Guilty Gear X2's next game was #Reload, a welcomed upgrade to original Midnight Carnival. While not completely fixing the balance of the original, It did add Robo Ky, and historically it was a big deal that this game had the ability to play online with the Xbox.

Going back to older versions has led to new discoveries for players of this game, especially with the release of the GGXX #Reload PC version. This realization also leads to updates for the leaderboard.

• Chose to show emulator runs by default (more runs are now visible on the board that were previously hidden.)

• Disabled IGT, Don't know why this was turned on but it was glitching some runs and records. This game and all other entries in the GGXX franchise use Real Time Attack (RTA.)

• PC loading is completely different from Xbox/PS2/Arcade releases. Time to skip the loadings is essentially built in. However with the GOG, Steam, and other PC releases your able to skip that section entirely. This means the original releases have no way to compete with this.

• Will add a separate sub category variable for the PC version.

• Removed console unlocks or no unlocks. If your already playing ANY% then ANY character is ok.

• Removed the time variable. From here on out, time should always be the default. After watching speedruns and doing diligent research. Time has no visible impact on AI behavior. And If your playing to get time overs in guilty gear, your doing it wrong. Please use the default time setting outside of anything that's no any%

• Console unlocks were not defined, I will put a list below this to show what they are/were for each game. If I miss some please notate.

• Archived Survival Mode, there are currently 0 submitted runs, if it is desired to have back we can unarchive it.

• M.O.M mode was under misc for this leaderboard with 0 submissions as well. For right now it has been archived. If a run is submitted it will be added back, if its a full completion run.

• Removed the "Other" under run types. Not a single run used this variable and its undefined. Basically no idea what other means, and it seems none of the runner did either.

• Arcade No Instant Kill Challenge has been added as main category.

• Moved the Any% to its correct spot under the difficulty. Again changing the time, round, and using secret characters fall under this percent.

• Grandfathered the old 1 round Easy, and Normal, and Manic runs, under misc. You can still submit to the 1 round challenge there. I also beat the WR time for these before switch, so I misc'd my own runs as well.

• Switch Difficulties to have the above mentioned Any%, and keeping Beginner, Normal, and Maniac, adding the percentage symbol to show that its the category.

• The only Instant kill runs were Any%, rechecked all runs.

• Fixed the link on some runs so the video would embed properly.

• 1 round runs that use anything above the Beginner percent difficulty were put in the misc category mentioned above named NO IK 1 Round Challenge. @diabetesNINJA @Antea @norinori74 and @DBcade have runs under that misc section now.

• @waniknife, who did the default round and time on maniac was moved to the appropriate category.

• Arcade's Variable difficulty set to: Any%, explained in detail her, Beginner%, Normal%, and Maniac%

• Arcade's No Instant Kill Challenge also has its Variable difficulty set to: Any%, explained in detail her, Beginner%, Normal%, and Maniac%.

• Annotations for Rounds and Timer removed. Outside of Any% you MUST use 99 default timer, and the 3 rounds. The standard has been set long before this site existed, please keep the arcade speedrun rules standard for games that have an arcade release.

• Run types variable removed.

• News thread made, this change will be reflected on ALL Guilty Gear boards, even adding No Instant Kill Challenge to previous runs. Please enjoy the cleaner board, and more clear way to run the game.

• Fighting game speedrun discord https://discord.gg/6Ay9bmb updated as well. Please check there.

Feel free to post below if you questions or comments regarding the game, this was a huge change log but this game really deserves the best treatment. You can also reach out on the discord.