Since the new ports have been patched it is time to decide if PS4/5 needs it's own categories or not.

1. What are the load times like?
2. Does everything still work the same? In terms of RNG, mechanics and whatnot.
3. Are there different ways to cheat the mods need to be aware of?

These are the questions I can think of off the top of my head, but there may be more.

1. Load speeds are similar to PS1 in some places but cutscenes load significantly faster. I would say it's about 1 hour slower than a PS2 run, but faster than PS3.
2. I think the RNG is the same, but I got Bandit's Ring and a Magical Hat from the Bogy (solo battle). Which made me wonder if they had been slightly altered, but I could have gotten lucky.
3. You can rewind to each turn so if you missed a Crush Dance you can rewind and repeat it. Or if you didn't get the Bandit's Ring drop you just rewind and mash the throwable item to another % to alter the RNG (it changes for each % you mash so if you got 210% on last mash you can mash 212%, 214% or 216% to see if Bandit's Ring drops).

Here comes the idea. Since the game have this rewind feature, should we allow it to be used? I think so. It will cost time to manipulate so you get Bandit's Ring on your 3rd or 4th rewind most likely if you are unlucky. A pro would probably restart after 1 rewind. Also... you can rewind so you get the guard skips/shield skip guaranteed in Black Castle. It's going to be more noob friendly and you cannot do anything else beneficial as I can think of.

The only thing I haven't thought about yet is how to abuse the Debug Room (it has save states and hard saves just like a ps1). Can you get there is the question, I would think you can and then I don't know if the rewind feature will have an advantage or having a save state at the loading screen to faster load the debug save or something.

I don't think you can cheat grossly at least. Save states + Rewind feature.

Well those are slow strats anyway, current wonder woman still OP. Bandit's ring doesnt save enough time to warrant wasting time to get it like that. The way I see it any potential use of rewind feature is probably gonna lose time instead of save it.

Exactly, so forbidding users of using rewind won't really hurt good players anyway. Meaning it's a great tool for noobs who want to rewind on Virage deaths, drop rates or guard skips/shield skip.

Hell yeah! It never hurts to create more options for runners... especially given how much focus that specific console has right now for the game. Add a unique category!

These categories have been added:

• Any% (AKA Classic)
• Magician Faust

These are now possible to run on PS4 and PS5 to everyone under the label "HD CONSOLE".

I have verified that the DEBUG ROOM will not work as far as I could test. If I close the game before the save is completed there will be no save file in the slot. If there is another method I cannot think about in the future to enable DEBUG ROOM being possible, then we will change it to add a CLASSIC category as well. We just rename Any% to Classic if so, but as it looks now. I doubt it will be possible to reach the debug room.