Thanks for the quick reply and the encouragement, Cereth!

I do actually own a PS2 and a physical copy of Final Fantasy VII, but they're both in pretty bad shape, so I'd have to replace them if I was going to take it seriously. And get a capture card, of course.

I've never been a fan of the PC releases - including the newest one - but I'll consider it. Does a fully glitchless category of the game exist? I'd basically like to run the game "as intended" - beating all the storyline bosses, but not Ruby, Emerald, etc.

And one final question: what are the restrictions on using an emulator for submitted runs? I'm thinking ahead here, but I notice the leaderboard can be filtered to show only times on an emulator (even though there aren't any at the moment), so I'm assuming such runs are allowed, even if they're never going to be #1.

Feel free to just point me in the right direction if these questions have already been answered, since I wouldn't want to take up too much of your time. Thanks again. :)

Hi,

I'd like to get into running Final Fantasy VII, but I have a question about the "fast disc speed" option on the PS2: How much time does it save over the course of an any% run?

For various reasons, I thought I'd start by practising with a PS1 emulator, but I noticed that I was already two seconds behind PS2 players after the opening FMV. I'm not expecting to challenge the top of the leaderboard any time soon but it would still be useful to know how much time I'm giving away by not being able to play the game on a PS2. Does the fast disc speed setting only speed up FMV loading times or other things as well? If it's the former, it should be easy to calculate - I could do it myself - but if it's the latter, it will be much more difficult, if not impossible.

Thanks.