diff --git a/.github/workflows/run-nitro-test-node.yml b/.github/workflows/run-nitro-test-node.yml
index 67a5b81..ba0cc05 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/run-nitro-test-node.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/run-nitro-test-node.yml
@@ -30,3 +30,12 @@ jobs:
         with:
           args: --detach
 
+  run-with-simple:
+    name: 'Run in simple mode'
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: ./run-nitro-test-node
+        with:
+          no-simple: false
+
diff --git a/run-nitro-test-node/action.yml b/run-nitro-test-node/action.yml
index 686c9b7..ac9e873 100644
--- a/run-nitro-test-node/action.yml
+++ b/run-nitro-test-node/action.yml
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ inputs:
     required: false
     default: 'false'
     description: 'Whether to skip deploying the token bridge on the test node'
+  no-simple:
+    required: false
+    default: 'true'
+    description: 'Whether to start the test node in simple mode'
   args:
     required: false
     default: ''
@@ -35,7 +39,7 @@ runs:
       # See https://stackoverflow.com/a/72203688 for more info
       run: |
         cd nitro-testnode
-        ./test-node.bash --init ${{ inputs.l3-node == 'true' && '--l3node' || '' }} ${{ inputs.no-token-bridge == 'true' && '--no-tokenbridge' || '' }} ${{ inputs.args }} &
+        ./test-node.bash --init ${{ inputs.no-simple == 'true' && '--no-simple' || '' }} ${{ inputs.l3-node == 'true' && '--l3node' || '' }} ${{ inputs.no-token-bridge == 'true' && '--no-tokenbridge' || '--tokenbridge' }} ${{ inputs.args }} &
 
     - name: Wait for nitro startup
       shell: bash
diff --git a/run-nitro-test-node/waitForTokenBridge.sh b/run-nitro-test-node/waitForTokenBridge.sh
index 68f403c..1c386e2 100755
--- a/run-nitro-test-node/waitForTokenBridge.sh
+++ b/run-nitro-test-node/waitForTokenBridge.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # poll the token bridge deployment file until we get a 0 return code
 while true
 do
-  docker-compose -f ./nitro-testnode/docker-compose.yaml run --entrypoint sh tokenbridge -c "cat localNetwork.json"
+  docker-compose -f ./nitro-testnode/docker-compose.yaml run --entrypoint sh tokenbridge -c "if [ -f localNetwork.json ]; then cat localNetwork.json; else cat network.json; fi"
   if [ "$?" -eq "0" ]; then
     exit 0
   else