Hello everyone. Although I do not do RTA runs of this game, I have been working on a few TASes on it. So far I have simply been using the English PAL version of the game, however I recently discovered that where you start in Globe Trot differs between releases in different regions, which has led me to wonder if there are any other known differences between PAL and NTSC/different places the game has been released in that could possibly create time difference in a speedrun/TAS. If you know of any, please post below, as I would like to know if I need to purchase a different version of the game to the one I own to save time on TASes I'm working on. Thanks!

There haven’t been any proven timesaves yet between PAL and NTSC, but that’s crazy that you start in different regions. Do you know which region is better yourself?

Not so far, no - In a TAS environment I expect it would come down to what spaces there are between the starting position and the nearest hot spots. So that people reading don't have to look it up, on PAL you start in Germany, on NTSC-U you start in America, and on NTSC-J you start in Japan. (I don't know whether there is more to this, this is simply what I know from the source I've checked).