If Xiah was playing on PAL for his WR run it would have been a high 17 (only taking into account framerate differences), and i'm not gonna be the one to say what is good based on that so you can decide whats good based on that I guess.

I'm ordering another Japanese cartridge too so good luck on the runs when you get it :)

I watched Menozen's run and it makes no sense that he can get a 1:32 on luigi circuit with a 1:17, I had a 1:16 and got 1:33.6 in my run and i'm playing on vanilla game on Wii U which should theoretically have the fastest loading times, I think Menozen could be using some kind of USB loader for these reasons.

70 star was effectively any% from 1996-2003 until the BLJ was discovered, so was 16, 1 and 0 star for many years respectively. So I think it's fair to play each category like they would have been when they were the any% category, and since the BLJ obviously wasn't discovered when 70 star was the any% category then it isn't allowed today.

Plus, what's the point of having 70 star with BLJ when the entire reason that any% is lower than 70 star is because the BLJ skips having to get 70 stars? Doesn't that defeat the point of getting 70 stars in the first place since you can just use BLJ to get less than that?

TL;DR It isn't allowed, and it shouldn't be in my opinion.

Interesting, I knew for sure that the load times were a lot different with CTGP enabled but i'm not entirely sure if it's different through CTGP but without it enabled. My last run was played on the vanilla game rather than through CTGP which I do for everything else so I might have found that there was a difference in loading times through that anyway.

TL;DR - I think there could still be some loading differences even without CTs enabled on ctgp.