With some Japanese players taking precedence over just beating their personal best versus submitting their times to a leaderboard, this has created a small discrepancy with the fastest time for some categories. Also, adding the JP Leaderboards into the equation further makes things a bit more complicated. With this post I hope to clear some confusion for anyone wondering what the truly fastest times for each category are. So maybe it could provide some motivation to beat them one day. Also, yes I'm aware some are super obvious like Any%. But I'm just doing this out of my appreciation for the game/community. So here we go!
Any% in 1:27:55 by Neurotaku (American) played with a NTSC PS3 on July 21st, 2017- (there does not exist a faster time anywhere)
Any% Hard in 1:44:21 by Notohanto (Japanese) played with a JP PS2 on June 4, 2017- (there does exist a faster time but it is on the JP Leaderboards by Japanese player Shirapon, and no video exists of the run. Played on a JP PS3 with a final time of 1:40:02) https://gyazo.com/998bd44f9305e1fc274abcbb3a8a5d52 SOURCE: http://wonder2005.wiki.fc2.com/wiki/%E3%83%8F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89
Normal Time Attack in 37:21 by Shirapon played with an NTSC PS3 on November 14, 2016- (there does not exist a faster time anywhere)
Hard Time Attack in 51:22 by Notohanto played with a JP PS2 on April 14, 2017- (there does not exist a faster time anywhere)
Any% Queen's Sword in 1:29:46 by Notohanto played with a JP PS2 on October 27, 2017- (there does not exist a faster time anywhere)
NTA Odd- Empty
NTA Even- Empty
HTA Odd- Empty
HTA Even- Empty
I will update this as need be, hopefully people find this helpful!
Not quite "NEWS", but people asked for better visibility for them and since we currently have no way of actually adding a TAB, here is another way to find them.