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If you know where the GBA binary is on the disc on each one, it's probably very easy to port the patch.

JMC4789 wrote:

If you know where the GBA binary is on the disc on each one, it's probably very easy to port the patch.

I don't know anything about patching and gba binary. I'm doing some research but I'm not really finding anything that would help me sadly.

I'm working on it with a few people. We'll try to make it work because I believe the Japanese version would be fastest for TASing, and the European version would have extra languages for accessibility.

Japanese version have version exclusive mechanics and glitches that makes it indeed faster for TASing :)

I know this is probably unfair to ask, but could you point me to some documentation? It might be nice to talk about the version differences for when the patches are ported over in the Progress Report.

JMC4789 wrote:

I know this is probably unfair to ask, but could you point me to some documentation? It might be nice to talk about the version differences for when the patches are ported over in the Progress Report.

Not unfair at all, I would gladly provide ANYTHING you want to help you.

I don't have official documentation or whatever, but as I TAS this game and talk a lot with the speedrunning community, here is the differences in the top of my head:

• Japanese version have this exclusive glitch commonly called IGG, Infinite Gil Glitch, that lets you drop an infinite number of gils on the ground. To setup this glitch, you need to open a letter in multiplayer (with GBA), then close the menu, then reopen it. That puts the menu in a glitched state. We are currently trying to find other uses of that other than infinite money.

• Japanese version exclusively have stat temporary bonuses (by eating food) stay active after hitting loading zones. It is incredibly useful to not waste time eating food each time we load a zone. There is still a timer like the other versions (where the bonus dissipates after a certain time).

• The "Sign Glitch" is also exclusive to the japanese version, where your character goes into a weird state if it takes damage while interacting with some things in the game (most commonly reading signs). This weird states makes the character able to push without usual limitations many things in the game, including some enemies, items on the ground, and other players. Used as much as possible in TAS.

Well it's unfair in that I'm just curious more than anything. Anyway, I'll see about getting bonta to help me with the GBA side of the patch since apparently there's some differences with the GBA program.

Thank you so much for your work :)

If you can, test this build - https://dl.dolphin-emu.org/prs/07/61/pr-9946-dolphin-latest-x64.7z and make sure it performs roughly the same as the NTSC version. Note that the Japanese version seems to be more demanding in general than the other releases, and the Goblin Wall patch hasn't been ported over so you need to have Store EFB Copies to Texture Only unchecked to prevent that crash.

It seems to work fine for both PAL and Japanese versions :D