The general rule is that when a 2-player run is slower, there are often two versions, as the 1-player version is the fastest game completion, and the 2-player version adds interesting 2-player gameplay. In this case, the 2-player TAS is faster though... This is just a rule of thumb, and I am not saying that it applies in this case... but that's why I am asking why these different aspects are more interesting. I don't know how many of the people who voted yes took this into consideration when voting, so some opinions on this would be nice. I did see that AnS wrote in the previous 1-player submission that he was in favor of 2 published movies for this game.

The general rule is that when a 2-player run is slower, there are often two versions, as the 1-player version is the fastest game completion, and the 2-player version adds interesting 2-player gameplay. In this case, the 2-player TAS is faster though...

Bosses shall be manipulated here. But I hate how the last one looks!

Believe me, I do too. Picking up the bombs is most definitely slower as it causes the boss' to act differently (I did it where I picked up every bomb, still hitting on the earliest frame and it ended up being 5 seconds slower than my current version). And that final boss is the only level in the game where lag became a problem. All other levels allowed for "dancing" without hurting the time but on that one moving around caused lag about every third frame.