I'm wondering if we're going to adjust times accordingly for Japanese (cart) version submissions, noting in the rules that adjustments will be made for text differences.

Offering to chart the differences for every cave's text if that data isn't already available somewhere, and handle those submissions as a mod if no one else wants to.

edit: This proposal may seem like it's taking the subject too seriously, but my interest is in keeping speedrunning this game simple and inclusive for newer players. By informing them that it doesn't matter on leaderboards which NTSC version they play because text times will be adjusted, there will be no need for newer players to have a hardware arms race.

2nd edit (May 9 2017): Famicom version probably has significantly less lag. We made subcategories. See new thread.

My intent is to subtract text differences. i've already done the math on Red Candle to be able to do that down to the frame. i've been lobbying speedrun.com people to add that feature since I moved the Nintendo-Records/Red Candle boards over here.

My intent is also to handwave the keese room differences because I'm not sure they actually matter.

For example I tell everyone who asks my PB to add ~20 seconds. :)

I put together a table with the text differences and here are the current results: (In all instances, the original English text version adds the respective amount of time)

any% Blue Candle routes: 164 characters, 984 frames, 16.373 seconds any% Red Candle routes: 121 characters, 726 frames, 12.08 seconds 100% routes: 275 characters, 1590 frames, 27.455 seconds low% routes: 112 characters, 672 frames, 11.182 seconds each Medicine Shop text: 1.398 seconds each Money Making Game text: 1.298 seconds

The any% results I got are different from anything listed on redcandle.us so I'm not sure if I've made a mistake or not. I put my table on a google doc though. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Gaa4Ta4U5_X3iqGfeXUOJdfvLLGZjaiXT4DZaIr7o8g