Heya, I'm probably gonna pick this game up again casually, because it's great, (and only ever played it on an emulator) & potentially as a speedrun game. Just curious though, is there a platform that is preferable/faster than the other? I would've presumed Xbox'd be faster just due to multi-platform games usually functioning marginally better than PS2/GCN counterparts but I noticed the leaderboard was dominated by PS2. SO which version should I pick up should I want to pick up for the best version, speed-wise?

XBOX is technically faster. XBOX 360 lags a shitton to the point where it's basically not worth trying. Plus all versions but PAL PS2 have rampant slide glitch (edit: this is caused by running the game in 60 Hz instead of 50, it's not a version difference). Slide glitch is basically when you slide and move the direction you're holding slightly during that slide, and you end up going in a completely different direction, sometimes doing a full 180° turn. Best advice: Get the PAL PS2 version. It's just better overall (edit: OG XBOX is best now)

So update is OG XBOX is a lot faster and can run both versions at 50 Hz (NTSC XBOX has savewarping which is useful for All Levels). 360 still sucks balls. PAL PS2 is second-fastest and probably still competitive on OPL HDD in All Levels (not 100% because OPL soft-resetting is really weird). NTSC PS2 is runnable but not advisable. XBOX on 60Hz... I wouldn't even try... I started running on that and it was horrendous.

Why didn't I mention PS3? iirc it crashes in HUB 3, so I don't believe it can do anything but cursed route in 100% and any%