I tested that GBC fixed the water can infinite egg glitch but it's otherwise the same game right? Shouldn't the forums be combined and the leaderboard if GBC had any runs? The 3 mods there also mod here so seems straight forward to me. Can create a new no glitch category if such a run ever appears to keep GBC viable.

What's funny is I loaded a GBC save state into GB. Advanced from late Spring right to Grandfather's Year 1 eval that I passed with almost nothing. Super Sickle and Super Hoe appeared without waiting out the necessary time, 2 chicks and the horse grew up and I went from 0 to 345 hay.

On real cart in the late 90s I failed the Year 1 GB eval. Maybe that's impossible on GBC but Any% requires Year 2 completion so no issue.

They are similar but different enough for speedruns to warrant a different leaderboard. The egg spam is fixed like you pointed out, and the GBC version is also available on 3DS VC which allows you to take advantage of the Harvest Sprite help mechanic to skip through days faster and grow/ship crops automatically. RobotJesus also found that the eval mechanics work differently on each of the three versions (GB JP, GB EN, and GBC, which has no JP version). GB runs take 2-3 hours whereas GBC is only about an hour and the route is completely different, it looks like the VOD got lost but RobotJesus' PB is 1:15:21 and involves updating the system clock for all (or at least most) sleeping and item shipments which isn't possible on either GB version.

Thanks, I didn't realize the Harvest Sprites actually do farm work. Eval mechanics are worse than I thought. Even if the releases are different in routing, the separation is confusing to new people like me. One example, Mortal Kombat combines 14 different games into one leaderboard and forum even though Game Boy and Game Gear/Master System are distinctly different.

Edit: Discord link works. I had to change my password to get anything to open.

Another argument to combine is I can verify that Japanese GB Revision 1, English USA GB and German GBC can all trade with each other. Surely Japanese Revision 1 and English Europe can too. It's not some huge issue to me. Just would be a QoL change to have the Leaderboards in one place and share the Forum.