I'm not sure, but it seems that the bosses in the Japanese release are slightly easier than the North America release. I notticed that in the JP Nebula doesn't do her bat attack so often as in the NA Version. Also, a couple other bosses feel a little less agressive and have less RNG variation.

Am I right? Am I wrong? Maybe it's just me, I don't know '-'

Smelly_Mctroll,

Do the U.S version give you any "extra" textbox at some point?

So it already means a minor time saving on playing the japanese version =)

Hello felllows WeaponLord and Smelly_McTroll. Figured I should introduce myself in here.

The way I work is: I use emulator snes9x v1.53, and I never do any kind of dirty practice. I don't use savestates, throttle or anything like that. I do, however, steal strats from other people in addition of my own. I mean, I had a 28:50 before I even streamed on Twitch.

Thanks to strats I borrowed from Smelly and Lockheart_93 (another Brazilian runner who used to run this game), I now have Wolverine as the character of choice for Alaska. I had no idea his special move could be used like that, especially against the Sasquatch. Nebula is now easier than ever, and Thanos can be taken down rather easily, without any punches.

More ideas will be developed by ourselves, and let's see how close to TAS (which is 18:3x) we can get. Maybe combo cancelling against Magus?

Thanks for your attention :D

(and yes, I play japanese version. Glad it's faster, like it usually is with these old games)

Awesome, Smelly. I've recently got more in contact with LRock617, and he claims to have interest in running this game too, along with StuntCoyote. I'll be sure to push the time even further. 24 doesn't sound easy though.