Randil's run plays mode A, since it's supposed to be harder to get good times. If you're doing this run on mode B, I'm not sure these can be directly compared. However, it seems mode A is preferred: you link to a submission that Randil canceled, after all, and he later made mode A runs. If mode A is easy to improve the time, why don't you make an improvement for that?

I have posted my record on game B in the Circus Charlie thread in the NES section. Here's that post. The .fcm I posted there (here) is 31 frames faster than this run. Because of this, I vote no. I also asked in the CC thread if people preferred the game B run over the game A run, but not many seemed to have any opinion. With all that said, I would be extremely interested if you can show any improvements to the published game A run! Regarding which mode is hardest to TAS, level 1 is harder on game A, but level 5 is harder on game B due to the rope trick that has to be pulled off here. Overall, I would say that with all tricks included, the two game modes are about equally hard to TAS. And I've said this before, and I'll say it again, using the in-game timer to compare runs is not a good statistic, because the timer starts counting down depending on a global timer. That means that even if run A has a lower score than run B at the end of a level, run A might still be faster. Use frame counts rather than the in-game timer to compare runs. Pausing the game at certain frames also stops the in-game timer, as shown here.

we can't have enough circus charlie yes vote

I watched it, but based on what Randil said, I have to vote no.

Haven't we already had this submissions + debate?

Haven't we already had this submissions + debate?

Yeah, this and this were submitted not too long ago, both of them "game B" runs. The points I brought up in this thread are pretty much exactly the same as in sergio89's run. Anyway, I think that any further "game A" vs "game B" debate should be carried on in the NES thread. I don't want to see a fourth game B submission without any discussion before, and in particular if that submission is slower than the run I posted in the NES thread.

om, nom, nom... juicy!