Oooh these could be very helpful! Thanks so much!

nodnod I see! Yeah, I did notice there were no Advance runs on any of the boards. I think I will at least try one, see how it goes. At least do Kefka at Narshe.

Ohhh that makes sense now. So it's not that the gameplay is slower or anything, but it's less reliable to run Advance because we can't manipulate as well? (Also: thanks so much for taking the time to explain all this to a noob like me. I really appreciate it).

Maybe my turn for an unpopular opinion but I like the GBA audio. But then, I don't have anything to compare against. Can you explain more about things like evasion fix, river manip, etc? I've only ever played casually; was planning to start with Kefka at Narshe runs to build up familiarity. But if there's that many gameplay differences between Advance and SNES that can handicap me, I may need to see about getting an emulator.

So, disclaimer that I'm very new to speedrunning in general, but eventually I do want to try one and FFVI is my favorite game. When I look on the leaderboard for Any% Glitchless, I see everything is either on SNES or a SNES leaderboard. Personally, I have the GBA version (trying to see about getting a DS with internal capture card to record with). Is there a reason nobody is using Advance? Is it just harder to record, or is there a gameplay-related reason?