I discovered a difference between playing on JP audio vs playing on English audio, and that's primarily with the Crystal Awakening cutscenes that can't be skipped, both text and scenes.

The game is 30 fps. Doing any% is about 10 seconds faster with JP than English audio, or 310 frames. For true ending, it's about 50 seconds faster with JP audio than English, or 1520 frames.

The time save is minimal, but if you're looking to save frames, there you go.

I'm slow, but I'll post for others' reference: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bVWjqst6VnNnADt0n7335E8x_Mbq9DPVedCu-ddexTE/edit?usp=sharing

With regards to reference a Japanese runner's notes, there are differences between NA and JP. For example, selling some items in NA will give you less than JP (one of the accessories sold in JP gives 5000 pg while in NA it gives 1000 pg). Makes it a bit trickier to route, but it's still doable.

My XC run also does all stages and it's marked under any%. Technically, it's done without doppler skip. I'm fine with wherever my run goes, since it's on the site to begin with and any% isn't technically wrong.

I saw Laseki say that "any changes to the boards will be ran by the community first in the MMX discord to give them sort of a vote." There are two concerns I have with this:

1. Will there be a link to the Discord on the Mega Man X3 page (and maybe other X pages...I haven't checked)?
2. Are the moderators present in the Discord?

That's all. Good luck with this mess.

Something I worked on for the past week or so. It's probably more useful for those running 120 shrine/100%, but may be helpful otherwise.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qLOC3ajm6a-vrXvlwAecbhW88iT8vtv9iSvP0jUcwzY/edit?usp=sharing