This thread will eventually host all the boss strategies that people have found for the game and where to set up getting into berserk range.

Please feel free to post videos below and i'll copy them into the OP in boss order (Once we actually settle on a route)

Dear KH Community

Many of you have been asking the Kingdom Hearts leader board team what will happen with Kh3 when it is released on the 25th of January. This post will aim to explain how we will be running the community during the busy release date.

First of all, we will be placing a two-week embargo on all Kh3 runs. This two-week embargo will give the moderation team a chance to actually play the games while discouraging people from doing day one speed runs that will ultimately be beaten once actual routing and testing has been done.

Secondly, as of the current moment the only category we have officially settled on is any% which is simply beating the game as fast as possible where anything goes be it glitches or console version. During this two-week embargo we will be looking at what categories we can actually make and be asking the community for their opinions, naturally categories such as the different difficulties, JJ, and All worlds will be obvious choices should they actually exist in the game. However, aspects such as should consoles be separated, what about unpatched vs patched, and hard drives will require data we can only get once the game has been released and as such would kindly request your assistance in helping us gather the necessary data and decide on if we should do these splits.

As far as the community goes, on release we will open the Kh3 forums up to allow people to post boss strategies, general routing, and other information such as load times, we expect this forum to be very spoiler heavy so please remember this and enter at your own discretion. For those worried about spoilers in the community discord the two-week embargo will mean that there will be no Kh3 channel and any spoiler related info will ideally be moderated. We kindly ask that you remember that not everyone will get access to the game right away and be considerate when posting in twitch channels and twitter.

Finally, many of you have been asking who are going to be the Kh3 moderators, and the simple answer to that is we haven't decided yet. For the first month of kh3's release all the existing moderators will have the ability to moderate Kh3 runs and help deal with the influx of runs we are expecting. During this time, we are hoping that the moderators will be able to self-select whether they are interested in moderating kh3 for a longer time. We will also be opening up applications around this time for members of the wider community, we will select moderators by how much interest they have in the game and their involvement within the community as a whole.

We hope that you are happy with these decisions and we are of course open to compromise if necessary.

• Drazerk.

As many of you know we typically review a console and see how its loading times match up to current submitted runs. When the new 3DS came out I tested its loading times for Days and Re:Coded but while I was doing this we temporarily prevented new 3ds runs from being added to the leaderboards before we finally decided to allow them. However, with backwards compatible PS3s the mods discussed the issue thoroughly and after multiple votes we came to the conclusion that runs on backwards compatible PS3s save too much time to be grouped in together with PS2s and so we banned the console due to the limited availability of the console. Any current backwards compatible PS3 runs we have found on the leaderboards have been removed due to them being submitted falsely.

After a recent set of votes, we have decided that backwards-compatible PS3 runs will not be banned altogether, but instead can be created as a miscellaneous category on any PS2 game if at least 2 people run it and request it (in order to foster competition). For those wanting to see the results you can see the strawpoll here:

which was the final runoff vote after an initial poll with more options:

In order for a new PS3 category to appear on one of the PS2 leaderboards, the following must occur:

1. A post must be created on the specific game's forum expressing intent
2. At least two people must add video links to runs done on backwards-compatible PS3s to the post (also saying they want the category added)

ps. Toji is a ちんこ

Okay so this isn't actually NG+ since the method of obtaining extra items in each version of Re:CoM varies like so:

Re:CoM J - Have a 2FM save file on the memory card Re:CoM NA - Beat Rebirth reverse Re:CoM 1.5 - Watch the 358/2 movie.

So the debate now is do we limit the categories so you can't obtain any of the items from the second chests in a normal speedrun and create a new category or do we just allow everything?

List of all the items with the extra stuff being in the 2nd chests:

Below is a list of all the extra stuff:

Traverse Town 1.Lion Heart 2.Saix

Wonderland

1.Synchro 2.Xemnas

Agrabah

1.Warp 2.Luxord

Olympus Colisem

1.Metal Chocobo 2.Monochrome

Monstro

1.Aqua Splash 2.Xaldin

Halloween Town

1.Bind 2.Bond of Flame

Atlantica

1.Quake 2.Demyx

Neverland

1.Thunder Raid 2.Follow the Wind

Hollow Bastion

1.Mushu 2.Xigbar

Twilight Town

1.Stardust Breeze 2.Roxas

Destiny Islands

1.Mega Elixir 2.Photon Debugger

Castle Oblivion

1.Super Glide 2.Star Skeeker

Its also worth noting that the 1.5 version has even more items but I can't find a list of which one is in which world and the loading times for that version is another story.

Bounties and Kingdom Hearts speedruns are a tale as old as time. I'm sure any of the old guard remember the giant $1000 bounty on KH2 or even the smaller $10 ones on Days / KH1 expert, even more recently the only reason I actually picked up Re:Coded was to steal Toji's $20.

So with that rich history in mind lets kick things off again - Lets bring back KH bounties. If you want to put money towards a category being beaten or a glitch to be found just post here and I'll update this post as necessary.

Active bounties:

$30 by Karxrida for a Deathless 2FM Lvl 1 Crit Any% that's sub 4:20.

$25 by TheNannerpuss12 to the next person to get a 1:06:xx in Aqua critical any%

$20 by ProtagonistJake to the next person to WR in KH2FM any% crit while having final form

$15 by ProtagonistJake to the next person to WR in KH2FM any% beginner while having final form

$1 by Rebelwatt to the next person to find a 1+ minute time save in KHFMHD

Claimed bounties:

$100 by JHobz to the first person to find a useful, reproducible clip that becomes part of the speedrun route in KHFM HD Beginner Any%. Must save at least 5 seconds and be 100% consistent.

$50 by JHobz for a KHFM HD Proud any% that is sub 3:10

$15 by Drazerk for a KHFM HD Beginner any% run in 2:44 - Claimed by BloodyBizkitz

$10 by abandonthemyriad to the next person who gets sub 1:16 in Aqua Beginner - Claimed by Nanner

$10 by Drazerk for a KH2FM beginner mode run that is sub 3:36 - Claimed by Liquidwifi

$10 by iiSalad for a time better than 14''66 on Port Royal Skateboard Minigame KH2/KH2fm

So saiyanz is an ass and found probably one of the biggest glitches in the series. We have vertical screen wraps in Re:Coded which potentially will allow us to skip large portions of worlds. As a result of this I'd like to rename the No GOSU category to No Major Glitches to include the OoB / Screen wrapping shenanigans. This change would aim to keep the spirit of the category in tact. However we still can't call it glitchless because the Donald Thundaga glitch happens way too easily and it'd be stupid to invalidate runs over that.

Videos of the glitch: