Golden Missions: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ds/958082-mario-and-sonic-at-the-olympic-winter-games/faqs/80278 Thank Entertainment Z, who has submitted a bunch here

Silver Worlds speedruning strats: To do

Minigames:

• AllMinigames: Needs to be played in order. The minigames need to be played in order, so that rules out RNG manipulation, unless you can play several minigames perfectly in set seeds all the way to Vector's. Even if you cannot, the first few minigames can probably be manipped until Tails.

• Luigi + Amy: It's just RNG. Finding a God Seed is nightmarish. The same Boo always has the key.

• Tails + Vector + Daisy: It's just RNG. every seed is a God Seed if you memorize.

If you want to play without RNG, Vector has some cool strats. You'd have to learn how do all the questions begin, let them run a few words, then make a wild guess.

Tails minigame is fun to play manipless. What kind of supernatural image recognition skill does a human need to have to fucking reach 6 seconds???? Either way, memorize the shapes and differences before playing so that you can rule them out faster

• Donkey Kong + Waluigi: It's RNG and skill. You will find more detailed knowledge on Waluigi under Nakano Xanter's record (I commented a few strategies there). DK has ice and bombs falling, but they are not purely random. There are patterns, if you see Ice falling in a certain way, you can predict bombs afterwards, or bananas. They seem like 2 separate waves, thanks to a big delay until the banana falls, but they are really not: it's 1 long pattern. You'd have to pay attention and write it down, then memorize.

RNG Manipulation can be used, but finding a pattern is not that easy for DK. For Waluigi it's probably easier.

• Knuckles: You play the Knuckles minigame? Okay, tell me every button that Knuckles needs to press in order. RNG manips for Knuckles would be like that.

Besides fast reaction, you need to fast tap very fast as well.

• Peach: Turn on a fan and place your DS under it. You should achieve a WR after 40 minutes.

If you are running All minigames: After the wind stops blowing, the thwomp will not blink for a while, most times anyways.

SIMP Thwomp.

• Yoshi: It's the same every Time.

• Blaze + Shadow: You don't need to RNG manip, but you could. It's probably slower.

• Silver + Luigi: Can reach 0.999 seconds

• Wario: It's unclear whether he can reach 0.999 seconds

• Mario + Sonic: can go suck it, missed opportunity on the developers

• Big the cat's minigame: would make every Sonic fan wet their male-panties if it existed

• Metal Sonic, Bowsy, Eggman and Bowser: have no minigames

How to RNG manip: Set the clock to a minute before the ideal time. Go to the "Select game" screen. Wait for the clock to show a new minute on your screen. Press the game and lose no time reaching the minigame screen.

My DS' clock fades and fades back every time 1 second passes. That makes it easier to test RNG seeds, because you know what second are you playing on. Most Nintendo's don't do that.

GOD SEED FINDING:

To find a God Seed for 1 minigame, you'd need to check out every possible second within an hour. Sometimes more. For Amy and Luigi, you'd need to download several emulators (my biased choice is Bizhawk, Desmume can glitch the speed), load a Save File with the minigames unlocked, set the emu speed very high, open TAS Studio and loop some inputs (a TAS will: open the game, select the minigame, wait for the pattern to show up, then press power-on the console inside the emu. Loop the inputs). You'd need to run several emulators at once, but the more emulators are opened, the more they lag and slow down. So you might need several PCs. Then you'd need to delay every TAS a few seconds so that they can land on different seeds and let the emus run for hours.

You'd have to manually check if the emu landed on the right patterns. Or, if you know how to create an image- recognition lua or program, you could let it run unsupervised.

Luigi needs to be slightly to the right before the batteries fall, otherwise he will never reach the Boo before 1 second passes. The God battery Pattern is for all of them to be somewhere before the Boo and a bit to the right of Luigi's starting position.

Amy's pattern is not what you would expect. If you press A on the first frame possible every frame, you will realize that, even if all of the right totem symbols align, you won't win. The last totem piece will spin 1 time, even if the 3 pieces before it were to be hit frame perfectly. So, the last totem face needs to be off by 1 symbol.

Each perfect seed might take 5+ hours to find even with several PCs and emulators opened. I made the math for Amy, you have a chance of 1,25 times out of 5 thousand seeds for finding the God Seed .

Unless you owe 1 billion PCs you'd need to use some library's or school's PCs. Even if you got around to do that, manually checking it out is a nightmare. So you either know how to write code, I guess, or the seeds won't be found

This aplies to ILs like Extreme Snowboarding or Ski Cross Racing. Even Race, on Beijing2008. But you'd need to roll a Star every item block there is. Ski Cross Racing is within reason, Extreme Snowboarding has 2 turns and several item boxes.

A God Seed for normal Snowboarding would enable you to bounce from 3 NPCs at the start of the race.