I've run this game on both the original Dreamcast hardware and the Flycast Dreamcast emulator and the emulator is significantly faster than the original hardware when it comes to load times.

Pearl, the other Dreamcast runner of this game brought this to my attention in my stream. Here's the link to the the stream where she was discussing it with me:

I had been running on my Dreamcast, so I tried the emulator and immediately saved over a minute over original hardware.

Can we separate the leaderboards to Dreamcast vs EMU or find a way to calculate actual game time for the runs? Otherwise, people trying to run this on their Dreamcast will be at a disadvantage or will be forced to run on emulators...