I've used Xtol and Rodinal with 80S, the grain is already so fine there is only a marginal change at high magnification between full strength Xtol and Rodinal on Retro 80S (as opposed to other films even TMX showing a huge difference).
I think dilute perceptol should be fine if you hit the right time and exposure.
Oops, I totally missed your post. So, you think that RR 80s is finer grained than TMX?
I found the contrast a bit more than I like so now use a mix of HC-110 1ml + Rodinal 1ml in 250 ml water as a stand developer at box speed.
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Looks good, but I'm not sure how much detail the shadows have. There are some compression artifacts at the shadow at the top of the arch, but there's probably some reasonable shadow detail at the negative.
Anyway, I did the clip test and developed the film today, which is drying now. My initial plan was to try 10, 12 and 14' development time for my homebrew Perceptol 1+3, but at 10' things looked too light, so I did 12, 14 and 16' instead. Even so, the 16' clip wasn't particularly dense, nevertheless that is the development time I picked. After completing the process one thing became strikingly clear: that this film has a very clear base, so the density of the processed clips could be a bit misleading. Another obvious thing is that the shots at EI50 are underexposed, but at the same time I'm not entirely sure about those at EI25. Too bad I did't shoot any at EI12. Shadows seem a bit light, but then this film is very clear, something I'm not used to. At the moment I can't print, so I won't know how they print, but I'll scan them. Perhaps if I can get something good without much effort, then they should print ok?
