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.

But did you try to redo the run for Old PPU?