Test A desynced for me, but test B worked.
You take entirely too long choosing your settings, entering your name, and selecting a difficulty. Remember; Frame advance is your friend. Also, just because you don't see a cursor doesn't mean you can't do things with it.
For example, this is the first frame you can move the cursor:
From here, you can hit left one frame, up the next frame, and C the following frame to select the default name (faster than "A," in fact, and more aesthetically pleasing to see a real name there).
Also, you can choose the difficulty in six frames: right, nothing, right, nothing, right, C. Note the cursor looks like it's highlighting "hard" when you do this, but you really do select Ouch!
In your vid you take at least five times as long to do these things.
As for the first fight, I think it's possible do it without healing, by not spreading out the Force so much that anyone gets surrounded.
