Digital (specifically installed to internal memory) loads much faster than physical, saving minutes over the course of a run. It does vary between categories but you'll usually be seeing something like 3 minutes or more.

We have a lot of info on this on the Dread Speedrunning Wiki! You can read about it here.

The 8BitDo Pro 2 is still recommended, just note that you'll need to downgrade the firmware to use turbo on it. We use a version that has a slower fire-rate in order to fit under the turbo Hz cap (13hz). You can find information on the controller here.

[quote=GUIGUI_]Very nice. just one question, why are there only the standard and Dread category? Why not include Hard?[/quote] I'm not sure why you're responding to an unrelated 2 month old post, but Standard refers to all non-Dread mode difficulties. Hard runs are submitted as Standard. The difficulty categories were merged like this months ago because they are extremely similar overall and were unpopular when split.

In the future, please make new threads to discuss things not relevant to the original post.

[quote=karterfreak]If that's the case you may want to update the banned list on SRC for glitchless as shortboost is not specified as something banned.[/quote]Thanks for the heads-up, this has been fixed.

[quote=martin_cast92]Thank you!! And I got a question, can I do some NMG to get this done? (I cant do shine sink for example hehe)[/quote]You can technically run them NMG, but in the case of MS% you should submit this as UR. For Belly%, you actually can't do any major glitches by the time the run finishes normally so this shouldn't be a concern. For Hypothermia%, you could take an alternative route to avoid shine sinking/cam lock, but it would be significantly slower, requiring you to take the normal way around to Gravity Suit.

[quote=karterfreak]So long as you aren't using any of the listed banned techniques in the rules, you can do sequence breaks.

Adam Save Skip, Early Screw with shortboost and Early Ice Missiles (without using WBJ) are allowed as a result.[/quote] Do you mean Early Screw with Water Space Jumps? Short Boost is classified as a glitch.

[quote=martin_cast92]Excuse me I know this might not be the thread but is there any category of speed running metroid dread which is somethign like "Finish the game as the developers made it for", I mean following the "normal secuence of teh game" Thank you[/quote] Correct, this is not the correct thread. Though, to answer your question, there is Intended% for this. It's not on SRC (and likely won't be added any time soon), but you can find out more by joining the discord server and asking about it.

For verification purposes, as long as it's unintrusive (not covering major parts of the game feed) and at least somewhat transparent I think it would be fine. Though definitely not preferred at all.

Shine sinks shouldn't be any different on different difficulties as far as I know. Are you doing them in the same place with the same set-up? Different "one tile" floors can be different levels of thickness, and the grapple angle can also make it easier or harder. If you're new to shine sinks as well they can just be incredibly inconsistent at first, and maybe you're just experiencing some placebo.

It would be extra minimal with ADM skip, as there's only 4 (?) ADAM rooms in the run currently

We are holding off on adding those for now. If we added it immediately we would be absolutely swamped by mass submissions.

DLC is banned because not everyone has them, so it's not an even playing field, I assume.

I know it saves 50 seconds in SMG1 in Any%. It doesn't really matter though once you go past Any%.

1). Do you mean Boo Moon or Sweet Mystery? 2). Vid pls

Is it possible to get all 3?

If I search on Speedrun.com for splits using LiveSplit, I can't find any for this game. Does anyone have a file for splits?

I think it's Japanese since that's it in Galaxy 1 but I'm not sure about 2