Hello,

Can anyone tell me why normal mode ends at level 15 in some cases, and level 20 in others? I understand that the normal speedrun rules are for the end of level 15, but am curious why the mode sometimes continues past that.

Thanks!

Hmm, if I saw an example that might help. On Normal you have to get a certain number of each animal. Perhaps its possible to keep getting points and continue levelling up without getting the last animals needed on a certain type.

The current normal mode speedrun goes to credits after level 15: https://www.speedrun.com/zooogba/run/ywk34g2y

The second place normal speedrun continues to level 16: https://www.speedrun.com/zooogba/run/yd624q0z

This video completes level 15 at 17:01, then after the "clear" screen (which seems to be every 5 levels) continues all the way to level 20 before getting the credits: https://archive.org/details/game-boy-advance-longplay-zooo-action-puzzle-game-eu

Are you saying that on top of the per-level quota of each level there's a hidden "total of each animal" threshold that must be reached to get the credits?

Hmm, it's not immediately obvious to me exactly what is going on.

I thought it might have something to do with the Rank on second look; the runs that didn't get the credits appear to be below Rank 10 when Level 15 is completed, where as the ones Rank 10 or above...

The only exception is my old run, lol.. I lose on Level 15, and restart it. This restarts my rank back to 0, and yet, I still got credits once completeing 15. On the 2nd place run, they go above Rank 10, and then go back down and end below 10 when completing Level 15... so I guess that can't be it.

I'm stumped as of the moment; would be nice to know, it's possible then that maybe the run can be down in 10 levels instead of 15, if we only knew exactly what was going on here.