Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 19 minutes ago
My rest break ends, and the run resumes, at 0:25. The run ends at 9:51:13.
This is, as far as I know, the world's first fully recorded completion of a Dragon Warrior Monsters 2 Max Catalog Speedrun - a hypothetical category of runs in which the goal is to obtain the Catalog entry for every monster available to a single cartridge of the game, without the use of major glitches (such as save corruption). That's 310 monsters! This video is also intended to support my application for a Max Catalog category on this game's Speedrun.com leaderboard.
This segment contains the last ten hours of the run, and was performed on a separate stream from the previous segments, beginning on July 5, 2025 - there was a seventeen-hour "rest break" between the two sessions, during which the timer was paused. In this segment I recruit and/or breed every remaining monster in the catalog as efficiently as possible.
I'm still working on my recommended category rules, including rules for rest breaks - this run needed to take a rest break to finish, after all, and I'm hopeful that someday someone else will want to attempt this challenge as well. I'm also hard at work on improving the route, such that I'm able to get a much better time when I next give this a shot. Sub-20 seems ambitious but doable, especially if my current hypothesis that the later parts of the run would be much faster with an even stronger pair of GoldGolems turns out to be correct. I don't know when my next attempt will be but I'll announce it everywhere I usually do, so don't miss it!
If you have any questions about this run or any aspect of Dragon Warrior Monsters 2 for the Game Boy Color, ask away in the comments! I love talking about this game.
My rest break ends, and the run resumes, at 0:25. The run ends at 9:51:13.
This is, as far as I know, the world's first fully recorded completion of a Dragon Warrior Monsters 2 Max Catalog Speedrun - a hypothetical category of runs in which the goal is to obtain the Catalog entry for every monster available to a single cartridge of the game, without the use of major glitches (such as save corruption). That's 310 monsters! This video is also intended to support my application for a Max Catalog category on this game's Speedrun.com leaderboard.
This segment contains the last ten hours of the run, and was performed on a separate stream from the previous segments, beginning on July 5, 2025 - there was a seventeen-hour "rest break" between the two sessions, during which the timer was paused. In this segment I recruit and/or breed every remaining monster in the catalog as efficiently as possible.
I'm still working on my recommended category rules, including rules for rest breaks - this run needed to take a rest break to finish, after all, and I'm hopeful that someday someone else will want to attempt this challenge as well. I'm also hard at work on improving the route, such that I'm able to get a much better time when I next give this a shot. Sub-20 seems ambitious but doable, especially if my current hypothesis that the later parts of the run would be much faster with an even stronger pair of GoldGolems turns out to be correct. I don't know when my next attempt will be but I'll announce it everywhere I usually do, so don't miss it!
If you have any questions about this run or any aspect of Dragon Warrior Monsters 2 for the Game Boy Color, ask away in the comments! I love talking about this game.
