right, yeah, I get that.

I'm just saying that if in your Original Mode playthrough you shoot the key in chapter 2 and in the Arcade Mode playthrough you don't shoot the key (or vice versa), and you proceed to save everyone possible in both, then you've successfully saved every single character possible in the game throughout the course of your 100% run. (other than the ones you can only save if you've let someone die, ofc) And additionally you get to show that you can play through both main paths of the game, it's really fun!

hey @Tanya I was working on some routing stuff today, trying to figure out if you save more people by doing the Key route or Keyless route when you diverge in Chapter 2. Turns out for Ch2 it's the same # of people either way, although I think you save one less person in Ch3 and 4 by taking Keyless route.

But from testing that out I had this idea - since that's the only path divergence you can take without a civilian dying, and since 100% already makes you play through the game twice, can you add another rule that for one of the playthroughs you have to go Key route and one you have to go Keyless route so that you have to play through as much of the game and save Everyone possible?

Been mouseless for the time being so I've just been goofing off playing with a snes controller, but I'll definitely be submitting a run soon I swear bahahah.

I know there aren't any graphics settings to change, but have any of you ever fooled around with altering the game so that it plays in windowed mode instead of full screen? Trying to figure out if there's anything I can do now.

<3 you're amazing! thank you!

Hey, I just started running this game and I love it to death (one of my childhood favorites). I'm gonna try to complete a run worth submitting for the 100% category next week hopefully, because I think it's a pretty cool category (albeit the slightest bit redundant.)

Anyway I was just wondering if you wouldn't mind changing the rules to make 100% Scriptless. I think using scripts are cheating and don't really want to invest the time into the run for it to be beat by what's essentially a TAS.

Also I think it would be a great rule to not allow skipping the cutscenes since it's 100%. But that's only because I think the voice acting is the best part of the game, and that's memey as hell so I'd understand opposition to that.

well say for example if you were to play with magikarp or most other pokemon, you would have to glitch him into your save file or you wouldn't be able to fight brock with him. At the very least any pokemon other than pikachu wouldn't be able to participate in the initial rival fight, which means you really wouldn't be playing the whole game glitchless with them. You're either making exceptions to your "glitchless" definition, or to your "only" definition. So it's like comparing apples and oranges to me.

Also thanks to @Faulheit s suggestion I looked into creating an unofficial leaderboards section on pokemonspeedruns.com. Unfortunately the entire website has been locked to ReadOnly status, becoming defunct with the popularity of speedrun.com. ...

If anyone has any other ideas for where to keep a category leaderboard other than right here on the speedrun forums, I'd greatly appreciate it.

@steppehaan thanks for letting me about the nomenclature, it's a lot easier to find other peoples' runs now.

However, I totally disagree with the slippery slope argument you've proposed, simply because obviously it'd be impossible to do a 100% meme category run with any pokemon other than your starter. Additionally, playing through with pikachu and triggering certain cutscenes can be considered canon to the game.

I've been running Any% Glitchless, but under the stipulation that you can only use Pikachu to battle during the run.

Would it be possible to split this off into a separate category for Any% Glitchless, Pikachu Only?

The runs must adhere to all Any% Glitchless rules and thus runs are submittable to those leaderboards, but to qualify as Pikachu Only you must adhere to these additional rules:

Pikachu is the only pokemon on your team that can use damaging and non-volatile/volatile status inflicting moves with the intent to kill or capture a pokemon. If pikachu faints and another pokemon is forced to be called in you can only use items against a wild pokemon, and vs a trainer you can use the pokemon's natural status move [growl, tail whip, sand attack, etc], you can use items, and if you're not going to revive pikachu to continue the battle you can use damaging moves that will not kill the trainer's pokemon with the intent of allowing you to lose the battle faster (e.g. using tackle instead of growl so that the pokemon's attack stat will not be lowered and can kill your pokemon faster). If a pokemon other than your starter pikachu kills an enemy pokemon, or if another pokemon contributes damage in a battle that you win (or catch the pokemon) the run is invalid.

I've run this category a few times now, and I enjoy it a lot. My latest run can be seen here:

Regardless of if it gets split into its own category I'll continue playing the game like this, but I was just curious what I'd have to do to make it an official thing lol