Crash 1 Platform info

Here I will list all platforms you can run this game on from fastest so slowest as well as important info.

NOTE: Methods of playing NTSC-J discs on NTSC-U and PAL consoles will not be discussed here. I will not be responsible for people messing up their hardware.

PlayStation 2: The biggest reason for PS2 being the fastest platform is the “fast disc speed” feature (abbreviated as FDS by the community, with standard disc speed/SDS being the opposite), which makes the PS1 disc spin at the speed that a PS2 disc spins. This makes each loading screen faster by a few seconds, which saves around 1m40s in an any% run and 2 minutes in a 100% run. Several models of the PS2 were released, but the fastest model is the “90k” (the model code will be SCPH-9xxxx. To put things on a scale, the slowest model is the SCPH-3xxxx. NTSC-J discs can only be played on NTSC-J models).
NOTE: If the PS2 is a Japanese model, the fifth and final digit in the model code will be 0.

Emulator: The allowed emulators for speedrunning PS1 Crash games are Epsxe 1.8-2.0, Bizhawk, Mednafen, and Xebra. Using an emulator that is not on this list will get your run rejected from submission to the leaderboards. I recommend Epsxe 2.0.0 as it is fairly easy to setup and has nice loading times for emulator.

PlayStation 1: Laggier than PS2 and the loading screen are even slower than PS2 SDS. NTSC-J can only be played on NTSC-J models.

PlayStation 3 (Digital): Laggier than PS1 in terms of dropping framerate in spots, has the second slowest loading times behind PSP w/FDS, and has nasty input delay.
PlayStation 3 (Disk): NTSC-J can only be played on NTSC-J models.

PSP: Region free. FDS is slower than PS2 SDS due to it (for some reason) giving slower loading times and extra lag. SDS is about the same as PS2 SDS.

PSTV only has PAL available to my knowledge so I won't discuss it. FDS is doable with it though.

Platforms from fastest to slowest:
PS2 w/FDS
Emulator
PS2 SDS
PSP SDS
PS1
PS3
PSP w/FDS