Madtaz's Future Speedplans and Shit He Wont Do Too V3

Last Updated 2/16/2016

PLEASE READ THIS FIRST: Warning: please please for the love of god PLEASE take everything written below with a huge grain of salt. Even if it does say I’m almost definitely gonna do this keep in mind that it can change at any time. Also keep in mind that I may or may not move some of these plans up or down as my interest increases or decreases.

Version from March 2015 can be found here if you really wanna see it: http://pastebin.com/b8knBYx7

Changelist (from V2, will edit with V3 changes very soon): http://pastebin.com/RSy3RvQP

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Table of Contents (AKA TL:DR)
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Speedplans of things I really want to at least try starting/continuing in 2016:
	Tooie:
		-ALL PUZZLES
		-LOW%
		-TWIN GALAXIES%
	Nuts and Bolts:
		-ANY%
	Super Smash Bros 64:
		-KIRBY CLASSIC 3-STOCK NORMAL
		-PIKACHU CLASSIC 3-STOCK NORMAL
	Shantae: Risky’s Revenge:
		-100%
NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams:
		-WILL’S STORY MISSIONS NG+
		-HELEN’S STORY MISSIONS NG+
	Sonic CD 2011:
		-SONIC GOOD FUTURE
Kirby’s Return to Dream Land:
		100%
	Shantae: Half-Genie Hero
Other categories of games I already run and am considering learning/routing/going back to one day:
	Tooie:
		-ANY%
		-BOSS RUSH
		-A bunch others that I’m too lazy to write out and explain
	Nuts and Bolts:
		-131 JIGGY
		-KLUNGO%
		-DLC%
NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams:
-EITHER ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING: “ALL A-RANKS”, “ALL DREAMDROPS”, “ALL A-RANKS AND DREAMDROPS”
Shantae Risky’s Revenge
--EITHER ANY% NO OOB OR ALL MAGIC SEALS
	Super Smash Bros 64:
-another character 3-stock classic normal
-All characters Classic 3-Stock Normal
		-KIRBY CLASSIC VERY EASY MODE
		-KIRBY CLASSIC VERY HARD MODE
Almost definite new games that I want to try learning someday. Expect at least 1 of these to become a main speedgame someday (Don’t hold your breath on it happening anytime soon though):
	Super Mario Galaxy 2:
		-ANY%
	Kirby’s Return To Dreamland:
		-100%
	Sonic Generations:
		-ANY%
	The World Ends with You:
		-regular any% or ng+ journal, not sure really.
	MegaMan Powered Up:
		-NORMAL MODE ONLY (with a bunch of characters)
	Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town
		-I need a good category before I can consider it, marriage% and mining only runs blow
Middle zone, future games I’m considering as sidegames at least:
	Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse:
		-Pirate Mode 100% or whatever category gets the best ending
	Sonic 06:
		-SILVER’S STORY NO MSG
	Bloodrayne Betrayal:
		-ANY% NG+
	Super Mario Bros. 2 (Either NES, SNES, or Super Mario Advance versions):
		-WARPLESS
	Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty’s Revenge:
		-100%
Maybe zone, thought about them a few times but don’t hold your breath for them:
	Tooie:
		-MAYAHEM TEMPLE 100%
	Kazooie:
		-ANY% WITH RBA
		-SANDCASTLE%
	Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4:
		-ANY%
Kirby’s Dreamland 2:
		-BEST ENDING
	Sonic Adventure DX:
		-ALL STORIES
	MegaMan 2:
		-ZIPLESS
	The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening DX:
		-no clue what category, but preferably one over an hour?
	Cave Story +:
		-BEST ENDING
	Sonic Battle:
		-ALL STORIES
	Halo: Combat Evolved:
		-EASY
Next-to-no zone, games/categories I’ve once said I’m considering running or have done  runs/races of but I really doubt I’ll ever learn them or put effort into again if I’ve already done them before:
Tooie:
		-ANY% NO DCW
		-SUPER%
Shantae: Risky’s Revenge:
		-ANY%
Kirby’s Dreamland 2:
		-100%
	Advance Wars 2
	Pokemon Rumble
Things I get or I predict I’ll be asked if I’ll do learn and do runs of in the future but I don’t see myself ever being interested in:
	Nuts and Bolts:
		-100%
	Tooie:
		-CHEATO%
	Kazooie:
		-100%
Fun little side projects I might do someday:
	BANJO ANY% GAUNTLET
	KIRBY’S DREAM COLLECTION 100%

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Explanations of each potential plan
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Speedplans of things I really want to at least try starting/continuing in the first half of 2016:

Tooie:
-ALL PUZZLES:
Current Goal(s): sub 2:50 by the end of February, Get a bunch of other people to actively run this
Future/Ultimate Goal(s): sub 2:45, then sub 2:40

It took me forever to route and it was like a love hate relationship but man I’m so fucking glad I did it. I still have to do a bunch of retimings but I’m just glad I can run a longer category that doesn’t have fucking TOT forced onto it just because of stupid tradition.

Anyways, yeah, this has been my main focus since November and I currently aim to get sub 2:50 by the end of February. Even though the 12 hour challenge gave me a couple new goals I still want this to be the main thing for the month. After I achieve that I MIGHT put this down for a bit? The main reason I’ve been able to put so much time into this is because I haven’t had a lot of hours at my job lately. But the season will be picking up soon and I have another job I’m gonna be working at soon so come March I probably won’t have enough time to dedicate to this category for a bit.

-LOW%:
Current Goal(s): Sub 54 minutes
Future/Ultimate Goal(s): ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I had a lot of fun with routing and doing a few runs of it about a year ago, went back to it back in November, and will probably go back to this sometime before the summer. I did submit it to NASA, so if it gets in and I end up going that’ll be more of a reason to go back to it. Since I’ve been grinding All Puzzles really hard PB in this category will be a lot easier at least except for Flies + Pillars. I call it Mayahem% for a reason, because most of all of the runs I’ve done die there, so I’m not sure if I want to grind this category down majorly hard.

	-TWIN GALAXIES%:
Goals: Have a satisfactory route for April Fool’s Day, I guess make the rules more defined?
	I’m not gonna go too in depth with the routing like I did with All Puzzles because honestly I don’t view this as something worth taking seriously, since it was literally only made to mock the Twin Galaxies’s ruleset on their “speedrun leaderboards”, but I’d like to at least have a better idea of what I should or shouldn’t be doing and when I do it come April Fool’s Day. More details of wtf Twin Galaxies% is can be found here: http://pastebin.com/gHRmLvRt

Nuts and Bolts:
	-ANY%:
Current Goal(s): sub 2 hours
Future/Ultimate Goal(s): MAYBE 1:55 range, but moreso a run with no major mistakes and w/o resetting a single mission

Sub 2 Xbox 360 RTA is my main goal. I am pretty optimistic about 1:55 being possible.  The biggest issue with coming back to the game is how long it’ll take to derust, and how many other games I wanna run/learn, because like the longer categories of Tooie once I go into this category it’s not like I can really run another game on the side (except Smash 64 but it also helps that I always do runs during this game’s intro =P) I’m thinking maybe I’ll come back to this category in April/May, but don’t hold your breath. I did submit this category to NASA so if it gets in and I go I’ll definitely be coming back to it at that point, even if it’s only for a little while.

Ultimately I’ll be 100% satisfied with any% if I get a run that has no major mistakes AND does not reset a single mission. BUT honestly I feel like I’d tear my hair out trying so who knows if I’ll ever bother. The biggest issue is that one fucking Spring Bounce in Terrarium 1, you know the one, is inconsistent as hell and I could not imagine how much I’d want to break my 360 if I got up to that point without resetting only to fucking mess up a spring bounce because of how bullshit a trick it is. Fuck spring bounce seriously.

NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams:
	-WILL’S STORY MISSIONS NG+:
Current Goal: Sub 50 minutes
Future/Ultimate Goals: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

One of the 2 games I learned for the 2nd 12 hour Challenge in February 2016, I learned it mainly because the leaderboards and the only runs on there at the time had the shittiest layout I’ve ever seen. I felt it was a disgrace to what I thought was a really solid game, and unfortunately given its popularity (more like the lack of) I knew no one else would probably step up to the plate so I took it upon myself to take this fixer upper and make things right. Also I just recently finally got around to beating NiGHTS HD and was still in the mood for some more.

I ended up beating the time on the board in a week after I learned it, but I’ve had a bunch of fun with it from what I’ve played so far so I’m definitely gonna strive to do more with the game. This being one of the few games that don’t have much of a speedrun along with it it’s hard for me to gauge how low I could take this time but one thing’s for sure, sub 50 is definitely not as far as it can go so we’ll see when the time comes if I care enough. The problem with this category however is the first two bosses are obnoxious as hell (ESPECIALLY Donbalon, UUUUGH) so that might affect me wanting to take this time down super low, we’ll see though.

	-HELEN’S STORY MISSIONS NG+:
Current Goals: Actually learn Helen’s Story
Potential Goals: Sub 50? Idk lol

Once I’m satisfied to put Will’s Story down for a bit the next run I need to take off the top spot of the boards is Helen’s Story. Luckily as the run’s description says it’s only the first run, so I don’t see it being very hard to beat. I don’t remember much from Helen’s Story when I played through it but I think the bosses were much easier so I feel like I’d enjoy running this category more than Will’s Story, but only time will tell I guess.

Sonic CD 2011:
	-SONIC GOOD FUTURE:
Current Goal: Sub 20 minutes IGT
Future/Ultimate Goal: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Learned it for the first 12 hour speedrun challenge back in July 2015, and it was SO much fun, although it’s pretty fucking hard too. I’ve been really looking forward to coming back to this game, as of writing I’m hoping to come back to it in March once work picks back up. Might try to see if I can learn some of the harder stuff too, since I still don’t get that shit. Also, I wanna look into seeing if there’s anywhere that needs to be rerouted, I already noticed that the record doesn’t get a speed shoe box in Collision Chaos Act 2 by going back to the present, I feel like there’s more too. Current goal is Sub 20 minutes in-game time, then we’ll see if I care enough to push it down more.

Super Smash Bros 64:
	-KIRBY CLASSIC 3-STOCK NORMAL:
Ultimate Goal ACHIEVED ^_^: sub 7 minutes
Future Goals Maybe?: sub 6:30? Sub 6 minutes? Not sure

Sub 7 minutes has FINALLY been achieved, and I thought I’d be happy with it, but I feel motivated to run this category some more, so I might bring it down further before continuing onto learning another character.

-PIKACHU CLASSIC 3-STOCK NORMAL:
Current Goal: Actually learn the category
Future/Ultimate Goal: idk lol we’ll see
	It’ll be pretty bittersweet and weird not doing Kirby runs, but eventually I do want to learn all the characters in Smash 64, so what better character to learn next but my other main, Pikachu?

Kirby’s Return to Dream Land:
	-100%
Current Goals: Finish learning the fucking game, Sub 3:30
Future/Ultimate Goals: Sub 3, Sub 2:50?
	One of the 2 games I learned for the 2nd 12 hour challenge on February 2016, I still haven’t finished learning it, only learned 5 out of the 7 worlds so far. I’ve been having a lot of fun with it though, so I will probably put enough time into it to at least get sub 3 at some point. The question of course is when because I do have a bunch of speedplans over the next few months and this is a pretty long game compared to my other plans aside from my current biggest priority (Tooie All Puzzles). I’m definitely not going to bother trying to go for mixes as long as possible, it’s literal RNG even compared to mixes in other Kirby games from what I’ve heard and only saves like a minute. No thank you.

Mario Party 2
	-ALL BOARDS (NORMAL)
Current Goal: Do a run every week (or at least one of the Mario Party games All boards type length a week)
Future/Ultimate Goals: None, see above. That’s it.
	Yeah, so obviously this won’t be something I’ll be taking seriously given the category is literal RNG, but it’s still pretty fun to do and a nice break of pace from all the other type of speedgames I’m used to.

Shantae: Half-Genie Hero
	-I never understood why someone would decide upon running a game before it came out or before they ever played it. I still don’t totally 100% understand why but this game has made speedrunning it pretty damn convincing. Whenever it comes out as long as it doesn’t get too much in the way with other speedplans I’m putting some serious gameplay time into it on stream and there’s a good chance I’ll run it too. The biggest dent in this plan is the fact that Wayforward doesn’t like to announce release dates until a week or two before they come out so I wouldn’t be surprised if it comes out at one of the worst possible times. It’s supposed to come out this year, so here’s hoping it doesn’t come out until at least late October –Early November.



Other categories of games I already run and am considering learning/routing/going back to one day:
Tooie:
	-ANY%:
Current Goal: 45
Future/Ultimate Goals: 44, MAAAYBE a 43
 Will go back to this someday, I would like to go for 44 at least. There’s just a lot of other things I’d rather run right now, even in Tooie. Although I’m not looking forward to spending time learning how to turn a fucking camera =| Also if no one else bothers I’ll probably consider doing a tutorial on it one day.

-BOSS RUSH: Basically it’s just, go through and beat all the bosses. Seems like a fun little thing to do for a short while. Would also be good practice when/if I ever learn 100%.

	-Other categories I’d like to route out/learn but don’t really care to explain what or why I want to do them at the moment because that’d be a bunch more typing and boo to that. A bunch of stuffs though, lots of routing fun to be had (hopefully). Don’t worry, when the time comes I will make another pastebin no one will read to answer questions left for these catagories I’m pulling out my ass.

Nuts and Bolts:
	-131 JIGGY: This game has 131 jiggies and unlike both Kazooie and Tooie everything else takes up a lot of time to go out of your way to get. A good example is the Jinjo missions, every jinjo you find besides the hub world you have to do some random mission in order to collect a bingo coin. They aren’t long, but there’s 3-4 jinjos spread out of the way in almost every act (some like Nutty Acres 1 have only 1-2) so considering there’s 6 acts of each world besides Spiral Mountain that adds up to a LOT of time. Also, I can spare a Trophy Thomas in this category unlike 100% which means I don’t have to do the Saucer of Peril Mission in Terrarium perfectly. The biggest obstacle is that it’ll take forever to route, MUCH worse than Nuts and Bolts any% so don’t expect it for a while, was planning on doing it after SGDQ when I first wrote this up in March but life happened, don’t expect it until next year at least honestly =|

	-KLUNGO%: This side category would be to unlock all of the Klungo Arcade minigames and then play through them all.  Don’t know how many jiggies you need to unlock them all but I’m pretty sure it’s under 30 at least so I’d guess the run would be in the hour range?

	-DLC%:
Ultimate Goal: sub 50 minutes
This is basically half autoscroller. So obviously it’s BARRELS of fun. Was gonna put this into “fucking dropped” but the community (and by that I mean it was mostly my decision … Scykoh was more like “w/e sure go ahead” about it lol) will now be tracking ingame time so that there’s no gap between 360 and xbone versions due to loading screens. So I feel stupid leaving this up there as valid when I don’t have in-game time listed as well. Whenever I go back to it I’ll go for sub 50 RTA then drop it. Shouldn’t be too hard aside from Klungo minigame =| FAQ on DLC%:  http://pastebin.com/KGhD2HmP

NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams:
-EITHER ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING: “ALL A-RANKS”, “ALL DREAMDROPS”, “ALL A-RANKS AND DREAMDROPS”
These all seem like they’d be kind of fun to route out and do every once in a while, the biggest obstacles though are the fact that if I did do these categories I’d have to do them from a fresh file, so that means barely any cutscene skips… and there’s a shitton of cutscenes =( Also, at least for All A-Ranks the Boat Mission in Pure Valley of Will’s Story would be a nightmare. It might be a pain to get one of the Dreamdrops too, I don’t remember it too well but from what I’ve read it’s high up in the air and you have to do a precise trick jump to get it, so idk we’ll see how I feel about it. I kind of hope that they’re both easier then I’ve feared because I’d rather just combine the category rather than do one or the other, and I’d rather not have all 3 be separate categories.

Shantae Risky’s Revenge
	-100%
Current Goal: Sub 1:30
Future Goals: Sub 1:25 maybe?
 I did a bunch of rerouting for this back in August/September, and had a lot of fun in general with it. Currently I don’t have much of a desire to come back to this game however, especially with Half Genie Hero right around the corner (Expected to come out by the end of 2015 which is very so… oh wait) Once I come back to this category I will try for sub 1:30 at least. Don’t plan on really learning the quick kills unless us Risky Revenge bois end up routing out All Steam Achievements sooooo… we’ll see.

-EITHER ANY% NO OOB OR ALL MAGIC SEALS
DevlJoe did a few no oob runs way back when but no one else did it because they didn’t wanna deal with a 4 minute autoscroller iirc. Personally I don’t really mind the autoscroller TOO much but at the same time I kind of feel I do? Or I would? What All Magic Seals would be is just, do all 3 of the dungeons then wrong warp to the final boss. I feel like it would be better as a whole to the community as a middle ground between any% and 100% though. It’s not just entirely based around knowing how to do 1 stupid-hard trick like any% is, but at the same time isn’t full of backtracking/grinding/going out of your way to collect all the jams/buy all the items like 100% is. At the same time though my issue with All Magic Seals is it would skip the sidequest of getting all the squid babies and getting Mermaid Bubble. Although truth be told I don’t know if most people would care. I don’t know it’s not really high priority right now though because I actually am really enjoying 100% and don’t plan to switch soon.

Super Smash Bros. 64
-another character 3-stock classic normal- Most likely Pikachu because he was my other main way back in smash 64.
	-All characters Classic 3-Stock Normal: it’d be cool to learn them all and is a personal goal to do this one day for the funzies, then just do all characters together as a single segment. Idk it’d be fun

	-KIRBY CLASSIC VERY EASY MODE: see below

	-KIRBY CLASSIC VERY HARD MODE: I wouldn’t do either of these categories until after I do every character in 3-stock and get times in them I’m satisfied with, although I feel like I’d only care to push Kirby and Pikachu times down far.

Almost definite new games that I want to try learning someday. Expect at least 1 of these to become a main speedgame someday (Don’t hold your breath on it happening anytime soon though):

Super Mario Galaxy 2:
	-ANY%:
One of my favorite games ever. When I start to learn this game you’ll know because before I start learning I plan on doing a 242 star race with friends in order to re-familiarize myself with the game. And no I don’t want to semiblind race any part of this game before I intend to start learning it, because this way the wait will be more worth it for me… and I guess the audience too?

Sonic Generations:
	-ANY%:
Definitely one of the best Sonic games and I’ve said I’ve wanted to learn this for a long while. There’s gonna be a lot of issues trying to learn this game though. For starters learning the IL’s seems extremely daunting, just something about all of the multiple pathways and it being a 2D game and if you accidently go down the wrong path you can’t exactly go back the right way just scares me a bit when learning. Mostly because it feels like it’s gonna take forever to remember the route. That, and compared to most other games there’s very few resources to learn the game, especially for the glitches involved. While yes I don’t have to do the glitches in order to run through the game I would rather learn all the fastest strats and glitches before I do runs then wait on it. Just a personal thing.

The World Ends with You:
	-I’m not sure if I’d do regular old any% or if there would be some new game + Journal% type thingy I’d do but regardless, once I get a 3DS capture card (however long from now that’ll be) This almost definitely would be the first game I’d look into. This is another one of my favorite games ever and has really cool battle mechanics do I’d love to do runs of it. But I wouldn’t wanna do it without being able to stream it, doing runs of things isn’t as fun offline to me.

MegaMan Powered Up:
	-NORMAL MODE:
I used to love the shit out of this game on the PSP, has a shit ton of replayability, multiple difficulties, multiple side missions and the ability to play as all of the original Robot Masters and also Roll and Protoman, it’s such a good remake of the original Mega Man game holy shit. If I were to do this I’d definitely do something like “Normal Mode only” or something because I’ve seen “Any%” where they change the difficulty for the intro mission to normal and the rest is on easy mode, and idk that feels kind of ridiculous to change the difficulty mid-run instead of just sticking with one difficulty the entire run. I’d probably consider running all the characters except maybe Oil Man (ugh he’s such a pain to play with) but the ones I’d probably wanna play the most would be Roll, Cutman, and Time Man, because those were the funnest to me. Also the biggest obstacle in between me and running this game besides the irl shit and wanting to focus on the games I know already is the fact that my PSP has been a brick for years and I lost my memory card a while ago (luckily, all my psp data is backed up). I might look into fixing the psp and replacing the card one day but right now I’m too poor/cheap/busy/lazy to bother putting time into figuring out how to fix/replace it.

Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town
	-The thing that's stopping me the most is there's really no good way to make a decent category for this. There are plenty of objectives to do in the game yes but the potentially good ones are bogged down with some complete bullshit. An idea I had was to do all house upgrades and cottages but unfortunately one of the fucking cottages requires you to be married for 50 ingame YEARS and the other cottage requires connecting to AWL. An idea that a streamer named G_heinz brought up was getting the Jewels of Truth but unfortunately for one of the gems you need to unlock the cottage that you need to be married 50 years for. I'd rather not do any goals like Marriage% or anything requiring heavy mining because both I feel are pretty minimal in terms of what you'd do, especially doing a goal that's just mining.

	If you have any other ideas of good categories please let me know and be my hero. I made a post about it on Speedrun.com if you wanna post there (http://www.speedrun.com/hm/thread/4biky) or just tweet me or something idk



Middle zone, future games I’m considering as sidegames at least:

Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse:
	-Pirate Mode 100% or whatever category gets the best ending: Because fuck going for less than the best son! Anyways yeah at first I wasn’t really thinking I’d be interested in speedrunning this then I played through it and I was like WOW this game was so fucking fun I’d love to play this over and over. Then I noticed Pirate Mode was a thing and I was like holy shit this is sick. So yeah, that’s my reasoning. Pirate Mode gives you all the weapons from the beginning so it’s really cool cuz you can do a lot of skips and kill enemies quickly and such.

Sonic 06:
	-SILVER’S STORY NO MSG:
I originally was going to put this as a future main game but I feel I’ve put it lower priority, but not low enough where it might not happen. IDK it’s a bit lower tier for now but I might consider wanting to main game it one day. ANYWAYS yeah this game looks pretty fun to run and I was gonna learn it around Fall 2014 but the glitches turned me off at the time because I wasn’t in the mood to learn another hard to learn game after dealing with both Nuts and Bolts and Tooie Any% (now known as no DCW). They do seem inconsistent as well which is an issue. From what I’ve heard Silver’s Story is the hardest of the 3 but at the same time it’s the only version I’d really want to learn because it seems the coolest due to the Psychokenesis shit in it, so just my luck lol.

Bloodrayne Betrayal
	-ANY% NG+: Really fun game, played it a while ago and I loved it and Wayforward’s the shit.

Super Mario Bros. 2 (Either NES, SNES, or Super Mario Advance versions):
	-WARPLESS:
My favorite 2D Mario next to SMW, I’ve just really loved being able to choose between 4 different playstyles. I feel like I’d lean towards Advance version because it was the first version I played and more importantly I always loved the stupid voices, idk I guess I’m just a sucker for bad voice acting ;) My biggest grief with learning 2 is that the run demands you play as Toad for most of the run because he’s the fastest character. Toad’s really boring to me I only liked playing as WEEGEE and Peachy. Of course, I could just do what I’ve seen http://www.twitch.tv/whitman_price_/ doing runs of (Princess% lol) but idk I’d rather do all the stages and I’d feel a bit weird making up categories of games I don’t even run, especially if I did this with SMA lol

Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty’s Revenge:
	-100%: It was a fun game, while not as good as the n64 versions it’s pretty fun in its own right. I’ve watched some people do runs of the game a while back and it seemed like a pretty fun and relaxing speedrun. I would do 100% over any% because any% seems kind of pointless to do bc it’s only 10 less Jiggies to get to beat any% and the categories are only like 20 minutes apart from each other.

Maybe zone, thought about them a few times but don’t hold your breath for them:

Tooie:
	-MAYAHEM TEMPLE 100%: never really put effort into it, I’ve only done “runs” of this during races. The reason I never wanted to run this or race this more is because of the Pillars trick, which is pretty hard to learn and I didn’t find it worth learning for a race category. Well since DCW was discovered this trick was put into the any% route, at least until Detonation Levitation was found… So I did end up learning it. So I might consider doing runs of this maybe? Not feeling it too much but who knows. There’s also a glitch where you’d beak bomb into the kickball stadium at JUST the right position and you’ll be able to get into the stadium early, which I might end up feeling the same way about it that I felt about Pillars trick =/

Banjo-Kazooie:
	-ANY% WITH RBA:
Seems pretty cool cuz you’re playing as the bee for half the run and there’s a bunch of cool skips. The issue with this category is that it only works on PAL, so if I did this I would either play it on PAL Emulator or the XBLA version because I’m not fucking spending 100+ dollars for a PAL console, PAL Television, and PAL BK cart just for one category of one game which I might not even enjoy speedrunning. The issue isn’t whether I have the money for it or not I’m just against wasting my money on that shit when there’s other equally or more expensive things I’d like to save up for if I had the choice (like a 3DS capture card or a PS3). Not to mention what a waste of space it would be, I barely have room for all my stuff as it is I don’t need another bigass TV taking up my space. If I did this though I would probably only do this for the Banjo Any% Gauntlet project I might wanna do someday. (see below for more info)

-SANDCASTLE% (XBLA):
According to Shadoworm this category would be very similar to the Any% with RBA route on the XBLA version because you can’t do Door of Grunty, which I guess is cool because the only other alternative is buying a bunch of PAL shit just to run it on N64. The only issue is the RBA glitch itself, which according to a lot of people the only method possible on XBLA + NTSC is really hard to do. But apparently Shadoworm doesn’t think it’s that hard and he’s able to get it consistently so who knows, we’ll see I guess?
Kirby’s Dreamland 2:
	-BEST ENDING:
Tried learning 100% during the 12 Hour Speed Challenge and it was a total bust. Thought about it for a bit and it hit me that doing best ending might make the game tolerable for me. Basically all I would do is get all the rainbow drops. No BONUS CHANCE none of that bullshit where you have to get a white gooey from a bag to be able to get 1 extra percentage. Surprised no one does it actually. I’ll probably give this a second chance one day but after how much the game fucked me during the challenge I kind of don’t wanna touch it for a while lol

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4:
-ANY%: Favorite Tony Hawk game, and seems like it would be fun to play over and over.

Sonic Adventure DX:
	-ALL STORIES:
I did a race of this with a bunch of friends during Spring Break 2014 and it was a lot more fun than I expected enough to put it on this list I guess. A big issue would be however having to learn 6-7 different categories for the sake of a longer one, although considering most categories are less then 30 minutes afaik it’s not that big of a deal. Another one would be deciding which version I’d want to run, the 2003 PC release is apparently the fastest but at the same time I’m not sure I’d want to play on that version? We’ll see.

MegaMan 2:
	-ZIPLESS: Another game I did a fun race of with friends and thought it’d be a really fun run. I say zipless because I’m not a big fan of zips in video games, I mean, it’s just a glitch but at the same time idk lol it feels kind of lame skipping parts of 2D levels like that. And yeah I realize the hypocrisy of my statement considering Shantae Risky’s Revenge also uses skips but idk that’s a bit different to me, partially because of how piss easy it is.

The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening DX:
	-no clue what category, but preferably one over an hour? Anyways this is one of if not my favorite Zelda game and I’ve told people if I’d ever run a Zelda game it’d probably be this one.

Cave Story +:
	-BEST ENDING: This is another top most favorite games, since I first played in 2010 I think it was? I have played through it at least once a year. It’s short and super fun. The issue I’d have with running it however is how hard it seems to be to run. It’s really easy to die in certain places and requires a lot of precise movements. And I’m not even talking about the Hell section of the game, that’s gonna be a bitch to run through, especially the 2nd room =| Note that I said Cave Story + not vanilla. I like the music in plus as a whole better and I like a lot of what the remake brings to the table as a whole.

Sonic Battle:
	-ALL STORIES: I just remember this game being really fun and it seems like a really cool run. One thing that bothers me however is that I heard it might involve a lot of rng, and I can see that being an issue because of how getting cards for moves works. Might not be the case but I’m just going by what I’ve heard so who knows.

Halo: Combat Evolved:
	-EASY: I think it would just be pretty fun to do once in a while as a fun race type thingy, not really to take it seriously. I did a race with some friends a long time ago, like June 2013, and I was considering learning it for the sake of racing it with friends, but none of them really seemed that interested to learn it so I didn’t bother either sadly enough. I might consider doing runs or whatever of it someday just for fun but who knows.

Next-to-no zone, games/categories I’ve once said I’m considering running or have done  runs/races of but I really doubt I’ll ever learn them or put effort into again if I’ve already done them before:

Tooie:
	-ANY% NO DCW: If you’ve been a regular in my stream the past few months since DCW was discovered or even been a recent watcher who’s only watched me for no more than an hour when I’ve done Any% chances are you won’t be surprised by this. Hell, I’d be a bit disappointed if there isn’t at the very least a small handful of people who saw this coming once they started reading the document. I did do a few runs of it before I start trying to learn/route out All Puzzles (see above) in order to re-familiarize myself with the route and all the tricks (although I never actually finished a run once I got to HFP). And try to get myself back up to par with where I was at before I dropped Tooie for Nuts and Bolts way back when and we all lived happily ever after. But now that All Puzzles is routed? This category is dropped like a fucking rock.
Why? Because I don’t want a new pb in this category, I don’t want to improve my skill in this game by playing this category, it feels like a waste when there’s so many other cool possibilities the DCW opens up routing-wise. I also want my 3:10:45 to sit forever. I kind of want my PB to sit there as a legacy from a period of my life. I really don’t know how to describe it, yes if I do get super serious with All Puzzles and get really good at it I COULD come back to no DCW and crush it easily, I just… wouldn’t want to. Let the sleeping dog lie and all that. Why do I have against this category? Simple, it’s a category that chooses to do Tower of Tragedy when we have the ability to skip it easily for the sake of keeping an old route and it being “less arbitrary”. All Puzzles gives a perfectly valid reason to get 70 Jiggies while still giving a reason to do DCW.
All Tower of Tragedy did was create stress for me. Lemme paint you a scenario to show you my issue with Tower of Tragedy. You’re out of Hailfire Peaks, the hardest part of the run and you’re ahead. You feel after 2 and a half long hours (assuming it’s your first run of the day no less) that you’re really close to the end of the run. Lol nope, you still have to sit through 20+ minutes before you actually GET to the final boss. And during the majority of that 20 minutes you’re barely playing the game. Excluding the 4-5 minutes worth of puzzles, Tower of Tragedy is just a long drawn out quiz, one that has enough luck that it can make or break a run. Screen Questions can add minutes if there’s enough, and the best way to lower the risk of more screen questions is after each question is asked wait until the timer runs out to hit the buzzer, and pray the one of the two CPUs does not buzz first during those 6 seconds. I usually’ve never done that because I do not trust the CPU’s to not buzz in during that time, although I do at least let the timer run out after I buzz in. Also the CPU’s are fucking hard as hell sometimes, especially Mingella, she’s made rounds extremely close before. I’ve lost quite a few runs before just because she screwed me over last second. Then once you FINALLY get through all of that, well, at the time you had to do a really hard and stressful final boss strat of sitting on the drill. It was found recently that the drill strats aren’t as fast but even so the boss isn’t exactly a piece of cake. The last part of my point was kind of rushed I’ll admit but it’s because I’m kind of sick of looking at this portion, my point was is that it’s a long and drawn out section of doing nothing but sitting there hoping RNG doesn’t fuck you over in between two already hard as ball sections of the game. And if you mess up or the game screws you over then bye bye 3 hours of your life.
 And also I know it’s the most competitive category and has the most runners, but I honestly could give a rats ass about everyone elses time and what the others run, not looking to run games just to have people circlejerk to me or to times around me over fucking ranks on a leaderboard.

	-SUPER%: For those who don’t know what it was it was a category Tx360mario made up about a year ago, you basically get 70 Kiggies and beat Hag 1, so when this was thought up it was the any% no dcw route but with cheats. It seemed cool at first but then I thought about it and it felt a bit pointless to get 70 Jiggies just because the game requires you to in order to open Hag 1. I didn’t think of All Puzzles being 70 Jiggies at the time but honestly, doing a thing like All Puzzles with cheats would be kind of dumb too imo because part of the fun/appeal/whatever of using cheats is being able to skip the puzzles.

Kirby’s Dreamland 2:
	-100%: Tried to learn it for the first 12 hour speedrun challenge back in July 2015, but the run just has way too much little shit that can screw you over big time if you aren’t careful, like if you get hit once you’re fucked. Also BONUS CHANCE is fucking bullshit.
And I don’t wanna do any% because I’m not a fan going through games and that have multiple ending s and not getting the best ending possible, which you don’t get with any%.

Shantae: Risky’s Revenge:
	-ANY%: Was planning on getting a high 30’s time in this category, then Double Fire Jump was discovered, cutting the category in half, literally. The new any% run seems kind of lame. The Double Fire trick seems stupid hard too, so while I have considered learning the trick I just don’t feel it’s worth my time to learn it unless it has use in 100%

Advance Wars 2:
-Seemed fun at first but then I thought about it and realized that the entire run would just be menuing. I don’t mind playing a game that’s mostly menuing,but speedrunning it? Prrrreettyy laaaaame. You would also have to turn animations off too which would make things even lamer.

Pokemon Rumble:
	-Thought it’d be a fun game to run at first when I first thought of it but the more I think about it the more I think of it the less fun I think it would be lololol

Things I get or I predict I’ll be asked if I’ll do learn and do runs of in the future but I don’t see myself ever being interested in:

Nuts and Bolts:
	-100%: I’ve told my viewers that if I ever get sub button I would do as a celebration stream. This would be one of if not the only times I would ever do this run. And if it ain’t properly routed by Scykoh or someone else by the time this happens (if it ever happens) then don’t expect me to bother doing that beforehand. Hell, I’ll probably be building vehicles during the run because I really don’t care about 100% at all.

Tooie:
	-CHEATO%: You only collect notes and beat Hag 1. Feels like it takes out the spirit of the game just doing that, yeah you don’t collect that much in Any% but at least you still collect Jiggies and do the tasks related to them so it at least feels like part of the spirit is there.

Kazooie:
	-100%: Just doesn’t seem interesting to run for me idk

Fun little side projects I might do someday:

BANJO ANY% GAUNTLET
	-An idea I’ve had since I saw Samura1man do that 3D Zelda Challenge a couple years ago. I would do all of the banjo series games any% back to back. So I would learn the any% route for all 5 games, which would actually be a lot shorter than I thought back when I thought it up considering that Tooie any% is now 2 hours shorter thanks to DCW. Between the 5 games (Kazooie, Tooie, Grunty’s Revenge, Pilot, Nuts and Bolts) I predict that all of them back to back would take 7-8 hours if I did a decent job of learning ASSUMING that another Banjo game doesn’t get revealed/released whenever I decide to do this. If I were do this though I would like to put at least a decent amount of time in all of the games, except maybe Pilot. An exception would be for Grunty’s Revenge  I would learn 100% then when the gauntlet happens I’d just not get 10 Jiggies because I’d rather run and learn 100%, any% seems a bit pointless because it’s only 10 less Jiggies gotten. With Tooie and Nuts and Bolts though I’d like to get a really good milestone before I think about attempting this, Tooie any% probably 44-45 range and Nuts and Bolts any% Sub 2 hours.

KIRBY’S DREAM COLLECTION 100%
	-Thought of this a while ago, think maybe around 2013? For those who don’t know this would mean playing  through Kirby’s Dreamland 1-3, Adventure, Super Star, and 64: The Crystal Shards 100%, well technically not KDL1 that’d just be playing through the game in Normal Mode and Extra. Originally it was just gonna be me casually playing through them 100% for some anniversary celebration, but I decided soon after me and a couple friends did a KDL1-3 race that it might be fun to at least somewhat learn the routes of all the games. I wouldn’t take any of them really serious except maybe Dreamland 2 but it seems like a fun way to just play through all the games, would be a fun little thing to do for a Kirby anniversary I’d think.