Category Overview
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For all categories, the following bans are part of the rules and thus, will not be listed under each individual category.
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Main Categories
Any% Warpless |
| Description: The no major glitches category of the game. It is the main category of the Yoshi speedrunning community. In the past, this was the main category for just the Japanese community, as they did not want to use 1-1 Warps, however, the rest of the world did and thus, the Any% Warps category was created. The Japanese also timed their runs to the last input, whereas the rest of the world finished the run on Bowser explosion. This is where the difference in timing methods between this category and Any% Warps came from.
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| Leaderboard: http://www.speedrun.com/yi#Warpless |
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Any% Warps |
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| Description: This was the original Any% category of the game before the Null Egg Glitch and ACE were discovered. This run takes advantage of 1-1 Warps and the 3-3 Tongue Glitch/map corruption to save time. It also allows resetting the console during the run to skip the cutscene at the end of each world. Other than that and the timing method, it is identical to Any% Warpless.
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| Leaderboard: http://www.speedrun.com/yi#Warps
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Any% Credits Warp |
| Description: The fastest category in the game. This run uses the Tongue Glitch to trigger the credits through arbitrary code execution.
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| Leaderboard: http://www.speedrun.com/yi#Any
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100% |
| Description: The 100% category of the game. You must finish each level with 30 stars, 20 red coins and 5 flowers. Additionally, this run features the Extra level in each world, which normally does not appear in the Any% categories. 100% makes use of strategies from Any% Warpless, along with many egg shots and clever star routes to complete levels quicker. Red coins can be duplicated to skip slower ones and bonus games can also be reliably skipped in every level. This is by far the longest and toughest run in the game and it is advised to not run this category if you're new to the game, as it basically requires you to have mastered the basics first. It is certainly a fan favorite though with how crazy and flashy the run is.
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| Leaderboard: http://www.speedrun.com/yi#100 |
| Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKMmi2_vil8&index=5&list=PLNwzr3j2ErcYAfCpS2-j4_M0OxhEOJxRg |
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Any% Magical Journey |
| Description: The most unique category of the game and at one point, the fastest way to beat the game. Magical Journey uses the Null Egg Glitch in 2-3 through 6-8 to significantly shorten each level. Although the Any% Beat Bowser category obsoletes this one due to a save file corruption trick in 3-1, it is different enough to warrant keeping it. Some people might even enjoy this category more simply because continuing the run past 3-1 isn't luck dependent like it is in Beat Bowser.
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| Leaderboard: http://www.speedrun.com/yi#Any (click on Magical Journey)
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| Theory TAS: 38:11
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Any% Beat Bowser |
| Description: Any% Beat Bowser is the second fastest category to complete the game. The main subjective for achieving top times in this category is using the Null Egg Glitch and then doing a Save Corruption in 3-1. This run used to be the Any% category of this game before ACE got found.
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| Leaderboard: http://www.speedrun.com/yi#Any (click on Beat Bowser)
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