So based on butomushi's studies, there's a 32 seconds difference of total speeches in cutscenes.
https://twitter.com/bombtomushi/status/1743689663796396366
Is this enough for separate boards?
Not very knowledgable about this run, however isn't adding or subtracting the 32 seconds good enough?
Hey I don't have to do this test now!(it's been on my to do list for a while) I'm going to say it doesn't need a new leaderboard for a few reasons.
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Text differences is always a thing in speedruns (shout out for the non-JP being faster this time). Well I guess it's audio this time but same thing here.
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It doesn't fundamentally change the game in any way.
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Perk and myself are the only ones who play this game with original hardware. Everyone else uses emulator so everyone has access to the faster version. If you don't have the game, don't MESSAGE ME IF YOU NEED THE GAME ;)
If needed I'd say it'd be better to just subtract the 32 seconds from the JP version rather than a new board since this isn't a very active game. Although I don't personally like the idea of this as there could be other minor timing differences in the versions that's hard to parse.
EDIT: The more I think about it the less I like the idea of adjusting time. (Quickly i need to point out the tweet is missing some of the cutscenes with audio) IF we feel we really need to change something to make it fair, then I'd think we'd have to make use of IGT that's on the board due to master mode, and calculate IGT based of the time left on all the stages. That sounds miserable for me as I know I'll be the one to do it but that would be the way I'd want it done. Plus new runs don't come in often so it wouldn't be too much of a problem after a changeover. It'd just delay verifications a bit.
