Ultra Glides do not work on the console version, only the PC version

If there is a different glitch that you are referring to, then elaborate?

If you are using OBS Studio to record, then you need to make sure that the source (Dolphin in this case) is classified as a window capture, not game capture. Game capture will not record the windows bar at the top if you have your source set to this. When you select windows capture, go to properties and select capture method as "Windows 10, 1903 and up" and uncheck the client area box. There is probably a better way of doing this, but this is how I did it.

Hope that helps.

While on paper this could be a fun idea (barring the whole "what is and isn't mainline argument"), the issue with that is that there is no ability to future proof for future entries. There will still be more Sonic games down the pipeline and creating a category now that only includes what is out and available now is kinda silly imo. Tacking on more games in the future to a category is just not feasible either. Again, to what Tailsdk said, feel free to run what you want, and maybe if there is more interest from others, then it may be considered by the other mods (this is just my opinion alone). I would definitely suggest maybe looking at Argick's run of doing a "Generations Medley" which was just a marathon run of all the games that had stages/rival fights in the game. This included

• S1, S2, S3&K, CD (per the Metal Sonic fight)
• Sonic Adventure 1 & 2, Heroes
• 06, Unleashed, Colors

As of December 17th, 2020, we have made a few changes/clarifications to the rules in order to reflect on the rule changes that have been made within other games in the series on this site.

General Rules:

• Game audio must be present and at an audible level
• Both screens MUST be present and properly stacked to match normal gameplay flow

Emulator Rules:

• DeSmuME and melonDS are the only accepted emulators. Links to the emulators can be found in the resources page.
• The entire window must be present, showing the emulator name and version
• Emulators are not allowed for the All Stories category. Emulator submitted runs are only for individual levels and the All Stages categories
• Frame rate MUST be stable. Moderators reserve the right to reject if run experiences too much slowdown

As for runs that have already been accepted under other emulators or have been accepted without meeting any of the other criteria listed, will be grandfathered in and will not see any changes.

I'm gonna go ahead give my two cents:

1. There is no reason for this to exist. You all are free to do segments for each chapter, but in general there is no NEED for a chapter leaderboard.

2. There is absolutely no reason to add one when there is barely anyone playing this game to begin with. I have not received a submission in over 2 years for this game. I or nobody else would want to setup a leaderboard/rules just for it to sit empty.

If you wish to discuss this further, be my guest and do so in the #other-handhelds channel of the Sonic Speedrunning Discord.

If you are referring to getting a capture card for a DSi, those don't exist. Recommendation if you only have a DSi/are on a budget: just get a webcam on a desk tripod and point it at the screens.

Personally I could go any way with this, but I'm a bit more biased towards what rules were already in place on TSC (i.e. TBG banned for Dark, but not necessarily ban for Metal Madness Dark section)

Addendum added to rules for individual levels: "If submitting a level under Acts 1 or 2 of each zone, submit under "Easy" difficulty. Runs of these levels submitted under "Normal" will be rejected. This does not apply to Boss levels."

This is due to Acts 1 and 2 of each zone not containing any differences in difficulty. Difficulty only applies to boss battles. Due to how the website is structured for handling individual levels, we can only apply Easy and Normal difficulties across all stages, rather than cherry pick the boss levels to only have these difficulty options, while also having separate sub-categories for Sonic and Blaze.

Addressed

It has been discussed in the past to include an IL leaderboard, however at this time we do not feel the need to create such a thing on this website. All current Sonic Heroes ILs, whether they are the console or PC version, are hosted on the Sonic Center.

http://www.soniccenter.org/rankings/sonic_heroes

PS2 easily has the most issues out of all ports of Heroes. PS2 will have a lot of slowdown on top of having a 30 FPS cap. There are also a number of visual glitches that can occur.

Basically what Sayuri has said. Feel free to run whatever you wish, but a leaderboard for something that arbitrary won't happen.

We are not supporting mods for this game. Feel free to do as you please in terms of runs, but if you are suggesting for there to be a leaderboard or support for it on this site, we will not be accommodating such a thing.

Adding arbitrary categories at random is not something that is of our interest. Feel free to run the game however you want, but creating a category to a leaderboard that would probably be unused is not worthwhile for us to put together.

This is not going to really happen. Defining 100% for any Mario and Luigi game is considered to be very arbitrary as the games never explicitly tells you that the game is "completed", hence why there are no other 100% categories for the other Mario and Luigi games. It is also doesn't really help that this game's speedrunning community is extremely inactive.

Hello, We have a Discord server available for anyone wanting to ask questions about any of the M&L games here: https://discordapp.com/invite/2AfNrh9

In the past several months, there have been many threads started that have been asking us to add many of what we call "challenge categories". Most of challenge categories consist of "Low BP" or "Pit of 100 Trials Before Hooktail" and whatnot. We were very reluctant to allow a Google Document that has a leaderboard of sorts to be linked in a thread here so people could submit their times for these various "categories". However, after this challenge leaderboard was created, there were very few runs ever submitted in the months that it was linked here. We (the moderators) have decided that enough is enough. We have a post dedicated to discussing the issues of these categories on the top of this forum if you want to read into more of why we are reluctant to allow these category discussions. From June 1st, 2016 onward, we will delete any threads that pertain to any "challenge categories" on the spot.

We have a link for a Discord server available for those wanting to discuss these categories and what-not at the bottom of this post. We advise joining this Discord server and keep conversations there, but we will not allow for discussions about this subject going forward on this site. This is not a Discord server that was created by the SRC moderators, rather those that are in control of the challenge leaderboard.

The main purpose of these forums is to promote discussion and to ask questions regarding tricks, routing, glitches, and any other various questions regarding the main categories of the game that we have on this site.

Challenge Category Discord Server: https://discord.gg/0yohFnSHDvFsBE7E

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The reason why it's separated is because of a specific glitch exclusive to the PC version called Ultra Glides. Ultra Glides in a nutshell is a use of Triangle Glide off certain inclines which launches you across the stage. Bop boosts are also not possible on the PC version, which in combination with the Ultra Glides, makes the game have some very different routes for most of the stages. There are also various other minor differences regarding AI and what-not. All of those factors sort of accumulate and makes the game feel very different compared to the console versions.

A route for both categories are still being written out. Both runs see a lot of change real quickly, so things are consistently scrapped and re-written. Easy Mode is part of the route for Any%, just at the beginning up until the Twinsy Tropics Dungeon. Easy Mode is used for the entirety of Any% No IBG since Bosses take a very long time to defeat if you were to play on Normal Mode since the Bros are super underleveled since a majority of the bosses in the game are skipped. For tutorials on tricks, use the Glitch Playlist that is listed under guides here on the site. How to perform the glitches are described in the videos.