I think there should be a category where timing ends after you beat Mario's second quest (The quest you get after beating the game). What do you think?

New Game+ would be stupid. It's more or less the same route. As I answer to many people asking for new categories on speedrun.com, do runs, then make it popular, then we might think about adding this category. Because from now on, I haven't seen that kind of run.

I can see why people ask for this category, since it would give a longer category to the game and not leave 2nd quest obsolete, but the fact that is pretty repetitive and the same thing as a any%/warpless run makes it kinda pointless to run nor I do see enough runners that would like to run this. Because like pack said, the route is pretty much the same. We never know the future, or what the moderators can decide someday, but for now I don't see this category being a thing.

There was a TAS that was submitted to tasvideos.org of both quests, and it was rejected because a second quest speedrun is largely a copy-paste of inputs from the first run-through. "Beat second quest" has been played as a race category a couple times, but due to the repetitive nature of the category and its unpopularity, I don't think it warrants its own leaderboard.

Both Quests Warpless is a good race category. We never raced "beat second quest," because you would just menu warp to 8-1 - and it's true that world 8 is the same. There are plenty of differences in worlds 1 through 7, however. BQW has about 7 or 8 times out there, maybe more. It is a viable option for RTA.

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