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8 years ago
Ontario, Canada

Can you please do an English any% category! I only have the USA version we can do glitches but only on the English version. I have been looking and looking I just cant find a Japanese version of the game! So if you can please think about it? Thank You

United States

We've been considering splitting the Any% category into Japanese and English categories. I can't say for certain if it's going to happen or not. In the meantime you can still post English Any% runs to the leaderboards. If the categories do get split, we're almost certainly going to move all of the English runs done previously to their own board.

Hope I helped.

United States

Japanese copies of this game can be found on Ebay and Amazon under the name of Paper Mario RPG. As for an English Any% category, the routes are still too similar to split them.

They are not similar anymore. Ultra hammer early is a huge difference and cuts the game (plus teleporter early working right) by nearly 2 hours WR time. The routes are similar up until the hammer. and all you need for the hammer is Flurrie. They really should be split.

United States

The thing is that the Prologue, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, and the Palace of Shadow in Japanese are still done in a very similar way to English. This accounts for a large portion of the run, and therefore makes the routes too similar to split. Also, the current Japanese-only tricks only make Japanese about 70 minutes faster than English for an RTA run. Despite the large time difference between the runs, the routes are still too similar to be split.

Yeah this really needs to be nipped at the bud; there is no reason to be asking for a category split outside of unwillingness to seek out the JP version, which is not at all expensive or rare. If you want a competitive time, purchase the fastest version of the game. This 'everybody gets a trophy' mentality does nothing except coddle the feelings of the lazy.

I don't have money to go get it though, and I shouldn't have to go buy a new game to run it, especially when I already have the game.

United States

As of now there are plenty of English runners on the any% board. We plan to split the categories if a new skip is found in palace of shadows. This would further separate English and Japanese as the latter would be able to skip four entire chapters due to teleporter room early. For the moment, you can still post times to the any% board no matter which release of the game you're playing. You need to understand, however, that while the fastest times are going to be set using the Japanese version, English is capable of being brought down to a 5:35:xx or lower.

Nova Scotia, Canada

Just thought I'd post my opinion, not trying to start an arguement.

I get that the runs are still pretty similar but to me the time save alone is enough to split them.

Because of the time difference the versions are basically already split on the leaderboards, the top section being jap and bottom being eng (besides like one run). There is no way an eng runner can beat those jap times, they will always be split like that. So why not just actually split them?

Also for me its not a matter of avoididng getting jap version, i bought one. But i like the eng run also; I will probably still run eng some more even when I have jap. The runs are pretty similar but they are also pretty different (new glitches, small changes like staying in perial after end chapters etc) that's what made me want to try jap, a new experience even if its not major. And jap is harder than eng.

Anyway, just my opinion. Let's just hope palace skip is found then everyone can agree they should split xD

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