So I've been taking a long break from this game and i have just started getting back into it. I've yet to submit any runs though I've succeeded in maintaining runs for the game. But the biggest gap that holds my runs from the top runs is the patches in the game. The patches have secured skips which make the game faster by a large margin in time and in some cases the savior in time saving. I know i'm not the only person to have complaints on this patch and not being able to go back to the old version and complete the skips but there is a solution to this matter: Glitchless runs. The idea of glitchless runs could open an entirely new aspect of perfect runs in the game, which would open the door to much more intuitive ways to perfect the game the way it was meant to be played. I've noticed the lack in runs these past few months and a new category could spice the runs back up and let more people with the new patch able to run the game and start looking outside the ideas of glitches to get faster times. This category would create a more competitive way to run the game in its natural way and also give the people who've patched the game more chances to get on the leaderboards. I'd like to see more runs on this games instead of seeing new ones very rarely. Hope to see more runs!!

I've Speedrun been Speedruning this game some months now and I can't seem to get minecart skip and island skip to work. I took a break from Speedruning this game for a few months. Before I took the break, I could do minecart skip perfectly. Now I can't seem to do it at all. With island skip, I can't even perform the glitch because every tutorial I've watched does not explain how to perform it. If anybody knows how to perform these, it would be a big help.

When I watch Mario speedruns, I noticed that you could only do a fast acceleration on level 8-1. if possible to do a fast acceleration on previous levels would that save time. or would it just not be possible at all.