As you may know, some hidden items have conditions to be fetched.

And hidden ninjutsu in 7-2 is one of them. I don't quite know the condition of hidden item. Some youtube video says to go upper platform. But it seems that's not all. I'm trying to replicate that in TAStudio. Unfortunately going upper or lower platform didn't help at all.

Do someone actually know the condition of this hidden item?

I'm here just to watch the game's speedruns. But i have no idea on how those categories differ from each others. At least I understand starting weapon category. Everything others are mystery to me, so please explain me those categories.

There is a hidden big heart in 4-2.

But I can't find a way to obtain it.

Is it pixel-specific, or frame-specific, or is conditional that you have to do certain things to get it?

Well, It's very subjective then. For other games, these kind of manipulation goes into glitch territory. For this specific game, It's allowed I guess.

Anyway, I just don't like that in All bosses/Minibosses, Glitchless category first Genichiro fight is skipped because you're allowed to lose and second fight is exploited using game design, making it very unsatisfactory.

I've been always wondering that why in Genichiro second match and Owl (Great shinobi) match wall hitting strat is not considered glitch.

Isn't that glitch? If not why?

Did we discuss existence of 2 loop run category?

Hello, I have a suggestion on this. Tabs should look like this. HARD, NORMAL, EASY, 2P HARD, 2P NORMAL, 2P EASY CO-OP is 5 letters and making tabs too wide to see

And in hard, normal, easy tabs you can choose Ralph and No Ralph as dropdown selection. This would make table so much cleaner and nicer. You can check https://www.speedrun.com/contra_hard_corps board. There, you can choose characters from dropdown list.

You don't have to move any of those runs. It's just a management suggestion for how it should look.

Doctor in Elevator for Sheena: If Doctor goes to the right, simply get closer to him and shoot to upper right corner with C. That would help to rapid shoot. It will deal enough damage to let Doctor go to second phase. So him going right would be the safest and most time saving one.

Sheena trick not to make Dead Eye Joe fly on second phase.

And this is faster and bit harder version. Your head has to be placed 2 holes away from the background bench.