Hi all,

Recently Nicalis updated the Switch version of the game to v1.3. This patch fixes an issue with the challenge modes crashing when trying to open them, and for NA/EU regions it also brings over the changes from the Japanese version of the game. The biggest impact this patch has on the speedrun is the patching of the cutscene skip pause glitch, which is the glitch that enables the credits warp to be possible although it also had other uses which saved a couple of seconds in other categories.

Seeing as there is no proper way for people to downgrade to v1.2 (the only game version that has the cutscene skip pause glitch), we are making some changes to the leaderboards:

• The cutscene skip pause glitch is now banned for all future submissions from runners still playing on v1.2, to ensure fairness with runners who updated to v1.3 and newer runners who just bought the game. (This does not affect you at all if you have the most recent game version.) Existing leaderboard runs that use this glitch will not be removed, with the exception of:
• The credits warp category, which has been deleted since it's no longer feasible to obtain the exact version of the game that you need to run that category. The two runs that were on that leaderboard have been archived in the forum thread about the credits warp: https://www.speedrun.com/cave_story_plus/thread/fy4lt . If you're still on v1.2 and you wanted to do some credits warp runs, feel free to share your PBs in that thread! Just know that from here on out, we will no longer be officially tracking this category.
• A co-op option for shared health bars was added to the NA/EU versions of the game in the v1.3 patch. (It was already available in the Japanese version.) Accordingly, we have added a "Shared Health Bar" variable to the Co-op categories, so you can choose to do runs with or without that option enabled. Furthermore, runs with different settings for that option will not obsolete each other, so if you and a friend do two Co-op runs, one with shared health bars enabled and one without, you can submit both runs and have them both shown on the leaderboard.

That's all for now. Have fun caving :)

I will have fun caving on the full game runs.