This was a recently debated topic in the discord community, but after a vote, the decision was made to make the all flash category include Treasure Hunt. I do, however, agree with you that 1-4 would be a better category :)

None. You can’t stretch the screen to reveal objects that are out of bounds. It counts as screen manipulation.

iirc, suicide clip is a clip you can do in the second running training to get slightly out of bounds and get infinite points. However, (still iirc) it's impossible to get back in bounds and you are permanently out of bounds. Thus, the name "suicide clip". I'm not really the person to ask if you want to know how to do it, but I hope that explanation was suffice to answer your question. As to your second question, there are 2 versions that you can play this game on:

1. Flash Version. The Flash Version is used for all the categories except for "In Browser". While flash was axed from websites at the end of 2020, this game is still available via the download in the resources tab. There is also a version which is considered flash on Wix Games. Here's the link if you are interested: https://games.wixgames.co.uk/game.php?id=ducklife4
2. Unity/ In Browser Version. This version is now what is supported by most host websites including Coolmath, Math Playground, and others.

Finally, just to relate the two questions, suicide clip is only possible in the Flash Version. While I'm not too familiar with what categories use suicide clip, you cannot suicide clip in the Unity Version. This means you have to download the game from the resources tab, or play on Wix games to play that category.

NMG Any% requires you to have the King of Ducks role to beat the game, since you can’t beat the Champ without having the stats required to earn the role. Having a category like “NMG King of Ducks” would be unnecessary because of this.

Like Caarda said before, under the resources tab is a downloadable file named "Download Version" that is used to play the old (original) version of Duck Life. This is what the "No Major Glitches" and "Glitched" categories use, while the "In Browser" categories use the Unity version, which is what websites such as Coolmath support now. So to answer your question, the world record is beatable since we can still play the original flash version via download.

I like the way you’re thinking, but this hypothetical category is much too similar to No Major Glitches Any% because the Champ race requires all levels except for energy to be maxed out to 150. The only thing this category would add would be buying some extra energy seed.

Unfortunately, this is not a new glitch. It’s called rcp for right click play and it’s used in some glitched categories to skip races and training.

@Catcher I’m unsure how you got a run verified with screen manipulation, that’s a pretty agreed upon disqualification for a run. To get future runs verified, just don’t run the emulator in full screen. If you see any part of the screen that is out of bounds it can be rejected.

I’m positive your run was rejected for screen manipulation.

Screen manipulation includes anything that stretches the screen to reveal things that are not supposed to be seen. You are playing the game in full screen, so things that are out of bounds are seen, which is not allowed. If you do not play the game In full screen, then the run should be valid. (I didn’t watch the full run so I don’t know if there are any other problems.)

I don't know, but I was watching your video and when you started the run your flying level was 26. you might have done a run before and forgot to clear your data. If you want clarification from the mod team you can message them and ask about it.

If I remember correctly, your run started with 26 levels in flying instead of 0, so it was probably taken down because it violates the rules. I’m sure you didn’t mean to, but that’s likely why.

Go for it. I feel that the route is pretty optimized so are-routing would be tough. Glitch hunting may be the only way to make big time saves.