He is using a non fresh game. This adds up time as you usually must wait for the dots to show. I know this is a silly small detail but while i like competition in smaller games like this, i didn't know this was allowed. I personally think the game should be played as it's intended like your playing it brand new. I would consider this Preloaded. If we are just gonna change the rules that is fine i would just like to be informed.
to be honest I'm not very familiar with the game really. does the pre-loaded save a lot of time? If it is a significant amount then I will change it to a NG and NG+ sub-category, but if it is just a second or two a stage I'll probably just edit the rules a bit.
Over the course of the run id assume it could save a couple minutes overall and it takes away the "completed" screens which all 4 are a couple seconds each and are the way we have been knowing when to cut the time off at. they aren't a lot individually but they do add up over time as some dots only spawn 1 after each level but some spawn 2 (side missions) and each dot takes about 2 seconds to show up. there are about 47 dots and 4 "completed" screens which all take about 2 seconds each adding up to about 1 minute and 42 seconds of extra time taken away. Im not trying to start anything to "get my WR back" but i just want to know if this is how we can run the game now or not