I looked at the Rule
Timing starts on New Game and ends when the music of the credits starts playing.
You are allowed to save & reload during the run while the timer keeps running.
Nothing is said about the English Translation.
But the only other thread says the rules does not allow for it. Were can I find this rule. I have the official physical game but also have a patched version of the game. I been thinking trying to do a run for this game.
There isnt really a reason to ban it. If at worst there turns out to be a significant difference, we can figure out what to do then. The reason I did not run in english was that the "optional" cave in the Metalseadramon episode, that contains the Def Break Omega, was inaccessible to me as the game always crashed there, so you definitely should test that first.
Also, yes there were bad rules in the past, but nothing to worry about anymore.
Hopefully its okay to ask in this thread, do you happen to have any public notes/guides for this game? Thanks
It's fine, I'm just not that active on speedrun.com (twitch or discord would be better).
For your question, I've copy/pasted my any% notes into googledocs and uploaded them. Can't say too much about how understandable they are, as I haven't touched the game in years, but they shouldn't be too bad, especially if you watch the run while going through them.
If you have any further feedback or find mistakes, let me know.
For anyone reading this thread, it turns out the crash has been fixed in a later version of the translation patch, so there isn't a problem with using it in speedruns anymore.
