I've been playing the PAL versions of the game and it seems the PAL vs NTSC framerate is putting me at a slight disadvantage on the leaderboards.

I "obtained" a copy of HSG1 US version and can only able to play it via usb on my PAL ps2 slim. Managed to get the WR in the mini golf by 8s and wondering if playing from usb effects load times significantly or I just had a great run (it was as fast as I've ever done it)?

I tried to measure the load times in editing software and compared two runs (PAL CD vs NTSC USB) and the difference is only about 15s - without factoring in framerate (which would bring the count lower).

Do you think it would be worth adding different categories for this?