yea you can play the stages in any order, however I have a change of plans. I will post again when i'm available to play. I most likely wont be playing over the next few days.
what program do you use to bind movement to your gamepad? Perhaps you are pressing one of the joysticks in which acts as mouse 3 movement instead of moving your character?
Hes probaly doing the 3 finger touch on the touchpad to simulate mouse 3 scroll wheel down.Either that or you have a trackball on the laptop that you are pushing in