The AI plays couch co-op
The headless watch can now play with two cats under the real couch-play rules. Most of the "stuck" lines in the co-op log turned out to be the helper bot rather than the game, but it still caught one real bug: player two could spawn inside a bin at the start of 6-2. That is fixed. A second co-op pass cleared 24 of 24 stages with two cats, and the time the pair spent far apart in three stages dropped from minutes to seconds.
Snookums stops stalling the AI
In 2-3 Snookums used to hide in the pocket behind the mower and stall the AI. It now lures her out. The best pass of the week cleared 2-3 in 186 seconds with no help, and the whole game in 153 seconds of real time with 2 deaths, across 24 of 24 stages and all 8 boss stages, with no errors. The AI also rode Samus for the first time: a 55 unit ride across the lawn in 8-1, with no falls. Every boss intro now writes its start and end into the log, so all ten can be proven from a run.
A busy PC still distorts the timing of these runs, and the log now says so.
Medal times from real clears
Medal times were re-timed from the AI's own clear times, for 13 of the 24 stages. Most of the old gold times had been speedruns rather than a tier a player could aim for. Nobody has tried the new times yet.
Art
Roo Roo is now a big black Labrador at Bruiser's size. A second art pass fixed a belly bump, gave him a real sleeping haunch and calmed his shake, and his hit boxes were re-fitted to the lower stunned pose. An independent reviewer passes it as a playable build, scoring anatomy 6.5 and style 6 out of 10 (a pass needs 7). One more cleanup: a stage prop and its sound that carried a real trade name are now a plain "PA speaker".