Yeah, pretty much what it says on the tin.
It feels weird seeing so many different categories for a game that is barely run, and even weirder seeing only one of those categories actually run. So what's the difference between them?
In Any % you're allowed to use passwords you earn during your run. Personally I find the category to be useless and instead we should have single segment categories for each platform instead.
Oh and about that other statement, currently SNES, Amiga and Mega Drive categories are run with Amiga being the most competitive. I've heard other people planning SNES runs and BazBadger and I have been planning a co-op Amiga run.
See, that was what I was thinking too... If The only difference between Any% and Single Segment is using Passwords to continue after Game Over, and it's anyways faster to not Game Over...
Wouldn't Single Segment be the most efficient Any% run anyways? Like, as far as I understand it, there is no speed advantage to choosing Any%. Which also means the restriction in Single Segment is redundant (since the fastest Any% run would always follow Single Segment rules too)
Also I feel like I need to apologize for questioning the Categories of a random Speedrun Board I don't have intentions of running. I just talked with someone recently, who was streaming the game, and got somewhat curious about the speedrun times.
Nah, it's valid criticism. There is apparently trick with the passwords where you could modify an earned password to gain loads of money and maybe then run through the whole game with shields from the 2nd world onwards but I feel that should be a category named something else than any %, or should it? I've rearranged the categories now but maintained the single segment name. Thoughts?
Yeah, I feel like if that trick is the only advantage of Any%, I'd just ban it from Any% and make a separate category where it's allowed or something.
But also, the way you rearranged it now seems fine. Since everyone's running Single Segment anyways, might as well make it the main category.
