So i just now removed ALL of my runs that i did on the bluestacks emulator of an android mobile device, why?
TLDR: on a technicality, i 'cheated'
I accidentally set the frame rate of bluestacks to 240, even though the game runs at 30fps.
Doing this didn't make the gameplay itself any faster--but it did make the fade in/outs between select stages slightly faster, saving about 0.2 over the best possible time (thanks to a TAS made by Crazalu) in the first 3 stages of the game. This was a while ago, and i completely forgot about this until just now.
i am now going to edit the rules of the game so that bluestacks HAS to be set on 30fps and when i verify runs i will time the loads to make sure they aren't faster. PLEASE NOTE: I did not 'cheat' these runs on purpose, i would never
