obviously people going for the fastest times run the japanese version because of less text or whatever.

lets say two runs had the same input/rng/etc cept one was in english and the other in japanese. what type of time save are we looking at here?

About1-2 Seconds everytime you pick an item or get a text option "Yes/No" So about 30-40 seconds I think

NTSC-J also have less aggressive zombies and different enemy/item locations. Havn't played the NTSC/PAL version for a long time so I cant remember if the bosses are any different.

Best way of finding out would be to grind the game on GC/PS Emu with all doors splits and check the difference in SoB.

You lose several seconds pretty much for all text dealt in the game on English. A rough estimate could probably be worked out if all text based input was accounted for over an entire run.

Two best runs you could look at are:

Jake's GCN time on Leon A vs the WR time. About 40 seconds or so. Kasumari's GCN Emu Leon A vs Nurmat's. About 1 minute and 30 seconds.

There's load times and various other things to take into account though. You would need to TAS both versions with the exact same inputs to work out a true difference.

ah yes i figured the text would only really matter in a competitive timing. and yeah i find the north american version has a few more zombies/dogs/lickers in certain spots requiring dicier dodges.

thanks guys