I noticed that there are cheat codes available for Sly 2 and there should be a Miscellaneous Category for a cheats only run where you beat the game as fast as possible with cheats. I saw that Gnist had recently done a run of Sly 2 w/cheats any% and it would be a fun idea to have this category. I mean the cheat codes were made by the devs for extra fun outside of the game so why not. The codes are technically apart of the game so it should be a category, no matter how boring a cheats run would be. Thanks and i hope you consider this idea.

We're actually Working on making a legit Route for that so It should be added soon...maybe.

Might be worth mentioning here that this category was made an actual leaderboard category a couple of months back: https://www.speedrun.com/sly2/full_game#Any_w_cheats

Here's a quick guide I made when this was first brought up, and that I recently updated: https://www.speedrun.com/sly2/guide/cpttp

As for the fastest version, both PSN NTSC-U and PSN NTSC-J (KOR) for PS3 should be viable options. The differences in actual speed is negligible.