Been a while since i looked at the board and im happy to see more people running the PS2 version, even if it is a bit more "unfun" with its skips and feel. Though there is something i noticed that's made me feel... weird about the rules for PS2 compared to every other board.

Why is everyone, except for me and Saiyanz, ending after getting the 12th bronze medal, and NOT doing the Arctic Randal race bit to get the ending? Its not like the rules of how the game work has changed really, progression still works practically the same to PSX and PC, yet neither of those have this rule change either, only PS2, which makes no sense. So i'd just like to know why this rule difference exists, because the way PS2 version ends is no different to the other versions and this seems way too early of a spot to end a run. And with a previous suggestion by Saiyanz years ago, it would only be at best a 1 minute increase on times to have players do Arctic Randal, get to finish without even winning it and end there with the ending cutscene, same end spot as PSX/PC.

The rules are to finish what triggers the final cutscene. In the ps1 and pc versions you have to complete the randall race while, in the ps2 version, you can quit out of the randall race to trigger the cutscene. This means that the time should stop after the last medal is collected. I don't know when the rule was changed but I also don't run ps2 version.