I gave this one a look mostly because of the different music (why it was changed, I still can't quite fathom) but was wondering if there are any other intrinsic differences over the PRG0 North American release?

The gameplay should be identical to JP vs US versions. Yes the music is different in a few screens but no other changes that I know of. You can see there are both US and JP runs on the leaderboard with no advantage/disadvantage between versions. The PAL version is a different story as you can jump farther and can't level up as much.

I couldn't find a PRG0 so I did the JP version. And yeah no differences as far as we could all tell. Even text differences don't matter since you don't have to wait for them to finish talking in non any% (from what I remember).

Thanks all!

The versions seemed to play the same to me, but I figured I'd ask in case I overlooked something silly or stupid :)

And why the heck would someone even run the PAL version? lol

Pal I think has some clips possibly that NA/JP version can't do? (Or maybe those are all tas anyway) they can make some jumps that we can't saving some time. But I think overall it's a slower run, and you basically have to double assault and assail last boss to have a good chance of living lol. like 1:26 of this video

I Think, that's a tas only ability maybe possible in both versions, But it could be pal only....... No idea how to trigger it at least.