So I've been trying to speedrun this game and can never get less than 17 mins and I've watched wr speedrun to try and see what I'm doing wrong and instantly I'm noticing that they're getting a considerable amount better load times and I was wondering if it's a specific version they're using or hardware can anyone help me out here?
Almost 100% a hardware issue, unfortunately. The engine this game runs under is so horribly optimized, so issues like slower load times are super common. A load remover would be extremely difficult to make, since games under RPG Maker MV typically use 5 different processes at once
I haven't run the game in a while but holding either CTRL or Shift, maybe both at once, makes the game run faster in general; I took my PB down like 3 minutes after using it. This is also pretty inconsistent because the MV engine sucks.
If you're specifically referring to load times between gameplay though, then yeah that's a hardware discrepancy, as mentioned above.