Hello, you probably don't know this but there was a speedrunning community for Hydro Thunder before speedrun.com was a thing (All of us played the PS1 version) , it only consisted of 3 people, including me, and the category we ran was Circuit Mode (I think the others also ran All Tracks, but I stuck with Circuit Mode).

Circuit Mode is an interesting category, you get money by winning races, but you have to pay money to enter races, so what we would do is pay to enter the shorter races and win them to get more money, then we'd pay to enter the longer races and immediately exit them to skip them. My PB in this is 20:39, which should show a lot since it's more than 10 minutes faster than the current All Tracks WR.

So yeah that's all I have to say, I want to get back into running Hydro Thunder, but I want to start back with Circuit Mode.

I found the video: also my PB is actually a 19:08.

I am SO sorry for the really late reply.I was not notified of this and I just happen to look at the forums today to see this. I did decide to allow Circuit mode runs on the All Tracks board,but then I didn't know that skipping tracks was a thing. Now that I do,I will modify the boards to have this as a separate category. Again,I am very sorry for the late reply.

That's ok, at least you weren't intentionally ignoring me. I also didn't get a notification of your reply and just happened to check today lol.

Hey, im thinking of doing this category. Are there any critical glitches and are there any banned emulators that are banned?

There aren't any critical glitches known for this game.There is an out of bounds in Venice Canals,but that's very frustrating to get,and it doesn't save enough time to be worth the risk with it currently being largely unknown how it works,so I don't consider that a critical glitch. As of right now there aren't any banned emulators.I do recommend using the latest version of ePSXe,that one appears to run the game just fine.