Its come to my attention that starting a run at the select screen is very obnoxious because of the cutscene
so I propose we start on first imput idk wether to make the timer start later or not
the timer would start some where near 1:48 if we were to start later
Alrighty I did a bit of testing with loading times and here's what I came up with
First: The opening cutscene goes for around 1:47.16 Im still unsure however because it is so difficult to see
Second: The loading time from first selection to first imput minus opening cutscene is about 5.04. I thought this would be useful because in NSMB 2 the game starts on first imput so most people just start the timer on file select with a -3.27 however in our case it would be -5.04
Update: Under closer examination the opening cutscene actually goes for somewhere inbetween 1:46.95 and 1:47.05
I have a definitive answer. The opening cutscene from file select to first input goes for 1:47.10. The loading time from file select to first input is 5.04 seconds there fore if we were to start from first input I recommend starting from file select with -5.04 on the timer that way you start at 0 when you first move in the over world but if we were to continue having the run start with the cutscene then I recommend starting at file select again but with the timer starting at 1:42.06 that way when you first move in the overworld the timer hits 1:47.10