen so far PC seems to have the quickest loading time and the switch has the slowest, but I was wondering if there was an actual comparison of the different versions yet.

Do all runs require video proof? I kinda feel they should so we know all times are legit. Even if we don't have capture cards we can record with other stuff like a video camera, web cam, etc. I especially think WR runs need to have video proof, its not that big of a deal right now but I think later on we should enforce video proof.

What would be the rules for this category? when would time start/end? I've been wanting to do a serious run of this for a while now, but its never been made into a category.

I was wondering whether or not if guest star allies is better to be run with just meta knight and the allie of your choosing (for quickest movement) but do bosses have less health like story mode or when you have 4 allies do the bosses have just as much health as they would with 2 allies

I noticed on other leaderboards for long runs demolition14 would upload runs in parts. Are we aloud to do that for long runs such as 100% (in my case so I can switch USB for my capture card so I wont run out of space). If no I can submit longer runs they would just be worse quality

I was watching demolition14's world record to see where I could save time. I noticed that they always got rid of allies when they didn't need them. So I was wondering why? Do you do more damage without them, resulting in quicker boss fights?

Recently I got an any% time of 1:51:18 and it was rejected for not showing the start. During the time of recording my capture card did not capture the first second of gameplay when I started the run. During the run you can still clearly see that it is a clean file (opening cutscene and stuff at start of dreamland) and if you retime it you can see that it is 1:51:17 (would be a 1:51:18 but it isnt because the 1 second that is missing at the start) so I feel it is unfair as you can still figure out the total time of the run despite missing that single second. So Can I please have a better explanation as to why my run got removed, or is there a way that I can prove that I had a 1:51:18 for example a screen shot of my splits?

Here is the run to show what I mean:

I was wondering if there would be a 100% category added to this game and if not, why?

I found this video by Adaly Debest on youtube were he uses an out of bounds glitch to reach the race track could this save time in the normal route?

the video by Adaly:

you should add to the misc category minimal captures where you can only do a total of 14 captures in one run. Some runners have already started doing this but have no where to display it on leaderboards

here is a video of a minimal capture run: