Yeah, it's kinda dumb, and dev-intended cheat codes are normally not allowed in speedruns.
So I asked a friend on this because I wasn't familiar with games that use Cheat% and my understanding is that there are multiple games where cheat codes are allowed in Any%, this is a thing that depends on communities and isn't universally applicable.
In this case, I did a category split between Any% and All Levels because the CHEATER filename exploit was discovered and submitted under Any%. It then led to multiple runs being done with this and now it is the most active current category.
Personally, I see two reasons to change it:
One: A new in-game exploit is discovered that allows someone to skip levels and someone wants to run this. If someone finds this and wishes to run it without the CHEATER filename, I'll happily make a new category for that because I would agree that would be useful.
Two: The community, in particular the people running this game, decide this semantic distinction is important. I personally feel like if you're uncomfortable with the CHEATER filename then it would be better to run All Levels with our current knowledge of the game and that the current category splits are well indicative of the possible ways that people have speedrun it. If other people in the community agree that this is a distinction they would like to have, feel free to say so in this topic and I'll change it. But I personally feel this is largely a semantic difference and is unlikely to change which category is most popular. It's a small game but I've been trying to keep up with appropriate category splits and even if it uses a cheat code, more people have run it than the previous Any%.
Also, my time was uncontested for four and a half years in Any%, someone comes in with a quicker way to do it and beats me? I was ecstatic about that!
That said... how do other people feel about this? Do you think that we should rename the categories or do you think they're fine as it is?
I'm fine with how the category is laid out right now. It's just down to semantics like there is nothing stopping someone from not running Any% if they don't want to. I'm not against changing it but this community is so small so why bother.
