It seems to me that Special Edition is the definitive version with one drawback. It's 50Hz (25FPS). I play the game through emulation these days but I've never found a way to get the game running at 60Hz even though that's what the emulators seem to run at.

I've tried PCSXr, ePSXe and the Beetle RetroArch emulator core.

Has anyone got the game running as smoothly as the Japanese release?