Hi,

Could a HARD mode tab or sub category be added for every character? I have an amazing Trevor only speedrun but does not enter fair game with the simpler runs. thanks!

I have been meaning to make some hard mode categories but have been procrastinating. I'll try to do it tonight (jc583 has a grant second quest run as well so that's 2 of four already.)

I think "second quest" would be a more accurate name.

There's also the matter of how to start the game. For Trevor solo it's straightforward -- you just enter your name as "AKAMA". But for the sub-characters I believe you have to password in. But there's a catch: if you beat the 1st quest with Grant, and simply start the game again, you start the 2nd quest as Grant. If you password in, you start the 2nd quest as Trevor and have to lose time switching to Grant. So we either have to require you to password in, or impose a time penalty if you got to the 2nd quest by running "both loops".

If it's OK with you Komrade I'll go ahead and make the Trevor solo category so The_Retro_Challenger can submit his run, and we can figure out what to do with the others later?

Dunno about famicom -- I only tried it on the US version.

A lot! More enemies (like there are actually zombies and such on the very first screen), new enemies (these horrid flying skulls, and some of the spear knights are replaced with different guys)...

OK. Hopefully I'm not jumping the gun here but I went ahead and created a category for Trevor second quest because he's the easiest one to deal with.

Some things to note:

• 2nd quest is only available in the international versions (I assume both PAL and NTSC). We don't have categories at all for PAL so I went ahead and specified that it was the "US" version for consistency's sake.
• Spirit helper recruiting is not available in the second quest. You start the second quest with whatever spirit helper (or lack thereof) you beat the game with. The game just skips over the normal cutscene where you would normally be offered the chance to recruit a new helper.

Yes, second quests are US only, and so are all the secret names.

Thanks for the info HopRope. I'm happy to add second quest categories for Famicom. Not sure where we originally got the idea that there was no second quest in the Japanese version, but either it was bad information or I misread something!

(It'll probably be a couple days before I can get to it)

I would like to avoid having things too deeply nested, i.e. I'd rather see 4 categories at the top level (NTSC, NTSC 2nd Quest JP, JP 2nd Quest) rather than make people drill down too far. I think categories tend to get a little too buried if someone had to pick JP -> 2nd quest -> Sypha to actually see the runs, if you catch my drift.

Thanks for taking care of that Komrade! And congrats on your run HopRope :)