Every Challenge, huh? Yikes, that may as well double the length of the speedrun... Well, hopefully I can at least do Sora% before the summer ends, but my suddenly jam-packed schedule nowadays might not allow me to do so. I’ll try to do what I can though, since I really want to do more runs in this game. Thanks for letting me know, Drazerk. One more question though: Would I be allowed to use the Zero Gear for the Challenge Missions? Those Challenges are mostly harder than the missions in the base game, and the Zero Gear would give me a better chance, plus I’d have to beat the game anyways to get the Emblems for the last 2 missions, but for some reason I worry that continuing the run after the credits scene is cheating somehow, I don’t know why.

So first of all, I don’t think a lot of my questions were answered in my first post, and I’m still not entirely sure about what counts as a 100% run of this game, but I had one other question as well: Do Emblems/Blazons count towards 100%? If so, then I’ll need to focus on grabbing those during missions and backtracking, same with the Chests.

I was reading up on Speedrun Notes from Drazerk, and I noticed that the notes for Day 22 spoke of a “Pink Gate Skip”. What is that? The Twitch link provided in the guide took me nowhere, and I can’t find anything about it.

Alright, thanks! I was mainly asking about #1 since I won’t be using an Emulator, mainly because I’m more comfortable playing on the DS, and because my computer is really slow, which is why I also mentioned not having a Capture Card, but I’ll probably figure something out. I also just remembered that some Missions have what I like to call “Hidden Heartless”- the ones that, when you enter the area they spawn in, a message pops up saying, “Caution! A powerful enemy is near!” (i.e. Zip Slasher, Invisible, Dustflier, etc.) Whether or not I’ll be fighting these depends on 2 factors:

1. Defeating them fills up the Mission Gauge, because some of them are completely arbitrary to fight when it comes to this. (i.e. The first Zip Slasher you encounter and the Dustflier are both necessary for filling up the Mission Gauge in their respective Missions, but the Invisible you encounter in both Missions 70 and 90 are completely arbitrary.)
2. Defeating the ones that are also arbitrary counts towards completing the game. This also kind of goes back to my 5th question in my previous post, since the drops might be useful for any potential synthesis. But yeah, I just had a feeling that, with the right circumstances, I could probably beat this in around 10 hours or more, and that I could be the first one to SPEEDRUN completing this game. Anyways, though, thanks for the response, I’ll try to see if I can get a Capture Card or find an alternate way to record my DS Screen soon. Once I do that, I’ll probably start my run not too long afterwards.

Since it seems that no one else has done a 100% Run on this game before, I suppose I’ll take up the task soon. Though, I have a few questions before I even THINK about starting.

1. My computer might be too slow to use a capture card, and I know that I’ll probably need video evidence to submit my run. What should I do?
2. Do I need to reach Level 100?
3. Would I be able to submit my Run Time as my Total Play Time on the Save File? I certainly won’t be able to do the entire run all at once, since school doesn’t give me enough time for that. It probably depends on whether or not my Play time is still counting while I’m watching the Credits, I suppose.
4. Just to clarify, this run is only counted towards Story Mode, correct? I just want to make sure whether or not I also need to do Challenge Mode to unlock Ultima Weapon and Pandora’s Gear.
5. Just to clarify something else: Is this also supposed to be a Collectathon of sorts? In other words, will I need to Synthesize and buy all items? If so, then that will probably double the amount of time it will take me to do this.
6. This one is less of a question and more me just specifying the run, but I hope you don’t mind me playing on Beginner Mode, since it’s the only Mode I’ve beaten this game on, and I’ve only played through the game once, but I’ll still try my best to do this. Anyways, I think that’s all. Let me know if you have any other questions for me. Thank you, and good day.