After a bit of careful consideration I've decided to try to restructure the board to make Console and Arcade separate, unfortunately SRC doesn't allow sub categories to be a different amount of players so I'm leaving that bit as is.

I also want to make the timing rules more clear as some runs have been submitted with a time not reflected by these rules, so that comparisons between different runs aren't accurate. Because of this some runs will be retimed.

I want to be clear that I do not have a strong familiarization with the arcade version so my decision for the timing may not be the greatest, please let me know if you think there's a better option.

I'm just quickly setting up the boards for now. As far as I see these are the options that can be changed, but any suggestions are welcome:

Timing: Start is currently set to last input before leaving the screen, but gaining control of your character is an option. I much prefer last input. End is currently set to final last hit on the final boss to be consistent with the rest of the series. (last hit is easy to discern because the screen flashes white, and is 6.7 seconds before the stage clear appearance.)

Variables: Should difficulties be separate sub categories? Should each character have their own sub category in Free Mode?

Category names: Could change to any% and have all characters + story mode being subcategories, I think it's fine how it is currently though

Not sure where to put this to get the most visibility: I just had a problem with speedbooster that blew my mind, for some reason it was taking about an extra half a screen to start up, I eventually solved it by turning my switch off and back on, this is mostly a warning to others and wondering if anyone else has run in to this problem.

I added Speed Only to the leaderboard, as of right now the rules are simply only speed up and speed down are allowed, 30 Lives and Extra Credits codes are allowed. Things I have potentially up to change are whether the following are allowed: speed down powerup, 30 Lives code, extra credits.

If you have any opinions or know of any runs that would fit in this category please post them.

Additionally, I already checked and it is possible to complete this challenge on Arcade difficulty, good luck if you want to try. :)

I don't know if this'll interest anyone but I'll throw it out there. I had this idea for a low% for this game, where the only power ups allowed are speed up, because of the hyper speed level, and speed down, because why not with already having speed up.

2 attempts with 3 credits got me past the wall boss on easy, so I'm pretty sure it's easily possible to complete with enough practice.