Hello everybody it’s Extreme_Speed and this is 8 reasons why Sonic Riders needs igt.

1: If you are playing on console it is pretty much impossible to get wr because the load times are too slow on console.

2: After a race, you have to skip through the save data screen which can also affect you if you're going for wr.

3: Also going along with number 2. Snfn who is a riders speedrunner did a run of hero story no ultra on pc and had to skip through the save screen which affected his run which it would have been wr.

4: Snfn also did the same run another time before and got wr but he had to remove it from the leaderboard because he was using Tweakbox which has faster load times. So that means that the load times have to be fast if you're going for wr but if your using Tweakbox the load times are too fast.

5: Also trying to download the game can be a pain because if you're downloading it offline some downloads don’t even include the proper cutscene files. Also, they may just not even work at all. I've tried to download one offline and for me it didn’t work.

6: Even if you are using an emulator such as Dolphin the load times would still be slow by like 10 seconds.

7: So a disc would be the best but acquiring a copy of the game for pc can also be difficult because it can be very expensive for a sealed copy and the only place you can get it is a used copy on EBay.

8: Also Iden, the wr holder for controller no ultra, said that he has a copy of the game on disc but he hasn’t had much success downloading them.

Conclusion: So being able to have igt would be better and make more sense for people speedrunning it on console or are struggling with the weird load time of riders on pc. Riders Zero Gravity already has igt on the leaderboards for full game speedruns. It would be the same as zero gravity where you add the times that you got in all of the stages.