· NTSC-U is optimal for Any% Easy, NTSC-J is optimal for every other category.

· PAL has no advantages whatsoever. It is significantly slower than the other regions due to it's lower frame rate compared to NTSC.

· NTSC-U has Crystal Skip, which saves roughly three minutes.

· NTSC-J patches Crystal Skip, but some things are faster, like the grinders in Bombopolis. The biggest change is the Karn boss fight. It is minutes faster than NTSC-U, but not enough to be faster than Crystal Skip. There are also dialog boxes that are not present in NTSC-U that you will have to skip through. In Any% Hard, it is not possible to get red rig on Crystal Mine, making the skip not possible. This makes NTSC-J optimal.

· Fast disc speed does not affect the loads for Wild 9, so don't bother turning it on. Console saves about fourteen seconds on loads, but it usually lags more than emulator.

· Allowed emulators are Duckstation and Bizhawk. Mednafen will possibly be allowed but it has not been looked at.

· Playing on PAL PS3 is BANNED

· The game does allow for simultaneous usage of the analog & D-pad, so be sure to turn off analog or use a classic PSX controller.

· USE D-PAD!!!! Using analog is just using D-PAD directions but on analog, you don't get the advantage of extra control with the rig on analog, making it worse. If you need to exit the level, you have to pause, then press select. It will bring up a prompt to quit the level.

· Removing the memory card will prevent the game from saving, this saves several seconds throughout the run.