So I was counting up framerules that I'm "missing" and it didn't seem to make sense with where my time is, so I checked my time against an NES - and it appears that the AVS is running slightly slow. When compared against several runs with identical framerules from 1-1 to the beginning of 4-2 (roughly 1 minute 47 seconds), there is a loss of about 200 milliseconds, so I figure over a 5 minute run it would be a loss of roughly 550 milliseconds, over half a second. I guess better fast than slow, since that would disqualify the AVS, but just a word of warning out there to runners that - unless I'm wrong somehow (and I would love to be wrong here), it looks like the AVS runs slightly slow.

Here's a side-by-side video I made of myself and AndrewG from 7 years ago (December 2010) that I did not ask permission to use. Sorry Andrew G, hope that's okay - you're awesome :) We're on the same framerule until 4-2 when I screw up. All NES videos I've compared to are ahead a similar number of milliseconds relative to my AVS run.

I was also using the Powerpak if that makes any difference

I've heard the virtual consoles are slow... is this about what should be expected from a non-NES?