I use Japanese version tho, cause i think it is cool. The truth is, i didn't beat meerkov's time in the US ver. so it's obsolete. But hey! I include all of this in gameplay, especially after boss.

Ok so a few questions I have here: 1. Does the Japanese version have any benefits over USA besides “bing cool”? 2. What do you mean you didn’t beat Meerkov’s time? Is it slower than his movie?

Meerkov's movie: [4188] Genesis Devilish: The Next Possession "1 player" by Meerkov in 11:07.21

You know instead of complaining about stuff like saying it's the emulator fault (cause you both use Hawk) you should've just done math.

Level - Time   | Meer | Ryu
Level 1 - 1:40 | 1:24 | 1:24
Level 2 - 1:50 | 0:56 | 0:58
Level 3 - 2:00 | 1:41 | 1:51
Higher is better

Only comparing the first 3 levels you're ahead by 12 seconds.

So how exactly is this different to Meerkov's run? Is it meant to obsolete it or is it a different category? Could you update your submission text to actually be helpful and informative instead of just rambling and hurling insults around for no reason?

Help. Please don't give negative comments on this. I am depressed. srsly

I'm trying to help. No offense, but your submission text reads like a troll post, even more so now with this most recent addition. It tells us nothing about the run when we need to understand exactly what it is to be able to judge it. You can't just say things like "Are you blind? Watch the run!" and "BizHawk sucks!" and expect us to have all the information we need. Are you competing with Meerkov's run? Because by all metrics, his is faster than yours overall (trimmed down to final input needed to reach credits, this run is something like 12:28.xx). If your run is 100%, then why are you comparing it to Meerkov's any% run in the first place? They'd be separate categories, not meant to be directly compared. You say that there's something he didn't do during the final boss that you did: What exactly is it? Both runs reach the credits, so I wouldn't have any idea what the difference is that somehow makes his run illegitimate in your eyes. Seriously, we need any kind of information at all. The more you can give, the better.

Decided to complete the comparison cause the author wasn't going to: 12 seconds IGT improvement 'cause of Meerkov killing input early. However excluding that early input this is 10 seconds slower than Meerkov. Edit: Also a Heavy Spike of somewhere between 7840 (cause blank input) to 7606 frames shaved off the author's input, it doesn't splice in Meerkov's work* and it completes the final level instead of ending input early. Fun Fact: Author's TAS actually wasn't adjusted for 2.6.1. It'll sync up to 2.4. *Don't want to splice in Meerkov's work especially with that 12 second lead you have on the previous TAS since it implies that the original input is suboptimal.

om, nom, nom... want more!