Hello Mario Party DS enthusiasts! You may have noticed a couple of changes with the leaderboard, and that's because there's been a new leaderboard mod added! Me! I am super excited to be a part of the moderation team, and I hope you're all excited for the changes that I've bought.

Change 1: A new category has been added! All Minigames RTA is now a category, which I've wanted for a while. The objective is, of course, to win every minigame in the catalog. If you like the minigames in this game, take a quick look at the rules and do a run! Who knows, you may even get the first subhour 👀

Change 2: New miscellaneous categories have been added. Triangle Twisters has been changed to "Puzzle Games" and now includes all seven puzzle game modes, with the objective of each one (other than TT focus mode, which is the same as before) to get to Level 99 in game. If you have even a remote interest in any of these modes, I encourage you to try one out!

Change 3: I've made some clarifying rules changes for existing categories, just so they're more clear(and for Story Mode some of the now-existing redundancy has been cleared up).

Other than that, there are a couple more potential changes on the way. One of them being Pen Pals, the somewhat forgotten multiplayer mode in this game. I don't think its accessible enough to be its own category on the main board, but I really want it on the category extensions board(which you should check out if you like Mario Party Speedruns!), so I'm going to contact one of those moderators about that.

ANOTHER THING: there has been a large amount of debate in the Mario Party Discord(which you should also join, linked on the side) about whether the difficulty options for the categories that have them should exist(those being Step-it-up, All Boards, and Rocket Rascals). I made a poll yesterday about how they should be handled, where you can vote here. https://forms.gle/h4QK95MszApBMRn68 . I strongly encourage you to join the Discord and read the arguments for yourself, but here's a really quick summary of them:

Argument for removing difficulty options: The leaderboard is particularly bloated right now(most notoriously step-it-up, with 48 total subcategories) and removing the difficulty options will clean up the leaderboard and encourage competition.

Argument for keeping difficulty options: There is already an established leaderboard and removing those difficulty options will be unfair to those who have already done runs and the community is too small to make the leaderboards competitive anyway.

I'm going to keep the poll open for another two days, so if you've run the game before or a part of the community please get your vote in. If you've read all of this, thank you! I hope you're excited for these changes! If you have any suggestions for how to make the leaderboards better, please reply below, or, I plug once again, say it in the Mario Party Discord!

• UmbreSR

ok so what if we took the super mario galaxy leaderboards on this page and moved them to the SMG page but like under a separate tab

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someone needs to fix this

Asking for a friend, will a run be accepted without game audio? Here's what happens when he tries to capture Alternatively if you can think of a solution I'm all ears