Sorry, Raikou, not actually sure where to put this one! There's no way I see to respond to your comments on a submitted run. I would personally be all up for a new category for non-Shaq runs but figured getting other people's thoughts on it would be good too!

For those who run across this: There's actually a way to play story mode as a non-Shaq character, via a code in the option menu. Nothing else changes, but this could be an interesting category to see if people can find any unique strats in the game (ie. Colonel is kind of broken! Diesel too, if not for his forward kick having less frames than Shaq's) I still think the current Shaq-only story mode run should the "main" run, definitely.

Any thoughts?

its difficult to put forward, cause if we did we'd need a category for each character to have accurate comparisons, i feel that would flood in empty categories on what is an already quiet leaderboard.

Fair, nobody said you couldn't, so i've corrected the rules to state "in-game cheats" are not allowed.

Claiming it isn't a cheat is false, if it wasn't an in-game cheat, it would be a clearly defined selectable option, not something you activate with sound test inputs.

also correcting that the SNES version allows it, actually it doesn't, they have a seperate category of "No Restrictions", which actually has some runners, there is none for the Genesis version therefore it doesn't warrant the category, i'm a strong believer that if you want a leaderboard, 2 runs minimum from 2 different runners must be ready to place on the new leaderboard otherwise setting it up is a waste of time

you dont need to stress yourself with that, if a run is already on the board prior to me updating the rules, its deemed "grandfathered" and will remain on the boards, rule change will only effect new submissions