- Auto start
- Auto split
- Load remover
Open LiveSplit and go to "Edit Splits". If you don't have splits for FF9, you can download them here.
On the "Splits Editor", make sure that the game is set to exactly "Final Fantasy IX". After that, click "Activate".
Press the "Settings" button next to the "Activate" button and a new "Component Settings" window should appear. Here you can select if you want to auto start the timer, auto split and which splits you want. Just make sure that if you uncheck some split, you also remove it from your splits on the previous window (for example, if you don't kill Tantarian in your route, you should remove the "Tantarian" split). The auto-splitter will split based on the order of the splits, so you can name them whatever you want (for example, you can rename "Steiner 3" to "Bomb" and it'll work).
Please note that the Necron split is not automated because it works differently from the other ones. This is the only split that you should do manually.
Download the "Alternate Timing Method" component from the LiveSplit Components page. Extract the files into your LiveSplit Components folder (for example, "LiveSplit_1.7.6\Components").
Right click on your splits and click on "Edit Layout".
In the "Layout Editor", click on "+", "Information", "Alternate Timing Method".
If you wish, double click the "Alternate Timing Method" in the list to open its settings and change its text.
To change the current comparison to use Game Time (Time Without Loads) instead of Real Time (Time With Loads), right click on your splits and select to "Compare Against", "Game Time".
This way, the "Time Without Loads" will be used on your splits but you'll have an additional timer using the "Alternate Timing Method" component to show the "Time With Loads".