There should be separate 100% categories for all 3 versions due to different score requirements and language barriers.
I recently got 9:16:36 in 100% Japanese. This version is slower and should count as the WR of its own category (instead of beating Coldeggman's NTSC-U WR or my 9:41:00) The PAL version is slower and has entirely different languages despite the similar scoring requirements. Not to mention availability and price differences.
I've noticed a lot of speed run communities will play the "best version" for time efficiency like playing the German version of Breath of the Wild. That is not to invalidate your points though because I have seen exceptions also. I'm curious to see how this turns out.
hi! i'd like to detail some recent changes to these boards.
the gba's native framerate is approximately 59.7275 fps. the issue is that a lot of emulators (most notably mgba) use 60 instead of the native framerate by default. while this doesn't sound like that much, this adds up quite a bit, and in