Hello everyone, first of all, I hope you are fine and had a good week everyone. :)

I dunno if you are open to new category suggestions, but since I didn't found informations on this topic (and since this game doesn't have a Discord server where I can ask my question), I wanted to suggest a new category:

The Lucky Cat% (or Laser%, it depend on you):

The goal of the category is simple, get the Laser weapon as fast as possible. (the timer start at the beginning of the 1st level and end at the 1st frame of your plane obtaining the laser (when the word "Laser" appear on the bottem left part of the screen))

I used the IGT of the game in the version of Capcom Arcade Stadium to mesure my time.

And if you are ok for creating this new category, I would be happy to be the 1st one to submit a time for this new category:

I thought that this category could be interesting to speedrun since the Lucky Cat is a very rare item that appears randomely and teleport itself on the screen before dissapering, which could add an interestin challenge for this game and the speedun community around it. :)

What do you think of my proposition? Are you interested in the creation of a new category for this game?

Note: I don't know if the Lucky Cat appears on the NES version of the game so my initial suggestion work only for the Arcade version of the game, but if it also appears on NES, maybe we could extand the category idea so NES players could submit there run too. What do you think?

And, by waiting your answers regarding my category suggestion, I wish to everyone who read this message a good day, and a good weekend too. :)

Well, getting the laser could be one helluva challenge to achieve and keep it (especially in main bosses). By seeing your request, this looks like a "retroachievement-ish style" by getting that item.

The purpose of this leaderboard and the game is to end it, by all resources that 1943 can offer you, and in some way you can trigger those strats if you are a master or you are lucky.

The request looks like a segmented performance by rounds, which probably could not fit in this leaderboard. Extraofficially, that kind of category is not necessary to be created, since "Any" is the main goal for solo player and 2 Players. Officially, if this segment/category could be here it should be put as Miscellaneous for all ports, and definitely I will ask NesCardinality if he agrees or not by DM'him.

It will take some time to get an answer immediately, but it will be written in this thread. Thanks for your idea.

As manticor5 said, there isn't really a reason to make a category like that. It would end up looking a lot like the main category, but without playing the rest of the game after getting the Lasers. Other than choosing different upgrades, the gameplay wouldn't really change. If something like this were to exist, it would definitely be a Miscellaneous category, and I don't think it would get much attention, it might just be the run posted above for a long time.

Thanks for posting the idea though, it never hurts to have discussion.