hi, i found out, that render has a significant advantage over all versions, idk if its because of a bug but the game seems to run normally at 63 fps, where as vanilla runs at 60. this can be fixed with a fps lock but it would also ultimately mess up the categories. comparison video is on a youtube channel, am I allowed to post links? also i didnt test this for 30fps (no 60fps patch basically), so I am not aware, if the advantage is so significant because of the patch

EDIT: i realized, I ran on master instead of 96 alpha. the load times on alpha are slower than on vanilla, master was just as fast as vanilla (in case of load times only). the fps lock is still the same at 63, so render is still the fastest version in that case.

Yes r96 and others repos based on older sm64ex code run faster, I use sm64ex and the speed up bothered me, so I had it fixed here https://github.com/sm64pc/sm64ex/commit/68e6e60a03f4bde10fb6830e5e882e0ca36093e1 The good thing is r96 is a separate category anyway.