Version differences and route question
8 years ago
Germany

actually 1.0 is faster, because 1.1 fixed stuff which would save time.

North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

The reason why there is one star collected in Abandoned Outpost (i assume you are talking about the overworld 2 early route) because it was figured out that you need (if i remember correctly) 48 stars to enter course 10 but in the route you only get 47 stars till then so that star is kinda needed.