Yeah. I have to make a clarification about the branch and the goal choice at this point. I apologize that I haven't done this earlier. Like I mentioned earlier, Dream Devourer's role in this game is like Red's role in Pokemon G/S/C/HG/SS. They are super-bosses that the player faces after the credits are rolled for at least once, and the credits roll again after they are defeated. When I say that the run aims at defeating Dream Devourer, I'm trying to clearify when then run ends. I think defeating Dream Devourer should be considered as the goal even if it's a typical, pure, any% run just like how Johto Pokemon games runs aim at defeating Red, even though the credits do roll after defeating Lance. Now let's get to the tricky part. First I'll talk about how I got the idea of doing what I did in the run. I borrowed many strategies from [450] SNES Chrono Trigger by hero_of_the_day in 4:21:11.83 and [2339] SNES Chrono Trigger "completionist" by Saturn in 5:44:58.18 for obvious reasons, and I made comparisons about them a lot.. One thing suprised me is that the 100% run is actually a little faster than the obsoleted glitchless any% run by the time the team gains access to Epoch with wings. Apparently Saturn's run has much more optimized strategies than the ten years old run does, but this fact also shows that getting tabs during the first half of the game helps a lot. Subsequently, the first three hours of a glitchless any% run won't be much different from a 100% run on a scale of... well, three hours. Then I thought about how different would a 100% run on DS be from the one on SNES. I guess they share the same content for the first four hours, at least. I came to the conclusion that it's not really worthy to make a 100% run on the DS version if they are not very different from each other untill very late in the run, not to say that many people would probably prefer the one on SNES due to its classicness. I wondered if there is a way to showcase the extra contents on the DS version without making the run look too similar to Saturn's 100% run. Now I'll talk about why I skipped Arena completely. The reason is simple. It's a minigame that breaks the pace of the game. A run that abuses the duplication glitch will look like this:

Crono wakes up and leaves home. He decides to save his process of adventure and reset the game at the first instance after he steps out of the door. About 15 seconds later, Crono appears in Arena. He picks a strange creature and sends it to a time period for training. He saves the process and resets again. He meets a girl at the square, goes into 600AD, and meet a frog. About 10 minutes since he resets last time, he dicides to reset again. Back in Arena, he finds about his pet got a power tab. He duplicates it for 99 time by going back and forward on the menu, and then goes back to his adventure, until he resets for another time 10 minutes later...

In response to arandomgameTASer and Samsara, I'm almost sure that duplicating tabs can't help you skip any and all grinding and shave an hour off the run. Even if you max out characters' strength, magic, and speed before going to End of the Time and being able to face Lavos for the first time, you won't stand a single chance. Without enough grinding for level up or the buffs from late game armors. I admit that duplication do save time on the long run, but grinding or doing some of the side-quests is still inevitable to increase defenses and learn important techs. The three main new features of CTDS are Arena of Time, Lost Sanctum dungeons, and Dimensional Vortex dungeons. As I mentioned above, Dimensional Vortexes have to be completed to face Dream Devourer; Arena of Time is a minigame that's not really part of the regualar gameplay in essence, and it makes the run less interesting IMHO. So, how about a run that completes all quests in Lost Sanctums? Lost Sanctums have a very strict quest system. You literally talks to NPCs and choose YES to start a quest, and you talk to the same NPC to get a reward in the end. A shop will provide many exclusive goods after you finish the last quest, and this marks the offical end of plots in these dungeons. It's probably the most obvious and well-defined side-quest in the whole game. Another fact is that many Lost Sanctum-exclusive armors are the best ones you can get before defeating Lavos. They do help a lot during the Lavos fight. A run that completes both Lost Sanctum dungeons and Dimensional Vortex dungeons will virtually features all the new dungeons in CTDS, in other words, all the new features of CTDS other than a minigame. I thought such a run would be interesting and not way-too-arbitrary on the goal choices. I know it's not a strict any% run. Maybe it can be named DS%? I suppose there won't be another run of this game in a short time so I guess it's not that much of a problem if this run doesn't get a branch name for now. Now comes the explaination for the term "almost glitchless." There are only two glitchess in CTDS that are actually useful. One is the duplicaiton, a major one. Another one is a very minor one: you can overflow the HP of Dream Devourer. It's similar to elixer glitch from orginital CT, but you don't actually need a gltich to do the overflow. Dream Devourer has 32000 HP, and the signed 16-bit integer limit is 32767. You can simply do a powerful magical attack on Dream Devourer during the second phase of battle to over flow it's HP. The only thing I did since the beginning of the fight is using Frog Flare for four times in a row. If this phenomenon is a glitch at all, it's the lowest degree of glitching in this game. To summarize it, this main difference between this run and a strict any% CTDS run is that this run completes Lost Sanctum sidequests, because it's one of the two new dungeons in CTDS, and skips Arena of Time, because it's a minigame. There are some minor tradeoffs toward the end of the run like getting the best DS-exclusive armors and weapons even though they don't really save time at that point, but those are really minor actions on a scale of six hours. If this run needs a brach name, I think it should be ether "DS%" or "all reptite quests" for the reasons I explained above. Again, since this is the first speedrun of any kind for CTDS, it's probably not too prolematic to leave the brach name blacnk for now. Sorry if this comes too late. In presonse to the questions about RNG, the FATE luck is not really on your side in this game, as Tangent explained. You can't make your characters crit and enemies miss on every term.