I recently picked up on speedrunning Bug's Life and now finally had a PB I felt was worth posting. After editing the video file I started to play it side-by-side with a faster PS-emu run here, just for laughs I thought.

But I noticed that the submitted run was faster although gameplay-wise it seemed very similar. And comparing the starts of multiple runs I could see my run had effectively longer load times. Ant hill began around 13-14s (instead of ~12s), and I estimated this to add around 2 minutes altogether.

After doing some troubleshooting I found the reason being the newer ePSXe version of 2.0.5. And to avoid this delay you should use 2.0.0 from the current options of ePSXe

Thanks for the info, but I'm not sure how you figured it was 2 minutes of timeloss based on that math. I look forward to seeing your runs.

Yeah, I hope this prevents any other players from running the game with this newer version :)

My earlier estimation seemed be on the high end. As my first complete run for today was a PB and the time improved by 1min 11secs. And since this run wasn't nearly as good, I expect the time difference a bit higher. After running I also noticed the game ran faster with version 2.0.0 and the load time was just the more obvious effect.

Now I'll head back to grinding for something to submit :D