I notice that the ps1 loading times is double compared to the PS2 loading time, so there is around 25+ seconds extra of loading times on a run on ps1 vs ps2.

The only run that I could compared to is the current WR run, all the other runs on the leaderboard are not available.

For a better comparison please feel free to view my hardware tests on DS3s loading:

Additionally there is a SIGNIFICANT speed difference on 90k PS2s - i.e. 90k might be on par with Vita/PS-TV, which is the fastest in most situations.

This is the nature of the platform unfortunately. We could try to remove loads to make it fair, but the effort might not be worth it considering how few runs there are.

Ah Izzy and Aqua's videos are dead... I'll try to find an alternate source for those.