(NOTE: I am not a runner of this game, I just observe this page casually.) So, It appears that yesterday, A new runner (maybe) emerged and beaten TGH's Record by about two minutes. and what I see is that he used a Japan Translation of the game. ..I got a question: "Is this allowed?"

Another thing I thought about was "The Batora Effect from SM64", like an Unknown Japanese player battled against USA's runners. but this is unrelated to the topic.

the official japanese port was released a few days ago so yes it is allowed OpieOP

Damn.

If it wasn't allowed then we wouldn't have verified it now would we?

So from now on, the JPN release is the version runners will use for Genocide/Glitchless categories? Welp, it's got a case of SM64-itis now.

This is the same reason why the glitched tpe and genocide records were broken. It is no surprise. Every single category but ng+ will be faster.

Wow.

It's not "SM64-itis" @TheGoldenKai it's quite common for speedrunning communities to use whatever region is faster. Be it different run speeds or just simply down to the text itself. SM64 has nothing to do with it.

The fact that you stated in your first message of this thread, was "I am not a runner of this game", it shouldn't be an issue to you. Now, I don't really care if you check the game leaderboards or not. The fact is, it's not your concern and like @Drakodan said, we wouldn't have verified the runs. So it's a pointless question to ask about the japanese version being allowed.

This is like the opposite of what happens to sm64

The glitchless record was never really optimized since it really wasn't run by top runners of the game so when a new version came out that had timesave and a runner that wanted to optimize glitchless It makes sense the record was beaten

"Welp, it's got a case of SM64-itis now."

You do realise ¤most¤ games use the Japanese version for speedrunning because the text is faster? Is SM64 like the only speedgame you know?

Well, I've seen only Super Mario RPG, SM64, Luigi's Mansion, and now Undertale. but yeah, you're right about ¤most¤ video games having Japanese text that is considered faster. ..I should really not call it "SM64-itis" anymore, nor mention it.