Just throwing it out there but iv been playing around with the Japanese version just to see what differences there are and the main thing iv noticed is some different enemy placements, pick ups in different places but most importantly glitches like the super jumps and the level skip have been patched.

Iv seen another post here asking for a glitchless category and think this would be a great alternative, maybe wed even find glitches that dont exist in the other version.

Its been a year since this was posted and as a runner, that drop grinding sub16 for Donald because of Super Jump glitch, maybe it would really good to add Glitchless or Japanese version category for this game,maybe it will have some popularity for some runners that just don't want to learn this frame perfect jumps

I generally think speedrunners should be looking to run whichever region of the game gives the best time, which would in this case should the NTSC-U version. NTSC-J is often preferred in text heavy games, but rarely do I see NTSC-U category board splits on those games for people who don't wish to run the Japanese version.

I've made my case in the past as to why I don't feel a glitchless category in this game has much merit. The two routes do not greatly differ in a theoretical glitchess category. Aside from 4 frame-perfect jumps, you're not clipping through the floor in stage 2 and that's it. Unless you really want to be pedantic about what is classified as a glitch, like banning jumps on the edge of ledges that give you extra distance.

That all being said, I don't want to be the old man yelling at the kids to get off his lawn. My interest in moderating has greatly diminished over the last while. If there is someone who is established in the speedrunning community who would like to become a moderator for this game, please let me know and I'll request they be added. They can communicate with current and past World of Illusion runners about how they'd like the leaderboards be managed.

@PaulSaltine Im happy to throw my hat in for mod I know each version of the game well, im active nearly every day and moderate several other active games.

Maybe Japanese isnt the way to go but I think its the simplest solution. For me personally i got so burnt out on resets i took a break and now iv lost my muscle memory for it, would be nice to have a category that is more casual.

@Jaggybabs I've submitted a request to have you added as a moderator for this game. I'm unable to do it myself as I'm not a super mod, but hopefully the request won't take long to be finalized.

Hi. First I love glitchless run more than glitched run, but for me the only real glitch in this game is the level skip with Mickey. I don't consider Super Jump or slopes boost as glitches. I understand the frustration of the frame perfect jump and I have that problem also to not be consistent. But I think it's not relevant to do 2 categories