Interesting point indeed for despawns. I've always felt it was a bit weird that a mod was allowed / encouraged, but I can't imagine it was with the intent to keep a bug it introduced. IIRC PS2 load times are abysmal. I personally feel like I'd stick to HDC. It's kinda what got me back into the game in general and is just so convenient. Using IGT would make load times a non issue, but probably makes tracking the time a bigger pain.

IMO a modded category is fine, but we should probably update our welcome post verbiage if we disallow style switcher from the "vanilla" category.

Thanks for the replies guys. A part of me thought this forum would be a bit dead but you've given me hope!

That slowdown clip is great lol.

I'm gearing up for speedrunning DMC3:SE again and I got the HD Collection on sale. Is using this version acceptable? As far as I'm aware there's no gameplay changes.

It doesn't seem to lag like the old PC version and has much better controller support so it seems like the immediately superior option.