I decided to redo the first part of my playthrough to align more with my video standards. I didn't want to film such short parts of every in-game day, so I decided to start over and show the entire Stage 1 run, all of which takes place in Hakone. I manipulated the game's random weather system by using savestates and trying to get the weather that I want. This is because some rivals only appear under certain weather conditions. However, I ended up beating the Slasher a little late, and "Blunt Bullet Holes", a Tricker who appears only on rainy nights and drives a Toyota MR-S, was too hard to beat for me because my Starlet was too slow and/or had the wrong tires, even though the guidebook said that the stock sports tires were just as grippy as the level 1 wet tires on wet surfaces. I couldn't afford level 3 wet tires, but I'm not going to fuss too much about a "perfect playthrough", so this half-hour is something we can all appreciate.
Also, I subtitled the Conquest mode introductory cutscene so that you don't have to be overwhelmed by foreign text.