Easy, Normal, Hard, Very Hard, Ultra Hard: All in-game settings must be set to default, with the exception of round number and difficulty.

Any%: Difficulty, Time, and Rounds can be changed. Is the only category in which defense damage can be activated

Runs use in-game timing.

For any difficulty other than Easy, the run must show the difficulty.

The use of Quick Save is allowed because in the arcade mode for each reset the save data has to be deleted and since it is very annoying to be closing and opening every 10 seconds, Quick Save is allowed.