I got curious and came back to these boards. Decided to download source videos from youtube and check frame count and timings. Here's what I found, video frame counts and frame rates taken using VirtualDub:

i_o_l: 63 frames@ 29.97fps = 2.102s Xaephod: 63 frames@ 30.00fps = 2.100s DotSFC (me): 128 frames@60.00fps = 2.133s

technically Xaephods run beats i_o_l's run but thats just due to frame rates. They are tied.

I did time the WR run. 47 frames @ 29.97fps = 1.568s.

But that seems impossible. How can a run suddenly be half a second faster than the rest? just gonna say that I would like to blame that on the emulator, not the runner. It looks to be some inaccurate flash or HTML based emulator. I may look further into what emulator its based off of because that isnt entirely fair to just stomp on the rest of us because of a emulation problem.

Any thoughts on all of this?