So, after watching some runs, I found out that Europe has way faster loading times compared to North America. While timing, I found that in game time, without loading screens. For example, In Mini game tournament, the world record is 3:09 from a European console and 2nd place is 3:27. I calculated and in game time, the European console would is 1 minute and 10 seconds of gameplay while, the North American would have 53 seconds. I am not trying to make this very competitve but It can affect peoples runs greatly. I'm not sure what could be done but in the meantime, I will think about it as well. I used livesplit to measure how long in game time this would be and curious what we could do.

Thank you for your time

-Kenworth

I actually think it's more likely that this is a digital vs physical load time difference than a region-based one, though I could be wrong. In "modern" games, load time is rarely location based, especially now that all games run at the same rate (unlike in the past where PAL games were slower, as an example.)

There's no tracking if it's a digital copy or disc copy and the MP10 boards aren't super active so it would be a pretty bad feeling to split them at this point I think. I'm definitely open to other input or feedback though~

I was also thinking it could be interesting to add an optional in-game timer alongside the current time. It wouldn't replace the main leaderboard, but it could help compare actual gameplay execution without loading times affecting the comparison as much.

I’m not totally sure if the load differences come down to region or digital vs. disc versions, but you probably know more about that side of things than I do.

I understand that the community is not very active, and I don’t want to make unnecessary changes. I’m just trying to find a way to make comparisons as fair as possible, since it would feel unfortunate for a run to lose out just because of differences in setup or region rather than gameplay itself.

Thank you for taking the time to look into this.