Why not just make ports of the game ran on Xbox hard drive it's own separate category or even the norm for all runners to do ILs and full game runs on? Hard drives aren't that hard to come by these days, at least not hard enough to ban the console outright. Is Xbox the fastest version of the game? (probably because of load times.) Last one, is there any glitches or other notable pieces of tech to take note of, or are the full game runs dry in that regard?
ILs as far as I'm aware are the same in all versions so there would be no reason to separate them at all. XBOX is the fastest in terms of loads and using a HDD just makes the loads even faster. HDD is banned for full game runs because of the faster loads and the fact that it's an unofficial method to play the game which requires modding the console. Runners with a modded XBOX can simply use the disc if they wanna run full game categories and there's no point in separating the versions as the game isn't very popular to begin with and the run would be exactly the same. If the game ever becomes available on XBOX ONE, HDD may be unbanned but not until then. As for glitches/skips, there are very few to take note of. I guess one piece of tech to be aware of is that it's faster to mash the accelerate button in the 3D swimming sections.
No major skips have been found so far. Two 'Out-Of-Bounds' were discovered by a player, but both cause the character to move very slowly which is apparently the game's reaction to not knowing if the character is currently in a 2D or 3D area. So this is probably not suitable as a speedrun strategy. There are few minor tricks which are specifically useful for speedrun purposes, but most of them are limited to individual levels or individual level runs. I can create a list with some techniques in the guides if the mod(s) are okay with that.
The game has multiple playstyles (many of which were never used) and when you go OOB, the game sets you to the default playstyle. I don't know why you move so slowly though as if you set the default playstyle to a normal area via hacking, you move at a normal pace. And sure, you can post some guides if you want to,
