Sorry for really late reply. I havent had time with life and all. Anyways to your question. If you mean for the tg16 version. Adding the kraken boss alone i wouldnt call 100%. There is a secret door in the fire cave that leads to a chest with an amulet that gives you max gold, along with a hidden PITA chest hidden behind what i call the unforgiving boss and another chest with i believe an herb that requires yet another perfect jumping between ropes. Adding kraken i would make it an all boss category but i think for 100% i would also throw in all the chests as there are some normal chests out of the way as well.

I have done 0 work for these as my main focus was quickest time. Still cant get that lich to spawn right... anyways feel free to join in the runs.

Oh and I figured out to spawn the lich without any manticoees chasing you.

Been a year already.

Been a he'll of a year at that. My whole has changed and no Cadash has never once left my mind. I've been working on a new set of strats from square one. I haven't made much progress since i don't have a pc anymore. But by using an emulator on a 3ds I have been practicing a few new ideas and even broke some things I thought impossible. However I have yet to get the lich skip once. I don't know how you guys pulled that off but kudos.

Anyways I won't spoil anything right now but I am working on a host of new things and it might lead to a TAS if I can ever manage to figure out how to record one.

So after doing some number crunching I am lead to believe all weapons but the Super Kunai are useless. Shuriken takes 10-12 hits to kill a golem at level 3 same as Kunai and the Tristar. Every level took the same # of hits to kill one. So the weapons break down as follow: Shuriken Base Weapon. Kunai Pierces walls but not enemies. Tri-Star:Hits low med and high at the same time. No DMG bonuses to confirm at this time. Super Kunai pierces walls and enemies and seems to fly faster for faster refire Fireball SHOULD do more dmg but seems to only do so to the Wizard Barrouge form and nothing else.

So for future runners. Skip all weapons until the Super Kunai.

I don't know the wraiths at all since I never went with analyzing anything like RNG etc. Everything I did I did just through normal play. I do have some secrets I discovered NONE of which help in a speed run. Which I will detail now: If right when you kill Crawling Kelp you go down and wait for the Elixir sometime It wont spawn at all... You can frame perfect talking to the fake king and he will say his opening line twice before the princess shows up to confront him. And you know about town music in the final dungeon if you watched my runs but since the last shop is skipped now it doesn't matter.

Things that killed runs: The secret wall for the Dragon Amulet(max money) is above the secret wall to the fire elemental. But since that path is skipped now its moot.

Things to help you both: Skip the tri star. It deals the same DPS as the Shuriken and I think you can fire it faster on the Silk Worm

When you attach the silk you have a few frames, maybe only one or two, to jump up before the text box. This will allow you to grab the silk before it fully drops. Even if you miss it if you jump up before the text box you will still grab it earlier.

Since the skip has been found for the final cave... Skipping Crawling Kelp MAY be possible now. This would save over 1 minute of time.

The only skip left is to try and skip Silk worm but I fear even if it was possible you would still need to grind form lvls 3-10 in the final area taking considerably more damage and risking a wipe. I don't think even if it becomes possible it should be taken until leveled up off the golems.

Leveling does increase jump height but at level 20 ninja and warrior(the highest jumpers) Are still a few pixels short of reaching the silk ledge. Not to mention leveling to 20 takes forever. So this fact is even more useless.

RNG appears to start at start up. Going off experience taking a save state at the character select screen and going to Black Pudding he moved in the same ways 4 times in a row with no apparent way to change his RNG until I continued through with a game over or reset the emulation completely. Someone who can actually study that will be needed.

And my last two bits of wisdom for future runners... The priests shield ability is useless in speed runs due to MP consumption and the mage just sucks. We dont get a lot of options to get MP back so having to use their base attacks...I couldn't beat black pudding at level 5 on the priest due to slow refire rate and only just barely at 4 for the mage due to his 1-3 spells and now I gotta poke you attacks. If they ever get a sub 30 I will shit bricks.

First Hello. I am so happy to see this game taking off. When I first ran this game over 2 years ago and and set the now horrid sub 30 minute mark on the game things have changed so much. Sure there are only 2 other TG-16 runners atm but damn that is impressive to me. Toad I have talked to you in your twitch and god DAMN how did you figure out that skip in the last cave? 2 years I wasted trying and Sub keep going you already beat me just keep going. I have decided to stop running this game and will hence forth only be going to mod this category from time to time and MAYBE routing the mage or warrior but even then I won't be too active as my computer can't handle it anymore and I can't afford to keep going. But a slight tip to you both. Skip the tri-star. It does no extra damage apparently and only serves to slow you both down.

Thank you both for proving my long standing theory. The TG-16 version can be faster then the Arcade version. I feel almost like the father of this category and well...Papa is proud. Keep it going guys I really hope to see a sub 20 minute at AGDQ/Convention of your choice.

~With a big thick slice of HairyBaconGamer.

This is all from the same game Cadash on the TG-16 these didn't kill me but did derail me: Failing to get enough gold for final upgrade Failing to kill ONE last enemy to hit proper level Finding out THAT is where the secret door to a useless(for speedrunning) item is... Forgetting to talk to a dog to open a door Finding a glitch! Finding out the glitch makes the boss NOT drop the elixir I need... Forgetting I bought 4 antidotes instead of 5 and somehow used them all(Poison is not a guaranteed thing) Having the final boss whose RNG can make him hit you 0 times to NUKE go into Nuke mode for an entire week of runs... You bought more medical herbs right? Nope... But I was 2 min ahead and couldn't figure out why! That was Herb #7 right?(Herbs save you from death and give you back 10 hp you can only hold 8 total and after that dead=Game Over) Executive Decision! Level to 9 not 10! 5 minutes added to time and game over at the end boss... Number of times I have said "WTH He's never done THAT before!?" Innumerable.

Was on a new WR time for my game and well in Cadash when something drops it drops to the ground and you pick it up...The boss didn't drop the elixir... That is vital for my route...I was over 30 seconds ahead...never...managed...it...again...(so far)

I speedrun Cadash on the TG-16/ Currently the only one. As far as I know there are no glitches/bugs to speedrun it it's all about managing what level you are and making sure you damage boost the right ways. That praying the RNG doesn't mess with you too badly.

So I read some emulators are allowed as long as they mimic the system as closely as possible. Now I use PC Engine for Turbo Grafx 16 to speed run Cadash. But I do not know how well this emulates the actual console. If this meets the prerequisite I would like to allow it on the Cadash boards that I just had added seeing as the console and game are both around 150$ each as they are considered more of an oddity in the gaming world.

it is the name I live and stream by. Thank you.

Hello my name is HairyBaconGamer. I speed run one game atm. Cadash on the Turbo Grafix 16. I have basically the only video on youtube for this as well. I will be trying to add the category if all gets accepted. The main issue is I run it on an emulator and I need to get it approved for it to count here.