As far as any% is concerned, the only difference glitch-wise is that non-JP versions allow you to do fruit storage, which makes EYG both easier and faster, since you don't have to make the Stus attack you in order to dismount Yoshi and throw the papaya through the gate. The physics of ejecting off of Yoshi are also different on JP, meaning that you can do a slightly faster strat at the end of Ricco 8 in 79 and 96 shines. You can also do a version of Gelato Skip in Episode 6 with Yoshi for Hoverless and No Major Skips on JP that saves a small amount of time over doing Gelato 6 normally.

gv-usb2 is what you're thinking of.  it's always my personal recommendation when people ask for a USB capture card.

It's probably the best standard def capture card out there and it's not expensive at all (around $40 USD on Amazon).  The installation of the drivers is in japanese, but it's only two clicks and there's guides online.  The drivers come on a CD or can be downloaded off the website using the serial number on the back of the capture card (site is in Japanese as well iirc, however a translation of the page with Chrome makes navigating it easy).

actually 1.0 is faster, because 1.1 fixed stuff which would save time.

I´m using PJ64 1.6 for practice at the moment and in my expierience it crashes alot more than N64, that might be the reason nobody is running on emu. I don´t think it´s banned and I´m pretty sure all glitches work exept if it crashes on some of them.

Yep. It's annoying but not that difficult (imo) to get used to after a few minutes. N64 is definitely more comfortable and natural feeling to play

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