hey, i'd highly recommend joining the jak discord which is linked on all the games pages. we have a bunch of resources pinned in each channel and a lot of people who can help steer you to what you're looking for. as for minimum requirements for recording we don't really have any, but how you record would depend on which version of the games you plan to run

As of today all console runs will have cutscene times removed from the runs to better compare against PC runs since PC has skippable cutscenes. the time removed is 5:14 and has been applied to all existing runs and will be applied to all future console runs as well. there was a poll of which 82% of runner agreed to the change., if you have any questions feel free to message me here or on discord

This is actually already known. It comes out to be the same time overall due to the load from the death and travel from load spot to the cell, however it is still a fun thing to do :p

a bit late... but no it is not slower to run on pal. pal50 is a bit harder to run on from what i've heard but it also has a slight advantage over ntsc and pal60 which is keeping blue eco after collecting a cell. saves like 2 seconds overall but i mean it's still something. but yeah in general the region doesn't matter, the version is the only important part. Since to do most of the runs a black label copy is required

for the most part it is. hub 1 is exactly the same, hub 2 has blue sage cutscene and boulder cutscene. As of recent you would now cut out the ambush cell in boggy swamp for the mountain pass hidden cell since we found a consistent way to do the fast method there. hub 3 just adds red sage scene, then doing citadel as well

there isn't a route posted anywhere at the moment for any of the routes. the best thing you can do for now is to watch some runs from the boards and take notes/learn from there.