I have acquired and tested runs on a Japanese copy of the game. I decided to make this forum post because I discovered that the Japanese version is significantly slower than the others. You do gain advantages in Patchwork, because of the scrolling text. However, you lose ~30 seconds in Pirates because of the non-scrolling text. I thought this might be interesting to mention.

Trying to get an edge with different versions, I see how it is riverp. Kappa

That's pretty interesting though, not often do you see games that are this much slower on the JP version. :o I guess the pirate voice lines are just that much longer in JP or something.