Awesome man, I would love to see it and put my few cents in where needed! I plan on doing many more runs of this game. I've also got ideas for a 100% run, not that there would be many runners for it, but I will be playing with the idea and will probably run it sometime.

I still think there should be at least a Hard/No Switch category regardless, given the frustrating difficulty of the game, but that's just me. It definitely adds an aspect of input awareness that I just love for the game not to be bugged other than the AI being ruthlessly random. Which is a delightfully stressful "feature" when playing on Hard.

But if that's the case for the Any% Easy, that actually opens up some nice options...

I have a question regarding emulation if it is worth addressing. I own a copy of the NTSC version of the game, but lack the hardware to capture via my PS2. I have a PC good enough to run a backup via PCSX2 at a stable 100% and 60 frames, and will be using it to practice regardless. Times seem to be matching up with the ranked videos for the most part, (given my menuing error knocking the rust off in testing) but I still have my doubts of "legitimacy" given the mixed reviews I've seen of PCSX2 in the little research i did on the matter as far as evaluation of legitimate runs. I'm very new to the speedrunning community, and will love for this to be my first experiece. Just curious, and figured i'd ask for posterity's sake.

Thanks for showing me that there is a community (however small now) for this amazing game!