The version number is shown in the game on the left border of the instruction manual page. The four versions of the game that are easiest to obtain today are:

• Version 1.00 [1.00.52486213]: Nov 2010 GT5 game disc.
• Version 2.01 [2.01.57768363]: Jan 2012 GT5 XL Edition disc. This installs the first 11 of 27 patches (2.25GB) from the disc.
• Version 2.07 [2.06.60946632]: Sep 2012 GT5 Academy Edition disc. This installs the first 17 of 27 patches (2.924GB) from the disc.
• Version 2.17 [2.17.72120723]: July 2014 Final version. Available with any GT5 disc, after you download and install any of the 27 patches you don’t already have from the PSN website. In terms of strategy Version 1.00 is most different from the others since the cash and experience payouts are different and there were a lot of significant gameplay tweaks in the first year of patches.

Sorry to the mods -- didn't mean to make homework for you guys.

I didn't realize there were two any% categories, or that anybody had already submitted a run, what the rules were, or that game updates are not considered DLC.

Thanks for not banning me for being a moron.

Moorea, According to my notes, Erushima finished All-Stars tied for third, which is enough. The last point totals I saw were player 300, pole 285, Q2 255, Q3 240 before the last race. If player abandons they should finish in order, so the final scores will be player 300, pole 385, Q2 330, and Q3 300.

Moorea, that is really bad news about the vision cars. I plan to try an update of GT6 from scratch this weekend and see what I get.

Fuso-wasedr09, if you get any trophy in the GT World Championship, you get the end movie. You don't have to see the end movie to know that it is coming. Erushimu got the trophy at about 3:39:40.

I'd recommend checking out Irushima's run. The way he breaks some of the Kart tracks is as entertaining as it is effective. He also double skips races in both championships, and makes some smart car/race choices for cheating willow and ascari.

If more categories encouraged more competition, I'd be for it, but I don't know if that is the case.

Although in 2020 it may seem like v1.00 is a real thing, it never actually was for most players. The patches came automatically and they contained so much great stuff there was no reason not to have them. I started playing the original game disk on the day of release. I never even saw v1.00 until I saw the run here by killashrugamer. I was puzzled because it appeared that he had found a way to skip the license prize car animations. I got a used PS3 so I could load v1.00 and check it out. As it turns out, v1.00 just doesn't have the bronze prize cars, and a LOT of other stuff.

I was just seeing how I could do against BIGV10, since his was the only glitchless run on GT6 v1.22 posted here.

The fact that I beat the Marcherify "world record" was unintended and kind of funny. And I'm using quotes because if you decide to ignore the GT6 day-one patch and go the glitch route with v1.00, there are better runs out there, i.e. a guy on youtube named Irushimu posted a fairly impressive 3:39:44 months ago.

Hey Marcherify, thanks.

I look forward to getting beat. To be honest my strategy isn't optimal, and the execution wasn't either. For example, BIGV10 beat me on some races with his Chaparral X by over 20 seconds.

I hadn't thought about B-spec because I never actually tried it. But I will.