really cool concept

For anyone wondering, here is CookieBunny's video showing the intended route for each stage:

I was wondering if anyone has made a general guide on each stage for story mode. Specifically certain strats to skip through different stages (dropping most of the stage, using certain items etc.)

On the PC port, you can skip all cutscenes by enabling the skip intro movies option. I'm curious if this is allowed in Any%.

You have to click fast

The newest dev Dolphin build is actually identical to playing on a GCN so long as you set it to NTSC-J. Just make sure to use the latest dev builds.