Happened to me by accident on PS4 (on normal) and so I tested it on PC (on hard) today and it works as well. If you get voided out by the BT in the Wind Farm zone (on the North side approaching), the game will no longer spawn in BTs, which makes deliveries to and from the Wind Farm way easier. My assumption is that this is because the game thinks that there is insufficient room for you to actually have a meaningful engagement with BTs or something, but it means not having to sneak through the Wind Farm forest every time I want to make a delivery there so...

Not sure if this information is useful to anyone but the speedrunning community is the only people I could think of that would even have a chance of using this information, so I figured I might as well post it here.

Just had this happen to me; I got over-eager and walked ahead of Makoto on the way to the food cart, and ended up hard locking the game:

PS4 with normal HDD. My suspicion is that she tripped and I got far enough away that it tried to play Majima's "too far from Makoto" dialogue at the same time as the cutscene loaded, which broke the in-engine cutscene after the FMV. It was also ridiculously hot yesterday so it's not impossible that my console just decided it had had enough, but my PS4 has generally been pretty resistant to heat.

Don't let it happen to you!

Ah, cool, okay. I was distracted by the title and didn't read the rules properly, sorry.

... (say, because you're a PAL player and your PC sucks), which category would you submit it to?

That's a long way from too much, I'm just broke so I can't afford it. I really appreciate the offer though!

I wasn't planning on doing NG+/incense skips anyway so no worries there. Trying to find an FDS PAL PS2 for a not ridiculous price is suffering though qq

Do we have a defined epsxe build or similar to run on? Both my old PlayStations have given up the ghost.

Yeah, well, it ended up not being real soon because of IRL and moving house but I ended up with an HDMI-AV converter to replace my POS Dazzle so that actually works, thanks.

New Game uses the stack overflow/20th Force Glitch, right? No Glitchless category?

Haha, alright. I'll give it a shot in a minute and report back real soon.

Haven't had an opportunity to do this yet (probably tomorrow when I can afford to get all dusty), but uh, I can't exactly afford the 70 bucks for the full version if this actually does work, so that's kind of a limited-time fix... :v

Since I'm a PAL player I've been playing an NTSC-U copy of the game off my PS3's hard drive; is that legit under the emulator clause or not because it cuts down on load times?

I don't own a fast disc PS2 and I managed to dig up my physical PAL copy of Legaia; I use a PSone for actually playing it, but my AV capture card is a USB Dazzle pos that vomits trying to cope with the PSX input (works okayish with my Wii, but not the PSX).

Any advice?

Gotta get there first. I haven't played the game in ten billion years so I'm taking it casually.

I finally dug out my PAL copy so hopefully this works for it...

Yeah trying to get involved in older stuff like this when you live in a PAL region is a pain if you don't want to straight-up emulate the NTSC version.

The rules say no use of DLC; can you use the Network Box anyway? My assumption is 'no' since it's random what mission you get on the day, but better to ask first...

Digimon World 2003 is the PAL version and has a bunch of bugfixes and other stuff. Does it go in its own category on this game or should one attempt to get it added as a separate game?

Holy crap I've been playing the US version. No wonder I was getting wrecked.

Aside from the PAL version presumably running at 50fps instead of 60, are there any notable version differences?