I was wondering how I can run this game on ntsc, since I see no one has any ntsc ps2 runs. There also isn't any loading times for ntsc that I can find. Would I have to find the loading times on my own?
NTSC is slower and I believe it's because NTSC runs less smoothly and the cars in general might be slower although I'm not fully sure on the exact reasons. I don't know if you'll have to time loads for yourself but you could probably avoid doing that and the mods may time them.
As of a few days ago, there is a load remover for LiveSplit that will pause the timer during loading segments when CNK is played on the Dolphin emulator. It pauses anytime a loading screen appears as well as during the lag frames that precede the loading screens themselves. The plugin is memory-base