I don't understand why there is two categories in the leaderboard. The only difference I see between them is waiting for a bonus stage to end. What's the point ?

I never felt that there was a reason to have 2 categories for this, however there is a technique to make the bonus end faster so its not "waiting"

When I was the only person with a Balloon Fight time on this site, I ran 1 loop because it was the category that made the most sense to me (as it played through all of the stages once).

However, whoever makes the goal decisions for the Best of NES series chose to make the Balloon Fight goal "beat phase 12". As I expected that many people would submit their runs of this category, I added it to the board.

I can make the 1 loop category misc if people want it to be.

Yeah, that's a good idea. It's a bit confusing the way it is now.