Decided to make a general thread for sharing tips and details about Aurora mode running. For a few starting notes:

-Aurora's backdash gives her coyote time, which can be used to make some otherwise impossible jumps. This becomes irrelevant with the wings but can be used to get past the moving block room in Galleon Minerva faster and to get an MP Max Up early. -Aurora's backdash grants her i-frames. -Aurora gains back MP when dealing melee damage, including with counters. This makes rhythmic countering and spamming Light Ray a great strategy for Zangetsu. Dominique might require other strategies to be consistently quick. -In New Game+, you have enough health to reach Zangetsu II as soon as Aurora gets her wings, skipping a huge chunk of the game. I do not know if this is possible without it yet, but this does make it so the game can be beaten without visiting the Tower, Caverns, Lab, or Inferno Cave. The question is, is this possible without New Game+ by collecting just a few health max ups? It might be, given Igniculus can heal Aurora when idle, though there is the matter of fighting Dominique and Bael with a low level at that point ... -Light Ray obviously doesn't do much against Dominique. Thankfully, Death Cry/Gen can be easily obtained from a Cyhyraeth on the way to Craftwork. My currently submitted run does not do this but it may be a good idea to incorporate it into the route.

Hey, so I'm looking to get into running this game at some point, and I've heard of this trick called "cursed item debuffing" which I'm not sure what it entails. Would anyone care to enlighten me?

Looking at the Guest Star leaderboard, why isn't there a leaderboard for each playable character? For people wanting to get into speedrunning the game, I think having multiple tabs for each individual character in Guest Star would be worthwhile, both for variety and to give the other characters a chance to be run.

Just an idea. At least for the Dream Friends, if not the helpers. Perhaps even one for the 1.0 Kirby glitch, for the insane people out there.

Hello there peeps, I'm Zwataketa! I'm a youtuber who plays games, and I've taken to speedrunning some games over the years. Some casually (Sonic series comes to mind), and some seriously (Corpse Party and Atlantis Squarepantis DS, for instance). I am well vested in studying tricks and techniques even for games I don't run, even if I can't pull off said tricks (alas, poor Sonic 06). So yeah, I've been here a while, but never really posted in the forum, thus an introduction seemed necessary. ^^

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This is a glitch I've known about for some time now, and I feel it has potential in a speedrun, maybe even leading to a new category, but I don't know how to get consistent results from it. I am posting it here in hopes that someone with better expertise with glitch-hunting can figure out how to get consistency with this glitch.

Note: When I said in the video "any area aside from Bikini bottom", I was referring to the part of the first world where you go thru downtown Bikini Bottom. This glitch works in the first cave level though.

I only got the game recently, and I plan on finishing it proper before I even consider speedrunning (as of right now I'm only up to Chapter 3), but I have a proposal for 2 new categories: -All chapters any% (as opposed to the individual chapter runs making up the categories right now) -All Endings (the goal would be to play thru the game from the beginning and get all wrong and right ends)

On a side note, I'm playing the iOS version, which is said to run better than the Vita version. Can that be added to the list of devices for this game, please?

Exactly what it says on the title: a Fark Story category that doesn't use the Super Static glitch. Throwin' it out there.

X Newgameplus. In Free Play Mode, go thru all stages, starting with Central Highway, then the 8 Maverick stages (in any order), then the 4 Sigma stages in order. Perhaps there could also be a similar category for Vile, but I have yet to play that mode so I don't know if it wold work very well.

Why is Best Ending the only category? Normal is easier and does count as a legitimate ending, doesn't it? At least compared to the "leaving the island with Kazuma" ending.

Can someone explain this to me?

Shouldn't there be a category for unlocking and defeating the extra boss (as in main game, and then the extra boss stuff)? It's not all islands, but I feel like it should be an existing category.