New to the game (and speedrunning in general) and trying to get the hang of the any% route. So far I’ve got the portion up until Crush down pretty well, with the exception of the frog proxy to get onto the platform leading into Crush.

From watching videos it looks like you just have to charge jump into the frog and time it right, but I’ve been struggling to do so. Am I meant to be holding X, or tapping it again as soon as I hit the frog? Or, is it something else altogether?

I recently found my old PS2 and decided to give the EtD any% a try. I've gotten around the 2 min mark today but noticed something pretty disheartening - my load times seem super long compared to the top runs.

In particular, the falling loading screen into the Ripto fight is taking like 35 seconds for me, compared to roughly 10 it seems for the top runs. It's sad that this would pretty much disqualify me from moving up in the boards much further.

I guess I'm just wondering if there's any fixes for this, outside of getting a new console?