As of today, a new console has been added to Speedrun.com to identify speedruns of Wii games played on the WiiU console. This new console is currently called WiiUBC, or "Backwards Compatibility for WiiU".

If you run the Wii disk on the WiiU console for your speedruns, please mark your runs with this console!

At your leisure, we also ask our runners to change the marked platforms of as many already-submitted runs as possible that would fall under this new console.

After some debate with some community members who find the 1p2c tricks to deteriorate the fun value of ASL, a compromise has been established and will be put into action now.

ASL now has subcategories for whether or not 1p2c is allowed during the run. Please read the rules for each.

Running for the "Two Controllers Allowed" subcategory DOES NOT REQUIRE you to use two controllers - it simply means that you MAY use two controllers as you wish. This means that runs for the "One Controller" subcategory also qualify for "Two Controllers Allowed". Feel free to submit the same valid run to both.

Nightmare% is no more.

However (to appease the single person that ran it), it's not entirely gone! New subcategories now exist for Easy/Normal/Hard and Nightmare, for ASL, Any%, and 100%! This helps keep our board a little less confusing.

If you have any questions, feel free to direct them to the game mods in the Skylanders Speedruns Discord server.

After allowing the Giants community to vote on the matter in the Skylanders Speedruns Discord server, as of 3/2/2021, all submitted runs must now bear video evidence, regardless of what time the runner achieved or what place they scored. All runs before now that do not have video proof will remain on the board.

Please use any method available to you that will allow our moderators and verifiers to view at least the majority of your screen, using a capture card, a bipod with a phone camera, or by some other means to record your run. Make sure that any camera or device you record with has sufficient empty space for large video files before you start your run.

We typically accept videos with no audio, as long as we are able to sufficiently and clearly see your run take place from start to finish. Avoid making cuts in your video proof wherever possible, as cuts make it near impossible to discern that you did not cheat or redo a section off-camera.

If you have any questions about how you should go about recording your video proof, we will respond soonest in the Skylanders Speedruns Discord server. You can join by clicking the "Discord" button on the left of this page (on desktop).

By request of some runners, I have enabled the timer of submitted runs to be accurate to the millisecond. The intense competition in some RTA IL categories has led to this decision.

Individual Level boards for Adventure Pack levels have been added. Rules and regulations surrounding them are subject to change because sharing the levels with SSA may lead to weird board reordering shenanigans. They are currently listed in the level order as "DLC" levels.

The usual IL rules apply to these levels.

After some light debate, I have decided to adjust the rules of All Levels runs, but only slightly. As of today, any All Levels run that achieves a time below 1:40:00 must have video proof. I've decided that this is a good benchmark for requiring proof since this category is so tight. As the WR gets pushed back further, this requirement may be adjusted. All of the other categories are unchanged as of now; any run that achieves a Top 3 time must have video proof.

The reason is simple.

WiiVC is the Virtual Console meant for Wii games that you bought from the Wii Shop Channel, on consoles like the N64, etc.

WiiVC is NOT Wii games played on the WiiU. In this case for Giants, please mark your console as Wii. You may say somewhere in the run description that it was run on the WiiU, but because the Wii on the WiiU runs almost exactly like a real Wii, this doesn't really matter.

At the request of some other runners who have been (arguably correctly) complaining that IL runs are becoming Pay-To-Win due to the number of figures one would need to get a WR time, I have created subcategories for different timing methods for IL runs.

In the past, we have timed our runs by looking at the timer shown in the Chapter Results Data screen at the end of the run, which is recorded in In-Game Time (IGT). You can look at how IGT time is determined by looking at these notes: https://www.speedrun.com/Skylanders_Giants/guide/36w6h However, because some Chapter WRs have become so tight and figure-expensive, I am now giving runners the option to instead record their runs via Real Time (RTA). This is because the IGT timer stops when a Skylander figure is switched, while the RTA timer continues to run. This means that using a large number of figures to complete a RTA run is actually damaging to the RTA time, and this gives runners with fewer figures a chance at winning WR. Instead of relying on a large and diverse collection to get WR, RTA runners can rely on using a small and specific set of figures to make the RTA time as efficient and short as possible.

IL runs can be submitted to both IGT and RTA timing categories, as long as there is a visible timer in the run to record RTA. If you have any questions, you can leave them here, or you can visit our Discord server. Good luck, Portal Masters!

This is concerning Zeldafan01's recent record-breaking Any% All Levels run.

I noticed that they played on a game file that did not have all of the stars collected yet. This is clever, since you can skip all of the annoying fireworks animations. However, the rules of that category say that the run must be performed on a "complete file". If that does not mean that all stars are collected, then does that mean that just the main story has to be completed? Could we make the rules more specific?

I would like to offer the suggestion of a Skylanders Category Extension board.

In this board would be categories that span multiple or all Skylanders games that are not listed in the main game boards. Among these categories would be things such as IL Heroic Challenges (SSA and SG), IL Bonus Missions (Swap-Force), Villain Cups (SSC and SI(?)), and Single Lap records for the racing modes, like these that I've posted below: I hope the moderators take this idea into consideration. None of these categories were handled in the main game boards, so I thought that this would be a finer solution. I would also not mind moderating such a board.

Nightmare, No Death, No Switch, No Magic Item, New Game, Any%. The timer starts as soon as the player selects Nightmare on their new file. Only real time is acceptable, including loading screens, dialogue, menus, etc. Can be any Skylander with any hat and any starting amount of gold, does not require a reset. If you die at any time, your run ends immediately and is incomplete. The run can only be called complete when Robo-Kaos' health hits 0, and the player must start and finish without removing their Skylander from the Portal.

I've been attempting this run with S2 Drobot and have survived up to Molekin Mountain on my best attempt. As absurd as this run sounds, it actually seems doable if you know how to cheese enemies. It's an incredible trial of time management and survival, invented by me about a month or two ago. I'm pretty confident that I can clear this run sometime in the next several weeks, so could we add a Leaderboard for this run under Miscellaneous?