Hey everyone! I know I am only a mod for YW1 but I have no doubt that the mods for other games speak on the same grounds. Emulators are banned and have been banned for a while, and this isn't looking to change. But more importantly I am wanting to discuss the legality of NTR CFW, which is a way people often record 3ds footage. We aren't mad at you if you didn't know this, but it SPEEDS UP LOAD TIMES! It has some other effects as well, but for this reason PLEASE DO NOT RUN WITH IT, OR YOUR RUN WILL BE INVALID. Apologies to Practical User, as it appears he uses this or something similar and his DtS run which tied WR will probably be removed. Nerdy and I are not mad at you for not knowing.

I recently heard a rumor that you can use doll glitch to skip ghoulfather.

For those who don't know, in my first playthrough of yo-kai watch 3 (which I have now finished), I chose to try testing doll glitch on most bossfights in the game. (Later on I had stopped for a brief bit due to just wanting to finish the game, but I do remember testing this fight for the first phase).

Not a single one of my doll glitch tests were successful. I remember weird stuff happening when it was used on Agent X 1 and I think Beddy Bye too, but other than that nothing really happened, it just brought you to before you fight the boss, which would just be a useless waste of time.

I never tested the 2nd phase, but more than likely it does nothing.

Only way I could see this being true is if it works on older versions or only on JP versions.

Busters T - The main problem with this category is pretty obvious, it is way to hard for someone to sit through this trash sidemode to begin with, let alone Speedrun it. The pro, is that if you do this, you have balls of steel.

I didn't want to post this, but I am just putting this out here because honestly, this issue is massively plaguing this game at the moment. (Note: Categories which aren't DtS)

For those not aware, recently, the runner HystericZero2/Despressiion had his runs removed. This was because his old runs had extremely fishy splits (most notoriously sub 20 minute chapter 11), and the other active mod, Nerdy, and I both refused to believe he improved so fast. Something both of us still stand by.

The reason I bring this up is because it lead into us basically having a back and forth arguement on what rules we need to implement to prove a top runner is legit. I argue we should enforce recording for runs 2:20 RTA (the main category) and under (btw we recently switched to RTA). However, Nerdy and some others do not enjoy recording and argue we should still do something, but not that.

Nerdy and I are still planning to figure this out, however, please feel free to give us suggestions for this.

Additionally, I promised I would look for easy ways to record without a capture card, so please inform me with those methods if you have them.

To contact us, your best bet is to join the Yo-kai Watch Speedrunning discord and either dm us or ping us in the Yo-kai Watch 1 channel. (Note: At the time of this post I am currently not using discord so I don't get distracted by it, but I will be back on soon and should see it eventually).

I will delete this forum post once we have our rules adjusted. Thank you for your patience with these.

A lot of people like to suggest new categories for this game, so here are some things to consider before you suggest one:

1. How unique is it? (Bad ex. Die to Gargaros is basically die to snartle)
2. Is it something people would run (Bad ex. Hitless would be cool, but not something anyone would want to run)
3. Does it make sense to be a category? (Good ex. Infinite Inferno because Wobblewok is considered the end boss of the post game; bad ex. Beat Snartle (not too significant). If you think your idea is good I recommend discussing it in the YW1 section of the Speedrun discord. If others agree and it is something other runners would be interested in running then start to make a route (best if done with a few other runners if possible). After that we will need a recording of the run, submit the recording to Nerdy or I and if all is good enough, it could be a new category.

Can any English runner confirm they know how to do this on English versions of Specters, or is it patched? It's possible on English Fleshy and Bony, and all JP versions.