Gave it to the developers and hopefully they'll find a fix for it.

Cheers for the heads up.

Yeah, that should be fine. I would argue the case on the original, but since the remaster doesn't have that delay when you start the game, there should be no real issue.

If people are willing to do some runs for these categories, then there probably wouldn't be an issue with adding it to the leaderboards.

The main problem I saw when playing them is that both dotkid and vic viper make the game incredibly trivial. As well as that, once the novelty wears off of being able to literally fly through the game, VV isn't an enjoyable run, since there aren't many new things to learn, and dotkid doesn't have that many skips that really warrant it being a separate category (at least that I know of). I could see Owata% being an interesting run though.

All item runs have always been cool for me and I enjoy them, but they really only add about a minutes worth of extra stuff to do, so it doesn't seem necessary at the moment. But if people would want to run it, then that would be a simple one to add.