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 Bans

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

This category has no restrictions other than the Universal Bans.

Uses: Tongue Glitch Arbitrary Code Execution

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 Glitch

Uses/Allows: 1-1 Warps 3-3 Map Corruption

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 (new) File Select Ends on the last input before the credits start (This is when the last text box is advanced when Kamek appears after Bowser is defeated) Note: The US Version of this game has 2 text boxes here, while the Japanese Version only has 1

Banned: Resetting Arbitrary Code Execution Null Egg Glitch 3-3 Map Corruption 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 (new) File Select Ends when the icon for the last completed level completely returns back to normal, after displaying "100" When the run is completed a score check in all worlds is usually done to confirm that all levels have a score of "100" (Not required)

Banned: Resetting (Except after Bowser) Arbitrary Code Execution Null Egg Glitch 3-3 Map Corruption 1-1 Warps

Required: Score of 100 in all levels Including Extras

Useful Page: Bonus Skips!

Legacy categories

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 Glitch Save Corruption 1-1 Warps

Any% Magical Journey

Description: The Magical Journey is a very unique run of this game and used to be the fastest possible way to complete the game at one point in time. 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 obsoleted by Any% No Credits Warp when the Save Corruption in 3-1 was found, but used to be the Any% category of this game. It's mainly listed for the sake of completeness.

No dedicated leaderboards because Any% NCW obsoleted this category, but Magical Journey runs can still be found and submitted on the NCW leaderboards.

WR: 40:13

Theory TAS: 38:11

Timing: Starts on File Select Ends on Bowser Explosion

Banned: Arbitrary Code Execution Save Corruption

Uses/Allows: Resetting Null Egg Glitch (Without Save Corruption) 1-1 Warps