Hey there, and welcome to the new Chaos Legion leaderboards. In this thread, I'll be going over the changes I've made to the boards.

1. Runs of all regional versions of the game have been merged This is pretty important, and subject to change in the future, so I'll get it out of the way. NTSC-J is the fastest way to run the game, point blank. Putting it simply, the NTSC-J difficulties are about a step down from the NTSC-U/C + PAL versions (i.e. Normal on NTSC-J is equivalent to Easy on NTSC-U/C + PAL). There's a bit more to it that isn't quite 1:1 easier or harder, but overall the game is just much faster on the respective difficulties, especially Hard. I highly encourage people interested in this game to seek out an NTSC-J copy and run on that. Overall, I felt that having the versions split up created a lot of bloat on the board. With that being said, I'm totally open in the future to splitting up the versions by language again (i.e. JP and ENG, as they were before) if people prefer to run and compete separately on NTSC-UC + PAL.

2. Normal is now the default category instead of Hard Normal seems to be the best balance of difficulty and speed for this game. Really not much else to it, except that if Hard were the default category then it would be unfair to ENG versions since ENG Hard is significantly harder than JP Hard (we're talking like 2 hours difference).

3. Easy difficulty added, Super Mode moved to misc. category I found it a little strange that Easy wasn't on the boards anymore so I added it back. Super Mode I moved to a misc. category as it is not a very serious category since you one-shot everything.

4. All regions are timed the same Previously, NTSC-J had used JRTA timing, for no provable reason. Every version now times starting when "Game Start" is selected, and ends on the final hit of Siela. If evidence is presented that would merit changing this, then I'd be happy to do so! But as it stands now, this new timing method will make resetting less of a hassle and save about six minutes of a runner's time between waiting for the console to power on and sitting through the credits after killing Siela.

That's about it. I'm going to start working on resources to help new runners get into the game as well, as those need overhauling. Much love and happy running.

P.S. I kept the main PC category around but if it sits empty for another six months or whatever (it has been empty for about 7 years already), then I'll be deleting it. The PC version is not all that stable and may be more of a hassle to run than it's worth, since it is based on the ENG version of the game.