So basically I was on 2-8 where you can shop for food or whatever. Basically, I got a potato, soda, and orange, and went to the woman working there. I interacted with the register, and a coin popped out. I dropped my basket, and hopped over, and then the star (forgot the name) spawned, and I wanted the coin, so I headed for the coin, the woman was eating the food, and as I touched the star, it played the audio, but it froze. Any explanation? I’m curious.
That doesn't sound like anything I've experienced. I doubt that just an npc eating something when getting the starite would break the game; the way I do the puzzle level in world 1 (the one with the hippie and the ants) makes a nurse spawn that eats the sandwich, and I've done the level plenty of times exactly like that without it crashing. This is also like the level in world 3 where you have to feed the smallest three fish to a penguin, which I use a bag for in similar fashion to the shopping level, and that hasn't crashed for me either.
It could be an emulation thing; if you're on console it could be your gamecard temporarily becoming unreadable and making the game freeze that way, it could be you just getting unlucky with the game. Again I don't think I've experienced any random crashes like this, or really any at all during runs. As jank as the game is it usually stays alive in some way
Through some accidental research, I have found that it is possible to farm money using a custom level created in the level editor.
There are some caveats to go along with this for speedrunning, namely that there is nothing stopping you from playing levels created on another save file with access to
