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Kelani
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@captrec They may not have time for it, but I sure do. :) I play on PC and iOS, and am all too aware of the platform quirks. I’ve actually been working on a project for the last four months that documents some of the worst ones. I’ll be posting it in a week or two.

Basically, subtle variations between platforms do exist, but the effects are negligible and usually cancel each other out. There are some HUGE exceptions, though, and I’ve been able to prove that in certain levels, one or more platforms are severely handicapped. Part of the project’s scope is identifying those levels, so players hopefully won’t waste hours or days attempting the impossible.

ABN kinda does have that big spreadsheet you mentioned, albeit in the form of the leaderboards database. Since I don’t have console access to that, part of my research involved manually breaking down by platform the Top 1000 overall scores for every game. It took forever, and knowing how to write a sql query that’d do the job in 3 seconds didn’t help. :)