Category Overview

Yoshi's Island has many different categories to speedrun the game. For all categories the following Ban is part of the rules and will thus not be listed under each individual category.

Universal Ban

Banned: Turbo Controllers Left+Right Warping

Reasoning behind the ban: Left+Right Warping is banned because it can't be done with a regular controller on console. It's only possible by either modding the controller, or by using tools when running on Emulator. The standard SNES/SFC controller does not feature a Turbo Function. Using a turbo controller would mean humanly-impossible mashing on Level Intro Transitions and Text Boxes

Main Categories

Any%

Description: Any% (Credits Warp) is the fastest category to complete the game. The main subjective for achieving top times in this category is using the Tongue Glitch to trigger a Credits Warp by doing Arbitrary Code Execution.

Leaderboards: http://www.speedrun.com/yi#Any

Timing: Starts on (new) File Select Ends when the sceen goes black and credits start

Any% No Credits Warp

Description: Any% No Credits Warp 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.

Leaderboards: http://www.speedrun.com/yi#Any_No_Credits_Warp

Timing: Starts on File Select Ends on Bowser Explosion

Banned: Arbitrary Code Execution

Uses/Allows: Resetting Null Egg Save Corruption 1-1 Warps

Any% Magical Journey

Description: The Magical Journey is the third fastest category to complete the game. The main subjective for achieving top times in this category is using the Null Egg Glitch and carrying it all the way from 2-3 to 6-8, lowering the amount of time each level takes to complete by a large margin. This category got obsolete when the Save Corruption in 3-1 was found. Just like Any% NCW this run used to be the Any% category of this game. It's mainly listed for the sake of completeness. No dedicated leaderboards because Any% No Credits Warp obsoleted this category, but Magical Journey run can be found and submitted there.

Timing: Starts on File Select Ends on Bowser Explosion

Banned: Arbitrary Code Execution Save Corruption

Uses/Allows: Resetting Null Egg 1-1 Warps

Any% Warps, No Null Egg

Description: This category is the original Any% category of this game before the Null Egg Glitch and ACE were discovered. This category abuses 1-1 Warps and to get top times also does the Tongue Glitch in 3-3. Other than that and the timing method, it is identical to Any% Warpless, which is the main category of Yoshi Speedrunning nowadays.

Leaderboards: http://www.speedrun.com/yi#Warps_No_Null_Egg

Timing: Starts on File Select Ends on Bowser Explosion

Banned: Resetting Arbitrary Code Execution Null Egg Save Corruption

Uses/Allows: 1-1 Warps 3-3 Glitch

Any% Warpless

Description: The No Major Glitches category of this game. It is the main category of the Yoshi Speedrunning Community nowadays.

History lesson: In the past this used to be the main category of just the Japanese Yoshi Community who did not want to use 1-1 Warps, whereas the rest of the World played Any% Warps, No Null Egg without the Tongue Glitch in 3-3 which wasn't known back then. The Japanese Players did time there runs on the last input, whereas the rest of the World finished the run on Bowser Explosion, thus resulting in the different timing method between this category and Any% Warps, No Null Egg

Leaderboards: http://www.speedrun.com/yi#Warpless

Timing: Starts on File Select Ends when last text box was advanced when Kamek appears after Bowser is defeated

Banned: Resetting Arbitrary Code Execution Save Corruption Null Egg Tongue Glitch 1-1 Warps

100%

Description: The 100% category of this game. It also bans the same glitches as Any% Warpless.

Leaderboards: http://www.speedrun.com/yi#100

Timing: Starts on File Select Ends when the icon for the last level completed returns to normal, after displaying "100"

Banned: Turbo Controllers Left+Right Warping Resetting (Except after Bowser) Arbitrary Code Execution Save Corruption Null Egg Tongue Glitch 1-1 Warps

Useful Page: Bonus Skips!