Hi Everyone!

First and foremost, if you want to stay up to date on Cat Quest speedrunning, we highly encourage you to join the discord. That’s where most of the discussions go on and if you want to be part of that, you need to be there.

Rule Changes:

The biggest rule change we’ve added was that there is now a Turbo subcategory for the game. A number of runners have indicated that the mashing makes multiple attempts difficult, so we wanted to have an option for those of us that don’t really like to mash. However, the old leaderboards without Turbo are still available for the purists out there.

This option is available for all of the different game modes.

New Categories:

We have also added Mew Game categories to the leaderboards. Right now, the only options are Furry Armored, Stronger Enemies, Naked Cat, and Level One. 9 Lives does not change the run, so you can use that option during runs if you’re trying to farm Old Master gear. We also don’t have combination modifiers, but we can change that if there’s interest.

Board Cleanup:

As part of the new rule change, I had to manually update all of the existing runs as No Turbo. As part of that process, I did not update any runs that no longer had video evidence available. If your run wasn’t added to the new board, make sure you still have the video available and we can update the run for you.

If you have any questions (or are hoping for faster verification), please use the discord. The SRC moderation panel is terrible for notifying moderators, so if you ping us on the discord, you’re more likely to get a faster response.

Thanks!

Fricassee

Based on discussions in the discord, we are adding the ability to use turbo for this run. This is primarily being added to ease the pain of mashing text, as the mashing cadence required tended to limit the number of runs a runner could do comfortably.

Instead of blowing up the leaderboards with the first turbo runs added, we are going to put a 2 week moratorium on verifying runs that use turbo. After two weeks, moderators will start reviewing accepting turbo runs.

If you are using turbo, please make it clear in the submission and select the Turbo option. We'll know if you're using turbo. We're trying to make the game as accessible as possible and it's possible that turbo will trivialize or break the speedrun in ways we can't anticipate. Documenting whether turbo is used will help us split the board in the future if we decide to do so.

If you have any comments or feedback on the use of turbo in the run, please come to the discord to discuss it, as you're more likely to get a response from a moderator there.

So, this game is pretty fun, but the fastest way to complete it is to do as little drumming as possible, since it adds time to the score screen.

I think we should have some categories that encourage playing the game, so I added B, A, and S rank versions.

Any complaints on that? Any ideas for other categories?

I think I want to bring the start and stop time in line with the first and last inputs that matter, so I'm going to set them at selecting the difficult and at the end of the final cutscene skip (leading into the credits).

I can adjust times manually, but I didn't want to do it without input from the other runners. Thoughts?

Can we get a specific start and stop time for the run? And can we also specify the turbo settings for the Any% category?

While they're not nearly as easy as they are on PC, it looks like zips on the switch are possible. The timing is a lot earlier than on PC though.

The trick is to get the screen to transition to black before you see the roll animation. If you see your character roll as it's fading, it's probably too late.

Here's a twitch video of hitting some zips on the switch. To give some idea, I hit about 7-8 zips over the course of 20 minutes and roughly 200-300 attempts. But it's possible!

Are you looking to start speedrunning, but haven't picked a game yet? Are you interested in running games that only a few people have tackled as a speedrun? Do you want to do it alongside a bunch of other people?

We're starting a new club, where we speedrun a different obscure game every month. We're focusing on games that don't have a lot of activity on SRC (like 5 or less runners). And you can join!

For January, we're letting people submit one game of their choice, and we'll vote on which one to run. But in future months, we're probably going to go for a more catered experience.

Join us for this wild speedrunning ride at our discord. https://discord.gg/FyTGQy4