if anyone's interested, I wrote some tools to practice the game, sharing in case it's useful for someone else. It's an ASL script for LiveSplit and the JPN version of Fatal Frame 3 ran on PCSX2. It has the following functionality:

1. Shows the IGT as "Game Time", the same one you see in the pause screen and results menu
2. Starts automatically when you select the difficulty and resets if you exit or load state into main meu
3. Has the option to autosplit by hour (eventually I can make it all-doors if there's interest)
4. Stores useful variables you can see without having to pause the game: points and amount of each film you have FOR TRAINING PURPOSES ONLY. Obviously this is an unfair advantage over console, but I've been finding it useful to route points (for example: I learned that you gain 1000 points on many pictures that are revealed in daytime even though that doesn't show up on the camera)

ASL file

Instructions on how to use it on LiveSplit

If you have any suggestions, potentially useful functionality, or you tried it and it's not working for you, I'm happy to hear any feedback! :)

Hey hey everyone!

Thank you so much for developing the awesome autosplitter that removes load times and makes competition fair for all machines!

You may have noticed that today the update rolled out that gives Caroline a new costume (yay!) I'm not sure but yesterday the autosplitter was working fine and today it won't recognize when the game starts. Is it possible that the update broke the splitter? If it's only on my end and it's working fine for everyone else please disconsider this message.

Thank you!!

Watching Amai Fox's stream (Aug 11 2021), we've been noticing since the latest update that there seems to be a consistent decrease in load times that add up through the course of the run. Seems like the load speed resembles the ps2 speed, where we get to the church at about the 6 min mark (with optimal lines/menus), still seems slower than ePSXe.

This means that wr is easily beatable if anyone wants to grind :)