After much testing, we feel this patch is now ready for speedruns. If you had any issues with the old 1.7 and 1.8 patches, this one might just solve your problems. It's easy to setup and has a ton of improvements to the game's compatibility, performance, and functions. Be sure to thank GeminiLoboto for all his great work. He has a Patreon if you'd like to support him as well. If you experience any problems with this patch, please report them to GeminiLoboto and the mods as soon as you can. This patch and a setup guide can be downloaded from our resources page
here - https://www.speedrun.com/re1/resources
Happy speedruns to all!
It has come to our attention that the current version of Duckstation (v0.1-7675) runs considerably slower than earlier versions. Until we figure out what can be done to either get the current version up to speed with the other times on the board we suggest that runners use v0.1-7294, which can be fo